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Herbst: Consolidate administrative positions

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At the Mar. 28 Board of Trustee’s meeting, UConn President Susan Herbst proposed restructuring senior administration leadership, including the elimination of two vice president positions and transferring those responsibilities to a single position, called Vice President for Administration and Chief Financial Officer.

The two positions to be eliminated are Vice President/Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Human Resources, a position created by former UConn President Michael Hogan.

The new VP of Administration and CFO is expected to be in charge of the Human Resources at Storrs, regional and law school campuses, as well as Facilities, Public Safety and Environmental Health and Safety. This, according to a statement by Susan Herbst, is intended to “improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the senior administration at the University.”

Herbst requested that any questions or concerns are to be sent to Rachel Rubin, the president’s chief of staff.

Herbst’s other proposed change is changing the title of the Vice President for Health Affairs to “Executive Vice President for Health Affairs,” for incoming Dr. Frank M. Torti to recognize the increased importance and prominence of the UConn Health Center.

The Health Center has been growing in importance due to Bioscience Connecticut, an initiative by Gov. Dannel Malloy to create jobs and boost economic development in Connecticut.

As part of that initiative, a partnership with Jackson Laboratory has been established and there is a planned $1.1 billion laboratory complex.

The new executive VP position will report direct to the president and is intended to be directly accountable to the president and the board, and will have new responsibilities in administration and finance.

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President Susan Herbst proposed the elimination of two administrative positions: at the Board of Trustee’s Mar. 28 meeting: Vice President for Administration and Chief Financial Officer.

Beyond the restructuring is the tedious job of filling job positions already established. Herbst reported that the Fine Arts Dean search is almost done, narrowed down to four candidates.

There is a search for a new Provost, VP of Research, as well as University Ombudsman.

University Ombudsman is a new position established, Herbst described, to provide a “place or person for people to go to who are not getting satisfaction from the usual channels.” This position will report directly to the President.

Herbst also described two outside reviews currently ongoing, that are

Neag Ranked No. 32 education school in country

By Loumarie Rodriguez Staff Writer The graduate program Neag School of Education recently rose to the 32nd best school of the nation, according to the latest results from the U.S. News & Report.

This new ranking has pushed the Neag School to the No. 1 spot for public graduate schools in the northeast and No. 22 for all public graduate schools in the country. With these new rankings it has placed UConn’s Neag School in the top 11.5 percent of all graduate schools that were surveyed by U.S News & World Report.

According to the press release, Dean Thomas DeFranco of the Neag School believes the school’s positive reputation is due to its work with public schools in Connecticut and across the country. There were also higher rankings in specialty programs such as elementary teacher education to No. 14 in the nation, the secondary teacher education currently at No. 17 in the nation and educational psychology ranked at No. 22 in the country.

“We are not interested in maintaining rankings but to move up in it,” DeFranco said.

“The good work that goes on between faculty and students is what gives us the national reputation and help us move forward.”

The rankings provide a sense of how well the school is doing and how well they are doing overall compared to other schools according to DeFranco. The rankings look at the quality of faculty, staff and students alike which has provided the school with a positive national reputation.

“I could not be more excited about being part of such a fantastic teacher education program,” said Abby Esposito, a 4th-semester social studies and secondary history major. “I knew Neag was the best from when I applied,

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and I know this is where I need to be to fully prepare myself for my teaching career. Neag will bring out my full potential as a future educator, no doubt about it.”

Another key point stressed in the Neag School is “active learning.” Professors provide students with models of “active learning.” Students leave the school knowing how to engage and teach students by using this method.

“I think it was one of the reasons why I decided to come here (Neag),” said graduate student Stephanie Murana, studying school counseling. “It’s recognizable and it gives graduate students an edge.”

The Neag School began its rise to prominence between 1999 and 2000 when Ray Neag gave a generous gift to the school to help begin the transformation which helped bring in more scholars to the program. Students apply to the five-year program in their sophomore year and begin the Neag program their junior year. After completing the five years they will receive their masters and certificate for teaching.

“I believe this school has a great combination of focus on undergrad teaching education program and a great training on graduate students for research,” said graduate Professor Christopher Rhoads. “We are a point in pride and it’s encouraging to hear this (rankings) and we’ll continue to do better.”

“I’m very proud of the ratings but I’m more proud of the work of the faculty, students, and staff because of their scholarship and research they have provided a great national reputation,” DeFranco said. “I am proud of the students and the highly effective impact they will have on the academic performance on children once they leave the Neag School.”

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cally. Herbst voiced that this one of the most important tasks that the University could do for their student athletes and that the program “hasn’t been reviewed for a long time.”

“Especially in the case of UConn, we have the eyes of the world on at our teams. That’s a lot of pressure for a young person and they do need our support.”

Herbst told the Board. Going unmentioned was the UConn men’s basketball trouble with the academic requirements for the NCAA, jeopardizing their ability to qualify in the 2013 tournament.

being conducted by faculty from other universities. She feels that having outside peers have look at UConn programs is an important way to figure out what the University does well and what needs improvement.

One review is of Student Affairs, particularly Career Services. Herbst said that’s very important that Career Services is excellent, “especially because in a bad economy where our students have trouble getting jobs.”

The other review is of Counseling Program for Intercollegiate Athletes (CPIA) which is the organization that helps support student athletes academi-

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Community Outreach Alternative Spring Break trip inspires students

By Courtney Robishaw Staff Writer While some UConn students spent their spring break lying on the beach in a tropical location, like Cancun or Punta Cana, others spent their “break” not really taking a break. Many students opted to take an alternative spring break trip, where instead of relaxing, they spent their breaks performing service projects in various communities of need.

Fifty-four students traveled to New Orleans with the Office of Community Outreach to perform Hurricane Katrina relief projects this past spring break.

Following a 30-hour bus ride from Storrs to New Orleans, a typical day on this “break” began at 6:30 a.m. when students woke up for breakfast. The workday began at 8:30 a.m. with students spending the day working on a service project until around 4 p.m.

One team, comprised of 11 students, spent their time re-painting a woman’s house whose husband passed away and who is the sole caregiver of her mother and sister, according to Suzie Berthiaume, an 8th-semester allied health major and team leader. Since New Orleans is so humid, houses are supposed to be re-painted every

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four years, she said.

The Office of Community Outreach trip participants worked on projects called 450-15, because for $450 and 15 people, in one week it is possible to repaint the outside of a house, according to Sara McKechnie, an 8thsemester human development and family studies major and trip director.

This Office of Community Outreach trip focused on aiding specific communities in need. The communities were very close in New Orleans, because oftentimes entire families lived in the same neighborhood prior to the hurricane, according to Sean Reddy, a 4th semester actuarial science major and participant on the trip.

“It is difficult to be the first to move back if there’s nothing to come back to. The neighborhoods are worth restoring because there is such a sense of community,” he said.

“The community said we deserve a nice place to live and we want people to come back here and see that we have a nice area,” added McKechnie.

Prior to the trip, participants spent time preparing by learning about New Orleans and the culture. Berthiaume taught her team about how there are still problems with

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Conn. lawmakers look to rein in gas prices again

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — As the price of gasoline increases, so does the enthusiasm among lawmakers to propose legislation that somehow limits the price at the pump.

In Connecticut, where the General Assembly on Wednesday unanimously passed legislation that attempts to address the high prices, lawmakers have been through this before. There have been cuts to the state’s gas tax and investigations into alleged price gouging, but the lasting effects of these efforts have been negligible in a state with some of the highest gas prices in the country Still, many commuters frustrated with prices hovering around $4 a gallon are eager to see state government take action, however small the impact might be.

Conn. company settles hiring discrimination claim

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says it has reached a settlement with a Connecticut staffing company over allegations that it posted discriminatory advertisements limiting jobs to American citizens.

The government says Wilton-based Onward Healthcare agreed to pay $100,000 in civil penalties and change internal policies and manuals to reflect laws protecting non-citizens who are legally authorized to work.

Authorities say the health care staffing company limited applications to U.S. citizens over the course of a year even though lawful permanent residents and others should have been allowed to apply.

The Immigration and Nationality Act prohibits employers from discriminating on the basis of citizenship.

Golf industry touts economic impact on the state

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut lawmakers looking for new economic drivers in the state are pointing to golf as an example of why professional sports may be worth a bigger investment from government.

Nathan Grube, the chairman of the PGA Tour’s Travelers Championship, joined other representatives of the industry at the state Capitol on Wednesday, touting what they say is a $1.1 billion impact on the state’s economy from golf.

Grube pointed to a 2011 report that showed his tournament, the state’s PGA Tour stop, created about 250 new jobs last year and pumped about $28 million into the local economy.

A separate report showed the entire industry, which also includes 185 golf courses and driving ranges across Connecticut, equipment dealers and amateur tournaments, provide 11,500 jobs in the state.

Feds: Conn. mobster has info on Boston art heist

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — FBI investigators believe a reputed Connecticut mobster was somehow involved in a Boston heist that became the largest art theft in history, according to a federal prosecutor.

Assistant U.S. Attorney John Durham revealed in federal court in Hartford this week that the FBI believes 75-year-old Robert Gentile has information about the still-unsolved 1990 heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where thieves made off with upward of a half-billion dollars in masterworks by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas and Manet.

Durham didn’t elaborate on his allegations, and Gentile’s lawyer said his client doesn’t know anything about the art theft. Durham’s comments came during a hearing Tuesday over whether bail should be set for Gentile in a drug case, The Hartford Courant reported. U.S. District Judge Robert Chatigny ordered Gentile to remain held without bail, saying he’s too dangerous.

Conn. man charged in fatal dumbbell attack

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A 42-year-old Bridgeport man has been charged with beating his girlfriend to death with a 10-pound dumbbell.

The Connecticut Post reports that Wilson “Junne” Cash was arraigned on a murder charge Tuesday in Bridgeport Superior Court in connection with the Sept. 27 death of 46-year-old Christine Jeffreys, who was found dead in her city apartment. Cash was returned Monday to Connecticut from Port Chester, N.Y., where he was arrested.

An arrest warrant affidavit suggests Cash fatally beat Jeffreys because she wouldn’t let him commit robberies to get money to buy crack cocaine. Police say witnesses implicated Cash in the killing.

Cash was ordered held on $1 million bail and his case was continued to April 10. It’s not clear if he has a lawyer.

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House set to defeat bipartisan budget

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House was poised Wednesday to reject a bipartisan budget plan mixing tax increases with spending cuts across the budget to wring $4 trillion from the budget deficit over the coming decade, paving the way for Republicans to muscle through on Thursday a stringent GOP budget that blends big cuts to safety-net programs for the poor with a plan to dramatically overhaul Medicare.

The bipartisan measure, patterned on a plan by President Barack Obama’s 2010 deficit commission, was sure to fall victim to GOP opposition to its $1.2 trillion tax increase over a decade — and Democratic resistance to further cuts to domestic programs. The plan,

by Reps. Steve LaTourette, R-Ohio, and Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., won praise from outside experts and some lawmakers in both parties, but got a chilly reception from GOP leaders unwilling to stray from the party principles on taxes and top Democrats unable to stomach cuts to social programs they and Obama have promised to defend.

At the center of Wednesday’s debate, however, was a budget-slashing GOP plan

by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., chairman of the House Budget Committee, that would quickly bring the deficit to heel but only through unprecedented cuts to programs for the poor such as food stamps, Medicaid, college aid and housing subsidies. The Republican budget also reprises a controversial Medicare plan that would switch the program — for those under 55 today — from the traditional framework in which the government pays doctor and

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In a Feb. 16 file photo House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., holds up a copy of President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2013 federal budget on Capitol Hill in Washington.

hospital bills to a voucher-like approach in which the government subsidizes purchases of private health insurance.

The GOP plan is set to pass on Thursday, but swiftly die in the Democraticcontrolled Senate. Under the arcane budget rules of Congress, the annual budget resolution is a far-reaching but nonbinding measure that sets the parameters for follow-up legislation.

The measure reopens last summer’s hard-won budget and debt deal with Obama, imposing new cuts on domestic agencies while easing cost curbs on the Pentagon that gained bipartisan support just months ago. It would set in motion

follow-up legislation that would substitute $261 billion in spending cuts spaced over a decade for $78 billion in automatic spending cuts that would cut the Pentagon budget by about 10 percent next year and cut numerous domestic programs as well.

The election-year GOP manifesto paints clear campaign differences with Obama, whose February budget submission offered tax increases on the wealthy but mostly left alone key benefit programs like Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps.

Obama and his Democratic allies instead promise to protect programs aimed at the elderly and the poor.

Former CVS Caremark CEO left with $58M pension

Former CVS Caremark Chairman and CEO Thomas M. Ryan headed into retirement last year with a $58.5 million pension payment and $33.7 million from stock and option awards, according to a regulatory filing from the drugstore chain and pharmacy benefits manager.

Ryan also received compensation valued at $3.4 million last year, according to an Associated Press analysis of the Woonsocket, R.I., company’s proxy statement filed recently with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The former executive stepped down as CEO in March 2011 and left his post as chairman a couple of months later.

Ryan, 59, had served as CEO since 1994 and chairman since 1998. He oversaw the drugstore chain’s $26.5 billion acquisition of pharmacy benefits manager Caremark in 2007. He also helped expand the company’s operations into the South, West Coast and Midwest with acquisitions.

CVS Caremark said last year that Ryan would take his pension benefit in a lump sum of more than $58 million when he retired. That benefit accumulated over his 36-year career with the

company.

Ryan made $33.7 million last year from exercised stock options restricted stock awards that had vested. CVS Caremark spokeswoman Carolyn Castel said some of the restricted stock vested when Ryan retired, and he had to exercise some of the options because he would lose them if he did not.

Aside from those totals, Ryan also received a $546,154 salary from CVS Caremark, a performance-related bonus of $2.3 million and $591,148 in other compensation. That included the salary of an executive assistant for five years.

It also included $75,000 for five years of financial planning tied to his retirement.

Ryan’s successor as CEO, Larry J. Merlo, 56, received compensation valued at about $12 million last year.

CVS Caremark runs the second-largest chain of drugstores in the U.S., after Walgreen, and its Caremark unit is one of the largest PBMs. The company earned $3.46 billion, or $2.59 per share, on $107.1 billion in revenue in 2011.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An effort to tax strippers and adult businesses to help pay for a reduction in the state tax on coins, bullion and investment income has failed for the year.

The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday killed the bill sponsored by Rep. Joe Carr, R-Lascassas, by sending it to a study committee after the Legislature adjourns for the year.

The bill sought to impose a 20 percent sales tax on items sold at “sexually oriented businesses,” and to require strippers to pay a privilege tax to work in Tennessee. Carr said he based the tax proposal on studies showing that adult businesses depress property values by a similar amount.

“This legislative body in years past has done this before, it has raised the taxes where one area was not paying their share based on the economic blight they might serve to a community, and we are redistributing this to another area that was overly taxed,” he said. “That’s exactly what we’re doing here.”

Carr said the measure would be projected to

collect about $8.5 million per year. About $5 million would go toward reducing the state’s Hall tax on income from interest and dividends, while the remainder would go toward removing the state’s sales tax on gold, silver or platinum coins or bullion.

Tracy O’Neall, a lobbyist for the adult industry in Tennessee, noted that the tax wouldn’t apply to mainstream theaters or bookstores that might offer sexually explicit material.

“You’re singling out one sector of entertainment and this will set the state up for unnecessary litigation at incredible coast to the taxpayer,” she said. “Because this will be challenged if it is passed.”

Rep. Jon Lundberg, R-Bristol, questioned the need for reducing the tax on collectors’ items like rare coins and disputed whether supporters’ goals of drawing coin shows to the state was worth the loss in tax revenue.

The panel first rejected Carr’s amendment outlining the tax swap plan on a voice vote.

Then it shipped the remaining bill to a summer study committee.

House panel kills stripper tax bill

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racism in New Orleans and still problems from Hurricane Katrina, seven years later.

[My favorite part] “was getting there and seeing my team’s reaction of how it was so different than what they saw in videos and after that week, seeing my participants really passionate about New Orleans itself and seeing them grow” Berthiaume said.

Reddy’s favorite part of the trip was the last day when they got to see all of their work come together and see the culmination of all their efforts, he said.

The group also sat down each night and reflected on the day, talking about what they did. Reddy said he also enjoyed listening to other people’s views and perspectives.

Participants on this Community Outreach alternative break also had a little fun, spending time in the French Quarter and seeing Kemba Walker and the Charlotte Bobcats defeat the New Orleans Hornets, according to Reddy.

Community Outreach offers alternative break trips during winter and spring breaks, as well as fall and spring weekends, according to McKechnie.

“I would recommend it to anyone, because you meet a lot of new people and it is a great experience you can’t get anywhere else,” Reddy said.

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No Boehner challenges Obama on missile defense remark contingencies for health care law

WASHINGTON (AP) — Now that President Barack Obama is back on U.S. soil, the criticism of his remark to the Russians about postelection flexibility on missile defense came fast and furious.

House Speaker John Boehner, who a day earlier said such complaints were inappropriate when the commander in chief is overseas, sent a letter to Obama on Wednesday saying he was alarmed by the remark and pressed the president for an explanation.

“I and other members of the House have previously expressed concern about your administration’s apparent willingness to make unilateral concessions to Russia that undermine our missile defense capabilities,” the Ohio Republican wrote.

“Your comments reinforce those words.”

Obama got caught on tape Monday telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he would have more room to negotiate on missile defense after the November election. The gaffe forced him to explain his remarks on Tuesday. He said he didn’t have a hidden agenda with Russia and only meant that election-year politics make any nuclear arms reduction or missile defense negotiations extremely difficult.

In his letter, Boehner argued that Russia has backed Iran, Syria and North Korea, and questioned the wisdom of rewarding

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From left, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, President Barack Obama, Irish Prime Minister Edna Kenny, and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., walk down the steps of the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 20, 2012.

Moscow’s “reckless ambition.”

“That has significant implications for the security of our homeland, sends a terrible signal to our allies around the world and calls into question the effectiveness of your ‘reset’ policy with the Russian government,” Boehner wrote.

On Tuesday, Boehner sidestepped an

opportunity to criticize Obama for telling Medvedev that he would have more flexibility, or to back GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s remark that Russia is the U.S.’s “number one geopolitical foe.”

Asked if he agreed with Romney, Boehner told reporters, “While the president is overseas, I think it’s appropriate

US hopes diplomacy ends year of violence in Syria

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking a new Syria, the Obama administration hopes glimmers of diplomatic progress from U.N. mediator Kofi Annan will accelerate the end of President Bashar Assad’s year of extreme repression.

But as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton returns to the region to search for a strategy with America’s Arab and European partners, Syria is stuck in the same conflict between a brutal government and an armed rebellion that no nation is certain it wants to support. And it’s unclear what Annan can do to end the bloodshed.

At the State Department, spokeswoman Victoria Nuland lamented further arrests and violence across Syria on Wednesday, and said the Assad regime has clearly failed to live up to the commitments it made to Annan only Tuesday, when Assad agreed to a ceasefire among other conditions. Dozens of people were reportedly killed by Assad’s forces since then.

But Nuland said the US supported international diplomacy efforts and said the administration

remained opposed to military intervention.

For the U.S., Syria is proving an especially murky conflict and one with no easy solutions. The battle pits one of Washington’s clearest foes, a government that has long backed Iran and anti-Israel groups Hamas and Hezbollah, against an unknown entity that may be getting support from Islamic extremists or others with questionable intentions.

And unlike Libya, whose leader Moammar Gadhafi inspired worldwide revulsion, Syria still has allies in Russia and Iran and a formidable army of its own.

With no clear path to ending the crisis and Assad’s military clearly in control, the debate among Washington and its allies over how to support Syria’s opposition is taking on added urgency.

Saudi Arabia and some others say it’s time to arm the rebels or set up buffer zones for them to operate.

President Barack Obama has publicly challenged Assad to leave power, but has refused to entertain U.S. military options to achieve that end.

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Obama returned to Washington on Tuesday night. By Wednesday morning, Republicans and Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., were quick to respond when pressed on the president’s comment.

“I thought that President Obama’s statement to President Medvedev was disconcerting,” Lieberman said at a news conference on Syria. “I don’t know what the president meant when he said he’d be more flexible. I do think on the specific question on our missile defense in Europe, the president really ought to reassure all of us that he’s going to stick with the program that we’re on now because that program is, in my opinion, is critically important to the security of the American people for years and years to come.”

Although Lieberman is one of two Senate independents who caucuses with the Democrats, he frequently has challenged the Obama administration on defense and foreign policy.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Obama’s 2008 presidential rival, told reporters at the same news conference that the president was “playing fast and loose with national security.”

EPA to reduce new power plants’ carbon pollution WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration forged ahead on Tuesday with the first-ever limits on heat-trapping pollution from new power plants, ignoring protests from industry and Republicans who have said the regulation will raise electricity prices and kill off coal, the dominant U.S. energy source.

But the proposal also fell short of environmentalists’ hopes because it goes easier than it could have on coalfired power, one of the largest sources of the gases blamed for global warming.

“The standard will check the previously uncontrolled

amount (of carbon pollution) that power plants ... release into our atmosphere,” Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said in a conference call with reporters Tuesday.

But “it also creates a path forward for future facilities to use technology that burns coal, while releasing less carbon pollution.”

Older coal-fired power plants have already been shutting down across the country, thanks to low natural gas prices, demand from China driving up coal’s price and weaker demand for electricity.

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Separately, the White House says it has “every confidence” in the solicitor general’s handling of the high court debate over the health care law.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that after three days of oral arguments before the court, the White House remained focused on enacting all the provisions of the law.

“If there is a reason or a need for us to consider some contingencies down the line, then we’ll do it then,” Earnest told reporters.

“There are a lot of different things that they could find, one way or the other,” Earnest said of the nine justices, who are expected to rule on the 2010 law’s constitutionality by the end of June. “We remain confident that they’re going to find the entire thing constitutional.”

Earnest faced a barrage of questions in the face of skepticism voiced by conservative justices that indicated that the law’s key provision requiring most Americans to obtain health insurance was in jeopardy.

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Bilingual programs important in education

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he Chula Vista Learning Community Charter School in Chula Vista, Calif. is pioneering a new approach to education which is worthy of both attention and emulation. This school, along with a handful of others primarily located in California, has recently begun to implement a multilingual program of education, which attempts to promote fluency in at least two languages from a very early age. At Chula Vista, young students are immersed in English, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese – and the principal has indicated a fourth language may soon be added to the curriculum. Recent research has justified this developing educational movement, confirming that students taught in multiple languages develop greater cognitive and interpersonal skills than those taught solely in English.

Chula Vista Principal Jorge Ramirez explained the reasoning behind multilingual education thus: “I think as we become more and more globally aware, we’re realizing that kids need to be prepared to be competitive in world markets…Kids need to be multilingual and multiliterate.” We agree with Ramirez’s thinking and would contend that UConn specifically and public education in general needs to adopt a multilingual approach to accompany its current emphasis on global citizenship and awareness.

Many students here on campus will never take a course in a foreign language ever again, having exempted themselves from the undergraduate language competency requirement with high school Spanish or French courses. And unless one studies abroad and experiences a total immersion into another language, it becomes more difficult for the 18-22 year-old brain to cognitively adapt to new ways of thinking and expression that accompany learning a new language. Many of the programs of study available on campus emphasize the study of foreign cultures, governments, economies and religion – yet comparatively few students choose to study the languages which facilitate those same understandings about the world beyond the borders of Connecticut or the United States.

Multilingual education – as it is currently formulated in Chula Vista and other California schools – is expensive to school boards and not widely available to young students, primarily because the current supply of multilingual teachers is so low. But because this model of teaching is so academically effective and so beneficial to the intellectual growth of students, we feel that it is worth the price. Ultimately, if we wish America’s young people to have globally-conscious minds, they must first be given globally-conscious tongues.

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A post-racial society does not exist yet

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’m not a racist.” How often I hear and see that statement.

I wonder if it’s ever true.

Ideas have much longer lives than people. The simple idea that skin color matters in the worth of human beings might be as old as society itself. But the complex ideas of scientific racism, that ranked skin colors and heredity from super-race to inferior beings, were created at the end of the 19th century, and then expanded in the 20th. Racism was a mixture of sciences, a truly interdisciplinary theory that used what passed

By Ryan Gilbert for scientific evidence 100 years Commentary Editor ago to demonstrate conclusively that northern European white people were the finest people of all.

Throughout the first half of the 20th century, American scientists, philanthropists and political leaders agreed that people of any color but white were inferior and that their lives were not worthless, but worth less. The discriminatory immigration laws with national quotas, the experiments on African Americans at Tuskegee, the 1920s growth and then post-World War II recurrence of the Ku Klux Klan, the Jim Crow laws, the treatment of American Indians by governments at all levels, were supported by a clear set of ideas that biological scientists and social scientists “proved” were true again and again.

The racist consensus was visible in every public space in America. Every major newspaper, every radio and, later, TV sta-

tion, every legislative body, every private club and every classroom taught, repeated and reinforced the racial rankings that had been developed.

Even if one refused to swallow this ideology whole, it was impossible not to be affected by its constant repetition.

The greatest proof that we are nearing the end of this idea is the constantly repeated claim, “I am not a racist.” Until the 1960s the overwhelming majority of white American leaders and white American citizens proudly proclaimed their racism and insisted on its continuation as the determinant of public life. Being racist is no longer socially acceptable.

But it is not so easy for a society to just forget every aspect of an all-encompassing racial world-view. The battles over ending open, public, legal racism stretched into the 1970s, and the remnants of less visible racism in mortgage loans, hiring practices and history books persist into the 21st century.

Powerful ideas cannot be waved away with a magic wand.

There are too many recent manifestations of these racial ideas for anyone to argue persuasively that we have reached the end of racism. Not merely at the fringes of responsibility, but in the center of public life, racism is still being practiced.

Tara Servatius, a blogger for the John Locke Foundation, resigned last week after posting an offensive cartoon of President Obama in drag with chains and high heels and a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken between his legs. Servatius claimed she “didn’t think about the racial implications

of the picture” when she posted it because she doesn’t “think in those terms.” Paula Smith, the creator and distributor of a racially insensitive anti-Obama bumper sticker which reads ‘Don’t re-Nig in 2012,’ asserted that she is not racist and that “the n-word does not mean black.” According to Smith, the n-word means a “low down, sorry, low down person.”

Our grandparents and parents know that phrases from their past, images that they remember from long ago and beliefs which they were taught still rattle around in their head. They try to keep them inside, out of their speech and away from their behavior.

But they haven’t disappeared, for them or anyone else who had them implanted in their minds.

Racism isn’t an either-or, yes or no, 100 percent or 0 percent issue. All of us, of all colors, carry images and stereotypes of ourselves and others, which can be overcome, but never eliminated. Maybe there will be a society in the future where race doesn’t matter at all, where skin color is like eye color, where heredity is like shoe size, an interesting but inconsequential fact.

A society where people can say, “I am not a racist,” and be believed.

We aren’t there yet, and we won’t get there until we examine how the lingering racial idea that was so powerful just a lifetime ago still affects our public lives. We just have to look at the nasty debate about immigrants or current discussions about Muslims as terrorists to see the continued power of that idea.

“Being racist is no longer socially acceptable.”

Commentary Editor Ryan Gilbert is an 8th-semester journalism major. He can be reached at Ryan.Gilbert@UConn.edu.

A quieter form of discrimination: snap judgments

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he prevailing stereotype in the “Land of the Free” is that a male minority who travels alone at night is public enemy number one. He is profiled as innately dangerous to the community and spontaneously violent. The very association is commonplace in our society and is specifically seen in prominently suburban communities, in which the

By Joel Cintron minority is seen as out of Staff Columnist place causing alarm. This is an example of racial profiling, a damaging connotation that only hurts race relations and shows that America is not the post-racial society people claim it to be.

By using the term “minority” I am not solely describing AfricanAmericans, rather anyone who is not Caucasian. I, a Hispanic American, have undergone racial profiling as well. Specifically, one day while I was walking home from my (Suburban) middle school. I was three blocks away from my house when a Caucasian woman walking toward me on the sidewalk repositioned herself onto the side of the road, until she passed me then returned to the sidewalk. She said nothing,

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no racial epithets or the like.

However, her actions spoke volumes as she saw me as a danger and she would rather walk on the street than risk coming in direct contact with me. Now, this was in broad daylight. Imagine if this occurred at night; the poor woman would have been absolutely terrified. What about me? I am truly the victim here, a victim of being presumed as hazardous.

Yet there is nothing that I could have done to stop this blatant act of racism; it’s frustrating and degrading when you are seen as some sort of criminal based on the color of your skin.

It does not help that mediums such as television and movies reinforce stereotypes that minorities are dangerous. In many movies hispanics and blacks play gang members or drug lords in such films as “Scarface,” “Boyz N the Hood” and “Training Day.” Now even if the movie’s overall message is something positive, the presence of the stereotype is what resonates with viewers.

Racial profiling can also be seen in films such as “Crash” when the black characters (played by Chris “Ludacris” Bridges and Lorenz Tate) are walking late at night. As Sandra Bullock’s character sees them approaching, she clings onto

her husband due to her fear of them. Ludacris’s character notices this and becomes frustrated that he has undergone racial profiling; he then decides to steal their car as payback. It is important to note that this was not his original intent rather a matter of retaliation, one I would not condone as it only supports the stereotype.

Now it has been a month since a 17 year-old boy, Trayvon Martin, was killed by a neighborhood watchman in Sanford, Florida. George Zimmerman was on patrol one month ago when he saw a young man in a “hoodie” that covered his face. Zimmerman then called 911 to report what he saw and when he was told not to pursue the suspicious person he refused and confronted Martin.

The end result as described by news outlets throughout the nation is that Martin was shot and killed after an altercation with Zimmerman. The neighborhood watchman claims he acted in self defense in a situation in which he initiated by confronting Martin.

Although all the details have yet to be revealed about the tragic incident, the bigger picture is clear that both racial (and apparently fashion) stereotypes play a prominent role in the United States. A minority who is wearing

a “hoodie” at night will receive a connotation of being malicious and menacing.

Is there any hope of reversing racism and more exclusively, racial profiling? Historically, stereotypes have been around since the discovery of the New World and the slave trade, where these “other” people were considered uncivilized and therefore unsafe.

It has been almost 500 years and yet these classifications still exist.

So unfortunately I do not think stereotypes will disappear anytime soon, not when rappers dress and act like thugs or actors actually play criminals. Is it their fault? Yes and no, yes because they help intensify these characterizations and no, because would you rather them starve and turn to real violence? Unfortunately, it is a lose-lose situation as long as consumers buy into the movies or music and the subliminal messages they both instill. Until then, minorities will continue to be the target of such harmful stereotypes causing a divide among the American people, so much for post-racial society.

Staff Columnist Joel Cintron is a 6th-semester international relations major. He can be reached at Joel.Cintron@UConn.edu.

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Monkey Business

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Froot Buetch

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Horoscopes

by Brian Ingmanson To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

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Devote some attention to what they want.

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Arab summit appears divided over approach to Syria

BAGHDAD (AP) — Arab leaders gathering here Thursday will call for Syria to implement a cease-fire, but there’s little faith that President Bashar Assad will do anything to halt his crackdown on the year-old uprising.

That could set the stage for Gulf Arab nations, eager to see Assad’s downfall, to take stronger action on their own.

Arab governments are divided over how strongly to intervene to stop the bloodshed in Syria, and their divisions illustrate how the conflict has become a proxy in the region’s wider rivalry — the one between Arabs and powerhouse Iran.

Sunni-led nations of the Gulf such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar — hoping to break Syria out of its alliance with Shiite Iran — are believed to be considering arming the Syrian rebels to fight back against Assad’s forces. But other Arab nations are reluctant to openly call for that step yet.

Iraq, the host of the one-day Arab League summit, is in a particularly tight spot because its Shiite-led government has close ties to Iran, Assad’s top ally.

Given the divisions, foreign ministers meeting here Wednesday laid out a middle-ground for their leaders to issue at the summit. The draft resolution they put together would reject foreign intervention in Syria while voicing support for the Syrian people’s “legitimate aspirations to freedom and democracy.” It would call on Assad to implement a cease-fire and let in humanitarian aid, according to a copy obtained by The Associated Press.

The leaders also “denounce the acts of violence, killings ... and remain committed to a peaceful settlement and national dialogue,” it said.

It also supports the mission of joint U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, who has put forward a peace plan to end the regime’s crackdown that the

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Libyan Foreign Minister Ashour Ben Khayil, center, attends the Arab Foreign ministers meeting as part of Arab League Summit in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March, 28, 2012.

U.N. estimates has killed more than 9,000 people since the uprising began in March 2011 as part of the Arab Spring.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari acknowledged to the media that the summit will offer “nothing new” on Syria, but will complement ongoing international diplomacy to settle the crisis.

Damascus has accepted Annan’s plan, which includes a cease-fire. Violence has continued, however, with clashes between government forces and armed rebels. Syria’s opposition is deeply skeptical that Assad will carry out the terms of Annan’s plan.

The plan also calls on Damascus to immediately stop troop movements and the use of heavy weapons in populated areas, and to commit to a daily two-hour

halt in fighting to allow humanitarian access and medical evacuations.

Opposition members accuse Assad of agreeing to Annan’s plan to stall for time as his troops make a renewed push to kill off bastions of dissent.

“We are not sure if it’s political maneuvering or a sincere act,” said Louay Safi, a member of the opposition Syrian National Council. “We have no trust in the current regime. ... We have to see that they have stopped killing civilians.”

The Assad regime has pre-emptively rejected anything coming out of the Arab League summit, a reflection of its refusal to deal with the 22-member body since it suspended Syria’s membership last year.

Iraq is hosting the annual summit for the first time in a generation, keen to show it has emerged from years of turmoil and U.S. occupation. But the Syria issue has clouded its attempts to win acceptance by other Arab nations, which are deeply suspicious of its ties with Iran.

In a snub to Baghdad, most — if not all — of the rulers of the six Gulf nations were staying away from the summit, sending lower-level figures instead. League officials said the level of representation was aimed at showing their frustration over the lack of more assertive action on Syria.

Instead of its king, Saudi Arabia was sending its ambassador to the Arab League — a worse slap because the post is even lower than the foreign minister level.

The League officials said Saudi Arabia and Qatar had wanted Iraq to invite representatives of the Syrian opposition to the summit. Baghdad declined, much to their dismay, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.

Offering a glimpse of Qatar’s thinking on the Syrian crisis, the prime minister of the tiny, energy-rich nation told Al-Jazeera television that it would be a “disgrace to all of us if the sacrifices of the Syrian people go to waste.”

“We are faced with a difficult choice — either we stand by the Syrian people or stand by him (Assad),” said Sheik Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani.

The Gulf nations, particularly Saudi Arabia and Qatar, have been pushing behind the scenes for more assertive action to end the conflict. Privately, they see little benefit in the Arab League’s efforts to reach a peaceful settlement and prefer instead to see a small core of nations joining together to act on their own.

The real da Vinci code: Louvre unlocks last work

PARIS (AP) — An intense and controversial restoration of the last great work

by Leonardo da Vinci goes before the public Thursday at the Louvre Museum, revealing “The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne” in the full panoply of hues and detail painted by the Renaissance master 500 years ago.

The 18-month-long restoration of the painting that Leonardo labored on for 20 years until his death in 1519 will go a long way to raising “Saint Anne” to its place as one of the most influential Florentine paintings of its time and a step towards the high Renaissance of Michelangelo.

The cleaning has endowed the painting portraying the Virgin Mary with her mother Saint Anne and the infant Jesus with new life and luminosity. Dull, faded hues were transformed into vivid browns and lapis lazuli that had visitors awestruck.

“It’s unbelievable, so beautiful. Now you have that same feeling as when you enter Michelangelo’s restored Sistine Chapel. Look at the blue!” one visitor, Odile Celier, 66, said Wednesday.

The exhibit brings together some 130 preparatory drawings and studies by Leonardo and his apprentices — something curator Vincent Delieuvin likened to “a police investigation” — tracing the painting’s conception and revealing to experts today the entire development over the last 20 years of Leonardo’s life.

Almost like detective work, the impressive display of sketch books and mathematical diagrams hold clues not just to unlocking the art behind the painting, but — for the man who was more famous in his day as an engineer — the years of scientific research that defined his work.

“The exhibit is a science workshop,” Delieuvin said. “For Leonardo, art is founded on theoretical knowledge of nature and its functioning.”

In one carnet spilling with mathematical

sketches, we see how over several years he painstakingly studied light refracting from opaque objects. It decodes the technique that made Leonardo famous.

The Saint Anne painting is a glowing example clearly seen in the blue opaque mantle with its almost imperceptible play on light and shadow.

The key to the hazy realism of the tree, too, with the subtle contrast of light in its leaves was cracked by infrared used during the restoration. To get this effect, Leonardo first painted the entire tree structure in full and only afterwards painted the foliage on top.

Another notebook astounds in its detailed analysis of water and air compression that shows the thinking that went into creating the sweeping blue and gray mountains rising up behind Saint Anne and child.

Like the novel “The da Vinci Code,” the restoration of the master’s last work has been accompanied by high-level intrigue worthy of a political thriller.

Seventeen years ago, the Louvre abandoned an attempt to clean the painting amid fears over how the solvents were affecting the sfumato, a painting technique that Leonardo mastered.

After the cleaning was eventually given the green light in 2009, two of France’s top art experts — Jean-Pierre Cuzin and Segolene Bergeon Langle — resigned last year from the Louvre advisory committee responsible for the restoration, amid reports they were outraged that restorers were over-cleaning the work to a brightness Leonardo never intended.

The museum confirmed to The Associated Press last year’s resignations but said it could give no further details on the events.

However, on seeing the final product, Bergeon Langle, France’s national authority on art restoration, has partly buried the hatchet.

In an interview in the Louvre’s in-

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A man views the painting “The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne” by Italian Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci, at the Louvre Museum in Paris, Tuesday, March 27, 2012.

house magazine, she said she has been reassured on some aspects that bothered her. But she also said she remained unhappy about other points of the restoration. She notably criticized the decision to remove a white patch on the body of the infant Jesus, which she said was painted by Leonardo himself.

Whether it was done by the Renaissance man we will never know, an artist who made only 18 works — all unfinished.

Indeed, mystery still shrouds much of Leonardo’s career.

A discovery restorers stumbled across during the cleaning of the Saint Anne painting points to another mystery, this one in Leonardo’s hometown of Florence and linked to his missing masterpiece “The Battle of Anghiari” also known as “The Lost Leonardo.”

After infrared photography was used to scan the Louvre work, the exhibit shows that two pictures were found that

had been secretly hidden in the painting for hundreds of years.

One, drawn by a left-handed artist, is thought to be by Leonardo, who was himself left-handed.

It is a depiction of the hatchings on a horse’s head, similar to that in the mural of “The Battle of Anghiari.”

Curator Delieuvin would not speculate on the finding — or another more dramatic discovery linked to the lost work revealed earlier this month in Florence.

There, researchers said they may have discovered traces of this lost mural by da Vinci by poking a probe through cracks in a 16th century fresco by Giorgio Vasari painted on the wall of the Palazzo Vecchio, one of the city’s most famous buildings.

The research team leader Maurizio Seracini of the University of California said “The Battle of Anghiari” could be hidden behind the fresco done by Vasari years later.

Killing of gay man moves Chile toward law

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Prosecutors in Chile asked for murder charges Wednesday in the death of a young gay man whose attackers brutally beat him and carved swastikas into his body.

Daniel Zamudio died Tuesday night, 25 days after he was attacked. The case has prompted a national debate in Chile over hate crimes, with President Sebastian Pinera saying from Asia that his government won’t rest until a proposed anti-discrimination law is passed.

Four suspects have been jailed on attempted murder charges, some of whom already have criminal records for attacks on gays.

Hours after Zamudio’s death, prosecutor Ernesto Vazquez formally requested that the charges be changed to premeditated murder, carrying maximum life sentences if convicted. He said the attack was clearly motivated by homophobia.

Gay activists weren’t satisfied. The leader of Chile’s Gay Liberation and Integration Movement, Rolando Jimenez, said the suspects should be charged with torture as well.

Zamudio, a clothing store salesman, was attacked in a park in Santiago on March 3. The suspects allegedly beat him for an hour, burning him with cigarettes and carving Nazi symbols into his body.

The second of four brothers, he had hoped to study theater, his brother Diego said. “He was very loving, an excellent person and that’s why it’s so hard to believe that they attacked him with such hate,” he told reporters.

Hundreds of people had been holding vigil outside the hospital where Zamudio lay brain-dead, building a shrine on the sidewalk. Many whistled and booed when Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter, the acting president while Sebastian Pinera is traveling in Asia, arrived to share condolences Tuesday night. The commotion ended only when Zamudio’s father appealed for them to maintain respect.

“We are going to work tirelessly in our Congress to pass our anti-discrimination law as quickly as possible,” Hinzpeter said to reporters outside the hospital after visiting the family Tuesday night.

An ample Senate majority passed the law in November, but seven years after it was first proposed, it has yet to come to a vote in the lower house. Lobbyists for evangelical churches said it would be a first step toward gay marriage, which Chile forbids and which is not explicitly included in the measure.

It would describe as illegal discrimination “any distinction, exclusion or restriction that lacks reasonable justification, committed by agents of the state or individuals, and that causes the deprivation, disturbance or threatens the legitimate exercise of fundamental rights established by the constitution or in international human rights treaties ratified by Chile.”

Attorney Gabriel Zaliasnik told the Cooperativa radio station Wednesday that if the law had been passed, the attack on Zamudio might have been avoided.

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Hypnotist puts on R-rated show; students become ballerinas, exotic dancers

By Zarrin Ahmed Campus Correspondent Hypnotist Sailesh made students believe they were astronauts, river dancers, world class pelvic thrusters and even made participants speak in different languages.

When over 20 volunteers took the seats on a makeshift stage in the Student Union Ballroom, they weren’t expecting to say and do what they did for the next two hours. Sailesh introduced himself before asking students to come on stage and began the show with a roll call. He asked the audience how many people have seen a hypnotist or been hypnotized before. To those who said they were never hypnotized, Sailesh told them that the average college student enters a hypnotic state 112 times a day. An example of a hypnotic state is what athletes call “getting in the zone.”

Before the show even started, many members of the audience were kicked out of the ballroom because there were not enough seats to accommodate everyone.

Those standing around the seats posed a safety hazard.

He laid three ground rules before the show: no one would get naked on stage, participants would not reveal what they did not want to and the rest is fair game. He also asked the audience to not record his three minute hypnotizing routine.

Sailesh first made the participants believe that they were in

freezing cold temperatures, causing them to shiver and cuddle up with their neighbors. For those that weren’t in the deep hypnotic state, Sailesh politely excused them off stage, though this only happened to a couple of participants. He then pretended that the students were astronauts, making them jump back in their seats as he made turbulence noises and had them make signs of peace to aliens.

The first part of Sailesh’s act emphasized the emotional and mental impact his hypnotism had on the students. They reacted to a normal belt as if it was a snake, began crying as they imagined a movie about Tommy and his dog being run over and uncomfortable when they imagined Sailesh either as a well-endowed male or a very beautiful female.

The next part entailed verbal participation from the contestants as they told stories of how they saved everyone from a sinking ship and fought about who was the real hero. One girl said she rode a dolphin to safety while another said, “Everyone just calm down, you’re alive.

You’re welcome.” Sailesh had them sing their stories. And even speak them in Chinese. He made them believe that their bodies were made of rubber and that they had the ability to read people’s minds.

The final part of his show encompassed physical participation. They were river dancing, pelvic thrusting, giving lap dances to audience members and

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The Moscow Festival Ballet will perform at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts today. Tickets start at $25 and the show starts at 7:30 p.m.

By John Tyczkowski Associate Focus Editor The Moscow Festival Ballet will come to UConn this week to perform Tchaikovsky’s famous work, “Swan Lake.” The Ballet will perform on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts.

“Swan Lake” is the latest in a repertoire that features a string of reinterpretations of famous works such as “Giselle,” “Don Quixote,” “Paquita” and “Carmen.”

Founded in 1989, the Moscow Festival Ballet has completed several tours of the United States, as well as two tours of the United

Kingdom and of Europe, with especially popular reception in France, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands according to a press release from the Ballet’s website. It has more recently started to expand into touring Turkey and Greece, as well as Japan, Singapore, Korea and Hong Kong.

Tickets are on sale from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily at the Jorgensen Box Office, for $30, $27 or $25, with some discounts available for students. Tickets and more information on discounts are also available online at jorgensen.uconn.edu.

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self confidence in his participants with his final act of hypnotism and gave them complimentary CDs that would help them lose weight and gain even more self confidence.

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Fair informs students on all-things fitness

By Billy Lambert Campus Correspondent As academic stress begins to build up unceasingly, reverting back to the glory days of childhood and attending a fair may be ideal.

The best fair for you, though, doesn’t have cotton candy.

Instead, the Fitness and Nutrition Fair, hosted by Nutrition and Physical Activity Services and held in room 104 of the Student Union, offered grains: barley, brown rice and quinoa.

“Fiber’s huge,” said Amy Gronus, the production chef at North, who lent her services to the fair with both samplings and recipes of such deliciously healthy fare as mushroom barley pilaf, black bean and corn salad with brown rice and breakfast quinoa porridge.

“The biggest thing [is] quinoa,” said Gronus, who cited Celiac disease (or, the inability to digest wheat) as one of the many benefits of the new requirement that all dining halls serve at least one “grain salad” per meal, something which has garnered a “wonderful response,” according to Gronus.

Of course, a fair would not be a fair without some kinetic energy, and such was supplied

by Michael D’Alfonso and Haley Macdonald, members of Nutrition and Physical Activity Services promoting the necessary physical wellness needed to be paired with healthy eating. “[The fair] brings together health wellness on campus, especially exercise and nutrition,” said D’Alfonso as he handed out health pamphlets and training logs for weightlifting to interested attendees. “The goal is one-stop shopping [for] fitness and nutrition questions.”

Macdonald elaborated on the

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Paige Pikulski, a 2nd-semester pyschology major, is having her blood pressure checked by Donna Vose, a nurse with Student Health Services at the Fitness and Nutrition Fair, Wednesday.

general handiness of Nutrition and Physical Activity Services, located on the second floor of the Student Health Services Building on campus. Members offer “one-on-one counseling,” according to Macdonald.

While Macdonald is a certified Personal Trainer, an appointment does not mean supervised days at the gym; rather, medical and nutrition information is taken to formulate nutritional needs, which your “counselor” will help you with in reaching whatever fitness goals one may have. “[Nutrition and Physical Activity Services is] basically another prevention tool on campus important to learn about,” said Macdonald.

Other facets of the fair, including a woman taking

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blood pressure for all interested and a raffle asking fitness-related questions with a possible return of such predictably wellness-oriented prizes as a yoga mat, blender and water bottle all helped to push the fair’s message of physical vitality. There was even a hand-held BMI machine, the quirky-looking device adding amusement to the sometimes stressful process of identifying one’s weight.

The Fitness and Nutritional Fair was certainly not a conventional “fair” in any sense, but amidst the sometimes overwhelming pressures the mind and body face through all-nighters of various sorts, it sure beat clowns and ferris wheels.

Hypnotist Sailesh put volunteers under a trance and encouraged them to do things as ridiculous as river dancing and pelvic thrusts. Sailesh said the average person enters a hypnotic state 112 times a day.

ended with a “happy ending.”

“The show was orgasmic,” said Brianna Jackson, a 2ndsemester anthropology major. “I went to see if hypnotism was real. I definitely believe in it now because the people were perfect strangers, not actors. I know some of the people on stage.”

Sailesh enforced optimism and

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As long as there has been unlimited access to any food conceivable, there have been crazy diets to go along with it.

The obsession to lose weight quickly by adopting one ridiculous method of eating is nothing new, and there’s always some wacko doctor claiming that his new, innovative method will “burn fat” and “boost metabolism.”

While some of these diets use at least a shred of science, others – particularly the older ones – are pretty much just taking stabs in the dark and hoping they come up with an effective means of weight loss.

Take, for example, the “avoiding swamps” diet. Basically, all you do is stay away from any swampy region you find, because a man named Thomas Short observed in 1727 that fat people lived near those areas. I knew there was a reason my jeans felt a little tighter every time I walked

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Anytime somebody loses a significant amount of weight on a certain diet, other people are sure to follow suit (the Taco Bell and Subway diets, anyone?). That’s why the Egg Diet has become increasingly popular, because an English food writer and her husband lost around 60 pounds each by eating nine eggs a day.

Now, I’m no rootie-tootie scientist or mathematician over here, but I do know that a medium egg as 186 mg of cholesterol, or 62 percent of a total day’s worth.

For people who don’t have high cholesterol, two a day is often the recommended amount. However, I bet you’d be hard-pressed to find a doctor who’d tell you that a diet where you consume 558 percent of your daily cholesterol intake is good for you. But hey, that’s just me.

One of the more recent ones you’ve probably heard of is the Sensa Diet. You’ve probably seen women dancing around in white bikinis on television, telling you to “shake, shake, shake your Sensa,” as they pour some mysterious white flaky things onto their plates of salmon.

Basically, Sensa is just particles made from maltodextrin, silica and some other freaky chemicals. You pour them on your food to “enhance” the scent and flavor, and then it “fools” your brain and stomach into thinking you’re full faster. The concept would be great, if people actually stopped eating when they were full. However, that’s the kind of the reason people become overweight. Good try, Sensa.

Finally, when all these crazy methods of eating don’t work out for you, why not aim for eating nothing at all? You have the Breatharianism Diet to thank for this.

For this “diet” (which I prefer to call starving), those who follow it claim food and water are not necessary for survival.

Instead, they choose to subsist on air, sunlight, and Prana (life force) alone…kind of a like a plant, except for the fact that even plants need water.

There’s even a Breatharian Institute of America devoted to promoting this cause. Most of them subsist on herbal teas, and then try to convince others how refreshed they feel.

If you haven’t figured it out by now, all of these diet techniques range from fads to complete lunacy, and they each ignore the two fundamental weight loss strategies that everyone tries to avoid: eating right and exercising.

If you’re ever feeling tempted to try one of the new crazy diets out there, remember this: the diet industry make $40 billion a year off of convincing you you’re fat, and then getting you to buy their product to fix that. It’s a business, just like everything else.

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the men danced as if they were in the Russian ballet. Sailesh did a segment where the contestants believed they were on the Jerry Springer show, admitting things about their friends. They told the audience about a girl who collects dead animals and another girl who pooped in the showers on multiple occasions. The show

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Album a thoughtful annex of ‘Hunger Games’ “Hummer” Smashing Pumpkins

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By Joe O’Leary Senior Staff Writer For fans of “The Hunger Games,” in both movie and book form, “The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond” should be a valuable addition to their music collections. Instead of a simple cash-grab offering of second-rate B-sides, like so many soundtracks can be, “Songs from District 12” has original, emotional music that can truly say it’s been inspired by its source material from a large array of impressive artists.

Instead of simply throwing a bunch of second-rate cuts from massively popular artists into a slipshod collection, each of the artists on “Songs from District 12” has created a unique take that combines their musical style with the backdrops and emotions found throughout the book and movie.

Some artists embrace the bleakness of the murderous “Games.” Arcade Fire’s

“Feeling This” Blink-182

“I Feel Better” Hot Chip

“The Fallen” Franz Ferdinand

“Mercy” Duffy

I was at the Odd Future show in New York City the day its mixtape dropped.

Unfortunately, due to a catastrophic chain of events that only a mind gone down the deepest caverns of oblivion could fathom, I did not see or remember much of the show.

Therefore, this is as much a cathartic exercise as it is a review for OF’s fantastic collaborative album.

The group itself consists of Tyler, the Creator, Hodgy Beats, Domo Genesis, Frank Ocean, Mike G, Syd the Kyd (aka The Internet), recently returned Earl Sweatshirt (yes, his first show ever was the New York one, please stop), producer Left Brain and self-claimed non-rapper hooligans Taco and Jasper. Despite the collective’s rapid ascension to vaunted heights such as The MTV Awards, Watch The Throne and Adult Swim, it hasn’t brought this level of passion and talent since their days of anonymity.

Take Domo for example.

Until this mixtape, he was the perpetually-stoned Pillsbury doughboy form of Wiz Khalifa, offering a sedate contrast to the sardonic verbal rampages of Hodgy and Tyler with the consequence of hardly seeming

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to mind Katniss Everdeen’s rebellious attack against the Capitol. Kid Cudi makes an appearance with the blackas-night “The Ruler and The Killer,” with a refrain that brings to mind the oppression of the Capitol and “Games” that booms “You don’t talk, you don’t say nothing, OK?” But as some artists focused on the dystopian backdrop of

love and protection for her loved ones. Some songs, like The Secret Sisters’ “Tomorrow Will Be Kinder” and Neko Case’s beautiful “Nothing to Remember,” could easily be lullabies carried on by majestic mockingjays. “The Hunger Games” would be nothing without its strong main characters and the emotional minefield they must survive. “Songs

to be present on those tracks at all. Here though, Domo rips through all seven of his featured tracks with a ferocity which initially renders his flow almost unrecognizable, though trademark lyricisms of the easygoing spitter remain. His sole standalone (and standout) track

tro” with their classically grimy beats and darkly hilarious lyricism. Perhaps most significant, however, is that rotating Tyler, the king of clever shock value, out of songs like “Lean” doesn’t leave Hodgy and Domo to drown. Though still inferior to Tyler verbally, they’ve defi-

from District 12” reflects that, as nary a song misses its mark.

Only a few songs suffer.

The country song “Daughter’s Lament” by the Carolina Chocolate Drops focuses specifically on Katniss right after her father’s death; it’s an interesting idea, but it isn’t as memorable or powerful as its high concept requires.

Taylor Swift only bats .500 with her two songs. While “Safe and Sound” succeeds, taking a slower, more somber approach to the “Games,” her second offering “Eyes Open” suffers. It’s more positive and tries to be triumphant as Swift sings about Katniss overcoming adversity. However, this is quickly deflated when you realize it’s a pumped-up poprocker about being a better teenage killing machine than the competition. The metaphor’s tone is off, to say the least. Finally, Birdy’s “Just a Game” follows the mediocre lead laid out by her covers,

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“Doms” is a great representation of his newfound hybridity: almost beside himself over a “cool Capri Sun” in one line, then forcefully rapping intense lyrics over a murky beat in the next.

The obvious corollary of this is that the trio of Domo, Tyler and Hodgy completely destroy all the beats they rap on together. Their super aggressive collaborations “Rella” and “Hcapd” (the latter even including a shout-out to Waka Flocka Flame) rile your adrenaline like “a soft right hook from kimbo on PCP and cilan-

nitely carved out voices strong enough to complement the sick beats they’ve been gifted with.

Amidst the general carnage of those three, however, gentler artists Frank Ocean and Syd the Kyd find a place to shine. Ocean’s “White” paints a beautiful picture of disillusioned love over a minimalist sample which evolves to a flourish, while The Internet’s “Ya Know” combines her signature electronica with 80’s R&B. The couple’s contrasting style from almost the entirety of the album serves to refresh rather than just fill.

Of course, there are some drawbacks to the tape which many will be quick to point out.

Mellowhype’s “50,” for example, is probably only musically viable when paired with the symphony of a hundred broken faces resulting from the rabid moshing of their show. Jasper and Taco will never be musically viable, yet either is included in a total of three songs.

The last of these, however, called “Oldie,” is both the best song and essence of the album, combining all the voices of Odd Future in an invigorated group showing which includes the triumphant return of Earl Sweatshirt, the best pure rapper of the group and about as old as kids we won’t know until Fall.

Despite the hiatus, he claims he is “Scoldin‘ hot as dunkin‘ scrotum in a Folgers cup,” and I’m not one to doubt such a statement.

At the end of the song, Tyler signs off by goading his critics to “just admit, not only are we talented, we’re rad.” Happily, this relates the one thing I can tell you about the concert with certainty: the members of Odd Future exist to have fun, to get a building of kids to roar like a colosseum, and should be regarded as such. All that’s left is to find some more tickets.

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Husky blog is Storrs’ guide to house music

By Tom Teixeira Staff Writer

“Bucky Done Gun” M.I.A.

Panem’s oppressive force in their music, others reflected upon the hard-yet-sweet life Katniss initially lives in District 12 and her undying

Odd Future album features aggressive collaborations

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“Ready to Fall” Rise Against

“Abraham’s Daughter,” the album’s first track that plays over the film’s closing credits, is a gracefully dark rewritten Biblical allegory that brings

When Sam Zwonitzer was 12 years old, he started downloading music.

“I would steal my mom’s noise canceling Bose headphones late at night and just go and look for music on the internet. When I found house music, it just hit me, it flowed, it took me to another place.”

Zwonitzer’s mother was the first female contributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine and his Godfather Sam can be seen on YouTube belting out “Soul Man” to sell out crowds as one of two leading men in hit R&B group Sam and Dave.

Not surprisingly then, it seems that Zwonitzer, a senior at UConn expecting to graduate with a degree in political science, has turned his ambitions from international relations toward working in the music industry.

His blog, ElectroHusky, serves as Storrs’ only guide to the world of house music. Easily accessible to devout fans and novices to the

genre, ElectroHusky has a page dedicated to local artists, a list of shows and venues, playlists and most importantly, downloadable content, and Zwonitzer’s own commentary.

Zwontizer’s passion for house music, an electronic genre popular in Europe now reaching American clubs, bars and iTunes libraries, has not only entertained him, but has recently kept him very busy.

Zwonitzer created the blog last November as a way to provide UConn students with reliable access to house music and related content. “I turned 21 and started hitting the bars and wondered, is this really what people want to listen to?” he said.

While he said he appreciates many musical genres, Zwonitzer said that in a social setting “mainstream hip-hop is just a turn off and I can only listen to “Sweet Home Alabama” so many times before I feel like I’m in Kentucky.”

“Electronic music,” said Zwonitzer, “provides a much better social environment. It just

makes people want to dance, want to move and this is going to sound cliche, but you can just feel it.”

Zwonitzer said he finds the Electronic genre appealing not only for its sonic aesthetics, but because of its international appeal. “They’re aren’t any lyrics so you can fully understand anybody’s music from anywhere in the world,” he said, “it speaks to everyone.”

He said the decision to dedicate his time to blogging about the genre was a no-brainer.

“Networking skills are huge for artists, especially in this day and age, and I see myself playing a role in that, helping artists who truly deserve some attention,” Zwonitzer said.

After less than six months on the web, Zwonitzer may have found his niche promoting artists like Avicii, Alesso, Tommy Trash, Nicky Romo and lesser-known producers like the unsigned Swedish newcomer Timmy B. Zwonitzer said his webpage now boasts an average of over 400 visitors per day and has caught

the attention of corporate music marketers and promoters as well as casual fans who flock to ElectroHusky to satisfy appetites for fresh beats.

And while Zwonitzer said he loves UConn and will always have a place in his heart for politics, “the whole thing has made me almost forget about why I’m here, to study political science,” he said, “I’ve transformed into someone who really wants to break into the music industry.”

Though Zwonitzer said that he would one day love to follow in his mother’s footsteps as a professional music writer, he is content for now writing for himself as ElectroHusky, “I’m not making any money off of the website, it’s not about that, it’s really all about promoting the music.”

To learn more about House Music, Sam Zwonitzer, or ElectroHusky, visit EletroHusky. com, follow the blog on Twitter, @TheElectroHusky, or like ElectroHusky on Facebook.

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A HardKnock-Off Life for Cover Artists

If you haven’t ever heard of Birdy, then you’re a disgrace.

You’re a disgrace to British society, you’re a disgrace to the YouTube community, but mostly, you’re a disgrace to me.

The only plausible defense that you can use is that you’ve been living with the Amish, or tracking a species of blood-thirsty aliens in the Gobi desert for the past few months. If you haven’t been doing either of those things though, get your head out of your behind and type Birdy into the closest search bar you can find.

Birdy, formerly known as Jasmine van den Bogaerde, is 15 years old. Yet, unlike the teenyboppers that we spoon feed to stardom here in the States, Birdy has earned her celebrity.

She has been playing piano, writing music and competing in prestigious talent shows since she went from pigtails to ponytails. Most importantly, she has a voice that it is unrivaled. It is full of depth and seems to rise above rather than crack under pressure.

After releasing an eponymous album last week – it came out four months ago in the UK – Birdy has received a deserving amount of fame. All 11 tracks on her record are covers, and every one is a solid interpretation of the original. But now that the young singer has gotten her name out, it’ll be interesting to see how she continues onward in her career. Will she choose to plateau on her success with covers, or will she create a slew of music that is unique to her name, and her name only?

That’s the problem with this new generation of artists, the one who are popularized by YouTube and television contests. They take covers, make them their own and gain thousands of faithful followers. But once they’ve tasted the feasible profits of replicating the work of other musicians, they tend to get lazy. They feast on comments like “Wow, this is better than the original” and “You need a record deal pronto.” They drink in the videos that they inspire: replicates of replicates. Sure, imitation can be a fine form of flattery. But there’s a difference between being a follower and a leech, and I sincerely hope that Birdy doesn’t turn into the latter.

Take Boyce Avenue for example, a band made up of three brothers and an extraneous drummer. The group has gotten millions upon millions of hits on YouTube for covering a wide range of artists: from Creed to Selena Gomez, from Chris Brown to Pearl Jam. Since 2006 the band has released two albums that consist of its own music. Yet it is only recognized for reproducing popular and classic singles, not for writing forgettable songs about themes that have been jaded by various other prosperous musicians.

Artists such as Birdy and the members of Boyce Avenue need to wean their audiences off of the old music and start feeding them with original compositions. Birdy seems to be going in the right direction, She has

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Musicians Feminist poet, essayist are not Adrienne Rich dies mimes from A HARD-KNOCK, page 8 begun to traverse into songwriting by contributing a piece to the soundtrack for “The Hunger Games.” The single itself isn’t up to par with the material from her album, but it does provide her with an exit.

Unfortunately, things might be too late for Boyce Avenue. As the band continues to churn out YouTube hits it will cements itself into this role of being a musical mime. Musicians aren’t supposed to be mimes. They’re supposed to be revolutionaries.

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Country, folk gems found on Soundtrack from ALBUM, page 8 featuring her overwrought, painfully high singing over a depressing piano rhythm. As more instruments compliment the young girl’s voice, the song rises to near-competency, but it can’t overcome its overly depressing beginning.

“The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond” is a perfectly suitable, wellmade soundtrack to the melancholy blockbuster it accompanies. Sure, there are a few duds, but there are also a few hidden country and folk gems by lesser known artists that deserve a listen, on top of some fantastic cuts from big names. District 12 has never seemed so lively.

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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) – Adrienne Rich, a fiercely gifted, award-winning poet whose socially conscious verse influenced a generation of feminist, gay rights and anti-war activists, has died.

She was 82.

Rich died Tuesday at her Santa Cruz home from complications from rheumatoid arthritis, said her son, Pablo Conrad. She had lived in Santa Cruz since the 1980s.

Through her writing, Rich explored topics such as women’s rights, racism, sexuality, economic justice and love between women.

Rich published more than a dozen volumes of poetry and five collections of nonfiction. She won a National Book Award for her collection of poems “Diving into the Wreck” in 1974, when she read a statement written by herself and fellow nominees Alice Walker and Audre Lorde, “refusing the terms of patriarchal competition and declaring that we will share this prize among us, to be used as best we can for women.”

In 2004, she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her collection “The School Among the Ruins.” According to her publisher, W.W. Norton, her books have sold between 750,000 and 800,000 copies, a high amount for a poet.

She gained national prominence with her third poetry collection, “Snapshots of a Daughter-inLaw,” in 1963. Citing the title poem, University of Maryland professor Rudd Fleming wrote in The Washington Post that Rich “proves poetically how hard it is to be a woman – a member of the second sex.”

She was, like so many, profoundly changed by the 1960s.

Rich married Harvard University economist Alfred Conrad in 1953 and they had three sons. But she left him in 1970 and eventually lived with her partner, writer and editor Michelle Cliff. She used her experiences as a mother to write “Of Woman Born,” her groundbreaking feminist critique of preg-

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In this Nov. 15, 2006 file photo, poet Adrienne Rich addresses dinner guests after receiving the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the 2006 National Book Awards sponsored by The National Book Foundation in New York. Rich, whose socially conscious verse influenced a generation of feminist, gay rights and anti-war activists, has died.

nancy, childbirth and motherhood, published in 1976.

“Rich is one of the few poets who can deal with political issues in her poems without letting them degenerate into social realism,” Erica Jong once wrote.

Unlike most American writers, Rich believed art and politics not only could co-exist, but must co-exist. She considered herself a socialist because “socialism represents moral value – the dignity and human rights of all citizens,” she told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2005. “That is, the resources of a society should be shared and the wealth redistributed as widely as possible.”

“She was very courageous and very outspoken and very clear,” said her longtime friend W.S. Merwin, the Pulitzer Prizewinning poet. “She was a real original, and whatever she said came straight out of herself.”

As Merwin noted, Rich was a hard poet to define because she went through so many phases. Or, as Rich wrote in “Delta,” ‘’If you think you can grasp me, think again.”

Her political poems included “The Burning of Paper Instead of Children,” an indictment of the Vietnam War and the damage done and a cry for language itself: “The typewriter is overheated, my

mouth is burning. I cannot touch you and this is the oppressor’s language.”

One of her best-known poems, “Living in Sin,” tells of a woman’s disappointment between what she imagined love would be — “no dust upon the furniture of love” – and the dull reality, the man “with a yawn/sounded a dozen notes upon the keyboard/declared it out of tune, shrugged at the mirror/ rubbed at his beard, went out for cigarettes.”

Rich taught at many colleges and universities, including Brandeis, Rutgers, Cornell, San Jose State and Stanford.

She won a MacArthur “genius” fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships and many top literary awards including the Bollingen Prize, Brandeis Creative Arts Medal, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and the Wallace Stevens Award.

But when then-President Clinton awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1997, Rich refused to accept it, citing the administration’s “cynical politics.”

“The radical disparities of wealth and power in America are widening at a devastating rate,” she wrote to the administration.

“A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.”

In 2003, Rich and other poets refused to attend a White House symposium on poetry to protest to U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

Born in Baltimore in 1929, Rich was the elder of two daughters of a Jewish father and a Protestant mother — a mixed heritage that she recalled in her autobiographical poem “Sources.” Her father, a doctor and medical professor at Johns Hopkins University, encouraged her to write poetry at an early age.

Rich graduated from Radcliffe College in 1951 and was chosen for the Yale Younger Poets Prize for her first book of poetry, “A Change of World.”

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BOSTON (AP) – Ernest Hemingway shows a tenderness that wasn’t part of his usual macho persona in a dozen unpublished letters that became publicly available Wednesday in a collection of the author’s papers at the Kennedy presidential library.

In a letter to his friend Gianfranco Ivancich written in Cuba and dated February 1953, Hemingway wrote of euthanizing his cat “Uncle Willie” after it was hit by a car.

“Certainly missed you. Miss Uncle Willie. Have had to shoot people but never anyone I knew and loved for eleven years,” the author wrote. “Nor anyone that purred with two broken legs.”

The letters span from 1953 to 1960, a year before the prize-winning writer’s suicide.

Whether typed or written in his curly script, some of the dispatches arrived on personalized, onionskin stationery from his Cuban villa Finca Vigia.

The author also wrote from Europe, while on safari in Africa, and from his home in Idaho.

The two men met in a Venice hotel bar in 1949, bonding despite a two-decade age difference because they’d both suffered leg wounds in war.

“I wish I could write you good letters the way you do,” Hemingway wrote in a January 1958 letter from Cuba. “Maybe it is because I write myself out in the other writing.”

Experts say the letters demonstrate a side to Hemingway that wasn’t part of his persona as an author whose subjects included war, bullfighting, fishing and hunting.

The Kennedy library foundation bought the letters from Ivancich in November, and Hemingway Collection curator Susan Wrynn met the now-elderly gentleman in Italy.

“He still writes every morning,” she said Wednesday. “Hemingway encouraged him to.”

The letters, as a whole, show the author had a gentle side, and was someone who made time to be fatherly and nurturing to a younger friend, said Susan Beegel, editor of scholarly journal The Hemingway Review.

“I wish I could write you good letters the way you do.”

Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway’s letter about his cat’s death also showed the author’s struggle to separate his private and public lives.

Hemingway told how a group of tourists arrived at his villa that day.

“I still had the rifle and I explained to them they had come at a bad time and to please understand and go away,” he wrote.

But one wasn’t deterred, according to the letter, saying, “We have come at a most interesting time. Just in time to see the great Hemingway cry because he has to kill a cat.”

In multiple letters, Hemingway also asks about his friend’s sister Adriana Ivancich.

The young Italian socialite became a muse for the writer after they met at a duck-shooting outing in Italy. The woman was the model for the female lead in Hemingway’s novel “Across the River and into the Trees,” Beegel said.

Experts say Hemingway credited her visit to Cuba in 1950 with inspiring him as he crafted the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Old Man and the Sea.” He wrote of the literary award in a June 1953 letter to his friend, saying, “The book is back on the Best Seller lists due to the ig-noble Prize,” a line Beegel sees as self-deprecating humor.

Hemingway went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature the next year.

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Bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs dies at age 88

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In this photo taken Aug. 9, 1982 file photo, bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs plays his banjo. Scruggs' son Gary said his father passed away Wednesday morning, March 28, 2012 at a Nashville, Tenn., hospital of natural causes. He was 88.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who helped profoundly change country music with Bill Monroe in the 1940s and later with guitarist Lester Flatt, has died. He was 88.

Scruggs' son Gary said his father died of natural causes Wednesday morning at a Nashville, Tenn., hospital.

Earl Scruggs was an innovator who pioneered the modern banjo sound. His use of three fingers rather than the clawhammer style elevated the banjo from a part of the rhythm section – or a comedian's prop – to a lead instrument.

His string-bending and lead runs became known worldwide as "the Scruggs picking style" and the versatility it allowed has helped popularize the banjo in almost every genre of music.

The debut of Bill Monroe and The Blue Grass Boys during a post-World War II performance on The Grand Ole Opry is thought of as the "big bang" moment for bluegrass and later 20th century country music. Later, Flatt and Scruggs teamed as a bluegrass act after leaving Monroe from the late 1940s until breaking up in 1969 in a dispute over whether their music should experiment or stick to tradition. Flatt died in 1979.

They were best known for their 1949 recording "Foggy Mountain Breakdown,"

played in the 1967 movie "Bonnie and Clyde," and "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" from "The Beverly Hillbillies," the popular TV series that debuted in 1962.

Jerry Scoggins did the singing.

After the breakup, Scruggs used three of his sons in The Earl Scruggs Revue. The group played on bills with rock acts like Steppenwolf and James Taylor. Sometimes they played festivals before 40,000 people.

In a July 2010 interview, Scruggs said in the early days, "I played guitar as much as I did the banjo, but for everyday picking I'd go back to the banjo. It just fit what I wanted to hear better than what I could do with the guitar."

Scruggs will always be remembered for his willingness to innovate. In "The Big Book of Bluegrass," Scruggs discussed the breakup with Flatt and how his need to experiment drove a rift between them. Later in 1985, he and Flatt were inducted together in the Country Music Hall of Fame.

"It wasn't a bad feeling toward each other as much as it was that I felt I was depriving myself of something," Scruggs said. "By that, I mean that I love bluegrass music, and I still like to play it, but I do like to mix in some other music for my own personal satisfaction, because if I don't, I can get

a little bogged down and a little depressed."

He said he enjoyed playing because "it calms me down. It makes me satisfied.

Sometimes I just need to pick a few tunes."

At an 80th birthday party for Scruggs in January 2004, country great Porter Wagoner said: "I always felt like Earl was to the five-string banjo what Babe Ruth was to base-

“I love bluegrass music, and I still like to play it, but I do like to mix in some other music for my own personal satisfaction, because if I don't, I can get a little bogged down and a little depressed.”

Earl Scruggs ball. He is the best there ever was, and the best there ever will be."

In 2005, "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" was selected for the Library of Congress'

National Recording Registry of works of unusual merit.

The following year, the 1972 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," on which Scruggs was one of many famous guest performers, joined the list, too.

Scruggs had been fairly active in the 2000s, returning to a limited touring schedule after frail health in the 1990s.

In 1996, Scruggs suffered a heart attack in the recovery room of a hospital shortly after hip-replacement surgery. He also was hospitalized late last year, but seemed in good health during a few appearances with his sons in 2010 and 2011.

In 2001 he released a CD, "Earl Scruggs and Friends," his first album in a decade and an extension of The Earl Scruggs Revue. Over 12 songs, he collaborated with an impressive stable of admirers: Elton John, Dwight Yoakam, Travis Tritt, Sting, Melissa Etheridge, Vince Gill, John Fogerty, Don Henley, Johnny Cash and actor Steve Martin, a banjo player, were all featured.

Scruggs, born Jan. 6, 1924, in Flint Hill, N.C., learned to play banjo at age 4. He appeared at age 11 on a radio talent scout show. By age 15, he was playing in bluegrass bands.

"My music came up from the soil of North Carolina," Scruggs said in 1996 when he was honored with a heritage award from his home state.

He and Flatt played together in Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, then left to form the Foggy Mountain Boys in 1948.

Their popularity grew, and they even became a focal point of the folk music revival on college campuses in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Scruggs' wife, Louise, was their manager and was credited with cannily guiding their career as well as boosting interest in country music.

Later, as rock 'n' roll threatened country music's popularity, Flatt and Scruggs became symbols of traditional country music.

In the 1982 interview, Scruggs said "Bonnie and Clyde" and "The Beverly Hillbillies" broadened the scope of bluegrass and country music "more than anything I can put my finger on.

Both were hits in so many countries."

Scruggs also wrote an instructional book, "Earl Scruggs and the Five String Banjo."

In 1992, Scruggs was among 13 recipients of a National Medal of Art. "I never in my wildest dreams thought of rewards and presentations," he said.

"I appreciate those things, especially this one."

Louise Scruggs, his wife of 57 years, died in 2006. He is survived by two sons, Gary and Randy. Gary Scruggs says funeral arrangements are incomplete.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Aerosmith promises new album in 3 months

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Aerosmith has reunited with Jack Douglas, who produced the band's key 1970s albums, and quietly recorded a new studio album even as its lead singer traded jokes with Jennifer Lopez on "American Idol."

Steven Tyler said Aerosmith was finishing two final songs for the as-yet-untitled album, its first since 2004's "Honkin' on Bobo," and that he expected it to be released in about three months.

Joined Wednesday by Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer at a Los Angeles mall, Tyler revealed three track titles: "Legendary Child," ''Beautiful" and "Out Go the Lights." Earlier in the week, the band announced that its 18-stop US "Global Warming Tour" begins June 16 in Minneapolis.

"We will not let you down," Tyler told reporters and fans.

The "Idol" judge is engaged to model Erin Brady. Asked in an interview about what will be his third marriage, Tyler joked: "I cannot stop falling off stage and falling in love."

Tyler said he reached out to Douglas – who produced 1974's "Get Your Wings," 1975's "Toys in the Attic" and other seminal albums from the multiplatinum Boston band – and the other group members joined him in Los Angeles. The group's 15th studio album will feature tunes built around guitar riffs from tour jam sessions and some previously shelved songs.

"We have a lot of songs that are very dear to us that we've written over the years," Tom Hamilton said. "And we can feel it when it's the perfect time to whip them out. And we're having that kind of experience now."

Tyler said he had used elements from tracks that didn't make previous albums.

"All the things that are left over aren't necessarily finished. So we take those riffs and we do them again," he said.

"Because they are Aerosmith riffs. They're our children, so to speak."

The four members of the band – guitarist Brad Whitford did not attend – arrived at the mall in separate vehicles but seemed in good spirits and played down their famed infighting.

Tyler acknowledged that the band had argued over which songs to include: "Are we going to Tom's or Joe's or mine? It's always a fight. And plus it's a whole lot more," he said. "I think what you guys should be worrying about is the fact that we're still together after forty years and what you're about to hear, which is a new record. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised."

Perry had leveled criticism at "Idol" in the past but credited the show for lifting Tyler's spirits.

"He's having a great time. I think he's happier now doing it, frankly," Perry said.

Hamilton said the band will benefit from Tyler's experience on a live television show: "Everything from how to appear to the public, how to go for it. – As long as the rock is there, everything is cool."

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Post-season OT adopted for regular season

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Atlanta Falcons coach Mike Smith listens to reporters during an interview at the NFL owners meeting in Palm Beach, Fla., Wednesday, March 28, 2012. Owners voted to adopt the rules installed last year for post-season games into the 2012 regulars season and beyond.

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PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Even though the NFL's new rule for postseason overtime has never come into play, it's being expanded for the regular season, too.

NFL owners passed the playoff overtime rule for the regular schedule Wednesday. All games that go into overtime now cannot end on a field goal on the first possession.

The opposing team must get one series, and if it also kicks a field goal, the extra period continues. Of course, if it fails to score it loses, and if it gets a touchdown, it wins.

The rule has not been a factor since it was instituted in 2010, with only two playoff games going to OT. One ended on the first play, Tim Tebow's 80-yard touchdown pass to Demaryius Thomas for a Denver victory over Pittsburgh. The other had

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several possessions for each team before the Giants beat the 49ers in the NFC title game this season.

The vote on adopting the new overtime rule was 30-2.

Owners also have given the replay official permission to review turnovers just as he reviews all scoring plays.

Other rules changes: a team will lose a down for illegally kicking a loose ball; too many men on the field becomes a dead ball foul; and a player receiving a crackback block is now considered a defenseless player and the hit will result in a 15-yard penalty.

Not passed were proposals to have the booth official handle video reviews rather than the referee, and outlawing the horse-collar tackle made on quarterbacks in the pocket.

Given the NFL's concern

with player safety, the failure to extend the horse-collar rule seemed surprising. But competition committee chairman Rich McKay said the ownership "didn't think this can impact on player safety."

"The rule was developed for the open field tackle when a defender has the chance to do something else (in making the tackle)," he said. "He's also able to use the runner's momentum against him. We didn't think that applied to the pocket, didn't see the injury risk."

Several bylaw changes were tabled until the league meetings in May, including expanding preseason rosters to 90, designating one player suffering a major injury before Week 2 of the season as eligible to return from injured reserve, and moving the trading deadline back two weeks to after Week 8.

F.C. Inter Milan: Icarus reincarnated Garnett, Celtics top Jazz 94-82

By Miles DeGrazia Futbol Columnist On May 22 2010, F.C. Internazionale Milano, (Inter Milan for short), lifted their third European Cup, reestablishing themselves as one of the world best club sides. The 677 days that have superseded has been a grandiose collapse highlighting the shortcomings of owner / president Massimo Moratti, their transfer policy, and youth team.

Six days after becoming European Champions Inter lost their mercurial manager José Mourinho to Real Madrid and with that the decline had begun.

Former Liverpool FC manager Rafael Benítez stepped in and attempted to stamp him mark on the team by changing the shape of the Nerazzurri to an even more defensive unit, relegating UEFA Club Footballer of the year '09'10 Diego Milito to a spot on the bench. Inter responded poorly to Benítez’s managing style and despite winning the Club World Cup on December 18th, 2010, Benítez was sacked just five days later.

In a controversial move Inter hired AC Milan legend Leonardo as manager, and Inter did progress under the more personable Leonardo going 16-2-4 (W-D-L) in league matches finishing second behind rivals AC Milan. In the cup competitions Inter had mixed success, after a great comeback against Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League, Inter were dumped out by Schalke

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at the quarterfinal stage, but Inter did win some silverware, winning the Coppa Italia for the ninth time.

Despite decent success President Massimo Moratti was unhappy that the club did not win the Italian title and appointed Gian Piero Gasperini as new manager.

Lets just say Gasperini’s time at Inter was an unmitigated disaster, and that’s putting it nicely.

Gasperini attempted to implement a bizarre 3-4-3 formation in which trequartista Wesley Sneijder was asked to become a box-to-box midfielder, and right back Maicon had added defensive responsibility limiting the strongest aspect of his game. Those are just two of the baffling tactical decisions Gasperini made and after losing the Supercoppa Italiana to AC Milan, gaining just one point from his first four League matches, and losing to Trabzonspor in the Champions League Gasperini was sacked.

Massimo Moratti then turned to former Chelsea and Juventus manager Claudio Ranieri. Ranieri started well going 10-2-4 in the league, getting to a Coppa Italia quarterfinal and advancing to the knockout stages of the Champions League, but by early March Inter were in free fall. On January 24, 2012, Inter were knocked out of the Coppa Italia by Napoli and in the same week lost to Lecce in the league. After the loss to Lecce Inter failed to pick up three points during their next six league matches losing to Roma, Novara, Bologna, and Napoli.

During this horrendous league

form Inter played their Round of 16 Champions League tie with Olympique de Marseille and after a Brandão strike deep into stoppage time Inter was left stunned and eliminated from European competition. A scoreless home draw to Atalanta and a 2-0 loss to Juve in Turin had sealed Ranieri’s fate and he was shown the door on March 26.

And now here we are on March 29, Inter Milan eliminated from both the Coppa Italia and Champions League and sit in 8th place in Serie A. To compound Inter’s problems their squad is almost entirely composed of players on the wrong side of 27, with the exception of Yuto Nagatomo, Ricky Álvarez, and Joel Obi, and with financial fair play laws coming into effect very soon, Moratti will be unable to spend his oil money to make Inter competitive again.

But alas it is not doom gloom in Milan, this past week Inter won the inaugural NextGen tournament (essentially a U-19 Champions League) and Andrea Stramaccioni who led the youth side to European glory was promoted first team manager. Perhaps a perfect storm is brewing for a new F.C. Internazionale Milano to rise once again, one which puts added importance on its youth team and promotes promising young Italian talent instead of buying the best South America has to offer.

Miles.DeGrazia@UConn.edu

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BOSTON (AP) — Kevin Garnett scored 23 points and added 10 rebounds, and Rajon Rondo had 14 assists to lead the Boston Celtics to a 94-82 victory over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night.

BOSTON (AP) — Kevin Garnett scored 23 points and added 10 rebounds, and Rajon Rondo had 14 assists to lead the Boston Celtics to a 94-82 victory over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night.

The win was Boston's fifth in six tries. The Celtics moved into a tie with the Philadelphia 76ers atop the Atlantic Division.

Former Celtic Al Jefferson had 18 points and 12 rebounds for the Jazz, scoring 10 in a 17-3 third-quarter run that turned an 18-point deficit into a two-possession game. The Jazz tied it early in the fourth before Boston scored the next seven points —

with Garnett contributing on all of them — to pull away.

Utah had won seven of its previous eight games.

Gordon Hayward scored 19 points, and Paul Millsap had 16 for the Jazz, who fell into a threeway tie with Denver and Houston in a race for the last two playoff spots in the Western Conference.

The Celtics took a 44-29 lead with 2:22 left in the half on consecutive alley-oops from Rondo to Ryan Hollins. Boston opened an 18-point lead, 61-43, with 7:40 to play in the third quarter.

But the Jazz scored 17 of the next 20 points — 10 of them from Jefferson — to make it a

four-point game. They then ran off six in a row to tie it 66-all, scoring the first five of the fourth quarter on Enes Kanter's jumper and a three-point play by Alec Burks.

That's when the Celtics snapped out of their slump.

Garnett fed Keyon Dooling for a 3-pointer, then the Celtics' big man made a fallaway jumper. After a Jazz miss, Garnett grabbed the rebound and made an outlet pass for a fast break that ended with Bradley at the free throw line, sinking a pair of foul shots that made it 73-66.

The Jazz never got closer than three points after that.

Petrus leads Huskies at Pro Day; Freshman take first Spring reps

By Greg Keiser Staff Writer UConn hosted its yearly “Pro Timing and Testing Day” Wednesday at the Mark R. Shenkman Training Center.

Players eligible for the NFL draft worked out in front of representatives of 20 teams.

Defensive tackles Kendall Reyes and Twyon Martin,

defensive backs Gary Wilburn and Harris Angbor, running back Jonathan Jean-Louis, wide receiver Kashif Moore, tackle Mike Ryan, center Moe Petrus, and kicker Dave Teggart worked out in front of the scouts. Players took part in the 40-yard dash, vertical leap, broad jump and bench press, along with other drills.

Not all players performed each exercise.

Scouts consider Reyes to be a potential first round pick in the draft. Many consider Teggart to be one of the first few kickers off the board. Reyes, Teggart and Moore all worked out at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis in the last week of February. The NFL draft will be held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City from April 26-28.

Incoming freshmen practice for first time The incoming freshmen are experiencing their first collegiate practices during the 15 spring practices held between March 20 and April 21, when UConn plays its annual Blue versus White game at Rentschler Field.

Quarterback Casey Cochran of Masuk High School in Monroe will battle redshirt

senior Johnny McEntee, redshirt sophomore Scott McCummings, sophomore Michael Nebrich and redshirt sophomore Chandler Whitmer for the starting job next fall.

Related, UConn has a new quarterbacks coach in Shane Day, former Chicago Bears quarterbacks coach. Former quarterbacks coach Joe Moorhead is now the head coach at Fordham. Cochran

is ESPN’s 40th ranked quarterback in the 2012 class. Running back Joseph Williams from Emmaus High School in Emmaus, Penn. is expected to compete for playing time. Inside linebacker Jazzmar Clax from Neptune High School in Neptune, N.J. is ranked 21st by ESPN

Gregory.Keiser@UConn.edu

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job behind the plate defensively, fielding at a .975 clip in the early going.

“Coach Penders always gives me a chance like he said he would, I’m very grateful for that,” DeBellis said. “A lot of freshmen don’t play at other schools and it’s an honor to be able to play for a team like this.”

DeBellis is one of three freshmen – along with third baseman Jon Testani and left fielder Eric Yavarone – that have been in the lineup regularly for the Huskies so far this season. He typically catches one game of each weekend series to spell Pavone, so he should see some time behind the plate again this weekend as the Huskies open their Big East home slate against Seton Hall.

Matthew.Stypulkoski@UConn.edu

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Sports

» NCAA

Women's Final Four arguably strongest ever

DENVER (AP) — For the first time since 1989, all four top seeds reached the NCAA women's Final Four.

This year's field of Baylor, Stanford, UConn and Notre Dame is arguably the strongest ever, with all four programs motivated by unfinished business from last season and out to add yet another crown to their crowded trophy case.

"All four of us, I think, pretty much we're the top four teams in the country all year long. I'm not sure if anybody ever fell to fifth," Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw said. "I think all four teams are probably the most talented teams in the country. So I guess we all achieved our expectations."

Yet, Baylor, behind 6-foot-8 star Brittney Griner and a lineup loaded at every other position, is a prohibitive favorite to cut down the nets at the Pepsi Center on Tuesday night.

To become the first team in NCAA hoops history to win 40 games in a season, the Lady Bears will have to get past Stanford, led by superstar sisters Nnemkadi and Chiney Ogwumike, on Sunday and then either UConn or Notre Dame in the title game.

"Whoever wins this tournament this coming weekend will

have earned it, because they'll have beaten two of the best teams in college basketball in quite some time," UConn coach Geno Auriemma said.

Auriemma, whose Huskies played all three of the other semifinalists this season, said the common thread is a dedication to defense and "people that are OK with the spotlight. They're OK with the big moment. They've had enough failure and enough frustration to kind of harden them and toughen them."

"I think all the teams have a little bit of a hunger. There is no defending national champion that's in the field. So I think the same thing is going through everyone's mind at this point."

And that is, why not us?

Only one other time, 23 years ago, did all four No. 1 seeds reach the Final Four, which speaks to the parity in women's basketball.

"I'm kind of glad in a sense because it tells you that women's basketball is growing," Baylor coach Kim Mulkey said.

"It tells you that there's parity out there. Back in the '80s, when I played and brackets were released, you pretty much knew what four teams would be in the Final Four.

"Now, because of teams get-

ting better, you are seeing teams even win national championships that weren't No. 1 seeds, including our 2005 championship at Baylor. But you've had a lot of parity since '89 until 2012. And that's a good thing."

This year, however, the top four teams have reached Denver, as expected.

All thrived on high expectations, especially Baylor, which never shied away from the championship chatter.

"Not one time this year have we ever felt pressure, we haven't," Mulkey insisted. "It's just a case of we want to win a national championship. And if we lose it, what have we lost? I mean, we have had a great year.

"And so it wasn't to throw it out there to put pressure on them. These kids, they know they're good. And it was just a case of we didn't think we could hide what people's expectations were of us, and we can't hide the fact that we're older now and we have those expectations, too."

The Lady Bears are much more than just Griner. There's defensive stopper Jordan Madden, who hounds the opponents' best player, Destiny Williams, Na Hayden and Odyssey Sims, one of the best point guards in the country.

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Knicks, 'Melo rout Magic

NEW YORK (AP) — before a loss to Oklahoma City Carmelo Anthony and the New on Jan. 14.

York Knicks climbed above The Knicks moved 2 1/2 .500 for the first time since mid- games ahead of Milwaukee January in overwhelming fash- for the eighth and final playoff ion, scoring 21 straight points in spot in the Eastern Conference the third quarter and and pulled within 2 routing the Orlando 1/2 of Philadelphia Magic 108-86 on and Boston for New York 108 first place in the Wednesday night.

Anthony and Orlando Division.

86 Atlantic Iman Shumpert New York could get each scored 25 Stoudemire back points for the Knicks (26-25), before the end of the season, who won for the eighth time announcing Wednesday that he in nine games despite play- could be back in two to four ing without the injured Amare weeks after non-surgical treatStoudemire and Jeremy Lin. ment for a bulging disk in his New York outscored Orlando back.

65-30 in the middle two quarAnthony knows he must step ters and has a winning record up until then without Stoudemire for the first time since it was 6-5 and Lin (sore left knee), and he

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had his second straight strong performance since they were hurt. Anthony scored 28 points Monday, and would have easily surpassed that had he not been limited to 26 minutes.

Playing despite a strained right groin, Anthony shot 9 of 15, his jumper that has been off all season falling in a thirdquarter flurry that blew open the game.

Jameer Nelson scored 17 points and JJ Redick had 15 for the Magic, who had their threegame winning streak snapped.

Ryan Anderson, who made seven 3-pointers and scored a career-high 30 points in the Magic's 102-93 victory here Jan. 16, took just four shots and scored three points.

Will Kentucky run the table to a title?

Kentucky's Doron Lamb heads to the hoop as Baylor's Pierre Jackson defends during the first half of the South Regional finals game Sunday, March 25, in Atlanta.

from WHICH page 14 from downtown and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist do it by slashing and getting to the line. No matter who John Calipari decides to insert into the game, the Wildcats will have an offensive advantage at every position on the floor.

Danny: Speaking of Calipari, he is a tremendous recruiter and seems to have a NBA Draft machine hidden in the corridors of Rupp Arena but he has never won the big game. Ignoring the record books, coach Cal has made three Final Fours, but each time he has found a way to lose.

Calipari has lost in the national semifinal twice and in 2010, Calipari’s Kentucky team had five NBA first-round picks but failed to make the Final Four.

But 2008 was Calipari’s most impressive choke job when his Memphis Tigers blew a ninepoint lead with two minutes left and lost the national title game to Kansas. Why should this year be any different?

TJ: The 2008 title game was an anomaly. He did everything right, it’s not his fault his team was beyond inept from 15 feet. He’s not allowed to take free throws for them. Keep in mind Kansas was no slouch; they had Chalmers, Rush and

Arthur. On the topic, what has Matta done? Interestingly enough, I don’t see any rings on his fingers.

Danny: The only time Matta has had the type of talent Calipari has, he ran into an even more talented Florida team in 2007. Aaron Craft’s 17 points and 10 dimes in the Buckeyes win over Gonzaga proved that the kid will do anything it takes to win. That is the heart that I believe Marquis Teague and Kentucky is missing. I do think they are the more talented squad but it all reminds me too much of the 2010 Kentucky team that was upset by West Virginia in the regional final.

TJ: Kentucky does have weaknesses, and I do think that Aaron Craft is easily a better point guard than Marquis Teague. However, just because Ohio State has an advantage at one position doesn’t mean Thad Matta is going to be hoisting any trophies any time soon. Kentucky is on a tear right now. They’ve won each of their tournament games in blowout fashion, including wiping the highlight out of Baylor 82-70 in a game that was much uglier – by uglier, I mean an utterly one-sided domination – than the score suggests.

Danny: Kentucky has made each team they have played in the NCAA Tournament thus far look like the junior varsity. But Ohio State has also looked just as impressive dismantling a hot Cincinnati team and juicing the Orange this past weekend in Boston. Sullinger and Deshaun Thomas, who is averaging six more points and three more rebounds a game in the tournament, are the perfect one-two punch to send Coach Cal and Kentucky back to Lexington without any hardware.

This field is full of tradition, coaches who are great tacticians and recruiters and all four teams are loaded with talented and athletic players.

"We don't really get to be an underdog very often, so we're kind of enjoying it," Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said.

Asked to name the one thing that concerns her the most about the unbeaten Lady Bears, VanDerveer couldn't.

"They give you so many puzzles to solve," she said.

"First, you're not used to playing against 6-foot-8. How do you score? Second would be how do you defend 6-8? And then Baylor is a lot more than just Brittney Griner. They have Odyssey Sims, Na Hayden.

They have perimeter shooters, rebounders, they have depth.

They have a very experienced coach. So it's not one thing. It's probably many things."

Stanford, like UConn, reached the Final Four for the fifth straight season.

"I think a lot of the reason that we are going is because we play Tennessee and we play Connecticut, and we really try to play as tough a preseason schedule as we can so we know what's out there and we know what we have to do to be here," VanDerveer said.

Baylor center Brittney Griner dunking the ball during the second half of an NCAA women's tournament regional semifinal game against Georgia Tech, in Des Moines, Iowa on Mar 24.

Huskies prepare for Pirates tomorrow from PROTECTING, page 14 inning is usually his worst, but he settled in there,” said Penders.

“Last two outings he was very good.”

The scoring resumed in the fifth for the Huskies as freshmen catcher Alex DeBellis drove in LJ Mazzilli and Ryan Fuller with a two-out single. They also added one more in the sixth before Central tried mounting a comeback in the late innings

by adding two runs off Butler in the seventh and one off reliever Dan Feehan in the eighth on a botched pick-off attempt to second with a runner also on third.

The game went into the ninth a 7-4 ballgame, and it would stay that way thanks to a 1-2-3 inning by Oberg. Penders was originally planning on resting him yesterday, but had to bring him in the save situation created by the Central run scored in the eighth.

UConn is now riding their

longest win streak of the season (6 games) and it’s due to their improvement in the field, according to Penders.

“We’re playing better defense.

With that comes confidence. If you can make some plays you’re going to have a little bit better confidence.”

The Huskies will look to continue their streak against Seton Hall in a 3-game series this weekend.

Darryl.Blain@UConn.edu

Callahan: Kick the sports clichés to the curb from SPORTS, page 14 show up on your TV and give analyses littered with clichés. This is explained by the part of their job description to simplify for the masses, which fits right in line with the strong desire we all have for parsimony in our lives aka discovery of the simplest solution in the face of lots of information. This nearly universal simplistic drive is precisely why sports clichés have been passed on for years.

Instead of addressing the fact that talent, preparation, environment, weather, strategy, matchups, physical skill, mental acuity, toughness, will, tendencies, fatigue, injuries, mental expectations, officials and many other factors combine to form every final score ever recorded, we settle for these almost worthless statements.

We say things like “They just came to play today” to understand a big win or "They just didn’t want to win” to comfort ourselves after a bad loss. We accept these statements because they ultimately satisfy our need for parsimony and spread like wildfire when people with impressive sports resumes use them. And boy, have they spread.

But let’s have some fun.

Take a look at some more: He’s got his gameface on What, should I be worried?

Because this goon thinks moving a couple facial muscles around improves his chances?

Give me a break. You’ve heard it takes more muscles to frown than to smile, right? Well do you know how many it takes to put your gameface on? No

one does. It doesn’t exist.

He’s starting to play within himself What does that even mean?

And do you realize this statement is literally two letters away from “He’s starting to play with himself” How would you feel if some expert told you: ‘Well, Callahan has really done well in recent weeks and its because he’s starting to play with himself at home. He’s really found himself and its been elevated significantly. His level of play that is...’

Defense wins championships First, many archival studies have shown that neither offense nor defense edges out the other in winning the title games of ANY sport.

This is a FACT. Not to mention – you’d like me to believe that in a game where the team that scores the most points wins, scoring points is somehow less important than something else? How about a good balance of both offense and defense?

He leaves it all out on the field/ He gives 110 percent Frankly, that’s a bit disgusting and the other one is impossible. What is so darn wrong with 100 percent?

They wanted it more So now desire is measurable and determines the outcomes of games? If I’m playing LeBron 1-on-1 and I want to beat him so, so badly, does that mean he take me out to the woodshed? No. He wins 101 out of 100 times.

He just knows how to win Right now this phrase is sticking to Tim Tebow and his recent success like freshly chewed gum in a head full of hair. Except, here’s the problem – everyone who’s ever

“There are simply too many variables in any sport... to par them down to a single X-factor.”

played a game, except the kid in Little League who darted down the street when told to “run home,” knows how to win. That’s not the hard part. Teams didn’t lose to the Broncos last year because they forgot how to get in the endzone. I promise you.

So, what do we do now? A few suggestions: Catch yourself and others by asking questions. Think about these phrases when you hear them or say them yourself. What does it really mean? Does it make even the smallest bit of sense? When the Giants and Cowboys faceoff to kick off the next NFL season will it really be Eli Manning vs. Tony Romo? No, because they won’t be on the field at the same time until it’s the 4th quarter and the clock says 0:00. There’s no match-up.

Take a closer, more complete look at what you’re talking about. Stats are very good for this in the proper context.

Also, highlights on TV shows aren’t sufficient to draw complete and accurate conclusions from. Watch the entire game or even a few before you say a player can’t hit a curveball when he’s actually a slumping .300 hitter who keeps showing up on Sportscenter.

Forget about “keys” or "X-factors". The only key is scoring more by playing better. How teams go about this is different, but don’t let anyone tell you there’s one key or match up that will determine a game. There are too many variables in any sport, no matter what it is, to par them down to a single X-factor.

The “key” is non-existent and cliché.

So, I urge you; I reach out from this column and grab you by the collar to think for yourself and to not get caught in bed with a multitude of clichés. They’ll get you and for once and for all, I’d like to retire my proverbial puke bucket.

Andrew.J.Callahan@UConn.edu

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By Mac Cerullo Managing Editor

The UConn women’s basketball team is going to Denver for its fifth straight Final Four. Are you?

Fan travel packages to Denver went on sale yesterday through the UConn athletic department.

The packages include a four-night full package that includes airfare, hotel and ground transportation, as well as a four-night land package that doesn’t include air travel. Air travel-only arrangements can be made as well.

The full package costs $2,170 per person for a single room or $1,760 per person for a double. The rates for the land package are lower, $1,080 for a single or $680 per person for a double, but that doesn’t include airfare, which would need to be purchased separately.

Game tickets to the national semifinal game against Notre Dame are not included in either package, but can be purchased by students for only $25 from the UConn ticket office. Should UConn advance to the national championship game, student tickets would cost $25 through the ticket office for that game as well.

Former UConn men’s hockey standout Cole Schneider began his pro career earlier this week as he got his first ice time with the American Hockey League’s Binghamton Senators, an AHL affiliate of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators.

Schneider, who signed a pro contract and left UConn after finishing his sophomore season with the school, has appeared in all three games with Binghamton since joining the team on March 20, though he has yet to record his first career point.

Schneider left UConn as one of the program’s most productive players ever. Schneider holds the UConn Division I record for most points in a season (45), goals in a season (23), points after two years (78), most hat tricks in a career (3), points by a freshman (33) and assists by a freshman (20). He was also named to the American Hockey Association First-Team after earning AHA AllRookie honors as a freshman.

Men’s basketball sophomore Jeremy Lamb was named as an honorable mention on the Associated Press 2011-12 All American Team.

Lamb led the Huskies with 17.7 points per game after starting every game this season and helping lead the team to a 20-14 record. Lamb was one of six players from the Big East selected to an AP AllAmerican Team. The others were Marquette’s Jae Crowder and West Virginia’s Kevin Jones, who were named Second Team AP All-Americans, and Syracuse’s Dion Waiters and Kris Joseph, along with Marquette’s Darius Johnson-Odom, who were also named honorable mentions.

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» NBA

Rangers complete sweep of Winnipeg

Love leads ‘Wolves past Bobcats, 88-83

WINNIPEG, Manitoba— Pavelec stopped 24 shots for Ryan Callahan and Michael Del Winnipeg.

Zotto each had a goal and an The Jets have five games assist, and the New York Rangers remaining, all against conference moved to the top of the NHL opponents. They will head out standings with a 4-2 victory over for a four-game road trip, starting the fading Winnipeg Jets on at Carolina on Friday, and close Wednesday night. out the regular season at home on Brian Boyle and Derek Stepan April 7 against Tampa Bay. also scored, and Marian Gaborik Winnipeg is on its first threeadded a pair of assists for the game, home-losing streak of the Rangers (49-21-7), who lead season.

Pittsburgh by five The Jets had all points in the Eastern three power plays Conference.

New in a scoreless first York is tied with New York 4 period, including a Western Conferencetwo-man advantage 2 for 1:44, and outshot leading St. Louis with Winnipeg 105 points, but the the Rangers 11-4., but Rangers have the edge because failed to score. They had another of one more non-shootout vic- advantage 27 seconds into the tory. second period on a boarding call Spencer Machacek and Bryan against Boyle, but couldn’t beat Little scored for the Jets (35-34- Lundqvist.

9), who are 10th in the East with That changed soon after when 76 points. Winnipeg went 0-4 Winnipeg connected for a pair of against New York this season. quick goals.

Buffalo is currently eighth in Machacek fired a shot between the East with 84 points, followed Lundqvist’s pads at 3:58 and

by Washington, which is two Little redirected a pass 56 secpoints behind. onds later for his 23rd goal of the Henrik Lundqvist made 22 season that made it 2-0. saves for the Rangers, who swept The Rangers quickly responda two-game trip following a win ed with a short-handed goal and at Minnesota on Tuesday. Ondrej a power-play tally.

“If he continues to do what CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Kevin Love is playing so well he’s doing for a good portion of this month he’s beginning to gar- his career he’s going to be one of the best ever,” Silas said. “He’s ner MVP consideration. just tenacious. That ball goes up And rightfully so.

Sure, the Minnesota and he’s there. And he’s strong...

Timberwolves might be on the The young boys we have are not outside looking in when it comes ready for that. So that makes it to the playoff picture, but Love’s difficult.”

As for all of the MVP talk, numbers are getting harder and Love said, “In some ways it’s harder to ignore.

Love had 40 points and warranted, but we need to win a lot more games in 19 rebounds order to be anywhere Wednesday night to close to that.” lift the Minnesota Love said he feels Timberwolves to an Minnesota 88 like he’s worked hard 88-83 victory over the Charlotte 83 on his conditioning to Charlotte Bobcats. get where he is and It was Love’s thirdhighest point total in March, and he’s in a good groove when it pushed his scoring average in 15 comes to shooting the ball.

“I’m not stopping,” Love said. games in the month to 31.2.

Love has scored at least 20 “I’m continuing to get better.”

Love got some needed help points in 14 of his last 15 games and has 44 double-doubles on the against the Bobcats.

Point guard Luke Ridnour had a season, including nine straight season-high 14 assists and added games.

Before the game, Bobcats 15 points for Minnesota, fightcoach Paul Silas said Love with- ing to get into playoff contenout question should be consid- tion in the Western Conference. ered an MVP candidate and his Forward Anthony Tolliver added opinion didn’t change after he his first double-double of the seadominated his young big men son as well, with 11 points and 11 Bismack Biyombo and Byron rebounds.

But Love was the key.

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Huskies win third straight at home, sixth overall

By Darryl Blain Staff Writer

Andrew Callahan Sometimes I simply want to puke. I want to vomit. I want to hurl my television/laptop against a wall and then hurl all over it. Hearing and reading sports clichés makes me sick. And as a sports fan, you’re lucky there’s no allergy to them, because they’d land you in a hospital bed or a bad Claritin commercial instantly.

They’re everywhere.

Creeping, crawling, sneaking their way into the minds of fans and mouths of experts, there should be a cliché, black/ white horror film made about these idiotic idioms. They’re an unfortunate breed like the offspring of a naked mole rat and a ... well, frankly anything else.

But they’re also suave, because how else would so many people be able to rattle them off like the name of their first cousins?

Don’t believe me? Count how many of these loathsome buggers you can fill in or finish on your own.

You can feel the _________ swinging.

He just _____ how to win.

This is going to be the ____ to the game. _________ wins championships.

He’s got his __________ on.

You see, they’ve grown on us. They’ve grown on athletes.

Defense wins championships?

Michael Jordan is the person largely responsible for spreading that around the world and back.

In fact, the No. 1 hotbed for clichés nowadays – the ESPN family of networks– showcases loads of former players who spit them out faster than the unseen hair that found its way into the bowl of Chicken Noodle you’d just been thoroughly enjoying.

So, what’s wrong with using these clichés? Well just like that hair, these sayings have no place in an otherwise wonderful thing. They’re wrong.

They oversimplify. They deny the wonderful complexity, dizzying unpredictability and other numerous, beautiful aspects of sports. These sayings dumb you down.

Yet you and I both hear some of the world’s smartest sports people speak these same things.

This is because those coaches, players, general managers and media members aren’t all that different from you and I. The best example of this comes from the work of those aforementioned experts who

» CALLAHAN, page 12

The UConn baseball team won its third home game of the year against in-state rival Central Connecticut by a score of 7-4 yesterday. Right-hander Pat Butler evened up his record on the season at 2-2 and closer Scott Oberg earned his fifth save of the year.

The scoring began early thanks to an RBI single by Central’s second basemen J.P. Sportman in the top of the first, but the Huskies answered right back with a second basemen of their own in Tim Martin, who hit a two-run shot to right just two batters into the bottom of the first. Martin has been battling shoulder problems all year and this was his first return to the starting lineup.

“That was a big home run after they went up 1-0. It was good to answer that run right away,” said coach Jim Penders.

UConn put another run on the board after the homer that inning and another in the following inning, but then both offenses cooled off. Both pitchers settled in and found their groove, especially Butler who threw five and two-thirds innings of scoreless baseball after his rough start.

“He has a tendency to do that, the first

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» HUSKIES, page 12

The Huskies tacked on three runs in the first inning to back starter Pat Butler who notched his second win of the season and improved to 2-2.

DeBellis comes out swinging in UConn win a two-out single to center in the bottom of the fifth inning that pushed the UConn lead to 6-1. Those runs would later Freshman designated hitter prove to be the difference in Alex DeBellis came up big the contest, as the Blue Devils against Central Connecticut tacked on three more runs on Wednesday with a clutch in the game’s final innings two-out RBI single that helped before falling 7-4.

“It felt great to the Huskies extend finally have a great their winning streak day at the plate,” to six games.

DeBellis said.

Coming into “I’ve been a little Wednesday, shaky and I’ve DeBellis had been working a played in 16 games lot with [assison the year, 15 of Notebook tant coach Jeff] which he started.

Hourigan on my Though he had been struggling swinging the swing and it really paid off bat in the early going – he was today.”

Coach Jim Penders was hitting .235 with an on-base percentage of .359 in 51 at- pleased with what he saw in bats – DeBellis was a key cog the game and believed it could in the UConn offense against be a sign of things to come Central, going 2-for-2 with from his young freshman.

“We haven’t quite seen the three RBI in the game.

Two of those RBI came on real Alex DeBellis in the bat-

By Matt Stypulkoski Staff Writer

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ter’s box yet,” Penders said.

“He’s starting to show glimpses of it. He made an adjustment…that coach Hourigan gave to him a couple days ago with his stance and he took it to the game yesterday – which you don’t see very often, especially with a freshman. But he was able to apply it and he seems to be getting the barrel on it a little better.”

Part of the reason that DeBellis has been getting so much playing time this season has been because of the need to give senior catcher Joe Pavone a break behind the plate from time to time as he comes back from a knee injury that sidelined him for the 2011 campaign. DeBellis, a natural catcher, has been able to fill that need for Penders early on and has done a good job behind the plate defen-

» FRESHMAN, page 11

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Freshman left-hander Jared Dettman throws from the mound at J.O. Christian Tuesday against the Hartfard Hawks. The Huskies are 3-0 at home defeating Yale, Hartford and CCSU.

Which team will win the men’s NCAA tournament?

Kentucky

By TJ Souhlaris Campus Correspondent Kentucky has dominated all season long, so there’s no reason to suspect that they won’t cut down the nets and party down Bourbon Street Monday.

Led by future no. 1 overall pick Anthony Davis, the Wildcats have only lost two games this entire season, one of which was a buzzer beater on the road and the other well after Kentucky had the number one overall seed locked up. After they eviscerate Louisville in a battle for the Bluegrass state, Kentucky will have no problem defeating Ohio State in the title game – this is all assuming the Buckeyes can even defeat Kansas Saturday.

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» POINT/COUNTERPOINT TJ: Kentucky will defeat The Ohio State University on Monday for a multitude of reasons; however, the key factor is going to be the unibrow in the middle, Anthony Davis. Davis has been fantastic in the tournament, averaging 14.5 points per game, 11.5 boards per and a whopping 4.5 blocks. I’m a big Jared Sullinger fan and he might be the most polished post player in America, but he’ll be lucky to put up 15 against the nation’s most dominant center since Greg Oden. Davis is a surefire lock to have his name called first by David Stern in July and the Buckeyes just won’t have an answer for him at either side of the floor.

Danny: What Anthony Davis has done this year is no doubt one of the greatest performances by a freshman big man in

recent memory. But the Buckeyes have three players averaging more points a game than him in Sullinger, Thomas, and the senior who can do it all, William Buford. Sullinger may not get the national attention that Davis has gotten thus far but he is averaging 18 points and 8.25 rebounds in the tournament. Plus, Sullinger’s bigger and stronger frame will allow him to push around the lanky Davis.

TJ: The Buckeyes definitely have three very capable scoring threats. However, Kentucky doubles that with six different players averaging at least ten points per game. And it’s not like they all do it the same way; Davis is the big man down low, Doron Lamb and Darius Miller can get hot

» FLASHY, page 12

Ohio State

By Danny Maher Campus Correspondent

The leadership provided by sophomores Jared Sullinger and Aaron Craft combined with the recent NCAA performance of Deshaun Thomas are why Ohio State will deny Kentucky their first NCAA Tournament title since 1998. The Buckeyes arrive in The Big Easy as a battletested team from the country’s best conference, the Big Ten. There is no doubt that Kentucky is wildly talented, but I am certain Coach Calipari will find a way to lose the big game again, assuming he does not blow it against Rick Pitino and Louisville on Saturday night in the national semifinal.

Nathan.Zielinski@UConn.edu

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