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UConn students propose solution to fix water quality By Patrick McGowan Campus Correspondent
LUCK OF THE IRISH TAKES OVER JORGENSEN UConn hosted Celtic Nights in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. FOCUS/ page 5
DOMINATING THE BLUE DEMONS Huskies defeat DePaul to advance to semifinals. SPORTS/ page 12 EDITORIAL: CONNECTICUT SHOULD JOIN THE NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE The president should not be chosen by the Electoral College. COMMENTARY/page 4 INSIDE NEWS: STUDIES TIE STRESS FROM STORMS, WAR TO HEART RISKS. Emotions are connected to cardiovascular risk markers.
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A team of UConn students has proposed a solution to the problem of rainwater runoff in South campus. The area has higher than normal levels of erosion and inefficient water treatment, according to a story on the UConn engineering website. This project is part of a nationwide project sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency that challenges teams of college students to work together to find solutions for problems with water quality. The EPA will select four teams as winners and give each of them money and research support to make their proposals a reality. If the team does not win, the students hope the school will express interest in funding the project independently. “Right now we’re just waiting to hear back if we won or not,” said Ashley Drda, a student working on the project. The rainwater runoff in South Campus is currently handled by being captured and piped into Mirror Lake; a process the team says is not environmentally friendly or efficient at removing water. Their solution is to treat the water right in the ground in South Campus, as well as revamping the hillside to handle more runoff and decrease erosion. Treating the water at the site of the runoff prevents contaminates from the roads near mirror lake from leeching into the water. “Our design infiltrates the
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South Campus, pictured above, is currently under construction. A team of UConn students proposed a project to solve South Campus’ rainwater runoff problems. The project may be sponsored by either the Environmental Protection Agency or the university itself.
water in the ground,” said Drda. This is accomplished by creating underground chambers and filling them with sand; keeping the water cleaner and away from phosphorous and other harmful chemicals that are found near the road. Diverting water away from Mirror Lake can also prevent the continued contamination of the lake caused by runoff. This solution will also prevent over-saturated soil and the formation of puddles during heavy rainfall. While focusing primarily on functionality, the team hopes to
create an aesthetically pleasing atmosphere. However the project is about more than just a solution to runoff. The proposal includes changes that would make the area more usable, creating a natural gathering place for students where an eroded hillside now stands. The proposed plan would install stone blocks along the hillside, creating a place for students to sit in an amphitheater-like space. This aspect of the project reflects the diversity of the team that designed the project. The team includes environ-
mental science, environmental engineering, landscape architecture, resource economics, journalism and natural resources students, creating a wide breadth of knowledge with which to work on the project. While repairs are being done on the south campus rain gutters, this project hopes to be a more long-term solution to the problem of soil erosion and water filtration, as well as making South Campus more pleasing to the eye.
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Harvard secretly searched its deans’ emails
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) — Harvard University administrators secretly searched the emails of 16 deans last fall, looking for a leak to reporters about a case of cheating, two newspapers reported. The email accounts belonged to deans on the Administrative Board, a committee addressing the cheating, The Boston Globe and The New York Times reported, citing school officials. The deans were not warned about the email access and only one was told of the search afterward. Harvard will not comment on personnel matters or provide additional information about the board cases that were concluded during the fall term, Michael Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said in an email Sunday. If the committee’s work were compromised, Harvard College would protect the process, he said. “Generally speaking, however, if circumstances were to arise that gave reason to believe that the Administrative Board process might have been compromised, then Harvard College would take all necessary and appropriate actions under our procedures to safeguard the integrity of that process, which is designed to protect the rights of our students to privacy and due process,” he said. Smith’s office and the Harvard general counsel’s office authorized the search, the Globe reported. Harvard spokesman Jeff Neal did not specifically address the allegations but denied any routine monitoring of emails. “Any assertion that Harvard routinely monitors emails — for any reason — is patently false,” he said in an email.
Sandy-damaged homes NYC soda size rule eyed hit market at bargain prices from coffee shops to clubs
LONG BEACH, N.Y. (AP) — It sounds like the premise for a new reality TV series: “Hurricane House” — people scouring waterside communities looking to buy homes damaged by Superstorm Sandy at a deep discount. While there are bargains out there, ranging from 10 percent off pre-storm prices for upscale homes on New York’s Long Island and the Jersey Shore to as much as 60 percent off modest bungalows Staten Island and Queens, it’s still very much a game of buyer beware. Not only are buyers are on the hook for repairs and in some cases total rebuilds, they’re also wading into a host of potentially expensive uncertainties about new flood maps and future insurance rates, zoning changes and updated building codes. “It’s totally changed the way I sell real estate,” said Lawrence Greenberg, a sales associate with Van Skiver Realtors, whose own Mantoloking, N.J., office was wrecked in the storm. Prior to Sandy, prospective buyers rarely mentioned issues such as flood maps and building elevations until the matter of flood insurance came up — often at closing. “Now, everybody asks the question of elevation,” Greenberg said. Even if potential buyers plan to tear down and build new, they ask about the pending changes in flood
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This Oct. 30, 2012 file photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows an aerial view of damage to the New Jersey shoreline following Superstorm Sandy.
maps proposed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, because flood insurance rates will depend upon the new zones. There is no sign of a mass exodus from shoreline communities. The number of for-sale listings in January in the 380 zip codes hit by the storm was about 2 percent below the same time last year, according to online real estate information company
Zillow Inc. That indicates that most homeowners are rebuilding, or have not yet decided how to proceed. But real estate agents in New York and New Jersey say the majority of homes for sale in these areas have some damage from the Oct. 29 storm, and it appears to them that a rising number are being put on the market as the spring home-
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NEW YORK (AP) — At barbecue joints, coffee counters and bottle-service nightclubs, a coming clampdown on big, sugary soft drinks is beginning to take shape on tables and menus in a city that thrives on eating and going out. Some restaurants are ordering smaller glasses. Dunkin’ Donuts shops are telling customers they’ll have to sweeten and flavor their own coffee. Coca-Cola has printed posters explaining the new rules, and a bowling lounge is squeezing carrot and beet juice as a potential substitute for pitchers of soda at family parties — all in preparation for the nation’s first limit on the size of sugar-laden beverages, set to take effect Tuesday. Some businesses are holding off, hoping a court challenge nixes or at least delays the restriction. But many are getting ready for tasks including reprinting menus and changing movie theaters’ supersized soda-and-popcorn deals. At Brother Jimmy’s BBQ, customers still will be able to order margaritas by the pitcher, cocktails in jumbo Mason jars and heaping plates of ribs. But they’ll no longer get 24-ounce tumblers of soda, since the new rule bars selling non-diet cola in cups, bottles or pitchers bigger than 16 ounces. “Everything we do is big, so serving it in a quaint little 16-ounce soda cups is going to
look kind of odd,” owner Josh Lebowitz said. Nonetheless, he’s ordered 1,000 of them for the North Carolina-themed restaurant’s five Manhattan locations, rather than take on a fight that carries the threat of $200 fines. “As long as they keep allowing us to serve beer in glasses larger than 16 ounces, we’ll be OK,” Lebowitz reasoned. Beer drinkers can breathe easy: The restriction doesn’t apply to alcoholic beverages, among other exemptions for various reasons. But it does cover such beverages as energy drinks and sweetened fruit smoothies. City officials say it’s a pioneering, practical step to staunch an obesity rate that has risen from 18 to 24 percent in a decade among adult New Yorkers. Health officials say sugar-filled drinks bear much of the blame because they carry hundreds of calories — a 32-ounce soda has more than a typical fast-food cheeseburger — without making people feel full. The city “has the ability to do this and the obligation to try to help,” the plan’s chief cheerleader, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, said last month. Critics say the regulation won’t make a meaningful difference in diets but will unfairly hurt some businesses while sparing others. A customer who can’t get a 20-ounce Coke at a sandwich shop could still buy a Big Gulp at a 7-Eleven,
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What’s on at UConn today... Study Abroad 101 3 to 4 p.m. Rowe CUE, 130 Study Abroad staff will be on hand to discuss how to plan for study abroad, advising resources, academic requirements, scholarships and financial aid, deadlines and how to navigate UConn’s study abroad website.
Mittelman Lecture 5 to 6 p.m. Dodd Research Center, Konover Auditorium “Jewish Communities in Italy” by Guest Lecturer Rabbi Barbara Aiello, Founder and Director of the Italian Jewish Cultural Center of Calabria
Thesis Workshop 6 to 7 p.m. John W. Rowe CUE, 122 This workshop is for freshmen and sophomore Honors students workshop to help them begin and complete their Honors thesis. Attending this workshop satisfies the “thesis workshop” requirement for Sophomore Honors.
Women’s Basketball vs. Syracuse 8 p.m. XL Center, Hartford Cheer on the Huskies as they take on the Syracuse Orange at home.
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new health care exchange
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — As one of the states furthest along in preparing to enroll patients this fall in the new health insurance marketplace, Connecticut has discovered that being first comes with some challenges. The staff at Connecticut’s quasi-public exchange, known as Access Health CT, has had to build both an agency and an online health insurance marketplace from the ground up, relying on directives and guidance from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that can change or need to be clarified. “Sometimes it feels like we’re driving a car and then changing the tire at the same time,” said Kevin Counihan, Access Health CT’s CEO, in an interview with The Associated Press. Late last month, Counihan said he informed HHS that Connecticut’s exchange would have to stop implementing any new federal regulations as of March 1, in order to focus on getting ready for its user testing planned for June 4. He said the exchange will address any new regulations later.
Manchester college president seeks armed police
MANCHESTER, Conn. (AP) — The president of Manchester Community College is again questioning a state ban on armed campus police just days after a lockdown when a student reported seeing a man with what she believed was a gun in his waistband. The Journal Inquirer of Manchester reported that college President Gena Glickman joined police chiefs from the University of Connecticut and Central Connecticut State University to make the case to the legislature for stronger police forces, better planning and regular training on college campuses. Glickman is seeking to change state policy banning guns on the Manchester Community College campus, even for police. She’s won support from the Manchester Police Department and state police.
Conn. teacher measures to add student performance
DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — State education officials are requiring new teacher evaluations to include a large measure of students’ academic growth. The largest share, 45 percent, of a teacher’s evaluation is based on student performance, such as test scores. Observation of a teacher is worth 40 percent of the score, parent feedback accounts for 10 percent and student feedback is 5 percent. The News-Times of Danbury reports that Danbury Deputy Superintendent William Glass calls the new teacher evaluations a “gamechanger.” Max Waxenberg, executive director of the Connecticut Teachers Association, which has 41,000 teacher members, thinks the mandate is too much of a one-size-fits-all in a state with varied municipalities such as affluent Darien and urban and poor Bridgeport. Local school plans must be filed by April 15.
Conn. residents urged to seek heating assistance
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Gov. Dannel Malloy is reminding Connecticut residents who need help paying winter heating bills that there is still time to apply for federal energy assistance benefits. Malloy says even with federal budget cuts there should be enough money available to serve all residents in the state eligible for the program. The deadline for applying is May 1, although households heating with oil, kerosene or propane are encouraged to apply by March 15 to be able to access full benefits. Nearly 100,000 applications have been received so far this winter, with over 82,000 households approved for basic benefits of up to $575. Eligibility is based on household size, income and liquid assets.
Meriden man collects bodies for medical school
MERIDEN, Conn. (AP) — At any time of the day or night, James Casso can get a call asking him to pick up a body. Casso was hired to collect and prepare bodies for Quinnipiac University’s Frank H. Netter School of Medicine. Donated cadavers are used by first-year medical students for dissection, helping them better understand the human body. The program begins for medical students in September, but bodies have to be collected and stored now for those classes. From 1992 until two months ago, Casso held a similar job with the University of Connecticut. He’s put thousands of miles on his van, traveling primarily to homes to pick up the recently deceased cadavers of those who have donated their bodies to scientific study. “A lot of people realize the benefits of donating a body,” Casso said. “There are benefits besides financial. I think they feel good, knowing they’re helping a future doctor.”
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for instance, since many convenience stores and supermarkets are beyond the city’s regulatory reach. New Yorkers are divided on the restriction. A Quinnipiac University poll released last week found 51 percent opposed it, while 46 percent approved. “I don’t know if the state should be our surrogate parent,” Peter Sarfaty, 71, said as he drank a diet cola with lunch in Manhattan this week. “You get the information out there, but to tell people what they can or can’t do? As if it’s going to stop them.” Business organization ranging from the massive American Beverage Association to a local Korean-American grocers’ group have asked a judge to stop the size limit from taking effect until he decides on their bid to block it altogether. He hasn’t ruled on either request. Many businesses aren’t taking chances in the meantime. Dominic Fazio, the manager of a Penn Station pizzeria, has stopped ordering 32-ounce and 24-ounce cups, though he calls the regulation “ridiculous.” “But I guess the law is the law, right?” said Fazio, who put up an explanatory sign Coca-Cola Co. provided. The Atlanta-based soda giant said in a statement that helping small businesses prepare was “the responsible thing to do.” Managers at rapper Jay-Z’s 40-40 Club were busy this week making sure they wouldn’t get in hot water over carafes of soda and
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A Coca-Cola poster about the city’s new beverage ban is displayed at a pizza shop, Friday, March 8, 2013, at New York’s Penn Station. The nation’s first limit on the size of sugarladen beverages is set to take effect Tuesday in the city.
other sweet mixers that accompany bottle service, spokeswoman Lauren Menache said. The carafes are slightly bigger than 16 ounces; city lawyers have indicated such containers should pass muster. Dunkin’ Donuts shops, meanwhile, have set out colorful fliers explaining the complex rules surrounding coffee. Lots of lattes are exempt because they’re more than half
milk. And it’s OK for customers to load their large and extra-large coffees with all the sugar or sweet flavoring they want. But the chain will no longer do it for them, for fear of running over the limit of roughly three calories per ounce. Starbucks, meanwhile, believes most of its products won’t be affected and isn’t making any immediate changes, spokeswoman Linda Mills said.
buying season approaches. New listings range from destroyed oceanfront properties being sold for the land, to flooded bayside homes untouched since the storm that must be gutted. Even the few undamaged homes in affected neighborhoods are listing at prices about 10 percent lower than they would have been pre-storm. Some sellers are overwhelmed by the daunting prospect of restoring a damaged home. Some are older homeowners who had stayed in the houses where they raised their families, but now are relocating. Some didn’t have flood insurance. “They either don’t have the funds or don’t have the energy to go through the renovating and rebuilding process,” said Jeff Childers, a broker with Childers Sotheby’s International Realty in Normandy Beach, N.J. Lisa Jackson, broker and owner of Rockaway Properties in the Belle Harbor section of Queens, N.Y., said a number of her new listings are homes owned by senior citizens. One 85-year-old client was living alone in her 1940s-era six-bedroom, six-bath brick home right on the beach. The house was hammered by Sandy, and must be at least partially demolished, but will still command a hefty price. “Everything on the water is big money,” Jackson said.
Gay couples could see windfalls from court action SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — For Mina Meyer and Sharon Raphael, two women in their 70s who fell in love more than four decades ago and have been married for more than four years, the U.S. Supreme Court’s pending consideration of a law that prohibits the federal government from recognizing unions like theirs is about more than civil rights. It’s about buying a new roof for their California home, replacing their 2005 Toyota Camry, and ensuring Meyer doesn’t take a financial hit if Raphael dies first. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this month in a challenge to a provision of the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, that denies legally married gay and lesbian couples federal benefits available to heterosexual married couples, including tax and Social Security benefits. A decision is not expected until the end of June, but accountants and tax attorneys anticipating the 18-year-old law’s demise are already encouraging same-sex couples like Raphael and Meyer to seek prospective tax refunds, back retirement payments and other spousal subsidies they may have been denied. It is unclear how the justices might rule, but the Obama administration and former President Bill Clinton, who signed the act into law, have urged the court to overturn it on grounds that it violates the civil rights of gay Americans. DOMA supporters, including House Republicans led by Speaker John Boehner, argue that Congress — not the court — should decide as public opinion for same-sex marriage grows. Other conservative groups argue that spousal benefits should be reserved only for couples of the opposite sex. Part of the urgency for couples to act stems from deadlines established under the U.S. tax code, which gives taxpayers three years to file protective claims for income and estate tax refunds. Same-sex couples or surviving spouses who were legally married before or during 2009 would therefore have until April 15 of this year to submit amended returns claiming overpayments on income for that tax year, said Vickie Henry, a senior staff attorney at Gay & Lesbian
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In this Friday, March 8, 2013 photo, Mina Meyer, left, and Sharon Raphael pose for a photo with their Los Angeles County marriage certificate at their home in Long Beach, Calif. Accountants and attorneys are encouraging married same-sex couples to apply now for retroactive tax refunds and Social Security benefits in anticipation of the Supreme Court possibly overturning a federal law that prevents the federal government from recognizing gay and lesbian unions.
Advocates & Defenders. At the time, gay unions were legal in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa and Vermont, and briefly had been in California. New York and the District of Columbia, which have since legalized same-sex unions, also recognized marriages performed in other states or countries. While married couples from those jurisdictions would have the strongest cases, couples from states such as Hawaii, Nevada and Illinois that treat domestic partnerships and civil unions as the same as marriage for tax purposes might also see federal refunds depending on how the Supreme Court rules, said Pat Cain, a federal tax expert at the Santa Clara University School of Law.
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“On the income tax side, anybody who would benefit from filing jointly and who would be eligible to do so if DOMA falls should consider filing amended tax returns for the applicable years,” Cain said. The sums at stake are not inconsequential. The case the justices accepted, for example, involves a New York state widow, Edith Windsor, 83, who is seeking a refund of the $363,000 she had to pay in estate taxes after her wife, Thea Spyer, died in 2009. If Windsor had not been married to another woman, her tax bill would have been $0 because married U.S. citizens are allowed to pass their assets onto their spouses taxfree — but only if the surviving spouse is of the opposite sex.
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Studies tie stress from storms, war to heart risks Japan’s cleanup lags from
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Stress does bad things to the heart. New studies have found higher rates of cardiac problems in veterans with PTSD, New Orleans residents six years after Hurricane Katrina and Greeks struggling through that country’s financial turmoil. Disasters and prolonged stress can raise “fight or flight” hormones that affect blood pressure, blood sugar and other things in ways that make heart trouble more likely, doctors say. They also provoke anger and helplessness and spur heart-harming behaviors like eating or drinking too much. “We’re starting to connect emotions with cardiovascular risk markers” and the new research adds evidence of a link, said Dr. Nieca Goldberg, a cardiologist at NYU Langone Medical Center and an American Heart Association spokeswoman. She had no role in the studies, which were discussed Sunday at an American College of Cardiology conference in San Francisco. The largest, involving 207,954 veterans in California and Nevada ages 46 to 74, compared those with PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder, to those without it. They were free of major heart disease and diabetes when researchers checked their Veterans Administration medical records from 2009 and 2010. Checked again about two years later, 35
percent of those with PTSD but only 19 percent of those without it had developed insulin resistance, which can lead to diabetes and hardening of the arteries. Doctors also saw higher rates of metabolic syndrome — a collection of heart disease risk factors that include high body fat, cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar levels. About 53 percent of veterans with PTSD but only 37 percent of those without it had several of these symptoms. The numbers are estimates and are not as important as the trend — more heart risk with more stress, said one study leader, Dr. Ramin Ebrahimi, a cardiologist at the Greater Los Angeles VA Medical Center and a professor at UCLA. It shows that PTSD can cause physical symptoms, not just the mental ones commonly associated with it. “Twenty or 30 years ago PTSD was a term reserved for combat veterans. We have come to realize now that PTSD is actually a much more common disorder and it can happen in veterans who did not undergo combat but had a very traumatic experience” such as losing a friend, he said. That goes for others who suffer trauma such as being raped, robbed at gunpoint or in a serious accident, he said. Nearly 8 million Americans have PTSD, the National Institute of Mental Health estimates.
They include survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Tulane Medical Center doctors led a study of their hospital’s patients that suggests heart attack incidence is three times higher in New Orleans than it was in the two years before the 2005 storm. Heart attacks made up 2.4 percent of admissions in the six years after the storm compared to just .7 percent before it. The post-storm patients were more likely to be unemployed or uninsured, to smoke, and to have depression, anxiety or high cholesterol, resarchers found. A third study found that heart attacks rose sharply in the Messinia area of southwestern Greece since January 2008, the start of that country’s financial crisis. Researchers compared medical records of more than 22,000 patients admitted to the General Hospital of Kalamata — the only hospital with a cardiology department in the region. There were 1,084 heart attacks in the four years after the crisis began compared to 841 in the four years before it, even though the population and its demographics remained the same. Heart attack incidence rose 40 percent among women, who have higher unemployment rates than men and tend to be more responsible for child care — a double burden of stress, said the lead researcher, Dr. Emmanouil Makaris.
Cause of off-color, fetid water eludes Pa. town PITTSBURGH (AP) — What causes clear, fresh country well water to turn orange or black, or smell so bad that it’s undrinkable? Residents of a western Pennsylvania community have been trying for more than a year to get that question answered in their quest to get clean water back. Some of them say the water was spoiled by drilling deep underground for natural gas. Others point to pollution from old coal mines. They’ve also been told it could even be a baffling mix of natural and manmade reasons that change the water over time, like the leaves change on trees. But no one knows for sure, and they say the uncertainty is maddening. In late 2011, the drinking water for about a dozen residents in the Woodlands, a rural community about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, began to change. At first, the families blamed gas drilling, or fracking, being done 2000 feet away. But state tests showed the water wasn’t contaminated by drilling, and even more confusingly, many of their neighbors reported no problems. Families with bad water then turned to federal officials. But last summer the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency quietly sent a letter to one resident, Janet McIntyre,
saying the agency agreed with the state finding, since most of the chemicals found in the water could have occurred naturally. McIntyre wasn’t satisfied, noting that the EPA “never set foot on my property to test the water themselves.” The EPA didn’t respond to a request for comment on why the agency didn’t retest the water. Still, the residents with water problems were hopeful that the Atlanta-based U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry was looking at the issue. But last month the agency said it “is not actively investigating complaints from this area.” “I’m just very, very frustrated,” McIntyre said. So was John Stolz. He’s the director of the Duquesne University Center for Environmental Research in Pittsburgh. Stolz said state and federal agencies failed to do detailed reviews, so a Duquesne team has been monitoring water quality and surveying households in the Woodlands, in what is one of the most in-depth surveys of alleged impacts of gas drilling in the nation. With funding from two foundations, a team has regularly tested area water for more than a year. “We’ll see black water, we’ll see orange water, there’s often times an odor,” Stolz said.
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Overall, about 50 out of the 150 households in the community have complaints. “There are certain areas that clearly don’t have any problems,” Stoltz said. And, he added, a well that has bad water one month may be clear the next, and a few homeowners even say that their well water improved after gas drilling began. Even in areas with no nearby oil and gas drilling, the water quality in some aquifers changes naturally, groundwater experts say. “It varies even within the same aquifer. It can vary from the top of the aquifer to the bottom, and from one side to the next,” said Mike Paque, executive director of the Oklahoma-based Ground Water Protection Council. The wells themselves may be causing the problem, too. Stoltz said the depths vary from 90 feet to 900 feet deep, with an average of about 130 feet. Pennsylvania is one of the only states with no standards for rural water well construction, meaning multiple other factors could be contributing to the problems. Others say the cause could be old coal mines or old oil and gas wells that date back to the 1800s. Shafts from old mines lie under the region, said Butler County commissioner William L. McCarrier, who
worked as a water well driller in the area during the 1970s. Those can fill with water, and that water then gets contaminated. He said pollution from old mines and wells was a common problem long before the recent gas drilling boom, which began about five years ago, adding that the situation is more complicated than many outsiders realize. “It’s very unclear where the problem came from,” McCarrier said. He said he accepts the state finding that drilling didn’t cause the problem, but that authorities are still trying to find solution for the people who say their water is undrinkable. That has put local officials in the middle of a fight. The Woodlands is an unincorporated area that was laid out with no rights of way for public water or sewer lines, and even the idea of extending a public water line to the area has created divisions. Some people who live within a quarter mile of McIntyre say they have no water problems whatsoever, and they don’t want to pay for improvements they don’t see a need for. McIntyre said a water company is willing to bring a feed line to the edge of the community and put a pump house in. But the Woodlands residents would still need to form an association to manage and pay for water lines and hookups.
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In this photo taken Friday, March 1, 2013, workers wearing protective gear conduct a decontamination operation at the entrance of the Joban Expressway in Tomioka, Fukushima prefecture inside the exclusion zone surrounding the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan.
NARAHA, Japan (AP) — Two years after the triple calamities of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster ravaged Japan’s northeastern Pacific coast, debris containing asbestos, lead, PCBs — and perhaps most worrying — radioactive waste due to the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant looms as a threat for the region. So far, disposal of debris from the disasters is turning out to have been anything but clean. Workers often lacking property oversight, training or proper equipment have dumped contaminated waste with scant regard for regulations or safety, as organized crime has infiltrated the cleanup process. Researchers are only beginning to analyze environmental samples for potential health implications from the various toxins swirled in the petri dish of the disaster zone — including dioxins, benzene, cadmium and organic wasterelated, said Shoji F. Nakayama of the government-affiliated National Institute for Environmental Studies. Apart from some inflammatory
reactions to some substances in the dust and debris, the longerterm health risks remain unclear, he said. The mountains of rubble and piles of smashed cars and scooters scattered along the coast only hint at the scale of the debris removed so far from coastlines and river valleys stripped bare by the tsunami. To clear, sort and process the rubble — and a vastly larger amount of radiation-contaminated soil and other debris near the nuclear plant in Fukushima, the government is relying on big construction companies whose multilayer subcontracting systems are infiltrated by criminal gangs, or yakuza. In January, police arrested a senior member of Japan’s secondlargest yakuza group, Sumiyoshi Kai, on suspicion of illegally dispatching three contract workers to Date, a city in Fukushima struggling with relatively high radioactive contamination, through another construction company and pocketing one-third of their pay.
Even ancient mummies had clogged arteries
LONDON (AP) — Even without modern-day temptations like fast food or cigarettes, people had clogged arteries some 4,000 years ago, according to the biggest-ever study of mummies searching for the condition. Researchers say that suggests heart disease may be more a natural part of human aging rather than being directly tied to contemporary risk factors like smoking, eating fatty foods and not exercising. CT scans of 137 mummies showed evidence of atherosclerosis, or hardened arteries, in one third of those examined, includ-
ing those from ancient people believed to have healthy lifestyles. Atherosclerosis causes heart attacks and strokes. More than half of the mummies were from Egypt while the rest were from Peru, southwest America and the Aleutian islands in Alaska. The mummies were from about 3800 B.C. to 1900 A.D. “Heart disease has been stalking mankind for over 4,000 years all over the globe,” said Dr. Randall Thompson, a cardiologist at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City and the paper’s lead author.
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Connecticut should join the National Popular Vote compact
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ome Americans will tell you that their one vote doesn’t matter. While we disagree, they do have a point. Technically speaking, it’s members of the Electoral College – not the voting public – who actually choose the president. And since most states grant their electors on a winner-take-all basis, most voters can know with near certainty which candidate their state’s electors will go to. This is just one of the many problems with the Electoral College. However, as it’s enshrined in the Constitution, most people take its existence as an unavoidable part of American presidential elections. Yet there is a small but growing movement to change this system and switch to selecting the president by a national popular vote. A bill to do just that has been introduced in the Connecticut General Assembly and we fully support its passage. The bill, SB 432, would not single-handedly fix the Electoral College. Rather, it would have Connecticut join the National Popular Vote Compact, an agreement between states to give all of their electors to whoever wins the most votes nationwide. This is allowed by the Constitution, which grants states the ability to decide how to distribute their own electors. The agreement would not immediately take effect and would only kick in once enough states join to decide the election. Nine states have already signed on, for a total of 132 electors – nearly halfway to the 270 required to obtain a majority. We actually feel that this solution is preferable to changing the US Constitution, since it would be much easier to reverse. If changing to a national popular vote turns out to have unforeseen consequences, individual states could back out of the agreement and switch back to the old method (or an entirely new one). Changing the Constitution, on the other hand, would require another arduous amendment process that could take many years. One of the most obvious reasons for the change is to avoid electing a president who lost the popular vote, which has happened four times in America’s history, most recently in 2000. However, a national popular vote would have many other positive effects. Currently, presidential candidates focus their campaigns on swing states, completely ignoring safe states like California, Texas, or Connecticut. This not only means that they make more campaign stops in those states, but that their policy stances are actually geared towards voters in these hotly contested areas. It’s also been shown that swing states receive a disproportionate amount of federal funding, perhaps an attempt by incumbent politicians to sway their voters in future elections. Connecticut voters recognize the problems with the Electoral College and are demanding change. In a 2009 poll by Public Policy Polling, 74 percent of Connecticut voters stated that the president should be chosen by the national popular vote, not the Electoral College. It’s difficult to get majority support for any issue, so when nearly three-quarters of the voting public supports a change, politicians should listen. A similar bill was passed by the House of Representatives in 2009, but never reached a vote in the Senate. Let’s not let that happen again. If enough citizens reach out to their legislators, this can become law this year, and we will be one step closer to reforming the ineffective Electoral College. The Daily Campus editorial is the official opinion of the newspaper and its editorial board. Commentary columns express opinions held solely by the author and do not in any way reflect the official opinion of The Daily Campus.
THANK YOU men’s basketball for an awesome season, this team would cause some havoc in the next few weeks. If there’s a better feeling out there than the one you get after finding a quarter in your laundry, then I don’t even want to know how it feels. Sorry all, I can’t go out tonight either. #seniordesignprobz Never positive how to feel about Jeremy Lamb’s tweets about cooking dinner naked with his futue wife...cuz I could be that woman Jeremy. The Price is WRONG Bob Barker!! Close one against DePaul for the women’s team yesterday. They damn near almost finished within 30. Man I just want it to be football season again. As much as it pains me to do so without us being in the tournament, I can’t wait to fill out a bracket. I will still probably have UConn making at least the Elite Eight.
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A more honest UConn preview
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ince all UConn freshman applicants heard back on March 1 about whether they were accepted, the campus has been filled with tours over the past few weeks. Overhearing bits and pieces as I walk around, and also remembering my high school tour, it seems the message communicated is largely numbers: this many valedictorians, this many majors, this percentage of minorities. But what is the real UConn experience, the one that makes me enjoy going here? Hi, and thanks By Jesse Rifkin for stopping by Associate Commentary Editor UConn! Either that or you’re here to experience the legendary Storrs, Connecticut nightlife for yourself. My name is Jesse, and I’ll be your tour guide today. As high school seniors, you are wondering whether UConn is the right college for you. Don’t be disillusioned by the weather today! For most of the school year, it’s even colder and grayer. First, some history. UConn was founded in 1881 with only males, just like the competitors in last month’s eating contest in the Student Union. After we were founded, a bunch of stuff happened for the next hundred years until the basketball team became good. Okay, that should pretty much bring you up to speed. UConn has six campuses: the main campus in Storrs and five regional campuses in… somewhere. I think one of them is in Glastonbury? Maybe? Easily the best thing about UConn is the affordability. Compared to Harvard or Yale, our tuition costs a lot less, our room and board cost a lot less, plus
we have produced far fewer alumni who caused the economic collapse. Official UConn promotional material you received in the mail is full of facts and figures that only your parents care about: cost of this, percentage of that. Boring! Having just finished high school pre-calculus, you liberal arts majors never want to see a number again unless it’s Parade Magazine’s annual “Celebrity salaries revealed” issue. I don’t understand how MaryKate and Ashley Olsen made $40 million last year either. So here are five important things you really need to know if you go to UConn. First and foremost, the best ice cream flavor at the UConn Dairy Bar is Husky Tracks: vanilla ice cream with fudge swirl and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Some people will try to convince you otherwise, claiming that the best flavor is the Jonathan Supreme: vanilla ice cream with peanut butter swirl, and chocolate covered peanuts. These people are Communists. UConn is a member of Boston Library Consortium, a loaning partnership of several dozen university libraries. This allows serious young academics to read and research scholarly materials located at other institutions. In four years, you will never meet anybody who actually uses the service that way. Rather, the Consortium allows you to rent DVDs of virtually any movie or show ever made, free of charge like a no-cost Netflix. In the mood for the 2000 classic “Dude, Where’s My Car?” Williams
College in Massachusetts has a copy. Eat at all the ‘theme dinners’ the dining halls ever offers. You can’t miss last year’s Harry Potter dinner in McMahon, the surprisingly-racist-but-it-actually-happened Black History Month luncheon in Putnam, or the Cinco de Mayo meal in Whitney held last May 3. Seriously. What’s next, a July 4 barbeque on July 2? If you are ever the randomly-selected student section member at basketball games chosen to participate in a contest, ask to compete in the “Subway Shuffle.” Unlike every other contest – make a half-court shot for a thousand dollars, etc. – this is the only one requiring absolutely zero skill. Basically, on the video screen a ball is shown being placed underneath one of three adjacent cups, the cups move around for a bit, then you have to say which cup the ball is under for a Subway gift card. The cups don’t even move that fast. Finally, important item number five: at the beginning of your freshman year, you will be given two things: a Student ID and a Net ID. For the following four years, you will always confuse which one is which. That’s it for the tour, thanks for coming, and I hope you come to UConn next year! Or most of you, at least. I’m not sure we have enough beds for all of you.
“At the beginning of your freshman year you will be given two things: a Student ID and a Net ID. For the following four years you will always confuse which one is which.”
A ssociate Commentar y Editor Jesse Rifkin is a 6th- semester journalism major. He can be reached at Jesse.Rifkin@UConn.edu.
More websites should consider freemium models
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t some point in their internet experience, everyone has encountered online advertisements. Some have decided to combat it with browser ad blockers and others have just accepted it as part of the internet however annoying it may be. The current system leaves a lot to be desired, but an alterKayvon Ghoreshi native for Staff Columnist many websites can be to switch to a freemium model. The basic structure of a freemium model is that websites offer a limited amount of content usually supplemented by advertisements. However, there may be single or multiple plans that give the consumer additional features in addition to removing advertisements. Those of you who use Pandora or Spotify may be familiar with this model. It may seem crazy to suggest paying for websites and other content online, but hear me out. It first needs to be understood why ads exist in the first
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place. In order for content to exist on the internet, one of three situations needs to happen: the content creator pays for all the necessary upkeep and chooses to obtain no profit; the content user pays for the content, or a third party advertiser pays to sustain the content. With most websites, the third option is the most popular. Now it may be natural to suggest that if ads are such a problem, why not download a free ad blocker? For argument’s sake, let’s assume that everyone browsing the web is doing so with an ad blocker. Almost all of the content on the internet would cease to exist. Content creators wouldn’t be able to handle upkeep costs and advertisers wouldn’t pay for ads that no one would see. It’s also worth mentioning that advertisers will always try to work a way around ad block. Currently Hulu will not allow videos to play until ad blockers are disabled. So how would a freemium model work? For a lot of websites it would be fairly simple. They can provide their current offerings for free with
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ads. Subsequently, they can create a premium option. In addition to eliminating advertisements from their viewing experience, a premium option could offer other benefits, such as exclusive content, early access to content, entry into site giveaways, and many other features depending on the site. Many internet users probably scoff at the idea of paying for the websites that they use freely every day, but mainly because such a model hasn’t been done with written content. Despite the people who choose illegal methods, consumers are already accustom to paying for music, movies, games, and other online content and services. And contrary to the image of the average internet youth scouring torrents to avoid paying, the majority of them are willing to shell out for content. In a Nielsen study, younger consumers are more willing to have already paid and be likely to pay for most types of content Obviously I’m not expecting everyone to shell out money in order to use every website
they visit. There are more than enough people that will gladly stick it through the ads in order to get their content. And others will likely stick to their ad blocking plug-ins. But given that people ignore the majority of current advertisements, marketers will only continue to try to get ads in front of you every time you visit your favorite sites and find ways around ad blockers. If more websites switched to freemium model, it would be a win-win situation. Advertisers would still have an audience of people willing to watch ads and people that wanted it could get additional content and a better ad-free user experience. Unlike a situation with adblock, websites would still get the income they need to handle upkeep, to pay writers, and to encourage them to continue creating the content their audience loves. Staf f Columnist Kay von Ghoreshi is a 2nd-semester molecular and cell major. He can be reached at Kayvon.Ghoreshi@UConn.edu.
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Luck of the Irish takes over Jorgensen By Loumarie Rodriguez Senior Staff Writer The luck of the Irish took over Jorgensen on Friday and Saturday night bringing along a colorful show that told a lot of history of the Emerald Isle. The show kicked off with traditional Irish music dancers as they step dance along to the music and showed off their brilliant colored dresses. A fiddler, banjo player and a guitarist took over as they played Irish tunes that filled the Jorgensen theater and had audience members clapping to the beat. Three male and three female singers took stage, singing songs that told stories of Irish tradition including potatoes and cabbage. A lot of the traditional songs were focused on immigration to the United States and missing the homeland. Some of the songs even talked about the hardships that many Irish people had to face whether it was in the U.S or how poor Ireland had been. The fiddler played a solo piece that showed his half Irish side and also his French heritage. During the performance, he showed the contrast between the two cultures and their different music. While the French stuck to more classical sounding music, the Irish showed a wilder side for the fiddler. Switching back and forth to the different tunes, he was eventually joined on stage with the banjo player and the guitarist before their epic conclusion. A lone musician took the stage in order to play the traditional pastoral pipes similar to the bagpipes however the player has to squeeze air into the instrument in order to create a tune rather than blowing
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Friday and Saturday night at Jorgensen hosted Celtic Nights offering songs of Irish culture and step dancing. The event offered an array of songs that told stories of old Ireland and the hardships many immigrants face when coming to the United States.
into it. Strobe lights and colorful lighting effects were used throughout the show in order to create a sense of drama when the step dancers took the stage. The singers also had very unique lighting in order to create a dramatic effect for their passionate songs of the homeland and the suffering that Irish people had to face when immigrating. “I’m third generation Irish
The Student Union Theater will be rocking on Tuesday night when UConn’s Relay for Life hosts “Rock Out for Relay: A Concert for the Cure,” a kick-off of this year’s main event on April 5 and 6. Performances on Tuesday will include tons of UConn’s music groups, including a cappella groups UConn Chordials, CDN, The Rolling Tones and Notes Over Storrs, the UConn Marching Band’s Funky Dawgz, the UConn Rock Ensemble and the dance group Alima. The show begins at 7 p.m. with suggested donations of $5 at the
American and my family came just like they [the singers] are describing out of Cork,” said Noreen Cullen of Glastonbury. “They went to Waterbury, Conn. since the English wanted to arrest my great, great grandfather and the English had also taken their property in order to lease it back to them.” The show continued with the singers walking around into the audience and engag-
ing them to sing along to familiar Irish tunes such as “Danny Boy,” “Whiskey in a Jar” and even Van Morrison’s “Brown Eye Girl.” During the show lead male vocal, Derek Moloney, made jokes referencing Irish drinking habits that eventually led to singing “Whisky in a Jar.” The show ended with the performers greeting the audience in the lobby of Jorgensen.
“I’m having a great time,” said Lin Klein of Storrs/ Mansfield. “It’s a great way to spend a snowy Friday night and it’s a lot of fun.” “Tonight was another example of Jorgensen bringing entertainment to the center of campus,” said Waldo Klein of Storrs/Mansfield.
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that are already available digitally and plucked out the No. 1 issues with historic ones like “Amazing Spider-Man” by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko or the “Fantastic Four” by Lee and Jack Kirby as well as modern titles like “Civil War,” Joss Whedon’s “Astonishing X-Men” and characters and teams like the Uncanny Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy, too. “We never want fans to feel like they need to have read it all. Of course we want them to want to check out those stories, but the beauty of these No. 1 issues is that each is an entry point,” he said. “So with a character like Iron Man, you can choose if you want to start with the recent ‘Iron Man’ series from Kieron Gillen or go back a few years to when Matt Fraction launched ‘Invincible Iron Man’ or even before that.”
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Marvel releasing some 700 No. 1 issues digitally
In comics, the first issue is where the story starts and the legend begins. For readers, a print copy of issue one can be hard to find and expensive to buy. But those rules don’t apply to tablets, laptops and smartphones both for comics fans and those curious about characters they may have seen in film or on television. Part of that fascination with superheroes and their growing cachet in popular culture is why Marvel Entertainment, home to the Fantastic Four, the X-Men and the Avengers, among others, is making more than 700 first issues available to digital readers starting Sunday for free through the Marvel app and the company’s website. After Tuesday, they’ll be sold for $1.99 to $3.99 per issue. The titles go from the 1960s Silver Age to contemporary issues with characters including Wasp, Mr. Fantastic, Power Man and Iron Fist, said David Gabriel, senior vice president of sales. “This is aimed at attracting fans from all walks of life those who know our characters from the big screen, those who were readers but fell out of the habit and our long-term fans too,” he said. “We believe that if we get those fans in the door, they’ll stay and help grow this industry, with purchases both in comic stores and via digital comic outlets.” The publisher went through its catalog of more than 13,000 titles
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door and free shirts courtesy of SUBOG. The full Relay for Life event in April will consist of an overnight walk honoring the fight against cancer across the world, including a survivor lap for cancer survivors and virtual survivors, who walk in place of survivors not in attendance. UConn Relay for Life’s goal is to raise $70,000 from 70 teams and 700 participants, said Shannon Hughes, a committee chair for UConn Relay for Life. Students and faculty can sign up as teams at the Relay for Life at their website, relayforlife.org/ uconn.
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Princess whose forbidden love gripped Sweden dies
STOCKHOLM (AP) — She was one of the better kept secrets of Sweden’s royal household: a commoner and divorcee whose relationship with Prince Bertil was seen as a threat to the Bernadotte dynasty. In a touching royal romance, Welsh-born Princess Lilian and her Bertil kept their love unofficial for decades and were both in their 60s when they finally received the king’s blessing to get married. Lilian died in her Stockholm home on Sunday at age 97. The Royal Palace didn’t give a cause of death, but Lilian suffered from Alzheimer’s disease and had been in poor health for several years. She met Sweden’s Prince Bertil in 1943, but his obligations to the throne and Lilian’s status as a divorced commoner prevented them from making their love public. The couple’s sacrifices and lifelong dedication to one another gripped the hearts of Swedes. “If I were to sum up my life, everything has been about my love,” the witty, petite princess said of her husband when she turned 80 in 1995. “He’s a great man, and I love him.” Born Lilian Davies in Swansea, Wales, on Aug. 30,
1915, she moved to London at 16 to embark on a career as a model and an actress, showcasing hats and gloves in commercials and taking on small roles in movies. She met British actor Ivan Craig, whom she married in 1940. After World War II broke out, Craig was drafted into the British army while Lilian stayed behind in London, working at a factory making radio sets for the British merchant fleet and serving at a hospital for wounded soldiers. At the time, Prince Bertil was stationed at the Swedish Embassy in the British capital as a naval attache. The couple first laid eyes on each other in the fancy nightclub Les Ambassadeurs shortly before Lilian’s 28th birthday in 1943. Lilian then invited him to a cocktail party in her London apartment. But it wasn’t until he fetched her with his car following an air raid in her neighborhood that the romance blossomed, Lilian recalled in her 2000 memoirs, “My Life with Prince Bertil.” “He was so handsome my prince. Especially in uniform. So charming and thoughtful. And so funny. Oh how we laughed together,” Lilian wrote. Lilian was still married at the time, but the situation resolved itself since Craig, too, had met
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someone else during his years abroad in the army, and the couple divorced on amicable terms. Upon Bertil’s return to Sweden, however, his relationship with a commoner became a delicate issue. Bertil became a possible heir to the throne when his eldest brother died in a plane crash, leaving behind an infant son the current King Carl XVI Gustaf. Two other brothers had dropped out of the line of succession by marrying commoners.
Though it literally pains me to say their names in the same sentence, some of the biggest influences from the 90’s were the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Backstreet Boys. Appealing to two entirely different demographics, each left a substantial mark on the decade. The Chili Peppers no doubt go down as one of the most influential bands from the 90’s. Their combination of funk draped over an impressive punk-rock background out of the underground L.A. scene was unlike anything at the time. On the other hand, bands such as the Backstreet Boys and N*Sync dominated the radio waves by cranking out pop hits that were just too catchy to forget. Shamelessly I must admit that in my more naive years I was more familiar with their songs than the Chili Peppers concurrent master works. But what could a 6-year-old do in those days? The Backstreet Boys were simply more parental friendly than anything like RHCP’s song “Suck My Kiss” off their 1991 album “Blood Sugar Sex Magik.” Even the album name itself yells out “Don’t buy me for your 6-year-old son!” The album “Blood Sugar Sex Magik” is easily one of my favorite albums of all time whereas I have not listened to the Backstreet Boys in anything other than satire in the past 13 years. Get ready for your memory banks to open wide at the mention of the song names “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” and “As Long as You Love Me” from BSB’s 1996 album “Backstreet’s Back.” Despite their blatantly pop style, lack of respect and plain old lack of input into their songs, the Backstreet Boy’s 1999 album “Millennium” was the highest grossing record of the year and decade totaling almost 9,500,000 copies sold. Are you kidding me? Who let this happen? The contemporary Red Hot Chili Pepper’s album “Californication” (1999) also sold over 9,000,000 copies world-wide but sadly cannot claim the highest grossing record of the decade. “Californication” is packed full of Chili Pepper hits such as “Scar Tissue,” “All Around the World” and the title track “Californication,” not to mention gems such as “Easily” and “I Like Dirt.” What makes the album even more impressive is the resurgence of energy after both lead singer Anthony Keidis and guitarist John Frusciante kicked their substantial heroin habits prior to recording. Forgive me if I’m wrong but I do not think the Boys went through anything of the sort and still did not have time to write their own tracks, though I’m sure they have had their struggles. To my surprise, I found that the Backstreet Boys put out a few records since “Millennium”. Keeping true to their style, the title track off their 2005 record “Never Gone” is exactly what you would expect, sentimental lyrics over an instrumental that obviously none of them wrote. If there is one thing both bands have in common, it has to be that you absolutely must look like an idiot while dancing to their songs. No one looks cool dancing to the Backstreet Boys, and no one wants to look cool dancing to the Red Hot Chili Peppers (because you’ll never do it better than Keidis). This was just a small sample of the music from the 90’s. Do not get upset with me because I skipped the Spice Girls, Brittney Spears, Dr. Dre and Eminem. I know they exist, we all do, it does not need to be beaten to death. If there’s something you want mentioned in next week’s tweet at me @Mattthew305.
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New political thriller on right track
1. Modern Family (ABC) - 3.9 2. American Idol-Wednesday (FOX) - 3.9 3. American Idol- Thursday (FOX) - 3.8 4. NCIS (CBS) - 3.4 5. 2 Broke Girls (CBS) - 3.3 6. How I Met Your Mother (CBS) - 3.3 7. NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS) 2.9 8. The Bachelor (ABC) - 2.9 9. The Big Bang Theory (CBS) - 2.8 10. The Following (FOX) - 2.8
A new political thriller has hit Netflix drawing in a lot of attention to the series. Netflix has put the whole season up therefore people do not have to wait for the next episode and can determine how much they want to watch on their own free will.
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1. The Bible (HIST) - 13103 2. The Walking Dead (AMC) 11296 3. Duck Dynasty (A&E) - 8617 4. Duck Dynasty (A&E) - 8530 5. Vikings (HIST) - 6212 6. Pawn Stars (HIST) - 5194 7. Pawn Stars (HIST) - 4958 8. WWE Entertainment (USA) 4864 9. Spongebob (NICK) - 4734 By Alex Sfazzarra 10. WWE Entertainment (USA) Campus Correspondent 4704 Numbers from TVbytheNumbers.com Week ending March 5 (Numbers of viewers x 1000)
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courthouse in the titular state was awful. Notably, Andy Samberg appeared in the sketch, but rather needlessly considering he played a generic and forgettable character. Another sketch that tanked was “The Tales of Sober Caligula,” based on the infamous Roman Emperor. Not a single thing worked in this one. Closing out the evening was the second installment of “Moet and Chandon”. Featuring Cecily Strong and Vanessa Bayer as two ex porn stars who sell the titular champagne, a lot of great one liners were squeezed in here, complimented by some appearances by Justin Timberlake. All in all this was one of the best, if not the best, show this season. Nearly everything was very funny with a multitude of great cameos to boot. A fantastic effort by Timberlake and company.
I first saw an episode of “Blue Mountain State” when I was almost done with my first semester of college. I don’t believe the creators were aiming for even the slightest attempt of realism when they depicted football players throwing loud raves in their large home provided by the school, with unlimited supplies of alcohol and every drug invented. While it is true that football teams at schools in the past have been caught with these sorts of things at parties as well as other college students, this isn’t a weekend thing at “Blue Mountain State.” Even if some students party a lot, I think they pushed the realism when they depicted Thad Castle snorting cocaine off of a naked girl’s chest, taking a bong hit, taking another unspecified drug, then taking ecstasy from a hooker’s mouth all in less than twenty seconds .While it might be easy to dismiss Blue Mountain State as an obvious exaggeration, a friend of mine now attending an Ivy League school seriously asked me when he was back in high school if college was like this. On TV, college is always a big party. Nobody is ever going to class or studying. Nobody has five midterms in a week, has a job or complains about tuition. Nobody is ever stressed. It is true that in college wild parties do happen, but in high school it is exaggerated to a complete fabrication. A party that should consist of fifteen and sixteen year old’s is always filled with actors who are in their midthirties. Then there’s always that scene where people are talking about losing their virginity and being scared which is awkward when done with actors who are already married, divorced and have children. You probably haven’t seen the “American Pie” straight to DVD movies because there is no reason for anybody to do such a thing, but I am ashamed to admit I have seen one or two. I saw maybe 45 minutes of whichever number “The Book of Love” was before I called shenanigans and could no longer tolerate it. There is a school dance wilder than the “Blue Mountain State” parties. At this school in small town Michigan, there are no adults, students wear less clothing than Lady Gaga, drug use and drinking and sex going on right in the hallways without even an attempt to be hidden. These out of control parties in both high school and college always stay in control. No matter how many fire code violations are broken by the millions of people there is always room for everybody in the house. Nothing is ever broken, nobody is ever hurt and nobody ever dies of alcohol poisoning or drug overdoses. The most realistic party I’ve ever seen was “Project X.” I’m not denying the first hour of “Project X” was another exaggerated fabrication of sixteen year olds doing hard drugs and partying hard. However, the party eventually got out of control, was crowded, people fought, everything went wrong and there was even a major scale riot — the kind of things that would actually happen if these sorts of engagements happened. The guy who’s throwing the party is also stressed out the whole time and unhappy about it. Whoever wrote this movie clearly went to college, but skipped high school.
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The idea of distributing a slow paced show like “House of Cards” on Netflix was a smart move. While never boring, the show gradually develops and gives more and more information. Waiting week to week, this would probably turn off viewers. However, by having the entire season available at once on Netflix people hit next if they are even mildly interested which is probably part of why House of Cards has been so successful when political thrillers tend to turn off viewers. “House of Cards” tells the story of Democratic Party majority whip Francis Underwood. Underwood has just used his power and popularity to help the new president get elected for the promise of a cabinet position. After the election, he finds out that they used him and he will be staying in the house while someone else takes his promised seat. As angry as this makes Underwood, he plays along,
meanwhile plotting to ruin the suffering in the street. Before careers and even some personal he tells his neighbors their dog lives of those who did this to is dead, he suffocates it as he him with the help of his assis- narrates to the audience that he tant and wife. He never reveals is the kind of man who has what his full plan to the audience, it takes to put the dying dog out but he does hint early on that of its misery rather than watch it his ultimate goal is to become suffer. He later finds the driver president. and has him arrested. Even with While at an entrance like this, I House of Cards times absurd eventually came to like or ridicuhim. Netflix lous, there is I was almost always a strange realrooting for Underwood. ism to the plot. In the beginning, he’s bad Politics play and he only gets worse, but out convincthere was a strange guilty ingly and conpleasure in watching his gress is depicted in an extremely complex and calculated planning unflattering and unfortunately pay off and actually work. Also, realistic light. According to there are very little likeable char“House of Cards,” there are two acters. At the end, I found myself kinds of people in Washington hating Francis, but I wasn’t really D.C. There are bad people who rooting for his opponents to win. want to be good but can’t and Most of what makes the characthere are the worst people who ter so interesting is what Kevin embrace evil. The first category Spacey brings to the table in his can be counted on your fingers portrayal. There are so many layand none of the big leads fit ers to the characters and so much into it. In the opening scene, deceit going on that it takes a Underwood finds a dog left for while for the audience to figure dead by a hit and run driver out when he’s lying and when
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he’s telling the truth, even with his vague narration of his every move. I don’t want to say another actor couldn’t bring this character to life the way, but Spacey certainly steals the show. I think somebody without background knowledge of politics can understand and enjoy this show. I’m not the kind of person who watches C-SPAN all day with a bowl of popcorn, but I enjoy political thrillers. Most people do not and while this is a political thriller, there is plenty to interest everyone. There’s this tense atmosphere and an underlying feeling that any moment one of these congressmen is just going to attack another. Eventually they do, but this is also about more than politicians staging coups left and right and backstabbing one another. Without spoiling anything, I will say there are plenty of other crimes and thrills that will surprise you. I expect this show will make some write angry concerned letters to their congressmen questioning their daily activities, but maybe that should happen.
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Timberlake “brings sexy back” on SNL
What I’m Watching Spongebob Underrated: Squarepants Nickelodeon Mondays ‘Spongebob’ came out in 1999 and as of now the little yellow sponge we love so much is still going strong. How can anyone not appreciate the silly humor the show pumps out? It’s obvious that it’s not fall out of your chair funny but enough to give you a good chuckle. Also, the humor isn’t stupid humor that a good majority of kid’s channels are producing now-a-days but humor that has some substance. The show is silly with all the antics that Spongebob gets into and his right hand man Patrick doesn’t help to make the situation any better. However it’s these antics that make the show different. It makes you wonder who thinks of these things? The show really sticks to its main underwater theme and creates story lines that you can’t seem to pull away from. -Loumarie Rodriguez
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“Saturday Night Live” brought “sexy back” as Justin Timberlake hosted this past Saturday. Poking jokes at the recently deceased Dictator Hugo Chavez, Justin Timberlake brought in the laughs that SNL has been lacking lately.
By Alex Sferrazza Campus Correspondent “Saturday Night Live” is one of those wildcard television shows. When it’s bad, it’s painfully awful, but when it’s good, the show provides some of the biggest laughs around. Thankfully, this week’s episode belonged to the latter category. The show featured a solid cold open with Elton John, played by Justin Timberlake, serenading the recently deceased Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez. Justin Timberlake returned to host “SNL” for the fifth time, joining the show exclusive “fivetimers club” of returning hosts and musical guests. In light of this, the monologue quickly turned into a sketch showing Timberlake entering the fictitious club. On sheer amount of cameos alone, the opening monologue sketch was the highlight of the
show. Fellow five timers Paul tic comedy movie trailer starring Simon, Steve Martin, Candice Justin Timberlake and Nasim Bergen, Alec Baldwin, Tom Pedrad. The title? “She’s got a Hanks, and Chevy Chase all made #!@k”. Enough said. hilarious appearances as well as The fake commercial for the Martin Short and Dan Akroyd. fake diamond encrusted female Besides the monologue, the best contraceptive “Nuvabling” was sketch was probably the “Dating another high point. Game.” Notably two “Weekend of the shows three Update” was rather SNL contestants were Justin Saturday 11:30 p.m. brief this week, feaTimberlake and Andy turing a few solid Samberg reprising their punch lines before roles as the “D!@k in we were treated to a box guys” as well as another appearDan Akroyd and Steve ance from City Martin reprising their Correspondent classic SNL characters, Stefon. Arguably the two Czech “Wild and Crazy the best “Weekend Update” charguys.” acter ever, the best joke of this Another funny sketch was segment was “New York’s Hottest “Veganville,” featuring Timberlake Club is...‘Your Mother and I are once again appearing as a rap- Separating’”. per, this time in a tofu costume. However, not every sketch was Better yet, the sketch ended with a fantastic this week. In fact, two “Harlem Shake.” were so painfully unfunny it took Another highlight of the epi- all my willpower to stay tuned. sode was a hilarious fake roman“Maine Justice” featuring a
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Jonathan looked majestic as always this weekend looking out over campus. He might have needed a blanket during the snow storm, but he should rest easy as warmer temperatures start to roll in.
CAPTION CONTEST
by Matt Silber
CAPTION CONTEST!!!
I Hate Everything by Carin Powell
“And for the first time in his life, bros gave way to hoes.” - Astir Dhanraj
Horoscopes Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- With the
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moon in your sign, confidence is yours, and you talk a fine game. Let wild inspiration carry you away, and dive into action. Get others moving, too. Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- The pressure’s increasing, and the game’s getting more intense. Contemplate your next move, and confer with your team. Refine your presentation. Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Everyone wants to get together ... ask them to help with tasks, and together you make short work of it. Develop a profitable scheme. Collaborate with courage and creativity. Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Choose for fit, comfort and style. There’s a period of testing, or trying things on. How does the role fit? Fulfill a fantasy. Talk it over. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Getting involved in a social project feeds your spirit. Travel conditions look good, especially if the price is right. Communicate long distances. Shop carefully. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Go over your resources, and get into the details. What you learn helps with decisions regarding future direction. Check out an interesting suggestion. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- You and an older partner are stirring things up for the next few days. You can solve a puzzle. Establish new rules. Start by fixing whatever’s broken. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- There may be a conflict between wanting change and wanting things to stay the same. Be creative, and see if you can have it both ways. You’re too busy to mess around. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- You’re lucky in love for the next two days. Others look to you for ethical leadership. A surprising development opens a new perspective. Friends balance it out. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Your family plays an important role, later today and through the weekend. It’s not too late to organize an impromptu party at your house. Dreams are good. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is an 8 -- Mercury enters your sign. For the next few weeks, your elastic mind bulges with ideas. Write your book; communicate your thoughts. Make the most of it. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 9 -- Turn your energy toward making money. It’s hidden in places that you couldn’t imagine before. Interact with connections for mutual benefit.
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UConn remains undefeated with OT win
By Erica Brancato Staff Writer The UConn women’s lacrosse team beat Fairfield University 12-11 in overtime to continue their perfect season. This 5-0 start to the season marks UConn’s best start since 2000. The first goal of the game was scored within seconds of the draw. UConn’s Catherine Gross scored for first goal for the Huskies assisted by Morgan O’Reilly. Gross scored the next goal as well, leaving UConn up 2-0 with 26:58 left in the half. Fairfield’s Jenna Slowey scored a goal off a free position shot bringing the Stags back into the game. Kacey Pippitt scored an unassisted goal with 23 minutes left on the clock
giving UConn the advantage by two. Fairfield quickly came back, scoring two goals in less than three minutes to tie the game at 3-3. This tie, however, did not last very long. UConn’s Lauren Kahn scored two goals, while Gross, Alexandra Crofts, and O’Reilly each scored a goal to bring UConn up 8-3 with 1:53 left before the half. Fairfield’s Kelly Fenton slipped in one last goal with seven seconds left on the clock to leave the score 8-4 at halftime. Fairfield came out strong in the second half, scoring the first goal within a minute after the draw. Pippitt scored a goal for the Huskies, assisted by Carly Palmucci, but Fairfield answered with three consecutive unassisted goals to bring the score to a
close 10-8 lead for UConn.. With thirteen seconds left on the clock Fairfield’s Chloe Morgan scored an unassisted goal to tie the game at 11. This goal brought UConn into their first overtime of the season. The Huskies responded well under pressure fighting until the very end. UConn’s O’Reilly led the Huskies to a 12-11 victory when she scored the unassisted winning goal in overtime with 42 seconds left. Although Fairfield outshot UConn 25-24, the Huskies were able to maintain control where it counted. The goalies Shannon Nee and Marya Fratoni recorded nine saves each this game. The Huskies also led in draw control with 15 compared to Fairfield’s 12. Both teams were tied with 16 turnovers each throughout the game. UConn’s next game will
be played at home against Binghamton. Although the Bearcats should not be taken lightly, the past two years the Huskies have beaten Binghamton 14-12 and 11-9. However, this year UConn has to maintain a different challenge. As they continue their undefeated season, the target on their back is getting bigger. Each team they play will be more and more eager to take them down. The Huskies seem to be ready for anything, making this season even more exciting. UConn will be put to the test next Saturday as they take on the Bearcats at home at the George J. Sherman Family Sports Complex with the hope to maintain a perfect season.
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UConn senior defenseman Siobhan Wilcox works in front of UConn goalie Shannon Nee in a recent home game against New Hampshire.
Oklahoma City grinds out 91-79 win over the Celtics
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Boston Celtics forward Brandon Bass and Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant reach for the ball in front of Thunder center Kendrick Perkins.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — In a reunion with his former Boston teammates, Kendrick Perkins and the Oklahoma City Thunder got just the kind of victory he enjoys most. Kevin Durant had 23 points and 11 rebounds, Russell Westbrook scored 15 points and Thunder beat the Celtics 91-79 on Sunday to stretch their winning streak to five games. Boston was able to slow the Thunder from their best-inthe-NBA scoring pace of 107 points per game, but Oklahoma City's lowest output since Jan. 13 was still enough to come out
ahead in this one. "I told the guys coming into this game that it's going to be one of those low-scoring games, one of those nights that we have to grind out, so that's what we did," said Perkins, who won the 2008 NBA title with Boston. "Every night, we can't go out and expect to put up 100 points and the score to be 120-100. Some nights, it's going to be like this." The Thunder limited Boston to 25 percent shooting in the second half after the Celtics shot 51 percent in the first. Boston dropped off to 33 percent in the third quarter and all the way down to 18
percent in the fourth, when the game got away. "We were bad all game offensively," coach Doc Rivers said. "We were forcing things and offensively the ball stuck at times. Their length bothered us at times. Sometimes you want to win too bad, and that was us today." Oklahoma City used an 11-2 run at the start of the fourth quarter to close it out. The Celtics had pulled within 68-65 after three quarters before going without a basket for the first 5 minutes of the fourth, and they never could recover. Paul Pierce had 20 points to lead Boston, which had its own run of
five straight wins broken. Kevin Garnett chipped in 10 points and 11 rebounds. The Celtics finished at 38 percent shooting for the game with 19 turnovers, more than four above their average, while falling to 14-5 since All-Star Rajon Rondo's season-ending knee injury. "We're showing that we can compete against pretty much anyone, but we have to bring our A-game most of the time, and that involves not turning the ball over and not fouling as much," said Pierce, who needs 10 points to pass Charles Barkley for 20th on the NBA's career scoring list.
Mosqueda-Lewis and Dolson score 16 points in win from DOMINATING, page 12 end.’ You’re giving it up on two ends and that takes the score in an opposite direction real fast.” From that point on, UConn held the Blue Demons to just 12 points in the remainder of the half and went into the break with a 49-23 lead. The second half was much of the same, as the Huskies were able to dominate the glass and the paint throughout the night. Just a few days after a practice that Coach Geno Auriemma called the best of Kiah Stokes’ career, the sophomore center provided a spark off the bench to contribute five rebounds – four of which came on the offensive glass - and Auriemma made sure to credit her for a well played game in his press conference. “The first half I think I did pretty well,” Stokes said. “Rebounding is one of my strengths and I think I did that pretty well. Second half, a little shaky, coach pointed it out. I need more consistency throughout the game – not just the beginning.” Freshman Breanna Stewart and junior Bria Hartley - two Huskies who have been struggling in recent weeks and will be key to a successful postseason run - both fared well during the game. Stewart provided 21 points and six rebounds, but most
importantly looked less tentative than she did during the height of her struggles. “I had an inkling that Stewie would play better today than she has in a while,” Auriemma said, “because she’s practiced a lot better this week than she’s practiced in a while. So I saw today some of the same things that I saw on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and it carried into today and that’s a good sign.” Those changes in practice, Stewart said, were a result of a changed mindset from earlier in the season. “When I was unsure about a situation, I would second-guess myself,” Stewart said, “and I’m really trying not to second-guess myself and just go out and make an aggressive decision and do it.” Hartley has been in the midst of a terrible shooting slump, and her poor performances had made her hesitant to shoot the ball. But against the Blue Demons, she looked to be more confident - she took 14 shots and accounted for 12 of the Huskies points. The usual suspects also produced for UConn, as Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and Stefanie Dolson scored 16 points each. Auriemma made good on his midweek statements and did a good deal of minute-sharing, as nine Huskies played at least 11 minutes on the night. Freshman Moriah Jefferson started, supplanting redshirt senior Caroline
Doty as the second-choice point guard and playing 23 minutes. “Why did I start her? Part of it was that I thought it was a good matchup…that was the easy answer – she can put pressure on the ball,” Auriemma said. “The hard answer is at some point she’s going to have to play and she’s going to have to play well.” And Auriemma thought her 12 points and three assists were a job well done to seize the opportunity. “The first couple minutes – eh, okay,” Auriemma said of her play. “Then after that, really good, really good.” His squad also did a good job of protecting the ball – an area of the game that was hugely problematic in their loss at Notre Dame last week. The Huskies only turned it over eight times against the Blue Demons, just six days removed from their historically bad 35 turnover performance against the Irish. DePaul falls to 21-11 with the loss and will await their NCAA future. For the second-seeded Huskies, they improve to 28-3 and move on to the semifinals at 8 p.m. Monday. They will play either three-seed Syracuse or six-seed Villanova. That game can be seen on ESPNU.
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Huskies will be remembered despite playoff ban By Danny Maher Senior Staff Writer The 2012-2013 UConn men’s basketball team will not be remembered for their dominance nor success on the court, but rather the heart the team showed each game, knowing they would not have a chance at the national title. Head coach Kevin Ollie repeatedly said he wants his team to be “the hardest working team in America.” A team that was supposedly playing for nothing might have proved that this season meant everything for the UConn men’s basketball program. Ollie took over the men’s basketball program just 17 months removed from its third national title but at a low point in UConn history. Ollie filled the shoes of Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun, who retired in September after 26 seasons in Storrs. The Huskies were banned from the 2013 NCAA Tournament and Big East Tournament due to poor APR scores dating back to 2007-2008. As a result, Roscoe Smith and Alex Oriakhi transferred, both were starters on the 2011 national championship squad. Andre Drummond and Jeremy Lamb left for the NBA. UConn also saw its conference, even the Big East name, crumble
around them as long-time rivals left for the ACC, Big Ten and a brand new Big East conference formed around the seven remaining Big East Catholic schools that will become official in July. As of today, UConn remains left out. Ollie was originally given just a seven-month contract until he signed a five-year deal in late December. Despite these obstacles, the UConn players suited up and played every game like it was their last. They finished with a 20-10 overall and 10-8 conference record. Ten Big East wins are the most since the 2008-2009 season. Led by junior Shabazz Napier and sophomore Ryan Boatright, UConn kicked off the college basketball season on the international stage from the U.S. Air base in Ramstein, Germany against a seasoned Michigan State team. Behind Napier’s 25 points, the Huskies upset the No. 14 Spartans 66-62. UConn returned home to defeat Vermont in the home opener then flew down to the U.S. Virgin Islands for the Paradise Jam tournament. UConn played three games in four days defeating Wake Forest 77-71 then Quinnipiac 89-83 in doubleovertime but losing to New Mexico by six in the championship game. “I knew I had something special,” Ollie said of the Quinnipiac
game. “We had a double overtime season. UConn followed with an then we came back and played upset win over ranked Notre Dame that championship game and had a 65-58 on the road in large part due chance to beat New Mexico…They to a career-high 16 points from showed resolve, resilience, dedica- junior Tyler Olander, highlighted by a high-flying, Napier-to-Boatright tion through the up and downs.” UConn’s only other bump in the alley-oop. Freshman Omar Calhoun averroad in the non-conference schedule was a 69-65 loss to NC State aged 17 points and emerged as in the annual Jimmy V Classic at a scorer in consecutive losses to Madison Square Garden. UConn Louisville and Pittsburgh. UConn won the next three games handily won the next four games as Napier found before playing one of overtime to be his the oddest games in time to shine in wins the Big East opener at over Providence Marquette. and South Florida. Boatright rattled Napier scored 55 home a long jump shot points in a schoolfrom straight away to record seven overput the Huskies up three time games this seawith just 5.9 seconds Notebook son. remaining. Marquette’s On Feb. 13, rival Junior Cadougan drilled a 30-foot shot, Marquette’s first and sixth-ranked Syracuse came to three of the game, at the buzzer to Connecticut for the final time as send the game into overtime. Even Big East foes. It was expected that stranger, Napier scored UConn’s the long Orange squad would use first points of the extra period on its patented 2-3 zone to disrupt a goaltending violation but the ref- UConn, who were without junior erees had lined up the teams in the Enosch Wolf for the remainder wrong direction. The points were of the season after his arrest. The wrongfully taken off the board and Huskies used six second-half threethe Golden Eagles cruised to a six- pointers, including three from Omar Calhoun, to please an energetic XL point win. DeAndre Daniels had a breakout Center crowd and send Syracuse to game scoring 26 points in a 99-78 the ACC as Boatright put it, “with a stomping of DePaul to earn the bad taste of UConn in their mouth.” On Feb. 27 Georgetown came Huskies’ first conference win of the
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into Gampel Pavilion for the last time as a Big East rival. UConn capped a 14-2 run with Calhoun’s game-tying three-pointer with 2.2 seconds left in regulation that sent the game into overtime and the sellout crowd into a frenzy. Otto Porter Jr. and the Hoyas turned the tables in the last two minutes of the second overtime as they scored the final seven points to win 79-78. Daniels recorded UConn’s only double-double of the season with 25 points and 10 rebounds. The season took a turn for the worst with frustrating losses on and off the court. UConn had a chance to tie or go ahead late against Cincinnati but turned the ball over twice, then were run off the court in a 65-51 loss at South Florida. Napier missed both games due to a foot injury. He would return for the final game of the season but Olander, Calhoun and Niels Giffey would not recover from each of their injuries suffered over this stretch in time. March 9 against Providence, the final game of the season set in stone since October, quickly came and Ollie was left with just seven scholarship players, only four of which had seen significant playing time throughout the season. Despite three straight losses, fans packed Gampel Pavilion to watch UConn beat New England-rival Providence
63-59 in overtime behind 23 points from Daniels. “The light bulb has just turned on for DeAndre. He has a special season coming up next year and I can’t wait for him to come back,” Ollie said. Daniels averaged 12.1 points and 5.5 rebounds per game and has emerged as one of the most versatile players in the conference entering next season. Daniels and Boatright are both likely to return for next season but the same cannot be said for Napier. Napier finished the season as UConn’s leading scorer at 17.1 points per game including a 39.8 three-point shooting percentage and was named to the All-Big East First Team. Napier is not considered a lottery pick in June’s NBA draft. Whether one remembers the opening game in Germany, Boatright’s halftime buzzer beater to help sink Syracuse, Napier’s overtime brilliance, the thrilling games against Marquette and Georgetown, or the final win over Providence despite a handful of injuries, everyone will remember that this UConn team took the stairs.
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Baseball takes weekend series at Sam Houston By TJ Souhlaris Staff Writer The UConn baseball team won its weekend series with Sam Houston State this weekend by taking two of three from the Bearkats in Huntsville, Texas. UConn won the first game of the series, 6-5, on Friday night. The Huskies split a doubleheader with the Bearkats on Saturday afternoon, shutting them out 8-0 in the second game of the series before falling 6-4 in the third game of the set on a walk-off home run. UConn moved to 8-4 on the season. In Friday night’s game, the score was tied 5-5 entering the top of the ninth. Designated hitter Bryan Daniello drew a walk to open the frame. SHSU made a pitching change as the leadoff man, Billy
Ferriter, was coming to the plate. The new Bearkats pitcher struck out Ferriter. During the next atbat against third baseman Vinny Siena, however, Daniello moved from first to second and then second to third on two separate passed balls. Daniello scored on a wild pitch during Siena’s at-bat to give the Huskies a go-ahead 6-5 lead. The Bearkats got a hit in the bottom of the ninth, but weren’t able to advance the game-tying runner past first base. UConn starting pitcher Anthony Marzi received a no-decision in the win, but went 5.2 innings with seven hits, three runs (two earned) and five strikeouts. At the plate, UConn had seven hits as a team, but left fielder Eric Yavarone snapped a nine-game hitting streak by going 0-for-4 with three strikeouts. In game two of the series,
UConn starting pitcher Carson Cross hurled a gem. The righthander went a career-long 7.1 innings of shutout baseball, with only four hits allowed, three walks and five strikeouts. Senior reliever Pat Butler held the 8-0 shutout while allowing three baserunners to reach over 1.2 innings. Cross improved his record to 3-0 with the victory. Sophomore right fielder Jon Testani went 3-for-4 with four RBI and two runs scored in the win. Testani has 11 RBI this season, which ties him with Yavarone for the team lead. In the third and final game of the series, the Bearkats snapped the Huskies’ seven-game winning streak when designated hitter Hayden Simmerly belted a walk-off home run to prevent the series sweep. UConn reliever Dan Feehan gave up the blast and fell to
1-1 on the season. The Huskies were down 4-3 entering the ninth inning, but another Bearkat wild pitch allowed the away team to tie the game up 4-4. First baseman Bobby Melley reached base all four times he appeared at the plate in the loss. Meley went 3-for-3 with a trio of singles and got hit by a pitch in his final at-bat in the ninth. UConn will have games in the northeast for the first time in 2013 as it will play a pair of games in the Nutmeg State this week, at Central Connecticut on Tuesday and at Sacred Heart on Wednesday, before heading to South Carolina to take on Presbyterian in a threegame series starting on Friday.
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A UConn outfilder catches a fly ball in game last season at J.O. Christian Field. The Huskies took two out of three from Sam Houston this weekend.
Woods wins another World Championship at Doral
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Tiger Woods hits from the third tee during the third round of the Cadillac Championship golf tournament Sunday, March 10, 2013, in Doral, Fla.
DORAL, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods is hitting his stride on a march to the Masters. Woods had full control of his game Sunday and never let anyone get closer than three shots until he had locked up his 17th World Golf Championship title. With a conservative bogey that didn't matter on the final hole, he closed with a 1-under 71 to win the Cadillac Championship. For the first time in five years, Woods has two wins before the Masters. It was one year ago at Doral that Woods withdrew after 11 holes in the final round because of tightness in his left Achilles tendon, creating uncertainty about his health and whether he
Evans holds Cotton to nine points in OT win from HUSKIES, page 12 warm-ups. “His lateral movement was hampered a little bit and he dealt with sharp pains,” Ollie said about his injured point guard. “But he just fought through it. We’re just a different team when he’s out there. After Boatright put the Huskies up 62-59, Providence (17-13, 9-9), who had won seven of its last eight games before losing to UConn, had a chance to tie the game and send it into double overtime. Providence guard and Big East leading scorer Bryce Cotton missed a three-pointer from the top of the key with about 11 seconds left in overtime. Napier corralled the rebound and was fouled. He sealed the victory by hitting one of two free throws with eight seconds remaining on the clock.
Providence also had a great opportunity to steal a road victory in regulation. With the game knotted up at 55 after Boatright knocked down a pair of free throws, the shot clock turned off and the Friars held for the final shot. Cotton used a pick at the top of the key as misdirection and found an open Kris Dunn in the left corner. Dunn passed on the look and delivered an inside pass to forward LaDontae Henton. With the game clock about to expire, Henton tried to put up a quick shot, but was rejected by Daniels. The Huskies called timeout after getting the rebound, but weren’t able to get a good look with just one second remaining. Graduate student R.J. Evans didn’t score any points in 42 minutes of play, but guarded Cotton for most of the game and held him to only nine points on 4-13 shooting. Ollie
praised Evans for his tough defense in his final game wearing a UConn uniform. “He made every catch, every dribble, every screen tough for Bryce,” Ollie said. “For us to shut him down, it really allowed us to get out on the fast break. R.J. did a wonderful job.” With Evans as the only eligibility casualty, the 20-win UConn squad projects to be a team that is returning nearly all of its core players. Conference instability may plague the Huskies, but with a talented freshmen class, it appears to be a team that could challenge for a conference title in 2013-14. “I couldn’t be happier for this group,” Ollie said. “Hopefully, they stay together because the future is so bright.”
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could ever get his game back. False alarm. Woods has won five times in the last year, the most of anyone in the world, and he can return to No. 1 with a win at Bay Hill in two weeks. He won by two shots over Steve Stricker, who might want to claim a share of this trophy. Stricker spent 45 minutes on the putting green with Woods on the eve of the tournament, helping him with his posture over putts. Woods made 27 birdies this week, one short of his personal best on the PGA Tour. "Thank you to Steve for the putting lesson," Woods said at the trophy presentation. "It was one of those weeks where I felt
pretty good about how I was playing, made a few putts and got it rolling." Stricker, playing a part-time schedule, picked up his second runner-up finish in just three starts. He closed with a 68, and had no regrets about offering Woods some help. "At times you kick yourself," Stricker said with a laugh. "He's a good friend. We talk a lot about putting. It's good to see him playing well." The Masters is a month away, and Woods is sure to be the favorite. Rory McIlroy, the No. 1 player in the world, showed signs of recovering from his rough start to the season. He had a 65 and
tied for eighth. Woods won in January at Torrey Pines by four shots. He won for the fourth time at Doral, making this the seventh golf course where he has won at least four times. Graeme McDowell, who started the final round four shots behind, made a birdie on the opening hole, but never got any closer. McDowell had third place to himself until he went for the green on the 18th hole and found the water. He made double bogey, shot 72 and fell into a four-way tie for third that cost him $172,500. Phil Mickelson (71), Sergio Garcia (69) and Adam Scott (64) also tied for third.
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TORONTO (AP) — Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins feel right at home on the road this season. Crosby and James Neal scored shootout goals, and the Penguins beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-4 on Saturday night for their NHL-leading 11th road win. Neal opened the shootout with a goal against James Reimer before Crosby sealed the win on Pittsburgh’s second attempt after Marc-Andre Fleury stopped Toronto’s Tyler Bozak and Nazem Kadri. Phil Kessel forced overtime for the Maple Leafs with his seventh of the season at 15:40 of the third. Neal, Crosby, Beau Bennett and Pascal Dupuis scored in regulation for Pittsburgh (17-8-0), which outshot Toronto 41-26. Crosby scored in his first game in Toronto in over three years to extend his point streak to a season-high seven games (five goals, 10 assists). “I thought we played a really good game,” Crosby said. “I thought we did some really good things. “It’s a fun building, a fun atmosphere. We didn’t want to let them get back into the game ... but they pushed hard and kept coming.” James van Riemsdyk, Cody Franson and Clarke MacArthur had the other goals for Toronto (15-10-1). Defenseman Dion Phaneuf added three assists. The Penguins won despite going 0-for-4 on the power play and allowing two manadvantage goals to Toronto in three opportunities. “It was certainly a big factor in the game,” Penguins coach Dan Bylsma said. “We get two power-play goals on us rather quickly in this game. “It’s definitely a big part of where we’re at right now.” Crosby, who leads the NHL with 40 points (12 goals, 28 assists), played in Toronto for the first time since Jan. 9, 2010. In 11 career visits, Crosby has nine goals and six assists. He has an eight-game point streak against the Maple Leafs. Overall, Crosby has 19 goals and 19 assists in 24 career meetings with the Maple Leafs. Pittsburgh outshot Toronto 13-5 in the first period and grabbed a quick lead when Neal scored his 16th of the season just 36 seconds in. Matt Niskanen’s point shot was partially blocked, but the puck dribbled into the slot to Neal, who fired a shot past Reimer. Van Riemsdyk tied it at 7:14 during a AP power play, scoring his 14th goal, but Crosby Connecticut’s Ryan Boatright reacts after making a free-throw late in overtime of his team’s 63-59 win over and Bennett combined to give Pittsburgh a 3-1 lead. Providence at Gampel Pavilion.
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Fierce brawl mars Canada’s win over Mexico PHOENIX (AP) — A little bunt single turned this WBC matchup into a World Boxing Classic. Alfredo Aceves and several players threw nasty punches when a fierce, full-scale brawl broke out in the ninth inning Saturday of Canada’s 10-3 romp over Mexico in the World Baseball Classic, a melee that also involved fans and set off skirmishes in the seats. “Whoever says that we’re just here as an extra spring training game or we’re just here to say we represented our country and then go home obviously didn’t see how intense that game was and what it means to everybody that was involved,” Canadian slugger Justin Morneau said. Multiple fights erupted after Canada’s Rene Tosoni was hit in the back by a pitch from Arnold Leon with the score 9-3 at Chase Field, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks. It quickly turned into a wild scene, as chaotic as any on a major league field in recent years. Even when the fisticuffs ended, Canadian pitching coach Denis Boucher was hit in the face by a full water bottle thrown from the crowd. Canada shortstop Cale Iorg angrily threw the bottle back into the crowd. Several police officers came onto
the field trying to restore order, and there were a few skirmishes in the decidedly pro-Mexico crowd of 19,581. Seven players were ejected after umpires huddled, trying to sort out the frenzy. Canadian first base coach Larry Walker, a former NL MVP, said he held back Mexico star Adrian Gonzalez during the altercation. The solidly built Walker also tried to restrain Aceves. “I had a hold of him and I thought I saw Satan in his eyes,” Walker said. There had already been several borderline plays on the bases when things got out of hand. A bunt hit by Chris Robinson heightened the tension — a WBC tiebreaker relies heavily on runs and the Canadians wanted to score again in the ninth. Third baseman Luis Cruz fielded Robinson’s bunt and seemed to tell Leon to hit the next batter. Managers from both teams blamed the tiebreaking rule that uses run differential to determine what team moves on to the next round. “It was just simply a misunderstanding,” Mexico manager Rick Renteria said. “In a normal setting, a normal professional setting I should say, a 9-3 bunt in that particular fashion would be kind of out of the ordinary.”
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Canada’s Jay Johnson, top left, and Mexico’s Eduardo Arredondo fight during the ninth inning of a World Baseball Classic game.
Right as the game resumed, someone in the crowd hurled a baseball that almost hit Walker in the head. “That’s when I went out to the umpire and I said, ‘Another thing comes out, we’re going to pull our team off the field,” Canadian manager Ernie Whitt said. The collision of WBC rules and the unwritten rules of the game led to the blowup, Renteria said. “I think in just in the heat of the moment you lose sight of it,” he said, “and maybe that’s how it occurred.”
Whitt said WBC officials need to look at the tiebreaking rule. “There’s got to be another method other than the scoring runs, running up the score on the opposing team,” he said. “No one likes that. That’s not the way baseball’s supposed to be played. There’s professionalism that we’re all accustomed to here in North America. And unfortunately teams are knocked out of the tournament because other teams run up the score on them. Unfortunately that’s what you have to deal with when you have that type of format.”
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DOMINATING THE BLUE DEMONS Huskies defeat DePaul to advance to semifinals
By Matt Stypulkoski Senior Staff Writer
HARTFORD – The Bulls know how to keep it close against Notre Dame, they just haven’t quite figured out how to win them. Earlier this season, the Bulls took Notre Dame to overtime in the Sun Dome before falling 75-71. On Sunday afternoon at the XL Center, South Florida gave the Irish a good push, but just couldn’t overcome them in a 75-66 loss. The Bulls shot an impressive 10-of-21 from behind the arc to keep themselves in the game, and sisters Andrea and Andrell Smith scored 18 and 27 points, respectively, but it was not enough for the Bulls to play the part of giantkiller. “We just wanted to attack,” Andrea Smith said. “I know our teammates build off us, so if we get them going, they’re going to come along and push us as well as we push them. So that’s all we wanted to do was we wanted to get out and attack and that was what we did.” The Irish led by just a point, 57-56, with 7:33 to play in the game. From that point, they went on a 10-1 run over the course of 3:56, effectively putting the game away. For the Irish, it was Natalie Achonwa leading the way with 20 points and a career-high 20 rebounds on the night, her 17th double-double of the season. “She’s been big for us all year long but I thought the second half…she didn’t miss much in the second half,” Notre Dame Coach Muffet McGraw said. South Florida falls to 21-10 on the season and will have to await their fate on Selection Monday. They will likely make the NCAA Tournament. Top-seed Notre Dame advances to Monday night’s semifinal against four-seed Louisville at 6 p.m. Their record now stands at 29-1. In Sunday afternoon’s second game, Louisville managed to survive and advance to tomorrow’s semifinals. They outplayed St. John’s down the stretch and overcame and eight minute and 28 second dry spell en route to a 62-55 win. The first half was a story of two long, drawn-out runs. Louisville opened the game by jumping out to a 19-5 lead in the first six and a half minutes, lead by sophomore forward Sara Hammond, who tallied 10 points during that span and shot 3-of-3 from the field. “I just knew that I had an advantage,” Hammond said of her quick start, “because they started four guards and there was a guard guarding me and you know, the coaches prepared us well for that…I just knew I had to take advantage.” But she and the Cardinals quickly tailed off, and St. John’s opened up a run of their own. This time, it was a 19-2 run in favor of the Red Storm as St. John’s senior guard Shanneika Smith began to pour it in. She finished the half with 14 points and carried the Johnnies to a 24-21 lead at the break. The second half was far more closely contested, and neither team was able to grab more than a six point lead in the closing period until the final two minutes of the game. Hammond rediscovered her scoring touch, and finished with a career-high 22 points, while Smith cooled off and stumbled to just five second half points – 19 in total. With the loss, St. John’s falls to 18-12 on the year and are in some doubt regarding their NCAA atlarge bid. As for Louisville, they advance to the semifinals where they will play either Notre Dame or South Florida and bolster their record to 24-7 on the year.
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HARTFORD – The last time the UConn women’s basketball team and DePaul faced off, a massive winter storm gave the Blue Demons travel nightmares and forced them to show up just an hour before their 47-point loss. The circumstances were far different Sunday night, but the result was much the same. Balanced scoring and shared minutes ruled the day en route to a 91-64 UConn win. One very UConnesque run is where the game began to get away from the Blue Demons. The run began with 14:33 remaining in the first half with the score 14-11. Within a matter of 47 seconds, the Huskies had hit two threes and scored on a Kelly Faris putback - an 8-0 swing before DePaul could even so much as blink. “When they’re focused and really guarding you, they are really, really good defensively,” DePaul coach Doug Bruno said about UConn’s explosiveness. “So it’s not that easy to get good looks and then you start taking some shots that don’t have a chance to go in… and that’s the same as a turnover. “So you start feeding into it and it becomes ‘give it up on one end and give it back on the other
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UConn freshman guard Moriah Jefferson leaps up for a layup in the Huskies recent victory in the Big East tournament.
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Huskies defeat Providence on Senior Day
By TJ Souhlaris Staff Writer The UConn men’s basketball team dressed a mere seven scholarship players in Saturday afternoon’s home game against Providence at Gampel Pavilion. It was the Huskies’ final game of the season and with no postseason looming, Head coach Kevin Ollie’s team could have hung up its Nikes and bowed out gracefully without putting up much of a fight. This may have happened in previous years, but not the 2012-13 edition of the UConn Huskies. Sophomore guard Ryan Boatright delivered a game-winning basket by converting a tough three-point play with a leaner from the left elbow with 19 seconds left in overtime to key the Huskies to a 63-59 victory in their 30th and final game of the season. Ollie was impressed with how his team handled adversity all season. “It’s the players and their [abil-
ity to] stick together. It’s the determination and resolve they showed the whole year,” Ollie said after the game. “They played for each other…this team is something special because they never quit. They had a lot of opportunities to quit, but they never did.” Boatright finished the contest with a game-high 23 points (7-15 FG, 1-5 3FG, 8-9 FT), three rebounds and five assists. Sophomore forward DeAndre Daniels pitched in with 19 points, eight boards and four blocks, while junior guard Shabazz Napier had 19 points, eight rebounds, four assists and four steals in the victory. “I put on a little hesitation, I knew he would bite on it a little bit to give myself the chance to dribble,” Boatright said of his game-winning shot. “I was lucky to get the separation I needed and got the shot off.” UConn (20-10 overall, 10-8 in Big East) finished the year tied for seventh in the Big East and had a
winning record against conference opponents for the first time since the 2008-09 season. The game was a school-record seventh overtime contest of the season. UConn had a 5-2 record in games that went into an extra period. Without junior forwards Niels Giffey (finger) and Tyler Olander (foot), freshman guard Omar Calhoun (wrist) and suspended center Enosch Wolf, the Huskies were forced to play four players at least 42 of the 45 minutes in the game. Freshman center Philip Nolan got his first start of his UConn career and chipped in three points, six rebounds and a blocked shot in a career-high 34 minutes. UConn also nearly had to play its third straight game without leading scorer and first-team all-Big East guard Napier. The Roxbury, Mass. native was dealing with foot issues and was cleared to play right before the game during
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UConn junior guard Shabazz Napier stares down a Providence player in a recent over time victory at Gampel Pavilion.
Jefferson earns a start in the Big East Tournament By Dan Agabiti Sports Editor As long as she’s been healthy this season, fifth-year senior Caroline Doty has started for UConn and after a few minutes has gone to the bench where she stays for the better part of a typical contest. Last night, instead of Doty, freshman Moriah Jefferson started for the Huskies in their 94-61 blowout against DePaul. If one were to ask coach Geno Auriemma what accounted for the modification to the starting lineup, he would give two answers: an easy answer and a tough answer. The easy answer is about as stereotypical a coach answer that one could come across. Jefferson gave the Huskies a favorable matchup against a DePaul team that is very talented offensively.
“It’s a fun offense to watch if work her way up to a bigger stage. “If you put her in, you bring her you don’t have to coach against it,” Auriemma said of Doug Bruno and in off the bench and when we’re winning, that’s easy,” Auriemma the DePaul Blue Demons. Having Jefferson on the court said after the win. “If you bring makes the Huskies a better team her in off the bench and we’re defensively, plain and simple. With struggling, that’s difficult on her as a young freshman and Jefferson on the that’s what happened in floor, UConn is the Notre Dame game.” able to establish He said that rather than better full court choosing between two pressure defense extremes—admitting that thanks to her neither of them really speed agility. accomplish anything— Then there’s the he wanted find a happy tough answer: the medium. That happy freshman point Notebook medium was a starting guard is going to role in the quarterfinals of have bring her A-game in a spot when UConn is the Big East tournament. At the beginning of the game, in a pinch. This season is nearly at the point Auriemma said she was “Ehh.... in which Auriemma will not have okay.” After a while, however, she sat the chance to put Jefferson into comfortable spots so that she can on the bench for a little bit and went
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back on the court. It was after the rest period that Auriemma said she played really well. Jefferson finished the game with 12 points and three assists on 5-9 shooting, including 2-3 from beyond the arc. She officially found out about the starting nod a little bit before gametime and she said that she felt good about the chance she was getting. Jefferson said she wasn’t nervous, but rather felt composed and really wanted to go out and do what she knows how to do: drive to the basket and play aggressively. “I have to be ready and available for my team any time they need me,” Jefferson said. So how much does her team need her? It’s a complicated question. Geno admits that it’s impossible to win a tough game purely by the will of a freshman point guard, since freshmen point guards who
know how to stabilize an offense that’s struggling are hard—if not impossible—to come by. “I don’t know any freshman point guard in America who does [that],” Auriemma said. “There is not one team playing for a national championship, I think, that has a freshman point guard, because it’s hard.” However, Auriemma wants her to respond to tough spots, not with a mindset that she’ll save a sinking ship, but with a mindset that she’s going to attack the basket and contribute whatever she can. Geno sees the point when Jefferson dominates a tough game as one that’s a year or two down the line. But the point when Jefferson can come on in a tough spot and give a meaningful contribution... that could come as soon as Tuesday.
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