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By Pat McGowan Campus Correspondent A bill that would change the qualifications for student representation on UConn’s Board of Trustees is expected to come to a vote on Tuesday, according to Representative Gregg Haddad, who sponsored the bill. The bill would disallow students that have graduated from remaining in office. The bill is designed “to ensure the Board of Trustees has a representative from the undergraduate student body, at a time that it is being asked to make decisions that are critical to students,” said Haddad. One of Haddad’s concerns was that a newly graduated representative could become a de facto alumni representative, of which there are already two on the board. “What was really important to me was that this bill had the support of someone like Stephen Petkis,” said Haddad, speaking of UConn’s undergraduate student body president. Petkis has spoken out in favor of the bill. “This change will empower students at UConn by ensuring that their voice on the board of trustees has their finger on the pulse of student concerns,” said Petkis. Members of the Board of Trustees have also given their support to the bill, according to Haddad. Some students have issues with the bill in its current form, however, citing concerns that the bill would disallow upperclassmen from serving full terms as a student trustee and disallow seniors from serving at all. Due to a two-year term
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The Board of Trustees hold a meeting in this Feb. 27 photo. A proposed bill would change the qualifications required of the undergraduate student representative, in order to ensure future representatives would complete their terms before graduating.
for the position and that undergraduate elections occurring in the spring, this bill could limit the students eligible. Brien T. Buckman served as undergraduate representative on the Board of Trustees for the past two years, the second of which he served after graduation following his senior year. Buckman believes this bill both discourages involvement of upperclassmen in student government and does a disservice to all students because older, more experienced students wouldn’t have the opportunity to serve in this position. Older students, he believes, they can make more informed recommendations to the Board of Trustees than younger students. Buckman also raised a con-
cern that if a junior decided to run, they would only be permitted to serve a one-year term. A one-year term, Buckman argued, is not enough time to build the relationships with other trustees and establish an influential voice in board meetings. Matthew Vece, a junior at UConn, provided written testimony against the bill at a public hearing on March 14th. Vece says in the testimony that he thinks the bill should be amended to only exclude seniors from running, instead of eliminating seniors and juniors. “This bill was clearly drafted to protect the interests of me and my peers. But the language of this legislation, as it stands now, would actually serve the opposite purpose,” said Vece.
Haddad does not believe this bill will result in the lack of a viable candidate from the student body. “This bill really puts in the hands of students the responsibility of choosing the best person to fill the job,” said Haddad. Haddad also said that this bill will not affect the term of the newly elected student trustee Michael Daniels, who is a junior. “The bill will not go into effect until the next round of elections,” said Haddad. The bill is expected to come to a vote on Tuesday. According to Haddad it is strongly supported by the committee.
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Harvard email-hacking sparks information security debate
By Abby Mace Campus Correspondent
The recent email-hacking controversy at Boston’s Harvard University has led to the questioning of information security policies at Harvard and other universities nationwide. An internal memo was believed to have circulated amongst the resident deans, who live on-campus with students in Harvard residence halls, regarding how to assist students who had been accused of cheating. In accessing the resident deans’ email accounts, administration members aimed to find the individual who began the circulation of this memo. Harvard University’s email privacy policy requires faculty to be notified prior to or immediately following the email account search in an internal investigation. In the case of the student cheating scandal, the resident deans were not notified until six months after their accounts had been
searched. While no specific explained that UConn seeks email content was investi- outs the authorities qualified gated, the university admin- to handle such issues ethically. istration looked “We have at subject headinformation ers to identify the through leaked email and the email who, if anyone, accounts it had been forthat in warded to. order to There is no retrieve we doubt that colmust work lege students with human and cheating is a resources topic of concern and law at UConn, too, enforcebut the way that m e n t , ” UConn handles Pufahl said. this and other Pufahl situations has not also statbeen by breaching ed that privacy policies. according In fact, UConn’s to UConn Chief Information email priJason Pufahl vacy polSecurity Officer, Jason Pufahl, has UConn’s Chief icy, inforyet to deal with a mation that Information Security is available violation of information privacy Officer to the pubpolicy at UConn. lic, such as Instead, to email, still obtain information necessary needs specific requirements to to handle a scandal, Pufahl access.
“We have information through the email accounts that in order to retrieve we must work with human resources and law enforcement.”
“Employees accessing staff email need to sign a confidentiality form, but there are also technical controls to audit and access the system,” Pufahl said. At Harvard, the difference between staff and faculty member qualifications created additional controversy in the security breach. The university’s email privacy policy provides more protection to faculty members than it does to staff members, and there were opposing views regarding which designation the resident deans should be considered. Many felt that the resident deans were faculty members, while the administration claimed that the deans were categorized as staff. “Email is protected information,” Pufahl said. “Whether it be administration, faculty, staff, or student, the protection of one’s privacy through university technology systems is of the utmost importance. “
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HARTFORD (AP) — University of Connecticut basketball player Tyler Olander has been charged with trespassing while on spring break in Florida. The Bay County Sheriff’s Office says the 20-year-old junior from Mansfield, Conn., was arrested at a Panama City Beach condominium complex at about 2 a.m. Thursday after refusing orders by security guards and a sheriff’s deputy to leave the property. He was released on his own recognizance. The 6-foot-9 forward fractured his left foot late in the season and underwent surgery. A UConn spokesman says university officials are aware of Olander’s arrest and declined further comment. Another UConn basketball player, center Enosch Wolf, was charged last month with burglary, trespassing and disorderly conduct in what police described as a domestic dispute at an on-campus apartment. He was suspended from the team.
Tolland gets $500,000 for new turf field By Pat McGowan Campus Correspondent
The town of Tolland has been granted $500,000 in government funds to install a new turf field at Tolland High School, according to a press release from Governor Dannel P. Malloy’s website. The grant will subsidize a larger effort to fix up the school’s stadium, which has fallen into disrepair and has been closed for several years. “Making this field a destination will enhance the overall economic condition of the town and will allow increased use by youth sports and residents,” said Steven R. Werbner, Tolland’s town manager. “We thank the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and our state delegation for their support of this community project to install lights and artificial turf at the High School stadium.” The funds are a part of the state government’s Small Town Economic Assistance Program or STEAP. Similar STEAP grants were given to Essex, Hebron, Monroe, Tolland and Milford in varying amounts ranging from $110,00 to $500,000. “I am very pleased with the administration for giving consideration to this project,” said Tolland’s State Senator Tony Gugliemo. The project is slated to begin this spring and will be finished by Fall 2013, according to an article in Tolland Patch.
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Endangered giraffe born at Conn. conservation site
GREENWICH (AP) — A rare, nearly 6-foot-tall giraffe listed as an endangered subspecies has been born in a Connecticut conservation center. The Greenwich Time reports (http://bit.ly/ZJI63V ) that Petal, a 6-year-old Rothschild giraffe gave birth on Friday to female calf as a group of other giraffes and staff at the LEO Zoological Conservation Center watched. Marcella Leone, founder and director of the center, said the young animal is curious, approaching humans early on in its first days of life. When fully grown, the newborn, who will mingle with a group of five giraffes, which includes two pregnant giraffes, could reach 18 feet in height. The calf is the first born at the off-exhibit conservation center. Rothschild giraffes were named and described by Lord Walter Rothschild, a British zoologist, after an expedition to East Africa in the early 1900s.
Hacking group helps group aiding abuse victims
TORRINGTON (AP) — The hacking group Anonymous is trying to raise money to help the Susan B. Anthony Project following sexual assault charges at a Connecticut school. The Register Citizen reports (http://bit.ly/16RX5gm ) that a Twitter posting asks Anonymous members to help raise money for Susan B. Anthony Project by tweeting messages of support for the organization, providing a link to its online donation page and asking followers to donate money. Two Torrington High School football players have been charged in sexual assault cases that, like a recent high-profile Ohio rape case, led to online taunts directed at an accuser. A member of Anonymous posted an online message on Saturday saying that Anonymous was drawn to the Connecticut case because of the online bullying. The Tweet says Susan B. Anthony Project promotes safety, healing and growth for survivors of abuse.
Jersey auction raises money for Newtown
HAMDEN (AP) — Quinnipiac University’s soccer program is remembering one of the Newtown shooting victims by auctioning off soccer jerseys from around the world. Most of the jerseys display the number 26, in memory of the 20 children and six educators who were killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary school on Dec. 14. Money raised in the auction will fund a scholarship in memory of Rachel D’Avino, a teacher’s aide who was among those killed. She was a cousin of a former Quinnipiac soccer captain, Lauren Carmody-Grenier. The online auction has so far raised more than $10,000. Items still on the block include a Barcelona jersey signed by the entire team and another from Argentina’s national team signed by superstar Lionel Messi.
Connecticut a.g. sees no basis for Newtown lawsuit
HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut’s attorney general says he sees no basis for lawsuits against the state or Newtown over the shooting deaths last December of 20 children and six educators. Attorney General George Jepsen said in an interview on WFSBTV’s “Face the State” on Sunday that he believes there’s no basis to sue Connecticut for anything it may have done. He also said he doesn’t believe there’s a reasonable basis to sue Newtown. A lawyer earlier this year withdrew a claim to sue the state for $100 million on behalf of a 6-year-old survivor of the Dec. 14 school massacre. Irving Pinsky withdrew the lawsuit but said he might refile. He said he is reviewing new evidence on security at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Conn. attorney general hints at 2014 campaign
HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen has hinted he’ll seek a second term next year, but would not discuss his plans. He said on WFSB-TV’s “Face the State” on Sunday it’s premature to discuss whether he’ll be a candidate in 2014. He says state campaign finance rules impose restrictions on what he can do if he becomes an official candidate. But Jepsen says he’s enjoying himself tremendously and can’t imagine doing anything else in the short term. He says an announcement will likely be early next year. Jepsen, a former state Senate majority leader, defeated Republican Martha Dean in November 2010.
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PARIS (AP) — Paris police used tear gas and batons to fight crowds who pushed their way onto the landmark Champs-Elysees avenue and toward the presidential palace as part of a huge protest against a draft law allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children. Hundreds of thousands of people — conservative activists, schoolchildren with their parents, retirees, priests — converged on the capital Sunday in a last-ditch bid to stop the bill, many bused in from the French provinces. The violence took protesters and police by surprise, and suggested that the anti-gay marriage protests have become outlets for anger and disappointment in the presidency of Francois Hollande’s presidency. The lower house of France’s parliament approved the “marriage for everyone” bill last month with a large majority, and it’s facing a vote in the Senate next month. Both houses are dominated by Hollande’s Socialist Party and its allies. Sustained protests led by opposition conservatives in this traditionally Catholic country have eroded support for the draft law in recent months, and organizers hope Sunday’s march will swing the Senate debate against it. The first few hours of the protest were peaceful. But as it was meant to be winding
ROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The lawyers who defend the nation’s poor in federal courts across the country are grappling with budget cuts they say will decimate their offices, delay criminal cases and jeopardize the fairness of the criminal justice system. The cuts have already forced some offices of federal defenders to lay people off, and many are planning to force staffers to take off six weeks or more without pay over the next six months. Even a Supreme Court justice has expressed concern that cuts could pressure the system and result in criminals running free. The cuts, amounting to roughly 10 percent of this year’s budget, come in a program seen as the flagship for public defenders and as the nation marks this month’s 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision Gideon v. Wainwright, which guaranteed that criminal defendants will be provided with a lawyer if they can’t afford one. While federal prosecutors have been notified by the U.S. Department of Justice that they may be furloughed for up to 14 days, those cuts are not yet final. Federal public defenders, though, say cuts to their offices are virtually certain. “It’s important that people who don’t have any power and any voice have people to speak for them,” said U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake of Maryland, who helps oversee the federal defenders program for the judiciary. “You never know when you might need the 6th Amendment.”
Clashes at French anti-gay marriage protest
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Protestors clash with riot police officers during an anti gay marriage and gay adoption demonstration, in Paris, Sunday, March. 24, 2013. Thousands of French conservatives, families and activists have converged on the capital to try to stop the country from allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children.
down, about 100 youths tried to push past police barricades onto the Champs-Elysees, a tree-lined avenue that cuts through central Paris and draws throngs of tourists daily. In an indication of the sensitivity of the issue, protesters had been barred from marching on the Champs. Police officers wrangled with the youths, some with shaven heads and others wearing hoods or masks, and fired tear gas to force them back. Gaining momentum, more and more protesters took side
streets to reach the avenue, blocking a key intersection — and some made it within 100 meters (yards) from the grounds of the president’s Elysee Palace. Police fired more tear gas, primarily at aggressive youths at the front of the crowd. Protesters of all ages were among those coughing and clutching their stinging eyes. “Hollande, Resignation!” they chanted, before breaking into the French anthem, “La Marseillaise.”
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Toenail clippings to measure toxic exposure in NJ
GARFIELD, N.J. (AP) it as of the nation’s most — The neighborhood toxic uncontrolled hazlooks exceedingly norardous waste sites — in mal: single-family homes 2011, and officials cauand apartment buildings tioned residents to stay packed together, dogs out of their basements to barking from postageprevent potential chrostamp-size lawns, parents mium exposure. EPA hustling down narrow officials removed chrosidewalks to fetch their mium from the buildchildren from school. But ing and demolished it something with very danlast year, and found that gerous potential lies below some tanks had holes in the surface, officials say. them, potentially releasThe residents’ toenails ing even more chromium will provide confirmation. into the groundwater. A plume of hexavalent Officials say the chromium, a metal used in contamination has industrial production that not affected the city’s the Centers for Disease drinking water, which Control and Prevention is drawn from an outcalls a “well-established side source. Instead, AP they worry that people carcinogen,” has spread under Garfield, putting In this Friday, March 22, 2013, in Garfield, N.J, a cyclist rides by the intersection of Clark Street and Sherman could inhale chromiabout one-tenth of the Place near a superfund site. In 1983, an accident at an electroplating company spilled 5,560 pounds of toxic um dust that has been chromium. The company recovered about 30 percent of it, but stopped two years later when the state found in basements city’s homes — about 600 hexavalent DEP determined there was no threat to public health. Now a group of scientists from New York University are structures and 3,600 resi- undertaking an effort to conduct individual medical evaluations of people who live near the site. where groundwater has dents — at risk. leached in. The chromium plume The Environmental The nails will be tested for traces years ago, when thousands of Protection Agency is about to of chromium. Because toenails pounds of hexavalent chromi- is about three-quarters of a mile start drilling on the spill site to grow slowly, it is possible to um— the same stuff that sick- wide and slightly more than an determine how much chromium see how much chromium has ened Californians whose story eighth-mile long, EPA officials is pooled beneath and remove accumulated in the body over was told in “Erin Brockovich” said. The substance has travtainted soil. The agency is also the past 18 months or so, said — leaked from a tank at the EC eled from the site underneath testing the broader area to deter- Judith Zelikoff, a professor of Electroplating Co., a factory sur- the Passaic River and into the mine how it will be cleaned up. environmental medicine at New rounded on all sides by houses city of Passaic. The agency has Now a group of scientists from York University. and apartments. The state started installed about 40 monitoring New York University is working “Our major goal is to try to cleaning up the spill but stopped wells to monitor how far the to assess how much chromium relieve their fears,” Zelikoff said. two years later. In 1993, chromi- metal has spread. “We’re trying to find out the residents may have been exposed “With the economy, they can’t um was found at a now-shuttered extent of the plume,” said Rich to. sell their homes. They don’t firehouse and later in homes. Researchers will collect toe- know if they got exposed.” The EPA designated the area Puvogel, a project manager with nail clippings from city residents. The contamination started 30 as a Superfund site — marking the EPA.
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As casinos struggle, tribes seek more federal aid LEDYARD (AP) — Once the envy of Indian Country for its billion-dollar casino empire, the tribe that owns the Foxwoods Resort Casino has been struggling through a financial crisis and pursuing more revenue from an unlikely source: U.S. government grants. The money provided annually to the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation through the Interior Department and the Department of Health and Human Services has risen over the last five years to more than $4.5 million, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act. One former tribal employee says department leaders were encouraged to offset dwindling resources by seeking more federal grants. The Pequots, who once distributed stipends exceeding $100,000 annually to adult members, are not alone among gaming tribes seeking more federal aid. Several, including the owner of Foxwoods’ rival Connecticut casino, the Mohegan Sun, say they have been pursuing more grants — a trend that critics find galling because the law that gave rise to Indian casinos was intended to help tribes become financially self-sufficient. “The whole purpose of the 1988 law which authorized Indian casinos was to help federally-recognized tribes raise money to run their governments by building casinos on their reservations,” said Robert Steele, a former Congressman from Connecticut. “I would argue strongly that federal money
was meant for struggling tribes. Certainly the Mashantucket Pequots and the Mohegans couldn’t under any circumstances be put in that category.” As long as they have federal recognition, casino-owning tribes are eligible for the same grant programs as the larger tribes based on large, poverty-stricken reservations in the American West. The grants, which don’t need to be paid back, support tribal governments by paying for programs such as health screenings, road maintenance and environmental preservation. “The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation is proud of the work they do with the use of federal funds when it comes to assisting the region and fellow Native Americans,” said Bill Satti, a tribal spokesman, who said the grants have supported the tribe’s medical clinic and repair work on local roadways. Thomas Weissmuller, who was chief judge of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Court until 2011, said that near the end of his tenure the tribal council said they had distributed too much money to members and urged department leaders to pursue more federal grants. He said there was resistance from some council members, who raised questions about the effects on sovereignty, but he was personally encouraged to pursue grants by officials including the tribal chairman, Rodney Butler. Weissmuller said he was not comfortable seeking such assistance for the tribal court system because most of the issues it dealt with were related to the
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In this Nov. 11, 2010 photo, buildings of the Foxwoods Resorts Casino rise over the landscape in Ledyard, Conn. As a gaming slump squeezes profits at the casino, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, which owns the enterprise, has received more assistance in the form of U.S. government grants. Documents obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act show that federal money provided annually for the five years ending in 2012 has risen to more than $4.5 million.
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exceeding $2 billion. Since then, the tribe of some 900 people in rural southeastern Connecticut has ended its member stipends. The Pequots have kept some other benefits in place, covering payments for members pursuing higher education and offering supplemental pay for tribal members taking entry-level jobs at the casino. The federal grants provided to the Pequots through the Interior Department and its Bureau of Indian Affairs, meanwhile, rose from $1 million in 2008 to $2.7 million in 2011, with partial
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Harvard apology on email searching nice, not good enough
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ust before UConn left for spring break, the Boston Globe reported a news item that – while not immediately relevant to UConn – should concern anybody who attends or works for an institution of higher education. Harvard University administrators secretly searched emails of 16 deans, looking to discover who leaked information to reporters. The leak was related to the widely-reported cheating case last fall, the largest in Harvard’s history, in which over 100 students were found breaking the rules to gain an edge in the course “Introduction to Government.” The story was originally intended to stay private within the college, but of course in the Internet era the likelihood of secrecy was slim. The story was revealed to the media in part due to a leaked email. Harvard administration now says that leaked emails “threatened the privacy and due process afforded students” as they went before the school’s Administrative Board to contest or accept their punishments, such as suspension or even expulsion from America’s most prestigious university. “Consequently, with the approval of the Dean of FAS and the University General Counsel, and the support of the Dean of Harvard College, a very narrow, careful, and precise subject-line search was conducted by the University’s IT Department,” Harvard explained in a statement. “It was limited to the Administrative accounts for the Resident Deans – in other words, the accounts through which their official university business is conducted, as distinct from their individual Harvard email accounts.” In addition to explaining what was done, Harvard’s statement statement also tried to make clear what was not done. “The search did not involve a review of email content; it was limited to a search of the subject line of the email that had been inappropriately forwarded. To be clear: No one’s emails were opened and the contents of no one’s emails were searched by human or machine. The subject-line search turned up two emails with the queried phrase, both from one sender. Even then, the emails were not opened, nor were they forwarded or otherwise shared with anyone in IT, the administration, or the board. Only a partial log of the ‘metadata’ – the name of the sender and the time the emails were sent – was returned.” This so-called partial apology has merit, but an advanced notice of the search would have been appropriate given the confidential nature of the emails. The rules differ from Harvard to UConn, given UConn’s status as a public university and the Harvard’s status as a private one. But the message should remain the same: Universities should only exercise their rights to search @harvard.edu, @uconn.edu or any similar domain name as a last resort. And when they do, searched parties should discover this through a thorough advance explanation from the university, and not from a front-page story in the Boston Globe. 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.
I would like to thank Jay Hickey, Taco Bell, and everyone and everything else important to me for helping me survive Spring Break. The jury’s still out on how I feel about us getting a new logo. Honestly, if it’s not ugly, I don’t think I’ll mind that much. I made a bracket this year, and then I immediately regretted making a bracket after the first game of the tournament. Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Tacos. The average lifespan of an iPhone for me would be about two weeks if I didn’t own a case. If I have a boy, he’s getting a girl’s name, and vice versa. My kids are going to be trendsetters by being the coolest and only kids to have theirs names with their genders. I’m feeling FABULOUS right now. Maybe it’s embarrassing that I had UConn winning the tourney this year, but I will gladly sacrifice my bracket just to stick it to the monkeys running the NCAA. Well hello there. I bet you taste like sunshine. Trying to explain what dubstep was to my grandpa just reiterated to me how stupid dubstep is. It never fails, break lasted about ten seconds in my mind.
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Contradictions of Cherokee Nation
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fiddler on the roof,” begins the character Tevye in the opening lines of the musical of the same name. “Sounds crazy, no? But in our little village of Anatevka, every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn’t easy. You may ask: why do we stay here if it’s so dangerous? We stay because Anatevka is our home. And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in one word: Tradition!” Last Saturday I By Jesse Rifkin traveled with 11 Associate Commentary Editor people I barely knew down to Dry Creek, Oklahoma, located in the heart of Cherokee Nation, as part of an “alternative spring break” organized through the UConn Department of Student Activities. I was not quite sure what to expect. Would it essentially be a group of men dancing around a campfire while dressed in tribal paint and decorated with bird feathers? Instead I found a culture increasingly Americanized, trying desperately – and perhaps in vain – to retain what few elements from its heritage remained. They do not ride horses but drive pickup trucks. They do not hunt for their own food but shop at Wal-Mart. They do not have names like “Runs with Deer” but Jim and Connie. In fact, many of them looked fully Caucasian. Perhaps ratio-
nally and intellectually I always knew this to be true. But in the popular imagination, created in part by “The Lone Ranger” and “Dances with Wolves,” the image of the wild Indians on the frontier proves a difficult one to shake. Despite the common usage of the term, “Indian reservation” is actually considered an inappropriate and offensive description of their home. They prefer to call it a “sovereign dependent nation.” The inherent contradiction in the first two words of that phrase also mirrors the inherent contradiction which remains ever-present in their society in the 21st century. On the one hand, the Cherokee democratically elect a tribal president (currently Bill John Baker), maintain a legislative branch in the form of the Tribal Council, and keep an independent judiciary and court system. On the other hand, the Cherokee must pay both state and local taxes, are listed as U.S. citizens on their birth certificates and passports, and remain heavily dependent on federal grants for upkeep of their facilities and services. Are they sovereign or dependent? Both. Next to the community center where we slept, there was a basketball court and a baseball field – hardly traditional Native American sports. But people still get together to play stickball – a sport dating back centuries, somewhat resembling lacrosse, in which participants use sticks to work a ball down a field and try to hit a fish attached to the top of a tall poll. “Stickball used to be played instead of war to resolve disputes, although there are some minor changes altered for the modern version of the game,” explained
Corey, a local who described the rules of the contest to us. “For example, you can’t kill your opponents anymore.” The Cherokee language has a rich history but may be close to dying out. A few of the elders speak Cherokee exclusively, eschewing English for their native tongue. Nobody of a younger age does so, recognizing the limitations of communicating in what might as well be Klingon from the perspective of the outside world. But a relatively recent recognition of the language’s jeopardy has led to something of a minor resurgence, with more local schools teaching Cherokee as a second language. “Osiyo” means hello and “wado” means thank you. Perhaps the best indication of the battle between the old and the new came when we gathered round to hear traditional Native American stories from storyteller Robert Lewis. “Turtle picked up a stick and snapped it. He asked his friend Lightning, ‘Can you beat that?’ So Lightning rose up into the sky, came down with a thunderous crash, and broke the largest oak tree in the land. And that is why Lightning breaks trees to this very day,” he finished. Then he explained how he got into Native American storytelling professionally. “I strongly felt that the Cherokee kids and teenagers these days needed to learn the stories that had shaped their heritage,” he explained. “Anything to make them look up from their cell phones.”
A ssociate Commentar y Editor Jesse Rifkin is a 6th- semester journalism major. He can be reached at Jesse.Rifkin@UConn.edu.
Filibustering needed, but not in it’s current state
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ecently, Republicans in the Senate filibustered against two of President Obama’s nominees for government positions. A couple weeks ago, Republicans managed to successfully delay the nomination of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense before eventually relenting and passing a motion to end debate. Gregory Koch Last week, a Staff Columnist small group of Senators led by Rand Paul (R-KY) attempted a filibuster to prevent John Brennan’s appointment as CIA director. Many people saw both of these filibusters as a waste of government time. Some went as far as to say the filibuster needed to be eliminated. However, these people overlook a key difference between the two filibusters – while the Republicans against Hagel’s nomination simply blocked a vote without doing anything whatsoever, Paul spoke on the Senate floor for 13 straight hours. While the outright elimination of the filibuster is too extreme, a Senator should have to speak continuously in order to use the tactic. The way it is now, almost every law needs 60 votes out of
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100 in the Senate to pass. This is because ending a filibuster requires a three-fifths majority and without that number of votes, the minority party can simply lock up the process. This is one of the reasons very little actually gets done to solve our nation’s problems. It is hard to get 60 votes when the majority party rarely has such a large number of senators. When everything is filibustered, the bureaucratic stalling creates more problems than it fixes. However, filibustering should not be done away with altogether, or the majority party will be able to pass any law it wants without restraint. The minority party must be allowed the use of a filibuster, but only as a last resort. Requiring a senator to speak continuously would accomplish this goal. The official name for a vote to end a filibuster is a “motion to end debate.” However, in order to actually end debate, there must have been some debate going on to begin with. In a silent filibuster such as the one against Hagel, the minority party does nothing to explain their opposition or debate the motion at all. They simply refuse to let the measure to come to a vote, giving no reason for its opposition other than “because we can.”
There are several good reasons why Republicans might have opposed the Hagel nomination, such as his views on Iran and Israel. Whether Hagel’s opinions are correct is beyond the scope of this article. What matters is that Republicans refused to express these views on the Senate floor. In fact, for many Republican Senators, the filibuster was simply a tactic to force President Obama to release additional information about the attack in Libya last year. Of course, none of them would talk about this continuously on the Senate floor if they had to – it would make them look bad to the American public. By staying silent, they were able to convince most of the American public that the filibuster was some noble effort to protest Hagel’s positions and not part of some political chess game. However, for 13 straight hours, Paul explained why he opposed Brennan’s appointment. He expressed his reservations about appointing someone who might authorize drone strikes on American citizens, which he called a violation of the Constitution. He stood on the Senate floor and stated his logic, rather than leaving the public to assume it was for some good reason. In the
end, when Congress passed a motion to end debate, it actually did end debate, rather than silence and stalling. Paul used the filibuster as a last resort. Talking for that long was very tiring, so he could not have used that tactic for every single measure he opposed. It would not be humanly possible. If Senators had to talk to filibuster, it would be used significantly less often, thus reducing gridlock in Congress. However, Paul so drastically opposed the use of drones on American citizens that he felt this situation was extreme enough to justify the tactic. In the end, he made progress. The White House released a statement that no drones would be used to kill Americans who are not engaged in active combat on American soil. Most importantly, by talking about drones, Paul got other people to do the same. What was a niche issue largely ignored by the mainstream media suddenly came to the forefront. This happened because Paul spoke while he filibustered, and that’s the only way it should be.
Staf f Columnist Gregory Koch is a 6th-semester actuarial science major. He can be reached at Gregory.Koch@UConn.edu.
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Off-beat messages and marriage with comedian Eugene Mirman
By Joe O’Leary Focus Editor As students across campus settled back into campus after spring break, a crowd of more than one hundred fans of comedy filled the Student Union Theater to catch a performance by stand-up comedians Eugene Mirman and Leo Allen on Sunday night. Mirman is a sought-after comic in the New York scene, currently located in Brooklyn, who has had stand-up comedy specials for Comedy Central and released four albums. He has also acted in a variety of television shows; he voices Gene, the middle Belcher child, on Fox’s animated comedy “Bob’s Burgers” and played Yvegny, a Russian hitman and aspiring stand-up comedian, on Adult Swim’s recently-concluded cult hit “Delocated.” Allen, who opened for Mirman, is a former writer for “Saturday Night Live” who has also worked on programs including “Jon Benjamin Has A Van” for Comedy Central and “Comedy Bang Bang” on IFC, on which he is also an executive producer. Why did WHUS bring Mirman and Allen to campus? “They’re funny,” said Jules Lefevre, the promotions director for the radio station and a sixth-semester English and French major. “We’ve had events before on campus but never a comedian, so we thought it would be something students and non-students alike would enjoy. Eugene
has got a variety of different things he does between his stand-up, “Bob’s Burgers,” “Delocated” and other shows that a lot of people like.” From the opening of his show, where Mirman described his drive from New Haven to Storrs to perform, his offbeat comedic tone was evident, as he called what he saw of Hartford, mostly drab factories, “a producer of sadness.” “One day, Hartford will build the biggest, saddest box and finally gain their recognition,” Mirman riffed. Holding rapport with the audience, many of whom were nonstudents coming from around UConn, Mirman joked often about the emptiness of Storrs but had a wide scope of topics during his hour-long show. His tone and timing were excellent, frequently adopting a boisterous personality to combine combining humor that was knowingly dumb with sophisticated punchlines. The audience in the theater frequently exploded into laughter whether Mirman was describing sending celebrities messages over Facebook for $100 each (his messages included asking Speaker of the House John Boehner if he wanted to do LSD and Justin Bieber about organized religion). Mirman used a variety of material throughout his performance, including a stack of papers he described as an “awkward syllabus” and a clip from a Comedy Central pilot that was never picked up called “Eugene.” With the
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Comedian Eugene Mirman performed to a packed crowd Sunday night at the Student Union Theater. With a wide variety of comedy, some off his recent albums, the entertainer left his audience in stitches.
premise of the comedian having his own network much like “Oprah,” the five-minute short was a joke machine, featuring hilarious cameos from comedians including Kristen Schaal and John Hodgman. In the highlight of his set, Mirman pretended to “marry” an engaged couple from the
audience on stage, claiming he had printed out “a thing online” that made him eligible to marry in “40 out of 50 states.” Allen warmed up the audience well with a short set that playfully teased UConn and its students, calling Storrs “Store” before realizing, “Oh, it’s plural?” Allen excelled
with a routine about the logic of the Salem Witch Trials, focusing on the “badassness” of accused witch Giles Corey and his final words, for his killers to put “more weight” on the board crushing him to death.
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The comedian took time before his show Sunday to chat about stand-up, acting and Brooklyn DC: Some of your standup uses anger in a humorous way, especially with the various letters you discuss in “God is a 12-Year-Old Boy With Asperger’s,” where your overthe-top reactions match the ridiculousness of the situations. Do you think there’s a relationship between anger and comedy? EM: I think a lot of comedy comes out of whatever frustrates people. In general, comedy is sort of a way of looking at the world, and probably what frustrates them. I’m probably someone who uses comedy to defuse their anger in an absurd way. A company was sending bills to an address that wasn’t where I lived or where they provided gas, and then they sent a letter saying “Oh, we’re going to shut off your gas,” and I was like, “Oh, I thought I had set up automatic bill pay, but it turns out you were just sending checks to the wrong address,” and they were like “Oh, that’s not our fault.” In general, a lot of it is just frustration at these giant companies that until you draw attention to them are just terrible to deal with. In my last special and record, I took out a full-page ad in some New York papers to make fun of Time Warner Cable [who scheduled two appointments with him and did not send employees to either]. They’re very responsive now, so taking out full-page ads is a good way to get revenge. DC: Your albums don’t have too much topical humor, instead focusing more on your everyday life. Do you prefer less topical humor? Is there a preference you have? EM: There are elements of topical humor, but they’re not so much topical as they’d still hold up today, but it’s a combination of that’s what I find funny and also, you can listen to an album from six years ago and it’s not so much into detail about John
McCain and feels outdated. A lot of people who do topical stuff do it more on television, that’s sort of their thing. The way I do topical things is through how it affects me, so it’s not specifically being mad about something than a representation of something. DC: In the opening track of “An Evening of Comedy in a Fake Underground Laboratory,” you do make some jokes about the Tea Party, so it’s more about their image than their politics? EM: Exactly, it’s not like there’s anything wrong with wanting to be libertarian, or potentially questioning certain things, but to be blanketly furious at Obama, to have these certain gaps of logic I find sort of infuriating, to me I’m more making fun of what I saw in a particular window of the Tea Party. I’m more making fun of the slogans and such; it’s a dumb way to represent politics, so I make fun of it. DC: In your stand-up, you often answer questions from your audience. What’s your process of choosing audience questions for your act? EM: Part of it is, you try it and if it’s funny you keep it, except for in that instance where I’m just sort of doing it at any show I’m doing it at. When I did a fake self-help book, I did [questions] on book tours and during shows at that time, on occasion at things, then I thought I’d try it on a special. I’d read a question if I thought of a funny answer, then I keep it, but in that instance it’s not like I do the questions over and over. DC: You’ve been involved with a lot of shows with unique comedic voices, on shows like “Flight of the Conchords,” “Delocated” and “Bob’s Burgers.” How did you get involved with these tightlyfocused shows and what did these shows have in common that drew you to them? EM: Each of those instances, it’s with people I’ve known for a fair amount of time who are
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really funny- with Jon Glaser [of “Delocated”], he asked me to do this five-minute promo where I run into a store and try to murder him but kill Paul Rudd, and it’s this short five-minute thing, but from that came the series and it was Glaser saying “will you be this stand-up comedian slash mobster?” And I said “Yeah, that sounds like a lot of fun.” With “Conchords,” before they had the show, when we were in Aspen at the HBO comedy festival, that’s where the show came out of. They wrote in the character Eugene, in a lot of these that’s where it comes from, even Yvgeny Mirminski [Mirman’s Russian assassin/ comic on “Delocated”] is my formal name in Russian. With Loren Bouchard [creator of “Bob’s Burgers”], I worked on a show called “Lucy the Daughter of the Devil,” and I knew him from Boston, and I’d done a small thing, a few episodes of “Home Movies” with Brendon Small [another Adult Swim creator]… it’s people you collaborate with, people you’ve enjoyed working with. The cast of “Bob’s Burgers,” H. Jon Benjamin and Kristen Schaal, we’ve all known each other for a long time and they’re people who work with each other and like to work with each other. DC: You’ve said in past interviews that a lot of your roles are essentially you playing a character written for you, but how do you approach different characters? Gene from “Bob’s Burgers” and Ygevney from “Delocated,” for example, are two very different characters. EM: You think a lot about what the character is, and you get a lot of direction. Gene, we were all cast first and then the show was created around us; originally, the show was going to be about a family of cannibals, but that couldn’t last past an episode so it was changed. We each brought our personalities to it and it slowly became tweaked. There are a lot of little
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Comedian Eugene Mirman believes comedy comes out of what frustrates people and talked about his new album.
things; writers write to you, and you write to the show. There are a lot of things you wouldn’t think to improvise three, four years about but now you can, each character is a different thing. DC: You live in Brooklyn. Any advice for students thinking of moving there after graduation? EM: You should live in Barclays Center! In New York, things are super-intense and it can be sort of overwhelming; I like Brooklyn because I think it’s a little more peaceful. You can’t end up in the street because no one will give you an apartment unless you can pay for it; basically, getting an apartment in New York is awful because you have to have tax forms and job forms and you have to prove you have a job and can afford to live there. The answer is, no one will give you a thing you can’t have,
so past that make sure when you get there it’s a place you like living. DC: Any advice for students who want to follow in your footsteps in comedy? EM: I would say to write a lot, perform a lot, if you’re in New York take classes at UCB or something; just take ten, fifteen years to work and you’ll make it eventually. A lot of the business is people you meet over years of time; 20 years seems daunting when you’re 22, but if you keep working, from 25 to 28 to 32 there will be leaps, not huge leaps but eventually if you’re working for fifteen, twenty years you should find a job writing for TV or on TV. It’s much more common that people that try for twelve years eventually find success.
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There’s nothing like that “new video game feeling” of being completely lost in the menus and options. For those of you who do not know what I mean, it is kind of like the first day you get a new phone. These days it seems that there are just way too many things going on in videos games, too many options and too many controls. Don’t get me wrong, the advancements in game technology are beyond impressive, but it seems that games are becoming more and more complex making more difficult to play, and not always in a good way. In my recent playthrough of “Assassin’s Creed III,” I noticed that the gameplay got more finicky with the increased options in movement. I frequently found myself jumping onto a ledge or a lamppost while simply running straight, which can be quite obnoxious when you have some angry Red Coats after you. Some of the top-notch games out of the 90’s like “Crash Bandicoot” take me back to a simpler era, where you couldn’t grab ledges. When you ran into an inanimate object, or took a corner too tight, you just kept running until you slipped around it. Crash was a great combination of platforming and enemy elimination in three dimensions, similar to “Super Mario 64.” From a retrospective point of view it makes total sense how these games lead to the next generation platforms most people play today. One of my favorite examples of a game that has truly evolved for better or for worse is the legacy of “Super Smash Bros.” The original N64 game from 1999 featured favorite characters such as Mario, Donkey Kong and Pikachu in a pseudotwo-dimensional fight to the death. The controls are simple; punch, kick, special move, and so on. But experienced players see a game of Smash Bros. as a good game of chess in real time. That means knowing where to be, and when to not make yourself vulnerable. In the later versions of the game, “Super Smash Bros.” Melee and Brawl, developers added some extra defensive maneuvers and attacks to make the game more fluid. While this may have made for smoother game play, it took a small part of the chess match away from the game. Sometimes simpler games are just more fun. Mindless repetitive playing makes the thumbs grow stronger. Thankfully there is a place for these games in the 21st century, and it is called the Internet. Many students know too well the power of a good Flash game to get through that 9:00 a.m. lecture. Maybe if you are really cool you have found yourself an emulator to play favorite games from the NES, SNES, Genesis era, most of which can also be found on the Internet. But I’ll stop giving away the secrets that go on behind those laptop screens. We do not need the professors catching on. The point here is, that while new games are fun, do not forget about your old ones, which hopefully Gamestop did not rip you off for. Go back and play them! Even if it is only for a few minutes, go back and experience that nostalgia, I bet it will feel good. If there’s something you want talked about in next week’s column, feel free to tweet at me @ MidEggWizard.
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Latest shenanigans of Shawn and Gus doesn’t actually land them in trouble for once but Shawn’s father ends up getting kidnapped and illegally crossing the border. “Psych” introduces their latest theme episode of “No Country of for Two Old Men.”
By Loumarie Rodriguez Senior Staff Writer Finally after seven seasons we see the infamous power couple Shawn and Juliet actually moving in together however there’s never a normal day for the “Psych” crew with their spin off episode “No Country for Two Old Men.” “Psych” is famous for doing parodies of movies and TV shows and in their latest episode they do not hold off on the puns referencing the original movie “No Country for Old Men.” In the past they have done theme episodes such as “Twin Peaks” guest starring the previous cast as well as an Alfred Hitchcock episode. There was even “The Shining” themed episode with a hilarious reference to the famous Jack Nicolson’s “Here’s Johnny!” scene. However, in the latest
episode there are subtle ref- many seasons of “Psych” that’s erences to this week’s guest all he searches for. Now that star Jeffrey Tambor’s “Arrested he has finally found it he isn’t Development.” happy, there isn’t winning with They did poke a few light this guy. Meanwhile Shawn’s Mexican jokes however, the dad Henry who is typically a episode lacked the usual laughs very serious person finds himthe show is famous self across the borfor but maybe a der trying to help to Psych few chuckles here Wednesday 10:00 p.m. his new friend played and there. Perhaps by Tambor, who is in they are saving all bad gambling debt. their bigger laughs Tambor plays Juliet’s for the upcoming stepfather who tries 100th episode with to officially take care their latest theme of the last of his debts of “Clue.” Tambor’s character but once across the border manwas humorous and held the epi- ages to get Henry and himself sode together but there were a kidnapped. few corny pieces which were a The episode wouldn’t be letdown including Gus’s hope- complete without the usual less love life. witty banter amongst the charGus’s background story acters especially when Juliet, consisted of him complaining Shawn and Gus are on their about whether he wants to be in way to rescue the two dads. a committed relationship which Despite being kidnapped by is ironic because throughout the people demanding the debt be
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paid, there was no real dangerous build up aside from them digging their own graves because in the end everyone knows they will be ok. Tambor is Juliet’s stepfather so I’m sure he is significant enough to stick around despite being a con. The only guest star that “Psych” has killed off in an episode was French Stewart’s character but there was a purpose behind it. “No Country for Two Old Men” did have a few laughs but not enough to hold my attention. Perhaps it was the fact that the plot was something I have seen done by “Psych” before, which I’m sure involved another fatherly figure of Juliet being a con. Hopefully the big 100th episode will do a better job at delivering a more unique plotline.
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What I’m Watching Scooby Doo Underrated: Boomerang As I bummed out on the very last day of spring break I couldn’t help but to notice that Scooby Doo was on. How can anyone pass by Scooby Doo and not feel a certain nostalgia? Watching an episode I was reminded of how corny the show was but still entertaining because it’s a group of groovy teens solving mysteries with an awesome dog. The concept of the show is very simple and even simple drawings for animation but this show was created in the 60’s. Despite the simplicity Scooby Doo has led to a larger franchise where they have had numerous spin offs that the new generation of kids can enjoy. It’s the simplicity of the show that makes the cartoon great. Also the corny humor that includes the montage chase scenes has created pop culture that we all know and can’t help but to enjoy. Loumarie Rodriguez
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“Survivor” is on its 26th season with Jeff Probst still hosting the show. In episode six the show had a tribal shuffle involving players switching to different teams. The shuffle has led to issues amongst the teams involving athletic disparity.
By Sarthak Patel Campus Correspondent Yes, “Survivor” is still on TV and Jeff Probst is still rocking the cargo shirts. Survivor on it’s 26th season this year, with this season being a second installment of the “Fans vs. Favorites” edition where castaways are split into two tribes, the purple tribe (Bikal) consisting of former popular players and the orange tribe (Gota) of everyday fans of the show. Almost half way into the season, episode six: “Operation Thunder Dome” featured a tribal shuffle where players were randomly switched into different tribes. Tribal shuffles are good for strategic shakeups, but the “Survivor” producers must have hated the
athletic disparity between the newly formed tribes. The new orange tribe looks more like the cast of “90210” or the “Real World Caramoan” than contestants in show where people live off of rice. Now consisting of Sherri, Eddie, Reynold, Malcolm, Andrea, Erik and Brenda, the orange tribe has almost all young, handsome and physically strong members. On the other hand, the new purple tribe seems like a collection of everyone that picked last for the dodge ball team in high school. With Phillip, Corrine, Dawn, Cochran, Matt, Mike and Julia the purple tribe has little athletic ability. The Immunity Challenge was physical one involving lifting oversized crates, which was an obvious orange tribe win. Though I love “Survivor” for the mind games and drama,
challenges are usually entertaining and it’s a disappointing that they probably won’t be competitive until the merge. In the purple tribe, Phillip remains as erratic as ever, giving Matt and Mike what seemed like a mini orientation to as to how to join his “Stealth R Us” alliance. Phillip may be crazy, but he does do a good job of keep the show loose and spontaneously funny. At the orange tribe, Reynold and Eddie who were on the outside of the main alliance on the previous orange tribe immediately gunned for Sherri and Sherri did the same to them. Losing the challenge, the purple tribe prepared to go to tribal council and vote a member off the island. It was painfully obvious that four favorites would vote together despite the boiling dislike between Phillip and
Sherri. Though Julia was the weakest fan, the favorites were nervous about the idol being played and voted out Matt who they were positive didn’t have it. It was unfortunate to see Matt voted out as he was emerging as one of the more likable players this season. Though this season lacks the strategic drama and blindsides customarily associated with “Survivor,” pieces are falling into place for an exciting finish. The preview clip hinted at Malcolm forming a “bromance alliance” with Reynold and Eddy, which could rival Phillip’s “Stealth R Us” alliance. Things get more interesting when you realize that both Malcolm and Reynold have hidden immunity idols. Hopefully the merge comes soon.
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If there’s one thing that always bothers me on television it’s how there is no such thing as a bad date as long as both people are attractive. You only ever see a bad date where the guy is morbidly obese with poor table manners. As long as the guy is attractive the girl has to be attractive because he is choosing her and they will immediately have chemistry even if they don’t. First dates are always awkward because both people are still getting to know each other and whether they want to or not they are judging everything and deciding whether or not a second date is necessary. I know that no matter how nice I am or how much of a gentleman I am, in real life if I take a girl on a first date to somewhere bizarre my chances of getting another date are very low. Yet, I saw a movie once where a guy takes a girl he hardly knows on a date to a bus. They literally sat there and rode the bus for hours. First of all, she must be hungry, because it was a surprise so she probably expected dinner. Second, she has to be thinking this guy is really cheap, but most importantly this is a public bus. I can’t say I am a frequent bus rider, but I have had enough experiences on city buses to know this is not a place to take a date. Its not only crowded and smells bad, but people are rude, nosey and the entire place is unwelcoming. Yet, I believe the guy was Josh Hartnett so he managed to charm her into and through the date successfully. Maybe I need to work on my game. A show that used to really bother me was MTV’s “Date My Mom.” For those of you unfamiliar with the show, a guy would take out the mothers of three different women and based on his date with them he would have to pick a girl at the end. This show completely leaves out the fact that the mothers needed a father to reproduce and create their daughters. She could have looked or been nothing like the mother. The guys were always asking personal questions and making poor first impressions on the mothers as well. A common thing I remember was the men asking whether or not their daughters wore thongs, which was always followed by a mother’s private disapproving testimonial to the camera. Why would these mothers allow their daughters to date these men once the cameras stopped filming? Dating TV shows in general bother me. Over the years they have gotten more and more ridiculous which has made them even more ridiculous. These people could never be themselves surrounded by cameras so they are never really getting to know each other. As for shows like “The Bachelor” or “The Bachelorette,” I am under the impression that they are scripted. All the guys are always in love with the girl or the girls with the guy. How could that be? They’re all seeing the person they “love” dating, flirting and even kissing others. I’m sure more happens behind closed doors that they are aware of as well. I’m a pretty competitive person, but I wouldn’t waste my time competing for a girl who was making out with other guys left and right on international television who still acted like she liked me on each date. How could they even trust the person once the show ended?
Maurilio.Amorim@UConn.edu
Monday, March 25, 2013
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‘Book of Mormon’ smashes 1-day box office record
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The Book of Mormon creators Trey Parker, left, and Matt Stone pose for photographers on the red carpet as they arrive for the opening night of ‘The Book of Mormon’ at The Prince of Wales theatre.
NEW YORK (AP) — The seemingly unstoppable hit “The Book of Mormon” has broken another record — this time on the other side of the Atlantic. The quirky, profane musical opened Thursday night to some critical bashing, but the next day earned the highest one-day gross in London theater history. Between 10 a.m. and midnight Friday, 2,107,972 million pounds ($3.2 million) worth of tickets were sold at the box office, according to final figures. By comparison, the Broadway version only earned $1.5 million the day after it opened to rapturous reviews. “London can be tough,” Scott Rudin, an influential theater and film producer who has steered “The Book of Mormon,” said by phone Friday night after flying back from England. “American musicals tend to get knocked in the teeth in London, by and large. It’s a tougher place.” The show is now booked at the Prince of Wales Theatre until January, but Rudin predicts it may be in London for a long time to come. The $3.2 million windfall is technically higher than the current West End and Broadway
one-day record of $3.1 million that poured in the day after “The Producers” opened on Broadway in 2001, but that haul hasn’t been adjusted for inflation. “The Book of Mormon” by “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and “Avenue Q” composer Robert Lopez tells the story of two Mormon missionaries sent to spread the word in Uganda. In New York, “The Book of Mormon” won nine Tony Awards in 2011, including best musical. The show also won a Grammy Award and recouped its $11.4 million capitalization after just nine months. It remains the toughest ticket to get on Broadway. A production has opened in Chicago — it set a house record for the Bank of America Theatre and has been extended three times until September — and a national tour kicked off in August in Denver, where it has broken box office records as it crosses the country. The tour is currently in Detroit — where it already has broken the Fisher Theatre’s house record for a standard eightperformance week — through
the weekend, and then goes to Pittsburgh, Boston, Toronto, Cleveland and Washington, D.C. In London, most critics praised the production’s skill and the English cast’s energy, though some were left uncharmed, including the Daily Mail critic, who “tired of it after 10 minutes.” The Guardian called it “mildly amusing.” Rudin said despite some grousing by London critics, the crowds have been enthusiastic, particularly the English fans of “South Park.” Pent-up demand for the show has been roiling since the New York opening. And, unlike in New York, London audiences knew what to expect. Though Rudin admits he was anxious in the days leading to the London opening, he recognized that the show’s humor — jokes about African dictatorships, AIDS and poverty — would translate. “The story and humor of ‘The Book of Mormon’ is deeply influenced by Monty Python’s Flying Circus,” he said. “I knew that would work over there.”
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Conservator Rupert Harris waxes Rodin’s ‘The Burghers of Calais’ after it is installed at The Henry Moore Foundation in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire.
LONDON (AP) — The massive bronze sculpture is formally known as “Draped Seated Woman,” a Henry Moore creation that evoked Londoners huddled in air raid shelters during the Blitz. To the East Enders who lived nearby, the artwork was known as “Old Flo,” a stalwart symbol of people facing oppression with dignity and grace. But now, Old Flo may have to go. The cash-strapped London borough of Tower Hamlets, one of the poorest communities in Britain, plans to sell the statue — estimated to be worth as much as 20 million pounds ($30 million). Art lovers fear the sale of such a famous sculpture would set a worrisome precedent, triggering the sell-off of hundreds of lesser works housed in parks, public buildings and little local museums as communities throughout Britain struggle to balance their budgets amid the longest and deepest economic slowdown since the Great Depression. “If the sale of Old Flo goes through, it can open the flood gates,” said Sally Wrampling, head of policy at the Art Fund, the national fundraising charity for art and one of the groups campaigning to block the sale. The proposal embodies a dilemma faced by many struggling households: Do you sell the family silver to get through tough times? Tower Hamlets, where a recent study found that 42 percent of children live in poverty, is 100 million pounds in the red. The sculpture hasn’t even been in the borough for 15 years. It was moved to a sculpture park in the north of England when authorities tore down the housing project where it had been placed. The council says just the insurance alone for the massive bronze would be a burden to taxpayers. “We make this decision with a heavy heart,” said Rania Khan, a local councilor who focuses on culture issues. “We have to make tough decisions.” Local authorities throughout the country are being hit by funding cuts as the central government seeks to balance the budget and reduce borrowing. Funding for local government
will fall 33 percent in real terms between April 2011 and March 2015, according to the Local Government Association. The Institute for Fiscal Studies says the cuts tend to hit poor, urban areas like Tower Hamlets hardest, because their spending was higher to begin with. Some 2,000 museums in Britain are local affairs. Bury Council sold a painting by L.S. Lowry in 2006, and Southampton City Council backed down from plans to sell an Auguste Rodin bronze in the face of public protest. The Museums Association has advised the Northampton council to hold off on the sale of an Egyptian funerary monument estimated to be worth 2 million pounds until more consultation can be done. The depth of the recession and the lack of hope that things will improve soon are fueling the debate. The latest figures from the Office for Budget Responsibility, an independent agency created in 2010 to advise the government, show the economy is growing more slowly than previously forecast, reducing tax revenue and prolonging the government’s austerity program. One thing is certain: Tower Hamlets, a community of 254,000 people, desperately needs the money. Khan says she believes Moore, the son of a coal miner and lifelong socialist who died in 1986, would be moved by the plight of her constituents. She knows women who will be hard hit by proposed limits on benefit payments — people for whom as little as five pounds can make a huge difference — and families living in housing with mold growing on the walls. “If he thought the sale of the sculpture would benefit the lives of thousands in Tower Hamlets ... I think he would be in favor,” Khan said. Moore attended art school on a scholarship for ex-servicemen. He became fascinated with the human form, creating works with undulating curves that reflect rolling hills and other features of nature. His most beloved motif was the reclining female figure, like that of Old Flo. The statue features the graceful draping that Moore traced to
his observation of people huddled in the Underground during the Blitz. In a 1966 interview with the BBC, Moore talked about the fear and exhilaration of Londoners sheltering against the Nazi barrage. He had concern for those he was drawing: He never sat sketching but waited until the following day and drew from memory — rather than capturing people in their makeshift bedrooms. Alan Wilkinson, one of the foremost Moore scholars, said the artist would have been sympathetic about the hard times in Tower Hamlets, but would want his sculptures seen the way they were intended to be seen — in public spaces. “Public sculpture was incredibly important for him,” Wilkinson said. “He was very fussy about where it was placed.” Moore sold Old Flo at discount to the London County Council, a forerunner of the city’s current administration, in 1962 on condition the statue would be displayed publicly. It was placed at a public housing project. The East End was one of the areas hardest hit by Nazi bombs, and its residents were directly connected to the work. Now war memories have faded. The median age of people in Tower Hamlets is 29, the lowest in London, and 43 percent of the population was born outside the U.K., according to the latest census figures. Old Flo’s story hasn’t been told to the current generation, said Patrick Brill, an artist who uses the pseudonym Bob and Roberta Smith. “If we don’t cherish these things, we lose a bit of our history,” he said. “If you lose your history, you lose a bit of yourself, really.” Still, Old Flo has a fan club. Danny Boyle, director of films such as “Slumdog Millionaire” and “Trainspotting,” signed an open letter asking the council to reverse its decision. A flash mob of people dressed as Old Flo appeared at the Tower Hamlets offices in November to protest the sale. Another London borough has laid claim to the statue.
Monday, March 25, 2013
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Classic Side of Rice by Laura Rice
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Welcome back Huskies! While we may not be getting tropical weather this week, Newport Beach in California is a nice reminder that summer (Or at least spring) is never too far away.
Classic Editor’s Choice by Brendan Albetski
Classic Nothing Extraordinary by Thomas Feldtmose
Classic I Hate Everything by Carin Powell
Horoscopes by Brian Ingmanson
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 6 -- It’s getting busy. For the next two days, things are hopping. Stick to the rules, and then get creative. If you need help, ask for it. Work as a team. Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- A difficult situation is making you stronger. You learn what you need. By evening, you enter an amorous phase, and everything eases. Love is the bottom line. Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 7 -- You may as well listen ... compromise could be involved. It could even get romantic. Let your sweetheart set the schedule. Cuddle at home. Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Rules set the foundation for the structure you’re building. You’re even smarter than usual. Discover solutions that eluded you before. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Too much of a good thing can create a new dilemma. Stick to the budget. Get into a homebody phase, and consider personal comfort and well-being. Familiar faces and places soothe. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- You’re in expansion mode, and even more powerful than usual. Check in with the friends in your network who are already on the road you want to take. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- You get more with molasses than you do with vinegar. Think over your plan. Before you share it, think about what’s in it for the other person. Provide substance. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Support your friends in the pursuit of their dreams. They can come true. Get specific about what you want to achieve. Visualization helps more than you think. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- You’re being tested, even if you don’t see it. Your reputation increases when you do what you’re really passionate about. Listen for acknowledgement, and keep cool. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Travel conditions look good. Follow your schedule and the advice of a loved one. Entering a period of study and research. Don’t fall for a con game. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 9 -- Don’t delay completing new assignments while you can, as things are about to get busier. Daydreaming is not recommended now. Keep the pedal to the metal. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 9 -- It’s easy to feel disoriented now. Don’t be afraid to ask for directions. Focus on what excites your spirit, and find comfort in friends. Hold on for support.
Monday, March 25, 2013
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Sports
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Huskies improve to 11-10 after winning three over break By Tim Fontenault Staff Writer
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A UConn softball player throws the ball in a recent game at Burrill Family Field at the Connecticut Softball Complex. The softball team went 3-4 over Spring Break.
The UConn softball team went 3-4 in games across New York and Connecticut during break, bringing their overall record to 11-10 on the season. The Huskies had opened the season with three weekend trips to Florida, where UConn went 8-6, but will not return to Florida until May for the Big East Tournament and will only play as far south as Kentucky during the rest of the regular season.
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Miami sinks UConn in four races By Danny Maher Senior Staff Writer The UConn rowing team began its spring season by losing four races to the University of Miami this past weekend. Despite being swept in all four events to the Hurricanes, the Huskies were relieved to finally have an outdoor place to train. Head Coach Jennifer Sanford-Wendry’s team usually does all on-water training on nearby Coventry Lake, but her team has not be able to train on the lake since the fall because it is still frozen. “We are always a huge underdog against Miami as they have been on the water since January. They are much further along technically and this year it really showed,” Sanford-Wendry said. “[Our] team is very well conditioned…but we really need the opportunity to take strokes together on the water.” Miami’s varsity eight was too much for UConn to handle. The Hurricanes posted an impressive time of 6:24.9, the fastest of any boat on the afternoon. Miami boasts a heavy contingency of international rowers as only two
Americans are on the Miami varsity eight boat. The Huskies had an even time of 7:02.0. In the UConn boat were seniors Brittany DePoi, Adrienne Barrett, Caitlin Swallow, Hillary Wiles-Lafayette, juniors Charlotte Kelley, Natalie Carlone, Julia Roth, Kendra Kohanski, and sophomore Kathryn Hughes. “I am excited about the potential speed in the varsity eight as we have a better average erg score than in years past,” Sanford-Wendry said. Rowers rely on an erg machine to simulate the strokes on the water when they cannot physically be on a body of water. UConn was defeated in the second varsity eight race by 13.7 seconds. The Huskies’ finished with a time of 7:11.4. Sophomore coxswain Elise McCormick guided a boat made up of senior Melissa Soucie, juniors Erin Mounce, Ashley West, and Chelsea Zabel, sophomores Abbie Viner and Amanda Litty and freshmen Audrey Kelley and Emily Powers. The closest race of the day came in the varsity four race. UConn clocked a time
of 7:50.5, less than five seconds behind Miami’s time of 7:45.7. The UConn boat was comprised of junior Kristen Harrington, sophomores Liz Tomasco, Laura Webster, Christine Latona and freshman AnnaMarie Sullivan. In the novice eight race, sophomore Stephanie Varanelli led a team of eight freshmen to a time of 7:55.7. The Hurricanes finished ten seconds faster at 7:45.2. Overall, UConn was pleased with their performances but the rowers and coaching staff agreed that there is still a lot of speed to gain. The Huskies will be at it again on March 30 at the Murphy Cup in Camden, N.J. UConn will have its varsity eight and second varsity eight competing in the event. Sanford-Wendry plans for her team to leave campus early Friday so they are able to practice twice on the water before competing on Saturday.
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The Huskies opened the week’s schedule on Long Island, where they participated in the Hofstra Invitational against Hofstra and Central Connecticut. UConn played each team twice, losing both games to Hofstra while sweeping CCSU. Alyson Ambler and Kiki Saveriano were the winning pitchers for the Huskies in those two games. Saveriano moved to 7-2 on the season with the win against CCSU in the final game of the weekend, allowing only two runs on six hits while going the distance for the Huskies.
UConn was supposed to play back-to-back games at Sacred Heart and Quinnipiac in the middle of the week, but the weather would not cooperate, pushing the games back. After the cancellations, UConn went to Fairfield University for a double-header, where they were swept by the Stags. The Huskies came back in the first game before ultimately falling 4-3, but were then shut down in the second game, losing 5-0. On Sunday, the Huskies made up their game against Sacred Heart, defeating the
Pioneers 1-0 in eight innings. With two outs in the eighth inning, Maddy Schiappa stole second, putting her in position to score the winning run on a double by Emily O’Donnell. Saveriano got the shutout victory, improving to 8-3 on the season. After 21 games away from Storrs, the Huskies will play their first home game on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. against Quinnipiac.
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Huskies Place 12th at Spring Spectacular By Scott Bernier Campus Correspondent The UConn golf team finished tied for 12th place in the 18-team field last weekend at the Mission Inn Spring Spectacular, held on the Las Colinas Golf Course at the Mission Inn Resort located in Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida. Farmington, Connecticut product Zach Zaback led the way for the Huskies with a stellar 2-under par score of 70 for his final round, the first under-par performance of the season. This helped the team cap off a 54-hole stretch of 75-79-70 for a total of 224, good for 8 over par and a tie for 27th place individually in the 116-man field. Sophomore Chris Wiatr also recorded a solid outing, shooting 75-74-78 for a total of 227 shots through 54 holes, good for a 41st
place finish. The UConn line-up also included freshman Stephen Pastore who finished in a tie for 85th, freshman John Flaherty, who tied for 97th, and junior Mike Masso, who finished in a tie for 105th place. The top individual performance was recorded by Jonathan Grey of Georgia State University, shooting an 8-under 70-71-67-208, winning by five strokes over Indiana’s Brant Reaper. However, Indiana University won the overall tournament with an aggregate score of 5-over par 869. UConn tied Morehead State University with an overall score of 929, merely 12 shots away from a top 10 finish. Statistically speaking, this team has shown improvement with each competition. The 6970-yard course proved challenging, but provided playability with many players shoot-
ing under-par rounds. In fact, the Huskies were the fourth best team in par 3 scoring, with an average score of 3.05 over the shorter holes. This will be an advantage going forward if the team can continue to take aim at the pins with short irons and wedges in hand. The consistent play of Connecticut’s young players has demonstrated that this team is capable of going low on any day, but the future may be even brighter with a few more tournaments under their belts. The spring portion of the Huskies’ schedule will continue on March 29 when the group returns to Florida to compete in the Florida Atlantic University Spring Break Championship, held at The Fountains Country Club in Lake Worth.
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UConn has one season left in Atlantic Hockey play from MEN'S, page 12 also oversaw the emergence of goaltender Matt Grogan, who was given a chance to play when record-setting goaltender Garrett Bartus was sidelined amid academic struggles. Grogan made the most of his opportunity, posting a 14-4-3 record with a 1.93
goals against average and a .937 save percentage. Grogan was named a member of the All-Atlantic Hockey Third Team at Thursday’s award ceremony. With one more season in Atlantic Hockey before moving to the nation’s strongest conference, the Huskies will look to build off of this season’s success. The program
loses five seniors and currently has nine players committed to join the program for next season, the first season that UConn will provide scholarships for men’s hockey.
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Bayless' 30 leads Grizzlies past Celtics, 110-106
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Boston Celtics' Terrence Williams shoots over Memphis Grizzlies' Quincy Pondexter and Darrell Arthur, left, during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Memphis.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Memphis Grizzlies needed almost all of a 21-point fourthquarter lead to survive a late push by Boston's reserves. Jerryd Bayless scored a season-high 30 points and the Memphis Grizzlies weathered the rally to escape with a 110106 victory over the Celtics on Saturday night. "I was just able to make a couple of shots in the beginning and got it going," said Bayless, who had 20 points in the first half. "Mike (Conley) was looking for me, (Zach Randolph) was looking for me. A lot of guys got me some good shots, and I was able to knock them down." Bayless led seven Memphis players in double figures and three recorded double-doubles. Darrell Arthur, starting for
Randolph, scored 18 points, while Randolph had 15 points and 11 rebounds off the bench. Tayshaun Prince and Mike Conley had 12 points apiece, Conley adding 10 assists, Ed Davis scored 11 points, and Tony Allen added 10 points and 10 rebounds. Conley also had four steals, while Davis blocked five shots, matching his career high. Paul Pierce led Boston with 26 points, while Jordan Crawford keyed a fourth-quarter rally, scoring 14 of his 21 points in the final frame. Jeff Green finished with 12 points, and Jason Terry had 10, as the Celtics lost their fourth straight. "I think guys just didn't want to quit," Crawford said. "It was an opportunity for guys to play and try to make a run to win the
game. . Everybody stepped up when other guys were down." Both teams were without key players. Kevin Garnett and Courtney Lee sat out for Boston with left ankle sprains. Memphis center Marc Gasol is out indefinitely because of an abdominal tear. "Obviously, we don't have any room for errors, especially when you have two starters out," Pierce said. "So we have to do a better job with turnovers. We have to rebound better." The Celtics ended the night with 15 turnovers, leading to 21 Memphis points. Boston also was outrebounded, 44-37. Randolph didn't start for disciplinary reasons, after arriving late for Saturday's shootaround. Memphis led 98-77 with 7:16 to play after a 3-point play by
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Conley. Pierce had gone to the bench with his fifth foul, and Boston coach Doc Rivers had the reserves in, seemingly to play out the final minutes. But the second-stringers began a push that pulled Boston within 104-102 after two free throws by Crawford with 18.9 seconds left. The Celtics never got closer as Memphis converted all six of its free throws in the final 18.5 seconds. "They were great," Rivers said of the bench. "We basically told them to go in and try to cause havoc, and they did that. I though Jordan was fantastic with his offense and with his passing." Memphis, which led by 10 at the intermission, continued to extend the lead in the third, going up by 15 points on several occasions in the middle stages.
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Sports
Baseball snaps Georgetown's winning streak By Danny Maher Senior Staff Writer The Connecticut Huskies compiled a 4-3 record in a total of seven games against Presbyterian, College of Charlestown, and Georgetown over spring break. UConn took two out of three games in the Big East opening series against the Hoyas in an unusual situation this past weekend. The series was originally scheduled to be at home but a mid-week decision pushed the game to Georgetown because J.O. Christian Field in Storrs was deemed unplayable. The move caused UConn to play its first 20 games away from home for the first time in eight years. UConn (13-7 overall, 2-1 in the Big East) dropped the first game to Georgetown 5-2. The Huskies, playing as the home team, found themselves in a five-
run hole before freshman Bobby Melley singled to drive in two runs. Melley went 3-for-5 in the conference opener and is hitting .276 so far this season. Melley and senior second baseman LJ Mazzilli singled in the bottom of the ninth to bring the tying run to the plate, but sophomore Jon Testani flew out to end the threat and the game. Senior center fielder Billy Ferriter picked up two hits in the loss. Junior left-hander Anthony Marzi (1-4) picked up his fourth loss of the season surrendering two earned runs, five runs total, while striking out a season-high six batters. UConn snapped Georgetown’s eight-game winning streak in the middle game of the series with a 6-0 victory. Sophomore righthander Carson Cross won his team-high fifth game after pitching seven scoreless innings. Cross scattered eight hits, struck
out five and did not walk a batter. He gave up back-to-back hits in the eighth but closer Ryan Moore preserved the shutout and recorded his first save of the year. UConn took a 3-0 lead in the first after a three-run home run from Mazzilli, his fourth of the season. Mazzilli is riding a careerbest 14-game hitting streak and is batting .376 with a team-high five doubles and 21 RBIs. He also leads the Big East with four triples. Senior designated hitter Stanley Paul made his first start in a month due to a left thumb injury. He went 2-for-4 with an RBI double in the eighth inning in his return. Sophomore right-hander Jordan Tabakman took the hill for the Huskies in the rubber game in his first start of the season. He allowed just one earned run in 5.1 innings pitched and improved to 2-0. In the fourth inning, Paul tied the game on his first home run of
the season. The Huskies pulled ahead in the in the fifth after Mazzilli singled, stole second, took third on a balk and scored on a wild pitch. Mazzilli is a perfect 6-for-6 in stolen base attempts. With the tying run just 90 feet way, Moore closed the door and picked up the save for the second consecutive day. Moore has not allowed a run in six appearances. UConn is third in the Big East with a 2.88 team ERA and have allowed 177 hits in 184.1 innings. On March 15 through March 17, UConn dropped two of three at Presbyterian and defeated College of Charleston 9-4 in the Huskies final trip down south until the Big East Championship in late May. UConn plays at Hartford tomorrow at 3 p.m. The Huskies’ first home game will be April 1 at 3 p.m. against Quinnipiac.
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The Huskies went 4-3 over the seven games they played over Spring Break. On of UConn's victories snapped Georgetown's eight-game winning streak.
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Delaware women defeat West Virginia 66-53 in NCAAs
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West Virginia guard Taylor Palmer, left, drives the ball as she is pressured by Delaware guard Akeema Richards during the first half of an NCAA Tournament game.
NEWARK, Del. (AP) — The first NCAA tournament game in the state of Delaware had a perfect ending for the hometown Blue Hens and their boisterous fans. Elena Delle Donne scored 33 points and led a second-half surge that carried Delaware past West Virginia 66-53 on Sunday in the opening round of the NCAA tournament. Playing on their home floor before a sellout crowd, the sixthseeded Blue Hens trailed 33-26 at halftime before bouncing back to extend their school-record winning streak to 26 games. There were 4,532 fans in attendance, most of them clad in blue or yellow and cheering for Delaware. Not only were the parking lots jammed, but several people were pleading to purchase tickets from those waiting to enter the arena. The Blue Hens (31-3) did not disappoint. "To win a game like this in front of our home crowd, which was
electric, there's no other way to describe it other than I'm just totally thrilled for my players, this program, for the state of Delaware," coach Tina Martin said. Ever since Delle Donne began playing at Delaware in 2009, interest in the program has soared. It reached its zenith on Sunday in what might have been the most important basketball game played in the nation's first state. "This was actually better than I could have even imagined," Delle Donne said. "Our fans were absolutely crazy. The atmosphere was amazing." Delaware had never won an NCAA tournament game before last year. The Blue Hens have yet to reach the round of 16, a milestone they will seek to accomplish Tuesday night at home against either North Carolina or Albany. After watching the Blue Hens struggle with West Virginia's quickness inside and out during the first half, Martin started a taller
Vanderbilit awaits UConn in second round of NCAA's from HUSKIES, page 12 Vanderbilt tonight in the second round of the tournament at Gampel Pavilion. The Commodores lost 76-56 in the quarterfinals of the SEC Tournament to Kentucky, but Vanderbilt is fresh off a 60-54 first round NCAA Tournament victory over Saint Joseph’s. The No. 8 Commodores are led by their leading scorer Tiffany Clarke, who averages
17.7 points and 8.7 rebounds a game. Clarke scored six points a game in Vanderbilt’s first round game. The last time Vanderbilt defeated a ranked team was on Feb. 24 when the Commodores beat Texas A&M 61-51. Quotable Geno Auriemma “This was the beginning of our third season. We were 0-2 in championships. We didn’t win the regular season and we didn’t win the tournament.
lineup in the second half. She also shifted to a 2-3 zone and moved Delle Donne farther from the basket. Delle Donne, a 6-foot-5 senior, scored 20 points after halftime. She finished 10 for 24 from the floor, went 12 for 13 at the foul line and had seven rebounds. "I was able to get away from the players a little bit instead of banging with them inside," Delle Donne said. "I was able to elevate and shoot over people." Ayana Dunning had 15 points and 10 rebounds for 11th-seeded West Virginia (17-14), which closed the season with a four-game losing streak. The Mountaineers blew a 19-point halftime lead in the Big 12 tournament against Oklahoma, and they also wilted in the second half of this one. "The similarities were we didn't execute as well as we could have in both games," Dunning said. "It is kind of frustrating." West Virginia went 7 for 22
from the floor after halftime, committed 11 turnovers compared to six in the first half and was outscored 40-20 over the final 20 minutes. "It's two halves," coach Mike Carey said. "They went 2-3, a little bit bigger in the second half, and they hurt us on the boards. The first half, we didn't put Delle Donne on the foul line. Second half, she had 13 foul shots." Both teams struggled immediately after the intermission. The Mountaineers missed their first six shots and the Blue Hens went 1 for 7, leaving the Mountaineers up 33-28 with 15 minutes remaining. Delaware returned from a timeout to score seven straight points to take its first lead since 20-19. Minutes later, four different Blue Hens scored in an 8-0 run that made it 51-42. "We just didn't get the stops we were getting in the first half," Carey lamented.
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There’s been other times when we’ve been 2-2 and didn’t win the other one we wanted to win, so this is our third season and let’s put everything that happened behind us,” said Coach Auriemma on the Huskies putting the regular season behind them and starting play in the NCAA Tournament.
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Huskies go on multiple scoring runs in first round from UCONN, page 12 “It was just a great experience,” Newlee said after the game. The timing couldn’t have been much worse for the Vandals. The last time the Huskies took the court, they lost in the Big East Championship game in a heart-breaker to rival Notre Dame. Earlier in the week, the Huskies had a players-only meeting and UConn came into Saturday’s game motivated. UConn guard Kelly Faris said afterward that during that meeting, the players agreed that a lot needed to change, especially for the team’s guards. UConn coach Geno Auriemma said that judging by the way the players responded after the loss to the Fighting Irish that they had had an awful season. “You would think that we didn’t win any games this year,” Auriemma said. But Auriemma said that he wasn’t looking for a specific point total or an amount to win by, but that he was looking for the players to push hard on every possession. He thinks they did just that and he was
satisfied with the way that Saturday’s game went. Through the game’s first 5:19, the Huskies went on a 15-0 run. That run included six turnovers and five missed shots for the Vandals. Finally, Idaho’s Connie Ballestero hit a three that ended the streak. A second run of at least ten unanswered points for UConn came with 9:29 remaining and ended 6:15. In that stretch, UConn went on a 10-0 run that included two three-pointers from guard Bria Hartley for six of her 13 first half points. In that first half alone, Hartley scored more than she did in any of her previous seven games. She finished with 13 and didn’t score any in the second half. A third run started with exactly four minutes remaining in the half and continued to halftime. At that point, the run was 11-0. By the time halftime mercifully came, the Huskies had a dominating 58-17. UConn’s Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis already had 22 points on 9-11 shooting. The stretch continued into the second half. UConn opened the half with an 18-0 run that continued through the half’s first 7:27. Finally,
Idaho’s Jessica Graham made a free throw that ended the 29-0 run. In that 11:29, Idaho missed 16 shots and committed five turnovers. While the Vandals were struggling to make a shot, six different Huskies scored— Moriah Jefferson, Faris, Stefanie Dolson, Kiah Stokes, Mosqueda-Lewis and Morgan Tuck—and of those six, four had at least five points. The game progressed and UConn continued to dominate. In the game’s last 3:38, the Vandals got hot, hitting five three-pointers and started getting more open chances once the Huskies started playing zone. In that stretch, UConn’s lead shrunk from 74 points to 68. The previous record for biggest point disparity in a women’s NCAA Tournament game was exactly 74 points and if it weren’t for the Vandals’ hot streak, Idaho might have made history in the wrong way. The Huskies take the floor again Monday night at 7 p.m. in the second round and will face the Vanderbilt Commodores.
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TORONTO (AP) — Frazer McLaren couldn’t stop a smile from creasing his face. The Toronto Maple Leafs’ enforcer made the most of his 5:41 of playing time by jamming in the winning goal in a 3-2 victory over the Boston Bruins on Saturday night. After linemate Colton Orr got him the puck at the edge of the crease early in the third period, McLaren found himself running out of room. Trying to go to the backhand, he ended up tucking the puck between his legs, off his right skate and through the legs of Bruins goalie Anton Khudobin 1:34 into the third. It was his third goal of the season and the fourth of his NHL career and extended Toronto’s lead to 3-0. “You’ve got to work to be in the lineup every night and I’ve sat (out) a couple of the last few games,” the 6-foot-5, 230-pound McLaren said. “Any time you can contribute, especially on the scoresheet and it turns out to be a game-winner, it’s a good confidence boost. “ McLaren was clearly enjoying talking about scoring rather than knocking an opponent out with one punch, as he did earlier this season when he floored Ottawa’s Dave Dziurzynski. The Bruins and Maple Leafs meet again Monday night in Boston. “We have three more periods in a very tough building where we haven’t had success before and it’s going to take a more intense effort than we had tonight to go in there and have success,” Toronto coach Randy Carlyle said. The Bruins had won their last eight games against the Leafs, dating back to the 2010-11 season. Toronto’s last victory over Boston was March 31, 2011 — 4-3 in a shootout. “We were getting pretty sick and tired of it so I’m glad we changed that tonight,” said Toronto’s Nazem Kadri, who continued his hot hand with the opening goal. The Leafs made the most of their limited chances as they had four shots in the first period, five in the second and four in the third but managed to score a goal in each. James Reimer was busy as Boston outshot Toronto 33-13. “When you win a hockey game and you only get 13 shots and the opposition gets 33, I don’t think you can really say that was your game plan,” Carlyle said. Mikhail Grabovski also scored for Toronto. Dennis Seidenberg and Andrew Ference, AP with the goalie pulled for an extra attacker, Indiana guard Victor Oladipo drives past Temple forward Rahlir Hollis-Jefferson in the first half of a third-round had the Bruins’ goals.
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Wichita St.’s 3-pointers boot No. 1 Gonzaga SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The No. 1 got taken down by a bunch of 3s. Gonzaga is out of the NCAA tournament thanks to Wichita State, a No. 9 seed that made five straight shots from behind the arc Saturday for a 76-70 victory that sent the West Region’s top seed — and the nation’s No. 1 team during the regular season — back home. “This is incredible for our team,” said freshman guard Ron Baker, who hit four of the Shockers’ season-high 14 3-pointers. “We came together down the stretch and pulled the upset off. This feeling is unimaginable.” Now Wichita State doesn’t have to try and emulate fellow midmajor Gonzaga any more. The Shockers (28-6) one-upped the Zags (32-3) on the NCAA tournament stage, and advanced to the Round of 16 for the first time since 2006. They are headed to Los Angeles to face the winner of Sunday’s game between La Salle and Ole Miss. Gonzaga became the first top seed to be eliminated, giving all the Zags’ doubters an I-told-youso moment. The Zags survived a scare in the second round against Southern but couldn’t hold up against a Shockers team whose motto is “play angry.” Call it the Marshall plan, by 50-year-old Shockers coach Gregg
Marshall. He pulled his team aside after Gonzaga had made its big secondhalf run to take an eight-point lead. “You know what I asked them? On Oct. 15, down eight with eight minutes to go, would you take it for the right to go to Los Angeles in the Sweet 16?” Marshall asked. “And they did it from there.” Cleanthony Early and Baker scored 16 points apiece, freshman Fred VanVleet added 13, Carl Hall had 10 and Tekele Cotton eight. Baker called it the epitome of team. While Baker hasn’t been this deep in the tournament before, the Shockers are no stranger to the NCAAs, with Saturday’s win evening their record at 10-10. They earned a trip to the Final Four in 1965, the regional finals three times and most recently made it to the Round of 16 in 2006 before losing to George Mason. Marshall also led Winthrop to seven NCAA tournament appearances during his nine seasons there. Still, Wichita State hadn’t fared so well against top-ranked teams. The last time they played one, in 1967, they lost by 34. That was UCLA, a team that went on to win its fourth of 10 titles during the Wooden era. While Gonzaga held the top spot in the AP Top 25 over the final weeks of the season, skep-
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tics thought of the Bulldogs as a soft No. 1 seed that benefited from a relatively easy schedule in the West Coast Conference while other top contenders were getting banged around in the power conferences. That’s not to say the Bulldogs didn’t fight, with Kelly Olynyk scoring 26 points to lead Gonzaga, and Kevin Pangos adding 19. Gonzaga trailed by as many as 13 in the first half, was down 36-31 at the break, but came on strong early in the second half. Wichita State was not intimidated.
“They never quit,” Marshall said. “You know we got the big lead, Gonzaga makes a great run as a No. 1 team in the country would, and these guys dig down.” Shockers, for sure. They showed their grit after Gonzaga’s 12-0 run gave the Bulldogs a 49-41 lead with 11:53 left. Back-to-back 3-pointers by Kevin Pangos and Michael Hart started it, Olynyk hit a jumper then a pair of free throws, and Pangos capped it with a steal and fastbreak layup. But Wichita State outscored the Zags 35-21 from there.
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MLS needs to rethink schedule
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UCONN VANDALIZES IDAHO Huskies defeat Idaho to advance to second round
By Matt Stypulkoski Senior Staff Writer The New York Red Bulls are second-to-last in MLS’ Eastern Conference. Yes, it’s early, but for a team that’s typically near the top of the table a measly two points in four matches has been a horrific start – and sarting 10 points behind the conference lead certainly is poor at best. On Saturday, three of those league-leading 12 points came at the Red Bulls’ expense. A trip to Montreal to face the impact left New York flying home empty-handed, with only the solace of getting away from Canada as a consolation. But should that Impact win have ever happened? Should, on a weekend when players worldwide are busy playing for their international teams, MLS games be played? Soccer is far different from most sports in that, rather than a set window of time where postseason, regular season and alternative competitions take place apart from one another, different leagues, cups and tournaments overlap constantly. That leaves periods, like this week, when many players are on “international duty,” and not able to play for their usual clubs. The Red Bulls, for example, were without defender Roy Miller on Saturday when they traveled to Montreal, as he was with the Costa Rican national team. It seems silly that MLS would continue to schedule games during periods when their rosters will be at less than full strength. Not only is the product on the pitch for that one match affected, but the credibility of the league suffers as a result. As it stands, many major soccer powers around the world tend to treat US soccer as a whole – but especially MLS – as something of a joke. In their view, it does not come close to stacking up against their prized English Premier League, German Bundesliga, Spanish La Liga or the like. Talent-wise, they’re correct. MLS cannot compete with those leagues when it comes to pure individual player skill. So why cripple yourselves by playing at reduced strength during international breaks and flying in the face of the worldwide norm? It only produces more jokes. Plus, it certainly can’t help ticket sales. Sure, diehard fans will be in the seats either way, but it doesn’t take a genius to see that casual fans – those that enjoy the game but aren’t indelibly attached to an MLS squad – are far less likely to buy tickets for a match that features substitutes and reserves, typically relegated to the bench, that must be thrust into the lineup to fill holes for international players. So please, MLS, don’t make it harder on yourselves than it already is. Soccer is growing in this country, and rapidly at that, but for those new fans being introduced to the game, the league will be hard-pressed to sell a product scattered with easily fixable weaknesses. Unlike the NFL, NHL, NBA or MLB, the MLS has high-level competition that can draw away domestic fans. So put out your best product every time, and never do anything to weaken the talent on the pitch. Quit playing during international breaks, MLS, it’s for your own good.
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The Idaho Vandals won the WAC Championship and their reward was a 2,700 mile trip to Storrs that ended with a 105-37 drubbing from the UConn Huskies. That sentence isn’t sarcasm; not in the least bit. Idaho coach Jon Newlee was thrilled after the game that his team had the chance to come into the tournament and face one of the best teams in the country. There haven’t been many people in the history of basketball who showed as much excitement as Newlee did after being blown out by 68 points. Newlee was all smiles in the postgame press conference. He said that he was very excited that his team had the chance to play against elite-level basketball and was glad that they saw first-hand how fast and long UConn is relative to everyone else in the country. “We can’t replicate that in practice,” Newlee said. “We can’t replicate that in the Western Athletic Conference. I don’t think there’s many teams that can replicate that.” Newlee said that everybody from the hotel staff to the Gampel Pavilion staff was a pleasure to work with.
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UConn’s Moriah Jefferson, right, steals the ball from Idaho’s Ali Forde in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at Gampel Pavalion.
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Men’s hockey NCAA Tournament hopes dashed
By Tim Fontenault Staff Writer The clock struck midnight for the 2012-13 UConn men’s hockey team on Friday night. After being picked to finish seventh in Atlantic Hockey, starting the season 0-4-1 and dealing with the medical leave and eventual resignation of their head coach, the Huskies went on a Cinderella run that brought them within two wins of a trip to the NCAA Tournament. On Friday night in Rochester, N.Y., the dream of winning a berth in the 16-team tournament came to an end, as UConn lost to Mercyhurst 4-1 in the Atlantic Hockey Semifinals. After sweeping Robert Morris in a best-of-three series in Storrs last weekend, UConn went into the semifinals with a lot of confidence and struck early in the
game with a goal from Trevor Gerling at the 7:36 mark of the first period. The goal was Gerling’s 12th of the season and second of the conference tournament. Despite the hot start, UConn was unable to stop the Lakers from taking control of the game and four goals later, Mercyhurst put an end to the Huskies’ season. Despite an early exit from the conference tournament, it was a season of accomplishment for the Huskies. With a 19-14-4 overall record, UConn posted its best record since the 1999-2000 season, when the Huskies were playing in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. When longtime head coach Bruce Marshall took a leave of absence in November, he was replaced behind the bench by assistant coach David Berard, who assumed the title of interim head coach
after Marshall’s official resignation on Jan. 7. Berard was handed a young team in the process of preparing for a 2014 move to Hockey East. When he was named interim head coach, Athletic Director Warde Manuel said that there would be a nationwide search for a coach at the end of the season, leaving no guarantee that Berard would be a permanent fix behind the bench. However, Berard made the most of his opportunity. Entering the AHA Tournament, the Huskies were riding the fifth-best record in Division I since New Year’s Day at 12-5-2, which included a near-upset of No. 2 Quinnipiac, who is now the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament. Berard, a goaltender in his playing days at Providence,
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UConn freshman forward Joey Ferriss skates for the puck in a recent AHA playoff game against Robert Morris at the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum.
Huskies’ offense carries them to second round By Tyler R. Morrissey Associate Sports Editor After a 12 day stretch without playing a game, the UConn women’s basketball team put on an offensive clinic in their first matchup of the NCAA Tournament, as the Huskies defeated Idaho 105-37 at Gampel Pavilion. The Huskies were just six points shy of setting an alltime record for margin of victory against an opponent in the NCAA Tournament. The current record of 74 points was set by Tennessee in 1994. It was the 12th time this season that UConn scored over 51 points in the first half. The Huskies shot an impressive 42 for 69 from the field for the game and went 11 for 22
from behind the arc. All nine in the first game of the tournaUConn players scored points ment for the Huskies. Hartley as sophomore guard Kaleena went 5-9 from the field in the Mosqueda-Lewis led the team first half and scored 13 total with 22 total points. points on the afternoon. Senior The Huskies also had big Kelly Faris, who scored seven contribution ns from the points, said that the Huskies underclasshad a few things to men as freshwork on after the loss man Moriah to Notre Dame in the Jefferson Big East tournament to scored a career prepare for the NCAA high 16 points Tournament. in her first game “One of the main of the NCAA big things would be tournament in a our guard play,” said Husky uniform. Faris. “Just in general Notebook Sophomore there’s a lot of things Kiah Stokes we needed to change recorded her second career and our focus going into difdouble-double as the 6’3” ferent games. Knowing our center scored 14 points and personnel and knowing what grabbed 11 rebounds. to do on the court in certain UConn guard Bria Hartley situations and not having to also had a great performance rely on the coaches in every
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single play, there’s a lot of different things that go into it.” The Huskies’ defense also displayed a strong showing in the first round of the tournament as UConn held Idaho scoreless for a span for 11:31 from the end of the first half to the 12:31 mark of the second half. Idaho head coach Jon Newlee said that UConn’s defensive front was something that he had not seen during the regular season in the Vandal’s conference. “They shot the ball extremely well,” said Newlee. “Their pressure certainly took us out of our game, defensively they were so long, they were so quick getting after us and it’s something we haven’t seen this year without a doubt. We can’t replicate that in practice, we can’t replicate that in the
Western Athletic Conference, I don’t think there’s many teams that can replicate that.” Stewart sits against Idaho Freshman Breanna Stewart sat out Saturday’s game with a left calf injury and is listed as day-to-day. Head coach Geno Auriemma decided to rest the 6’4” forward with the hope that she will be ready to play for the second round of the tournament. “Breanna could have played today but we felt that it would be better if we used precaution and let her have an extra day and almost guarantee that she’ll be ready for Monday night.” Vanderbilt up next for UConn The Huskies will face
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