The Daily Campus: March 1, 2013

Volume CXIX No. 99

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PLAY OPENS AT CT REPERTORY THEATER His Girl Friday impresses audience with wit and action.

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UCONN READY TO RUN WITH BULLS Huskies take on USF after blowout win.

SPORTS/ page 12 EDITORIAL: BARTENDER SHOULD NOT BE PUNISHED FOR A SAFE DECISION

Decision to call cops to prevent drunk diving was the right call.

COMMENTARY/page 8 INSIDE NEWS: STUDENT WORKS TO TRANSFORM LIVES UConn student Patrick Clarke builds a library for impoverished kids.

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By Tyler Morrissey Associate Sports Editor Human rights violations occur every day, but there are certain practices that governments and businesses need to undertake to prevent them, according to a Harvard professor in Human Rights and International Affairs, John Ruggie who gave a talk yesterday evening at the Dodd Center.

As part of the Raymond & Beverly Sackler Lecture Series, Ruggie outlined strategies for governments and businesses to work together to end human rights violations around the world. According to Ruggie, preventing human rights violations cannot be taken on by just governments or corporations by themselves, but rather aligned in a collective effort.

Ruggie also explained how the concept of meaning management, which takes a look at established laws in countries today rather than creating new legislation that protects human rights.

“Rather than insisting new law, instead what we’re going to do is look at what existing legal obligations are, what existing social norms are and then we’re going to develop a common understanding of what they imply,” Ruggie said.

margin in a referendum against increasing this fee [for The Daily Campus.] However, the Students will pay an addi- board felt that supporting stutional $166 in fees next year dent media with a very small due to an increase approved increase in this fee was approat Wednesday’s priate,” Reitz Board of said.

Trustees meetOther fee ing. Additional changes fees include a include a $10 increase $72 increase for the for the genUndergraduate eral univerS t u d e n t sity fee, a Government and $14 increase a $6 increase for the infrafor The Daily structure Campus. maintenance Spokeswoman fee, a $30 for the university increase in Stephanie Reitz technolStephanie Reitz the explained that ogy fee and a fee increase for UConn Spokeswoman $10 increase USG is to supfor the tranport the growing sit fee. number of stuFurthermore, dent organizations on campus. a $26 fee used to support the The additional $6 fee for The renovation of the Student Daily Campus is to cover the Union expired this year and growing cost of producing the was not renewed. newspaper and maintaining

All fee increases are the paper’s facilities. The two taken into account when UConn increases bring the fee totals to puts together its financial aid $96 for USG and $20 for the packets, and Reitz explained student paper. the changes were seen as necStudents voted last year to essary to support the activities, approve a fee increase for USG services and amenities of the but did not approve the increase university. for The Daily Campus.

“Students voted by a slim Katherine.Tibedo@UConn.edu

“The board felt that supporting student media with a very small increase in this fee was appropriate.”

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Harvard professor in Human Rights and International Affairs gave a lecture on the current state of global human rights Thursday.

In order for governments and businesses to work together, there are a few guiding principles that Ruggie suggested that each actor should follow in order to create progressive policies and legislation. The first principle that Ruggie explained was that states need to take it upon themselves to punish those who violate human rights by having clear and concise rules that must be followed. According to Ruggie, this is the bedrock of international human rights protection.

The second guiding principle that Ruggie discussed was for companies to act responsibly by following a human rights due diligence process. This is a high level of commitment from a company to respect the human rights of their employees. This is especially important in high-risk areas, such as the mining industry, according to Ruggie.

In one instance, Ruggie recalled a mine in Peru, where

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USG presidential Debunking the myth of candidates debate the ‘Freshman 15’

reform meal plans to make flex passes convertible to points.

Courchaine, the current The candidates for USG Comptroller of USG and a junior President went head to head at the biophysics major, said he wants to Joint Elections debate last night, focus on “increasing the value of where they divided on issues such the UConn degree,” and not “silly as what policy initiatives should issues like laundry.”

“Our main goal is to improve be focused on and what their the academic environment,” administrations would focus on.

At the Joint Elections Courchaine said. “We want to debates, the candidates for the increase the transparency of your tuition dollars, Undergraduate Board and strengthen of Trustees Student relationships Representative and between stucandidates for USG dents and facPresident, vice presiulty.” dent and comptrolCourchaine, ler met. The most whose runfloor time was given ning mate is to Shiv Gandhi and USG senator Edward Courchaine, Kara Googins, the candidates in the said he wants running for student to implement body president. a process by Gandhi, the current which student speaker of the USG and faculty can senate and a junior in dismolecular and cell Shiv Gandhi engage cussions and biology major, with USG Speaker of the reach decisions his vice president running mate and Senate and Presidential on how to solve current USG senator Candidate o n - c a m p u s problems.

Mark Sargent at his J o h n side, said his focus, if elected, would be to lower the cost of Giardina, a junior economics and molecular and cell biology major, attending UConn.

“We know we can’t set tuition is running for USG comptroller rates,” Gandhi said. “But we can against sophomore pathobiology implement structural changes that major Claire Price.

Price is running as a USG outcan actually lower the cost.”

Gandhi said he plans to work sider. As the CFO of the UConn with UConn’s Academic Affairs Dressage team, she said she was committee to make it mandatory motivated to run for comptrolfor professors to disclose what ler when she was frustrated with textbooks will be used for a class USG’s funding process after havbefore students enroll so that stu- ing to go through it herself.

“Coming from outside USG dents have the option to choose classes with lower textbook costs. really gives me a different look on » FUNDING, page 2 Gandhi said he also wants to

By Jackie Wattles Staff Writer

“We know we can’t set tuition rates...But we can implement structural changes that can actually lower the cost.”

By Kim Wilson News Editor

On any given day, the University of Connecticut’s recreational facility – where the normally crowded building bursts with student energy and activity from the first-floor pool to the indoor rock climbing center upstairs – sees over 3,000 students.

In the dining halls, many students load their plates with fresh vegetables, salads and lean proteins like baked chicken or fish and opt to snag a piece of fruit as an on-the-go snack between classes instead of a slice of cake.

Despite the health-conscious habits of many students, the myth of the “Freshman 15” is still perpetuated and dreaded among college students. However, freshmen everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief thanks to an Ohio State University study that shows their weight gain worries may be in vain.

The study, published in the December issue of the journal Social Science Quarterly, says college freshmen actually gain an average of 2.5 to 3.5 pounds, and the weight gain has little to do with college attendance and more to do with age.

Researchers at Ohio State University reviewed data from 7,418 interviews with subjects ages 17 to 20 and found that firstyear students of both genders gained about three pounds during their freshman year.

The study also found that young adults who do not go to college gain about a half a pound less than their collegiate counterparts.

In essence, college attendance has little effect on weight gain.

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Students eat in McMahon Dining Hall in this Feb. 28 photo. Many students fear the ‘Freshman 15’ but recent studies show they mayhave nothing to fear.

UConn Executive Director of Recreational Services, Cynthia Costanzo, said she believes the “Freshman 15” is in the control of every individual student’s eating and exercise habits.

Costanzo, an athletic-looking woman who graduated from UConn with an undergraduate degree in athletic training in 1988 and a master’s degree in biophysical science two years later, is responsible for managing UConn’s recreational sports program, which includes fitness classes, intramural sports and the UConn Outdoors program.

“I think that it absolutely doesn’t have to happen,” she said in reference to the fabled freshman weight surge. “There is no magic wand that is waved over you that says, ‘OK, you are now a college freshman and you will gain 15

pounds.”

Get your blood pumping There is no shortage of activities for students to join to get their heart rates up and their muscles loose on campus, from intramural teams like flag football and water polo, to student clubs like RunUC to the triathlon club.

The Mayo Clinic recommends that adults get at least 150 minutes a week of moderate aerobic activity or 75 minutes a week of vigorous aerobic activity to stay in shape and maintain their weight.

Undoubtedly, many students are taking advantage of UConn-sponsored recreational activities and getting their recommended exercise. According to UConnHuskies.com, Recreational

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What’s on at UConn today...

Gatsby Speakeasy 6 to 10 p.m.

Benton Museum The Bean Team, along with the UConn Reads Steering Committee, is celebrating this semester’s UConn Reads book, The Great Gatsby, by hosting a 1920’s themed reception at the William Benton Museum of Art.

Men’s Ice Hockey vs. Sacred Heart 7 to 9 p.m.

Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum The Men’s Ice Hockey team faces off against Sacred Heat.

CRT Presents His Girl Friday 8 to 10:30 p.m.

Nafe Katter Theatre The CRT presents “His Girl Friday,” a romantic comedy about an editor who tries to prevent his ex-wife reporter from remarrying.

Late Night Pixar 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Student Union Late Night is Pixar themed this week.

Come to the Student Union tonight to see what SUBOG has in store.

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DAILY BRIEFING » STATE

Conn. minimum wage increase clears first hurdle

HARTFORD (AP) — A proposal to increase Connecticut’s current $8.25 an hour minimum wage has cleared a key step in the legislative process.

The General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee voted 7-4, along party lines, on Thursday to forward the bill to the Senate.

The proposed legislation increases the rate by 75 cents on Jan. 1, 2014, and by another 75 cents on Jan. 1, 2015.

As of Jan. 1, 2016, and every year after, the state’s minimum wage would be tied to changes in the Consumer Price Index. The CPI measures the average change in prices paid by consumers for a basket of goods and services.

Some Republican committee members voiced concerns about increased cost to employers, especially business owners. They predicted it could discourage increased hiring, given the slow economy.

Conn. work injuries reported 11 percent up in ‘11

HARTFORD (AP) — The U.S. Department of Labor says the number of workplace injuries in Connecticut jumped 11 percent in 2011 over the previous year and that the rate of injury is among the highest in the country.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday that 50,600 injury and illness cases in the private industry were reported. More than half were classified as “more severe nature” that required days away from work, job transfer or a work restriction.

The Labor Department says Connecticut’s incidence rate of 4.5 cases per 100 full-time workers placed it among 19 states with a rate significantly higher than the U.S. rate of 3.5.

Labor officials did not explain the rise in injuries rose, but said injuries and illnesses can be influenced by the economy, working conditions and work practices, training and hours worked.

Broadway stars hold auction to benefit Newtown

HARTFORD (AP) — The Broadway group that put on a benefit for victims of the Newtown school shooting is trying to raise more money for the town through an online auction.

Tony Award-winning Broadway producer Van Dean and composer Brett Bowles, who live in the Newtown area, organized the From Broadway With Love charity.

The auction, at http://FromBroadwayWithLove.org/auction , runs through midnight Thursday. It includes items ranging from a vacation at a Utah ski resort to New York Yankee baseball tickets, to signed posters from Broadway shows.

Proceeds benefit The United Way of Western Connecticut’s Sandy Hook School Support Fund.

In January, the group put on a concert in Waterbury featuring dozens of Broadway stars performing alongside children from Newtown for an audience that included families of the shooting victims.

Fire damages ex-White House counsel’s Conn.

STAMFORD (AP) — A fire damaged the Connecticut shoreline home of attorney Bernard Nussbaum, who was White House counsel to former President Bill Clinton.

More than 30 firefighters responded Wednesday morning to Nussbaum’s 6,200-square-foot home in Stamford along Long Island Sound. No one was injured.

Fire officials told The Advocate of Stamford (http://bit.ly/ Y2cEdx ) that a suspected electrical fire spread to walls and a ceiling of the 1930s home. Officials say fire damage was minimal, but smoke damage was heavy.

The cause of the fire is under investigation. The house is undergoing renovations, but officials don’t think the fire was related to the work.

Nussbaum was counsel to Clinton in 1993 and 1994 and was a senior staff member for the House Judiciary Committee in 1974 during impeachment proceedings against President Richard Nixon.

Norwich police name 3 killed in car crash

NORWICH (AP) — Norwich police have identified three people who were killed when their car crashed into a tree off Route 2.

Authorities said Thursday that the victims were 65-year-old Zhu Zhuo Rong, 62-year-old Zi Ming Zeng and 52-year-old Li Ying Xie. All three were Norwich residents.

Two other people in the car remain hospitalized with serious injuries. Their names haven’t been released.

Police say the cause of Wednesday morning’s accident remains under investigation.

The car went off the road and hit a tree just before 8:30 a.m. near the Preston town line. Authorities shut down Route 2 for about four hours while they investigated.

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UConn helps students stay healthy

potion control.

“I eat everything, I just try to eat a reasonable amount because I think that’s important,” she said.

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Services has nearly 600,000 participations on an annual basis.

Maeve Moylan, a 6th-semester management engineering for manufacturing and business double major, has participated in eight different intramural teams, including flag football, soccer and tennis.

She also played club lacrosse for two years until she injured her ankle this season.

“It’s great because we get to play different schools,” she said of club lacrosse as she ate a meal of chicken, salad and couscous in Putnam Dining Hall before heading to an intramural water polo game.

Although organized teams and clubs are highly popular at UConn, students needn’t commit to an organized team or club to stay lean.

Margaret Perkins, a 6th-semester accounting major, has maintained a fit physique throughout her college years through proper diet and regular exercise. Perkins goes to the gym four to five times a week and often attends UConn’s BodyWise programs, which offer a mixture of aerobic, yoga and spinning classes taught by student instructors.

“I really enjoy the classes because they keep you motivated,” Perkins said of the BodyWise classes located at the Hilltop area of campus. “You can’t just quit in the middle of one of those classes and they keep you focused.”

Next to the famed basketball arena, Gampel Pavilion, the student recreational facilities house a 200-meter indoor track, a 25-meter pool, weight rooms, a climbing center, a variety of cardio machines, exercise mats and stability balls. Often, the Guyer Gym is so crowded that lines of students waiting to use machines stretch the length the of gym area.

At the Guyer Gym, Perkins gen-

Are you in the clear?

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The Student Recreational Facility sees over 3,000 students a day, offering everythiing from a pool to an indoor rock climbing center, and helps students combate the “freshman 15.”

erally does 30 minutes of cardio on a treadmill or elliptical and then moves on to floor and abdominal exercises. She also gets some of her daily exercise by walking from her on-campus Hilltop apartment to her classes and avoids using the university’s shuttle bus system.

Many university students lead active lives by taking advantage of recreational resources and utilizing the pedestrian-friendly layout of Storrs.

“It’s a really great campus to not be sedentary,” Costanzo said.

“A lot of people walk a lot on this campus and there are a lot of activities to become involved in.”

You are what you eat With obesity at a national alltime high, UConn’s Student Health Services places an emphasis on healthy eating habits with an entire department devoted to nutrition. Students can even meet with a registered dietician for free by arranging an appointment at the

nutrition office.

Costanzo said she believes the prominence of nutrition education has helped students to lead healthier lifestyles than they may have led a decade ago.

“We have seen an educational shift,” Costanzo said. “The shift is you’re seeing is a lot more education on healthy nutrition.”

With napkin holders in the dining halls that display messages with healthy eating tips to the labeling of the nutrition content of every food item in the dining halls, students are bombarded with information about nutritious eating habits every day.

Particularly healthful dishes at the dining halls are denoted with a “Healthy Husky” logo on the nutrition fact sheets placed in front of the dining hall food. In addition to listing basic nutritional information, symbols like salt shakers and recycling logos represent high sodium or organic foods.

Perkins makes her eating habits a priority at school and focuses on

Fifteen pounds is a far cry from the three pounds Ohio State University researchers say you are likely to gain, but Costanzo noted that if you gain three pounds every several years starting at age 18, you will be obese by the time you are 40-years-old.

“Education is working, but it is not working enough,” she said.

“Eventually, extra weight will affect people’s health.”

There are two habits Costanzo recommends to keep fit during students’ freshman year and college careers: schedule in your exercise and be aware of your food intake.

“You have to think about it and it has to be part of a plan,” Costanzo said of exercise.

Although Costanzo said it can be difficult to pencil in a daily workout between classes and work, she said there are benefits to exercise beyond fitness and weight management.

“Students who exercise perceive life as being less stressful and it ends up making them feel good because of the endorphins exercise releases,” she said.

As for consumption of food, Costanzo stressed that overeating is often a problem in today’s society that can be controlled.

“If we all just ate when we were hungry, there would be a lot less obesity,” Costanzo said.

Costanzo added that while some of our health is genetic, a lot of our general health is a choice, that students can choose to eat health and exercise, or they can choose to do the opposite and that the freshman 15 is in your hands.

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Student works to Funding a key topic transform lives at USG debate that Clarke and two fellow UConn students, Anna Burbank and Allie Ball, became inspired When Patrick Clarke to build the school a library. As embarked on a journey to Sithembele Matiso doesn’t have South Africa this year to study a library at the moment-the school is human rights at the too underUniversity of Cape funded to Town, he knew his afford onestudy abroad expe-it is chalrience would be lenging for filled with opporstudents to tunity. Though the complete unknown factor homework in this experience assignwas the opportunim e n t s ty he would enviwithout sion for himself to books or benefit the comcomputers. munity: building a “I hope library in the small the actual village of Nyanga. books (in Nyanga, on the library) outskirts of the Patrick Clarke the give them Western Cape, UConn Student the educais one of many tion they African townneed to ships riddled with poverty. Tin shacks are the pass their exams and improve predominate type of dwelling. their lives,” Clarke said. “So Although the village has a pub- many people fail the last lic school system, many stu- exam of their senior year and drop out. I hope this gives dents fail to graduate.

In fact, it was on a visit them knowledge and inspirato Nyanga’s high school, tion to keep going and go to Sithembele Matiso High School,

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“I hope the actual books (in the library) give them the education they need to pass their exams and improve their lives.”

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how USG goes about its policies,” Price said. “I know the difficulties of the funding system and have ideas of how to improve it.”

Price said her main goal is to make sure student organizations understand the complex USG funding process and how they can apply for funds as well as make changes to the current funding system.

Giardina, the current funding board chair who helped implement this year’s new funding process, defended the system, saying that they have “implemented new policies that are even more fair.”

“A lot of people like the old system, but it was broken,” Giardina said. “We were constantly running out of money. The policies are never static.”

Giardina said it is his years of experience with USG and understanding of the complexities and demands of funding policies that makes him the right choice.

Michael Daniels, a junior political science and economics major, faced his opposition, Jared Kaufman, a sophomore geoscience major, for undergraduate representative for the Board of Trustees.

Daniels, the current chair of the USG External Affairs committee, is running on his experience in knowledge.

“I have the knowledge of local issues like water supply and the financing of Mansfield and UConn to bring to the table,” Daniels said.

Daniels said he has been working at the capital and at UConn since his freshman year to push for more funding for UConn and boasts a “strong working relationship with many administrators and elected officials.”

Kaufman, however, said he is running on being a “political outsider,” a title he’s proud of.

“I can bring a new voice to the board of trustees,” Kaufman said. “I’m a very approachable and accessible guy, and I think that’s what makes me right for the job.”

The debate marked the beginning of “Elections Week.”

Candidates have until voting begins on March 7 at 9 a.m. to campaign. Voting will end on March 11 at 5 p.m. The official candidates are listed on elections. uconn.edu, but campaigning as a write-in candidate is an option open to all UConn students.

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Study abroad library project on tight deadline

University.”

Together, Clarke, Burbank, and Ball have been working vigorously on the library project. With an April 27th departure date, the two have a strict timeline to adhere to. Yet just two weeks in to the project, the students have already established a book drive (with a March 18 collection date) in their communities back home.

They also plan to have the library renovated and painted by the time they leave South Africa on April 27.

The founding of the library at Sithembele Matiso High is just one aspect of Clarke’s UConn in Cape Town experience. From day one, the biology major and human rights minor immersed himself in South African culture. His adventures have ranged from the daring, as in scaling Devil’s Peak (an arduous three hour climb), to the frightening, such as hailing a minibus set for an unknown destination and driven by a stranger.

Perhaps the most difficult facet of UConn in Cape Town, however, has been breaking through the language barrier that exists between Clarke and his 28 program members and the locals. Since the primary languages on the outskirts of

Cape Town are Afrikaans and vision for a library. “We’re tryXhosa (a language consisting ing to get books/funds to give of a mixture of tongue clicks to the students of the school and words), developing an ini- to give them better lives and tial connection with the locals futures,” Clarke said. proved a challenge. “Most Providing the educational people also know English but tools to brighten the futures of when they don’t and try to Nyanga’s younger generations, talk to you, it’s Clarke hopes kind of intimito empower dating,” Clarke these young said. people to However, a change their language barrier nation for wasn’t enough the better. “I to stop Clarke would like from developto think that ing a deep conI improved nection with the their lives South African in a way c i t i z e n s . that inspired According to them enough Clarke, the to want to locals maintain help others an optimistic one day too. outlook amidst I’m not trysevere poverty ing to be the and limited ‘white savo p p o r t u n i t y.

Patrick Clarke ior’ to these “The people of people but I UConn Student am trying to Nyanga are happier and more give them the faith-filled resources to about their futures than anyone try and go out into the commuI have ever met,” he said. nity and change other’s lives.

This deep connection with I ... hope the books give them the people of Nyanga, and the the education to want to end desire to expand their oppor- poverty and racism.” tunities for a promising future, are the driving forces behind Clarke, Burbank, and Ball’s Abigail.Mace@UConn.edu

NEW YORK (AP) — A man charged with killing and dismembering his mother and dumping her body parts in the trash appeared in court Thursday dressed in a garbage bag and said he’d done nothing wrong — even though detectives say they found a cellphone photo of him holding her severed head.

Bahsid McLean, 23, was charged with murder, hindering prosecution and criminal possession of a weapon. According to a criminal complaint, he stabbed Tanya Byrd and then cut up her body with help from an accomplice, William Harris, 26.

Byrd, a 45-year-old home health aide, was last seen alive Monday. Her remains were found a day later stuffed in four plastic garbage bags and scattered along four blocks, police said.

Detectives said they recovered an image on McLean’s phone of him holding his mother’s severed head.

“I didn’t do anything wrong,” McLean said during court.

McLean’s attorney for the arraignment, Jerry Iannece, said his client wore the bizarre covering because he had been urinating on himself. The shorts he had been wearing were soaked through, so court personnel gave him the trash bag to wear, Iannece said.

Iannece said his client was off his medication but didn’t say what type. McLean was held without bail, was placed on sui-

cide watch in protective custody and was undergoing a psychiatric evaluation.

“Everybody’s innocent until proven guilty,” Iannece said.

“Obviously this is a troubling case, but we will investigate and defend it thoroughly.”

Police said they have surveillance footage of the two men at a hardware store at about 7:30 p.m. Monday where they bought a saw and trash bags, then headed back to the Bronx apartment McLean shared with his mother.

At about 9:30 p.m. they were caught on surveillance footage lugging bags believed to be the remains, police said.

Witnesses told police an SUV dropped the bags off Monday night or early Tuesday.

A man walking his dog came upon one of the bags early Tuesday in a trash pile on a street in the Melrose section of the Bronx after the dog sniffed it out.

Inside a duffel bag was a heavy-duty plastic garbage bag with the woman’s bloodied leg. Police then found the three other bags and their macabre contents, including the victim’s head, part of her torso and other limbs.

McLean later reported his mother missing, police said.

Medical examiners determined that Byrd died from a stab wound to the neck and officially ruled the death a homicide.

A blade was discovered in the apartment McLean shared with

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“I’m not trying to be the ‘white savior’ to these people but I am trying to give them the resources to try and go out into the community and change other’s lives.”

Boys’ deaths add urgency to gun debate

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HARTFORD (AP) — The family of two young boys killed in an apparent-murder suicide — and state police — said Thursday they want to know why the boys’ grandmother, with an apparent history of mental health problems, had access to the revolver used in the shooting.

The shooting has added urgency to a legislative review of access to guns that is already under way in Connecticut, where a troubled 20-year-old man gunned down 26 people, including 20 first-graders, on the opposite side of the state at a Newtown school on Dec. 14.

The two boys’ grandmother, 47-year-old Debra Denison, was supposed to take them from a day care to a birthday party Tuesday but instead drove to a nearby lake where she and the children were found shot to death after a frantic search.

Police said the gun had been taken from her home, and one relative said it apparently belonged to Denison’s husband.

“It was in the house, which is hard to believe,” said Marcia White, a paternal great-grandmother of the boys, who said Denison’s struggles with mental health were well known to the family.

State Sen. Toni Harp, a member of the General Assembly task force charged with formulating a response to the Sandy Hook

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This photo released by the Connecticut State Police during an Amber Alert Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, shows Alton Perry, 2, left, and Ashton Perry, 6 months old, right, who were taken from their daycare by their grandmother Tuesday afternoon.

Elementary School shooting, said there appeared to be striking parallels to the Newtown tragedy, including the slaying of children and gun violence by people without permits to carry weapons.

She said her working group on mental health has endorsed changing the gun-permitting process to ask about people in the household with mental illness and lay out responsibilities for owners to keep guns away from them.

“The problem is, often family

members have guns in their home that are not secure, and they assume people in the home will not violate their property and use them,” said Harp, a Democrat.

“But we hear more and more about people taking guns that don’t belong to them and doing great harm with them.”

Harp said there is concern about stigmatizing people with behavioral health issues, who experts say are no more violent that others, and the legislature has to walk a fine line in taking steps to prevent future tragedies.

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Police guard a sheet-covered plastic bag next to a police vehicle on Eagle Avenue in the Bronx borough of New York, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. A man out walking his dog early Tuesday morning discovered the dismembered remains of a woman in heavy duty plastic garbage bags, police said.

his mother, and a saw was found in Harris’ home, police said.

Detectives recovered the images of Byrd’s body parts from the phone, after Harris told them he was shown the images, police said. Byrd’s phone was discovered with Harris, according to the criminal complaint.

Byrd’s family said she had wanted her son out of the house, and there was speculation that he had been abusing her other child, authorities said.

The young man had several arrests, including one for assaulting two police officers in Brooklyn in 2010. His father, James, told the Daily News that

he did destructive things. “He set fires. Nobody could control him,” the father said.

McLean and Harris were first arrested on charges of unlawfully dissecting a human body and hindering prosecution.

Each man initially implicated the other the killing, authorities said. The murder charge was later added for McLean.

Harris was arraigned on charges of criminal possession of stolen property and drug possession. He was held without bail. A message left for his attorney wasn’t immediately returned.

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Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Draw upon hidden resources. Provide excellent service.

Accept a generous offer. You’re gaining authority.

Review priorities and contemplate your next move.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- A spiritual advisor keeps you on the right path.

Share your experience with somebody to whom it would make a difference. Your friends are really there for you.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Consider new opportunities in your career, perhaps by completely reinventing your goals.

Make time to help others. What goes around comes around.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Travel and romance both look good for the next two days. Expand your options. There’s no shortage of information. Learn quickly from a loved one.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- There’s action and change going on at work. List options, review considerations and choose. Use top quality materials. Have someone else write your bio.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Brainstorm brilliant ideas with your team of hotshot experts. Unleash imagination. Write a love letter to your future self. Let friends teach you.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Add some passion and spice to your workplace.

The place is bustling with busy innovation. The impossible looks easy. Explore streets you seldom visit.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Make something beautiful with plenty of love. Your intuition is getting recognized. Love is a growing possibility over the next couple of days.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Getting in touch with your spiritual side clears your mind. It’s easier to clear up family issues.

Play with long-range plans. Maintain optimism.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Fun is in the air. Now’s a great time to let go of old upsets and create new possibilities with loved ones. They help you achieve the next level.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is an 8 -- A to-do list helps with tasks. Start by checking off projects closest to your heart. At the end of the day, delegate or erase those you’re never going to do.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- You’re in a time crunch, as you race around getting things done. Luckily, you’re good at this. It gets easier as the day goes by. Have fun with it.

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1932 Charles Lindbergh III, son of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family’s new mansion in New Jersey.

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His Girl Friday packed with action and wit Green economy could create turnaround

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Olivia Saccomanno plays ace reporter Hildy Johnson in Connecticut Repertory Theatre’s production of HIS GIRL FRIDAY, playing now through March 10 in the Nafe Katter Theatre. The play delivers lots of laughs and fast paced action. to keep audiences entertained.

By Zarrin Ahmed Staff Writer The cast and crew of the Connecticut Repertory Theater had their audience laughing out loud throughout the dramatic and action packed performance of “His Girl Friday” on Thursday night.

“I was here mostly for a drama class that I was taking but I’m walking away with a lot more appreciation for theater,” Silverberg Aryee, a 4th-semester biology major, said. “Their performance was simply amazing – on point and effective. Even the stage props and the set up were done so well. I’m very glad I got to see the show.”

Aryee was one of many in the theater that did not hold back on the applause at the end of the show. Though he came because of a class, many of the audience members were older – either family members of the performers or patrons of the small theater.

Set up as the focal point of the circular seating, the stage showed off an elaborate set of a newspaper office in Chicago during the 1930s. “His Girl Friday” is based on a play titled “The Front Page” which was written by journalists Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur in 1928.

It was later adapted several times for both stage and screen, sparking the production of a film titled “His Girl Friday” in 1939. Written during an era that marked corruption in Chicago, the play highlights the lies, bribes and secrets that surrounded officials in Chicago like policemen and the mayor. It also includes a strong female journalist at a time when females were underrepresented in most jobs. Set on the stage of the beginnings of World War II, the play is packed with action from start to finish.

The plot centers around Walter Burns, editor of the Chicago Daily Record, who is tracking a story on Earl Holub, a man convicted of shooting a police officer.

Burns’ ex wife, Hildy Johnson, comes back to the paper

to bid farewell before her departure to New York with her fiancée. But as she tries to leave, chaos ensues with the development of events connected to Holub, including his escape from prison. Throughout the play, the actors and actresses delivered quick dialogue and subtle yet outrageous humor that had the crowd laughing.

Using real props and staging action scenes like a shootout, the cast had the audience at the edge of their seats.

In the small theater, each member of the audience was able to notice the subtle facial and body expressions that made the play seem more natural and even more clever.

“The actors were very expressive and natural. You can tell that they put a lot of hard work into their roles and that they love what they do,” Kaitlynn Driscoll, a 4th-semester communications major, said. “In a lot of other plays, they over dramatize things but this kept action while delivering fast and witty lines.”

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CGI merges with traditional animation Startup

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By Alex Sferrazza Campus Correspondent Walt Disney Animation Studios’ John Kahrs proudly took home the Academy Award for “Best Animated Short Film” at the Oscar ceremony this past Sunday for “Paperman.” The first win in the category for Disney Studios since 1969’s “It’s Tough to Be a Bird,” Paperman’s victory was easily predicted; after all, its not every day a lone short single handedly invents a new visual medium.

“Paperman” is a first of its kind animated film. Using the latest technologies and techniques developed at the Disney Studios, “Paperman” combines CGI (computer generated imagery, a.k.a.

“3D”) animation with traditionally hand drawn “2D” animation to create an incredibly detailed and expressive visual style the likes of which have never been seen before.

Released in theaters before screenings of “Wreck it Ralph”, the film’s breathtaking visuals combined with its charming love story made it an easy favorite for an eventual Oscar win.

“Paperman” is the culmination of decades of experimentation with CGI, during which time we’ve seen the format compliment, enhance and now seamlessly meld with traditional animation.

One of the most famous uses of CGI came in the 1982 film “Tron” which marked the first extensive use of the medium in a commercial feature length film.

Following the technique’s successful application in “Tron,” CGI slowly but surely began to be utilized both by animated films and special effects artists.

For years, CGI has been used in traditionally animated films.

The Disney Studio’s earliest implementation is seen in 1985’s

By Brendon Field Staff Writer

Photo courtesy of bigscreenanimation.com

The animated short film “Paperman” combines the lastest CGI technology with traditional animation techniques to create a more expressive animated character.

“The Black Cauldron.” Notable examples of CG Imagery in traditionally animated “2D” films include the famous ballroom featured in “Beauty and the Beast,” the Cave of Wonders featured in “Aladdin,” and the title character of “The Iron Giant.”

Pixar’s 1995 blockbuster “Toy Story” was, of course, the very first feature length film created entirely with CGI. Following its success, Disney Studios, as well as competitors including DreamWorks, Blu Sky Studios, began to produce CGI films of their own.

Following the box office disappointments of numerous big budget traditionally animated releases, “Atlantis: The Lost Empire” and “Treasure Planet,” then Disney CEO Michael

Eisner and other executives decided to discontinue production of all non CGI animated films. Dreamworks followed suit as did animation legend Don Bluth who has not produced a film since the failure of his 2000 effort “Titan A.E.” What was incomprehensible to those executives at the time was the notion that these films were not failures due to their style of animation, but rather because despite their spectacular visuals, they simply contained sub par storytelling.

From 2004’s “Home on the Range” until 2009’s “The Princess and the Frog,” not a single traditionally animated film was produced by the Disney Animation Studios.

Following Disney’s purchase

of “Pixar Animation Studios” in 2006, Pixar chiefs John Lasseter and Ed Catmull restarted traditionally animated film production at the Walt Disney Animation Studios.

A few years after the merger, we finally see a new light shine on the animation medium. Fittingly as a project from the studio that nearly single handedly invented the animation art form. “Paperman” represents the first project to combine both CGI and traditionally animated techniques seamlessly.

Through the help of computers “Paperman” has helped to re introduce the world to the beauty of traditional animation in a manner that has never been seen before.

Alex.Sferrazza@UConn.edu

Startup Weekend, a 54-hour crash course in company creation, will be taking place at UConn March 1-3.

Startup Weekend is a global event that brings entrepreneurs and developers together for a weekend marathon. By the end of the event, they seek to have an operating business. The event begins on Friday when individuals pitch ideas for what they believe would make a viable company.

A vote is held, and the top 20 are selected. Teams are then formed, which consist of people with backgrounds in business and technology. The teams work nearly non-stop with the aid of coaches throughout Saturday and Sunday, turning their concepts into reality.

Each business gives a presentation assessed by a panel of judges.

The event is an opportunity for students and entrepreneurs to get educated in production and management, build their professional network, and get advice from successful business owners and CEOs. According to the official website, over 36 percent of businesses created at Startup Weekend are still active three months later, and 80 percent of participants continue to develop their ideas after the event.

Registration for Startup Weekend can be done online or Friday evening, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Speakers include: Rob Hughes, CEO of TopCoder, Inc., based in Glastonbury; Mary Anne Rooke, chairman and managing director of Angel Investment Forum, located in New Haven and Stamford and Hadi Bozorgmanesh, director of engineering and physical sciences for UConn Ventures.

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It seems fair to say that the majority of humanity is currently underserved by today’s economic systems. Millions of people around the world lack access to fulfilling jobs, adequate food, water or healthcare, and are suffering the environmental costs of industry such as increased pollution and disease.

Embracing a green economy would reverse all of these problems, but how do we make the transition? In a 2011 article for theWorld Resources Institute, economic expert Dr. Manish Bapna addresses exactly this question.

As mentioned in my previous article, the transition to a green economy is not going to be painless. It will mean abandoning some industries altogether, such as the coal industry.

Consequently, people will lose their jobs. Perhaps most daunting of all, making the transition to a truly beneficial economy will mean taking the money out of politics and building a genuinely representative and accountable government. As Dr. Bapna said, “The problem is vested interests.

Those who benefit from the status quo are either overrepresented in or have greater access to institutions that manage natural resources and protect the environment. U.S. climate legislation, for example, was defeated in no small part by resistance from fossil-fuel based energy advocates.” Overturning the status quo will unavoidably mean taking on some of these big and powerful opponents.

Despite these obstacles, hope is not lost for an economy that truly serves our needs. All over the world, examples of green economies are emerging – Dr. Bapna cites the example of China’s massive investment in wind energy: “Why is China investing in wind? To win tomorrow’s markets, not necessarily to compete in today’s.” China’s choice of short-term sacrifice for long-term gain is the attitude that must be adopted in order to implement a Green Economy.

We can also devise methods to soften the blow of the transition for those who will need it most (a government program could, for example, provide financial and career-change support for ex-coal miners).

In summary, Dr. Bapna explains that a green economy is a system that “promotes a triple bottom line: sustaining and advancing economic, environmental and social wellbeing,” and so will necessitate a complete paradigm shift in regard to “growth and development, production of goods and services, and consumer habits.”

In order to make the shift happen, Dr. Bapna recommends four actions: increasing public awareness about green economies, promoting new economic indicators (beyond just GDP), opening up political decisionmaking processes to the public, and taking advantage of political leadership. Many people say that they aren’t interested in politics, but we are all inevitably political actors. Doing nothing is a conscious decision with associated consequences. If we want an economy that serves us rather than the other way around, some political moves must be made.

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By Brendon Field Staff Writer

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Disney’s Test Track ride that is part of Epcot Center has evolved through the years, and now shys away from the educational theme the park once had.

By Alex Sferrazza Campus Correspondent A crown jewel of Walt Disney Imagineering, the “Epcot Center” as it was known in its early years, opened as the second gate of the “Walt Disney World Resort.” While popular, the park struggled in its early years due to many factors, among them the lack of a thrill ride. While the park was filled with entertaining and educational attractions, none packed this particular punch.

The solution came in the form of 1999’s “Test Track.”

Despite being delayed multiple times and prone to frequent breakdowns, the ride quickly became one of the most popular at the Walt Disney World Resort. Putting guests inside of a mock GM test vehicle, allowing them to learn and experience the actual tests automotive manufacturers put new vehicles through. The highlight of the attraction was a lap around the outside of the show building which allowed the vehicles to achieve speeds of 65 mph, making the ride the fastest at the resort, a record it holds to this day.

13 years later, the dated introduction film and aesthetics led Disney to remodel the attraction in 2012. The new “Test Track” opened last December, and I had the privilege to try it out this past January.

The first thing that will strike you as you enter the show building is the cool interactive queue system for those waiting in line. Here guests proceed through a series of rooms where they “design” a car and scan their design onto the ride to see how it stacks up. It’s highly recommended that visitors wait in the full line as the FASTPASS entrance robs you of much of the overall experience.

As for the ride itself: Aesthetically, the new “Test Track” is one super cool, futuristic-looking ride. Whereas, the original iteration of “Test Track” attempted to replicate actual GM car tests, the new ride attempts to place guests in the middle of a digital simulation. The result is probably the closest we’ll ever see to a new “TRON” attraction. Cool video screens and

lighting effects guide the journey which follows the same track layout as the prior iteration However, it must be said that the remodel was absolutely done on the cheap side of things. By “cheap” of course I mean for a Disney Park, that is. The amount of theming and aesthetic detail is absolutely astounding in comparison to anything found at, say, a “Six Flags” park. However while the remodel looks cool, almost all credit is due to WDI’s lighting department. Basically, nearly all previous props, decorations, and animatronics (most notably the crash test dummy) have been removed and rather than replaced, ignored in favor of visual projections and digital screens. For example, the “environmental test rooms” of the previous iteration have been completely stripped away leaving nothing but bare walls and a cheap augmented reality display panel. All that remains intact are the trees and the famous truck prop, which have simply had some lighting effects added.

It is also somewhat disappointing that the ride strays from the “spirit” of Epcot. The park was originally designed to both entertain and educate people of all ages. Even when the decision was made to create the thrill ride known as “Test Track,” the ride still managed to educate guests and give an inside look into actual car testing. The new version of the ride completely ignores this to create an attractive futuristic looking ride but is ultimately devoid of any educational value.

In conclusion, the new lighting and techno effects make the new “Test Track” a visual marvel, and the new interactive queue area just might be the very best in the entire resort. However a lack of any real innovation in the ride whatsoever will keep the new “Test Track” from being a must-see draw for returning park guests. The thrills and chills are still as fun as ever, and the ride is destined to remain one of the most popular at “Epcot,” just not any more so than it had been before the remodel.

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Glamorous Diana dresses up for auction

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Trump returns to boardroom NEW YORK (AP) — There is something Donald Trump says he doesn’t know.

Trump has welcomed a reporter to his 26th-floor corner office in Trump Tower to talk about “All-Star Celebrity Apprentice.” And here in person, this oneof-a-kind TV star, billionaire businessman, ubiquitous brand mogul and media maestro strikes a softer pose than he has typically practiced in his decades on public display.

Relaxed behind a broad desk whose mirror sheen is mostly hidden by stacks of paper that suggest work is actually done there, Trump is pleasant, even chummy, with a my-time-is-your-time easiness greeting his guest.

The ratings woes of NBC, which airs his show, are on Trump’s mind at the moment, and as he hastens to voice confidence in the network’s powers-that-be (“They will absolutely get it right”), he marvels at the mysteries of the entertainment world.

“If I buy a great piece of real estate and do the right building, I’m really gonna have a success,” he says. “It may be MORE successful or LESS successful, but you can sort of predict how it’s gonna do. But show business is like trial and error! It’s amazing!”

He loves to recall the iffy prospects for “The Apprentice” when it debuted in January 2004. With show biz, he declares, “You NEVER know what’s gonna happen.”

Except, of course, when you do.

“I do have an instinct,” he confides. “Oftentimes, I’ll see shows go on and I’ll say, ‘That show will never make it,’ and I’m always right. And I understand talent. Does anybody ask me? No. But if they did, I would be doing them a big service. I know what people want.”

So maybe he does know it all. In any case, lots of people wanted “The Apprentice.” In its first season, it averaged nearly 21 million viewers each week.

And it gave Trump a signature TV platform that clinched his image as corporate royalty. He presided in a mood-lit stagecraft boardroom where celebrity subjects addressed him as “Mr. Trump” and shrank at that dismissive flick of his wrist and dreaded catchphrase, “You’re fired.”

UConn has a population of approximately 13,000, but that’s just counting people. A number of other creatures, living in trees, underground, and sometimes right outside our dorms, call Storrs home.

UConn is the home of the huskies, although a much more appropriate title would be home of the squirrels, seeing as they appear to outnumber students.

They can be found in any grassy quad or non-grassy quad, and for some reason on the roof of the math science building.

Discarded food is rarely seen littered around campus, and I suppose we have them to thank for it. For the time being they are in hibernation, but are sure to return within the next few weeks. I actually wonder where they all go. There really aren’t that many trees on campus.

Another animal spotted frequently around campus are skunks, known to hang around Buckley, West and Wilbur Cross. Thankfully there are little to no stories of students being sprayed or any areas of campus being inhabitable due to smell. I guess constantly being surrounded by college students and their wild antics can make any animal fearless.

Any animal, that is, except for rabbits. Warrens have been dug near Mirror Lake, behind South and even near Homer

Babbidge Library. They will occasionally show themselves, but will bolt if anybody comes within several yards of them.

If anybody is looking to catch them and collect the cast of “Watership Down,” the best place to try would be near the greenhouses behind Torrey Life Science. The ample amount of vegetation practically makes it their Golden Corral.

This is Connecticut, which, of course, means there are deer.

The local deer aren’t the typical rural deer that stick to the forest and panic whenever pitted against their arch nemesis the light bulb. UConn deer are unafraid to wander into parking lots or even right outside buildings if it’s late enough.

Also opposite of the norm is a deer that runs away when one comes within close proximity of a person.

Foxes are very elusive animals, although they have been spotted around the edges of campus at night, looking to take advantage of the several thousand dinners available to them. A number of bird species can be found, and are the reason the two lakes are a health hazard. There haven’t been any bear sightings, hopefully it stays that way. Ironically, only one husky can be found on campus, and he is kept indoors as part of Alpha Phi Omega.

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Businessman and TV personality Donald Trump from “The Celebrity Apprentice,” at his office at Trump Tower in New York.

The two-hour premiere of “All-Star Celebrity Apprentice” (Sunday at 9 p.m. EST) starts by rallying its 14 veteran contenders in the even more evocative setting of the 2,000-year-old Egyptian Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There, grandly, Trump receives such returning players as Gary Busey, Stephen Baldwin, LaToya Jackson and reality mean queen Omarosa.

Soon, teammates are chosen by team leaders Bret Michaels and Trace Adkins. Their first assignment: concoct a winning recipe for meatballs, then sell more of them than the rival team.

This is the 13th edition of the “Apprentice” franchise, which has now slipped to less than onethird its original viewership, according to Nielsen Co. figures. But even an audience matching last season’s 6.26 million viewers would be pleasant news for NBC, which has recently fallen to fifth place in prime time, behind even Spanish-language Univision.

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The beaded neckline of a Catherine Walker black velvet evening gown is estimated to sell for 50,000-70,000 pounds in the Fit For a Princess auction in London on March 19.

LONDON (AP) — If dresses could talk, this dark navy, figurehugging velvet number would have the best stories to tell.

Princess Diana wore it on state visits, at royal banquets, and most memorably to a gala dinner at the White House in 1985 when she took to the dance floor with Hollywood star John Travolta.

The Victor Edelstein gown will go under the hammer at a vintage fashion auction in London in March, along with nine other of Diana’s lavish evening dresses. In total, Kerry Taylor Auctions say the sale is expected to raise more than 800,000 pounds (US$1.2 million.)

The dresses, all in the signature 1980s look — padded shoulders, puffed sleeves, crushed velvet — are snapshots in the princess’s glamorous, jet-setting life.

One Catherine Walker longsleeved gown in sea-green sequins was worn to a grand Vienna theater; a burgundy velvet gown with a plunging back, by the same designer, was paired with the Spencer tiara on a visit to Canberra, Australia; and a black, beaded velvet gown, also

by Walker, was worn in 1997 for a Vanity Fair photo shoot by Mario Testino.

But the most celebrated item was the Edelstein gown with off-the-shoulder straps, which Diana chose for her and Prince Charles’ first joint visit to the White House.

The princess paired it with a stunning sapphire and pearl chok-

er for a state dinner given by President Ronald Reagan, where, after dinner, she and Travolta twirled on the White House dance floor to tunes from the actor’s hit movie “Saturday Night Fever.”

Travolta said afterward: “She turned around and she did that look that she did so, so beautifully and I asked if she would care to dance and she said she’d love to.”

The gown, which Diana wore on at least four other occasions, is expected to sell for up to 300,000 pounds.

The other dresses, valued from 30,000 pounds to 120,000 pounds, include a pale pink A-line gown and bolero set, both richly embroidered in crystals and sequins; a one-shouldered cream and floral-embroidered number; and a white chiffon cocktail dress with a draped skirt.

Diana decided to sell dozens of her dresses at a New York charity auction at the suggestion of her son, Prince William, in 1997 — three months before she died in a Paris car crash. Florida-based socialite Maureen Dunkel bought about a dozen of the dresses — including the ten to be sold next month — and put them up for auction in Canada in 2011, but the prices were set too high and many dresses didn’t sell.

Kerry Taylor Auctions declined to disclose the identity of the sellers for the dresses in the upcoming auction. Taylor said only that this time the prices are “realistic” and buyers have already shown

NYC’s 2013 Fashion Night Out canceled Fashion’s Night Out in the US will go on hiatus in 2013 with the celebrity appearances and late-night shopping absent in America for at least another year.

Fashion’s Night Out was created in response to the economic recession that hit New York City hard in 2009. Through fashion, this planned event was introduced to help boost the city’s struggling economy in one of its most famous markets. One of the other main goals of the event was to raise money for the NYC AIDS Fund.

After initial success, this event was renewed for the next three years. Up to this point, the success of Fashion’s Night Out had spread from New York City across the country and across the globe. This event has been annually sponsored by Vogue, the Fashion Designers of America and NYC & Co. Over the years, designers and stores have hosted miniature parties and gatherings to lure in shoppers with free drinks, music and sales. The occasional celebrity sighting was inevitable, and that is also a key component in drawing in crowds to each individual store. This inclusive night gave shoppers and city goers a chance to socialize and preview upcoming collections from the individual designers and stores.

In recent history, retailers have found it hard to allocate resources during this night at the beginning of New York’s Fashion Week. Budget issues have caused problems with designers and companies actually making a profit from the money that goes into supporting a citywide party.

Because this night was first implemented during times of a struggling economy, an event like this made sense to try and bring customers back in. Since then, designers have found more stable business and aren’t seeing as many financial benefits from Fashion’s Night Out. The event was never looked at as being a huge moneymaker, with real success coming from the engagement and attention to the importance of retail in New York City. Even Mayor Michael Bloomberg approved of the event, saying in interviews that Fashion’s Night Out brought energy and optimism to the city’s retailers who use their creativity to benefit New York City.

With the event cancelled, it will be up to individual retailers to decide how to engage shoppers and the public during New York’s fashion week. Hopefully the charitable contributions won’t get put on hiatus as well, as Fashion’s Night Out has raised over one million dollars for the NYC AIDS Fund since 2009.

Jamil.Larkins@UConn.edu

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5 strong movie princesses Kevin Hart continues to rise

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Gregory Peck, right, as Joe Bradley, and Audrey Hepburn, as Princess Ann, in the 1953 film “Roman Holiday.”

LOS ANGELES (AP) — This week’s “Jack the Giant Slayer,” a 3-D retelling of the Jack and the Beanstalk legend, contains all the elements of the classic tale: farm boy, beans, giants, etc. But along for the ride is a new character, Princess Isabelle, played by Eleanor Tomlinson.

At the film’s start, Isabelle has sneaked away in disguise from her overprotective father, the king, to see what the real world is like. Eventually she ends up finding more of an adventure than she’d bargained for when she’s sent skyward into the clutches of some fierce, bloodthirsty giants. Still, she rolls with whatever comes her way and learns not just to survive but thrive — and even find time to fall in love.

Here’s a look at five other movies featuring strong princesses: ”Roman Holiday” (1953): Truly a classic in the princess-in-disguise genre, this romantic comedy charmer stars a young, radiant Audrey Hepburn in her only Oscar-winning role. She plays Princess Ann, who’s tired of the schedules and demands that are forced upon her during a European tour.

When she dares to sneak out one night and enjoy the people and sights of Rome, she crosses paths with American journalist Joe Bradley (a handsome and dashing Gregory Peck). Together they do all the things she’s always wanted to do: drink champagne midday, race around on a scooter, dance under the moonlight and even get into a wild brawl.

While she retains her elegance, she’s truly up for anything.

“Star Wars” (1977): Stands up to Darth Vader.

Leads the Rebel Alliance in taking on the evil Empire. Enjoys snappy banter with Han Solo. And she does it all with enormous, symmetrical buns on either side of her head. Is there anything Princess Leia can’t do? As played indelibly by Carrie Fisher, she’s petite but driven, smart and smart-mouthed.

She has enough foresight to hide the stolen Death Star plans inside R2-D2 but can always think on her feet. Even in subsequent “Star Wars” films, when she’s tethered to Jabba the Hut in a metal bikini as Slave Leia or forced to fraternize with Ewoks, she at least maintains some shred of her vivacious, independent spirit.

“The Princess Bride” (1987): Because any excuse to write about this movie will do. Don’t let the name Buttercup fool you. As played by Robin Wright, this is a woman who’s as resourceful as she is beautiful. And she’d rather risk her life than be forced into a marriage with a man she doesn’t love, the evil Prince Humperdinck. Although she’s kidnapped at one point, Buttercup is no damsel in distress. She survives the Fire Swamp, complete with Rodents of Unusual Size, and many other

dangers to be with the man who is her destiny, the virtuous farm boy Westley. This cheeky fairy tale is of Rob Reiner’s best films: endlessly quotable and as clever and hilarious as ever.

“A Little Princess” (1995): OK, admittedly this pick is a bit of a cheat because the little girl at its center isn’t actual royalty, but she’s so lovely — as is the film as a whole — that I had to sneak it in there. This early Alfonso Cuaron movie is beautiful and truly magical, with Oscar nominations for its cinematography and art direction. Liesel Matthews (better known as Hyatt Hotel heiress Liesel Pritzker) stars as Sara, a child of privilege at an exclusive New York boarding school. When her beloved father is presumed dead while fighting in World War I, Sara is forced into servitude by the school’s cruel headmistress. But no matter the situation, she’s plucky and full of personality, a loyal and generous friend who brings out the best in everyone around her. Sounds pretty regal to me.

“Princess Mononoke” (1999): She was raised by wolves, people, come on! What more do you need to know? This gorgeous and wondrous animated fantasy from Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki features a true warrior princess: a fierce young woman named San (voiced by Claire Danes in the Englishlanguage version) who can communicate with the spirits. She finds herself in the center of a war between animals, humans (whom she hates) and demons in a mystical 14th century setting. The film is complex and densely plotted but San’s strength and intensity are never in question.

NEW YORK (AP) — Like most people who get the chance to host “Saturday Night Live,” Kevin Hart is excited to have the gig.

Unlike most hosts, Hart is proving to be complicated.

For starters, the 32-year-old comedian-actor doesn’t like making eye contact. When he writes his jokes, he has to do it in a “think tank” — alone, in his home.

He also has to stand on top of an apple box when performing. Sometimes, he has to stand on two of them.

That’s why collaborating with the “SNL” cast and crew feels like a new process for AP Hart, who is hosting the NBC Cast member Jason Sudeikis, left, and guest host Kevin Hart during rehearsals for “saturshow this weekend.

“I am what you would a call day Night Live,” in New York. Hart will host the show on Saturday, March 2. a genius,” said Hart, as the “SNL.” “SNL” cast and crew burst “You can’t get nervous about what you love into laughter.

“So this process here is a little different. ... A to do. This is what I love to do, so the opporlot of people came in the room and were look- tunity to do it on this stage is ridiculous,” he ing into my eyes and it threw me off a little said.

Duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, known for bit,” he says jokingly, but in a serious tone.

“So I just closed my eyes and let them talk their hit “Thrift Shop,” will perform Saturday and kind of took it all in. And then I recited night. Hart says he’s a fan of group — sort of.

“I am a fan now ‘cause I found out who they everything they said.” were when I realized they were going to be on Hart was in good spirits and self-deprecating — as usual — as he shot “SNL” promos the show with me. So because of the Internet with Jason Sudeikis and Bobby Moynihan on and the Google search, I Googled them,” he said, as others laughed. “I educated myself Tuesday.

His hosting gig on “SNL” is another notch — almost another genius move of mine — to on his growing resume: He hosted last year’s think to Google somebody that I didn’t know.”

So is Hart enjoying the group’s massive, MTV Video Music Awards, has appeared on ABC’s “Modern Family” and starred in the multiplatinum anthem about buying used clothes? romantic comedy “Think Like a Man.” “I didn’t hear that. Didn’t hear that one.

He’s also the star of the BET parody series “Real Husbands of Hollywood” (Tuesday, Don’t know what that one is,” he said. “But I 10 p.m. EST) with Robin Thicke and Nick heard some other stuff. Don’t really know the Cannon. The Philadelphia-born Hart said he’s titles. But I know (Macklemore’s) white — “anxious,” but not worried, about hosting from Google.”

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Bartender should not be punished for a safe decision

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runk driving is pretty much a confirmed social evil. Between publicity campaigns such as DARE, high school and MADD, there is an enormous social stigma against not having a designated driver, or going anywhere in a vehicle while intoxicated. We know the risk is too great, yet for whatever reason, people are still getting wasted and going for joy rides.

Enter Twyla DeVito, a former bartender at the American Legion Post in Shelby, Ohio. DeVito called the police on a patron. When the patron was apprehended, the local police chief said DeVito made the right decision because the driver was over twice the legal limit.

Unfortunately for DeVito, she was also fired for that decision.

Her employer said she was being let go because, “it’s bad for business to have a bartender that will call the cops.” The employer continued, “If every patron who comes in here has to worry about the cops waiting for them when they leave, the place would be empty.”

This is abhorrent. A quick Internet search can reveal any number of DUI-related deaths, some of them in the double digits. With the enormous risk and danger drunk driving poses in our society, how can anyone promote not doing everything they can to stop it?

Take that scenario. The all too common one where a patron leaves a bar, drives and kills someone else. It was DeVito’s responsibility the entire time to make sure that the patron was not getting drunk at the bar. Techniques of Alcohol Management (TAM) certification, which is required in many states (but not Connecticut) teaches that alcohol service workers are supposed to assess where a patron is (Green = ready to serve, Yellow = keep under surveillance, Red = do not serve) to minimalize the risk of driving under the influence, severe health problems or social disruption. If the patron walks into the bar already intoxicated, all DeVito could do was stall him until alternative transportation was arranged. If he insisted on leaving and succeeded, what else could she do?

Bad for business or not, keeping drunk drivers off the street should be the No. 1 priority for alcohol service workers. DeVito acted responsibly and was punished for it. Her employer is clearly putting money ahead of human lives, and that should be a decision that American alcohol service workers shouldn’t have to risk. There should be measures put in place so that those who serve alcohol don’t have to make the decision between their paycheck and someone else’s life.

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Policy consistency needed in Middle East

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t’s hard to think back to a time, as little as two years ago, when the Middle East was home to a largely quiescent population, so accustomed to living under autocratic and monarchic rule as to accept it as a matter of course. The prospect of removing or replacing Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Zine el Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia or Bashar al-Assad in Syria was harbored only by the most optimistic of democrats and by the most radical of terrorists. All of that changed, of course, with the self-immolation of a Tunisian protestor on Dec. 18, 2010, and the beginning of what

By Chris Kempf we now know as the Arab Spring. If only Weekly Columnist he could have experienced le déluge in all of the passion, violence and tragedy that followed after his suicide.

The Arab Spring was a spectacular, simultaneous transformation of the civic consciousness of hundreds of millions of people – yet it did not transform their governments.

Those governments responded to the upwelling threat presented by their own subjects with meaningless concessions. Failing that, they resorted to violent measures of increasing severity, escalating, in the case of Syria, to the point of a civil war that has wrought utter desolation on that country. The battle of a largely unarmed populace revolting against the powerful and now the United States, under the diplomatic guidance of John Kerry,

is inching closer to some measure of intervention on behalf of the rebel forces fighting against so-called President Assad. But why Syria? Why Libya and Yemen? Why involve the United States in these uprisings and not in, say, Bahrain’s?

There, the trajectory of the uprising did not resemble Egypt’s or Libya’s. After a month of protests at the Pearl Roundabout and failed negotiations between opposition leaders and the regime in the capital, Manama, the Al Khalifa monarchy declared martial law and used violent force to prevent the demonstrators from freely associating, employing torture, coercion and arrest without trial to effectively terminate the uprising. The Bahraini government thereby set a powerful example for autocrats the region over, demonstrating that merciless violence and repression, if deployed early and effectively enough, can quiet a people clamoring for freedom.

Bahrain’s small population and insignificant geopolitical stature in its own right do not excuse a refusal to even consider the same sort of intervention implemented in Libya and that is now being contemplated as a remedy for Syria’s civil war. What apparently did, though, was the presence in power of a long-time U.S. ally and the continued use of a military base there. The United States sold weaponry to the repressive monarchy which still rules Bahrain, some of which was used to crush the protests that arose there in March 2011. Furthermore, another regional ally of ours, Saudi Arabia, was also complicit in the suppression of the protest movement, calling in a regional defense force to help the Bahraini military and police establish martial law. The United

States may not have intervened directly to preserve the rule of this favored potentate, as it had in so many instances over the past century, but it did little more than admonish the al Khalifa regime in defense of the citizen uprising against it.

If the United States and the international community wish to proclaim the right of all people to entrust their civic and political freedoms to a government of their choosing, they cannot decide to protect that right only where they deem such an intervention to have strategic or economic utility. By that same democratic-internationalist logic, Syria has no greater right to democracy than Bahrain nor Egypt stronger claim than Yemen – all people of all nations are equally deserving of it as human beings. This is why the United States should not pretend to be a force for democratic change in the world.

The rest of the world’s people are well aware of the United States’ betrayals of democracy when nurturing it imperiled the interests of the American state. We are not fooling anyone when Libya reawakens from a long, autocratic winter with the help of American military force while Bahrain sinks deeper into its own despite our diplomats’ timid platitudes. If democracy is as morally absolute a proposition as we Americans believe it to be, we must encourage it and defend it as such everywhere or nowhere. But if we decide to encourage and defend it only where it is most expedient to do so, what value, then, do we attribute to democracy?

Weekly Columnist Chris Kempf is a 6th-semester political science major. He can be reached at Christopher.Kempf@UConn.edu.

Why predictions and speculations are killing the stock market

I’ll be honest, I’m still upset. But there’s no way Georgetown would want to face us again.

As a guy, I don’t think I could ever physically understand putting glitter on my face. But you go ahead girls, you rock that glitter.

About to write a song about my hate for midterms.

Procrastination doesn’t even describe how little work I’ve done in lack of preparation for my mid-terms.

Had a dream I married Kevin Ollie. Didn’t hate it.

Hufflepuff is the house to be in and if you disagree than you can just go cry in your little Ravenclaw corner.

I don’t think I’s ever want to admit how many times I took this snapchat before sending it to you just to make sure I looked cute/goofy enough.

My job has never been as funny as it was before Steve Carell left.

The amount of phlegm I’ve been coughing up this week is...well...it’s a lot of phlegm. My apologies to anyone who had to bear witness to such.

I would do such silly things for a nickname.

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he stock market is always subject to daily fluctuations, but there are always people trying to make sense of it. In order to help investors, stock analysts and firms look at certain metrics and try to make predictions about the company. These speculations are meant to help investors better evaluate companies, but instead they can often end up hurting

By Kayvon Ghoreshi stock prices and stifling Staff Columnist company growth.

Apple is a prime example of a stock that is continually affected by speculation and analyst estimates. It has recently taken a substantial hit based on its latest earnings report for the first fiscal quarter of 2013. Apple brought in about $54 billion in revenue and sold about 47 million iPhones. This time last year, with the release of the iPhone 4S, Apple brought in about $46 billion in revenue and sold close to 37 million iPhones.

Basic math would dictate that Apple has grown and increased its sales. In fact, the first quarter of 2013 was record breaking for Apple and one of the best quarters they have ever had.

So why has Apple stock

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dropped 10 percent with these numbers? Well a big part of the answer lies in the expectations that analysts set. Firms like Piper Jaffray had set estimates that Apple would sell 50 million iPhones, which it had fallen short of. While Apple surpassed its previous year’s iPhone sales by 10 million, it did not matter to investors. The reasoning behind this is that Apple, like a lot of companies, is expected not only to meet expectations but to also surpass them. When they fail to meet expectations, investors start to raise red flags even though the company performed fantastically. The problem isn’t that a company isn’t growing; it’s that it isn’t growing fast enough.

These analyst predictions carry a lot of weight because investors want a benchmark.

Analysts provide the metric by which investors reassure themselves that their faith in a stock is justified. When a company fails to meet these benchmarks, even if the reported numbers are still good, it justifies shooting down the stock. While analysts carry a lot of weight, their accuracy is a bit shoddy. Among 68 analysts, the predicted Apple revenue figures fell anywhere between $51 billion and $66 bil-

lion. Those that listened to the $51 billion estimate would be ecstatic, but those that used the upper end estimates were likely severely disappointed.

The hard truth is that a company can’t continuously expand at the same rate. If a company surpasses expectations, analysts will raise the bar with their next estimates. This cycle continues until the estimates start to outpace the rate at which the company is growing. It can even be dangerous for a company to expand itself too rapidly in order to meet certain expectations.

Now this isn’t to say that speculation can’t have a positive effect on stocks. Every time rumors come out in favor of a company, such as new iPhone rumors or the opening of a Google store, it gives a small bump to their stock. When rumors circulated that Liquidmetal would be used in the iPhone 5, Liquidmetal’s stock doubled. But when those rumors proved utterly false a week or so later, the stock tanked. Even a few encouraging or discouraging words from big name analysts can be enough to get people to buy or sell a stock.

However, the fundamental problem with analyst estimates and speculation, good or bad,

is that it isn’t rooted in current data. Speculation leads investors to attach a company to a supposed future version of itself, making it disconnected from its current operations. Rather than taking a company for what it is worth, hype from analysts can cause inflated expectations. This has been the case with Apple, Facebook, Groupon and plenty of other companies that have been put between a rock and hard place; do they risk growing rapidly in order to meet the expectations, or do they disappoint investors and take a correctional hit in stock price?

Rather than relying on the speculation of analysts as a benchmark, investors should look at a company’s quarter report without a preset value in mind. Concerns should be raised if a company reports lower sales and lower revenue or profits. But if those metrics have increased, a company’s stock should generally be rewarded with positive results and not be punished for failing to meet a speculated benchmark.

Staff Columnist Kayvon Ghoreshi is a 2nd-semester molecular and cell biology major. He can be reached at Kayvon.Ghoreshi@UConn.edu.

new study just came out and it reveals that straight me who watch porn are more likely to support same - sex marriage . T he study also found that straight men who don ’ t watch porn are lying .”

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More weekend programming would curb underage and excessive drinking

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s a social experiment, I’d recommend you stop drinking alcohol at UConn for a month. What other options do you have as a UConn student for the weekend if you’re not out partying with your friends?

Are they fun? Do you enjoy your weekBy Victoria Kallsen ends drinking or not Staff Columnist drinking? Is it possible to go to UConn, not drink, and still be satisfied by your social experience? Or has UConn left you with few options for the weekend beyond a crazy night out?

In my opinion, the University of Connecticut is not offering students enough options for weekend activities that are unrelated to drinking, leaving alcohol consumption as the only choice for a fun weekend.

Now, as a general disclaimer for this article, this is not an attack on underage drinking

or its legality. Nor is it a black and white opinion, saying you either drink or you don’t drink. It’s also not a negative to enjoy the party scene. This is an article describing the problem with the American college system, specifically UConn, which puts forth little effort to change the drinking culture. This isn’t me telling you not to drink. This is an article arguing we need to look at the facts.

According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), 40 percent of college students binge drink (drinking four to five drinks in a two hour period) at least once every two weeks. Additionally, 19 percent of college students fit the criteria for alcohol abuse or dependence according to the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions, with negative impacts on their social life, academics and health.

In conclusion, students need more alternatives for weekend events if the university expects to do anything in regards with underage or problematic drinking.

This is just a part of the larger issue, that supposedly everyone drinks at college.

Looking at the numbers, 88 percent of all college students have consumed alcohol, according to the NIAAA. However, among most adults, only 4 in 10 are regular drinkers (had at least one alcoholic beverage in the past week) according to Gallup.

For college students, 72 percent have consumed alcohol in the past month, meaning college students are clearly not as representative of the population’s actual attitudes towards drinking. The problem with college drinking is the misguided belief that everyone is drinking.

Coming back to UConn, we have a history of being a party

school, especially from the infamous Spring Weekend.

I very much disagreed with their lockdown on campus last year, with absolutely no programming alternatives. What are students supposed to do on campus if there is no other option? The answer is drink alcohol and party, something the University was working against. For this year, UConn is instituting specific programming for the weekend to prevent large amounts of partying seen in years prior.

However, if UConn’s Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) policy is “possession of alcohol on all of the University of Connecticut campuses is limited to persons 21 years of age or older” and that it “has been established to support a safe and legal use of alcohol,” why would they not provide the same level of programming attention to every other weekend when students can and will party?

The solution is not to prevent students from partying merely through lockdowns and a police force. The solution is for more programming. Let’s talk about Late Night. The programming team behind Late Night is excellent and if you attend their events, you will be satisfied.

However, the university has not given the proper backing and importance to this organization to reduce the long wait times many often suffer from.

Most importantly, according to Late Night representatives in the Student Programming Office, Friday nights see an average of 400 students, while Saturday nights serve an average of 70 students.

Meaning it underwhelming under-serves the 17,528 undergraduates at Storrs.

What’s the problem then?

The problem isn’t that Late Night, a program funded by student activities fees, is ineffective. The problem is

that there needs to be more than Late Night. People are scared to program on weeknights because no one will come because everyone’s just going to go out and drink and not attend your event. Still, we need more variety in the options we have available to us that don’t involve alcohol.

We need a college climate that says, “You drink responsibly.

Cool. You don’t drink at all and want fun programming alternatives? Cool.” You can choose to drink, but if you choose not to, the University of Connecticut is obligated to use your student activities fees for programming that gives you the option to follow its alcohol policy. Otherwise, there will be no winner in the underage drinking debate.

Staff Columnist Victoria Kallsen is a 4th-semester mechanical engineering major. She can be reached at Victoria.Kallsen@UConn.edu.

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North Carolina stomps Clemson CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) -- Dexter Strickland tied his season high with 16 points and North Carolina reached the 20-win mark for the ninth straight season with a 68-59 victory over Clemson on Thursday night.

The Tar Heels (20-8, 10-5 Atlantic Coast Conference) won a season-high fourth straight in league play and took their 15th in the past 16 games with the Tigers (13-14, 5-10). Strickland led all five North Carolina starters in double figures. Reggie Bullock added 12 points and nine rebounds, while James Michael McAdoo and P.J. Hairston had 11 points each. Marcus Paige scored 10.

Devin Booker had 25 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Tigers, who lost their third straight and for the sixth time in the past seven games.

Milton Jennings also had a doubledouble for Clemson with 12 points and 10 rebounds.

North Carolina saw its 17-point lead slip to seven in the final minute but held on.

There are few better bets than the Tar Heels getting 20 wins in a season.

They've reached the milestone in 40 of the past 43 years and last missed

the mark in coach Roy Williams' first season in 2003-04. Some thought this might've been another year when the Tar Heels would stub their toe after opening ACC play 0-2 with losses to Virginia and Miami.

North Carolina has rebounded strongly to win 10 of its past 13 league games and head a group tied for third in the chase for ACC tournament byes in two weeks.

The Tar Heels used an 18-6 run the final 10 minutes of the opening half to take control. They eventually grew the lead to 64-47 on Hairston's third 3-pointer with about five minutes left.

Clemson took off on a 12-2 stretch and briefly gave the sold-out crowd something to cheer about to cut the lead to 66-59. But the Tigers couldn't get any closer.

These teams hadn't met at Littlejohn Coliseum in two seasons since 2011.

While the Tigers fare better at home against the Tar Heels than at Chapel Hill - Clemson is a dreadful 0-56 when playing at North Carolina - they've lost four of the past five series games played here.

Things didn't improve before the game as Clemson lost one of its leading

scorers at the afternoon shoot-around forward K.J. McDaniels, second on the team at 10.7 points a game, sprained his ankle and did not play.

North Carolina came into this one seeking a couple of milestones. It hadn't won more than three straight ACC games all year and was looking for that 20th win.

And the Tar Heels got going quickly. Two 3-pointers by Paige and a long-range bucket by Bullock put them ahead 11-4 less than three minutes into the game. Then Clemson, the ACC's third stingiest defense, dug in and got back in it.

Consecutive baskets by Booker and Damarcus Harrison tied things at 18-all with 10:36 remaining in the period.

That's when North Carolina got hot from the outside. Leslie McDonald hit two 3-pointers and Hairston added a third as part of a 20-6 run to the break.

The Tar Heels finished the half shooting 46.9 percent (15 of 32) from the field, most of their shots wide open after several crisp passes to find a free teammate.

North Carolina's Brice Johnson hangs onto the rim after attempting a dunk in the second

Women's basketball ready for USF Men's tennis looks to snap skid Lacrosse set to play Quinnipiac

from UCONN, page 12 there’s always something you can work on and I think coach does a good job if we’re beating a team by a lot then he’s going to slow it down, take the press off and say you need to do this or that before we score. There’s always going to be something he’s going to put on our minds to work on.”

South Florida (19-8, 8-6 Big East) heads into this matchup with UConn coming off a 68-56 loss to Rutgers.

Previously the Bulls were on a three game winning streak before being halted by the Scarlet Knights. During that three game stretch, South Florida knocked off two Top 25 teams, which included a 73-62 win over No. 12 Louisville and a close 68-66 victory over No. 21 Syracuse.

The Bulls are led by their leading scorer 5-foot-8inch guard Andrell Smith.

Smith averages 16.8 points per game for South Florida, as well as 5.2 rebounds per game. She also leads the Bulls in three-point field goals, shooting .406 this season from behind the arc.

UConn is an impressive 11-0 against the Bulls, which includes four victories on the road. In order for the Huskies to leave South Florida with a win, they will need to hold on to the basketball, as South Florida’s opponents this year have averaged 20.4 turnovers per game.

Tip-off between South Florida and UConn is scheduled for 12:06 p.m. and the game can be seen live on SNY or heard on WTIC 1080.

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By Mike Peng Campus Correspondent After dropping their first Big East conference match against Georgetown last Friday, UConn men’s tennis team will look to end their three-match slide today when they take on the Quinnipiac Bobcats at 2 p.m.

Due to the cold weather, the match will again be held indoors at the East Hartford Tennis Club, as well as rest of the home matches until spring break, according to Head Coach Glenn Marshall.

Despite the fact that the Huskies are coming off three consecutive 7-0 losses in their latest matches, the team isn’t rattled.

“We played some great teams the past three matches, and the matches have been closer than the score indicates,” freshman Mark HoSang said.

“Everybody is confident going into Quinnipiac and we are looking forward to the match.”

As for the Bobcats, they are heading into Friday’s contest in a very similar fashion as the Huskies. The team is staggering after three successive 7-0 losses as well, and pose the identical record of 1-3.

Nevertheless, UConn looks to remain focused on the upcoming task.

“They are a great in-state rival that we’ve played for years and years, and always have had good matches with them,” Marshall said. “We got them last year, and kind of go back and forth over the years.

We see them in the fall at tournaments all the time so we know their players really well.

It’s going to be a good, competitive match. I look forward to it.”

Michael.Peng@UConn.edu

By Joe Crisalli Campus Correspondent The UConn women’s lacrosse team will take on Quinnipiac in Hamden, Conn. tomorrow at noon, in search of starting their season 3-0 for the fourth time in the history of the program.

The Huskies began their season this past Saturday, defeating Iona 13-2. They then played their following game on Wednesday, Feb. 27, with a 13-8 victory over Boston College.

“It is pretty crazy but we have a stretch of Wednesday, Saturday, Wednesday, Saturday games in the next couple of weeks so we are making sure we are doing a lot of extra ice baths, a lot of stretching and rolling out, things like that so they are fresh,” Head Coach Katie Woods said. “They almost probably would prefer that to play two games in a week versus a full week of practice.”

The win over Boston College came late, as the Huskies were down 8-7, but then scored six unanswered goals to close the game en route to the 13-8 win. The win was also UConn’s first victory over a ranked opponent since a win at No. 18 Stanford in 2007.

With the victory, UConn will head into Quinnipiac having started the season 2-0.

UConn has had success vs.

Quinnipiac over the last two years, with two victories, 18-6 and 17-12.

“I think for us we want to win every game, and we will prepare the team to do that,” Woods said.

“But we also aren’t going to look past any opponent ever. We will take it one game and a time and dive in headfirst.”

Quinnipiac lost their season opener, 19-12, to Yale at home.

This will be the lone matchup between UConn and Quinnipiac for the 2013 women’s lacrosse regular season.

Joseph.Crisalli@UConn.edu

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NEW YORK (AP) — The breakup of the Big East’s football and basketball schools appears to be on the fast track.

The major college football members will meet in Atlanta on Friday to discuss the departure of the seven basketball schools that are planning to leave the conference and create a new league.

According to media reports Thursday, the basketball schools plan to have their new conference up and running for the 2013-14 school year and will pay the football schools to keep the Big East name and play its conference tournament at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Big East Commissioner Mike Aresco told the AP in a phone interview no deal has been completed between the two groups but “some of this stuff is clearly coming down to the wire.”

Aresco will be meeting with the presidents and athletic directors from the football members. The members that do not have FBS football programs will not be part of the meeting.

The seven Catholic schools that are breaking away from the football part of the rebuilt Big East include some of its founding members and signature schools, such as Georgetown, St. John’s and Villanova. The other departing schools are Seton Hall, Providence, DePaul and Marquette.

Big East football is in the midst of a major makeover, with 2013 scheduled to be another season with lame duck members.

Next year, Big East football will have holdovers Connecticut, Cincinnati, South Florida, Temple, Rutgers and Louisville, along with newcomers Central Florida, Memphis, Houston and SMU. In 2014, Louisville and Rutgers are likely on the way out — the Cardinals to the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Scarlet Knights to the Big Ten — and Tulane and East Carolina will join. Navy is schedule to join the Big East for football in 2015, and the conference is looking to add another member — Tulsa is the front-runner — to get to an even 12.

The Big East is also putting the finishing touches on a new TV deal with ESPN. The network last week matched an offer made by NBC for the TV rights to the conference. The deal will be for seven years and pay the league about $130 million, though that figure would come down if the seven Catholic schools are not in the league next season.

It had been presumed that the seven basketball schools would stay in the current Big East for another year, because time is getting tight to start a new conference. But with a TV deal reportedly waiting for them, it seems they’re ready to ramp up the process.

The seven basketball schools reportedly have an offer from Fox to broadcast its games that could earn the schools about $3 million per year, depending on how many more members they bring on. Butler, Xavier and Creighton are being talked about as potential targets.

A faster-than-expected divorce between Big East football and basketball puts Notre Dame in an uncertain situation.

Club Hockey advances to Nationals Huskies to Florida Invitational

By Jackson Mitchell Campus Correspondent The UConn men’s club ice hockey team competed in the ACHA Division II Regional Tournament last weekend, winning both of their games and securing a berth in the ACHA National Tournament in March.

The Huskies, now 22-6 on the year, finished the regular season ranked fifth in the Northeast region power poll. UConn defeated Endicott College 8-3 on Saturday, and downed Boston College 4-1 on Sunday.

“I felt that we were ready to go this past weekend, and that we understood what it was going to take to win both games,” Head Coach Chris Myers said. “[Our opponents] keep it simple early on and go pucks deep to the net.

We were able to jump out to early leads as well, which makes a huge difference.”

The Huskies had two previous meetings with Endicott, taking on the Gulls on Sept. 28 and Oct. 13. On both occasions UConn emerged victorious, scoring a combined total of 15 goals while allowing only six.

Myers’ squad also had prior experience with Boston College, having faced and defeated the Eagles 9-5 on Oct. 20.

“We jumped out to a 5-0 lead after the first period against Endicott, and a 3-0 lead after the

first period against BC,” Myers said. “[I thought] that showed we were ready for both games.”

As has been the case for the entire season, the Huskies first line – consisting of Miles Winter, Rui Encarnacao and Paul Cinquegrana – had a great showing, and yet again they proved integral to UConn’s offensive game plan.

“Our top line of Rui, Miles and Paul had a big weekend,” Myers said. “Adam Lubowitz chipped in with a few goals early in both games, and our goalie Craig Naclerio played great. I thought the whole team played well top to bottom. We are what I like to call a lunch box team – we work hard for 60 minutes and do the small things right.”

The Huskies will have two weeks to prepare for the National Tournament, which takes place in St. Louis, Mo., beginning on March 15. UConn has been placed in Pool B, a four-team grouping which also includes Miami (FL), Michigan State, and Colorado State.

“We will keep it light this week and then get back at it next week,” Myers said. “We will skate a couple times leading up to the March 15 weekend, and just prepare as we would for any other game. If we are focused and ready to buy in to the system, we will do well.”

Sampson.mitchell@UConn.edu

By TJ Souhlaris Staff Writer The UConn baseball team is traveling to Florida for the third time in as many weeks to play in the Bright House Invitational Tournament hosted by Stetson University in Deland, Fla. The Huskies will take on Ohio State on Friday at 1 p.m. and Central Michigan on Saturday before taking on the host Stetson on Sunday.

This is the final regular season tournament that UConn will be participating in this season.

UConn (3-3) won two of three in last week’s WaWa Weekend Classic hosted by the University of Central Florida, a future Big East foe, in Orlando. The Huskies lost to the host Knights to open the weekend, but salvaged the weekend by beating Troy, 13-8, on Saturday and sneaking by and shutting out Texas Tech in 11 innings, 1-0.

Through six games this season, the Huskies have scored 32 runs and have given up 34. The UConn offense is led by Big East Preseason Player of the Year LJ Mazzilli, who has been named to two different preseason AllAmerican teams as well. The No. 3 hitter is batting .345 with one home run, three RBI and a team-leading six runs scored. The Husky hitters are batting .258 on

59 hits thus far this year.

The UConn pitching staff has found moderate success in the young 2013 campaign.

The Huskies will go with the same trio that pitched in the WaWa Classic.

Left-hander Anthony Marzi, who will be facing Ohio State to kick off the tournament, has struggled in the early season with an 0-2 record and an 11.05 ERA. However, the rest of the rotation has pitched well despite Marzi’s poor performances. No. 2 starter Carson Cross (1-0, 2.77 ERA, 11 Ks) had a dominant performance against Troy in the WaWa Classic, going a career-high seven innings while striking out a career-high seven Trojans. Cross also retired 12-straight at one point. Cross will take on CMU. Rounding out the rotation is lefty Brian Ward. In his no-decision against Texas Tech, Ward went seven shutout innings, walked two and struck out five.

Ohio State got the best of UConn in their last meeting in 2012. The Buckeyes won 9-5 in a six-inning game as part of the Big East/Big Ten Challenge in Clearwater, Fla. Marzi toed the rubber against Ohio State and struck out five over 4.2 innings in his first collegiate start.

UConn is 3-7 all-time against the Buckeyes.

Thomas.Souhlaris@UConn.edu

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UCONN READY TO RUN WITH BULLS Huskies take on USF after blowout win

By Tim Fontenault Staff Writer The UConn men’s hockey team controls its own destiny with two games remaining in the regular season.

The Huskies (16-13-3, 13-102 AHA) will face in-state rival Sacred Heart (2-27-3, 2-203 AHA) in a home-and-home series this weekend that will determine UConn’s fate for the upcoming Atlantic Hockey Association Tournament.

Currently in fourth place with 28 points, the Huskies are in position for a first round bye into the Quarterfinals. But the next three teams in the standings – Robert Morris, Mercyhurst and RIT – are all within two points of UConn and could potentially overtake the Huskies if they do not take care of Sacred Heart this weekend.

UConn can also climb as high as second place if Air Force stumbles against first-place Niagara.

In order for the Huskies to guarantee a spot in the Quarterfinals, they must sweep a team that has played surprisingly well over its last four games.

Sacred Heart began the season with a miserable record of 0-26-2. Since a 9-1 loss at the hands of American International College on Feb. 16, the Pioneers have been attempting to play spoiler, defeating Holy Cross and Bentley while posting a 2-1-1 record over their last four games.

While the Pioneers have been hot, the Huskies have been hotter.

Their near upset of then-No. 2 – and now No. 1 – Quinnipiac set the tone for UConn. The Huskies are 7-2-1 since their 2-1 loss to the Bobcats and are playing their best hockey of the season.

The key to UConn’s success has been redshirt junior goaltender Matt Grogan.

Since getting the opportunity to start in December when Garrett Bartus was out due to academic issues, Grogan has secured the No. 1 spot in net for the Huskies.

Grogan leads the conference with a .943 save percentage, and his 1.86 goals against average and .750 win percentage are both second only to Niagara’s Carsen Chubak (1.77 GAA and .783 win percentage).

In the 10 games since Quinnipiac, when he stopped 48 of 50 shots, Grogan has played in nine games for UConn, posting a 1.67 goals against average and a 7-1-1 record.

Grogan’s play has allowed UConn to become the fourthbest defense in the AHA, which does not bode well for Sacred Heart. The Pioneers are 10th in the league with only 63 goals in conference play.

UConn is not much better offensively, with only 69 goals, but with Grogan in net, they have been able to get by scoring only 2.76 goals per game. The Huskies will get to skate against the worst defense in the AHA this weekend. Sacred Heart has allowed 120 goals in 25 conference games, an average of 4.8 goals per game.

Last weekend Sean Ambrosie, the Huskies’ leading scorer, became the fifth UConn player since the Huskies became a Division I program to reach 100 career points. Ambrosie enters the weekend needing only five points to break the school’s Division I career record.

Friday’s game will be Senior Night at the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum. The Huskies will honor five seniors: Ambrosie, Bartus, Alex Gerke, Tom Janosz and Evan Carriere, before the 7:05 p.m. face-off.

On Saturday, the series will move to Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport for a 4 p.m. face-off.

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By Tyler Morrissey Associate Sports Editor

The No. 3 UConn women’s basketball team is heading to their second-to-last game of the regular season, as the Huskies travel to South Florida on Saturday for a Big East matchup against the Bulls.

UConn is coming off one of their most dominating wins of the season as the Huskies defeated a struggling Pittsburgh team 76-36 at the XL Center in Hartford. Although the first half was sloppy, UConn managed to defeat the Panthers by a 40-point margin.

It was also announced earlier this week that four Huskies are in the running for the 2013 Naismith Women’s College Player of the Year.

Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, Stefanie Dolson, Bria Preview Hartley and Kelly Faris are just four nominees among the field of 30 candidates for the award.

Faris was named to the Naismith Award Preseason Watch List this year and for good reason. She recently scored her 1,000th career point at UConn on Feb. 23 against Seton Hall, sitting in fourth place on the team in total points scored.

UConn’s past two opponents, Seton Hall and Pittsburgh, have not challenged this Huskies team offensively; however, Faris believes that each game will prepare her team for tougher opponents down the road.

“Honestly, I think you can use every game to prepare you and some way, shape or form,” Faris said. “Whether it’s a good team or bad team

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UConn guard Kelly Faris looks to pass against the Pittsburgh Panthers in the XL Center in Downtown Hartford

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Huskies prepare for battle against the Bearcats

By Peter Logue Staff Writer After a heartbreaking loss in Storrs on Wednesday night, the UConn men’s basketball team will look to bounce back as they travel to Cincinnati for a Saturday matinee with the Bearcats.

On Wednesday night at Gampel Pavilion, the Huskies led a ferocious comeback in the final seconds of regulation to force overtime, but ultimately fell in double overtime to No.7 Georgetown when National Player of the Year Candidate Otto Porter drove to the lane and converted a layup with 9.5 seconds remaining. Deandre Daniels played perhaps the best game of his career, scoring 25 points while posting 10 rebounds, despite the Huskies falling 79-78.

With the loss, the Huskies dropped to 19-8 on the year and 9-6 in Big East conference play.

Despite being banned from post-

season play due to the APR sanctions from the NCAA, UConn enters the game seventh in the Big East, only three games behind the conference leading Hoyas.

On the other side, Cincinnati is trying to snap a poorly timed late season slide. The Bearcats have dropped five off their previous six, including a 21-point blowout loss at Notre Dame last time out on Feb. 24.

The Bearcats (19-9, 7-8 Big East) feature, as do several teams in the conference, a dangerous duo in their backcourt with guards Sean Kilpatrick (17.6 ppg) and Cashmere Wright (12.7).

UConn and Cincinnati know each other well as the two teams faced off at the XL Center on Feb. 21. The Bearcats used a 10-2 run to take a six point lead with around four minutes to play, but the Huskies battled back and Shabazz Napier tied the game with 40 seconds left, forcing overtime. In the

extra frame, Napier took over. The junior point guard scored 11 of his 27 points in overtime as UConn ran away with a 73-66 victory.

Key to the outcome of the game will be rebounding. In the previous meeting, the Bearcats outrebounded UConn 44-28, including 17 offensive rebounds. It was a team effort on the glass from Cincinnati, as all eleven players who saw playing time collected at least one rebound.

UConn will need another strong performance from Daniels, who is looking to build off of the momentum from his tremendous effort against Georgetown. The sophomore forward is leading the team with 5.1 rebounds per game while also posting an impressive 11.7 ppg average.

The game will tip off at the Fifth Third Arena at 2 p.m.

Peter.Logue@UConn.edu

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Georgetown’s Otto Porter shoots into Olliewood

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Huskies look to clinch first round bye

By Joe Crisalli Campus Correspondent The UConn women’s ice hockey team will travel to division rival, No. 4 Boston University, for the quarterfinal round of the Hockey East playoffs.

In the last two meetings between these teams – the final two games of the regular season – the output was nothing short of physical.

In the first of their final two games, UConn led 4-1 after the first period but dropped a 7-5 decision on the road. In the final game, UConn was down 4-1 with time expiring and were being taunted from the bench by many BU

players. Sophomore Kayla them; we’ve averaged three Campero quieted the howls goals a game against them coming from the Terriers’ and that’s pretty good. We bench with a goal to make it have to play tough defensive4-2 with five seconds left in ly and keep them from putting the game. the puck in the net.”

“We have to bring that The Huskies surrendered intensity of a win15 goals to BU ning attitude to be in those three successful, espegames, as freshcially being a playman netminder off game,” Head Elaine Chuli Coach Heather made 114 saves Linstad said. in those games.

UConn has had “We have to no problem scoreliminate their PREVIEW ing against BU, opportunities,” as they have postLinstad said. ed nine goals in their three “We did a good job on the games this season vs. BU. penalty kill the last few times “We can score against we’ve played them. We have them,” Linstad said. “We’ve to just be more aggressive and played them and scored on better in our defensive zone

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and create more opportunities for ourselves. If we’re creating the offense that we should be and keeping them back on their heels and playing great two-way hockey, we will be successful.”

The Terriers were Hockey East Champions last season as they coasted through the competition in the first two rounds with a 9-1 victory over New Hampshire, and a 5-2 victory over Boston College.

The final round was a little more strenuous for BU, as they were taken into double overtime, but came out with a 2-1 win over Providence.

UConn, not being in the playoffs last season, made their last appearance in the postseason in 2011, dropping

a 4-0 decision to Northeastern.

The Huskies finished their regular season this year at 3-28-3, 1-19-1 in Hockey East play.

“Everyone has the same record, winner moves on, loser goes home,” Linstad said. “If you want to have success and win the Hockey East Championship you have to win every game.”

This will be UConn’s first matchup in the playoffs with BU since 2010, where they faced off in the Hockey East Championship game, and the Terriers took the crown with a 2-1 victory over the Huskies in overtime.

Joseph.Crisalli@UConn.edu