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New bus line serves Northwood Apts Volume CXX No. 103
By Kyle Constable Staff Writer
Meet Silver Line, a new bus route at the Storrs campus that University of Connecticut Transportation Services hopes will alleviate overcrowding on some of the current lines. The route, which runs from Storrs Center to Northwood Apartments, is most similar to Purple Line, as it provides service to some of the apartments northwest of the main campus. In recent semesters, Purple Line has seen a significant influx of students during peak hours, prompting Transportation Services to create Silver Line. “Purple Line was overcrowding pretty badly on Hunting Lodge Road before it got to Northwood,” UConn Transportation Services manager Janet Freniere said. “While we’ve never had more than five people at a time who couldn’t get on at Northwood, we understood their and Res Life’s frustration.” Silver Line is considered the best solution to the high volume of stu-
dents, according to a survey conducted by Transportation Services. Only 17 percent of Northwood residents surveyed regularly take the Purple Line to Depot Campus, while the remainder exclusively uses the line to reach the center of campus. “We conducted a survey of the Northwood residents and the route Silver Line runs was selected as the preference by an overwhelming number of them,” Freniere said. Essentially, Silver Line offers another bus for some apartment residents – who Freniere points out are still considered “on campus” – heading to the campus core during peak hours. And it comes with the added benefit of not having to go all the way out to Depot Campus, as Purple Line can handle the current percentage of passengers who use the route to reach that destination. The line, much like other bus lines on campus, runs from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., though there is only one bus on the route, according to Freniere. The bus makes stops at Northwood Apartments, UConn
Foundation, Field House, Co-op, Alumni, Arjona Eastbound, Town Hall, Storrs Transportation Center, Buckley, Arjona Westbound, West Campus, CT Commons, Student Union, North Garage and F Lot before continuing back to Northwood.
The line arrives at each stop roughly every 30 minutes, according to the Transportation Services website. As for future bus line expansions, none are currently in the works for the Storrs campus at this time. Freniere said once the
increases to $10.10 in 2017. For UConn students, this increase is viewed as a necessary and progressive program, but others see it as a slippery slope. Danielle Donnelly, an 8th– semester political science and English major, actively worked with Connecticut Citizen Action Group on the Fight for Fifteen campaign over the summer, an organization that rallied statewide support for a minimum wage increase.
Donnelly sees this week’s vote as a critical step for those who work 40 hours a week at $8.70 an hour. “It’s difficult to look at the economy and also our social programs now and not support raising the minimum wage,” Donnelly said. “Millions of low-income workers depend on government programs like SNAP, Medicaid and other welfare programs in order to scrape by. That means that their paychecks don’t even cover the cost
of surviving. In order to alleviate job and that this should not be the the pressure these reality for people workers place on living in one of the an already over- “It’s difficult to not most prosperous burdened system, a of the world. support raising the parts “An increase to wage increase has to happen.” minimum wage.” $10.10 an hour or more would ensure S i m i l a r l y, Danielle Donnelly that these people Donnelly said that 8th-semester student rise above the many workers who work for minimum poverty line—curwage are often not able to support rently somewhere close to $12,000/ themselves on one minimum wage » MIN. WAGE, page 2
The state Appropriations Committee approved a bill yesterday that would increase Connecticut’s minimum wage from $8.70 to $10.10 by January 2017. The bill goes to vote in the Senate on Wednesday and proposes that the current minimum wage of $8.70 go up to $9.00 on January 1, 2015 and then make steady yearly
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Transportation Services implemented Silver Line after spring break, a new bus route that serves Northwood Apartments and loops around Storrs Center.
UConn students awarded prestigious scholarship
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Michael Cantara, a 4th-semester engineering and physics major, a was awarded the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship along with two other UConn science students. The Goldwater Scholarship is awarded each year for students who show promise in various research fields.
By David Weigand Campus Correspondent Three UConn Students have been awarded the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, as part of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program. Established in 1986 and funded by the U.S. treasury, the scholarship awards high-achieving students, who seek positions as scientists, mathematicians and engineers, scholarships to enable them to become cutting-edge researchers. The scholarships exists, according to its website, to “alleviate a critical current and future shortage of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians, and
USG offering subsidy for MSG tickets
By Heather Fyfe Campus Correspondent
extension of North Hillside Road to Route 44 is completed and more students arrive on campus as a part of Next Generation Connecticut, Transportation Services will revisit the routes at that time.
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Student voice: mixed reactions to proposed min. wage hike By Kathleen McWilliams Senior Staff Writer
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engineers” in the field. These recipients are matriculated full-time students, mainly juniors and seniors, who “have outstanding potential and intend to pursue research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering.” The recipients of the scholarships must be planning a career specifically in research, as the program’s website makes plain. The award provides financial assistance for tuition and room and board of up to $7,500, a major boon for future researchers facing crippling student debt. UConn students Peter Larson, Jr., Patrick Lenehan and Michael Cantara are recipients of
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Urgent Care Center now open in downtown Storrs By Alban Murtishi Staff Writer
Student, staff or citizen are all welcome to visit the Urgent Care Health Center which opened its doors on Monday to the sick and injured. The center is supported by the John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington, and is an extension of the UConn Health Center and Infirmary. The Urgent Care Center deals with non life-threatening injuries, general illnesses, testing and vaccination. What makes the center especially unique is that they accept walk-ins, meaning anyone off the street with insurance will be cared for by professionals, and almost every form of insurance – Medicare, Medicaid and foreign based – is accepted. The center is staffed by one fulltime doctor, a medical director, three physicians assistants and a radiolo-
gist. However, these initial services and staff sizes are only the beginning. “As we ramp up we probably will bring more specialists,” said Jessica Underwood, the center’s ancillary services manager. More specifically, by July the Urgent Care Center will offer dental services, staffed by the top ranking School of Dental Medicine professors. By the fall, the center will offer psychiatric and dermatological services as well. “We felt there was a need out here, you guys don’t have a very close emergency center near campus,” Underwood said. “We’re hoping to be very useful to the community.” Frank La Sala, the acting medical director for the Urgent Care Center, explained some of the services the new establishment hopes to offer.
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An urgent care center, pictured in this March 25 photo, opened its doors at Storrs Center this week.
The University of Connecticut’s Undergraduate Student Government is offering subsidies to help students pay for tickets to the Huskies’ March Madness headliner vs. Iowa State at Madison Square Garden on Friday. Two hundred students will have the opportunity to purchase Sweet Sixteen tickets at a discounted price - $150 instead of the listed $200 that non-student attendees must pay. But students that have purchased their tickets from other sources will not be able to get money back on their tickets. “My role in this is bringing athletics together with USG to try to find a way to make it easier and more affordable for students to get to the game. I was happy to find that both parties were interested in trying to make that happen,” said Michael Daniels, the Undergraduate Student Trustee. The student government has been working with the athletic department to get limited tickets into the hands of dedicated students. Winners of the lottery will be able to purchase tickets today at 10 a.m. “If there are any left, those would go on sale to the rest of season ticket holders at noon, and then to the rest of students at two,” said Daniels, “But really, I doubt there will be any left after the lottery winners. Not even all donors got the chance to buy tickets out of their allotment.” With such a high demand for tickets, prices are skyrocketing on the UConn Buy or Sell page and StubHub. Students are excited about the opportunity to purchase tickets at a more reasonable price. “I wouldn’t go to the game if I had to pay $200. $150, that I will consider,” said Anton Gudz, a UConn junior who has been seen waiting outside of Gampel the night before basketball games with other diehard fans. USG hopes that through the subsidy, some students that may not have been able to afford the $200 price will be able to attend the game. “This is a unique experience that UConn students deserve to have,” Daniels said, expressing that NCAA Regionals have not been held in the Garden in 63 years, “We want to make a statement to show what our fan base can do as we make a name for ourselves in the new conference.” The game is set to start in Madison Square Garden on Friday at 7:27 p.m. as the UConn men’s basketball team squares off against Iowa State to make a statement of their own.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Ted Kennedy Jr. mulling run for Connecticut Senate
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Ted Kennedy Jr., who has been mentioned as a possible political candidate for years, said he’s considering a run for the state Senate in Connecticut. The son of the late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, of Massachusetts, said he will decide within two weeks whether to seek this year’s Democratic nomination for the 12th Senatorial District seat being vacated by retiring Guilford Democrat Edward Meyer. Kennedy thanked the 79-yearold Meyer for his service. “I have been encouraged by many friends and civic leaders to consider running for the 12th Senate District seat,” Kennedy said in a statement. “I intend to seriously evaluate this opportunity for public service, and to discuss it with my family, close friends and leaders throughout the district.” The seat represents Branford, Durham, Guilford, Killingworth, Madison and North Branford. The 52-year-old health care lawyer lives in Branford. There are no
declared candidates yet in the race. “We have several quality candidates who are interested in running and we intend to vigorously contest this open seat, regardless of the Democratic candidate,” said state Republican Party Chairman Jerry Labriola Jr., adding that the district is “trending Republican” and “it’s hard to imagine that the voters would choose to move farther to the left of Ed.” Nancy DiNardo, the state Democratic chairwoman, said Kennedy would make a great public servant. “Ted Kennedy Jr. is a longtime Connecticut resident, who’s devoted a lot of time to being an active, caring part of his community and his state,” DiNardo said. “He’s clearly passionate and smart about issues that matter in people’s lives.” Kennedy is not doing interviews while he weighs a run, said John Murphy, a family friend. Kennedy is an advocate for people with disabilities and cofounder of the New York-based
Marwood Group, a health carefocused advisory and consulting firm headquartered in New York City. His name has been floated over the years as a possible candidate for various political offices, including U.S. Senate seats in Connecticut and Massachusetts, but he has declined to run. His brother, former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, represented Rhode Island for 16 years before retiring in 2011. Ted Kennedy Jr. has campaigned on behalf of Democratic politicians from the state, including Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal, and for President Barack Obama. Kennedy said in 2009 that he’s thought about running for political office, but had no immediate plans to do so. “I would be lying to you if I said I never thought of running for office. I have,” Kennedy said after speaking to a labor convention. “I think every Kennedy has at one point thought about that.”
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In this Oct. 16, 2010 file photo, Ted Kennedy Jr., right, shares a light moment with Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who was campaigning for U.S. Senator in Connecticut, in New Haven, Conn.
New England seeking to tap Canadian hydro Emergency care facility to serve Storrs area from URGENT, page 1
“We’re trying to make this an urgent care that just handles more than just the basic colds and flus,” La Sala said. “We want to be more than a basic care center, which includes doing complex lacerations, and starting IVs for hydration instead of just sending people to the emergency rooms.” However, the center is not for life threatening cases. “We won’t treat emergency based medicine, like a heart attack,” Underwood said. With services like the Infirmary already available to students, the Urgent Care Center may appear almost redundant. However, the center and Infirmary are working in
In this May 1, 2008 file photo, the St. John River flows through the Mactaquac hydroelectric dam in Kingsclear, New Brunswick, in Canada.
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A 300-mile power cable line would be buried on land and run underwater from Maine to Boston in a proposal to tap Canada’s hydropower for power-hungry southern New England.
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New England governors say they need up to 3,600 megawatts of renewable energy to meet green energy goals, while also lowering costs and offsetting losses as aging power plants go offline. In coming months, they are
expected to seek proposals for 1,200 to 3,600 megawatts of transmission capacity. The so-called “Green Line” is one of two proposals in Maine. There are also proposals in New Hampshire and Vermont.
ty, being “an exciting mixture of mathematical derivation, computer programming, and logic.” Cantara says that he “couldn’t really believe” he had won at first, calling his family “who were all on vacation in Florida.” He says he is looking forward to pursuing a terminal degree and entering the world of research, for him a “truly rewarding and illuminating” vocation. Patrick Lenehan, a junior honors student from Cheshire, Conn., and a member of UConn’s men’s basketball team, studies “proteins and the formation of centromeres and kinetochores in Dosophilia,” according to UConn today. Lenehan said he’s motivated by the prospect of a future research career, signaling an interest in pursuing cancer cures down the line. He said the nomination of students from UConn “speaks to the quality of the research taking place at the university,” which he’s proud to be a part of. Barry Goldwater, a US soldierturned-businessman-turned-senator, was a champion of conservatism with distinct libertarian tendencies in his lifetime. A man of varied interests, he was an amateur
radio operator, airplane pilot and photographer in his day, according to Bart Barnes of the Washington Post. A presidential hopeful in his 30-year run as Arizona senator, Goldwater was an American icon who pushed for STEM education as the key to success as a nation. Congress established the program to memorialize the man and to bring prosperity and eminence to the country he so loved. Jill Deans, the director of the Office of National Scholarships and Fellowships, says that the candidates this year “were amazing.” She has held her office since 2007 and works with what she lauds as an able “faculty nominating committee” that selects top nominees to represent the school This year’s result: three winners, a tremendous honor for UConn. Deans said the competition is fierce, as “the candidates can do everything right and still not win.” She says these three, chosen out of four nominees to win the award, are all exemplary “researchers who do extracurriculars. They show how high the bar is. They’re all really driven.”
Goldwater recipients working to shape future of scientific research from UCONN, page 1
this year’s scholarship. All three ranked in the top quarter of their respective classes and showed considerable interest in research. Peter Larson, Jr., a junior honors student from New Canaan, Conn., is studying “vaccinia viruses” and plans to go into “virology, viral vectors, or gene therapy” according to a UConn today article “Three UConn Students Named Goldwater Scholars.” He is involved with the UConn Ballroom Dance team and has served on the Buckley-ShippeeSylvie area council among other things, and is as an active firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician when at home. Michael Cantara, a sophomore honors student from Barrington, R.I., was awarded the scholarship for his studies in particle physics. Cantara he has been granted security clearance by the Department of Defense due to his involvement in “a summer research experience at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, R.I.” Michael said he’s always wanted to understand the universe, and for him, physics provides that opportuni-
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conjunction to fill certain gaps in the services they provide. For example, the Infirmary is not available to students whenever school in not in session, whereas the Urgent Care Center is. Conversely, the Urgent Care Center cannot monitor students overnight, whereas the Infirmary can. The genesis of the Urgent Care Center lies in the fact that colleges across the nation are finding their infirmaries becoming stressed with growing student populations and injuries, and institutions like the Urgent Care Center help to alleviate some of those stresses, and provide more services. The success of the Urgent Care Center will rely on the growth of
their patient base, and the word of their professionalism spread through the internet. “Once the doctors get known around here, parents can Google them and see that their child’s injuries can be taken care of here,” La Sala said. The center enjoyed a very successful first day with seven patients checking in, and composed a mixture of students and non-student faculty. Two of the first-day patients were a construction worker and an employee from a surrounding restaurant. “We’re open to anyone near or far who wants to come here.” Underwood said.
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Min. wage hike moves forward in state lege from STUDENT, page 1
year for a family of two and be able to contribute more of their earnings to the economy rather than living paycheck to paycheck and merely subsisting,” Donnelly said. Drew Pett, a 4th–semester human rights, economics and math/ statistics major, said he thinks the bill will pass tomorrow, but he’s skeptical of its affect on student workers on campus. “I definitely think the minimum wage increase will pass in CT and I don’t think it will have a tremendous effect on student workers,” Pett said. “More students may be motivated to find on-campus jobs, so job selectivity may increase but I don’t believe there will be many effects outside of the wage increase for current student workers.” Pett said that while some people might think the issue is the salary that full time minimum wage workers receive annually, he believes that the issue is the lack of benefits that such workers receive. “My impression is that the minimum wage isn’t so much the issue with workers working minimum wage jobs for 40 hours a week. The issue is the lack of social benefits, job security, and potential for advancement. To me it seems these factors are what primarily keep individuals below the poverty line,” Pett said. Donnelly agreed and said that the increase, despite the lack of legislation for mandatory benefits for service workers, will allow individuals working 40 hours at minimum wage to live above the poverty line. “$10.10 guarantees that workers now living in poverty will be above the poverty line, but that does not
mean they are being paid for the services they render,” Donnelly said. Other students do not the see the minimum wage as a pressing issue. Bryan Gregor, an 8th–semester philosophy and economics major, said he finds that the push for a higher wage is the result of liberals’ disillusionment with the capitalist system. “I think present preoccupation with raising the minimum wage, not just in Connecticut, but in general is to do with disillusionment of the capitalist system. Connecticut is a blue state. And the concerns of liberals tend toward economic, social, and cultural rights,” Gregor said. As an economics major, Gregor is well versed in the phrase “there is no such things as a free lunch.” The economics catchphrase aims to remind people that while a material or abstract item may appear free, there are always underlying costs. According to Gregor, raising the minimum wage might cause employers to hire fewer employees and let people go. “It’s often said that Connecticut is the state that has one of the highest, if not the highest, costs of living in the nation, “ Gregor said. “Assuming this is true, raising the minimum wage will affect the well being of those working minimum wage. This seems self evident. But there is no free lunch. Trade offs are inevitable.” Gregor believes such trade offs could hurt Connecticut employees and UConn students in an already competitive job market. “Raising the minimum wage may give firms an incentive to hire
fewer employees, offer employees fewer hours and hire employees who are unnecessarily qualified for the job for which they are hired. This may give an incentive to offer less benefits or less raises,” Gregor said. Donnelly disagreed and said that students who work on campus to support themselves will see positive changes with the increase. “Students who work to support themselves and pay for school will see a slight increase in their income. I know many students who do work hold these sort of low-wage or part-time positions, so, while it may not vastly impact how much money they make, they will see a difference in their paychecks,” Donnelly said. Gregor agreed that while most UConn students would think positively about the changes in the minimum wage, the potential effects of the increase could harm students in the long run. If you asked the average UConn student if they think the minimum wage ought to be increased to $10.10, almost all of them would agree, “ Gregor said. “But how likely is it after receiving a degree and $50,000-$100,000 in private student loans, the same UConn student who agreed to the increase in minimum wage will find themselves working at Citizens Bank, Best Buy, Staples or Enterprise branch next to a 21 year old without a degree, but an equal or higher income? Do you think that UConn student would be happy with the same or equal wage as someone without a college education?”
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Utah to welcome marijuana for medical use
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Clinton Atwater plays with his daughter Asia Skye Atwater, 7, before the H.B 105 bill signing ceremony at the Utah State Capitol Tuesday, March 25, 2014, in Salt Lake City. Parents of Utah children with severe epilepsy are cheering a new state law that allows them to obtain a marijuana extract they say helps with seizures, but procuring it involves navigating a thorny set of state and federal laws.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Parents of Utah children with severe epilepsy are cheering a new state law that allows them to obtain a marijuana extract they say helps with seizures, but getting it involves navigating a thorny set of state and federal laws. Utah’s Republican Gov. Gary Herbert has already approved the law and held a signing ceremony for about 50 parents and
children at the state Capitol on Tuesday afternoon. The new law doesn’t allow medical marijuana production in Utah but allows families meeting certain restrictions to obtain the extract from other states. Similar legislation is pending in at least one other state, and Utah advocates hope more will follow. The marijuana extract, which some believe helps with a
severe form of epilepsy, is produced in nearby Colorado and is designed not to produce a high. But Colorado experts say restrictions passed in that state to appease the federal government make it a murky process for Utah families to actually get marijuana-derived products, particularly as all state medical marijuana laws are illegal under federal law. Utah Rep. Gage Froerer, a
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Republican from Huntsville who sponsored the new state law, said families are willing to take that risk to treat their children with the oil. “They know very well that this may not protect them from the DEA if the federal prosecutors stepped in,” Froerer told his colleagues earlier this month. To gain support in conservative Utah, the push for the legislation focused on helping children suffering from a severe form of epilepsy and the law itself is tempered with restrictions. The law takes effect on July 1 and expires in 2016. It’s restricted to those with severe epilepsy for whom the regular treatments are not effective, and requires a neurologist’s consent to obtain and use the extract. The extract comes from a strain of marijuana called Charlotte’s Web, named after the first child treated with it. The plant is low in THC, the hallucinogenic chemical in marijuana, and high in CBD, a chemical that may fight seizures. Doctors and others have warned that there’s no proof yet that the extract is effective at treating epilepsy or even safe, but for parents like Jennifer May of Pleasant Grove, the hope that he oil will give their kids a better quality of life is worth pursuing.
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Busloads of Ukrainian troops leave Crimea FEODOSIA, Crimea (AP) — As former comrades saluted them from outside a base overrun by Russian forces, Ukrainian marines in Crimea piled into buses Tuesday to head back to the mainland. It was a low-key exit from this eastern Black Sea port, with fewer than a dozen friends and relatives on hand to bid the marines farewell. A troop transporter bearing black Russian military plates trailed the bus as it pulled away. Their departure came as Ukraine’s defense minister stepped down after harsh criticism for
authorities’ often-hesitant reaction to Russia’s annexation of Crimea, which was formalized following a hastily organized referendum this month. And while Ukraine struggled to deal with its humbling by Russia, it also faced the menace of seething Ukrainian nationalists angered by the police killing of a leading radical. Troops were given the stark choice of either staying in Crimea and switching allegiance to serve under Russia’s military, or leaving the peninsula to keep their jobs with the Ukrainian defense forces.
Ukrainian marines prepare to leave their base in Feodosia, Crimea, Tuesday, March 25, 2014.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — As frustration was setting in, calmer seas returned Wednesday and the search for the remains of Flight 370 began anew in remote waters of the Indian Ocean off western Australia. Gale-force winds that forced an all-day delay Tuesday died down, allowing a total of 12 planes and two ships from the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand to resume the hunt for any pieces of the Malaysia Airlines jet — tangible evidence for the families seeking closure after more than two weeks of anguished uncertainty. A day earlier, angry relatives
shouted “Liars!” in the streets of Beijing about Malaysia’s declaration that the plane went down with all aboard. Although officials sharply narrowed the search zone based on the last satellite signals received from the Boeing 777, it was still estimated at 1.6 million square kilometers (622,000 square miles), an area bigger than Texas and Oklahoma combined. “We’re not searching for a needle in a haystack — we’re still trying to define where the haystack is,” Australia’s deputy defense chief, Air Marshal Mark Binskin, told reporters Tuesday at a military base in the Australian
west coast city of Perth as idle planes stood behind him. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which coordinates the search on Malaysia’s behalf, said Wednesday’s search will focus on 80,000 square kilometers (30,900 square miles) of ocean. The search area is about 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles) southwest of Perth. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott told Nine network television on Wednesday: “We’re throwing everything we have at this search.” “This is about the most inaccessible spot imaginable. It’s thousands of kilometers from anywhere, but nevertheless, we are
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the closest nation. We are a capable nation. We will do what we can to solve this riddle,” he later told Seven Network television. Malaysia announced Monday that an analysis of satellite data received after Flight 370 left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on March 8 indicated the plane had gone down in the Indian Ocean, killing all 239 people aboard. The finding did not answer troubling questions about why the plane was so far off-course. China, home to 153 of the passengers, demanded that Malaysia turn over the satellite data used to determine the plane’s fate.
Facebook buys virtual reality company for $2B
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In this Jan. 7, 2014 file photo, show attendees play a video game wearing Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets at the Intel booth at the International Consumer Electronics Show(CES), in Las Vegas. Facebook said Tuesday, March 25, 2014, it has agreed to buy Oculus for $2 billion, betting that its virtual reality may be a new way for people to communicate, learn or be entertained.
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook has agreed to buy Oculus for $2 billion, betting that its virtual reality technology may be a new way for people to communicate, learn or be entertained. “This is a long-term bet on the future of computing,” said Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg Tuesday on a call with analysts. “I believe Oculus can be one of the platforms of the future.” Oculus makes the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that’s received a lot of attention from video game developers, though it has yet to be released for consumers. The headsets cover a user’s eyes and create an immersive world that reacts to turning one’s head or moving back and forth. Beyond games, Zuckerberg said virtual reality headsets might someday be used to enjoy a courtside seat at a basketball game, study in a classroom, consult with a doctor face-to-face or shop in a virtual store. The technology also has social applications, he said. “Imagine sharing not just moments with friends online but entire experiences and adventures,” he said. It is Facebook’s second big acquisition in as many months. Last month the social network announced that it would pay $19 billion for deal messaging startup WhatsApp, a deal that hasn’t closed. “I don’t think you should expect us to make multiple multibillion-dollar acquisitions within a couple months frequently,” Zuckerberg said. But he called Oculus a
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ollege students are no strangers to shelling out hundreds of dollars for textbooks every semester. Even thrifty students find that used books will cost them greatly if they’re lucky enough to be able to get them. Students who are required to have “UConn editions” or “new editions” of books often see their bank accounts dwindle at the beginning of the semester. Often many students forgo purchasing textbooks or prowl around for an illicit online edition. The University of Maryland opted for a different solution. This year, they debuted open-source books for several classes. These textbooks take non-copyrighted material and combine it to create a textbook on the subject. The Baltimore Sun reported that this venture “is saving 1,100 students a combined $130,000.” Students support the idea, as textbook costs have only risen over the past years. However, opponents of the idea note that professors and publishers will lose out, with royalties reduced and number of textbooks down. Bookstores, especially university bookstores, will no longer receive profits from the sale of these textbooks as well. It is important to note that the problem with higher cost textbooks has lead to the sale of used books or not purchasing books at all--scenarios that have already hurt these parties. It is admirable that the University of Maryland has made these efforts to reduce textbook costs. While universities should certainly consider adopting similar properties, many classes require textbooks, books or novels that cannot be replaced by free material. Despite this, the pilot program begun this semester offers a change on how material is taught. The books incorporate interactive tools and links to more material on the subject in questions. This allows students to continue to explore the topic if they are interested. Programs like this have been started at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California State University system, and the Washington State college system where libraries of free online materials can be found. Despite the fact the fact that these programs have not become widespread, programs like these have the opportunity to promote digital learning, new education methods and student interests.
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n Monday morning, the prime minister of Malaysia announced that missing flight 370 was officially assumed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean. I received news alerts on my phone saying that officials had concluded “beyond any reasonable doubt” that the plane had gone down and that there were no survivors. Around midafternoon, a radio dj was discussing theories with callers as to why the plane had gone down. By the time the evening news rolled around, the lead story about the plane wasn’t that it had been lost, but that the families of the passengers had By Kristi Allen been informed Associate Commentary Editor via text message. One by one, the stories disappeared. BBC had been running three or four articles on different aspects of the search. By midnight, there was only one saying the search was called off temporarily due to weather. The plane dropped several spots on the New York Times, and the article about the announcement centered on the grieving families. The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post also focused on the grieving relatives – a clear sign that a story is winding down. By Tuesday morning, it was clear that the search for Malaysian air flight 370 was coming to the end of its media life cycle. Despite the many unanswered questions, people seem to be losing interest. The plane will draw headlines when it’s found, and there will be stories about
the passengers, families and search techniques in the coming days, but Flight 370 won’t be the lead story on the evening news anymore. The story of the plane is a perfect example of both the media and their audiences’ short attention spans, and it raises questions about whether or not the plane should have had the place in the news that it did. It’s easy to see why this captured the world’s attention. Flight 370 was a 21st century mystery with all the hallmarks of a good news story: intrigue, issues with international cooperation, fascinating technology, questions of terrorism and a race against the clock. The narrative was simple- a plane disappeared. Things don’t disappear anymore. You can track you cell phone, your car, even your dog via satellite and GPS. How could we lose a jumbo jet? A plane crash is also indisputably a tragedy. When a plane crashes, it deserves to make the news. But in the time that Flight 370 was the top story at a number of American news agencies, a European country was invaded and partially annexed. A dozen or so died in protests in Venezuela. Turkey tried to shut down access to Twitter. It was announced that control of the internet would be turned over to an international body. Egypt sentenced hundreds of opposition demonstrators to death. Some of the best evidence yet for the Big Bang Theory was released. Flight 370 commanded top headlines every day because it was a simple narrative that many people all over the world could relate to. A plane crash is a common nightmare. It’s also a tragedy without the political underpinnings of a civil war in the Middle East or uprisings in Eastern Europe. In America, we watched the disaster of Flight 370 unfold
as though it were a television special. It was dramatic and heart-wrenching. The media’s (and our own) fascination with ‘disaster porn’ is well documented. You don’t have to go too far to find it- on Monday night I watched clips of enormous mudslides destroying towns on repeat during a feature about during a feature about the deadly slide in Washington. Both the people who report and read the news are attracted to these kinds of stories. The real problem with our addiction to stories like Flight 370 isn’t that they push stories like Ukraine out of the top spot, but that they teach us to expect a world where issues are black and white and the events around us can be easily summarized. The evidence that led authorities to presume to Flight 370 had crashed has been out for days, and we’re no closer to finding the plane or determining the cause of its failure, but from the perspective of many, the plane is “confirmed” to have crashed. It’s possible that we’ll never know what caused Flight 370 to go down, and that’s difficult to accept. Likewise, it’s hard to consider the complexity of the events happening in places like Syria, Egypt, Ukraine and even in our own political system. We tend to jump to conclusions when a dictator is deposed, when a mission is declared over, when someone new is elected or when statements are taken out of context. Very little about our world, from local politics to ancient history can be explained in this good vs. evil context. Hopefully, our generation, with the unprecedented resources available to us, can do more to embrace the complexity of our world.
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o you believe someone who flips burgers deserves to make ten dollars an hour? That question is possibly the most insensitive and ineffective piece of political posturing ever uttered. What’s truly infuriating is that one can hardly have a discussion about the minimum wage without running into By Devin Keehner this line of Staff Columnist argument. It’s unhelpful, unproductive, and insulting. It doesn’t advance the conservative agenda philosophically or electorally, and should be done away with. First off, who cares? The small government, conservative position is that the public should have no opinion on what people get paid. People’s compensation in a free market economy should not be a topic of public debate – that should be true for CEOs and minimum wage workers alike. It’s almost indecent to even discuss such things. Let alone openly state that one group of people should be paid more or another less. It’s true, that the minimum
wage has nothing to do with a free market. However, the suggestion is that a worker, doing a certain job, is not worth a certain amount of money. That is still unhelpful. It’s a statement that has implications beyond the minimum wage. The carless way in which this argument is often presented is at least half the problem. In a more guarded form this argument would at least focus on the economics of the situation. It’s true that fast food workers have low rates of productivity (a fact that has less to do with the worker and more to do with the nature of the work.) Instead the argument comes off as an accusation. An assertion that somehow those working in the low wage positions have done something to be worth less. Worse still, would conservatives support government interventions in the wage market if they thought workers were worth ten or fifteen dollar an hour? Certainly the small government philosophy is not swayed so easily. Nor would republicans be opposed to a fast food workers getting paid ten or even fifteen dollars per hour if that’s what supply and demand deemed necessary.
So why make the point at all? That’s not to say that people should support raising in the minimum wage. There exists a plethora of moral, philosophical, and economic reasons that the minimum wage shouldn’t be raised, or, perhaps, even exist in the first place. The truth is that people can be against a specific piece of policy without attacking the intended beneficiaries of such a proposal. Conservative should be making it their prime goal to break the link between opposition and hate. After all, it’s the conservative ideology that suffers most when this meme arises. The media loves to assert-often through nothing more than innuendo-- that conservatives must hate poor people, immigrants, women, and racial and religious minorities. The only proof offered being opposition to some sort of government handout or regulation. However, on the issue of the minimum wage republicans seem perfectly happy to make the case themselves. What benefit can possibly exist by demeaning people engaged in medial labor—some of whom vote. Conservatives should be
employing exactly the opposite tactic. They should be courting the working poor. They should explain in detail how an increase in the minimum wage, or other liberal policies for that matter, hurt the very people they are trying to protect. Now, conservatives (in general) don’t hate the poor, or anyone else for the matter. However, conservatives feel that the minimum wage is an issue that they can’t afford to lose. It represents the very epitome of government intervention in the economy. Above all else free market conservatives must oppose any attempt, by the government, to set prices. That goes of rent, gas and wages alike. What the GOP does hate is an effective communication strategy, or anyone who points out that their current strategy is flawed (see the government shutdown.) Conservative need to stop feeling superior, and ask themselves why they haven’t been winning elections. Maybe, then, they can start excepting the very real possibility that it’s because they can be a little to harsh.
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Underground hip-hop “MC” and community activist Not4Prophet performed works from his first published collection of poetry, “Last of the Po’ Ricans y Otros Afroartifacts,” yesterday at the UConn Co-op at Storrs Center. Much different in style and performance than most would have anticipated from a poet, Not4Prophet used his rhymes and performance skills to create an exciting reading of his work that proved to be both moving and eye opening. Born Alano Baez in Puerto Rico, Not4Prophet moved with his family to the United States when he was a baby. They settled in East Harlem, N.Y., where he has lived ever since. “We were squatters from the time I was five years old,” he said. He said growing up observing the social injustices that occurred in his environment – and the difficulties that those in his community endure – inspired him to use his art as an avenue through which he could channel his political messages for justice and equality. Not4Prophet uses several mediums through which he expresses his artistic talents. Besides writing poetry, Not4Prophet works in music, writing raps and song lyrics and painting wall murals in the city. His poetry was put together into a collection of poems from which he read at the event. Not4Prophet began his performance with a short introduction about himself and his work before moving into performing his poetry. He chose some poems, which he want-
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Poet, activist and hip-hop artist, Not4Prophet, performed at the Co-op at Storrs Center Tuesday evening. He touched on themes of inequality and justice in his dyanmic performance.
ed to read out loud, and let the audience make requests of which poems they wanted to hear read aloud. In total, Not4Prophet read about 15 of his original poems, all of which were well received by the audience. Some highlights of the collection that he performed for the audience were “Subverses,” “The Great Dying” and “Private Property.” His poems included a mixture of spoken word as well as sung and rapped sec-
tions that created a thrilling presentation of his work. Not4Prophet said the poem “Subverses” was written during a time in his life when he “wanted to become more politically active.” “[The poem] characterizes political struggle in the streets,” he said. “The Great Dying” was a particular favorite of the audience because it involved both singing and spoken word; the singing portion, the audience
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was later told, was improvised and not written in the book, showing both his skill and ingenuity as a lyricist. Not4Prophet said “The Great Dying” was inspired by a childhood trip to a New York City museum with his mother, where he learned about the wrongs performed against his mother’s ancestors on Puerto Rico. He used the poem to capture the social injustices that have been occurring to his people throughout history,
and which are still happening today. “Private Property,” another poem Not4Profit read at the performance, was a piece of poetry that highlighted the social injustices he saw in East Harlem, N.Y. This particular piece was written about the Squatter’s Movement, and described the forced displacement of the lower classes from their homes so that the residences could be renovated and put on the market to a new,
wealthier demographic. Through his poetry, Not4Profit sends powerful messages through spoken and sung word. Using this mixture of artistic tactics, he said he hopes to create awareness about the difficulties and social injustices that occur in society, awareness that proves to not only be a true description of harsh realities, but also an inspiring call for change.
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Jimmy Fallon off to fast start on ‘Tonight’ NEW YORK (AP) — One month in, NBC’s generational trade of Jay Leno for Jimmy Fallon at the “Tonight” show is succeeding beyond the hopes of executives who engineered it. Fallon’s fast start is clear in television ratings and even more stark in social media metrics. While too early to declare a new king of late-night TV, the transition is a marked change from how badly NBC fumbled the short-lived switch from Leno to Conan O’Brien in 2009. “As a guy who’s been doing this for 36 years, I don’t allow myself to think about this level of success,” said Ted Harbert, NBC broadcasting chairman. NBC had hoped for an increase in young viewers and steeled itself to lose some of Leno’s older fans, but Fallon’s reception was a surprise. When Fallon premiered on “Tonight” during the Olympics, the franchise hit numbers unseen since Johnny Carson’s last week in 1992. Things have settled down but Fallon is still comfortably on top. During the week of March 10-14, Fallon averaged 4.26 million viewers to Jimmy Kimmel’s 2.83 million on ABC and David Letterman’s 2.78 million on CBS, the Nielsen company said. Fallon has consistently topped the 4.1 million viewers that Leno averaged this season before leaving. Fallon’s lead over his rivals is more pronounced among viewers aged 18-to-49, the demographic NBC bases its advertising sales upon. Fallon and NBC embrace the way many early-tobed consumers experience late-night television these days: by watching clips of a show’s best moments online. The YouTube clip of Fallon and Will Smith acting out the evolution of hip-hop dancing has been seen more than 12.8 million times. Fallon’s lipsync duel with Paul Rudd on songs by Tina Turner, Foreigner and Queen has nearly 9 million views. Other popular clips show Fallon, singer Idina Menzel and the Roots performing “Let it Go” with children’s instruments and the sliced-and-diced version of newsmen Brian Williams and Lester Holt on “Rapper’s Delight.” Each segment is funny, good-natured and utterly impossible to imagine Fallon’s old-school predecessor doing. “What I notice in people’s reactions is not just that they like the show and think that it’s funny, but they like the feel-good spirit,” Harbert said. “There’s a total absence of snarkiness, of cynicism. It’s just there to make you feel good before you go to sleep.” The anti-show biz style pioneered by Letterman isn’t dead, said Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University. But “it may have run its course to some extent,” he said, and Fallon’s sincer-
ity dilutes the pure snark of Letterman and O’Brien. “Fallon has been able to change the equation,” he said. He’s made his mark despite a more crowded competitive landscape, with O’Brien, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Chelsea Handler and Arsenio Hall also mining late-night laughs. During his first month, Fallon generated more than 120 million YouTube views, Twitter mentions and Facebook posts, the research firm RelishMIX said. That’s more than double Kimmel, who had 57 million in the same social media metric. Letterman had 2.3 million. “That lopsidedness is a huge wake-up call to writers, producers of late-night, network marketing departments and other series in all genres that they must ‘feed the beast’ or die,” said Marc Karzen, RelishMIX spokesman. Friday night’s routine with Kevin Bacon revisiting some “Footloose” dance moves quickly caught fire online, and video highlights had been watched 7.3 million times as of early Monday, he said. Aggressive online exposure was a key part of NBC’s launch strategy, which included timing Fallon’s takeover to coincide with heavy viewer interest in the Winter Olympics, Harbert said. The next step is to find ways to make more money off all that online interest, he said. Fallon’s rivals haven’t backed down from the competition. Kimmel got attention during the Winter Olympics for filming a stunt that jokingly suggested a wolf was roaming the halls of a dorm for athletes. With their youthful appeal (Fallon is 39, Kimmel 46), the two men seem primed for a bicoastal rivalry. Letterman, during an appearance in January at Howard Stern’s birthday bash, said Leno’s departure wouldn’t affect how long he wanted to keep working. “I would do it forever if it were up to me,” he said, before adding a wry aside: “Sometimes, it isn’t up to me.” Judging by one of television’s most prominent measuring sticks for likability, Fallon’s success shouldn’t be a surprise. He has a “Q’’ score of 19 among viewers aged 18 to 34 — which means 19 percent of people familiar with him consider Fallon one of their favorite personalities, said the company Marketing Evaluations Inc., which polled consumers both before and after the “Tonight” takeover. Kimmel’s score was 16 and Letterman’s 11, the company said (an average celebrity “Q’’ score is 17). Among young men, Fallon’s score shoots up to 24, said company spokesman Henry Schafer. More people that age know who Fallon is than know Letterman, he said.
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“Mass Effect 3” Say what you will about the ending, “Mass Effect 3” is a fantastic game that would be held in higher regard if it didn’t have to live in the shadow of its near-flawless predecessor. Still being part of the most elaborate science fiction franchise since “Star Wars” is nothing to sneeze at Traditional RPG fans may cry heresy, but for any gamer who enjoys a great story combined with solid combat mechanics “Mass Effect 3” represents the cream of the crop. As the epic conclusion to the saga of Commander Shepard, the title finally featured humanity’s war with the galaxy destroying “Reapers.” Epic battles, emotional rendezvous with the large ensemble cast seen in past titles and the amazing ability to carry your save file over from the original “Mass Effect” games remains un-duplicated in the industry. “Mass Effect 3” is a worthy conclusion to one of the finest gaming stories ever told. -Alex Sferrazza
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By Alex Sferrazza Staff Writer Is “Ground Zeroes” really as short as you’ve heard? Yep. Is it absolutely amazing? You’d better believe it kid. Six agonizing years have passed since the release of “Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.” At long last “Metal Gear Solid V” is upon us… kind of. For those not in the know “Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes” is the prologue to the main title, “Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain,” which will release in the near future. Rather than release the entire experience at once as was done with “Metal Gear Solid 2” in 2001, “Ground Zeroes” was released ahead of MGSV at a reduced price of $19.99-$29.99 (price varies depending on platform choice and distribution method). As a result, “Ground Zeroes” is a significantly shorter experience than your standard “Metal Gear” game but if it’s any indication of how the rest of MGSV will turn out I have little doubt that Hideo Kojima will have once again released yet another title considered to be among the very best of all time. “Ground Zeroes” contains a single story based mission, which will take the average gamer anywhere between 2-3 hours to complete depending on your play style. An additional four side missions provide additional entertainment and take around 40 minutes each to finish off. They’re definitely fun, but they aren’t the reason you’re buying the game. Set one year after the events of “Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker,” the title sees Big Boss a.k.a. “Naked Snake” infiltrating an American Black site in Cuba to rescue Chico and Paz (two of the central characters of “Peace Walker”) from the clutches of the mysterious organization. This is truly “Metal Gear” made for the next generation. “Ground Zeroes” is leaner, meaner and more refined than any of its predeces-
sors. The shooting mechanics and CQC systems have been overhauled and simplified. The learning curve is subsequently shorter than other “Metal Gear” titles released since the original “Metal Gear Solid.” Additionally, the game features a brand new bullet time effect that gives you a split second to react if you are spotted by the enemy. This allows you just enough time to dispatch them before they alert the entire base. Despite these advancements, make no mistake: stealth is still the name of the game. Enemy A.I. is far more advanced this time around. Guards don’t consistently cover the same areas and you’ll need to constantly keep tabs on them this time around. On the other hand, a new warning indicator appears on screen whenever a guard becomes suspicious about your location. Additionally, the ability to commandeer various vehicles on the base adds a brand new element to the Metal Gear formula. Simply put, “Ground Zeroes” features the finest mechanics in a stealth game I’ve ever seen. Not to mention the graphics composed by Kojima Productions new “FOX Engine” are the most realistic I’ve ever seen in a game. The main mission is bookended by two brilliantly rendered cut scenes the second of which contains a rather graphic scene involving the removal of a bomb from a soldier. Some may say this imagery goes too far, but on the contrary, unlike other titles which have attempted to cross similar boundaries (“Grand Theft Auto V“ for instance) the scene is included not for shock value but rather in an attempt to create an accurate depiction of the brutality of warfare. Hideo Kojima should be commended for his willingness to do what few others have dared. On the whole, “Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes” is an absolute triumph and a wonderful teaser of what’s to come. It’s a little light on content considering the price tag but rest assured, those who are willing to pay the entry fee are in for an amazing ride.
9/10 PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
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‘Link’s Awakening’ plays like a dream By Max Engel Campus Correspondent The Legend of Zelda franchise is one of the most popular videogame franchises to exist, having roots going back to the mid-1980s and the Nintendo Entertainment System. In 1993, this franchise had its first handheld outing in the form of “Link’s Awakening” for the Game Boy; the title had a remake five years later for the Gameboy Color, titled “Link’s Awakening DX,” which this is the version of the game I am reviewing. Curiously, this title is one of only two “Zelda” titles to not feature the eponymous princess. Instead, the game introduces our hero, Link, washing up on Koholint Island from a shipwreck, embarking on a journey to awaken a mystical creature known as the Wind Fish. To do this, Link must collect eight instruments by doing battle with powerful adversaries, solving intriguing puzzles, and mingling with the inhabitants of Koholint Island. Following in the footsteps of its predecessor for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, “A Link to the Past,” this game utilizes an overhead perspective of our hero as he slashes octoroks, clashes with darknuts, and smashes pots full of money. However, taking a page from the second game in the franchise, “The Adventure of Link,” the game brilliantly uses side-scrolling in some of the dungeons, and does so to no detriment to the gameplay.
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Throughout, the game also features cameos from other Nintendo characters, including goombas in the aforementioned side-scrolling sections, chain chomps and Mr. Wright from the Super Nintendo version of “Sim City.” My favorite part of this game is one that is often a staple of “Zelda” games: the dungeons. Some players today may find the some of the puzzles frustrating, but I personally found them adequately challenging given the era “Link’s Awakening” was released. I especially have a soft spot for how each dungeon’s boss requires the use of the item you obtain in each dungeon. For example, the
Power Bracelet allows you to pick up and throw pots; shortly after acquiring it, you use this new item against the genie-like boss of the dungeon to destroy the bottle he inhabits. Another large part of “Zelda” games is exploring areas with new gear. Like another Nintendo franchise, “Metroid,” you’ll find yourself gleaming with satisfaction when you realize an item you obtained is finally the one that gets you past a pit to a stairwell, or lets you get past a seemingly invincible minion. In this regard, I feel “Link’s Awakening” performed very well. The world seems quite large, but it doesn’t
feel overwhelming. I’d say it may be around the same size of the Kanto region in Pokémon Red and Blue. Ultimately, I found “Link’s Awakening” a solid addition to any fan of the Gameboy. Even if this is your first “Zelda” game like it was for me, anyone with sufficiently decent critical thinking and puzzle-solving skills can clear “Link’s Awakening.” However, even upon its release, “Link’s Awakening” was hardly a sleeper hit, and those with a disparaging image of the game are in for a rude awakening.
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Hideo Kojima, the man behind one of gaming most revered (and controversial) series “Metal Gear” is no stranger to controversy. Kojima’s 1998 blockbuster hit for the Sony Playstation “Metal Gear Solid” was one of the earliest examples of the modern adult-oriented video game. Not “adult” in the sense that the content was overly inappropriate but in that the plot of the game dealt with mature themes and subject matter including terrorism, government conspiracy theories and the psychological trauma of warfare. The title was years ahead of its time in this regard and it stands as a testament to Kojima’s willingness to break boundaries and shake up the status quo. 16 years later, the man is at it again. “Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes” the first act in Kojima’s latest masterpiece released last week to critical acclaim and perhaps even more unsurprisingly to a fair share of controversy. The ending cutscene to the title features a character who has been implanted with an bomb and we are subsequently shown an extremely graphic scene in which the subject is opened up (without anesthetic) and the explosive is removed by hand. If that image sounds gratuitous, it is. Many critics have quickly condemned the scene for being over the top, unsolicited and wholly unnecessary. To these detractors I ask a simple question: where the hell have you been for the past 16 years? The “Metal Gear Solid” series has featured numerous similar scenes over the course of its history, from torture sequences to limb severances and more. Its not as if this type of scene is a completely foreign creation. Granted, the scene in “Ground Zeroes” is far more graphic than anything we’ve seen before for the series but nonetheless i stand by my argument. Additionally, these critics fail to recognize the significance of the scene’s inclusion. Hideo Kojima’s goal is not to “shock” the audience or include violence for violence’s sake, nor has that ever been his intention (most “Metal Gear” games can be completed without killing a single enemy and the series is based around a profound antiwar message). Rather, the man is bravely attempting to do what no other developer has yet done: provide an accurate (and uncensored) depiction of the brutality of warfare in the video game medium. In this regard, the content should be considered no more inappropriate than scenes in graphic war film’s such as “Saving Private Ryan” and “Schindler’s List.” Again the argument could be made that those film’s are based upon the real life event of World War II and therefore should be considered in a different class from a work of heavily modified historical fiction such as “Metal Gear.” But, why?
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Should the content of artistic works be judged differently solely based upon whether the content depicts an actual event or a fictionalized one? I would certainly hope not. Perhaps because the video game medium is still in it’s comparative infancy and still attracts its fair share of controversy it is held to a different standard from other forms of media. “Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes” is nothing less than a pure work of art for the 21st century. It can be brutal, but as long as parents are mindful enough to keep this type of content away from their children, Kojima and his team should once again be lauded for their willingness to lead the industry into uncharted territory.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin are separating after more than 10 years of marriage, according to a message posted on the “Iron Man” actress’s blog Tuesday. Paltrow, 41, and the 37-year-old musician married in 2003. They have two children: 9-year-old daughter Apple and 7-year-old son Moses. “We have been working hard for well over a year, some of it together, some of it separated, to see what might have been possible between us, and we have come to the conclusion that while we love each other very much we will remain separate,” read the message titled “Conscious Uncoupling” on Goop.com. It was signed by both Paltrow and Martin, and a spokeswoman for Martin confirmed the separation.
“We are parents first and foremost, to two incredibly wonderful children, and we ask for their and our space and privacy to be respected at this difficult time,” the message also said. “We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and co-parent, we will be able to continue in the same manner.” Martin, the Grammywinning lead vocalist of Coldplay, and Paltrow, who won an Oscar for her performance in “Shakespeare in Love,” were among Hollywood’s highest profile couples. The duo frequently accompanied each other to public events, such as this year’s Golden Globes ceremony and the Help Haiti Home gala earlier this year, but they rarely posed together on red carpets.
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Gwyneth Paltrow, left, and her husband, singer Chris Martin at the 3rd Annual Sean Penn & Friends Help Haiti Home Gala in Beverly Hills, Calif. Paltrow and Martin are separating after 11 years of marriage.
Disney’s purchase of Maker a boon for L.A. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Disney’s $500 million purchase of YouTube video producer Maker Studios is a sign that the entertainment industry’s content and technology startups are coming of age and proving to be as valuable to Hollywood as app makers are to the giants of Silicon Valley. The deal announced Monday also signals Hollywood’s new openness to technological innovation, an acknowledgement that media giants don’t have all the answers. The acquisition comes a month after The Walt Disney Co. launched a technology startup incubator called Disney Accelerator, which promises to seed 10 companies with $120,000 each to develop ideas that’ll have a big impact on entertainment and technology. Disney’s purchase price — which could hit $950 million if Maker hits performance targets — also validates the increasing value of so-called “multichannel networks.” Those are the mini media
empires that provide funding and support to video creators while taking a cut of ad revenue generated from views on YouTube. When people subscribe to these channels, they’re notified when new videos are available. That helps networks generate regular views on multiple devices, and enables them to deliver video ads on a massive scale. Only a handful of such networks have reached the size of Maker, which went from startup status in 2009 to a network with 55,000 channels that generate 5.5 billion views a month, the vast majority from people aged 13-34. Other big network players include Machinima, Big Frame and Fullscreen, all based in the Los Angeles area because of its ready supply of actors, directors, camera people and editors who are otherwise struggling to make it onto a big-budget Hollywood movie or TV show. “I think the big media companies just
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have a hard time being nimble on their own,” says Gerry Laybourne, chairman of Defy Media, operator of YouTube channels including Smosh and Shut Up! Cartoons. “They can’t take the time to find a Smosh. It’s too hard. They can’t take the risk of trying to figure out all the angles. They have to rely on the garages for innovation,” she says. Dana Loberg, co-founder of San Francisco-based digital marketing company MovieLaLa, says the Maker deal provides encouragement to entrepreneurs like herself who are looking to the studios for business and investment. “To have a buyer in Los Angeles like a studio that can make these big purchases is really big and good for the ecosystem of L.A.,” she says. “I’m super happy to see studios are acquiring and paying attention to the digital space.” The purchase price sets a high benchmark for an L.A.-area startup, but it’s not
the highest. Facebook Inc. announced its $2 billion purchase of Irvine-based virtual reality headset maker Oculus on Tuesday. Yahoo Inc. bought Burbank-based search marketing company firm Overture in 2003 for $1.6 billion. News Corp. bought Beverly Hills-based social network Myspace in 2005 for $580 million. Electronic Arts Inc. paid $680 million for Los Angelesbased mobile game maker Jamdat in 2005 and Sony Corp. bought Aliso Viejo-based streaming game company Gaikai for $380 million in 2012. According to securities filings, AwesomenessTV made $11.4 million in revenue and $2.4 million in gross profit in the final eight months of last year. But its growth in viewership has been explosive. DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg told analysts in February that monthly views had skyrocketed in a year from 11.2 million to 374 million while its subscribers had jumped from 3.3 million to 37
Man ordered to stay away, not contact Taylor Swift LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man accused of saying he is married to Taylor Swift and threatening to harm her family was ordered Tuesday to stay away from the Grammywinning singer for three years. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carol Boas Goodson granted Swift a restraining order against Timothy Sweet. Court filings by Swift state that Sweet has sent messages
threatening to harm the entertainer’s family or anyone who interferes with his perceived relationship with her. The singer wrote in a sworn declaration that she fears for her safety in public and at home. “Mr. Sweet’s course of conduct, including threats to harm my family, are seriously alarming and harassing and are extremely distressing to me and my family,” Swift
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wrote in a sworn declaration filed March 3. Sweet has also gone to the singer’s homes in Beverly Hills and Nashville, the filings state. Sweet did not attend Tuesday’s hearing and did not respond to the singer’s restraining order petition, which included several online messages that were attributed to Sweet.
“Dearest Taylor, I’ll kill any man who gets in the way of our marriage,” one of the messages stated, according to the filing. Sweet has not been charged in Los Angeles with making threats, court records show. The restraining order covers Swift’s parents, her homes and places where she works in Los Angeles and Nashville.
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million. AwesomenessTV is also on track to meet its performance targets, and the company is now expecting to pay $96.5 million of the maximum $117 million it had promised as incentive pay after the deal closed. The structure of the so-called “earnout” pay on the DreamWorks deal suggests “both parents are expecting a lot of growth,” according to Mark Zyla, managing director of Acuitas Inc. and an expert on contingency pay in acquisitions. Given the performance of AwesomenessTV after its acquisition, “$500 million for Maker doesn’t sound so crazy,” says Howard Morgan, managing partner of venture capital firm First Round Capital. “You look at the demographics of where the revenue is coming from. You look at, can you grow it dramatically?” Morgan says. “I think we’re still in the early stages of all of this.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — “A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power” (Simon and Schuster), by Jimmy Carter In his new book, “A Call to Action,” former President and longtime Baptist church deacon Jimmy Carter says prejudice and discrimination against women and girls is perpetuated in America and around the world by religious authorities who twist holy texts to assert male dominance. Carter famously broke with the mainstream Southern Baptist Convention in 2000, denouncing it for drifting into doctrines he called sexist and racist. He now worships at a New Baptist Covenant church in his hometown of Plains, Ga. The 89-year-old Carter recalls how in his Deep South childhood the Bible was cited to justify white supremacy and asserts that patriarchs now twist the Bible, Koran and other Scriptures to denigrate and control women. As a Bible teacher for more than 70 years, he tackles some of the passages cited by male supremacist Christians, notably St. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, which preaches: “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church ...” Carter contrasts this and other Old Testament writings that consigned women to male-property status with the four Gospels that “never report any instance of Jesus’ condoning sexual discrimination or the implied subservience or inferiority of women.” While Carter’s case that Jesus’ example in the New Testament demonstrated fairness and equality is persuasive, Christians who cling to chauvinist Bible passages are unlikely to listen to his interpretation of Scripture. After assigning the cause of much of today’s discrimination to religious intolerance meant to preserve male dominance, Carter documents the vast array of effects. In one of his shortest, but perhaps most chilling chapters, “The Genocide of Girls,” Carter notes that prenatal screening has enabled parents in patriarchal societies to “select” the sex of their children by preventing the birth of girls. Amartya Sen, a Nobel Prize laureate from India, estimated in 1990 that more than 105 million female infants worldwide had been aborted or killed in a practice called “femicide” or “gendercide.” Carter says laws against the practice in China, India and South Korea have been ineffective.
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NFL office can help refs with replays ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The NFL officiating department will help referees rule on instant replay reviews starting next season. League owners passed a rule Tuesday allowing referees to consult with director of officiating Dean Blandino and his staff to help determine whether a call should be upheld or overturned. NFL officials said the change should speed up the process. Blandino and other staff will be monitoring the games from league offices in New York, and they will immediately begin reviewing challenges before the referee even gets to his monitor. They can make recommendations on what replays to look at, but the referee still will make the final decision. Rich McKay, Falcons president and cochairman of the influential competition committee, called it "kind of a proof of concept to see how this works. We feel pretty comfortable with it, though." "What we do like is we take the true experts in replay, those in New York, to be able to communicate with the referees who have the ultimate decision," McKay said. "We just think we get a more consistent decision-making process." Blandino said the new process will be faster and make more eyes available to help in the reviews. "We'll be reviewing all the angles the network is providing, in essence finding what
is the best reviewable aspect, and getting a baseline for the referee," he said. "Then we will begin the communication process with the referee once he is done speaking to the coach and announcing the challenge. "Consistency is what we are striving for in officiating and this will definitely help us in that area." One coach, Cincinnati's Marvin Lewis, a member of the competition committee, believes the entire procedure has been upgraded. "By consulting with New York, they can speed up the review process while they talk to the referee," Lewis said. "They can tell the referee: 'Here are the shots all set for you to look at.'" Blandino wasn't sure this change would lead to more challenges, noting that coaches will still lose a timeout for an incorrect challenge. Players no longer will be allowed to dunk the football over the crossbar of the goalposts in celebration. Blandino said the NFL is making a clarification of the rules for mutual respect and sportsmanship. "We put a rule in several years ago about not using props on the football field: the football, the pylon," he said. "This is just expanding upon that rule to include the crossbar of the goalpost. We had the situation with (Saints tight end) Jimmy Graham
knocking the uprights off kilter last season and it delayed the game. "We have a potential rule change where we could raise the uprights, so you may have more issues with that if guys are dunking." The owners also banned roll-up blocks to the side of a player. In the past, the rule only barred such blocks from behind. "We saw some plays on tape that we just felt like we needed to expand that protection," McKay said. Commissioner Roger Goodell believes small changes like that one, along with other recent rule changes, have made the game safer. "We went through that (data) in greater detail with the outside firm that's been tracking that for us and it's very clear that the rule changes we have made had the positive impact that we intended," Goodell said Monday. "While there are some that say it has had a negative (impact) — as an example, ACL injuries being up — that's not the case. What we've seen is that players have adjusted to the rules and they are finding that target zone and it is a safer, better game because of it." A dozen other proposals for rules or bylaw changes were being considered by the owners, with votes on them expected Wednesday.
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Joe Torre waxes nostalgic in HOF
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Former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre tours a Babe Ruth exhibit during his orientation visit at the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday, March 25, 2014, in Cooperstown, N.Y. Torre will be inducted to the hall in July
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Joe Torre kept his emotions in check. He'll save any tears for that Sunday in late July. Torre went on his pre-induction tour of the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday, taking his time when it came to the exhibits that touched his own life in baseball. He held a notched bat that Babe Ruth used in 1927 during his record-setting year as home run king, and marveled at a display in honor of his first World Series triumph as a manager with the Yankees. He smiled as he pored over Russ Hodges' scorecard when his beloved New York Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in their famed 1951 playoff game, and then waxed nostalgic as he contemplated his induction this summer. "It's just been an amazing ride for me," Torre said Tuesday, sitting in the gallery where his plaque will be affixed to a wall not far from Ruth's honor. "To wind up in Cooperstown is surreal for me. To go into the Hall of Fame is one thing. When you think of all the other Yankees that are in here, it's pretty special. This is just a shrine. To visit it, much less be inducted, it's still sort of unbelievable to me." Torre and fellow former managers Bobby Cox and Tony La Russa were elected unanimously in December by the Hall of Fame's expansion-era committee. They will be inducted July 27 along with pitchers Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine and slugger Frank Thomas, who were elected in January in their first time on the writers' ballot. Maddux and Cox went on their pre-
induction tour Monday and said just being in the Plaque Gallery made the honor start to hit home a little bit more. Torre echoed the sentiment. "When I actually did get the call, it still stunned me," Torre said. "Not that it surprised me, but even though you know it's a special place to be, when the call finally comes to you personally, it's beyond (comprehension)." Torre was a star player before he turned to managing and finished his career as the only player to amass more than 2,000 hits (2,342) and win more than 2,000 games as a manager, according to STATS. Despite a playing career that was good enough to keep him on the Hall of Fame's ballot for all 15 years of eligibility — he hit .297, slugged 252 homers and drove in 1,185 runs — the 73-year-old Torre was voted in because of his success in the dugout. Torre won a division title with Atlanta in 1982 before the Braves were swept by the Cardinals in the NL championship series. Atlanta fired him in 1984 and he then worked as an Angels broadcaster until St. Louis gave him the manager's job late in the 1990 season. He was dismissed five years later despite winning records in each of his three full seasons and hired by New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner before the 1996 campaign. After never playing in a World Series, Torre won four titles in five years, his coolness amid the Bronx craziness under Steinbrenner helping to restore the luster of baseball's most successful franchise. In all, Torre made 12 trips to the playoffs
in 12 years in New York, winning 10 division titles and six AL pennants. Growing up in Flatbush, just a 20-minute drive to Ebbets Field where the Brooklyn Dodgers played, Torre was a diehard New York Giants fan because of his family and joked about his time as a manager. "I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both," Torre said with a smile, his wife, Ali, at his side. With seven decades as a fan of the game, Torre commented at almost at every turn on his tour. He spoke of Satchel Paige when the former Negro Leagues star was hired in 1968 by the Atlanta Braves as a pitchercoach-trainer so he could meet his pension needs. "He was there every day," Torre said. He picked out his brother Frank in a photo of the 1957 World Series champion Milwaukee Braves. In a corner featuring the Cleveland Indians and Bob Feller, Torre chuckled as if it were yesterday. "He sold me my first insurance policy. Northwestern Mutual," Torre said of the late righthander and Hall of Famer. "This is a trip through memory lane." Currently Major League Baseball's executive vice president for baseball operations, Torre said he hoped he could leave a lasting legacy. "It's still sort of unbelievable for me," Torre said. "Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money. It's a privilege (to play the game)."
Bills owner Ralph Wilson dies at 95
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — During his 95 years, Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson went from fan to "Foolish Club" member to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, enjoying every step along the way. The NFL lost the person regarded as the league's "conscience" on Tuesday, when Wilson died at his home around 1:40 p.m. Bills president Russ Brandon announced Wilson's death at the NFL owners meetings in Orlando, Fla. His death resonated among the owners — from old to new. Wilson played an integral role in establishing the modern game, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2009. In 1959, Wilson founded the Bills in helping establish the upstart American Football League, whose owners were dubbed "The Foolish Club" for having the chutzpah to challenge the NFL. Some five years later, Wilson played an influential role in setting the framework of the two leagues' merger. "Ralph Wilson was a driving force in developing pro football into America's most popular sport," NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said. "Ralph always brought a principled and common-sense approach to issues." Patriots owner Robert Kraft released a statement saying how grateful he was for how Wilson welcomed him to the NFL, adding: "I will miss him." B BYO
The last surviving member of the original AFL owners, Wilson died at his home in Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich., said Mary Mazur, spokeswoman for the Wayne County medical examiner's office. He had been receiving home hospice care. Wilson had been in failing health since having hip surgery in 2011. Though he spent much of his time at his home in suburban Detroit, he attended Hall of Fame induction weekends. He was a regular at Bills home games since founding the franchise, but had not been there since going to one game in 2010. Wilson gave up daily oversight of the club on Jan. 1, 2013, when he relinquished the president's title to Brandon. "No one loves this game more than Ralph Wilson," Brandon said. "It's very tough. What he's' meant to the entire organization. He's our leader, our mentor our friend. How he loves his players and loved our community. Special guy. They just don't make them like Ralph Wilson." Wilson earned a well-established reputation for loyalty to fans and the stands he took against franchise relocation. Though he butted heads several times with late Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis, it did not affect their friendship. As Davis said in 2009: "There were a lot of guys WE DEL IVER !
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saying (Steelers owner Dan) Rooney was the conscience. But certainly, Mr. Wilson was more of a conscience of the league." Wilson also earned the respect of his former players. "I'm broken-hearted," Bills receiver-turned-broadcaster Steve Tasker said. "I had a lot of respect for him and I owed a lot of my success professionally and personally to him and this organization. I never forgot that, and I never will." Wilson's Bills have never won a Super Bowl. They came close in the early 1990s, when the Marv Levycoached and Jim Kelly-quarterbacked teams won four consecutive AFC championships, but lost each time. The Bills have not made the playoffs since 1999 and their 14-year postseason drought ranks as the NFL's longest active streak. In 2010, with the Bills 0-5, Wilson began an interview with The Associated Press with an apology. "I want to apologize for this phone system," Wilson said, with a familiar chuckle. "It's almost as bad as my team." The future of the team is now in the hands of Brandon and Wilson's second-in-command, Bills treasurer Jeffrey Littmann. For the meantime, the Bills are expected to be placed in a trust before eventually being sold.
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Wilson expressed no interest of leaving the team to his family. He is survived by wife Mary, daughter Christy Wilson-Hofmann, who serves as a Bills consultant. There's also niece Mary Owen, who serves on several NFL committees while working as the team's executive vice president of strategic planning. Kelly has expressed interest in buying the franchise and has previously said he's assembled a group of investors. Kelly's health, however, has become an issue this week. He is expected to have surgery for a second time in a year following the recurrence of cancer that his wife described as aggressive and "starting to spread." Buffalo Sabres owner Terry Pegula is also considered a candidate to purchase the Bills and keep them in Buffalo. That doesn't remove the possibility of outside interests making offers and relocating the team to larger markets such as Los Angeles or nearby Toronto. The Bills' future in Orchard Park is secure for the short term. The team negotiated a 10-year lease in December 2012 with the state and county to continue playing at Ralph Wilson Stadium. It's a $271 million deal, of which $130 million will be committed to upgrading an aging stadium that opened in 1973.
For Dolson and fellow senior Bria Hartley, it was the final home game of their respective careers. With 4:34 left to play, Auriemma called timeout to remove Hartley from the game, which was met with a standing ovation from those in attendance. Two minutes later, Dolson was met with the same reception. “At the end of the game, walking off and waving to all the fans that were here was just a special moment,” Dolson said. “It’s been an honor for me to play here for four years and, looking back, I wouldn’t have had it any other way.” Of course, that four-year journey isn’t over quite yet. The seniors’ final home game put UConn into the Sweet 16 once again – the
21st straight year that its season has survived to the tournament’s second weekend. “It’s pretty unique, it’s pretty special,” Auriemma said. “It’s something that we’ve created through a lot of hard work and a lot of great players. We’ve been good for a long time, and that to me is what I’m going to remember I’m most proud of. We’ve been really good for a long time and we’ve been great a lot of times.” The Huskies will play No. 12 BYU on Saturday night at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Neb.
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In 1968 the Harvard Crimson ‘defeated’ the Yale Bulldogs 29-29. The tie was good enough for Harvard, who put “Harvard Beats Yale” in their paper.
“I was always waiting, waiting for this opportunity and now it seems like I’m playing, so it’s fun.” -Blackhawks ‘ top prospect Teuvo Teravainen on his debut last night
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March 29 NCAA Tournament Regional Semifinal BYU 7 p.m.
Golf April 12 and 13 Rutherford Collegiate All Day
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Postponed March 27 Sacred Heart Quinnipiac 3 p.m. 3:30 p.m.
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Texas Rangers’ Adam Rosales drops his bat and helmet after striking out during the second inning of a spring exhibition baseball game against the Cleveland Indians Tuesday, March 25, 2014, in Goodyear, Ariz.
March 29 UConn Home Meet TBA
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Stewart, Hartley, Dolson earn honors
March 29 Raleigh Relays All day
What's On TV NCAAB: California vs. SMU, 9 p.m., ESPN2 SMU was snubbed out of the NCAA tournament and is looking to leave their mark on the NIT. The Mustangs have allowed the 23rd least points in the country this season and will try to continue their stingy defense. The Golden Bears are led in scoring by Justin Cobbs who is pouring in 15.5 points per game. AP
NBA: Indiana Pacers vs Miami Heat, 8 p.m., ESPN The Indiana Pacers will look to break out of their slump as they havve dropped the last two games while going 5-5 in their last ten games. The Heat are 4-6 in their last ten games and are looking to get back on track before the playoffs get under way. This could be a potential preview of the Eastern Conference finals as both of these teams are heavy favorites to go deep in the playoffs.
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ner. She is a finalist for both the Naismath and Wooden Player of the Year trophy. Hartley is second on the team with 16.4 points per game and 154 assists. She is in the league’s top-five in scoring, assists, assist-to-turnover ratio, steals and three-point field goal percentage and has scored 20 or more points 11 times this year. The USBWA National Player of the Week on January 20, Hartley is only the second Husky all-time, along with Maya Moore and Diana Taurasi to post at least 1,500 points, 500 rebounds and 500 assists. Stewart is leading the top-ranked Huskies at 19.7 points per game and is second on the squad at 8.1 rebounds per contest. She ranks in the league’s top-10 in scoring, rebounding, field goal percentage, three-point field goal percentage, blocks and free throw percentage. Stewart also graced the cover of the Sports Illustrated. The North Syracuse, N.Y. native was honored as the 2014 American Conference Tournament Most Outstanding Player after averaging 21.7 points per game leading UConn to the title. The 2013-14 American Conference Preseason Player of the Year has been selected as the USBWA National Player of the Week and is a finalist for the Naismith Trophy and the Wooden Award.
There is never much surprise when members of the undefeated Connecticut Huskies women’s basketball team are being showered with awards. Senior center Stefanie Dolson, senior guard Bria Hartley and sophomore forward Breanna Stewart have each been selected for the All-Region 1 Team as announced by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) on Tuesday, March 25. This marks the second selection for both Dolson (2013) and Hartley (2012) and the first for Stewart. All three have also been named 2013-2014 All-American Athletic Conference First Team picks. Stewart has already been named the American Conference Player of the Year and the ESPNW Player of the Year. The WBCA All-America selection committee will select the 10-member WBCA Division I Coaches’ AllAmerica Team from these 52 AllRegion picks. Dolson is averaging 12.3 points and leads the squad at 9.1 rebounds per contest. She recently became only the fifth Husky all-time, along with Tina Charles, Maya Moore, Rebecca Lobo and Jamelle, to register at least 1,000 career points and 1,000 career rebounds. Dolson was named he 2013-14 American Conference Defensive Player of the Year and Elan.DeCarlo@UConn.edu also the Sportsmanship Award win-
ISU’s resilience keyed by clutch guard Naz Long
AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State is in the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2000 because it’s a resilient bunch that doesn’t shrink from the moment. No one epitomizes the mental toughness of these Cyclones more than sophomore Naz Long, whose ability to shake off adversity and knock down big shots is a huge reason why they’re still playing. Long’s clutch shooting kept Iowa State (28-7) alive more than once in the regular season, and lately he’s saved the Cyclones so often that some fans have taken to calling him “3sus.” “I’ve said this all along with Naz. You never have to worry about Naz and confidence,” Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg said. “He’s not afraid to step up and take shots — whether he’s made his last five or he’s missed his last five.” Long has made his last five when it’s mattered the most. He’s 5 of 5 from 3-point range in the final five minutes of Big 12 and NCAA tournament games so far. Long’s latest crucial 3 came with 50 seconds left Sunday against North Carolina, tying it at 81 and setting the stage for DeAndre Kane’s last-second layup — which put Iowa State in its first regional semifinal in 14 years. Long and the Cyclones face Connecticut (28-8) on Friday night in New York. “That dude catches the ball, you better watch out,” Iowa State forward Melvin Ejim said. That wasn’t always the case. Long rarely played as a freshman, averaging just 1.8 points a game as the Cyclones leaned on a senior-laden backcourt to reach the third round of the NCAA tournament. He could have easily been in the same situation this season. The arrival of Kane, a highly regarded transfer from Marshall, and a pair of impressive freshmen guards in Monte Morris and Matt Thomas left Long again fighting for minutes. But Long looked good enough in fall practice to earn a starting nod for the opener in place of Ejim, who had been battling a minor injury. Long responded with a team-high 26 points, and his eight 3s foreshadowed the rest of his season. So did the next game. Long had just five points, starting a season-long trend in which he strung together back-to-back double-digits scoring nights just once. But Long is also the rare player who can be accurately described as both inconsistent and spectacular. Hoiberg toyed with the idea of making Long a permanent starter early in Big 12 play. But he was just 4-of-17 shooting in four starts and got benched in favor of Morris. Long responded with the first of many “seasonsaving” shots for the Cyclones. Long drilled a 3 that pushed Iowa State’s game at Oklahoma State into triple overtime on Feb. 3, and the Cyclones wound up surviving 98-97.
THE Pro Side Paul George denies that he was ‘catfished’ By Scott Carroll Staff Writer Mark this Pro Side as one of the weirder stories of the school year. Indiana Pacers forward Paul George was accused of being “catfished” over the weekend and is now denying that it ever happened. The story caught fire this weekend as news swept across the Internet that George had been swindled by an openly homosexual man into sending him nude pictures through a “catfishing”, a scheme in which a person creates a fake online persona and builds relationships with other users. Recently two pictures surfaced of George, one in front of a mirror and one taken with a webcam. George is now saying that this “catfish” never took place and that the story was a scheme to disparage him. He said that he knows the girl who sent the pictures out and that it was all an attempt to bring him down. “Catfishes” reached fame a year ago when Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o was a part of an in depth con that struck a chord with the whole nation. Te’o’s girlfriend who
he talked about at length in several interviews turned out not to be real and the ploy of a man in California. “Lennay Kekua” as she was named became a household name and a bigger story than the national championship that Te’o was about to play in. Te’o’s Fighting Irish were throttled in the national championship and he performed terribly. George is hoping that this story won’t be a distraction for him and his teammates as the playoffs slowly approach. This isn’t the first rumor that George has had to deal with this season. In February it was rumored that George had impregnated an exotic dancer in Miami and had offered her $1 million to have an abortion. George denies that this ever happened. The Pacers and their young star need to get back on track and continue to move through these rumors. They have dropped two games in a row and are 5-5 in their last ten games.
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X-factor: Thames’ clutch play has SDSU in Sweet 16 SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego State’s journey to just its second Sweet 16 appearance began the day point guard Xavier Thames traded the wheat fields of eastern Washington for the beaches of Southern California. “I think everybody would take the beach,” said Thames, who will lead the fourth-seeded Aztecs against top-seeded Arizona in the West regional semifinals Thursday night in Anaheim. Thames started his college career at Washington State, having signed his letter of intent before coach Tony Bennett left Pullman for Virginia. Thames played his freshman season and then transferred to San Diego State, which had been on his top-five list while he was being recruited out of Pleasant Grove High in Sacramento. Funny, then, that SDSU’s road to the Sweet 16 went through Spokane, which is 90 miles north of Pullman. Thames scored 30 points and had five assists in leading the Aztecs to a 63-44, third-round victory against North Dakota State. Two days earlier, he had 23 points and five assists in an overtime victory against New Mexico State. “I’m just glad I’m here at San Diego State. I’m an Aztec,” said Thames, a senior. “It’s been a blessing, no doubt about that, coming here and having the success we’ve had the past few years. It’s been great.” The quiet Thames doesn’t call attention to himself. His coach and teammates are more than happy to do that. “He’s playing right now, in games like he had in Spokane, at an elite level,” coach Steve Fisher said. “You hope you can get someone to do that. But he’s played defensively and with his brain all season. It’s well-documented when he wasn’t shooting it really well, he went 170-some-odd minutes without a turnover, guarded the best player on the perimeter on the other team, great help defender, all of that. “But now when he’s scoring the ball the way he has in some of these games, he’s as good as any guard in the country.” Thames leads the Aztecs with 17.4 points and 3.3 assists per game. In the last five games, he has 26 assists and only seven turnovers. Aside from a three-game slump midway through the Mountain West Conference season, Thames has had a great season. He was voted the conference player of the year and to a spot on the all-defensive team. He’s stepped up in big moments, including in wins at Kansas and against Creighton and Marquette as the Aztecs won the Wooden Legacy tournament in Anaheim. “That’s what you’re supposed to do,” said Fisher, who has the Aztecs in the NCAA tournament for a schoolrecord fifth straight season. “Everybody aspires to do it. Talking about it and doing it are sometimes two different things. Xavier has that quiet confidence, and he’s not going to say, ‘Me, me, me, me, me,’ and pound his chest. The most outside exemplifications of his energy are he’ll occasionally put three fingers up if he makes one. But he’s not trying to draw attention to himself with theatrics.” His teammates would hate to think about where the Aztecs would be — or rather, wouldn’t be — without Thames. “I couldn’t imagine,” forward Dwayne Polee II said. “X is such a great player and great teammate and great friend. We’re blessed to have X on this team.”
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EVERYBODY DANCE NOW UConn destroys St. Joe’s 91-52 in the round of 32 By Matt Stypulkoski Associate Sports Editor
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Kiah Stokes (41) and Breanna Stewart (30) go up for a rebound against a Prairie View guard in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The Huskies would 87-44.
STORRS, Conn. – UConn wasted little time giving fans who bought advance tickets in Lincoln some peace of mind in a 91-52 win over No. 9 seed St. Joseph’s Tuesday night, thanks in large part to Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis. The Huskies led 8-0 before the game was two minutes old and never let the Hawks get closer than that as the night wore on, booking their tickets to Nebraska for the Sweet 16 in the process. “You want to try to build toward something when the NCAA tournament starts,” Geno Auriemma said. “And we played Sunday and we played OK, and today we played a lot better than we did on Sunday. That was the point, that was the goal.” The win was something of a re-emergence party for Mosqueda-Lewis, who had been struggling to find her typical All-American form because of her sporadic absence due to injury and illness. “Everything that she does, I don’t think it surprises any of us,” Auriemma said. “So when we see her play the way she played tonight, we already know that she’s more than somebody that can just make shots.” On Tuesday the junior forward looked more like her old self on the way to a triple-double, crashing the glass and mixing in some post ups on top of knocking down shots. Her 20 points, 10 assists and 10 boards were good for the second triple-double the Huskies have notched this season; Stefanie Dolson recorded the other against Oregon on Nov. 20. Prior to this season, UConn had just one triple-double in program history, which came courtesy of Laura Lishness in 1989. “That was me getting the rebounds, yes,” Mosqueda-Lewis joked. “[…]The coaches have been telling me, ‘You have to be a complete player, you have to make sure that you’re contributing in different ways.’ And I think that he’s definitely
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Huskies lose heartbreaker to Hartford Hawks By Matt Zampini Campus Correspondent
The UConn Huskies dropped a midweek contest to the Hartford Hawks on Tuesday by a score of 3-2, moving their record to 11-11 on the season. With the score knotted at two in the bottom of the ninth inning, the Hawks loaded the bases and were able to draw a walk to score the winning run. Hartford moved to 10-8 with the win over the Huskies. UConn hopped on the scoreboard first in the fourth inning when Bobby Melley punched a single through the right side to score Blake Davey from second base. Hartford answered right back with a run of their own in the bottom half of the inning when Trey Stover hit a solo home run over the left field wall to tie the game at one run a piece.
The Hawks then capitalized in the next inning with two runners on base with a single that brought one run across the plate to take a 2-1 lead. Andrew Zapata got the nod on the mound for the Huskies on Tuesday and he tossed 6 1/3 innings, allowing two runs on five hits while striking out just one. Zapata was pulled, however, in the seventh inning in favor of Max Slade, who was able to work out of a jam to keep it a one-run game. Trailing by a run in the eighth inning, the Huskies were in need of an offensive spark to level the game. Eric Yavarone stepped to the plate for the Huskies and brought that spark, delivering a single that scored Vinny Siena. Yavarone finished the day 3-for-4 while Siena went 2-for-4. Patrick Ruotolo entered the game for the Huskies in the eighth inning and made quick
work of the Hawks with a 1-2-3 inning but Hartford was able to load the bases and force a walk against Ruotolo in the bottom of the ninth to clinch the win. The Huskies are back in action on Wednesday afternoon against the Central Connecticut State University Blue Devils. The game is scheduled to be the Huskies’ home opener at J.O. Christian Field, but because of wet field conditions, that is subject to change. UConn defeated Central Connecticut State 6-1 in ten innings just a week ago in Florida, with the Huskies tallying five runs in the tenth inning to secure the victory. Firstpitch is scheduled for 3 p.m. Coverage of the game can be heard on 91.7-WHUS.
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The UConn baseball team fell to an even 11-11 on the season as they fell to the Hawks 3-2
UConn ready for roadtrip to Omaha By Erica Broncato Staff Writer
The No. 1 UConn women’s basketball team already had their bags packed for Nebraska as they took a fast and early lead against Saint Joseph’s and never looked back. The Huskies defeated the Hawks 91-52 and advanced to the Sweet 16 to play No. 12 BYU. “Connecticut is a wonderful team. They are obviously No. 1 for a reason,” Saint Joe’s head coach Cindy Griffin said. “When they came off making four three’s at the start of the game, we knew we had our hands full.” One last hurrah Seniors Stefanie Dolson and Bria Hartley shined in their last game at Gampel Pavilion. Dolson had a strong start in the first half, as she set up the first
play of the game and finished it herself with a layup. Hartley racked up 20 points throughout the matchup while Dolson added 17. Hartley has scored double digits in 16 of her 18 career NCAA Tournament games. “This is the best time of the year and I’m really proud of these two, Bria and Stef,” head coach Geno Auriemma said. “It’s been an incredible four years. I know I don’t want it to end and I’m sure they don’t either.” Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and Moriah Jefferson added to the seniors’ stellar last home game as they each dominated both the frontcourt and backcourt. Mosqueda-Lewis racked up 20 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists as she gained her second triple-double of the season. She is the third person in UConn history to get a tri-
ple-double. Dolson got one in November and the only other triple-double was in 1989. Mosqueda-Lewis also claimed the No. 19 spot on UConn’s career scoring list this game as she put together one of her best games of the season. Jefferson continued her hot streak, scoring 11 points and directing the team toward success. Her performance in the post season has lifted her into the spotlight and she has yet to disappoint the onlookers. “When we see (Kaleena) play the way she played tonight, we already know that she’s more than just somebody that can make shots because we see her do it a lot,” Auriemma said. “Deep down in her heart the way she played today is who she is, it just doesn’t come out enough times.” What can’t Stewie do?
It is no surprise this late in the season that when Breanna Stewart steps on the court, she will dominate all around. Leading the Huskies with 21 points, five blocks and 11 rebounds, she racked up her second consecutive double-double in the NCAA Tournament. She also became the fifth UConn player in program history to reach 695 points, and also racked up her 100th blocked shot of the season. “That kid does not stop working,” Griffin said. “Once she steps out on the court, Stewart does not stop working. You can say that for all of them. I don’t think you are going to outwork that team.” Bittersweet victory Although the Huskies had no mercy on the Hawks, Auriemma has a soft spot for Saint Joe’s every time the two
teams match up. Without his start at the university in 1978, he wouldn’t be where he is today, which makes it such a bittersweet win for the 28-year veteran. These types of games make Auriemma sit back and reflect on their team’s success, he said. “In our world sometimes we spend so much time thinking about what’s next. Where are we going next? Who are we playing next?” Auriemma said. “We don’t really take a moment and say ‘man this is what we are doing and this is what we’ve done.’ When you do take that moment, you realize that it’s pretty unique and special. It’s something that we have created here through a lot of hard work and great players.”
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