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Moscwo Festival Ballet returns to UConn with ‘Giselle’

Friends turned rivals

True reform eludes the N.S.A.

Malloy signs minimum wage hike

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Huskies to travel to New York City for a Sweet 16 matchup against Iowa State at Madison Square Garden

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Lasan Kromah drives toward the basket during the Huskies’ matchup against Rutgers in this March 5 photo. Seventh-seeded UConn will take the court at the famed Madison Square Garden in New York City this Friday to take on 3 seed Iowa State for a trip to the Elite 8.

A YEAR AGO THIS WEEK

Aussie exchange student played dual role pseudonym.

Drury struggled at UConn to find a large accepting audience for his ambient electronic music, which may have been caused by the different musical cultures of Australia and the U.S. “There’s a cultural capital associated with musical consumption in the states. In Melbourne, there’s more of a competition to be into obscure stuff, where in America you need to be aware of stuff that is really hot,” said Drury.

However, on the subject of obscurity he maintained that, “It’s not in a pretentious way. It’s, for the quality of the music, not the image.”

And he did not leave UConn with his music tastes completely unchanged. “There’s a lot of music I came across in America that was more rap based, Husky Records especially opened my Facebook.com eyes to a lot of rap and hip-hop,” said Drury.

Will Drury, who gained recognition under the stage name Azure Maya, came to UConn as an exchange student last year. Now back home Now back on his home turf, in Australia, The Daily Campus caught up with Drury and asked about his life after UConn.

Drury is picking up speed with The University of Melbourne UConn, but since his return home, his music career thanks to the

By Alban Murtishi and graduated with a degree in the name has been put to rest. proximity to his fans and fellow Staff Writer anthropology and social theory.

“One thing that people real- Melbourne artists. While back For Will Drury, former UConn He spent a year at UConn in order ly like about the artist is that home he played at the Strawberry international student, it was not to further his studies, and also get they have a flawless time lapse Field Festival in Victoria, his accent people had trouble a taste of the other sides of the of their production. The earlier which is three hours away from world. stuff wasn’t that good, and it Melbourne. understanding, it was his music.

“America is this movie-like may detract people from thinkThe lack of opportunity to per“I did notice at UConn that place to visit.

I had already been ing you’re a serious artist,” said form while at UConn initially stithere were a lot of people in the fled his fan base growth. Problems Northeast and Connecticut, who to Europe a couple of times as Drury.

Since then Drury has also included lack of vital face-to-face are really into a Steve Aoki sort well as Asia, so America was revamped his sound. Having start- promotion, performance at the of thing, it was a hard and fast next,” said Drury.

But back on his side of globe ed with experimental electronica, populated underground bars and go get them attitude,” said Drury.

“Whereas Melbourne is more into Drury played a dual role: Will it would seem the experiment has clubs in Melbourne and the missa Brooklyn style of consumption, Drury the student, and Azure ended, and he has now moved on ing studio time for the mastering Maya the experimental electron- to soulful and live instrumental of one of his tapes, which had to it’s more underground.” sound. be done through email.

Drury is from Melbourne, ica musician.

Drury stuck with the Azure His new sound will also come Australia where he attended » AUSTRALIAN, page 2 Maya moniker during his year at with a new, yet to be named,

NEW YORK – Even when the offense went cold and when Shabazz Napier was sitting on the bench, the UConn men’s basketball team found a way to get to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament.

The games will not get any easier, but with two wins separating UConn from a fifth Final Four, the Huskies will play in a familiar building in front of familiar fans.

UConn, the No. 7 seed in the East Region, will face No. 3 Iowa State in the Sweet 16 Friday night, in front of what is expected to be a pro-UConn crowd at Madison Square Garden.

For most of the week, the price of a ticket to Friday’s doubleheader, which also features No. 1 Virginia taking on No. 4 Michigan State, has been on the up and up. On Thursday afternoon, tickets were going for more than $600 for the worst seats available, more expensive than Final Four tickets.

The reason for such high ticket prices: UConn fans.

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UConn4Syria to host fundraiser for refugees

By Marissa Piccolo Staff Writer

UConn’s Amnesty International chapter will be hosting UConn alumnus, photographer and journalist Diego Cupolo, for a UConn4Syria event on Friday. The event will take place from 3 to 5 p.m. in Room 311 of Koons Hall, and is free and open to all.

Diego Cupolo, CLAS Journalism ’06, is the author of the book “Seven Syrians: War Accounts from Syrian Refugees” which documents the lives of seven regular, everyday Syrians as they experience the war and most devastating refugee crisis the world has seen in 20 years. In addition to giving their personal, eyewitness accounts, Cupolo features photo portraits of the storytellers. A percentage of profits from Cupolo’s book go to A Heart for Syrian, a non-profit

organization that aides Syrian refugees. It is published by 8th House Publishing and available through the publisher, at Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble and other retailers.

During his time at UConn, Cupolo was the news editor of The Daily Campus and traveled with Community Outreach on an alternative break to New Orleans to volunteer with hurricane-relief. He began his journalism and photography careers in New York City and has resided in Montreal, Quebec and Buenos Aires, Argentina, working on the road as an independent journalist. Both his written and visual work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Associated Press, The Village Voice, The Australian Times, Discover Magazine, The Argentina Independent and Diagonal Periódico.

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Conn. committee adds $12.3 million to Malloy spending plan HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Connecticut General Assembly’s budget-writing committee on Thursday approved a revised state spending plan of $19.04 billion — $12.3 million more than what Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has recommended for next fiscal year.

The plan also is almost $50 million more than originally budgeted two years ago.

While Democratic leaders of the Appropriations Committee said much of the additional spend-

ing targets much-needed social service-related programs, the legislature’s minority Republicans claimed the plan is built on onetime gimmicks and “bad math” and is unaffordable.

“At a time when we’re looking at future deficits, such spending increases (are) nothing short of irresponsible,” said Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, of Fairfield, a Republican candidate for governor. “We have

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NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed legislation Thursday that will raise Connecticut’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour by 2017, the highest rate for any state in the country.

Surrounded by state lawmakers and officials, Malloy appeared at a packed Café Beauregard, the same New Britain restaurant where he dined earlier this month with President Barack Obama and several other New England governors. The president was in town to advocate for a national $10.10 minimum wage.

After signing the bill, Malloy said it was one of his “proudest days as governor” and added: “It’s time to get people out of poverty.”

Earlier in the day, Malloy and legislative leaders received a congratulatory phone call from Vice President Joe Biden, who thanked Connecticut for being the first state to pass legislation enacting the $10.10 wage. Some cities, but no states, have higher minimum wages.

“Our message back to the vice president was, ‘Mr. Vice President, you can use this and use the states that are marching in the right direction. But we need to do this on a national basis,’” Malloy said. “No one in no state should work 40 hours a week and still live in poverty. Connecticut has put

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President Barack Obama has lunch during his unannounced visit to Café Beauregard in New Britain, Conn., Wednesday, March 5, 2014.

Clockwise, from the president are, Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, and Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin. Obama traveled to Hartford, Conn., area to highlight the importance of raising the minimum wage and then will travel to Boston for a pair of Democratic fundraising.

the marker down. Other states will follow. We’re going to get the job done.”

Connecticut’s Democraticcontrolled state House and Senate approved the bill Wednesday, with only Democrats supporting the legislation. The bill will increase the state’s current minimum hourly wage of $8.70 to $9.15 on Jan. 1, 2015, to $9.60 in

January 2016 and to $10.10 in January 2017.

Legislative Republicans and various business groups criticized the increase as another action making Connecticut uncompetitive. The state’s wage recently climbed to $8.70 on Jan. 1. It was previously scheduled to also increase to $9 next year.

“Many small business own-

ers were disappointed by the increase last year but partially relieved that the issue was behind them. Suddenly it’s back and it’s bigger,” said Andrew Markowski, Connecticut director of the National Federation of Independent Business. “They must be wondering what’s next, and who could blame them?”

Sweet Sixteen at MSG gives Huskies home court advantage

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TOP: UConn guard Terrence Samuel outpaces a Rutgers player in this March 5 photo.

BOTTOM: Senior guard Shabazz Napier dribbles down court in this March 5 photo.

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The Huskies will not be playing regularly at Madison Square Garden anymore, a consequence of conference realignment. The

not seen the economy rebound in Connecticut.”

The budget bill passed on a 26-19 party-line vote; all the Democrats voted yes; all Republicans no.

The spending plan is half of the legislature’s response to the Democratic governor’s $19.03 billion budget proposal, unveiled in January. The Finance Revenue and Bonding Committee has until April 4 to vote on a tax package that responds to Malloy’s revenue proposals, such as his $55-perperson tax rebate initiative.

Ultimately, ideas from both committees will be incorporated into a final budget deal, to be negotiated between lawmakers and Malloy. The final agreement must be approved by the legislature before this year’s session ends May 7.

If all the state’s Medicaid spending was counted, the final budget total would be more than $2 billion higher. Lawmakers moved much of the Medicaid spending off-budget last year because a considerable amount is federal funding.

Lawmakers this year received thousands of emails and heard hours of testimony from members of the public struggling with long-term unemployment, developmental disabilities and mental health issues, said Sen. Beth Bye, D-West Hartford, co-chair of the

Appropriations Committee. The committee also heard from people who’ve faced delays in getting their applications for long-term nursing care approved, prompting lawmakers to fund more staff to process those applications.

“A lot of people are hurting,” Bye said.

Rep. Toni Walker, D-New Haven, the committee’s other cochair, said lawmakers also decided to set aside more money for youth employment and afterschool programming.

“We tried to make sure that, with what little money we had, we spread it around so that it affected many of the families that we heard from,” she said.

But Republican lawmakers criticized their Democratic colleagues for how they propose to pay for those programs, as well as an additional 443 new state employees — 37 more than Malloy proposed. They were critical of how the budget uses an accounting technique, for example, to spend more than $64 million of this year’s revenues on next year’s expenses.

“This budget is not truthful. It’s an illusion. It’s a gimmick, a trick, a deception. And we have to be honest with the people of the state of Connecticut when we’re doing our budgeting process,” said Sen. Robert Kane, R-Watertown.

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(AP) — Following an employment decline in January caused by extreme winter weather, Connecticut regained 800 jobs in February as the unemployment rate continued to fall, state officials said Thursday.

The unemployment rate fell to 7 percent in February from 7.2 percent in January, according to the Connecticut Department of Labor. It’s still higher than the U.S. rate of 6.7 percent in February.

“February’s job report seemed to confirm that weather was partly responsible for January’s sharp decline as we saw recovery in several of the industries that had stumbled,” said Andy Condon, the department’s research director.

Connecticut, he said, is continuing “on the path of job recovery.” The decrease in the unemployment rate is the seventh consecutive decline since July, when the unemployment rate was 7.9 percent.

The state had reported that 10,400 jobs were lost in January, with weather the culprit.

The number of unem-

ployed in Connecticut has now decreased by 17,502 since February 2013.

Unemployment in Connecticut peaked at 9.5 percent in November 2010.

The state has recovered 59,500 jobs, or nearly half of the 119,100 jobs lost in the economic downturn from March 2008 to February 2010.

The private sector is making a strong recovery and has recouped 71,800 of the 112,000 jobs that were lost.

Connecticut’s private sector has shown “solid over-theyear growth” of 14,000 jobs, the Labor Department said.

In contrast, government shed 1,900 jobs over the month, 3,700 jobs over the year and “remained a drag on overall employment gains,” it said.

Since the job recovery began in February 2010, an additional 12,300 public sector jobs have been lost.

Joe Brennan, senior vice president of public policy for the Connecticut Business and Industry Association, said “some troubling trends” persist, such as the loss of 1,900 jobs in manufacturing.

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“I’m just happy because it’s going to be a great atmosphere,” junior forward DeAndre Daniels said. “All the UConn fans are going to be here. It’s going to be crazy, and it’s just going to get us even more pumped up to see all the UConn people here. And we just want to go out there and play hard for the fans and play hard for ourselves, as UConn, as a team.”

Having the crowd will be important for the Huskies, as they face one of the hottest teams in the NCAA tournament.

The Cyclones are the highest-scoring team in the tournament, putting up 83 points per game between wins over North Carolina Central and North Carolina, mostly because they have made 53 percent of their shots and have hit 48.8 percent of their 3-pointers.

Leading the way for Iowa State is DeAndre Kane, a 6-foot4 point guard. The transfer from Marshall, playing in his first and only NCAA tournament, is averaging 19 points and 8.5 rebounds per game through the opening weekend. Kane scored the winning bucket with two seconds remaining against North Carolina, splitting the defense and driving to the lane to get the layup.

“We just got to try our best to contain him,” senior guard Shabazz Napier said. “And they shoot a lot of threes, and they make a lot of threes. We got to do a good job of contesting shots.”

Including Kane, Iowa State will start four players who are averaging 14 points or more per game in the NCAA tournament,

including Melvin Ejim, the Big 12 Player of the Year, who is averaging 18 points per game and making 61.5 percent of his shots.

This will be the second meeting ever between the Huskies and Cyclones. The first was at the end of UConn’s miserable 2011-12 season, which ended in the Second Round of the NCAA tournament with a 77-64 loss to Iowa State.

That Iowa State team was all about Royce White. That UConn team had no concept of brotherhood, a foundation of Kevin Ollie’s team.

“Two completely different teams, completely different teams,” junior guard Ryan Boatright said. “For us … we’re actually a team. 2012 was too much individual stuff. This year, everybody’s buying into one goal, and that’s winning games.”

What is the same this year is Madison Square Garden: where UConn won seven Big East tournament titles, where Kemba Walker, Ray Allen and Taliek Brown each wrote themselves into UConn history with a single shot, where Shabazz Napier led the Huskies to two important victories in November’s 2K Sports Classic.

“It’s special, I can’t say it’s not,” Ollie said. “Just playing at Madison Square Garden, the greatest arena alive for basketball, the Mecca of basketball, it’s just a great place to play.

And then our fans can come, too.

It’s just a train ride away from Connecticut. … I know there’s going to be a lot of people here

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“There was sort of like a small surge of fans in the beginning of the year at UConn, but as I got more into my studies it tapered off a bit, but I was happy with what it was, and I achieved a bunch of growth,” said Drury.

For now, Drury hopes to see his fans grow into the thousands, and maybe find himself at South By Southwest, a popular music festival for hot new talent and music industry veterans.

Already, some of Drury’s constituents working in the same realm of music have already found their way to SXSW, and Drury could be next.

“In the coming months I’m planning to create a more synthesized sound, and put more passion into my music,” said Drury. “Because that’s what reacts with people in music, you can have a bad voice but it doesn’t matter if people can feel your passion.”

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$1 trillion in student debt widens wealth gap (AP) – Every month that Gregory Zbylut pays $1,300 toward his law school loans is another month of not qualifying for a decent mortgage.

Every payment toward their student loans is $900 Dr. Nida Degesys and her husband aren’t putting in their retirement savings account.

They believe they’ll eventually climb from debt and begin using their earnings to build assets rather than fill holes. But, like the roughly 37 million others in the U.S. saddled with $1 trillion in student debt, they may never catch up with wealthy peers who began life after college free from the burden.

The disparity, experts say, is contributing to the widening of the gap between rich and everyone else in the country.

“If you graduate with a B.A. or doctorate and you get the same job at the same place, you make the same amount of money,” said William Elliott III, director of the Assets and Education Initiative at the University of Kansas. “But that money will actually mean less to you in the sense of accumulating assets in the long term.”

Graduates who can immediately begin building equity in housing or stocks and bonds get more time to see their investments grow, while indebted graduates spend years paying principal and interest on loans. The standard student loan repayment schedule is 10 years but can be much longer.

The median 2009 net worth for a household without outstanding student debt was $117,700, nearly three times the $42,800 worth in a household with outstanding student debt, according to a report co-written

by Elliott last November.

About 40 percent of households led by someone 35 or

younger have student loan debt, a 2012 Pew Research Center analysis of government data found.

Allen Aston is one of the lucky ones, having landed a full academic and financial-need scholarship at Ohio State University.

The 22-year-old software engineer from Columbus estimates it let him avoid about $100,000 in debt.

Without loans to repay, Aston is already contributing 6 percent of his salary to a retirement fund that is matched in part by his employer and doesn’t have the same financial concerns his friends do.

“I’m making the same money as them, but they have student loans they’re paying back that I don’t. So, it definitely seems noticeable,” he said.

At the other end of the spectrum is Zbylut, an accountantturned-attorney in Glendale, Calif. He’s been chipping away at nearly $160,000 in student debt since graduating in 2005 from law school at Loyola University in Chicago. Now 48, the tax attorney estimates he could have $150,000 to $200,000 in a 401(k) had the money he’s paid toward loans gone there.

“I’m sitting here in traffic.

I’ve got a Mercedes behind me and an Audi in front of me and I’m thinking, ‘What did they do that I didn’t do?’” Zbylut said by cellphone from his Chevrolet.

He’s been turned down twice for the type of mortgage he needs to buy a home big enough for himself, the fiancee he would have married already if not for his debts and her 10-year-old son.

“I have more education and more degrees than my father, as does she than her parents, and yet our parents are better off than we are. What’s wrong with this picture?” he said.

Student debt is the only kind of household debt that rose through the Great Recession and now totals more than either credit card or auto loan debt, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Both the number of borrowers and amount borrowed ballooned by 70 percent from 2004 to 2012.

Of the nearly 20 million Americans who attend college each year, about 12 million borrow, according to the Almanac of Higher Education. Estimates show that the average four-year graduate accumulates $26,000 to $29,000 in loans, and some leave college with six figures worth of debt.

The increases have been driven in part by rising tuition, resulting from reduced state funding and costlier campus facilities and amenities. Compounding the problem has been a trend toward merit-based, rather than need-based, grants as institutions seek to attract the higher-achieving students who will boost their standings.

“Because there’s a strong correlation in this country between things like SAT scores or ACT scores and wealth or income, the (grant) money ends up going disproportionately to students from wealthier families” who tend to perform better on those tests, said Donald Heller, dean of the Michigan State University College of Education.

Those factors, along with stagnating family incomes and declining savings, have made student loans a much bigger part of funding higher education, Elliott said.

Harvard Business School’s Michael Norton wonders whether greater public awareness of the widening wealth gap in the United States would hasten policy change. Norton conducted a 2011 survey that found that

US appeals court upholds new Texas abortion rules

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In this July 18, 2013 file photo abortion rights supporters demonstrate outside the Capitol auditorium in Austin, Texas, after Gov. Rick Perry signed sweeping abortion restrictions that forced the closure of several clinics by requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld Texas’ tough new abortion restrictions that shuttered many of the abortions clinics in the state.

A panel of judges at the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court judge who said the rules violate

the U.S. Constitution and served no medical purpose. In its opinion, the appeals court said the law “on its face does not impose an undue burden on the life and health of a woman.”

Texas lawmakers last year passed some of the toughest restrictions in the U.S. on when,

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Most Republican leaders in Texas oppose abortion, except in cases where the life of the mother is at risk. In passing the new rules, they argued they were protecting the health of the woman.

But abortion-rights supporters called the measures an attempt to stop abortions in Texas through overregulation. Many abortion doctors do not have admitting privileges and limiting when and where they may prescribe abortion-inducing pills discourages women from choosing that option, they say.

Other aspects of the new abortion laws, including a requirement that all procedures take place in a surgical facility, do not take effect until September.

people tend to think wealth is more equally distributed than it is.

But with elected officials from President Barack Obama on down now talking about the wealth gap as an urgent public problem, a more complete picture seems to be emerging, he said.

“Both parties are now saying, perhaps inequality has gotten to the point where it’s not fair when people don’t have a chance to rise, and we need to do something about it,” Norton said.

Targeting the soaring cost of higher education, Obama in August proposed the most sweeping changes to the federal student aid program in decades.

His plan would link federal money to new college ratings and reward schools if they help

This March 26, 2014 photo shows Nida Degesys, National President of the American Medical Student Association, at her office in Sterling, Va. Degesys graduated in May 2013 from Northeast Ohio Medical University with about $180,000 in loans. The amount has already swelled with interest to about $220,000. Yet, as costly as medical school was, Degesys sees it as an investment in herself and her career, one she thinks will pay off with a higher earning potential.

Conn. city: No bias against transgender cop NEW HAVEN (AP) — An investigation by a Connecticut city has found no evidence that a transgender police officer was subject to discrimination or a hostile work environment.

Middletown Officer Francesca Quaranta has alleged that while her colleagues were initially supportive, she began to face hostility from some and the treatment became so bad she went on paid leave. She filed a complaint last year with the state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, which is still pending.

Meanwhile, city human relations officials investigated and now say they found no evidence of discrimination.

“While officer Quaranta’s transgender transition is a new experience for her and the Middletown Police Department, it is believed that the department is handling her transition in a professional manner,” Faith Jackson, the city’s human relations director, wrote in a letter to the mayor.

Mayor Daniel Drew said

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he and Police Chief William McKenna made it clear Quaranta was to receive equal treatment and supervising officers received training on the issue. The mayor said a sergeant also was given a 10-day unpaid suspension over a remark he made about her.

“We’ve taken this very seriously from day one and will continue to take it seriously,” he said.

Quaranta said Thursday she disagrees with the city’s findings and was not surprised, saying officials want to protect the city from liability.

“I’m hoping that the state of Connecticut is much more open minded and actually looks at documents and actually listens to what I’m saying,” Quaranta said.

A Middletown police officer since 2004, she said she loves the job but isn’t sure she can return to the department.

“I think the harassment will just continue,” she said.

“Actually I think it will be much worse this time.”

Quaranta was born male and had hormone therapy to become

female. She decided to tell her colleagues in 2012 about the change and tried to slowly adjust her appearance to allow for a gradual transition.

She said she was ordered to remove her earrings even though female officers have been allowed to wear them. She initially was allowed to wear a wig but was later told it was not in compliance with policy and was disciplined in writing, she said.

She disputed an account by the city that Quaranta did not want to wear one of the wigs approved by the chief and wore unapproved wigs and that she wore hoop earrings on patrol in violation of the rules. She said she also faced more scrutiny of her work performance, with supervisors questioning her response time even to nonemergencies, such as an illegally parked car.

The city denies her allegations, saying any discipline or warnings were warranted, and the mayor said the city is looking forward to Quaranto returning to work as soon as possible.

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Yet, as costly as medical school was, Degesys sees it as an investment in herself and her career, one she thinks will pay off with a higher earning potential.

College degrees can pay off.

College graduates ages 25 to 32 working full time earn $45,500, about $17,500 more than their peers with just a high school diploma, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of census data.

Elliott says the country needs to re-think college financing options to bring debt down and graduation rates up.

“We can’t,” he said, “let debt hinder a whole generation of people from beginning to accumulate wealth soon after graduating college.”

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low-income students, keep costs low and have large numbers of students earn degrees.

Lawmakers in Congress also are debating how to address the issue, including proposals to allow graduates with highinterest loans to refinance at lower rates.

The American Medical Student Association supports expanding the National Health Services Corps, which provides loan forgiveness in exchange for service in underserved areas.

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Moscow Festival Ballet returns to UConn with ‘Giselle’

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By Alexandra Bell Campus Correspondent UConn is a place where many art forms are given an opportunity to thrive. The theatre, music, painting and sculpting programs, among others, give students opportunities to paint with all the colors of the wind, so to speak. However, dance is one field where the university is grievously lacking. It was therefore an incredible treat, to finally have the option of exposing ourselves to not only ballet, but ballet in its most refined and classical setting. This option came Thursday night, in the form of the Moscow Festival Ballet’s rendition of Giselle.

Giselle, choreographed by Marius Petipa and first performed in 1841, is what is commonly known as a classical “white” ballet, due to the ethereal, white and otherworldly nature of the second act. The ballet is considered classical because it was one of the first full-length pieces to be created for the art form. The piece usually requires months of preparation and a high level of technical skill on the part of each of the many dancers involved.

The Moscow Festival Ballet’s production last night received mixed reviews from audience members.

In the first act, a handsome Count, disguised as a fellow country-dweller, woos an innocent young peasant girl named Giselle. She naively accepts his marriage offer, only to have her heart shattered when both his true identity and his royal fiancé are revealed to her. In

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A ballerina from the Moscow Festival Ballet dances onstage at the Jorgensen as part of the company’s performance of “Giselle.”

the act’s last moments, her grief has driven her completely mad.

Her heart gives out completely and she dies in the arms of her mother. Unfortunately, the costumes, spacing, musicality and acting of this production’s first act were too incohesive to get the storyline across, and too devoid of feeling to hold much of the audience’s attention. Sixth-semester theatre major Thamiris Esteves called the first half “visually and emotionally disinteresting.” Her friend Fiona Shaw-Munford, also a 6th-semester theatre major, agreed, adding that “the overly vibrant costume colors also added to the lack of fluidity.” Overall, the first half of

the production left little more than a sense of confusion.

Luckily, however, the second act saved the day. As the lights dimmed, the velvet curtains opened to reveal a scene of fragile gothic beauty. The empty stage was filled with a soft and ghoulish blue light, which was magnified by swirling white fog. The fog was stirred by the ethereal Wilis, or vengeful ghosts of brides who had died before their wedding days. Their white tulle skirts seemed to float about them like clouds as they danced with determined grace and fury.

They were flawlessly synchronized as they danced a doomed hunter to his death for having

No lazy Rivers: ‘Joan & Melissa’ return to action

NEW YORK (AP) — Joan Rivers, who for more than a half-century has turned her life inside out for comedy, is starting her fourth season doing just that for the reality show she shares with her daughter, Melissa.

“Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?” (10 p.m. EDT Saturday on WEtv) finds Joan making a sex tape. Attending a lacrosse game where Melissa picks a fight with her teenage son’s coach. Consoling Melissa after her boyfriend is caught in a compromising position.

She also mourns the death of her beloved dog, Max, then stages a splendiferous funeral that includes a chorus, an avant-garde poet and a male ballerina in a tutu.

“The vet said Max could have been anywhere from 11 to 14 years old,” says Joan solemnly, then eases into a wisecrack: “You can usually check a dog’s teeth, but Max lived for a while in California, so they were capped.”

She and Melissa have invited a reporter to hear about their show’s new season, which tracks this motherdaughter duo in their professional pursuits (including production of their weekly E! series, “Fashion Police,” and her online talk show, “In Bed With Joan”) as well as shining a glaring light into their personal lives.

“It’s no-holds-barred,” says Joan proudly.

Item: On one episode, Rivers, at 80 years old, goes to heroic lengths to undo her history as a fashionista and a frequent flier to her plastic surgeon’s office. She wants to look more age-appropriate to land an acting role as a senior on a proposed TV drama series, and prepares herself, stripped of any vanity, with what she calls — no, not a makeover — but instead “a make-UNDER.” For this recent interview, though, she is every bit the Joan the world knows and

loves: nipped, tucked and coiffed to a T. You ask who is she wearing? A shocking pink Armani jacket, Chanel slacks, Manolos, a necklace from her own Joan Rivers collection “and a Hermes knockoff that I got in China. Come as close as you want, mister,” she boasts as she holds up the baby-soft handbag, “you’re not gonna tell the difference!”

“Joan & Melissa” came about when Joan, who lives on the Upper East Side, began routinely crashing with her daughter, an Angeleno, to tape the L.A.-based “Fashion Police.”

“She’d be in my house two or three days a week,” Melissa recalls. “Then, during one of our many moments of chaos, someone said, ‘This is truly like a reality show.’ And the next thing you know, it’s an ACTUAL reality show.”

Melissa, clad hopefully spring-ish on this frigid day in a turtleneck and brightly patterned Alexander McQueen skirt, first partnered onair with Joan 20 years ago to cover red carpet awards events for E! Live fashion coverage was new to TV, and mother and daughter were slammed for indulging in such shallowness.

Joan shrugs. “What are the stars wearing? Are they drunk, are they high? And do they look like they’re still happy together? That’s what your friends are talking about!

Luckily, we were both very shallow, so that’s what we talked about, too. And still do, as reflected in both ‘Joan & Melissa’ and ‘Fashion Police.’”

“We promote shallowness across all platforms,” says Melissa with a laugh.

But living life, however shallow, on a reality show can get deeply complicated for those it exposes.

“You come down in the morning and bump into crew members on the stairs,” Joan says.

“They come into my room while I’m asleep to pre-light,” says Melissa. “I pull the covers over my head.”

“It’s going to be easier next year,” Joan predicts. “We’re gonna use drones.”

This year, there was one development the probing cameras didn’t catch: Joan got a tattoo.

A couple of seasons ago, viewers saw her visit a tattoo parlor with a chum, then, in her words, “chicken out” before her chosen bumblebee design found its way to her derriere.

Three weeks ago, with her same friend in tow, she got inked.

“Margie and I walk into this Village tattoo parlor, two old blond Jewish women,” she laughs as she slides up her left sleeve. In simple characters each barely a half-inch tall, “6M” is tattooed on the inside of her arm.

“It stands for the 6 million Jews that were killed in Auschwitz,” she says. “I didn’t put this in the show, because it’s a serious thing.

I didn’t tell anybody until it was over: ‘Guess what I did this afternoon?’”

Since the subject has been raised, Melissa now has an announcement: She’s considering a tattoo on her wrist.

Joan isn’t pleased: It might be too big and too visible.

“You’ll be terribly sorry,” she warns.

“I already have TWO!” “Yeah, but they’re hidden.

I’m just pleading with you,” she persists. “You may, in five years, not want something there. And apparently it’s agony to get it off.”

“Mom! I’ve had two.”

“They’re hidden.”

“One’s on my ankle.”

“But we don’t look at your ankles,” Joan says. “And you can always cover them.”

Yes, this makes a pretty great reality show.

been rash enough to intrude upon their place of eternal restlessness.

This production’s Giselle as a Wili was far superior to her performance as a living peasant girl. Her acting was heartbreaking as she bravely defended her beloved Count Albrecht from the cruel and cold hearted Myrthe, queen of the Wilis.

The emotional connection between the two leading characters was thin to nonexistent.

However, Giselle managed to project her determination to save Albrecht’s life, as she continually prodded him to keep dancing till dawn, when the light would destroy the queen’s power over him.

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As 4th-semester journalism student and Daily Campus writer Kristi Allen said, “this second half of the Moscow Festival Ballet’s Giselle succeeded as a beautiful and soulful rendition.”

The production started out slow, but by the end the audience was completely captivated. As the sun rose Giselle and Albrecht drifted apart, never to see each other again. The grateful Count placed his hand over his heart and bowed to his beloved’s grave, the curtains closed and the stage fell silent.

The audience clapped with wild enthusiasm.

Alexandra.Bell@UConn.edu

What happens when the oceans run out of food?

By Ellie Hudd Campus Correspondent

UConn presented the latest in its Edwin Way Teale lecture series on Thursday, featuring lectures on nature and the environment. The lecture, presented by Dr. Steven Gaines, was titled “Can Oceans Help Meet the Global Demand for Food?”

Gaines, who currently serves as dean of the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California Santa Barbara as well as a science advisor for the Joint Ocean Commission, has established a prominent name for himself in the marine biology community through his multiple prestigious appointments and publications in the field.

His lecture focused primarily on a recent research project to which he has contributed, concerning the massive projected increase in worldwide demand for animal protein by 2050.

“I want to bring the oceans back into the discussion [of meeting this demand],” Gaines said, adding that discussions about demand for animal protein often focus on land-based meat sources.

Gaines combined his own wealth of knowledge about marine biological systems and the sustainability of fisheries and aquaculture with an overview of the basic economics of food demand and the fishing and aquaculture industries. He spoke at both the macro and micro level about the impact of mining our oceans for food sources.

“Let me just dispel the myth that there are large untapped areas of the ocean,” Gaines said. “Almost all of the ocean is being fished.”

Gaines provided a clear, evidence-based demonstration of not only the vast areas of the ocean that are being mined for food and how they are being used, but also the areas that could stand to seek improvement to their maximum sustainable yield – in other words, the highest number of fish we can stand to harvest without depleting the fish population faster

than it can recover. Gaines used dynamic graphs to indicate the depletion of stocks made by known fisheries, but that we only have access to information from about 300 of all fisheries worldwide (of which there are about 20,000) regarding their yield and their fishing behaviors.

Gaines posited multiple solutions that would keep us from depleting worldwide fish stock.

He particularly emphasized the need to “fix” all fisheries to enable them to meet their maximum sustainable yield.

“There are nothing but benefits [to fixing all fisheries worldwide],” said Gaines. But he notes that this solution “still does not come close to meeting demand.”

Gaines also said that fishing is not the only way to make marine animals a larger supplier of animal protein needs. Gaines also posited another potential solution via the discussion of aquaculture, arguing that perhaps we should all eat the kinds of food we are providing to farm-raised fish, rather than the “predators” we’ve developed a taste for. Sydney Twarz, an 8th-semester EEB and environmental science double major, was enthusiastic about this particular proposition.

“You learn in classes how when you eat at higher tropic levels, you lose energy,” Twarz said. “But seeing the real statistics was much cooler than learning that in theory.”

While the possibility of eating lower on the food chain is one worth considering, if anything, it was one example Gaines presented of a massive global change that barely makes a dent in fixing the issue.

In reality, Gaines posited aquaculture as the closest thing we have to a marine-based solution to the demand for animal protein.

When it comes to increasing the supply of animal protein via fish, Gaines says, “aquaculture is the least constrained way.”

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Whenever you go to the gym you are more than likely to see the majority of individuals performing the same exercises over and over.

Unfortunately, the bench press and curls will only get you so far. While following your peers can garner some results, little attention is often paid to the lifts and exercises that can improve your life and wellbeing.

While no one wants to be seen doing Pilates on a mat while you could be grunting and throwing heavy weights, developing your core is a fundamental part of a healthy lifestyle.

“Core” is an ambiguous term that extends well beyond abs and obliques.

All told there are over a dozen muscles, ranging from the quadratus lumborum to the erector spinae, that are responsible for the foundation of movement. In reality, training your core is teaching your body to work together.

Lower back pain, shoulder pain, hip pain and many other conditions can commonly be traced back to a weak or dysfunctional core. Weakness in the foundation can lead to larger problems downstream.

While you may be sitting there thinking this means that you should be doing sit-ups until you pass out, training the core can become quite complex, challenging and sometimes fun. Some of the best training programs including Pilates and sport specific training programs use dynamic movements to train the core, especially as skill levels progress.

You may be asking yourself where to begin. The fact is when you begin training your core you must first train it to stabilize your body while it is stationary. This is where the popularity of the forearm plank, which is essentially the pushup position on your forearms, can really help get you started.

By training your core to stabilize your body while its not moving, you begin to train yourself for not only more complex movements but also important items like good posture. Other examples of good beginning exercises are bird dogs and dead bugs.

When you consider yourself competent in the basic core movements, the exercises that you once were struggling to complete with proper form become even more powerful tools. With the proper core, movements like squats and deadlifts become whole body exercises, because your body knows how to function as a unit. This doesn’t mean you should stop training your core, as the key to any exercise program is progressively overloading your muscles to adapt to new challenges. Ignoring your core after being able to plank for a minute may leave you in a worse place than you began.

The core is a fundamental part of any exercise program.

Whether you are training to get big, look good in a bathing suit or finish a halfmarathon, core training can benefit your lifestyle. And it doesn’t hurt that it can help lead to a killer six pack.

Luke.Belval@UConn.edu

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Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood stars in latest Benton exhibit

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The Fever Band (pictured above) performs at the opening of the Benton’s brand new “Ronnie Wood” exhibit, covering classic rock ‘n’ roll tunes for attendees.

By Emily Lewson Staff Writer

The Rolling Stones have arrived at UConn. On Thursday, March 27, the William Benton Museum of Art had its opening reception for the exhibition “Ronnie Wood: Art and Music”.

Best known for his work with The Rolling Stones, Wood was the group’s guitarist. The famed musician’s lithographs, paintings and pen-and-ink drawings now drape the Benton’s walls.

This exhibition features brightly colored paintings as well as simple line drawings. Upon entering the gallery, Wood’s “Electric Horses” grants the first impression. The featured piece of art, a canvas, depicts The Rolling Stones in

all their glory. Screaming fans are shown across the bottom, blotted in glitter. The band plays on stage while three unicorns frolic around. It is outlandish yet impressive, a pure representation of rock ‘n’ roll.

“Ronnie Wood exemplifies […] creative ethos,” reads the museum’s introduction, “Through line and color, he deftly captures the creative energy of his musical world.”

As demonstrated by this first piece, the collection as a whole reaches out to a broader audience than the Benton’s typical members.

“The Benton is the State art museum of Connecticut; as such, the museum would like to offer art that reaches out to all mem-

bers of the state,” said Nancy Stula, the museum’s executive director. “The purpose behind selecting a collection such as Wood’s is to draw in a different audience than those who usually attend the museum exhibits.”

In order to celebrate this atypical collection’s opening, the reception included a performance by The Fever Band.

Playing mostly rock ‘n’ roll classics, including many Rolling Stones songs, attendees were quick to dance along. The addition of live music brought another dimension to the artwork. The pieces on the wall were no longer two-dimensional images, but rather an experience.

“The Fever Band includes a member who works for the

inventory department at UConn,” Stula said. “The museum discovered them just in time for the planning of this exhibition opening […] and audience members seem to enjoy the live music.”

But if you missed the band at the opening, don’t fret. The gallery offers an Exhibition Soundtrack: you can call in to hear different songs by The Faces or The Rolling Stones while you look at the art. This duality of music and art reinforce the creative nature that is Ronnie Wood. He is a musician and an artist, constantly releasing his talent into the world for others to enjoy.

As the director said, the exhibition was made possible by a dedicated group of people. Tom

Viertel first made the suggestion to feature Wood’s pieces.

Sherry Daly of Munro Sounds, United Kingdom, worked in conjugation with the Benton for the opportunity to feature the pieces. Lastly, the loan from Pratt Contemporary, UK and Washington Green Galley, United Kingdom made it possible to showcase the captivating art.

Even atypical museumgoers now have a reason to visit the Benton, as Wood’s work is captivating and well presented. The gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday. Further information can be found online.

Emily.Lewson@UConn.edu

Real-life Eliza Thornberry recounts exotic adventures

By Brendon Field Staff Writer

Naturalist and novelist Sy Montgomery shared her adventures with exotic and domestic wildlife at a reading Wednesday night at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center’s Conover Auditorium.

Montgomery, who has traveled to the Gobi Desert and the Cloud Forests of Papua New Guinea, opened her presentation by explaining that animals are teachers. One example she mentioned was that humans learned herbal medicine from bears, who practice it themselves. She explained that her pet pig, whom she bio-graphed in her book “The Good Good Pig, The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood,” actually taught her how to better live with people.

Montgomery said growing up her closest friends were plastic dinosaurs, insects and her parakeet. She originally wanted to go into the veterinary field, but decided writing would be more beneficial in the fight against extinction. Her first book focused on zoologists Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Birute Galdikas who studied the great apes, although Montgomery said her work looked more at the relationship between the scientists and the animals.

“I wanted to study the most char-

ismatic predator I could of, tigers,” Montgomery said of her second book, specifically the tigers of the Sundarbans, the swamp forests of southern Asia. She said the tigers in this region were known for hunting in the flooded waters and attacking travelers by climbing directly into their boats, joking that when her husband expressed fear for her safety, she said she had nothing to fear because tigers were man eaters, and she was a woman.

She recounted a tale of natives, called the Bonobibi, who would traverse the dangerous forests in search of fresh honey; risking not only tiger attacks but bee stings that the Bonobibi claimed could cause pain that lasted for years. She also said that despite sometimes losing one of their own to the tigers; the Bonobibi had no desire to kill the animals themselves. Rather they worship a tiger god, along with a forest goddess.

“They remember what we appear to have forgotten, that our survival is linked with theirs,” Montgomery said.

Felix Samuels, a 6th-semester English major, said he enjoyed the language Montgomery used in her reading.

“Her writing was incredibly descriptive,” Samuels said. “She had the privilege of actually being there, and her writing really brought you into

those places.”

Montgomery next shared her adventure in the Amazon Rainforest, whose river are home to pink dolphins. She said Amazon natives refer to the dolphins as “boto,” and believe that they are shape shifters who can steal humans and bring them to the underwater world, Encante. She described the rainforest as, “where unfathomable tragedies combine with unquenchable desires.”

Montgomery said she is currently working on her newest book about the Giant Pacific Octopus. She described her first interaction with an octopus in a tank as a moving experience.

“Her white suckers face up like a person extending a palm for a handshake…It pulls me like an alien’s kiss,” she said. Montgomery said she then stroked the beast’s skin, which promptly turned white. Montgomery later learned that this indicated the octopus was relaxed, and said that octopi can taste with their skin and experience many of the same emotions humans do.

Montgomery writes for both adults and children, but says she enjoys writing for children more because of their curiosity. Her first children’s book focused on snakes, because “Adults are scared of snakes, kids are not… Get ‘em before they buy the lie that all snakes are out to kill

you.” Montgomery said she is planning to focus her next work on Great White Sharks, and in a few mnoths she will be diving in a shark cage in Guadalupe.

“I liked how she told her own stories and then included the animals. She showed it’s all doable, it’s inspirational,” said Laura Ruttan, a 4th-semester English major.

The reading also featured readings from students who won the AETNA Contest for Creative Non Fiction. The undergraduate winner was Michael Jefferson, whose story, “Carry That Weight,” focused on growing up under his father’s attorney reputation.

The graduate contest resulted in a three way tie between Abigail Fagan, Erick Piller and Kristina Reardon who shared their stories, “On Guns,” “Two Busts: Pericles and Huey P. Long” and “Cardboard Boxes,” respectively.

Montgomery complimented all the students on their ability to bring themselves to the page and saying, “I’m delighted to be celebrating words, words are a great deal.”

She ended the reading by saying, “May you meet many wonderful teachers everywhere, with tentacles, with backbones, with skin or with fur.”

Brendon.Field@UConn.edu

30 minutes of ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’ shown at CinemaCon

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sony Pictures debuted 30 minutes of 3-D footage of “The Amazing SpiderMan 2” at movie-theater convention CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Wednesday night.

Cut into multiple segments, a packed house at Caesars Palace previewed scenes explaining the death of Peter Parker’s parents, played by Campbell Scott and Embeth Davidtz, and the rekindling — after about a year of silence — of Parker (Andrew Garfield) and Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) as they graduate from high school.

The pair’s chemistry is still as strong as ever.

The meeting of Spider-Man and Max Dillon, played by Jamie Foxx, who becomes Electro, is introduced, and the audience became acquainted with the character Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan), later the Green Goblin, as he bonded with Electro over feeling lonely and neglected.

Introduced by Sony’s president of worldwide distribution, Rory Bruer, trailers from a number of

other films from the studio’s upcoming slate were also previewed.

A peek at what they had to offer: — “Sex Tape,” directed by Jake Kasdan and starring Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel. Diaz and Segel reunite for the first time since 2011’s “Bad Teacher” to play a couple who tapes themselves having sex and accidently sends it out to all of the folks they gifted iPads to via their iCloud.

— “Think Like a Man Too,” directed by Tim Story and starring Kevin Hart, Gabrielle Union, Taraji P. Henson and Jerry Ferrara. The couples spend time in Las Vegas for a wedding, as a big battle of sexes ensues.

— “The Interview,” directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, and starring Rogen and James Franco, who play a pair of unlikely buddies asked by the CIA to assassinate Kim Jong Un, dictator of North Korea.

— “The Equalizer,” directed by Antoine Fuqua

and starring Denzel Washington as a former black ops commando who comes up against Russian gangsters when trying to save a young woman, played by Chloe Grace Moretz.

— “Fury,” directed by David Ayer and starring Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman and Michael Pena. Pitt plays a poker-faced sergeant commanding a crew of U.S. soldiers in the 1940s.

But the trailer sets Lerman up as the one to watch.

— “Annie,” directed by Will Gluck and starring Cameron Diaz, Jamie Foxx and Quvenzhane Wallis. Diaz plays mean foster mom Miss Hannigan and Wallis is Annie. After all of the anticipation for this remake — produced by Jay-Z, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith — the crowd of theater owners seemed far from impressed.

— “22 Jump Street,” directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and starring Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill. This time, they must go undercover at a college to take down a drug dealer.

Farming... in the heart of the city?

Urban agriculture has become somewhat of a buzzword in recent years, and it may be easy to assume that the practice is a recent convention or just another hispter fad.

In reality, there is actually a long and culturally significant history of growing food in urban settings. As noted by the blog “Sprouts in the Sidewalk,” the origins of modern urban agriculture are believed to be the “allotment gardens” that surrounded European villages in the 1700s. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, European immigrants replicated these plantings when they arrived in America’s impoverished urban districts. In fact, there have been several urban agriculture movements in America alone, including Detroit’s “potato patches” in the years 1890 – 1930, the City Beautiful movement (in roughly the same era), the Liberty Gardens of WWI and the Victory Gardens of WWII, “relief” gardens during the Great Depression, and the modern community garden movement which began in the 1970s. Of course, it can be argued that traditions of city-farming stretch back much further into history, beginning with the very first cities in Mesopotamia.

But it is true that urban agriculture has taken on new forms and significance in the modern era.

The Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture & Food Security (RUAF) Foundation, summarizes the importance of urban agriculture in an era of rapid globalization and urbanization: “Urban agriculture plays an important role in enhancing urban food security since the costs of supplying and distributing food to urban areas based on rural production and imports continue to increase, and do not satisfy the demand, especially of the poorer sectors of the population.” RUAF suggests that the largest benefit of urban agriculture is its increase in local food security and healthy nutrition. In urban settings, a low income more readily translates into a lack of food than in urban settings.

Furthermore, the costs of importing food from rural areas are rising quickly, and this trend is only expected to continue in the coming decades.

Perhaps less obvious are urban agriculture’s contributions to a more equitable society and a healthy environment. RUAF states that: “Several examples exist of municipalities or NGOs that have initiated urban agriculture projects that involve disadvantaged groups … with the aim to integrate them more strongly into the urban network and to provide them with a decent livelihood.” In terms of the environment and resource-use, urban agriculture works to “close the loop” of production and disposal by turning urban waste into usable materials. Some cities, for example, have implemented compost-collection systems that collect organic wastes and utilize them as compost in agriculture projects (San Francisco has collected over 100 million tons since it began composting over 15 years ago). City wastewater can be diverted in the same way and used for irrigation purposes. By turning “waste” into “food,” urban agriculture replicates natural systems, which many experts assert is the key to making our human systems sustainable. The more we replicate natural systems — which are always recycling, replenishing and self-sustaining — the more secure our human systems will be.

A quick Google Images search on urban agriculture will reveal the exciting and astonishing forms that urban agriculture has taken on in the 21st century, including green roofs, vertical farms and unbelievable futuristic structures replete with greenery and irrigation systems. If you find yourself living in an urban area in the near future, there is certain to be an opportunity to get involved in urban farming!

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Despite two new bills, true reform eludes the N.S.A.

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arlier this week the House Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) unveiled a new NSA reform bill called The FISA Transparency and Modernization Act, which will serve as a rival bill to the USA Freedom Act proposed by the Obama Administration. Though both bi-partisan bills will marginally curtail the Orwellian NSA and its unconstitutional activities, there are stark differences between the two pieces of legislation, yet ultimately neither constitutes the type of reform needed to “restore the public’s seat at the table of government,” as former NSA contractor Edward Snowden said.

Both bills will ostensibly eliminate the NSA’s ability to collect bulk meta-data, which as former NSA Technical Leader for Intelligence William Binney explained actually reveals far more about a targeted person than conversation content. They will also seek to increase the authority select bodies have over granting approval to NSA data-collection. Unfortunately, both of these pieces of reform fall far short of placing an adequate amount of accountability upon the NSA. The USA Freedom Act, in spite of having Snowden’s reserved approval, would merely transfer the duty of data storage from NSA facilities to private telecommunication corporations like Verizon, who would be required to keep a constantly updated trove of customer’s private information on file for NSA requests. Additionally, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court would remain the sole judicial body charged with authorizing the NSA’s spying activities, which is a “secret court” whose hearings are closed to the public and the transcripts of each case are classified. NSA analyst Russel Tice has described FISC as a “kangaroo court with a rubber stamp,” which poses serious questions about the degree of accountability, if any, the USA Freedom Act will impose on the NSA. While the USA Freedom Act will at least have to be approved by the House Judiciary Committee — the typical protocol for bills — the HPSCI has decided to forgo approval from the House Judiciary Committee and merely vote on the legality of their own bill. As The Guardian’s Spencer Ackerman illustrates, HPSCI’s decision to unilaterally approve their own bill is indicative of “a subterranean and intense fight within the House about the future course of U.S. surveillance in the post-Edward Snowden era.” This battle between state agencies revolves around the fact that HPSCI’s bill does not require FISC to approve a request from the NSA before the NSA begins to collect meta-data, meaning the NSA can continue to spy on people with unencumbered impunity.

As you can see, neither bill contains the kind of reform that is desperately needed to bring US Intelligence agencies back into the realm of constitutional behavior.

Though their very existence is indicative of progress, the fight for privacy does not end with either’s ratification.

Why we love underdogs

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ast week I sat in joy as I watched Mercer knock off Duke in the first round of the NCAA tournament. It was one of multiple upsets that have taken place thus far in the tournament and one of the defining factors of March Madness: underdogs. Every year there is a “Cinderella” team that everyone counts out either because of seeding or a weak conference. A few years ago it was Butler. This year you have long shots like Stanford and Dayton making the Sweet Sixteen and gaining some new fans along the way.

We as a society seem to love underdogs.

However, why exactly do we have this sort

By Kayvon Ghoreshi of favoritism?

Commentary Editor A common answer, particularly in sports, is that we’d rather watch a close game than a blowout. As such, we may root for the underdog simply to keep things entertaining. This mindset was likely prevalent during this year’s Super Bowl as viewers with a neutral interest probably wanted to see Peyton Manning and Denver stage a comeback just to keep the game entertaining. Some research has also shown that people may be hedging their bets when rooting for an underdog. When you’re neutral towards both teams, the underdog winning is more exciting than if the favorite wins because it is unexpected. Likewise,

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rooting for an underdog and watching them lose is less depressing than rooting for the favorite and watching them lose because that result is expected for the underdog. Thus, psychologists have theorized that this emotional risk and reward is the underlying reason for underdog favoritism.

While that may be applicable to sports, it doesn’t explain our bias towards underdogs in other walks of life. In one study, participants were told about scenarios of two businesses or two political candidates in which one was clearly the favorite. Yet, when asked who they supported and who they thought would succeed, the majority still favored the underdog. In fact, simply describing an entity or individual as an “underdog” caused people to have greater optimism than if they were described as simply being “disadvantaged.” However, people don’t have the same emotional desire for a close election or business competition as they do a close basketball game.

What more research has found is that rooting for the underdog has less to do with our own desires for excitement and more to do with our perception of inequality and a desire for fairness.

Researchers Joseph Vandello and Nadav Goldschmied showed this by presenting their subjects with the classic underdog scenario: Two teams, A and B, are about to play an important match, for which Team A was the 7-to-3 favorite. The students were also told that the players on Team A had a payroll of $35 million while Team B had $100 million. Twothirds supported the favorite, Team A, showing that the cause of the favoritism was tied more to an aversion to inequity

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“First lady Michelle Obama and her daughters Sasha and Malia are visiting China for the next week and the president said the White House feels very lonely without them. Then he said, looking around, ‘OK, I think they bought it. Time for some March Madness, baby. Let’s do it!’” –Jimmy Fallon ”Absolutely

and our perception of an underdog. This behavior is similarly found in a popular experiment known as “Ultimatum.” Two players are presented with a pool of money, and the first proposes a way to split it. The second player then decides whether or not to accept the offer. If he or she rejects it, no one gets any money.

Rationale says that even if the offer is 99-1 you should still accept because $1 is better than nothing. But in practice, the idea of such an unbalanced reward is incredibly adverse to people, leading to any offer below 20 generally getting rejected.

By definition, it is assumed that the underdog is at a disadvantage. They are perceived to lack natural talent, financial resources, or something else that the favorite has which creates this inequality in the eyes of the viewer. As such, any success is assumed to be due to hard work and determination, which makes up for this supposed deficit, even though that may not be the case. However, we generally commend hard work and want it to be rewarded.

This is at the heart of why we like the NCAA Cinderella teams, the rags to riches stories, or our movie heroes that overcome impossible odds. At many points in our own lives we will view ourselves at a disadvantage, whether it is in athletics, applying for a job or in almost any other measure of success. And it’s reassuring to know that an underdog can win.

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What will the news media of the future look like?

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or the past two weeks, CNN has been covering the downed Malaysian airlines flight almost nonstop. If you are not already annoyed, you either have a very strong tolerance for the mundane repetition or you do not watch cable news. The heavy coverage of the missing flight is not only a product of the slow 24-hour news days but

By Theodore Terpstra it is also another Staff Columnist reminder that cable news is dying.

That seems like a bold statement. How can cable news be dying if there are still millions of Americans who tune in everyday? The answer lies in the realization that younger genera-

tions do not watch news on the T.V. According to Pew Research Center, 50 percent of the American public depends on the Internet to get their news and 71 percent of those ages 18-29 listed the Internet as their main source of news. T.V. is still the number one source of news only for Americans over age 50.

This bodes poorly for CNN, MSNBC and FOX, and they know it. Yet there have been no effective attempts by the news networks to attract young views back to the T.V. That leaves us with another question, what news organizations have succeeded in capturing America’s youngest viewers?

Not surprisingly, these companies do not air their shows on the T.V. Instead they disseminate them

through the Internet. One of the most successful emerging news organizations is VICE News, which posts segments on both the VICE website and YouTube. They publish a daily overview of the day’s events, condensing all pertinent information into a 2-3 minute video. In addition to the daily overview VICE News also creates specialized stories which are filmed in a documentary format.

Recently a VICE News correspondent went to Crimea to report on the crisis, publishing short video updates on YouTube as events unfolded in the region. These updates were never more than 5-10 minutes, perfect for young people with more limited attention spans and busy schedules. Concise and short, these internet reports are a

far cry from the 24-hour news day where two pundits would argue over some issue as the news ticker at the bottom of the screen crawls along. VICE’s business model works, and it is attracting attention from figures such as media columnist David Carr and media mogul Rupert Murdoch. But VICE is not without criticism. Some of the video reports for VICE News lack depth, while the VICE website is toxic with amateurish articles and trivial content, a nightmare for people trying to navigate to the salient news stories. Critics accuse VICE correspondents of behaving more like tourists than reporters by failing to properly frame issues with background information.

The omission of such facts

is intentional; VICE relies on younger people to do what younger people love to do: Google things. From the Bedouin tribes of Israel to the affairs of the Central African Republic, background information is only seconds away.

Context remains important, but there is no longer a need to expound on a subject so thoroughly, especially when aiming to keep videos between 5-10 minutes long.

With 4.4 million YouTube subscribers and a weekly show on HBO, VICE News is an emerging power in a world where the youngest generations prefer to watch news on their phone rather than the T.V. The future is crazy. Some say it’s too unpredictable.

Others insist they can forecast events like you and I can

tal illness. I have struggled with severe depression and its insomnia accoutrements for the past year and a half, although it’s just a coincidence that that’s about as long as I’ve been at UConn.

I am constantly caught between this “I’m an adult, suck it up” mentality and acknowledging that there is, in fact, something making me have genuine difficulty concentrating, working and sleeping. Something tells me that despite everyone’s idiosyncratic pursuits, these sentiments are far from original.

UConn is a really tough school. It understands the liability of not having some sort of treatment center. There are countless support groups for grief and stress management techniques that meet up to four times a week. The counseling center website is very vast, containing PDFs about

topics like stress and drug abuse and even downloadable relaxation exercises.

Unfortunately, those that are majorly depressed probably won’t tend to find these things useful because many of the sections contain typical, pseudo-alleviating expressions like, “There is something for everyone [on campus], and all it takes is for you to go out and find what interests you!” on the depression PDF. It doesn’t work like that; self-destructive people are not apt to seek positive outlets for themselves. These phrases just illustrate the sort of cognitive disconnect between depressed and nondepressed parties.

One glaring flaw with the counseling center is the complete lack of access to immediate one-on-one counseling, arguably one of the most useful means for many

trying to cope with college; a confidential hour or so long session with a sympathetic, impartial facilitator when one needs it to purge themselves of myriad difficulties and stressors.

It’s something of a bureaucracy. I called them to corroborate this by attempting to schedule an appointment and was told that I could get an appointment in two and a half weeks, and since I hadn’t met with anybody in the counseling center, I would have to get assessed via phone before we could truly begin. From then on out, I would have to wait presumably another two weeks to have actual therapy, which really wouldn’t be all that therapeutic because I would just be running through slightly more detailed iterations of the initial assessment due to lack of familiarity with the therapist, not to mention

it would be the week before finals, thus establishing little to no connection.

They do, however, have an on-call therapist in case of dire emergencies, which is helpful in the event that a student is considering something extreme, but doesn’t want 911 involved, although they may be called anyway if the therapist recognizes an impending severity to the situation.

Additionally, you are only allowed roughly eight sessions per academic year with the counseling center due to the immense number of students utilizing it, which means that instead of achieving a steady weekly or biweekly catharsis and cultivating the therapist-client relationship, you almost have to allocate your feelings an appropriate way if therapy is the most optimal means of temporarily assuaging your mental health.

read a book. Statisticians call elections before they have even taken place, astronomers predict the behaviors of celestial bodies’ light-years away, economists tell us what the market will look like next month. Yet no one foresaw Facebook purchasing Oculus Rift. So here’s my attempt at fortune telling.

Will VICE become a titan in news media? Probably not. Will VICE’s unique way of reporting current events shape the news of the future?

The answer is yes.

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The UConn train does not stop for mental illness

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’m not going to lie, my experience at UConn has been an inexorable, maladaptive struggle since I arrived last January. Masochistically subscribing to the pre-med track, I have sought to pursue a career that requires studying multiple difficult math and science classes at once, none of which I’m inherBy Stephen Friedland e n t l y good at, Staff Columnist and some w h i c h aren’t even on the MCATs. In order to excel at school, I have to sacrifice sanity and normal circadian rhythms, but I can’t excel at school without either of those things.

What makes the responsibilities of college unbearable, though, is when the workload is crushed further into your chest by a persistent men-

What I suggest is that the counseling center finds a way to expand. While it would cost more money to hire more people and make space accommodations, among other things, the investment is completely worth it because of how in-demand it is to people. These are your students; they pay tuition money and work hard. Teachers aren’t going to decrease workloads and the days aren’t going to get shorter because college is college, so there ought to be a surefire way for those too sick to find other outlets to get things out of their heads, to breathe more regularly.

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Major League Baseball's high-tech replay room opens Sunday NEW YORK (AP) — After deciding close calls on the field since 1876, baseball opens a hightech control room this weekend where the fates of batters, pitchers, runners and fielders will be decided by umpires up to 2,600 miles away in the building where the Oreo cookie was invented.

Starting with the Los Angeles Dodgers' game at the San Diego Padres on Sunday night, the U.S. opener of the 2014 season, players, managers and fans will turn their attention to the ROC — the Replay Operations Center.

In a dimly lit room of just under 1,000 square feet in the Chelsea Market in Manhattan's Meatpacking District, umpires and technicians will make the decisions that could decide games and championships.

More than $10 million has been spent wiring the 30 big league ballparks with Fiberlink cable that will transmit the images from at least 12 cameras at every site, and Major League Baseball says it will take just 400 milliseconds for each image to arrive at the command center.

All in an effort to prevent the type of botched calls that cost Detroit's Armando Galarraga a perfect game in 2010.

"I'm happy for the managers," said Joe Torre, an MLB executive vice president overseeing the new system. "Maybe it will keep them

from having one or two more sleepless nights if they are able to grab one and overturn it."

Inside the sliding glass doors at the offices of Major League Baseball Advanced Media, the room has its own power supply in case of a blackout — with batteries as a second auxiliary — and a stand-alone heating, ventilation and air conditioning system that keeps the temperature at 72 degrees. Cell phones don't have reception.

There are dozens of televisions, more than enough to make it resemble NASA's Mission Control.

Outside the room, next to a modernist black sofa, is a 55-inch NEC screen, with another just inside the entrance. Walk in, and there's 65-inch Pentus TV to your left.

On each side are three stations, each to be staffed with a technician on the left and a major league umpire on the right. Three more "floater" stations stretch across the back well.

Every station has four 46-inch screens — three Planars for each pod, with a higher-quality Sony directly in front of each umpire's seat. The umps will wear headsets and can push a button to speak with their colleagues at any stadium.

Fifteen Asus computer monitors are scattered about, four on a wavy table in the center where supervisors will monitor the review umpires

and up to 15 simultaneous games (there would only be the maximum if weather delays the action in the eastern half of North America).

The nine circular overhead lights are kept low, the walls are gray and the carpeting is dark — all so that the televised images will stand out more for the umpires. There is a sink and a microwave — the food court on the first floor is filled with dozens of options.

"I'll see more games than the Fan Cave," quipped Justin Klemm, a former minor league umpire and big league fill-in who was hired last month as MLB's director of instant replay.

Baseball ignored replay even as it was first used by the NFL in 1986, the NHL in 1991, the NBA in 2002 and the Little League World Series in 2008.

MLB took a tentative step toward replay in August 2008, when it first used video to decide boundary calls such as home runs at the top of fences or near foul poles.

Torre long opposed video review but changed his mind in October 2012, when umpire Jeff Nelson missed a call on Robinson Cano's two-out tag of Omar Infante at second base in the AL championship series, calling the runner safe.

Detroit went on to win Game 2 and sweep the New York Yankees "That's when I realized that we

certainly can't ignore the technology and the fact that this seemed to be what the people want or think they want," Torre said.

Eight umpires will be assigned to the replay room each week, with generally six on duty for a full schedule and each monitoring two games at a time.

When an umpire has a decision to make, screens for their other game will go dark. If an ump has simultaneous challenges in both games, one will "cascade" to the next pod over.

Baseball established a "clear and convincing" standard for overturning calls. The replay decision will be either the call is confirmed, stands (if there is no conclusive evidence) or is overturned.

Managers get one challenge per game, and if that challenge is successful, they receive a second. If a manager is out of challenges, from the seventh inning on an umpire can call for a replay on his own. In addition, home runs and plate collisions are subject to unlimited review at the discretion of the crew chief.

Baseball hopes it will take no more than an average of 3 minutes for the decision. The average length of a nine-inning game was a record 2:59 last year, according to STATS. Torre said pace-of-game rules will be enforced more strictly.

"In order to make this thing work and not have it make the games lon-

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A technician works in front of a bank of television screens during a preview of Major League Baseball's Replay Operations Center, in New York.

ger is the fact that we have to start really disciplining and paying attention to the repeat violators," he said.

Open for replay challenges are force plays, tags plays, fair-foul in the outfield, traps in the outfield, hit batters, retouching, passing runners, ground-rule doubles, fan interference and home runs (at the umpires' discretion).

Among the excluded decisions are ball-strike calls, check swings, foul tips making contact with the bat, balks, interference and obstruction calls, the neighborhood play at second on double plays, running out of the basepath or runner's lane, tagging up and catches in the infield.

MLB says that among incorrect

calls last year were 156 force plays, 60 tags on steals and 76 other tags — totaling 86 percent of all missed decisions.

Torre said he expects more dropped balls during pivots at second base will be called safe rather than forceouts, and that MLB will monitor phone traffic between team replay personnel and dugouts to ensure the video isn't used for sign stealing.

About 75 umpires came to New York for training, and MLB sat down with all managers during spring training and will have a conference call with them this week.

Umpiring's new era has arrived.

Indiana Pacers take control of playoff race with 84-83 win INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Pacers and Heat were in no mood to talk about the playoffs Wednesday night.

It was about the only thing they agreed on.

Indiana charged back from a seven-point fourth-quarter deficit, handing the two-time defending champs an 84-83 loss that could force them to return to Indianapolis for a possible seventh game in the playoffs.

"We're going to be one or two (seed), no matter what happened this game," James said after a 38-point night. "So you know, it means nothing."

The Pacers (52-20), who clinched a second straight Central Division title, now have a clear path to homecourt advantage in the Eastern Conference.

With 10 games to go, the

NBA's best home team has four at Bankers Life Fieldhouse and only five against teams with a winning record.

Miami (48-22) plays five winning teams in its last 12 and seven at home — including Round 4 with the Pacers on April 11. But the Heat are 7-8 in March, were unable to protect two leads in the fourth quarter and finished the game with Dwayne Wade icing his right hamstring.

Indiana, meanwhile, is still trying to get back in rhythm.

"This is a game that will hopefully get us back on track. It's one game," said Paul George, who had 23 points to help the Pacers end a two-game losing streak. "We have to go back there and play one more, we have to look at it like that. But this is one step closer to play-

ing good basketball to end this year."

Physical basketball, too.

It was the rare grudge match that actually lived up to its billing.

Before the game, the teams chided one another with dueling comments. Afterward, nobody was ready to make up. And in between, the action got downright nasty.

James needed a cotton swab in his nose to keep playing in the fourth quarter after getting whacked in the face.

Pacers center Roy Hibbert scored 21 points and finished the game despite taking an elbow to the face that left him so groggy he didn't even remember getting hit.

James and George both wound up taking spills into basket supports, and Lance Stephenson

was ejected midway through the fourth quarter after picking up his second technical foul for celebrating a basket. The angry Stephenson waved his hand at the ref and after leaving the court, threw a towel and kicked a door. Coach Frank Vogel was not amused with his guard, saying he had a stern talk with the budding star before he went home.

Nobody had it rougher than James, who missed a late 3-pointer that could have given Miami the lead and was treated like anything but royalty. Chris Bosh also missed a potential winning 3 as the buzzer sounded. Despite the loss, the Heat clinched first in the Southeast Division when Washington lost to Phoenix.

"It is what it is, they ref the game, we play it," James said.

The four-time MVP also had eight rebounds, five assists, was 9 of 15 from the field and 14 of 15 from the free throw line.

The problem: James also had six turnovers, Wade had six more turnovers and Miami managed only one basket over the final 3:23. James and Bosh both missed late jumpers that would have given Miami the lead, the last an airball by Bosh from just right of the top of the key as time expired.

"Unfortunately, that was what I diagrammed," coach Erik Spoelstra said. "It probably wasn't the best call. It might have been a little too gunslinger on my part. I just wanted an open shot."

They were so hard to come

by Wednesday night that James was even called for a flagrant foul when he drove to the bas-

ket and sent the 7-foot-2, 290pound Hibbert crashing to the ground. When Hibbert got up, he stumbled. Eventually he had to leave the court to change his blood-spattered jersey, but he refused to sit against the Heat.

George spurred the first fourth-quarter run with two monster dunks — one over the hand of a trailing James — to get the Pacers back in the game.

Later, it was Evan Turner, the trade deadline acquisition, who delivered two of Indiana's biggest baskets of the night.

The first came after James' final turnover, on a breakaway layup.

The second came courtesy of Mario Chalmers' turnover out of bounds. When the middle of the court opened up, Turner bolted through a clear path for an 81-80 lead with 90 seconds to go.

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Two years later, Hoiberg needed to find a veteran with leadership qualities for his Minnesota squad and Ollie’s name immediately came to mind.

“We needed a mentor-type guy when I moved on after my surgery into the front office, and the first guy to call was Kevin, because I knew the impact he would have on our young players,” Hoiberg said.

Ollie, who bounced around from team to team throughout his journeyed NBA career, was grateful for the opportunity.

“I was at the end of my career and he took a chance on a 37-year-old point guard.

He signed me for one year, and I thank him for that also,” Ollie said. “[Ollie] owes me, because I resurrected his damn career,” Hoiberg joked to the media on Thursday.

Now with the Cyclones and the Huskies scheduled to square off in the Sweet Sixteen at Madison Square Garden on Friday night, Hoiberg acknowledged the significance of the occasion.

“Any time you get to share this experience with somebody you’re very close with, I think it makes it special,” Hoiberg said. “Kevin is as good a person as there is in this business. I think everybody that knows him, you’re not going to find one person say anything bad about him.”

Ollie, too, realizes the difficulty of going up against one of his close friends, but also understands he needs to set the friendship aside for just one night.

“It always makes it tougher,” Ollie said. “You don’t want Fred to lose, but I don’t want UConn to lose either.

So it’s always tough coaching against one of your great friends. But at the end of the day we are both competitors, we both love our university, and once we get in those lines, you pretty much don’t have any friends, and you want your university to come out on top.”

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The UConn men’s tennis team will look to keep its three-meet win streak alive as they host Temple University on Saturday at 1:30 p.m.

After winning their first three meets, the Huskies didn’t see the win column for their next seven, going into a Spring Break trip last week without a victory since Sept. 24 against Siena College.

During that trip, to Puerto Rico, UConn picked up three wins in three days, against Nichols College 6-1, Colgate University 4-3, and the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras 7-0.

“We need to keep playing with confidence, like we have nothing to lose,” head coach

Michael Louis said.

Freshman Christopher Toner was able to close out a tight meet against Colgate last week, winning in the No. 4 singles match to break a 3-3 tie and edge the Red Raiders.

“At this point in the season it’s probably more mental,” Louis said. “There were a lot of momentum shifts in each individual match, in the meet as a whole, and I saw a lot more positives from the guys last week in those moments.”

The Huskies finish their season with six meets in the next three weeks, an opportunity to salvage a season that appeared lost just a few weeks ago.

For Louis, it’s also a time to think about the mark he can leave on this program to end his first year as a head coach; and

whether or not he can turn it into a winning season.

“We’re coming into the last part of the season, this is a time where we can really think about the impact we can leave at the end of it,” Louis said.

Temple, 6-10, also comes into the meet in winning form after beating out Lehigh, 5-2, and Villanova, 4-3. Temple, like UConn, is in the midst of trying to turn its season around, going 0-8 in dual meets to start of the year but 6-2 since.

The Huskies will look to deflate the Owls and keep their own momentum going this Saturday, as they attempt bring their record to .500 for the first time since Feb. 7.

CHICAGO (AP) — DePaul coach Doug Bruno has always had a simple offensive philosophy: share the ball until you find an open shot.

It's worked well this season with his team averaging 19.8 assists per game — third best in the nation behind only unbeatens UConn and Notre Dame. That unselfishness on offense has gotten the Blue Demons into the Sweet 16 for the third time in school history.

It's also provided the most entertaining game of the tournament so far, DePaul's 104-100 victory Oklahoma in the opening round. The 204 combined points made it the highest-scoring regulation game in the history of the NCAA tournament.

Now the Blue Demons face Texas A&M on Saturday with a chance to advance to the regional finals for the first time.

"It would mean a lot," Bruno said. "I think tournament play is really where teams and programs define themselves and we have

defined ourselves at DePaul as a body of work. We are only one of nine teams that have gone to 12 straight NCAA tournaments.

That puts us in an elite place.

But how you do every year in the tournament still is what most recent young people playing the game are looking at."

This season already has had a lot of firsts for DePaul. The school won its first Big East regular-season title and took the conference tournament, as well.

Not bad for a squad that got off to a 4-3 start.

"At the beginning of the year I thought we could be good," said Bruno, who won his 600th college game in a second-round upset of Duke on Monday night.

"After the first seven games we were struggling, but I believed we could turn it around. Every season has ups and downs, and you get to see teams develop or not develop in any given year.

That's what makes coaching fun."

After the difficult start that saw DePaul lose to Notre Dame,

BOSTON (AP) — Patrice Bergeron scored two goals, and the Bruins beat the defending champion Chicago Blackhawks 3-0 on Thursday night in the first meeting between the teams in Boston since the deciding game of the Stanley Cup finals.

Bergeron scored his first goal at 11:50 of the first period, and the Bruins broke the game open with goals by Carl Soderberg and Bergeron in a 13-second span early in the third.

Tuukka Rask stopped 28 shots in posting his NHLleading seventh shutout.

Chicago, fourth in the We s t e r n Conference, remained one point short of clinching a playoff berth for the sixth straight season.

The Eastern Conferenceleading Bruins rebounded from a 2-1 shootout loss to the Montreal Canadiens on Monday that ended Boston's 12-game winning streak.

In their last 14 games, the Bruins have outscored opponents 51-19.

The Blackhawks, the NHL's highest-scoring team, played without Patrick Kane, the Conn Smythe Trophy winner last season as the postseason MVP. Chicago's second leading scorer is expected to miss the rest of the regular season because of a knee injury.

In Game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals, the Bruins allowed two goals in the last 76 seconds as the Blackhawks clinched their second championship in four seasons with a 3-2 victory. Brian Bickell tied it with 1:16 to play and Dave Bolland scored the winner with 59 seconds left.

But on Thursday, the Blackhawks had few good scoring opportunities. Their last solid bid came when Jeremy Morin unleashed a hard, 30-foot shot from the

Ollie and Hoiberg have a strong Men's tennis hosts Temple after friendship despite competing teams successful spring break tournament

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DePaul women brimming with confidence in NCAA tournament Northwestern and Kentucky, the Blue Demons rattled off six straight victories. That run didn't last, as DePaul split its first four conference games. Since then, it has come together for the Blue Demons and they have won 18 of their last 19 games, including the victory over No. 2 seed Duke.

"After those losses we really regrouped as a team and rebounded and defended as lot better throughout the season," DePaul senior Jasmine Penny said. "We also played a lot smarter."

In the past with powerhouses Connecticut and Notre Dame in the Big East, the best DePaul did was tie for second and make the semifinals of the conference tournament. The Blue Demons were full of confidence after taking the conference titles this year.

"Winning the regular season and the Big East tournament gave us the momentum heading in the NCAA tournament that we have never had before," Penny said.

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Bergeron scores twice, Bruins top Blackhawks 3-0 in Stanley Cup rematch left side that a sprawling Rask plucked out of the air with his glove.

Bergeron began the scoring when he tipped in Matt Bartkowski's shot from the left point as the puck eluded goalie Corey Crawford.

Soderberg made it 2-0 with his 14th of the season at 5:28 of the third period. Johnny Boychuk's shot was stopped

by Bruins forward Chris Kelly in front, and it went to Soderberg, who shot quickly from 15 feet.

Just 13 seconds later, Bergeron was credited with his 25th goal after a video review. Crawford had gone behind his net, and when he tried to get back in front, he knocked the net out of position as the puck was heading toward it. Officials ruled that the puck would have gone into the net had it been in place.

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Major shifts all around Major League Baseball (AP)- Mike Scioscia moved his left fielder onto the infield dirt, then watched him start a double play. Matt Williams tried a similar trick — he put his right fielder on the grass behind the mound, only to see a basesloaded triple fly into the vacated spot.

All over the majors this year, the shift is on.

From the designer defenses taking over the game, to expanded replay, to opening day on a cricket ground in Australia, baseball is changing.

Those scraggly beards of the World Series champion Boston Red Sox? Shaved off, mostly.

Soon Derek Jeter will be gone, too.

"You can't do this forever," the Yankees captain said. "I'd like to, but you can't do it forever."

Ryan Braun and the Biogenesis bunch are back in, reckless crashing into catchers

is an automatic out. Robinson Cano, Shin-Soo Choo and Japanese ace Masahiro Tanaka changed sides, as did Jacoby Ellsbury, Prince Fielder and Curtis Granderson.

Plus, there's a rookie with real pedigree — sweet Hank the Dog got a second chance. He found a home in Milwaukee and his own bobblehead night.

Also, a bright forecast for MVPs Miguel Cabrera and Andrew McCutchen. After a bruising winter that left frozen fields in the Midwest and East, temperatures in Detroit, Pittsburgh and most spots were supposed to warm up for Monday's openers.

This spring has been much rougher for others.

Even before the Dodgers started the season by sweeping two from the Diamondbacks in Sydney during Major League Baseball's first regular-season games Down Under, there were

serious setbacks.

Kris Medlen, Brandon Beachy, Jarrod Parker and Luke Hochevar already were out for the year with Tommy John surgery. Patrick Corbin and Bruce Rondon later joined them.

Aroldis Chapman is missing at least two months after getting hit on the head by a line drive.

There was no defense for that, not even those protective caps now in play for pitchers likely would've saved the Cincinnati reliever.

Defense, though, has rapidly become a major focus in the majors.

Be it Dodger Stadium or Fenway Park or anywhere inbetween, it's easy to spot the trend taking over baseball: Creative ways that clubs are positioning their fielders.

The Detroit Tigers even hired a defensive coordinator. Ever expect to hear about a defensive coordinator in baseball?

Matt Martin got that job, and pointed to the overloaded alignments Red Sox slugger David Ortiz sees on a daily basis.

"That's not out of the norm now. That is the norm. With lefthanders, if you'd have seen this 25 years ago, the way they play Big Papi — and 15, 20 guys in the league playing like that — you'd be, 'What happened? Did I wake up and come to a softball game?'"

Makes perfect sense to Pittsburgh second baseman Neil Walker.

"The data is so undeniable, the defensive metrics are so prevalent," he said. "You have so much more information, you should use it."

"There were some times a few years ago when I felt out of place," he admitted. "I was out there in right field and kind of like, 'Where am I supposed to be?' But we practice it, I practice my throws from extreme

an expected victory — but also represents just the first step in what he knows will be a lengthy process.

"There's so many different components," Colter said in an interview with The Associated Press. "But what this does ... it ensures that players have a voice and whatever route this goes and whatever structure comes from college sports, we have input.

We're out there sacrificing so much. We're a big part of what college sports is today and the revenue that's generated off of it.

We deserve to have a say in that.

We deserve a seat at the table."

A two-page online letter that he wrote might have made it all happen.

Colter, 21, wasn't the first to question why athletes feel like their rights in college are limited, but it was an online rant that he sent to the National College Players Association that started

the roll of this now-enormous snowball. From that note, an idea was born, and the notion got legitimized Wednesday when a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board said Northwestern's players should be allowed to unionize.

The university will appeal.

Colter isn't worried.

"You saw how strong of a ruling it was and that we won every single claim," Colter said.

"It's going to be something that's really hard to overturn."

At the root of Colter's argument for change is that he believes college athletes lack basic protections, such as the guarantee of medical coverage and the promise of a four-year scholarship at most institutions.

It's common for scholarships to be renewed annually, and athletes have long felt that they could be vulnerable in situations like a change in coaches or phi-

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angles and I'm comfortable."

An hour later, Walker was standing in shallow right when Phillies slugger Ryan Howard batted in a spring training game.

Walker made a diving stop on a hard grounder, scrambled to his feet, but threw the ball past

first base.

"It's not an exact science," he said.

Fielding always lagged far behind pitching and hitting in statistical analysis, mainly because it was hard to quantify glovework. Teams are trying

losophy.

He stresses, though, that he enjoyed his time at Northwestern.

He raves about Huskies coach Pat Fitzgerald, calling him the best in college football. His experience was not a bad one, but Colter still can't understand why his attempts to talk to the NCAA about possible changes were repeatedly turned down.

"You can have the best employer in the world and you still deserve basic protections and basic rights," Colter said.

"That's what this is all about. ...

It wasn't a complaint. It wasn't us filing this out of abuse or mistreatment or anything like that.

This is what it is."

For that, he actually thanks Northwestern.

"With any big change there's going to be people who are unsure and it's too much, we're not going to be able to do this, we're not going to be able to

do that," Colter said. "But at Northwestern, especially at Northwestern, I've been taught to think outside the box, be a great thinker, free thinker, be a leader, make change. That's just what we're doing. That's what Northwestern prepared us to do, to tackle this challenge."

It would be very simple for the 6-foot, 190-pound Colter to just worry about himself right now.

He accounted for 5,023 yards and 50 touchdowns — 18 passing, 28 rushing and four receiving — in his four years at Northwestern, and plans to try to make the NFL as a receiver. He's not expected to be drafted, and if he gets picked it almost certainly won't be until the latest rounds.

He's preparing for a pro shot at IMG Academy on the southwest coast of Florida, where he said his training regimen Thursday was "business as usual."

The UConn women’s lacrosse team looks to keep their four game win streak going when they kick off Big East conference play against Temple.

UConn (5-4) has defeated James Madison, Oregon, Fresno State and Fairfield to get back over .500 after a shaky 1-4 start.

Following a dominant second half where they scored six straight goals, UConn came away with an 8-7 win over Fairfield University in their last contest. The Huskies erased a 4-2 Fairfield halftime lead on their way to their fourth-straight victory,

improving to 5-4 on the sea- ECAC Championships and a son. The loss dropped the top-15 national ranking. She Stags to 4-3. Temple (3-6) faced UConn as a coach duris coming off an 11-9 loss ing her time as an assistant at against Maryland-Baltimore Rutgers, but for Rosen it will County. be the first meeting against The game will be a reunion her former team. of sorts, as In games away Temple head from Storrs, UConn coach Bonnie is 3-2, most recentRosen – now in ly defeating Oregon her eighth seaand Fresno State son – spent 10 on the West Coast. years as the head To defeat Temple, coach at UConn UConn will have from 1997-2006. to bring that same Preview She was the prolevel of toughness, gram's first head as the Owls are 3-2 coach, and one of her recruits at Geasey Field, most recentwas current Temple assistant ly earning a hard-fought, 9-8 coach Jennifer Wong. Wong overtime win against Hofstra. was a goalkeeper for the For the Huskies to keep their Huskies from 2001-05, help- streak going, they need sophing the Huskies to a 2005 omore Katherine Finkelston

to continue her dynamite season. She leads the team with 22 goals. Senior Lauren Kahn leads the team in points with 31 (18 goals and 13 assists).

The key to the Huskies recent winning streak, however, has been sophomore goaltender Shannon Nee. For the second straight week and third time this season, Nee was named the Big East Defensive Player of the Week. She has started every game for UConn this season, boasting a 10.09 goals against average. She’s made 58 saves on 164 shots faced and has 17 grounds balls this year, good for the second-highest total on the team.

(AP)- Archie Miller has spent much of his life in his older brother's shadow: As a kid in western Pennsylvania, as a player in the college ranks, later as an assistant on Sean's staff at Arizona.

So when an interviewer accidentally called Archie by his brother's name on national television, there was a long awkward silence. To be fair, some of it was the delay on the satellite feed between questions. Still, it seemed to catch Archie off guard.

A few days later, as he was doing interviews before Dayton faced Stanford in the NCAA tournament, another interviewer apologized for calling Archie by the wrong name.

"You don't have to worry about that," Archie said.

"Everybody calls me Sean."

Maybe not much longer.

In his third season as the head coach at Dayton, Archie has his underdog Flyers in the same place big bro has the blue-blood Arizona Wildcats: the Sweet 16.

Arizona is in the regional semifinals for the third time in four years after master recruiter Sean pulled together a string of among-the-bestin-the-nation classes. The Wildcats, the No. 1 seed in the West, are supremely ath-

letic and play defense like few teams in the country, overcoming the jitters against Weber State and reaching the Sweet 16 with a rout of Gonzaga.

Arizona faces San Diego State in the West Regional semifinals Thursday night in Anaheim, Calif.

After two years as an assistant under Sean, Archie left the desert for Dayton, where he modeled his program after the success the brothers had together in Arizona.

Dayton has been the surprise of this year's bracket, a scrappy team that's in the Sweet 16 for the first time in 30 years after knocking off sixth-seeded Ohio State — and millions of brackets in the process — then Syracuse in one magical weekend.

The Flyers tip off against Stanford on Thursday night in Memphis about two hours before Sean and the Wildcats hit the floor.

The divergent paths ended up in the same place, making them the first brothers to coach different teams in the Sweet 16 in NCAA tournament history.

"It's very special," Sean said after the Gonzaga game.

"We're both the product of a great family, but in particular our dad being who

free-throw percentage.

After 12 years as an assistant, Sean became the head coach at Xavier, where he led the Musketeers to the Elite Eight and Sweet 16 from 2008-09 before resurrecting an Arizona program that had fallen into turmoil.

Archie was a scrappy guard with an outstanding shooting touch in four years at North Carolina State, where he is third in career freethrow percentage and fourth in career 3-pointers made. He spent five years as an assistant coach — 2009-11 under his brother — before heading to Dayton, where has led the mid-major Flyers in a Sweet 16 filled with major-program monsters.

"My dad gets a lot of credit, deservedly so because of the time he spent with us," Sean said. "But he's just one of those throwback coaches that knew the game, loved the game, was good at teaching and coaching, but gave that passion to his kids.

Everywhere he went, we went."

And now they're taking him with them — to the Sweet 16.

Colter: 'We know what we're doing' with union idea

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he is, not only a great high school coach — maybe one of the best ever, at least in our opinion — but also a great dad. It was that combination of so much time spent that you know he gave us an understanding of the game, a love of the game, and I think we're both probably coaches because of him. Today is a special day in my mind more for him."

John Miller was a legendary high school coach in western Pennsylvania who won four state titles and over 600 games. He could have gone on to coach in college, maybe even continued to the NBA, but opted to stick to the high school ranks, in part so he could stay close to his family.

John was not easy on Sean and Archie, rarely giving them praise, constantly driving them to become better players, instilling a hardworking attitude that would carry them through the rest of their lives.

It worked.

Sean was dribbling prodigy who appeared on national television and did exhibitions at local gyms. He was the starting point guard at Pittsburgh and left as the alltime Big East leader in career assists and 10th in Division I

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“I could tell you, one, I’m glad we didn’t have replay.”

-Former Yankees head manager Joe Torre said, an apparent reference to Richie Garcia calling a 2-2 pitch to Tino Martinez a ball in the 1998 World Series opener.

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What's On TV NCAAB: (1) Florida vs. (4) UCLA, 9:45 p.m. CBS The Gators continue their journey to Dallas tonight when they take on the fourth-seeded UCLA in the Sweet 16.

Florida’s defense, which allows an average of 57.5 points per game (third best in the nation) goes up against an UCLA offense that scores at an 81.5 ppg pace.

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Marc Gasol saw the doubt in the eyes of the Utah players and, with help from Zach Randolph and Mike Conley, he knew just when to pounce.

After all, the Memphis Grizzlies were in the same position a few years ago as a young team that didn’t know how to finish games.

Randolph had 22 points and 13 rebounds, and his two free throws with 11 seconds remaining clinched the Grizzlies’ 91-87 come-from-behind win over the reeling Jazz on Wednesday night.

“We were at that stage not too long ago. We would play a good game for 36 minutes or more and then a veteran team would execute, get stops and take the win away from us,” said Gasol, who had 18 points.

Conley scored 19 points for the Grizzlies, who won for the fifth time in six games and are a season-best 15 games over .500.

“When the game is coming down to the end as a young team, you tend to try and make the right play and over-think things. We could see that in them and we tried to take advantage,” Conley said.

Derrick Favors had 22 points and 10 rebounds, Gordon Hayward scored 18 points and Richard Jefferson added 15 for the Jazz, who are 1-5 in their last six home games.

Though Memphis is the team in a tight playoff race, the Jazz made the extra effort for steals and dived for loose balls and led for most of the contest while playing their starters extended minutes.

“They played so hard and they had extra energy and they had us on our heels most of the game, but we felt like we were supposed to win,” said Randolph, who had his 400th career doubledouble.

The Grizzlies, however, made the key plays down the stretch and sank their final 13 free throws to secure the victory.

Jefferson made a 3-pointer and then added a fast-break layup to give Utah its largest lead, 65-49, midway through the third quarter.

The Grizzlies clawed back and by the time Mike Miller hit a rare 3-pointer for Memphis, the lead was down to 78-75 with 7:08 to play. Favors dunked to put the Jazz up 84-77, but the Grizzlies clamped down and went to work.

Miller hit another 3 in the midst of 12 straight Memphis points and Gasol’s layup capped the run to put the Grizzlies up 89-84 with 59 seconds left in the game.

Memphis forced six fourth-quarter turnovers and outscored the gasping Jazz 29-16 in the final frame.

“I know what it’s like when you are a young team that was up 16 and then you look up and you’re down one. That rim sure gets tighter,” Randolph said.

Trey Burke, who had 11 points and 10 assists, cut the lead to 89-87 with 15 seconds left but couldn’t convert on a 3-pointer in the closing moments to extend the game.

Winner of the contest advances to the Elite Eight and will face Dayton/Stanford.

NCAAB: (1) Arizona vs. (4) San Diego State, 10:17 p.m., TBS Playing at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif., San Diego St. will look to upset the top seed in the West Region.

The contest features two of the top-five defensive teams in the country, with the Wildcats giving up an average of only 58.3 ppg and Aztecs at 56.6 ppg.

An Elite Eight matchup with either Baylor or Wisconsin awaits the winner of tonight’s game.

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(AP)- It wasn’t hard to find a good seat during the opening rounds of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament. The NCAA expects that to change for the Sweet 16.

Fewer people turned out for the opening two rounds of the NCAA women’s tournament as the 16 sites averaged nearly 4,100 fans for the first two rounds, down about 700 from the previous year. It probably didn’t help that three of the locations didn’t have host schools playing at them — Los Angeles, Seattle and Toledo. While the Ohio site had good attendance mainly because Notre Dame was there, Los Angeles and Seattle ranked as the bottom two locations in attendance.

Less than 1,000 fans turned out for the second round matchup between BYU and Nebraska in L.A. Tennessee drew the most with more than 7,000 people at the first round games and nearly 6,000 for the second.

The NCAA doesn’t expect to have the attendance problem next year when the top four seeds hosting the opening rounds of the tournament.

While attendance was lagging in the early rounds, the NCAA is hopeful that will change in the regionals.

“While we didn’t experience an increase in attendance at our first- and second-round championship sites, we are anticipating great crowds and games at our four regionals and the women’s Final Four,” said Anucha Browne, the NCAA vice president of women’s basketball championships. “You can sense the momentum building in this year’s

championship, with many interesting story lines developing in what should make for a fantastic finish.”

Stanford, Louisville, Notre Dame and Nebraska are all hosting, marking the first time in a decade that a school has been able to play at home in the regionals. While the Cornhuskers were knocked out in the second round, the other three teams advanced.

The Irish have already sold out Saturday’s regional semifinals and very few tickets remain for Monday night’s contest. Ticket sales at Nebraska have been strong even without the host team playing. Over 8,600 tickets have been bought for Saturday’s games, which features top seed UConn.

“Enough people realize this is a big event for Lincoln and the state of Nebraska, but there won’t be anywhere near the 10,000 that would show up if Nebraska were there,” said Matt Coatney, longtime radio play-by-play voice of Nebraska women’s basketball. “UConn is a big enough name for non-women’s basketball fans, and Geno Auriemma is a big enough star, that people will want to come out and see him.”

While Louisville may not get the 22,000 fans who turned out for their showdown against topranked UConn in early March, the Cardinals are expecting a huge crowd this weekend with Tennessee, Maryland and LSU in town. It’s only a four-hour drive from Knoxville to Louisville.

(AP)- They played their way into a top ranking in an arena where one of the greatest stories in sports unfolded 34 years ago.

The Dutchmen of Union College aren’t a bad story, either, as they chase their own Miracle on Ice. At first glance, they shouldn’t even be playing Division I hockey. With just 2,100 students — and no athletic scholarships — Union can’t be expected to compete with the big boys of hockey like Minnesota, Boston College or North Dakota.

But compete they do, making it all the way to the Frozen Four two years ago in the first of their improbable runs. They’re back this year with the longest unbeaten streak in the nation (12-0-1) and the No. 1 ranking in the nation in the USCHO.com poll after winning the ECAC championship over the weekend in Lake Placid.

“We always aim high and we expect to be good,” said star defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere.

“Every year you set your goals and every year we’ve always set the same goal of winning a national championship.”

A lofty goal, considering the tiny liberal arts school in Schenectady, N.Y., plays Division I in only one sport. This year they’re doing it with only one true NHL prospect, along with a GPA that might make them the smartest team on ice.

Pretty heady stuff for a school that dates back more than 200 years and prides itself on being

the first college in the U.S. to be designed as part of a master plan.

“It’s one of those things you almost have to pinch yourself,” said Stephen Ainlay, the school’s president. “It’s truly amazing.”

For a while it appeared Union would be defined this season by a brawl that went viral and got coach Rick Bennett a two-game suspension. But the third year coach — who had a brief stint with the New York Rangers — kept his team together and the Dutchmen haven’t lost since his return.

They face Vermont in the first game Friday of the East Regional in Bridgeport, Conn.

“It’s awful tough for a coach who is part of a team to stand up there and try and deliver a message when you know you have done something wrong,” Bennett said. “I explained to my team what happens when you do make a bad choice like I did. I think they rallied around it.”

Bennett took Union to the Frozen Four in his first year as head coach after six years as an assistant under current Providence College coach Nate Leaman.

Before that he was an assistant at Providence, where his career as a coach nearly came to an end.

“Honestly, I got fired at Providence when the new coach came in,” he said. “The other assistants stayed and I got walking papers. I was really fortunate I got this opportunity a few weeks later.”

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NEW YORK – Matt Anania was one of the craziest and loudest UConn fans of his time as a student.

Now an alum, he bought a full strip of tickets for the East Regional at Madison Square Garden, where UConn will play Iowa State in the Sweet 16 Friday night. $571 “As soon as I knew (UConn playing at MSG) might be a possibility, I not only wanted it to happen, I wanted to be there,” Anania said in a message Thursday afternoon.

He was not the only one to spend lavishly on tickets. Getting into Friday’s games at the Garden will cost a fan no less than $595 on the secondary market, as of 5 p.m. Tickets for Friday’s Midwest Regional Semifinals, featuring a Kentucky-Louisville showdown are $98, and $271 for the cheapest seat at the Final Four.

“I would consider myself a thrifty person,” said Andrew DePaolo, another alum who spent $350. “But having the opportunity to cheer on my alma mater at the world’s most famous arena is something worth paying for.”

“It’s an unbelievable thing,” Tyler Olander said. “To have the highest tickets in MSG history, I think it’s great. I feel bad for the fans who had to pay for the tickets, but that’s UConn Nation for you.”

UConn fans have continued to pay through the nose to get in Friday night. Students are paying other students for the right to their tickets.

Metro North is running an extra train with extra cars to carry fans from Connecticut to New York for the game.

“They’re just showing their love and support,” Ryan Boatright said.

“We just want to go out there and give them a show and give them something to be proud of.”

UConn will not be playing at Madison Square Garden often anymore. It used to be a yearly tradition, but you know how the story has gone since the magic of 2011. You know where UConn stands now.

“I think it’s hard as a UConn fan to come to terms with both our departure from the Big East and the general lack of respect for the AAC,” DePaolo said. “That said, this is a huge opportunity for both the team and our fans to prove that UConn is a powerhouse regardless of what conference we’re playing in.”

For the players, this opportunity – which is quickly approaching “once in a lifetime” territory – is one that they do not want to let slip.

“It’s the big stage,” Boatright said. “Nobody wants to lose on the big stage. Once you get to the big stage, once you get to those pressure moments, we just find a way to dig out those wins. I don’t know how, I don’t know why, we just do it.”

Many of those pressure moments, many of the most memorable in UConn history, have come at the Garden.

Seven Big East Tournament titles.

Ray Allen.

Taliek Brown.

“Cardiac Kemba.”

UConn’s history was built on the greatness it achieved at MSG, and its future could be affected by what happens this weekend.

Knowing that, and knowing they will have an overwhelming amount of support in the crowd, the Huskies are feeling the allure of the Garden once again.

“We all thought about it and said, ‘Man, if we get the chance to go back to Madison Square Garden,’” Daniels said. “That’s our second home. We wanted to get here because we know it’s close to home.

We knew it was going to be crazy and have all our friends that come out. Now we here, now we just have to come out and execute and win the game tomorrow, for our fans.”

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NEW YORK – It started with a recruiting visit in 1990 when both men were still in high school, and now after almost 24 years, the bond between UConn’s Kevin Ollie and Iowa State’s Fred Hoiberg remains unwavering.

Ollie’s Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles is over 1,700 miles away from Hoiberg’s Ames High School in Ames, Iowa, but Lute Olson, the thenArizona head coach in 1990, brought the two men together in Tucson, Ariz. and informed them that he had only one scholarship remaining, and whoever was the first to accept it, would become a Wildcat.

Neither of them took it, as they went on their separate ways. “[Hoiberg] went to Iowa State and I went to Connecticut and I think it worked out for both of us,” Ollie said.

Both men finished four-year careers at their respective schools before joining the NBA. Hoiberg played a decade in the league while Ollie’s career spanned 13 seasons.

In 2001, fate brought the two together once again when Ollie signed with the Chicago Bulls as a free agent and became teammates with Hoiberg.

Though their camaraderie in Chicago lasted only one season, it left lingering impressions on both men’s minds.

“Just one of the greatest teammates I’ve ever been around,” Ollie said of Hoiberg. “Personable, would do anything for his teammates.”

“Kevin and I weren’t very good players,” Hoiberg said, “but to stick around, me for 10, him for 13 years, you have to have some of those qualities to stick, a work ethic, good teammate, and that’s what Kevin was.”

Hoiberg’s playing career was cut short by an aneurysm of the aortic sinus and underwent surgery in 2005, but he didn’t step away from basketball and moved into the front office of the Minnesota Timberwolves in 2006.

Kevin Ollie directs the Huskies against SMU. He looks to advance past Iowa State this weekend at Madison Square Garden. Ollie and head coach Fred Hoiberg have a long lasting friendship outside of basketball which will make this game more signficant for both.

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Baseball has first home game after cancellations

By Scott Carroll Staff Writer

The UConn baseball team will take on the Rutgers Scarlet Knights this weekend in a three game series starting Friday at 3 p.m.

The Huskies and Scarlet Knights clashed last season with Rutgers taking two of three games in the series in New Brunswick, N.J. UConn won the first game of the series 3-1 as redshirt junior Carson Cross picked up the win. Cross pitched 7.2 innings, giving up one run on eight hits while striking out four.

Returning sophomore catcher Max McDowell was one of two Huskies to bat in a run in the contest as he finished with two hits including an RBI single to left field.

The Huskies wouldn’t be as fortunate in the following two games as the Scarlet Knights would take the next two games of the series winning the second game 9-4 and the rubber match 4-2.

The Scarlet Knights come into the series with an 8-12 overall record. Rutgers has been having a very streaky season, experiencing multiple three or four-game losing streaks and a four-game winning streak.

Rutgers’ most recent series was against the Lousiville Cardinals. The Scarlet Knights were able to take one of three games against the Cardinals, but outscored Lousiville 20-17.

The Scarlet Knights are led at the plate by their senior outfielder Brian O’Grady who has a .395 batting average thus far in the season with a team-leading two homeruns and 15 RBIs. Three other Scarlet Knights have a batting average over .300 as Pat Sweeney, Vinny Zarrillo and Lou Clemente.

Redshirt freshmen Kyle Driscoll has pitched the most innings for the Scarlet Knights this season with 28 innings pitched and 5.14 earned run average while striking out 26 batters. Sophomore Howie

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UConn looks to play its first home game of the season as the first two were postponed. The Huskies take on the Scarlet Knights.

Brey leads the Scarlet Knights in earned run average with .96 over 18.2 innings. Brey has a 2-1 record this season and has struck out eleven batters.

The Huskies come into the series after losing three of their last four games with their

most recent loss coming at the hands of the Hartford Hawks in a ninth inning, 3-2 loss.

UConn’s overall record is 11-11 and their conference record is 1-2 as they take to their home field for the first time this season at J.O.

By Matt Stypulkoski Associate Sports Editor

time in Tuesday’s win over St. Joe’s.

One of those double-digits scorers, and one of three to score 20-plus points on the night, was Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, who turned in a historic night and her most complete performance of the season.

Mosqueda-Lewis notched just the third triple-double in UConn history against the Hawks; Stefanie Dolson turned in the second such performance on Nov. 20 against Oregon.

But perhaps more important than the stat sheet for the junior forward was the all-around nature of her play and the emotional boost provided to a player who has been out of the lineup for long stretches due to injury and illness all season.

“The coaches have been telling me that I need to be a com-

Christian Field.

The first game of the series is penciled in for Friday at 3 p.m. with the second game to be played Saturday at 1 p.m.

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UConn takes Nebraska in Sweet Sixteen games

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Stefanie Dolson looks to use her senior leadership to guide the Huskies past BYU.

For the UConn women’s basketball team and its fans, Saturday begins a week-plus stretch that will involve plen-

ty of travel, hotel rooms and, hopefully, a trophy.

After successfully navigating through the Storrs subregional

this past weekend by knocking off No. 16 Prairie View A&M and No. 9 St. Joseph’s, the topseeded Huskies have earned themselves a trip to Lincoln, Neb. for the Sweet 16.

So far, the Lincoln Regional has been littered with upsets – No. 12 BYU knocked off No. 4 Nebraska and No. 7 DePaul took down No. 2 Duke on its home court – a trend that UConn will be keen to avoid extending.

And considering the Huskies are 19-2 all-time in the Sweet 16, history is on their side when they face off against the Cougars. It also helps that they are brimming with confidence after having five players score in double-digits for the ninth

plete player and make sure I’m contributing in different ways,” Mosqueda-Lewis said. “I think he’s definitely right. Me playing at my best is when I’m doing everything that is possible whether it’s rebounding or getting the ball to my teammates or shooting the ball or playing on defense.”

UConn has only played BYU twice and won both contests, which came during a home-andhome series played Nov. 2007 and 2008. The Huskies won by an average of 47.5 points.

Tip-off is set for 4:30 p.m. at the Pinnacle Bank Arena and the game can be seen on ESPN. That game will be followed by No. 3 Texas A&M and No. 7 DePaul in the bottom half of the bracket at 6:30 p.m.

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