The Daily Campus: March 29, 2013

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Friday, March 29, 2013

Neag moves up four spots in national rankings

By Patrick McGowan Campus Correspondent

RUSSIAN NATIONAL BALLET THEATRE Elegant performance of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ artfully played.

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PIRATES TOP HUSKIES Seton Hall tops UConn in double-header.

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COMMENTARY/page 8 INSIDE NEWS: NEWTOWN GUNMAN HAD ACCESSS TO HUGE WEAPONS CACHE Lanza had more than 1,600 rounds at his disposal.

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The Neag School of Education Graduate program jumped four spots to No. 28 in U.S. News and World Report’s ranking of graduate education programs.

This jump up the rankings makes UConn the third ranked school in the northeast, behind only Harvard University and Boston College. It also lands Neag at #17 on the list of graduate education programs at public universities.

Neag students are excited about the recognition their school is getting. “I’m excited to be in a program that allows me to be a part of one of the top groups of education students in the country,” said Colleen Barnhart, an undergraduate in Neag’s Integrated Bachelor’s/ Master’s program, or IB/M. This program allows undergrads to smoothly transition into the graduate program.

U.S. News ranks individual programs within schools as well, and the findings are bright for UConn. The Special Education program is #12 in the nation, the Elementary Teacher Education is ranked No. 18, and the Secondary Teacher Education is also ranked #18.

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The Neag School at UConn, pictured above, has jumped fourt spots in U.S. News and World Reports’ ranking

U.S. News and World Report’s findings examined “approximately 1,500 teacher preparation programs,” said a press release on Neag’s website. UConn’s placement at No. 28 puts Neag in the top 10 percent of all graduate education programs in the country.

Shawn Kornegay, the director of marketing & Communications for Neag,

Massive Feb. snowstorm costs jobs in Conn.

WETHERSFIELD, Conn. ployment rate decline, if only at (AP) — Last month’s massive a modest pace.” snow storm disrupted business Much of Connecticut was burand transportation, leading to a ied under nearly 3 feet of snow in loss of 5,700 jobs, the Connecticut the Feb. 8-9 storm. It took days to Labor Department said Thursday. dig out in parts of the state.

But still, the What looks unemploylike a contrament rate fell diction between to 8 percent in the loss of February, from jobs and the 8.1 percent in lower unemJanuary. ployment rate If the storm is due to two affected labor surveys, state markets, state labor econoofficials say mist Patrick they expect to Flaherty said. see previous Employers who trends in job were surveyed growth trends reported fewer resume in the while in a Andy Condon jobs coming months. separate survey, Researcher the number of “Though our data can’t point people who at any specific said they were regions or industry sectors that unemployed fell in February, he would confirm the winter storm said. Workers who reported they hampered job growth in February, were employed increased. that result seems likely,” said Connecticut’s unemployAndy Condon, director of the ment remains above the national Labor Department’s office of rate, which was 7.7 percent in research. “On the plus side, we February, the lowest level in four continue to see the state’s unem- years. Nationally, employers

says the reason for Neag’s improved ranking is new faculty hires. “The Neag School is hiring additional faculty to research the causes and consequences of the achievement gap and find policy and practice solutions designed to close it,” said Kornegay. “This information was shared with peer education leaders,

which contributed, in part, to our rise in the rankings.”

Thomas DeFranco, the dean of Neag, believes that Neag owes it success partially to the work it does with the public schools in Connecticut. “Faculty within the Neag School are not only focused on research and scholarship, they are committed to working in partnership with classroom teachers and educational stakeholders across the state, sharing information about best practices and improving the academic performance of children,” said DeFranco.

“The drive to improve and make Neag as good as it can possibly be is something you can notice very easily in the faculty and staff,” said Barnhart.

“We want to be the best, and the school is working hard at that goal.”

“Our goal is to produce highly qualified teachers, principals, superintendents and health professionals who will impact the academic performance and health and well-being of children and adults in Connecticut and in the nation,” said DeFranco.

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“On the plus side, we continue to see the state’s unemployment rate decline, if only at a modest pace.”

With Newtown details released, Conn. vote likely

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut legislative leaders said details from search warrants released Thursday in the Newtown school shooting help reinforce the need for many of the gun law changes they have been negotiating for weeks.

While a final agreement has yet to be reached on a bipartisan bill addressing the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, lawmakers said the release of the new information moves the General Assembly closer to voting on a legislative package, possibly Wednesday.

“It’s a sobering discovery, and I think that it certainly should be helpful to legislators in their understanding of the depth of this problem and our need to take action,” said Senate President Donald E.

Williams Jr., D-Brooklyn.

In particular, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said, the details that the 20-year-old shooter, Adam Lanza, brought high-capacity, 30-round ammunition magazines to the school that day, leaving behind smaller magazines at home, shows the need for legislators to ban large-capacity magazines in Connecticut.

Malloy has proposed banning magazines with more than 10 rounds, giving owners of larger magazines until Oct. 1 to turn them over to law enforcement or permanently modify them so they can hold no more than 10 rounds.

Gun control advocates have said the magazine issue, and what to do with existing high-capacity magazines, has been a sticking point during the legislative leaders’

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In this photo from the 2012 OOzeball tournament, students battle it out on the mud volleyball courts. Students can register for OOzeball teams by signing up on the Alumni Association’s website.

OOzeball: a storied history, a continued tradition

By Pat McGowan Campus Correspondent UConn’s mud volleyball tournament, OOzeball, has been an institution at the university since 1983, and it has grown from less than 400 participants to thousands.

OOzeball has been recognized twice by Sports Illustrated in years past; first as ‘Best Mud Volleyball’ in the ‘Best of College Sports,’ and second as a part of their list of ‘Top 100 Things To Do Before You Graduate: No Matter The Cost,” according to the website of the Student Alumni Association, the group that runs the event.

Beginning as a part of Spring Spree in 1983, OOzeball was originally a fundraiser to benefit the scholarship fund of the StudentAlumni Advisory Board,

which has since changed its name to the Student Alumni Association. Members of the Student-Alumni Advisory Board worked to get sponsorships from local businesses to contribute to the fund, in exchange for advertising.

According to a 1984 edition of The Daily Campus, the first round of volleyball matches were held on hard courts, followed by the best eight teams battling it out in the mud.

“There’s been a tremendous amount of interest throughout the campus,” said OOzeball chair Bob Rajtar in 1984.

Even Rajtar would be surprised at the amount of growth the event has seen in the past 30 years. These days, every match from the beginning to the championship is played in eight inches of mud, and this has caused the event to move multiple times.

In 1984, the event was held on Grad Field, where ITE now stands. In the years since, it has moved to the quad at the front of campus, between Beach and Austin, and is currently held in South Campus.

South is one of the only areas on campus large enough to hold the event.

The spirit of the event has not changed, however, and as Rajtar said in 1984, “It should be an afternoon of getting down and dirty.”

Students can register to participate in OOzeball by signing up on the Alumni Association’s website until April 2. Participant cost is $15 per person and each team must comprise three women and three men.

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Register for OOzeball All Day Event Online Registration will take place March 26-April 2 this year and space is limited so teams are admitted on a first come, first serve basis. Teams must be registered by a team-appointed captain.

Women’s Tennis vs. Syracuse 12 to 4 p.m.

UConn Tennis Courts The women’s tennis team will face off against Syracuse at 12 p.m. at the tennis courts today. Admission is free.

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Conn. officials unveil medical research grants

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — State officials in Hartford have announced more than $3 million in grants from Connecticut’s Biomedical Research Fund.

The awards will support nine research projects conducted by researchers from the UCONN Health Center and Yale University.

They were presented by Democratic Sen. Joseph Crisco and Public Health Deputy Commissioner Lisa Davis in a news conference at the state capitol Thursday.

The Biomedical Research Fund was established by Crisco in 2000 to redirect revenues from the state’s tobacco settlements to research into causes and possible cures for heart disease, cancer and other smoking-related diseases.

Since 2005, more than $14 million has been awarded to research institutions in Connecticut for biomedical research on tobacco-related diseases, Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes.

CL&P seeks $414M for cleanup costs from 5 storms

BERLIN, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut’s biggest utility asked regulators Thursday to allow it to charge customers $414 million for costs related to five destructive storms last year and in 2011, a request that would increase the typical customer’s bill $3 a month.

Storm repair costs totaled $462.3 million, Connecticut Light and Power said. The costs that the utility wants reimbursed exclude $8.3 million set aside in a storm reserve fund. Northeast Utilities, its parent company, also agreed to exclude $40 million as part of its deal with the state for its $5 billion purchase of NStar last year.

The charges would be implemented over six years. Rates would not change until December 2014 as part of the Nstar agreement.

“The damage from these natural disasters and the response to complete repairs was extraordinary and unlike anything in CL&P history,” said Bill Herdegen, the utility’s president and chief operating officer. “Typically, storms of this magnitude strike years or decades apart, but in 16 months, we experienced four of the company’s 10 most devastating storms.”

Ex-Sen. Prague to lead Conn. Dept. on Aging

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Former Columbia state Sen. Edith Prague is returning to state government, tapped by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy as Connecticut’s Department on Aging commissioner.

Malloy announced Thursday that the 87-year-old will begin serving as the head of the newly resurrected state agency on April 8.

Prague, who served a total of 26 years in the General Assembly as a member of the House of Representatives and Senate, did not seek re-election last year due to health concerns. She suffered a minor stroke in December 2011.

Prague said Thursday that she feels healthy and joked about how she consumes Boost nutritional drinks daily.

She previously served as aging commissioner in 1990 under former Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., who later eliminated the agency.

Connecticut hosts NFL scouts in advance of draft

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Scouts and coaches from 29 NFL teams showed up at the University of Connecticut Wednesday for the school’s annual pro day workouts in advance of next month’s draft.

Fourteen Huskies participated in drills such as the 40-yard dash, the vertical jump and the bench press. But many of those watching were keyed in on four players who impressed at last month’s NFL combine in Indianapolis.

Defensive end Trevardo Williams, linebacker Sio Moore and cornerbacks Dwayne Gratz and Blidi Wreh-Wilson are all expected to go in the first few rounds.

Bobby Valentine to work as Mets analyst on SNY

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Mets manager Bobby Valentine will be a pregame and postgame analyst for 12-15 of New York’s telecasts on cable channel SNY this season.

The network said Thursday that Valentine will work Monday’s opener against San Diego with Bob Ojeda and Chris Carlin. Valentine was an analyst for ESPN in 2011.

A former manager of Texas (1985-92), the Mets (1996-02), Boston (2012) and Japan’s Chiba Lotte Marines (1995, 2004-09), Valentine also is the new athletic director of Sacred Heart in Connecticut and an analyst for NBC Sports Radio.

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Newtown gunman had access to huge weapons cache NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — When Adam Lanza walked out of his house for the last time, he left behind firearms and knives and more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition — taking only four guns. They would suffice.

He loaded the weapons into his car, drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School, blasted his way into the building and within five minutes fired off 154 shots with a Bushmaster .223-caliber rifle. Having slaughtered 20 first-graders and six educators, he killed himself with a shot from a Glock handgun. He still had more than 100 rifle bullets at hand.

Warrants released Thursday provide the most insight to date into the world of the 20-year-old gunman, a recluse who played violent video games in a house packed with weaponry that was all too real. The inventory of items found in the spacious, colonial-style home included books on autism, a vast array of weapon paraphernalia and images of what appears to be a dead person covered with plastic and blood.

The weapons used in the shooting had all apparently been purchased by Lanza’s mother, Nancy, with whom he lived, said prosecutor Stephen J. Sedensky III, in a statement accompanying the warrants.

She was found dead in her bed; Adam Lanza had shot her the morning of the massacre, Dec. 14. Authorities also found a gun safe in his bedroom and a holiday card from Nancy Lanza containing a check made out to her son for the purchase of yet another firearm.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy expressed incredulity over the access that the troubled young man had to a cache of weapons.

“There are parts of this story that are unfathomable,” he said. “How anyone would have maintained that household that way is difficult to understand.”

Mark Barden, whose 7-year-old son, Daniel, was killed at Sandy Hook, said

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Supporters of both sides of the gun debate gather outside the National Shooting Sports Foundation headquarters in Newtown, Conn., Thursday, March 28.

he was not surprised by anything revealed Thursday.

“Most of this is pretty high level stuff that we were aware of already and it just reminds me of what happened, that a gunman stormed his way into an elementary school and shot to death 26 people, 20 of which were first-grade boys and girls,” Barden said.

The shooting elevated gun safety to the top of President Barack Obama’s agenda; at an event in Washington on Thursday, joined by the families of four children killed at Sandy Hook, he urged lawmakers not to get “squishy” in the face of opposition to gun control.

“Shame on us if we’ve forgotten,” Obama said. “I haven’t forgotten those kids.”

The debate has extended to Newtown, a rural community of 27,000 people in western

Court inaction could return gay marriage to California

AN FRANCISCO (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court seems reluctant to use the legal battle over California’s same-sex marriage ban to rule that all gay Americans have a constitutional right to wed, but that doesn’t mean gay marriage will not be returning to the state.

The high court’s forthcoming ruling is likely to allow same-sex marriages to resume in California more than four years after gays and lesbians first won the right to wed in the state courts and lost it a few months later at the ballot box, legal experts and lawyers involved in the case said.

How that happens and how long it would take remain open to interpretation. There are a range of possibilities.

Some experts say a court decision, expected in June, would allow marriages to resume statewide soon afterward, while others argue a ruling could be limited and only affect the original two plaintiffs and residents of counties where they live.

“I don’t think it’s at all a foregone conclusion that everyone gets to benefit,” said Tobias Wolff, a University of Pennsylvania law professor who has spent months puzzling over the various scenar-

ios, adding that it’s going to take a lot more work before there is a final answer.

Each scenario is likely to produce more legal and political wrangling. Depending on how long it lasts, samesex marriage backers could decide it would be easier to organize to repeal the voter-enacted ban, known as Proposition 8, with the expectation that public opinion has shifted in their favor since it passed with 52 percent of the vote in November 2008.

Prop. 8 amended the state constitution to limit marriage to a man and a woman.

From justices’ questions Tuesday during arguments over its constitutionality, legal experts assume a majority will not strike down that measure along with similar amendments adopted in 29 other states.

Such a broad ruling was what lawyers who sued to overturn Prop. 8 want from the high court. Instead, the court appeared headed for resolutions that would bypass any discussion of civil rights and, by default, allow one or both of the lower court decisions that struck down the ban to take effect. Legal scholars and lawyers involved in the case disagree about what is likely to occur from there.

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Connecticut that is also home to the National Shooting Sports Foundation. A protest and counter-protest were held outside the foundation’s offices Thursday.

If it’s possible to determine a motive for the massacre, there may be clues in Adam Lanza’s journals, which state police seized from the house and turned over to the FBI for analysis. But authorities say that so far no conclusions have been reached. Sedensky estimated that the investigation will be finished this summer.

At the Lanza house, investigators found books about autism and Asperger’s syndrome, as well as one with tabbed pages titled “Train Your Brain to Get Happy.”

Adam Lanza was said to have been diagnosed with Asperger’s, an autism-like disorder that is not associated with violence.

Scooter ads face scrutiny from gov’t., doctors

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This undated screenshot shows a frame grab from a Hoveround commercial. Members of Congress say the ads by The Scooter Store and Hoveround have lead to hundreds of millions of dollars in unnecessary spending by Medicare.

WASHINGTON (AP) — TV ads show smiling seniors enjoying an “active” lifestyle on a motorized scooter, taking in the sights at the Grand Canyon, fishing on a pier and high-fiving their grandchildren at a baseball game.

The commercials, which promise freedom and independence to people with limited mobility, have driven the nearly $1 billion U.S. market for power wheelchairs and scooters. But the spots by the industry’s two leading companies, The Scooter Store and Hoveround, also have drawn scrutiny from critics who say they convince some seniors that they need a scooter to get around when many don’t.

Members of Congress say the ads lead to hundreds of millions of dollars in unnecessary

spending by Medicare, which is only supposed to pay for scooters as a medical necessity when seniors are unable to use a cane, walker or regular wheelchair.

Government inspectors say up to 80 percent of the scooters and power wheelchairs Medicare buys go to people who don’t meet the requirements. And doctors say more than money is at stake: Seniors who use scooters unnecessarily can become sedentary, which can exacerbate obesity and other disorders.

“Patients have been brainwashed by The Scooter Store,” says Dr. Barbara MessingerRapport, director of geriatric medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.

“What they’re implying is that you can use these scooters to leave the house, to socialize, to get to bingo.”

Corrections and clarifications In a story called “Whitmer rises to new role” that ran in Wednesday’s edition, football quarterback Chandler Whitmer was identified as a freshman in a caption. We regret the error.

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US-Russian crew blasts off for space station BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — A Russian spacecraft carrying a three-man crew blasted off Friday from a launch pad in the steppes of Kazakhstan, for the first time taking a shorter path to the International Space Station.

Instead of the two-day approach maneuver used by Soyuz spacecraft in the past, this journey to the station would take NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russians Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin just under six hours.

The Soyuz TMA-08M lifted off on time from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome at 2:43 a.m.

Friday (2043 GMT; 4:43 p.m. EDT Thursday). It’s set to dock at the space outpost at 10:32 p.m. EDT Thursday (0232 GMT Friday).

The trio are “on a fast track to the International Space Station,” NASA spokesman Josh Byerly said, adding minutes after the launch that all was going well and the spacecraft went into orbit without any problems.

The new maneuver has been tested successfully by three Russian Progress cargo ships, an unmanned version of the Soyuz used to ferry supplies to the space station.

Vinogradov joked at a pre-launch news conference at Baikonur that the journey to the station would be so quick that it could allow the crew to even carry ice cream as a present to the three men currently manning

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The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-08M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian

the orbiting outpost.

“It wouldn’t melt in such a short time,” he said.

On a more serious note, Vinogradov added that the shorter flight path would reduce the crew’s fatigue and allow astronauts to be in top shape for the docking. He said that it takes about five hours for the human body to start feeling the impact of zero gravity, so the quicker flight would allow the crew to more easily adapt to weightlessness in much roomier space station interiors.

Top Islamist accuses opposition of sowing unrest

CAIRO (AP) — A leading Islamist politician accused opponents on Thursday of teaming up with remnants of Hosni Mubarak’s toppled regime to sow unrest and violence.

Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie, in his weekly message to followers, also charged politicians he did not name of using foreign funds to instigate violence.

He claimed that opponents of Egypt’s Islamist-dominated government have cast off their calls for democracy, liberalism and the rights of people in order to “destroy, burn, kill, shed blood and manufacture crises to drag the country into a cycle of violence and counter-violence.”

His comments depicted street protests against the Brotherhood and the president, a longtime leader of the group, as the work of paid thugs and politicians bent on destabilizing the country for personal aim.

They came days after the worst clashes in three months between anti-government protesters and supporters of the Brotherhood, Egypt’s most powerful political group.

Badie did not mention any particular group of anti-government activists by name, but appeared to direct his criticism at the National Salvation Front, the main opposition coalition. The front has consistently distanced itself from violence, insisting it

does not incite or condone it.

He has claimed that foreign He also claimed it was the powers he did not name had a Brotherhood that turned pro- “finger” meddling in Egypt’s tests in the early days of the internal affairs and vowed to 2011 uprising into a full-fledged bring to justice politicians susrevolution and then went on to pected of inciting violence. protect the achievements.

“There is an enemy outside However, the revolution was Egypt and there is a devil inside led primarily by secular and that is maliciously messing with liberal youth groups now rally- people’s minds,” Morsi told ing against the democratically Egyptian expatriates in Qatar on elected, Brotherhood-dominated Tuesday. He was in the Gulf state government. to attend an The youth Arab League groups mainsummit. tain that the B a d i e Brotherhood did said the not officially Brotherhood join the uprising has exeruntil it became cised restraint clear that its and stayed momentum was on a posiirreversible. tive course to But they “build, develMohammed Badie op and try to a c k n o w l edge that the Muslim Brotherhod reform.”

Brotherhood Referring to Leader what he called gave the uprising the muscle enemies at it needed to home and fend off attacks Mubarak loyby armed Mubarak’s loyalists alists, he said: “They are trying against protesters gathered at to push us back to square one Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the epi- in the hope that people will center of the protests. lose faith in the revolution and Badie’s criticism of the oppo- that by manufacturing crises, sition echoed comments by failures and spreading rumors, Islamist President Mohammed people will dream of the return Morsi. Several times this week, of the old regime complete with Morsi alleged that recent unrest its shortcomings, injustices, was the work of paid thugs, not defeats, backwardness and treareal “revolutionaries.” son.”

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The downside of the accelerated rendezvous is that the crew will have to stay in their spacesuits, which they don hours before the launch, through the entire approach maneuver.

Other Russian cosmonauts in the past have described the two-day approach maneuver in the cramped Soyuz as one of the most grueling parts of missions to the orbiting station. The spheroid orbiting capsule allows the crew to take off their bulky spacesuits, change into more comfortable clothes and use a toilet, but its interior is extremely confined.

The ship’s spartan layout lacks adequate heating and fails to provide an opportunity for the crew to get hot food. It contrasts sharply with the spacious U.S. space shuttle, whose retirement has left Soyuz as the only means to deliver crews to the space outpost.

Russian space officials said the longer approach was necessary at a time when the station was in a lower orbit required for the shuttle flights. After they ended, it was raised from 350 kilometers (217 miles) to 400 kilometers (249 miles), making a quicker rendezvous possible.

NASA is working on the development of its new generation Orion spacecraft. Orion’s first trip is an unmanned mission in 2017, and the first manned mission is set for 2021.

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (AP) — A U.S. Army veteran, who boasted on Facebook of his military adventures with Syrian rebels, was charged Thursday with firing rocket propelled grenades as part of an attack led by an al-Qaida group against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Eric Harroun, 30, of Phoenix, was charged in U.S. District Court in Alexandria with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction — specifically, a rocket propelled grenade launcher — outside the U.S. According to an FBI affidavit, Harroun, who served three years in the Army before being medically discharged, was engaged in military action in Syria, siding with rebel forces against the Syrian government, from January to March of this year.

Harroun told FBI investigators that he traveled to Turkey in November hoping to join the Free Syrian Army, a rebel group.

In January, he crossed the border and made contact with the Free Syrian Army, which outfitted him with two Russian rifles, according to the affidavit.

Within days, Harroun participated in an attack on a Syrian army encampment that was carried out jointly by the Free Syrian Army and the al-Nusrah Front, commonly known as “al-Qaida in Iraq” and designated a terrorist group by the U.S., according to the affidavit.

After that battle, Harroun retreated in the back of an alNusrah truck. Harroun told the

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In this image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Free Syrian Army figthers fire at Syrian army soldiers during a fierce firefight in Daraa al-Balad, Syria, Monday March 18.

FBI that at the al-Nusrah camp, he was initially treated like a prisoner but was later accepted by the other members and participated in several attacks with them, according to the affidavit.

Harroun said al-Nusrah fighters would ask him why the U.S. had designated them as terrorists, according to the affidavit.

Harroun used RPG launchers in the attacks and once, on his Facebook page, claimed credit for downing a Syrian helicopter. According to the affidavit, Harroun told the FBI that he shot an estimated 10 people in his various battles, though he was unsure if he had ever killed anyone.

On the Facebook page, Harroun also stated that “the only

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LONDON (AP) — An animal rights group may ruffle royal feathers with its call for Queen Elizabeth II to stop supporting pigeon racing because the sport is cruel.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals claims tens of thousands of birds die during pigeon races across the English Channel.

It says it conducted an undercover investigation which found that in some races 75 percent of the birds disappear and are presumed dead.

PETA says it has written to the queen asking her to review her association with the sport.

Elizabeth is patron of the Royal Pigeon Racing Association and keeps several hundred racing pigeons on her Sandringham estate in eastern England.

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good Zionist is a dead Zionist” and that he intended to travel to the Palestinian territory because of Israeli atrocities there, according to the affidavit. The affidavit states that Harroun served in the Army from 2000 to 2003, when he received a medical discharge after he was injured in a car accident.

An Army spokesman said Harroun served at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri and Fort Riley in Kansas, and that his record listed no overseas deployments.

The federal public defender was appointed to represent Harroun at an initial public appearance Thursday, and a detention hearing was scheduled for Tuesday.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Peterson said Harroun faces up to life in prison.

Harroun flew back to the U.S. Wednesday through Dulles International Airport. He was arrested after being questioned by FBI agents there.

The public defender for the Eastern District of Virginia, Michael Nachmanoff, declined comment Thursday, saying he had not yet had time to review the case in any depth.

Last year, Nachmanoff’s office represented a northern Virginia man, Mohamad Soueid, who pleaded guilty to spying on U.S.-based Syrian dissidents on behalf of the Assad regime.

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Patricio Vielma, an 8th-semester musical theory major, plays a traditional Chilean song on his cello.

Classic Procrastination Animation

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Horoscopes Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Love,

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romance and creativity flourish. A brilliant idea seeps into your work; you could really sell this thing. Follow through.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- It’s an excellent time for household projects.

Make lists and shop carefully. Get your family out in the garden, and dig in the dirt. Fix up your home together.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Don’t dip into savings, unless it’s to help someone in pain. Your concentration is keen, and studying is especially fruitful. Ask for more funding.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Things could get profitable for a little while. Money could come and go in a rush, so keep track. Innovate or change a practice to save time and money.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Don’t forget your toothbrush. You may be called off on an adventure. You’ve got an extra advantage, and there could be a blissful connection. Bring cash and traveler’s checks.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Don’t overspend with a friend. Think it over. The next two days are good for planning. Get inspired on the road ahead. Follow a partner’s suggestion.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Your friends are really there for you. Social buzz keeps things fun. There’s plenty of work. A happy surprise prompts celebration.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- New opportunities are knocking at your door. Do the job well for added satisfaction and benefit. Create new communication with loved ones.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- You’re growing by leaps and bounds. Yes, there are growing pains, but nothing you can’t handle.

Weekend travel conditions look good. Let go of old considerations.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Intensity increases. Watch where you step, or you’ll have some explaining to do. You can be in the show, if that’s what you want. Trust your intuition.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 9 -- Finding new partnerships for your endeavors is easier now. You may have to be willing to give up some expectations. Trust your imagination.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 9 -- The weekend’s got a full schedule. Take one step at a time, and don’t push yourself too hard. You’re full of brilliant ideas. Make sure that includes recharging batteries.

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Russian National Ballet Theatre

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Elegant performance of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ artfully portrayed

By Jin Lin Campus Correspondent Last night, Jorgensen invited Russian National Ballet Theatre to perform their unique rendition of ‘Sleeping Beauty’.

Consisting of 50 colorfully costumed dancers, the threeact Russian ballet is directed

by Elena Radchenko, choreographed by Marius Petipa and complemented with the romantic music written by the prestigious Russian musician, Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky.

The show had a successful turnout; it was a diverse crowd, ranging from children to older adults. Christine Hannon, from East Hartford, traveled to UConn for the show because, “Sleeping Beauty has been one of my favorite Disney movies and I would like to see how the ballet is portrayed as well”.

“I’ve been trying to get cultured and I would like to see another great performance hosted by Jorgensen,” said Noel

Cielo, a sixth-semester chemical engineering major.

With almost a full house in the theatre, the show was delayed 10 minutes to accommodate the last minute rush ins. The opening scene paralleled to the start of “The Sleeping Beauty,” setting in a palace, the Queen and the King, along with other royal families, celebrated the birth of their beloved daughter. The set up gave an impression of a play instead of a ballet because the dancers were adorned in the traditional royal dresses and they focused more on ballroom dance. However, as the ballet proceeded, more ballerinas costumed in different colors of tutus appeared and hints of the traditional ballet resurfaced.

Though done without words, the ballet had its own unique way of telling the story of Sleeping Beauty collectively through the expressive body language of the dancers, the vivid stage lights, and the lively music.

“The show is wonderfully

done, it is elegant, poise and has beautiful music,” said Yvonne Nanakos, a tenth-semester biomedical engineering major.

Despite the lack of dialogues, she thought “less is more, and the theatre group has done a good job using simple components to put together a complex, sophisticated story.”

Unlike the traditional “Sleeping Beauty,” the Russian ballet theatre had its own interpretation along with some unique, humorous characterization. Christina Hannon also thought the villains were portrayed as “funny looking people with socks worn on their arms.”

There were a couple people costumed in animal hats; without expectation, the ballet also featured the interactive dance act between Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf. Despite some surprising combinations, the audience was very impressed with the ballet. People constantly clapped at the end of every dance act. Mikhail Rudinskiy,

Cooperative business model rules the year

essential selection of toppings with only 20, which is still nothing to get upset about. They have Reese’s, hot fudge, whipped cream and granola among other classics.

However, each topping is a solid 50 cents per choice, except for blueberries, strawberries, pineapple and mango which are 75 cents each.

At the Blue Cow, they weigh out the yogurt, and the customer can select between an 8 oz. serving for $2.75 or 12 oz. serving for $3.99 servings, or a milkshake for $4.10.

To put it in perspective, the average size of a cup at Froyo World or Peachwave would be about 5-10 oz. and the 8 oz. at the Blue Cow was a hefty 8 oz.

If you’re looking to make an event out of your yogurt, head to either Froyo World or Peachwave.

The Blue Cow doesn’t have much to offer as far as seating, unless you plan to return to the Student Market Food Court.

Froyo World is the next largest and can seat about 25 people comfortably inside. Peachwave is the largest facility, and it has seats for about 40.

Peachwave also has the largest selection of flavors. The set up is very similar to that of Froyo world, but they have eight dispensary machines, as opposed to Froyo World’s six, offering four more flavors.

Peachwave is definitely the way to go if you have a big party. But it is just a little farther down the road than Froyo World away from campus, which is actually good news for students that live in Mansfield apartments.

As far as taste goes, it’s completely objective. There are just too many flavors to be picky, and it’s unlikely for a customer to leave any of the stores disappointed.

Seriously, who doesn’t like, froyo?

One of the most hopeful movements toward a prosperous, human and environmentally responsible economy is the rise of the cooperative business model. Cooperatives, or “coops,” are businesses in which ownership of the company is shared, and since the Great Recession, they are rapidly rising in popularity. Last year was officially dubbed “The Year of the Cooperative” by the United Nations, and co-ops were the feature topic of the Spring 2013 edition of *Yes!* magazine. The magazine explained that there are four major types of co-ops: consumer cooperatives, owned by the people who buy goods or services from the business, a local example would be the Willimantic Food Co-op, producer cooperatives.

Companies or individuals joining together to market their products, a local example is the Farmer’s Cow cooperative for dairy farmers, purchasing cooperatives (in which small businesses band together to compete with large corporations, examples include Ace and True Value hardware stores), and worker cooperatives, an example is the Massachusetts-based Equal Exchange. Many people may be surprised to know that co-ops already play a major role in the global economy – they have operated for about two hundred years alongside traditional corporately owned businesses, and today they account for over 100 million jobs worldwide, which is 20 percent more than multinational corporations. In the U.S. there are over 300,000 coops that provide 2 million jobs and $75 billion in wages and benefits.

Cooperatives have proven that they can be just as profitable as their corporate counterparts, but their appeal goes far beyond money matters. The core mission of a cooperative is maximizing the well-being of its members and service to its community. The humane treatment of workers and ethical production of its goods and services seems to be a keystone rule for cooperative businesses. Credit unions, for example, often give higher interest rates to its members and are more lenient on debt collection when its members are struggling financially.

Author Marjorie Kelly praised her credit union in an article for Yes! magazine: “They’re loyal to me, and I’m loyal to them.” Cooperatives exemplify the “triple bottom line,” also known as “the three P’s” - doing what’s best for people, the planet and profit. Cooperatives are not a replacement for capitalism, they are simply a reformation of it. Kelly explains in her article that while most of us were brought up to believe that there are only two major economic systems, capitalism and socialism, both of which tend to lend power to an elite few, there is actually an infinite array of systems that could be developed. She explains that the cooperative economy “doesn’t rely on a monoculture of design, the way capitalism does. It’s as rich in diversity as a rainforest is in its plethora of species – with commons ownership municipal ownership, employee ownership, and others.”

Experimenting with different methods of shared ownership in our businesses is one of the most viable and exciting leads to a better economy, one that actually increases human health and happiness. Learn about the co-ops that exist in your community and how you can support them.

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The Russian National Ballet Theatre came to Jorgensen with 50 dancers clothed in elaborate and colorful costumes.

a sixth-semester biomedical engineering major, thought the show was “amazing, graceful and artistic.”

In the end, the amazing,

expressive ballet earned a standing ovation from the audience.

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» From the Writer’s Desk

Redefining writing on the internet

By Jason Wong Senior Staff Writer

Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, these are but a few of the places where anybody can post their thoughts for the world to see. In our world, people are increasingly consuming writing via electronic means, and not just on social media platforms like those listed above. People are also increasingly reading the news off websites and news apps, consuming media in the form of webcomics and blog posts. Books are still getting reupholstered into ever increasingly popular ebooks, or for tablets in general. The sheer amount of information available is staggering. So what’s a budding writer to do in this brave new world?

There’s a school of thought that writing on the Internet, blogging, cartooning – aren’t as “good” as traditional books. I don’t believe that’s true. Funny enough, I don’t think that the advent of the Internet has affected the quality of what is considered “good” writing. There are plenty of places online to find genuinely insightful, clev-

erly humorous and overall entertaining and interesting writing. Stylistically, yes, writing on the Internet is often done differently than writing in print. However, I find that Internet writing just as easily captures that which draws readers to print writing. I’ve seen blog posts that are emotionally eloquent and equally expressive. I’ve read long-form articles written with better flow than short stories I’ve read in my English classes. There are webcomics that have not only brought tears of laughter to my eyes, but also caused a lump in my throat with surprising poignancy.

I think it’s time that writing is redefined to definitively include these genres. Writing is the conveyance of the human condition, and it can be displayed in many ways. “Hyperbole and a Half” is a blog that makes us laugh with tales about the ridiculousness of life. “Penny Arcade” is a webcomic that finds a readership in nerddom, publishing strips about the funny side in gaming but also more serious ones about being a parent gamer, or a woman in the gaming industry. Similarly, The Verge has fantastic long-form articles about technology and culture.

Setbacks don’t blemish ‘Punk Rock’ opening weekend

By Matt Gantos Campus Correspondent

Tonight will be opening night for the Connecticut Repertory Theatre’s performance of Simon Stephen’s “Punk Rock.”

Set in Stockport, England, the play follows seven students through half a semester of the English equivalent of high school.

Each character is built to represent a certain stigma of adolescent life and throughout the play their interactions can be interpreted as larger themes.

The play touches on a familiar topic to Connecticut residents, teen violence. The play was long underway before the tragedy in Newtown, but it only made the message stronger.

In a journal entry director Kristin Wold contemplates the ethics of the performance, and decides that the play would be best told. Wold said “I decided to do what I do best….tell the story. With care.

With humanity. With empathy.”

Dramaturg Anna Woodruff breaks down some more of the plays themes, including self harm, academic pressure on teenagers and mental health –all of which are incredibly relatable to many students, in America and in England.

In her notes Woodruff said, “Audiences of dramatic theatre do not often leave with answers, but with questions that stay prominent for days. Answers simply reply and respond, where questions probe, interrogate and cast doubt.”

These are the creative problems that writers and actors must struggle with. But audience members realize that they too struggle with these questions, which gives the play its character.

Samantha Partney, an audience member at the preview showing and a drama major, called it the “most consistently solid acting

Photo courtesy of Gerry Goodstein/ Connecticut Repertory Theater

William Carlisle, played by Connor Donnally, with Lilly Cahill, played by Alyson Danielczuk, in a scene from CRT’s upcoming production of Punk Rock, by Simon Stephens.

I’ve seen in my three years here.”

The performance has been in the works since before last summer. The cast, designers and directors have been working hard to ensure that the play would be up to the standards of the playwright.

Since the play was set in England, all of the actors had to maintain proper accents and in order to do so Wold brought in voice and dialect coach, Karen Ryker to work with the performers.

“I’ve had such a connection to each of the students since I was teaching most of them as freshmen,” said Wold. “I’m so proud of all of them.”

Wold said that the whole process was a wonderful experience, for her and for the students. She felt that “every actor fit their role just right” and that even if they were not quite what she had in

mind, they turned out to be a perfect fit in the end.

One of the biggest challenges Wold said was “the budget. The budget was only $750 and we only went slightly over”.

While there was only one set, it was incredibly detailed and wellconstructed. Imagining that the set, along with the props and array of costumes would be able to fit in a budget like that is not easy.

The other difficulty Wold mentioned was the space. The stage itself, located inside the drama building, seemed small, but it kept the characters close and active with each other.

“The smaller stage and smaller budget were challenges, but its part of the experience,” scenic designer Kailey B. Hays-Lenihan said.

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Like it or not, technology has changed the way we must look at writing. Lengthy writing like those mentioned before shares some qualities with traditional writing, but what about the art behind a good tweet or Facebook status update? Given that a tweet has quite a significant cap on length, it’s all the more admirable that certain Twitter handles have picked up the amount of followers they have without any prior fame. I’m not saying Horse_ebooks is the next Hemingway, but maybe there is a method to the madness. They may not be as great as Hemingway’s alleged six-word short story (“For sale: baby shoes. Never worn.”) But maybe there’s a takeaway.

Good writing can be short and sweet, and it can be long and bitter. It can come in the form of a novel, a comic, a movie or anything in between. The writers of today aren’t the Lost Generation of the 1920s. But what they are is a new generation, valiantly taking part in the exponential cultural, social and technological growth our society is experiencing. And for that, they ought to be celebrated.

Jason.Wong@UConn.edu

Who doesn’t like froyo?

Three options now available around campus

By Matt Gantos Campus Correspondent Our fine university here in Storrs now feature’s three vendors for frozen yogurt. That’s right, three.

In addition to the long-standing front runner, the Blue Cow, two new establishments have recently moved in, Froyo World and Peachwave Frozen Yogurt.

Froyo World, which most students have learned by now is located on the street side of the new Oaks Apartments in Storrs center and Peachwave is brand new, located directly above D.P. Dough in the University Plaza.

In terms of selection, Froyo World is in a whole other league than the Blue Cow. Froyo world offers 12 different flavors at a time, 16 if you count the blends.

Once you have decided on your yogurt, you grab a cup and fill however much you think you can eat. But be careful! Before paying, the cashier will weigh the finished cup and charge accordingly, at both Froyo World and Peachwave your dessert will be priced at 49 cents per oz.

Many people make the mistake of filling up the cup too much, and paying a lot more than they intended.

Also, easy on the toppings, those can add some serious weight and it’s easy to find plenty of topping that you want right after you think you picked the last one.

Froyo World and Peachwave have a similar selection of topping but there are over 50, so no two cups will likely be the same.

That 50 toppings include classics like M&M’s, chocolate chips, crushed Oreo and gummi worms.

Some of the more interesting topping included Cinnamon Toast Crunch, chocolate covered marshmallows, strawberry poppers and blueberry drizzle.

The Blue Cow offers a more

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Drink Of The Weekend

If you went on the street and began randomly quizzing people on whether or not they know what “crowd funding” is, odds are you’d come across a sea of blank stares. Crowd funding is a means of acquiring capital directly from the public to fund a project. However, those who “donate” to such projects do so willingly and with full knowledge that they will not acquire any ownership or profit from the investment. While the concept has been around for ages, it hasn’t been until the dawn of the Internet age that the idea has truly taken off.

Kickstarter.com is perhaps the most prolific of these outfits that can be found on the web. Kickstarter allows virtually anyone to solicit funds from the public via their website in order to fund a wide variety of projects. In return, Kickstarter receives a minor percentage of the funds collected, as does Amazon payments which handles the actual financial transactions of the website.

In return for donations, project creators generally provide reward tiers dependant on how much one donates from $1 to $10,000. For example, a film project might offer a copy of the film for anyone who donated at least $10, and perhaps a producer screen credit for one who donates $5000 etc.

Before you think, “Hey! I can get money for anything I want,” Kickstarter does impose a few limitations. First of all, no “fund my life projects” are allowed i.e. setting up a fund to pay your college tuition etc.

However, you will find all sorts of projects on Kickstarter.

From upstart musicians, to aspiring authors, filmmakers, and general entrepreneurs, all sorts of projects can be found or started on the site (including an unsuccessful attempt to fund the construction of a Death Star).

Many of the most success-

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ful projects to come out of Kickstarter since 2012 have been video gaming ones. A notoriously fickle industry to acquire funding for, game designer Tim Schafer and his studio Double Fine generated over $3,000,000 in funding for an adventure game project set to release in 2013. The runaway success of the campaign has led to many other successfully funded video game projects, the most notable of which is “Project Eternity” an RPG from game from developer “Obsidian Entertainment” developers of titles such as “Fallout New Vegas” and “South Park: The Stick of Truth,” which accumulated just shy of four million in funding.

Filmmakers have also turned to Kickstarter. The popular web comic and YouTube series “Cyanide and Happiness” raised over $700,000 for the production of a web based television series. Whoopi Goldberg used the site to acquire funding for a self-produced documentary.

Most notably, an on going campaign for a “Veronica Mars” film, based on the cult hit TV series of the same name recently broke the record for fastest project to acquire both one and two million dollars in donations.

Both Oculus Rift, an attempt at a true virtual reality consumer gaming device and the OUYA, a cheap open android based gaming console, were funded in the millions on Kickstarter, as was the site’s most successful project to date, the Pebble E-Paper watch which received over $10 million in funding.

While Kickstarter has been around for a few years, a large string of successful multi million dollar fundraising campaigns in 2012 and continuing into 2013 has garnered the website the full attention of the media. With such a large string of successes, one can only imagine where Kickstarter projects will go next.

Alex.Sferrazza@UConn.edu

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An unlikely destination

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Ruby Falls is a main attraction in Tenneesse. The fall is located 145 feet underground, which is equivalent of having the Empire State Building flipped upside down.

By Loumarie Rodriguz Senior Staff Writer

Heading down to the Dixie state of Tennessee isn’t the most common spring break vacation, especially amongst college students. However compared to my break last year, which consisted of me bumming around the house, I figured why not take the risk.

The planning for this trip was unusual since we did it through a company that had a strict itinerary but we would take a nice coach bus down and that required no thinking or mapping out where to go.

I highly recommend this to college students who are looking for a cheap vacation since it’s simple to do and requires just one payment for the bus and hotel. The trip came as a package since we paid for the attractions separately but in the end it was still cheaper. The only things we had to worry about were meals and souvenirs.

The great thing about coach bus vacations is it gives you a chance to explore different states that many of us would have never consider visiting. Tennessee is typically known for their hardcore country attractions such as Dollywood and Graceland. Once down there we discovered the smoky mountains, explored underground waterfalls as well as sampled moonshine. There was a lot more to Tennessee than I anticipated and the aspect that I enjoyed the most was the southern hospitality.

On our way down there, the first stop was Virginia. We explored intense caverns that looked almost plastic because of the constant ware from the drippings of water. Stalagmites and stalactites jutted out everywhere and random drops of water splashed down. The terrifying moment came when all the lights went out and the caverns where pitch black. After a second or two the lights came back on but the darkness still lingered. It certainly left me wondering if that was an accident or if the tour leaders were playing a cruel joke.

By the time we reached Tennessee it was clear that we were in the Bible belt since there were constant advertisements for different types of churches. It was a bit of a culture shock to see many billboards for various churches but another learning experience as we drove further in. The pleasant surprise was Tennessee had a head start on spring since the grass was green and flowers where blooming. It was refreshing from all the dirty snow back in Connecticut that seems to refuse to melt away.

Tennessee showed its true colors as we discovered a small town with a series of shops, local entertainment and a lot of rocking chairs scattered everywhere. Moonshine is a large seller down there since there was a crowd of people surrounding the free sampling station. Only half shot glasses were given to us to sample from and for good reason because you should never underestimate the power of moonshine. The recipe has been updated with a variety of flavors including apple pie but of course the original was there to sip but only the brave would dare to try.

Other attractions included Ruby Falls, a waterfall so far underground it is the equivalent of being on top of the Empire State building but flipped upside down. The thought that we were so far underground was hard to wrap my mind around but we did it. The waterfall was a mystery itself since no one knows where the water comes from or where it disappears to. Later on the world’s steepest railroad we climbed a mountain that had us facing straight down as we climbed higher and higher.

Tennessee had many wonders to offer including a spot where you can see seven states at once.

However, it was the simplicity of the trip that made it fantastic. We were almost home but far enough to say that he explored something new.

The best vacations are in the unlikely spots.

Loumarie.Rodriguez@UConn.edu

Resurgence of 80’s horror “Poltergeist”

By Loumarie Rodriguez Senior Staff Writer

The classic 1982 horror film “Poltergeist” is being brought out of the 80s and will eventually make a transition into the 21st century with director Gil Kenan leading the way.

Kenan is known for his kid friendly scary animated flick “Monster House” and a few other movies that were not as successful as “Monster House” such as “City of Ember.”

However it will be interesting to see what he will do in order to update this classic 80s movie.

“Poltergeist” is a unique horror film with a lot of typical 80s elements in it such as the technology and the simplicity of the house.

Many of the famous scenes such as the youngest daughter and protagonist, Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke), talking to the TV but the television screen is filled with white noise and static. Does TV snow even exist anymore in 2013? With all the technological advancements we have in our common household Kenan and the writers for the

remake are going to have to get creative in order to create a plot that matches the original story but still be consistent for the current time period.

The film circles around the fact this is an ordinary family living in a new house but right from the beginning of the film viewers can sense there is something slightly off. It seems like a normal neighborhood with kids playing in the streets but it’s the little things such as their pet bird dying, Carol Anne talking to someone or something. Suddenly the events get bigger but not quite threatening.

It’s these elements that make the horror flick unique because some of the phenomenons that happen are actually cool, such as Carol Anne sliding across the kitchen floor by an unknown force. The mother thinks this is the coolest thing in the world and even offers her husband to try it out. It’s after that when things take a turn for the worst and we hear the famous line delivered by the innocent yet creepy Carol Anne- “They’re heeere!”

What is “here” exactly? Even as the poltergeist make themselves known, you as a viewer are not quite sure what they are and what do they want. Also there are other

points in the film where after Carol Anne disappears into the house you as viewer are still unsure whether these things taking over are actually evil. At one point they are even portrayed as angels. It’s this concept that makes the film great because not all the paranormal entities are evil. However, the ones that are evil make it evident that they are here to cause trouble.

The remake itself has had very limited information released, only the name of the writers and director have been announced, but general talk about the film has been very hushed. There isn’t any information when there will be a release date or even any ideas of which actors will portray the family. In the original 1982 film, the actors chosen weren’t very popular at the time because Steven Spielberg wanted to give the family and ordinary look as if they could be your own neighbors. It’s still up in the air on what could be done, however and hopefully this time around there won’t be a curse like on the 1982 set.

The “Poltergeist” movie series is believed to be cursed because four cast members died, including O’Rourke at only age 12.

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“Poltergeist” was originally produced in 1982 and was directed by Tobe Hooper.

There were also other mysterious things happening on set, such as people getting hurt and other unexplained strange events. It makes you wonder whether there will be a repeat this time around.

Loumarie.Rodriguez@UConn.edu

Director shares insights on “Spring Breakers”

By Joe O’Leary Focus Editor Harmony Korine’s latest film “Spring Breakers” is getting a lot of buzz with next to no physical promotion. A cautionary tale and morality fable about the entire concept of “spring break,” the film follows the exploits of four young college-aged girls, played by Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Rachel Korine and Ashley Benson, as they decide to rob a chicken shack to fund a debauched spring break in Florida.

The film’s exploits really start when a drug dealer named Alien (James Franco) enters the scene, welcoming the girls into his life of crime and rivalry with Big Arch, a fellow drug dealer played by rapper Gucci Mane. It’s widely considered the first “adult” project undertaken by Gomez, Hudgens and Benson, known for their roles

on Disney Channel and ABC Family shows targeted at teens.

Despite next to no “original” marketing, the low-budget independent film hit New York City and Los Angeles on March 15, grossing an incredibly successful $90,000 in each of its three theaters, before a nationwide expansion on March 22. Though posters and commercials were few and far between, positive reviews including a rave from The New York Times and excellent social media awareness thanks to its popular stars propelled “Breakers” to sixth place.

Korine, who has been making independent, experimental and sometimes disturbing films since his 1996 breakout “Kids,” has his first mainstream success with “Breakers,” while Benson’s first feature film is a good start to a promising career. They sat down for a conference call with college journalists Wednesday before “Breakers” hits its second weekend in theaters to chat

about it; excerpts from the call are below.

(The film is currently showing at Rave Motion Pictures in Manchester; The Daily Campus will have a review in Tuesday’s issue.)

Q: I felt the film started out showing spring break as more of a “wet dream,” but then it progressively turned into more of a nightmare. Do you see spring break as a wet dream or a nightmare, or kind of both?

HK: Man, a wet dream?

AB: [with comedic emphasis] “Wet dream.” *laughter* HK: I kind of see it as it is in the movie.

If you want to say it’s a “wet dream,” that’s okay, but that’s what the movie is, how it plays out. There’s different emotions, and images and ambiguities and strangeness and horror mixed up and dancing together, kind of a cultural mashup or Impressionistic reinterpretation of all of those feelings.

Q: In this film and in “Kids” and

“Gummo,” you like to portray adolescents as having a kind of “invincibility,” where they feel that way. Do you feel that [over your work] that’s changed with adolescent age? Do you feel it’s evolved or will it ever change?

HK: My guess I would say is that people are people, they’re always people, they always have the same adolescence, the same urges and things, and at a face level I’d say it’s the same. At the same time, the world has changed and the ways people socialize and communicate have changed, so it’s now all kind of filtered through something completely different. But it’s more performance based, it’s kind of an exposed cultural thing now where people are about performance where before people were trying to find themselves where everything’s on display, so things have changed in personality.

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Wishing for 10.Deep since 2000’s Every kid growing up has visions of grandeur for their life when they grow up. This could include a dream car, big house, future wife or prized possessions. For me, it was just waiting until I could generate my own money and break free from the financial lasso that my parents kept me tangled in to buy all the things that I wanted. Well, I’ve been working for about five years now through school, getting ready to graduate into a full time position, and I’ve already started collecting some of those dream goods that I wanted when I was a kid. For me specifically, most of it is some sort of apparel.

Of course, streetwear, and this time around it’s 10.Deep.

10.Deep is a streetwear and lifestyle brand that was first established in 1995 by New Yorker Scott Sasso. Like many current popular brands, 10.Deep started with Scott Sasso printing t-shirts in his free time as simply a hobby.

Fast forward a decade later, Sasso has navigated the evolving intersection of hip-hop and fashion to create a juggernaut in the streetwear fashion world. I’d say 10.Deep started to really get big around 2006, which is the same time that I had learned about the brand.

I remember being infatuated with the “Chain Gang” designs that 10.Deep had put out. This is also the same time that Bape was starting to blow up big in America, so think back to when the colorful allover prints and full zip hoodies were a popular look.

10.Deep prides themselves in their motto, which is to “forget everyone and listen to yourself.” This has certainly held true for many of their designs, which always take a sharp turn in the direction of individuality compared to competitors. Even when the future of streetwear looked bleak, 10.Deep fought through and created memorable cut & sew products, t-shirts, hoodies and varsity jackets featuring some of the most popular branding in the game. The past few seasons have been especially impressive, putting a twist on a number of streetwear staples: camouflage and animal prints.

Hoodies, pants and hats have featured designs from roses to snakeskin, with not many missteps along the way.

There are plenty of clothing brands from New York City, but not many have maintained the longevity of an almost 20 year successful career like 10.Deep has. Just as innovative as ever, 10.Deep’s newest collection definitely has not disappointed. I’d highly recommend checking out 10.Deep’s spring collection if you’re looking for a creative and bold twist on classic New York streetwear. I’m still on the hunt for that Chain Gang treasure I’ve wanted since 2006.

Jamil.Larkins@UConn.edu

Friday, March 29, 2013

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Focus

Young actors’ have right ‘InAPPropriate Comedy’ is a drastic failure reputation for film

By Joe O’Leary Focus Editor

Photo courtesy of sprichie.com

Spring Breakers features Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Rachel Korine and Ashley Benson in what is being called their first “adult” film, having come from Disney.

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Q: I wanted to ask you about Gucci Mane, this is his first major acting experience. Why did you choose to cast him, what was he like on set and what was your opinion of his performance?

HK: Gucci’s the best. We all love Gucci. Gucci is a trap [rap] god, you know, he’s what makes America great. I just think he’s the best and I would love to keep working with him. I think all the girls think the same.

Q: Could you tell me about how you cast this film? I understand actresses like a change, but it’s not like this is not something their fanbase is going to be able to see anyway. I’m assuming it was a deliberate choice that you’ve chosen an unexpected cast, could you talk about that?

HK: I disagree that their fans won’t see it. Their fans will all grow up and eventually see it. I think, we make a movie and a movie exists forever, so hopefully people find it. People who don’t see it now will see it in the future, and hopefully they’ll enjoy it.

I wanted to work with these girls first and foremost because they were the best for the part. They were the most interesting for the part. And then on top of it I felt they were connected culturally to this kind of pop mythology, and I thought it was an interesting counter to their perception and what they’ve done in the past. I thought it was exciting for them. They were all at a place in their lives where they wanted to try things more graphic, more extreme, a different kind of acting. It was obvious and it’s something they do, and it was great.

Q: Ashley, at age 23 you’re an icon to girls around the world.

What do you want to show others

about yourself and how do you handle the responsibility?

AB: Well, um, [laughs] I don’t really think of myself on that, that’s crazy, I feel like it puts a lot of pressure on some people.

As far as my fans go, I just try to set a good example to them, and some people, when they’re your fans they choose roles for their fans, for me it’s more about things I want to do. I try to do stuff for myself because I think that’s the most important thing, and I know girls who are fans of me through the show [“Pretty Little Liars”] and through stuff I’ve done follow things I do, but I don’t know, it puts a lot of pressure on someone.

Q: Ashley, what was the biggest challenge you faced during your filming experience?

AB: I don’t know, I guess the improv. We had improved a lot throughout the movie and I thought that was a challenge. It obviously got easier as time went on, but I had never done anything like that before. Harm would kinda just make scenes up as we went along, which was super fun and rad, but at first I was insecure about it because I didn’t really know what I was doing. As we went further along in filming it just became easier.

Q: You worked with James Franco and Gucci Mane, but which one would you go on Spring Break with and why?

AB: I’d pick Gucci.

HK: Oh yeah, Gucci.

AB: Gucci for sure, man. [laughter] Gucci, Gucci, Gucci.

Joseph.O’Leary.Writer@UConn.edu

When most people see that a movie has received zero percent out of one hundred on Rotten Tomatoes, they make a mental note to stay far away from that movie.

After seeing “InAPPropriate Comedy,” I really, really wish I had made that mental note.

Instead, morbid curiosity brought me face-toface with what may literally be the worst film of all time.

Believe me, it seemed like there was no way it could be that bad. Sure, it was directed

by Vince Offer, famous for his mid-2000s “Shamwow” commercials, which was definitely a warning sign. Offer has directed one other movie, “The Underground Comedy Movie.”

You may vaguely remember seeing late-night infomercials selling it.

Offer claims he was blacklisted by Hollywood, specifically by Scientology, after “Underground” failed to take off, explaining its late-night public-access commercial fate.

Its drastic failure is more likely because it was sophomorically dreadful; The New York Times called it “a series of sketches built around subjects like masturbation, defecation, alienation, urination, necrophilia, voyeurism, casual brutality and mockery of the unfortunate.”

While I’m glad the filmmakers got all that stuff out of the way in their last film, it seems like the only “jokes” they had left for “InAPPropriate Comedy” were stereotypes.

The LGBT, African-American, Asian and Hispanic communities all get equal jokes at their expense, thanks to the film’s nonsensical framing device of offensive apps on an iPad. Of course, when the first punchline is an already-dated, way-too-simple “127 Hours” riff where a guy walks past the trapped climber (no, seriously, that situation was the whole joke), followed by a guy looking up Lindsay Lohan’s dress, it quickly became clear the film was made by angry, racist, pathetic thirty-something white guys for young, angry and racist white guys.

Further “jokes” include an extended “Dirty Harry” parody, “Flirty Harry,” where former Oscar winner Adrien Brody is reduced to wearing pink chinos (a detective? Who’s GAY? Comedy gold!) and making homophobic single-entendres. Not double-entendres, which if used well can actually be funny. No, “InAPP” is content to have Brody shoot a criminal in his buttocks, then have Brody make a joke about “shooting a load” in the man’s buttocks.

To completely kill the joke, the criminal then makes a joke about the way the bullet in his ass might resemble a gay man having anal sex.

“InAPP” beats its viewers over the head with “extreme” comedy to disguise the fact that its comedy is the antithesis of “extreme.” It relies too much on its offensive qualities to recognize that there’s no substance, no actual humor, underneath them. “InAPP” is the equivalent of a 14-year-old commenter on YouTube, oblivious to the hatred masked as comedy everyone else can see.

As a result, the film slowly begins to drag as it layers terrible, horrible jokes upon each other, over time creating a massive black hole of suck that bends space and time. What was supposed to be 90 minutes slowly developed into what felt like an eternity, out of which it seemed impossible to escape.

A lot of this is due to two of its “flagship” sketches, a parody of “Jackass” called “Blackass,” featuring a white guy’s generic idea of a black group of “gangbangers.” If you can think of an offensive stereotype about African-Americans, it’s included in the film. Of course, they couldn’t stop at their first sketch, where one “Blackass” gets arrested, while the others speed into a sewage treatment plant, covering a worker with feces.

Yes, “InAPPropriate Comedy” used a guy covered in crap as its punchline.

Worse is when the “Blackass” crew decides to screw with real people. Their reactions, which mostly fall on the “flight” side of “fight vs. flight,” are meant to be played for laughs, like “look at how much we’re screwing with these people!” However, forcing someone into an uncomfortable and threatening encounter with people who are paid to directly act antagonistically against them is usually going to end poorly, so yet again “InAPP” fails.

The worst of the worst, however, involves comedian Ari Shaffir as “The Amazing Racist” in what first appears to be a parody of “The Amazing Race.” OK, that’s a little funny, but the joke ends with the title. The meat of the sketches involve Shaffir being directly racist toward different people in overlong, excruciatingly unfunny exchanges. Shaffir’s comedy includes going to a Jewish supermarket and asking patrons if they’ll sign a petition “apologizing for the death of Jesus Christ,” putting a boat on the side of a beach and telling African Americans he’s offering “one-way trips back to Africa” and posing as a driving instructor for Asians, only to sexually harass a female driver with jokes about happy endings and tape a male driver’s eyes open “so he can see better.”

Shaffir’s flaw is that he doesn’t have a point to his comedy or a punchline; he’s just being directly, inexcusably rude to these people who have done nothing to him over periods of time as long as 10 minutes, most of which is just

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“InAPPropriate Comedy”, released on March 22, was given a zero percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Shaffir standing somewhere, pathetically mewling for someone to get angry at his hilarious jokes. This makes the eventual assault one man gives him cathartic instead of humorous; after half an hour of “comedy,” Shaffir completely deserves the beating he earns.

This isn’t even mentioning the hidden camera bits of the film, which appear in both “The Amazing Racist” and “Blackass.” In what is one of the most horrific moments ever put on film, a “Blackass” sketch took place in what appeared to be a real abortion clinic, where a black actor offered coat-hanger abortions to who have to have been real people in the middle of making a difficult decision. The pain and anguish on their faces certainly seemed realistic, at least.

In some meta way, there has to be something of worth in “InAPPropriate Comedy.” At face value, though, it’s inexcusably disturbing, the result of what has to be hateful mental illness or xenophobia on the part of its writers and producers. Offer’s film is the equivalent of a war crime, devoid of everything but boring pain. Luckily, due to its aforementioned Rotten Tomatoes score and absolutely disasterous box office results last weekend, it’s already being pulled from theaters only a week after release.

As Shaffir tries to catch a Jewish person with a dollar under a propped crate at the end of the film, a woman tells him, “I feel sorry for you.

You’re pathetic.”

So is “InAPPropriate Comedy.”

Joseph.O’Leary@UConn.edu

Chance to unwind with therapy dogs

By Meagan Kelleher Campus Correspondent Therapy dogs and their owners visited the Rainbow Center Monday to provide students with a way to unwind and de-stress.

“The dogs help students to relax, become less stressed, and feel less home sick,” said Jenn Donnelly, the health and wellness chair for the Rainbow Center and the coordinator for the event. Over 30 students attended, according to Donnelly.

This is the second time that the Rainbow Center, located in the Student Union, Room 403, had therapy dogs visit.

The dogs and their owners are a part of Tails of Joy, a pet therapy group in Connecticut. They can be found at other events on and off campus such as Special Olympics, dorm visits, nursing homes, hospitals and even at the Homer D. Babbidge Library.

Laurel Rabschutz, who teaches introduction to the Human/Animal Bond First Year

Experience course at UConn was excited to get her dogs Dooley and Iggy involved. She thinks it’s a great way to help people relax and enjoy the dogs company.

“I chose to come mostly because I like dogs,” said Glenn Murphy, a 2nd-semester electrical engineering major. “There is something that is so healing about being around the dogs, it’s pretty great.”

This event helped bring students into the Rainbow Center that normally wouldn’t, because they are shy or feel intimidated, said

Stephanie Lumbra, a 6th-semester biology major.

The Rainbow Center’s goal is to help the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and allied communities, and to provide resources and services for all students, faculty, staff and local residents. They also want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to learn, work and grow in a supportive and safe environment.

Meagan.Kelleher@UConn.edu

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Elizabeth Crowley, Editor-in-Chief Tyler McCarthy, Commentary Editor Jesse Rifkin, Associate Commentary Editor Chris Kempf, Weekly Columnist John Nitowski, Weekly Columnist Sam Tracy, Weekly Columnist

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Universities should not be able to blanket drug test students

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federal judge blocked efforts by a central Missouri technical college to drug test all of its students in response to an effort by the American Civil Liberties Union that challenged the policy as unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey in Jefferson City granted a preliminary injunction that temporarily prevents Linn State Technical College from screening all first-year students and some returning students for 11 kinds of drugs including cocaine, methamphetamines and oxycodone. They are also banned from reporting the results of tests from September 2010, when the program began, when the school gave urine tests to 500 students. The ACLU and the American Civil Liberties Union are doing their best to put a stop to the idea that a university can drug test its students, forcing them to pass or else there will be consequences affecting the future of their education.

While drugs are illegal and a university should discourage drug use, there is a fine line between discouraging it and taking on the role of police when their priority should be education. Currently the school is making the reasonable argument that they should be allowed to drug test students who wish to enroll in programs that let them do things like operate heavy machinery.

Linn State Technical College, although small and insignificant in terms of policy changes or setting precedent for other major universities, brings up an important issue in the line between what a university has the right to police and what it does not. This was a clear violation of the students’ 4th Amendment rights with regard to unlawful search and seizure.

When schools try and hold students’ education hostage for things like this, it is important to recognize when a boundary has been crossed and where it needs to stop.

It is unfair to put students who are drug free through such an invasive test if they wish to peruse a higher education, particularly during a time when a college degree is such a necessary investment for the future of our nation. Furthermore, if a student is using drugs and it is not affecting his or her performance in school, what place does the university have to try and bust that person for their drug use? Other than the fact that drugs are illegal. While it may sound like the university is doing a public service by weeding out all drug users from the school, however, a college institution has no right to suddenly play vigilante and find law-breaking students.

It is important for students to know their rights. Too often a school can demand something of its students for threat of having a negative impact on the future of their education. This is not something that can be allowed, education is far too important. In the case of Linn State Technical College, the students did their part to exercise their rights and should be thoroughly commended for it.

The Daily Campus editorial is the official opinion of the newspaper and its editorial board. Commentary columns express opinions held solely by the author and do not in any way reflect the official opinion of The Daily Campus.

I am thinking it’s a sign that the freckles in our eyes are not orange, because orange is a stupid color.

Buffalo chicken is not overrated. It may be underrated?

I can handle the stress of taking exams, but I’m not sure I can take the stress of missing my cat sometimes.

What did I do over Spring Break? Wouldn’t you like to know?

The former Big East is really impressive in the NCAA tournament.

That was a joke, you know I was kidding, right?

Spice Girls reunion, please.

I like Amanda Bynes now that she’s crazy and might be hiding dead animal carcasses in her car. That’s totally something microdermal piercing Amanda Bynes would do, right?

Lana Del Rey’s lip injections are out of control and unrealistic and I personally would not have it any other way.

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A preemptive eulogy of the Postal Service

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hether you trust in it or fear it, it is an uncontested fact that we are ruled by a big government, vast both in terms of the multitude of public and private interactions between citizens it affects every day and in terms of the military and economic power it can bring to bear on the world stage.

Since the economic turmoil of the Great Depression provoked the concerted statebuilding project known as the New Deal so as to prevent the untimely demise of American capitalism, the United States Government has ballooned in size and scope despite recent efforts to curtail its growth. But much of that growth has come as a matter of necessity – a nation of 300 million people, producing some 15 triBy Chris Kempf lion dollars’ worth Weekly Columnist of gross national product each year and traveling and transacting around the globe, requires a large bureaucratic state to regulate it.

However, one segment of government – the postal service – seems destined to wither away in spite of the United States’ economic and demographic growth. One hundred years ago, in the days before welfare, Social Security, Medicare and the federal income tax, the average American civilian’s only contact with the Federal Government came through the mail. The Postal Service, established in 1792 through the Constitution’s grant of authority to Congress to “establish post offices and post roads,” sustained and reinforced the nation’s burgeoning Westward development by enabling the fast and inexpensive communication between geographically distant communities. It epitomized the pre-New Deal laissez-faire state approach to economic development which, at the time, was still viable.

But recent years have witnessed the decline in mail volume sent through the USPS as the price of spatial transfer of information transfer through the Internet has fallen to near zero and as private competitors have encroached upon the USPS’ market share.

As a business, it has demonstrated a chronic

failure to earn profit – each fiscal quarter, the Postal Service loses almost four billion dollars. Declining revenue can no longer keep pace with skyrocketing labor and pension costs. Within the past several years, the USPS has announced plans to close thousands of post offices, sell off its real estate in hundreds of communities across the country and suspend delivery of mail on Saturdays, all in a vain effort to forestall its eventual insolvency. In a budget-conscious political environment, the privatization of the postal service seems inevitably to be the only sensible solution to its budgetary malaise.

The USPS must be surrendered to the profitimperative of the market in due time.

Every taxpayer currently covers the high and everincreasing costs of maintenance of an Industrial Age communication system, knowing full well that all of his communication needs can largely be satisfied more quickly, easily and efficiently because of the Internet. I find it foolish to demand that the Postal Service be kept on government lifesupport indefinitely, though the motives for making such a demand may be noble. But if we are to bid farewell to it, it deserves an expression of our gratitude for its role in American society and culture.

The mail encouraged people to communicate with others more subtly and meaningfully than does the Internet. An epistolary culture values the transcendence of human understanding far more than the mere transfer of data from point A to point B.

“Our democracy and civil society owes a substantial debt to the Postal Service, which bound the nation together by its assurance that no customer or community would go unserved.

» LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

A pleasant email To the Editor:

I received an email the other day and appreciated it so much that I felt compelled to share it with the campus.

A library employee authored it. She said: “I write to let you know how remarkable members of our student body can be when we least expect it.”

She said that on her walk

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The fact that almost every town, village and hamlet within the American landscape acquired a ZIP code and a post office reflects the underlying and irrepressible democratic sentiment of the country. The Postal Service served every community regardless of size, wealth or distance. One could even mail letters to a family member and to the President at exactly the same cost.

The postal service employed millions of workers to not only deliver the mail, but to go out into America’s communities to ensure the inclusion of everyone with a street address or a P.O. Box in a national social network.

America’s postal workers represented a human face for the Federal Government.

In our collective popular imagination, they were not soulless, unresponsive bureaucrats, but rather industrious men and women who strove to serve their communities as best they could, undeterred by snow, rain, heat or gloom of night.

Our democracy and civil society owes a substantial debt to the Postal Service, which bound the nation together by its assurance that no customer or community would go unserved. If economics dictates that it must pass away from the public sphere to the private, as I believe it does, I would like to offer our Postal Service my most sincere thanks for what it has done for our country while it can still receive them.

to work at the Dodd Center that morning, she saw three students standing next to a man who was lying on the ground, having fallen. She said she walked over to see if she could help and learned that the students had called 911 and were consoling the injured man, being careful

Weekly Columnist Chris Kempf is a 6th-semester political science major. He can be reached at Christopher.Kempf@UConn.edu.

not to move him. When the ambulance arrived, she wrote that the students rushed to flag it down and waited while the EMTs checked the man’s vitals and lifted him into the ambulance.

She wrote: “These students acted calmly and responsibly, and ought to be commended for their swift response. I am sure students respond this way every day here on campus, but it is rare to see it or report it.

At that moment I was proud of them. I thought you should know.”

I’m always happy to receive emails like this; it underscores that we are a campus of care and compassion - not to mention quick thinking.

Sincerely, Susan Herbst President of the University of Connecticut

“P resident O bama filled out his NCAA bracket . H e picked I ndiana , it L ouisville , F lorida , and O hio S tate to reach the F inal F our . H e had I ndiana to win , but R epublicans in the H ouse blocked that .”

–J immy K immel

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Friday, March 29, 2013

No valid legal arguments for Defense of Marriage Act

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nless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably heard about the Supreme Court hearings that took place earlier this week. The court is reviewing the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8 in California, laws which

By Kristi Allen restrict same Staff Columnist sex marriage.

DOMA prohibits legally married same sex couples from receiving federal benefits and Proposition 8 asserts that there is no constitutional right to same sex marriage and that states have the right to ban it. There’s already been a lot of speculation as to what the rulings on these historic cases will be, and it’s highly possible that the courts will not rule in favor of marriage equality. After reading the court briefing provided by the proponents of these laws (the defendant), I will be appalled if they are upheld. The arguments presented opposing same sex marriage are ignorant and absurd.

While I do not have the space for every ridiculous claim made in the amicus brief, I’d like to address some of worst ones.

1. “In Enacting DOMA, Congress ensured that the federal government and every state would have the right to define marriage for itself.” This is the very first sentence of their amicus, and it completely contradicts itself. DOMA restricts the definition of marriage at a federal level, which means the states will only have the right to define marriage for themselves up to a certain point. If the federal government has the right to deny the benefits that come along with marriage, then the states only have the power to confer an empty title.

2. “In DOMA, Congress rationally chose to have a uniform federal rule that treated all same sex couples the same, without regard to whether their state of residence recognizes same sex marriage, civil unions or other domestic partnerships.” That is exactly what’s wrong with it. It uniformly rules that same sex marriage doesn’t

count as marriage as far as the federal government is concerned.

It does so “without regard” to the state’s wishes. If the federal government is concerned with uniformity, why not give everyone equal rights?

3. “Congress likewise was rationally concerned with avoiding the uncertain and likely negative fiscal impact of redefining marriage.” DOMA allows the federal government the ability to decide to withhold rights based whether or not it wants to pay for them.

Apparently the individual rights of gays and lesbians are worth less than the comparatively nominal amount of money it would take to grant them.

4. “There is no dispute that, unlike opposite sex relationships, same sex relationships do not have a propensity to produce children without advance planning, or that marriage creates a beneficial social structure for responsible procreation and childrearing. Those concessions are enough to give Congress a rational basis to treat

same sex and opposite sex couples differently.” This is a big one. In one sentence, the defendant claims that by restricting same sex marriage, the U.S. government is using the personal lives of its citizens to further its own interests, and that it has a right to do that. Children and stable families are good reasons for the federal government to allow straight marriage, but it does not give them any reason at all to prohibit same sex marriage. Even if the government has a ‘rational basis’ to treat some of its citizens differently, it does not have the right to do so, especially when that “rational basis” is that it will benefit the government at the expense of the people.

The ‘rational basis’ is also completely irrational. Babies will continue to be born in and out of wedlock, regardless of their usefulness to the U.S. government. The idea that the country is badly in need of population growth is ridiculous and unprecedented. Even if it weren’t, this argument would be illogical because whether or not gays and

lesbians can get married has no effect whatsoever on how many babies will be born. Asserting that it does demonstrates a level of understanding of the subject that can only be described as extremely ignorant.

Furthermore, if the defendant claims that children are best raised by married parents, wouldn’t allowing same sex marriages further that interest? Not every child has the opportunity to be raised by his or her biological parents.

There’s no reason they should be denied the opportunity to be raised by married parents.

5. “Alleged ‘Animus’ Cannot Invalidate a Statute such as DOMA.” A law can be overturned if it was passed because of animus, or prejudiced and discriminating reasons. It should be obvious that DOMA is a classic example of this, but the defendants assert that the law’s purpose is to provide a uniform federal definition of marriage among differing state definitions.

This argument is undermined by the fact that every state employed

the traditional definition of marriage at the time of it’s passing, not to mention the fact that it’s called “the defense of marriage act.”

6. “The federal government preserved its ability to adopt the majority rule as its own.” If it were to uphold DOMA, the government would exercise its ability to ignore majority rule. At the time of DOMA’s passing these were minority opinions, but now more than half the population supports marriage equality. It is time the government does too.

The defendant concludes by saying “a constitutional right to same sex marriage could be achieved only by marginalizing as bigoted at worst or irrational at best, the ‘profound and deep convictions’ of those who disagree.” I couldn’t have summed up my hopes for the outcome of this case any better myself.

Staff Columnist Kristi Allen is a 2ndsemester journalism major. She can be reached at Kristi.Allen@UConn.edu.

Morally repugnant Chick-fil-A unwelcome in Connecticut

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hick-fil-A; the perfect restaurant for heterosexual conservatives to indulge their gluttony for greasy chicken. What makes them think that they can come to a blue state like Connecticut?

We already have a plethora of fine fast food chicken

By Chynna Davis restaurants Staff Columnist such as KFC and Popeyes who don’t discriminate against any type of demographic, why do we need another restaurant that does discriminate against the likes of homosexuals?

The answer is: We don’t.

Chick-fil-A coming to Connecticut is only going to cause a bunch of tension, bad feelings

and protests.

Chick-fil-A Chief Operating Officer Dan T. Cathy claims that his corporation is not a Christian corporation because “there is no such thing as a Christian business. We can operate on biblical principles. So that is what we claim to be. We ask God to give us wisdom on decisions we make about people and the programs and partnerships we have. And He has blessed us.”

It is a free country, but Chickfil-A coming to Connecticut would be a bad business move for them being that gay marriage is strongly present and celebrated in the state of Connecticut.

I mean, I’ve eaten Chick-fil-A once before and I have to say that it was pretty tasty. Unfortunately, the aftertaste of religious bigotry

and outdated morals left my stomach uneasy.

Chick-fil-A claims that they are an equal opportunity employer, yet they won’t hire anyone who is gay. Now unless the definition of ‘equal’ has dramatically changed overnight, that doesn’t seem very equal to me.

Chick-fil-A put an advertisement out on fliers towards the holiday season last year that read, “Only A Fruitcake Wouldn’t Love Our Party Trays!”.

I can’t even believe something as rude and hateful as that would even make it through the whole filtering process and to actually print and be distributed at Chick-fil-A restaurants around the world.

Chick-fil-A then released a statement apologizing saying, “It was simply a play on words refer-

ring to the traditional holiday food, and the restaurant had no intention of offending anyone whatsoever.

We regret the flier may have been taken out of context.”

They knew exactly what they were doing since that advertisement went through the hands and eyes that made it become possible, and it to exposed the true underlying motives of the company. An ad like that does not make it to print unless the company wants it to. They intended to put it out and they probably had that “apology” all set and ready to be sent out at the same time.

Chick-fil-A has also been a continuous giver in donating money to anti-gay advertisements and antigay marriage advocate groups. In a fairly recent article posted by the Huffington Post, it was said that

Chick-fil-A has “ceased donations to right-wing groups that oppose same-sex marriage.”

Now Chick-fil-A might be trying to show that they are trying to start anew, but it’s sad that it took so much opposition and constant complaints from thousands for them to actually try and change their ways. The fact that a company in the food industry is putting so much effort, energy and money in trying to suppress a group of people instead of putting it into things that actually matter shows that they’re in the wrong business and they probably won’t last much longer. Putting out quality food should be their number one priority, not who is eating it.

Chick-fil-A could be putting the money that they’re wasting on pointless anti-gay advertisements

on things like paying their employees more, offering employee benefits, or supporting local organic farmers by buying organic vegetables and meat. But those are things that an exceptional fast food restaurants would do, not a subpar chicken joint like Chick-fil-A. They could do so much better.

Would you want to eat at an establishment that puts their antigay agenda above the quality of food that you are eating? Be a conscientious consumer and put your money where your morals are.

Staff Columnist Chynna Davis is a 9th-semester journalism and photography major. She can be reached at Chynna.Davis@UConn.edu.

» TOTALLY RAD/TOTALLY BAD

Some ref, some day, needs to eject Brittney Griner for being too damn physical

Putting up with Jim Boeheim’s face

Totally bad

It’s warming up.

A block by Dikembe Mutombo.

Videos of Chuck Okwandu.

Totally saw it coming

Totally rad

What props were involved in your greatest April Fool’s Prank?

– By Santiago Pelaez

“Firecrackers.”

“Shaving cream and a feather.”

“Plastic Easter egg and egg whites.”

“Mayonnaise and a shampoo bottle.”

Dylan Sweeney, 2nd-semester civil engineering major

Christina Takos, 2nd-semester biology major

Cameren McGinn, 6th-semester political science major

Jasmine Johnson, 2nd-semester communications major

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» TRACK AND FIELD

Huskies open their outdoor season

By Spencer Oakes Campus Correspondent The UConn Women’s Track and Field team is set to open the 2013 outdoor season at the Raleigh Relay’s in Raleigh, NC this weekend. The team is coming off an extremely successful indoor season in which UConn finished second in the Big East Championships and first place in both the New England Championships and the ECAC Championships. The Huskies also had five athletes be named All-American, with Lindsay Crevoiserat taking home two All-American honors.

UConn will once again be led by All-American senior thrower Victoria Flowers.

Flowers ended the indoor season on a tear, finishing first in the BIG EAST, New England, and ECAC Championships

in the weight throw. She finished tenth in the NCAA Championships.

The distance runners come into the outdoor season with high expectations, after placing 12th in the NCAA championships in the Distance Medley Relay. Crevoiserat, only a sophomore, will look to improve on her 13th place finish at the NCAA’s in the 3,000m run.

The Huskies will look to continue their success at the Raleigh Relay’s, in which they claimed four first place finishes last season. The event showcases many of the top teams in the nation, including Tennessee, North Carolina, North Carolina State, and Clemson to name a few. The meet will begin at today and run until Saturday.

Spencer.Oakes@UConn.edu

» WOMEN'S TENNIS

'Cuse up next for UConn

By Carmen Beatriz Angueira Campus Correspondent After going 3-1 during spring break in Orlando, Fla., the UConn women’s tennis team will resume Big East play against Syracuse University today at the University of Connecticut Tennis Courts.

The Huskies went to Florida last week to play four nonconference matches. UConn defeated Southeastern University (5-0), EmbryRiddle (5-2) and WisconsinGreen Bay (5-2), but dropped their opening match against Minnesota 6-1.

With their performance in Florida, the Huskeis improved to 4-7 this season.

Syracuse is currently 8-6 this

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season. Thus far, the Orange have been successful with their record in both singles and doubles, yet their strongest point seems to be their top three doubles tandems. The doubles teams have consistently obtained 8-0 and 8-2 wins throughout the season. The Orange defeated Navy, West Virginia, Binghamton, Pittsburg, DePaul, Seton Hall, Providence and Army. Syracuse dropped their season opener to USC, later falling to USF, Georgia Tech, Georgia State, Boston College, Illinois and Princeton.

In their last match Syracuse defeated Army 7-0 for the second consecutive year.

Today’s match is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.

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Danny Granger to have surgery

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Danny Granger's season is ending the same way it began in Indiana - with a sore left knee that will require more medical treatment.

The team announced Thursday that Granger would miss the rest of the season so he could undergo surgery on the bothersome knee that has slowed him since last year's playoffs. ''He's at peace with it,'' Pacers coach Frank Vogel said in Dallas before a game against the Mavericks. ''He's disappointed, but you have to make the best decision.''

The move comes just two days after Vogel told reporters he expected Granger to return during the current four-game road trip. ''These games will be sort of his rehab assignments and we're going to manage it

the way we did before, with 15 or 20 minutes per game,'' Vogel told reporters after Tuesday's practice.

But instead of getting Granger back, the former All-Star consulted with the team's medical staff and Dr. James Andrews, the noted sports physician. Together they decided that after spending most of the season treating the injury conservatively, surgery was now the best remaining option.

Granger sat out the entire first half of the season with patellar tendinosis after undergoing a second injection to treat the injury in October. He returned for five games in February, coming off the bench each time and averaging 5.4 points, before the knee flared up again. He hasn't played since and Vogel knew time was running short for

Marquette marches on with 71-61 win WASHINGTON (AP) -Vander Blue's buzzer-beater came at the end of the first half.

For a change, Marquette didn't need one at the end of the game.

After sweating through a pair of edge-of-your-seat comebacks in the NCAA tournament, Blue and the Golden Eagles figured out how to put one away early, earning Marquette's first trip to the Elite Eight since 2003 with a 71-61 win over Miami on Thursday night.

Blue, who spurred the rallies that beat Davidson by one and Butler by two, finished with 14 points. He wasn't Marquette's leading scorer - that was Jamil Wilson with 16 - but it was Blue's offensive and defensive energy that pushed the Golden Eagles to a double-digit lead in the first half, a spread Miami never came close to making up. ''It's amazing, man,'' Blue said in a postgame television interview. ''Everybody said this team wasn't any good.''

The third-seeded Golden Eagles (26-8) will face either top-seeded Indiana or No. 4 seed Syracuse in the East Regional final on Saturday, aiming for a spot in the Final Foul for the first time since Dwyane Wade took them there a decade ago.

Wade, the Miami Heat star, tweeted congratulations to coach Jim Larranaga and the Hurricanes - as well as his alma mater.

''Congrts on an amazing season for coach L and the canes... after 3 tries in the sweet 16 we finally figured it out. Congrts,'' he posted.

Marquette was knocked out in the round of 16 the past two years.

The game wasn't hard to decipher. Marquette could shoot; Miami couldn't. The Hurricanes (29-7) had sentiment on their side, returning to the arena where Larranaga led mid-major George Mason to the Final Four seven years ago, but they made only 35 percent of their field goals and missed 18 of 26 3-pointers. ''We just shot the ball so poorly,'' Larranaga said, also lamenting some injuries that hindered his team's preparation this week. ''When you can't put the ball in the basket, you really have a hard time staying with a team like Marquette.''

Marquette, meanwhile, shot 54 percent, a stark turnaround from its 38 percent rate from the first two games in the tournament. Davante Gardner added 14 points, with 12 coming in the second half when the Golden Eagles were comfortably ahead.

Shane Larkin scored 14 points to lead the No. 2 seed Hurricanes, whose NCAA run to the round of 16 matched the best in school history.

Blue missed his first two shots - pining for a foul after

» COLLEGE SPORTS

SE La. finds 137 ineligible athletes

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- An internal investigation at Southeastern Louisiana has revealed that 137 ineligible athletes competed for the Lions in unspecified sports between 2005 and 2010.

In a statement released Thursday, Southeastern, which is located in Hammond, La., said most violations occurred between 2005 and 2007 and involved instances in which the university failed to comply with NCAA academic requirements by mistakenly certifying athletes as eligible. ''In many instances, student-athletes would have been eligible had proper procedure been followed, such as timely declaration or change of a major,'' Southeastern athletic director Bart Bellairs said.

The report stressed there was no evidence Southeastern recruited athletes who weren't in good academic standing, noting that 86 percent of the athletes in question graduated.

The university says it will impose penalties such as reducing scholarships, vacating victories and imposing a two-

Doug Gottlieb apologizes NEW YORK (AP) -- CBS analyst Doug Gottlieb got coverage of the NCAA tournament's Sweet 16 off to an awkward start, saying he was there to bring the ''white man's perspective'' to the network's pregame show.

Speaking on a panel with four African-American men, Gottlieb made his comment Thursday during a pre-game segment before Marquette faced Miami, sparking criticism on Twitter that it was inappropriate. ''I don't know why you guys ask me, I'm just here to bring diversity to this set, give kind of the white man's perspective,'' he said during the show.

Fellow analyst Greg Anthony made a face after Gottlieb's remark and Kenny Smith said he had ''jumped right into it.''

Gottlieb was still on set Thursday night and unavailable for comment, but issued a statement through CBS.

Granger to make a significant contribution in the playoffs. ''We know we can win without Danny in the lineup,'' Indiana forward Paul George said. ''As much as we do want Danny back, our mindset is still to prepare to win in the playoffs.''

The Pacers say Granger should be healthy for the start of training camp.

Indiana will now continue the bid for its first Central Division title without its top scorer over each of the previous five seasons. Without him, the Pacers (45-27) have built a five-game lead over Chicago in the division chase and are just percentage points behind the New York Knicks in the race for the Eastern Conference's No. 2 seed.

year probationary period on itself while awaiting the NCAA's review of the case.

However, it remained unclear which specific sports would be affected.

Southeastern spokesman Rene Abadie says the university, which is a public institution, isn't releasing which sports were involved in the violations at this time and said he could not discuss why that information was being withheld from the public. By contrast, when LSU conducted an investigation of improper contact between an assistant football coach and player in 2009, the university specified the sport involved and the sanctions it was imposing on itself pending the NCAA's review.

Southeastern competes in Division I, and its football team is in the Football Championship Subdivision. The Lions are affiliated with the Southland Conference.

Its men's basketball team hasn't competed in the NCAA tournament since the 200405 season, the last season before the period covered by the probe.

Southeastern's statement said none of the compliance personnel who committed

certification errors remain at Southeastern, and that none of the athletes in question are still enrolled. ''It is regrettable that current studentathletes, coaches and programs will suffer penalties as a result of these infractions,'' Bellairs said, ''but I am completely confident the systems we have in place currently will help avoid these issues from recurring.''

Bellairs said Southeastern has made numerous changes to correct problems with its certification process. The university appointed an assistant to the president for athletics compliance and a new compliance coordinator. It is also using new computer software which makes it easier to monitor athletes' courses and credits.

The university also strengthened oversight by officials outside of athletics, and added eligibility training for coaches and staff. ''We have completely redesigned the eligibility certification process to include much greater participation and oversight outside of the athletic department,'' Bellairs said.

throwing up a clumsy airball on a baseline drive - but he got on the board when he picked off a pass and converted the steal into a one-handed jam to give Marquette an 8-4 lead.

That got him going. A running one-hander made it 12-4. Blue and Junior Cadougan forced a steal, getting Larkin to commit his second foul in the process.

The next time Blue missed, Trent Lockett was there to dunk the rebound and put the Golden Eagles up by nine.

Meanwhile, the Hurricanes couldn't sink a shot, from inside or out. Raphael Akpejiori flung a hook that hit so high off the backboard that it looked better suited for a setup toss in a dunk contest. Miami started 2 for 12, including 0 for 6 from 3-point range, and Larkin's 3-pointer more than 11 minutes into the game was the first Hurricanes field goal scored by anyone other than Kenny Kadji.

Even when the Hurricanes ran a play perfectly, the shot wouldn't fall. Trey McKinney Jones had a nice screen set for

him in the final minute of the first half, but his open 15-footer rattled in and out.

Jones' miss set the stage for Blue to end the half with an exclamation point. He hit a stepback 15-footer just before the horn to give Marquette a 29-16 lead at the break. He drained the shot, strutted backward downcourt, cocked his right arm and gave Wilson a chest bump as the Golden Eagles headed to the locker room well in control.

Miami shot 21 percent (6 for 29) in the half, and just 9 percent (1 for 11) from beyond the arc.

Blue's basket with 10:03 to play gave Marquette a 51-30 lead. The Hurricanes, who by then had started to press full court, then put together their best sequence of the night, a 7-0 run that cut the lead to 14 with 8 1/2 minutes left.

But Wilson's dunk and Gardner's inside basket stretched the lead back to 18. Gardner became the scene-stealer in the closing minutes, thumping his chest to the Marquette fans after a dunk in the final four minutes.

» GOLF

Huskies travel to Florida

By Scott Bernier Campus Correspondent Wrapping up a busy March, the UConn golf team will travel to Lake Worth, Fla. to compete in the Florida Atlantic University Spring Break Championship, which will be played Friday through Sunday at The Fountains Country Club.

The 16-team tournament will be a great tune-up for this young squad as they reach the home stretch of the spring schedule.

Other schools competing alongside UConn and host Florida Atlantic University this weekend will be Hartford, DePaul, Central Florida, Bethune-Cookman, Jacksonville Stte, Loyola-Chicago, Marshall, McNeese State, Miami (Ohio), Morehead State, Murray State, Northern Illinois and Florida Gulf Coast University. Last year at this event the Huskies finished tied for 11th, shooting an aggregate score of 880, missing the top-10 by four shots. This year the team is poised to finally obtain a coveted

top finish through promising performances in the first three tournaments of 2013.

The youth movement on this roster has become rather apparent, lead by another outstanding performance from freshman Zach Zaback two weekends ago, culminating with a 2-under par (70) final round score, the first under-par round of the season for the Huskies.

Zaback’s impressive freshman season sees him near the top of the team’s statistical rankings in several categories, including a 4.99 stroke average on par 5 holes, and he is hitting the fairway on about 60 percent of his tee shots.

Other solid performances have come from plenty of other new faces, including sophomore Chris Wiatr and fellow freshmen John Flaherty and Stephen Pastore.

Junior captain Mike Masso will also look to put together a solid round of 54-holes this weekend and really make a push to climb up the standings.

Scott.Bernier@UConn.edu

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What's Next Home game

Away game

Saturday NCAA Tournament Bridgeport Regional Semifinals Maryland 2:30

Baseball (14-9) April 1 Quinnipiac 3 p.m.

April 2 Boston College 3 p.m.

April 3 Yale 3:30 p.m.

April 5 St. John’s 3 p.m.

March 30 Rutgers Noon

April 2 UMass 4 p.m.

April 3 Boston University 4 p.m.

April 12 Cincinnati 3 p.m.

April 14 Louisville Noon

April 19 Marquette 7 p.m.

Softball (11-10) Today Rutgers 1 p.m.

March 29 Rutgers 3 p.m.

Lacrosse (6-1) April 5 Rutgers 3 p.m.

April 7 Villanova 1 p.m.

Men’s Tennis (3-6) April 2 Bryant 3 p.m.

April 10 April 12 April 16 Southern New Boston Big East Hampshire University Championships 3 p.m.

3 p.m.

TBA

April 6 Villanova Noon

Women’s Tennis (4-8) Today Syracuse 10 a.m.

April 3 Providence 3 p.m.

April 6 Villanova Noon

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The number of consecutive Sweet Sixteens the UConn women’s basketball team has made.

» That’s what he said

Ex ‘Cuse coach sues ESPN

“We will bring him up when he is ready. No immediate need will impact that.”

Women’s Basketball (31-4)

Tomorrow Seton Hall 1 p.m.

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Men’s Track and Field Tomorrow UConn Spring Invite 12:30 p.m.

Women’s Track and Field Today Raleigh Relays All Day

Men’s Swimming & Diving Today NCAA Championship All Day

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- Fired Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine has filed the initial paperwork in a defaAP - Mets’ General Manager Sandy Alderson on the status of mation lawsuit against ESPN for reporting two Johan Santana former ball boys’ claims that the longtime coach pitcher Johan Santana sexually abused them.

A yearlong federal investigation that followed accusations that Fine abused team ball boys ended with no charges. Fine was Hall of Fame Coach Jim Boeheim’s assistant for 35 seasons.

ESPN reported the allegations on Nov. 17, 2011. Fine was fired 10 days later when a third man made similar claims.

In the court paperwork, Fine indicates he’ll sue for defamation and seek undefined damages. The ‘’summons with notice’’ was filed Nov. 15, 2012, in state Supreme Court in Onondaga County and sat unreported until Thursday, when The Associated Press asked the court clerk for a copy.

Fine’s Buffalo-based lawyer, Richard Sullivan, declined to comment Thursday. ESPN spokesman David Scott said the network doesn’t comment on pending litigation and stands by its reporting.

Hearst Corp. and The Walt Disney Co., which together own ESPN, are also named as codefendants along with reporter Mark Schwarz and producer Arthur Berko.

In the initial ESPN report, two former Syracuse ball boys, Bobby Davis and his stepbrother Michael Lang, came forward and accused the longtime assistant of fondling them when they were teens. Davis said the sexual contact continued for years.

ESPN said that Davis had come to them in 2003 but that his story couldn’t be corroborated then. When Lang also came forward, the network decided to air the story.

But the claims by Davis and Lang had happened too long ago to be prosecuted. Ten days later, a third man, 23-year-old Zachary Tomaselli, of Lewiston, Maine, went public with an accusation that Fine had molested him in 2002 in a hotel room when the team played in Pittsburgh. The same day, ESPN aired an audiotape in which Fine’s wife, Laurie Fine, apparently acknowledged to Davis she knew about the molestation he alleged.

Laurie Fine is also suing the sports network for defamation.

Bernie Fine, who has consistently denied the allegations, was fired Nov. 27, and the federal government began investigating Tomaselli’s claim, the only one that fell within the statute of limitations.

Boeheim at first angrily defended his assistant of 35 years and said the accusers were only out for money, seeking to cash in on the publicity generated by the Penn State scandal, in which former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was charged with and ultimately convicted of sexually abusing several boys.

Davis and Lang sued Boeheim and the university for defamation, but a judge dismissed AP the lawsuit, saying Boeheim’s defense of his Boston Red Sox’s David Ortiz takes batting practice prior to the Red Sox’s spring training baseball game against the Minnesota friend was clearly opinion.

» Pic of the day

Mhmm...just 15 days...

Twins in Fort Myers, Fla.

» NHL

Bruins GM thought he had made trade for Iginla

BOSTON (AP) -- The Boston Bruins lost to Pittsburgh in the competition for Jarome Iginla.

That should make it tougher for them to beat the already powerful Penguins in the playoffs.

It was a bitter battle to lose, of course. Especially considering Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli thought he already had the Calgary Flames’ all-time leading goal scorer in the fold.

A few hours later, Iginla was a Penguin.

Just like that. ‘’We believed we had a deal,’’ Chiarelli said, at about noon on Wednesday for the Flames’ captain and the top prize in the NHL trade market.

But Iginla had a no-trade clause which allowed him to choose his destination from teams that made offers. And shortly before midnight on Wednesday, Calgary general manager Jay Feaster called Chiarelli with the bad news: Iginla had chosen the Penguins and Sidney Crosby. ‘’It’s tough. I mean, we’re talking about a really good player,’’ Chiarelli said. ‘’This kind of stuff happens. It shouldn’t, but it does. The reality of no-movement and no-trade clauses, it’s going to

happen more. It’s a disappointment, but you get back on your horse and you go out there and find some more players.’’

He still has time to improve one of the NHL’s stingiest defensive teams but one that has struggled on offense.

The Bruins scored five goals Wednesday night against the Montreal Canadiens, but still lost 6-5 to drop from the second to the fourth spot in the Eastern Conference standings.

The Penguins hold the top spot, lead the league in goals and had won 13 straight games at the time of the trade. That deal followed two others in which they obtained forward Brenden Morrow from Dallas on Sunday and defenseman Doug Murray from San Jose on Monday.

So what does Chiarelli think of the Penguins now? ‘’Well, they’re a lock, right?’’ he said with a laugh. ‘’They’re a good team.’’

But so are the Bruins.

Chiarelli called them ‘’a serious contender’’ but said they must improve to become more competitive for a spot in the Stanley Cup finals two years after they won the NHL championship. ‘’You still have to be patient because, you know, you trust

in your players,’’ he said. ‘’They’re a good team. We have to be better in a number of areas, but we’re getting points, and we also know that the prize is after the regular season. We’re committed to fixing these things. ‘’I’m committed to trying to improve the team also.’’

He’d like to add a forward and a defenseman.

But the big catch got away when Iginla chose the Penguins.

Chiarelli said he talked with the Flames a couple of weeks ago about Iginla and there were further conversations between the teams. Feaster told him that the Bruins were on a list that Iginla, in the final year of his five-year contract, would agree to be traded to, he said.

A few days ago, the Bruins offered defenseman Matt Bartkowski and minorleague forward Alexander Khokhlachev for Iginla. The final offer also included a firstround draft choice. ‘’We were informed around noon (Wednesday) that we had the player,’’ Chiarelli said.

Feaster ‘’just had to talk to Jarome and his agent regarding the logistics of everything.

From that point on, there had been some discussions regarding Jarome taking some time,

not to decide, but to kind of let things soak in.’’

Chiarelli had ‘’no doubt’’ that the deal was done, ‘’but as time went on, the doubt started to grow.’’

Starting at around 5 p.m. there was ‘’radio silence’’ between the teams and the Flames didn’t return his calls, he said. ‘’I, obviously, in my experience, know that if things go silent it means that something is going screwy from your end.

And it was,’’ Chiarelli said. ‘’Later that night, around quarter to 12, I got a call from Jay saying that it was the player’s choice and he opted to go to Pittsburgh and we were out.’’

He said he had asked for permission to talk with Iginla earlier but was denied so he wasn’t able to offer a contract extension or convince him to come to Boston.

He didn’t blame Feaster, called him a ‘’gentleman’’ and said he didn’t think ‘’there was anything nefarious on Jay’s part.’’

Iginla said during a news conference on Thursday that ‘’when it comes down to the choice I had, one or the other, it’s really hard to pass up the opportunity to play on a team with Sid and (Evgeni) Malkin.’’

» INSIDE SPORTS TODAY

P.11: Former Syracuse assistant coach sues ESPN. / P.10: UConn golf heads to Florida. / P.10: Women’s track begins its outdoor season.

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» WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Huskies to face Terrapins in Sweet Sixteen

By Matt Stypulkoski Senior Staff Writer

Saturday, in its 20th straight Sweet 16 appearance, the UConn women’s basketball team will face a familiar opponent from earlier in the regular season; the fourth seeded Maryland Terrapins with a trip to the Elite Eight on the line.

The Huskies are coming off dominant 77-44 victory over Vanderbilt in the second round of the tournament. In that victory, UConn was led by the break out performance of freshman Breanna Stewart. The 6’4” center scored 14 total points and grabbed five rebounds in her first action of the NCAA Tournament after being sat out from the first game due to a calf injury.

“I just enjoyed being out there and being able to play,” said Stewart. “It’s been awhile since

» SOFTBALL

UConn looks to bounce back in N.J.

I’ve played a game personally. I think there were a little bit of nerves because it was the first tournament game for me, but I got comfortable pretty quickly.”

UConn is familiar with the Terrapins’ after defeating them 63-48 during the regular season back in December. The key to the Huskies victory on that night was shutting down the reigning ACC player of the year Alyssa Thomas.

Thomas committed eight of Maryland’s 26 turnovers against the Huskies in that loss. She was also held to just six points, while the forward has averaged 19 points a game this season. After that contest, Thomas said that the Huskies had not done anything differently from Maryland’s other opponents.

“They didn’t do anything that we haven’t seen all year,” said Thomas.

“It just came down to us not making shots.”

Maryland is coming off a recent 74-59 victory over fifth seeded Michigan State Spartans in their second round game of the NCAA Tournament. In that game Thomas could not be stopped by the Spartan defense as the 6’2” forward scored 28 of the Terrapins’ 74 points.

Junior guard Katie Rutan also had a solid performance scoring 18 points for Maryland.

In her last four games, Thomas has scored 28 points or more. In order for the Huskies to advance to the Elite Eight, they will need a find a way to limit the number of shots that Thomas takes.

The Huskies edge Maryland in just about every offensive category, especially from behind the arc.

UConn has a three-point field goal percentage of .376 compared to Maryland’s .342. Also the Huskies are 6th in the NCAA in threepoint field goals made, while the

Terrapins lag behind ranked 231st.

One category that Maryland’s tops UConn is rebound margin.

The Terps have a rebound margin of 14.3 percent, compared to the Huskies 11.6. However, UConn has had no problems on the boards in the tournament so far.

The Huskies outrebounded both of their early round opponents, Idaho and Vanderbilt.

A win would catapult the Huskies into their eighth straight Elite Eight appearance as the Huskies would face the winner the Kentucky/ Delaware game. But before that is decided UConn has their sights set on Maryland.

Tip-off between UConn and Maryland is scheduled for 2 p.m. at the sold out Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport.

Matthew.Stypulkoski@UConn.edu

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UConn center Stefanie Dolson drives to the lane during a game against Syracuse played at the XL Center in Hartford.

PIRATES TOP HUSKIES

Seton Hall tops UConn in double-header

By Danny Maher Senior Staff Writer

By Kyle Constable Staff Writer

to his name and another in the 4x800 relay, where he ran alongside his twin brother Alex, who has an individual IC4A title himself. Jake Waruch also has two individual Big East titles while Cody Unger, who missed the indoor season due to injury, has another.

“One athlete that everyone is excited about is Cody Unger, one of our senior captains and Big East javelin champion who returns from surgery and a redshirt year to see if he can win again in the Big East while getting to the NCAA,” head coach Gregory Roy said.

The UConn Spring Invite begins Saturday at noon with the javelin as the first scheduled event.

The UConn baseball team was swept in a doubleheader against the Seton Hall Pirates Thursday afternoon in South Orange, N.J. The Huskies dropped a heartbreaker 4-3 in 11 innings in the first game and got shutout 3-0 in the nightcap.

The losses move Connecticut to 14-9 overall and 2-3 in the Big East putting the Huskies eighth place in the conference behind a slew of Big East opponents including unbeaten Pittsburgh.

Freshman third baseman Vinny Siena singled to begin the second inning of the series opener, then took second on a fielding UConn 3 error, and freshman Bobby Seton Hall 4 Melley advanced to Viena over to third on a groundout.

Mar. 28 He scored the game’s first UConn 0 run when sophomore Jon Testani doubled down the Seton Hall 3 right field line. Seina went 3-for-5 and scored two runs.

Mar. 28 The Pirates tied the game in the fourth inning on a fielder’s choice. Seton Hall’s Sal Annunziata singled up the middle to score Zack Granite and to give Seton Hall a 2-1 edge.

Sophomore catcher Connor David stepped up to the plate with the bases loaded with one in the top of the seventh. He grounded out to shortstop but was able to push the tying run across the plate before Seton Hall killed the rally by getting senior Stanley Paul to fly out to center field.

The Pirates regained the lead in the bottom of the seventh on Alex Falconi’s RBI triple. The Huskies knotted the game at 3 runs apiece in their next at-bat when junior shortstop Tom Verdi stole third base and scored on a throwing error.

Seton Hall stranded a total of three base runners in the ninth and tenth innings but pinch hitter Zack Weigel singled to left field and pinch runner Derek Jenkins scored the game winning run in the 11th inning.

Junior lefty Anthony Marzi gave up three runs over 6.1 innings on 103 pitches and did not factor in the decision. Marzi also struck out seven and did not walk a single Pirate. The Berlin, Conn. native remains 1-4 in seven starts in 2013.

Senior Pat Butler pitched two scoreless innings out of the bullpen but the UConn offense could not find the winning run.

Star second baseman LJ Mazzilli went 0-for-5 and was a nonfactor in the first game.

Mazzilli and the Huskies could not get on track in the second game; Seton Hall (10-13, 2-3 in the Big East) grabbed a 2-0 lead and never let go.

Seton Hall’s Josh Prevost pitched 7.1 scoreless innings dominating UConn from start to finish.

UConn spoiled its best scoring opportunity in the eighth when Mazzilli walked and stole second, but Siena struck out, followed by a fielder choice to end the threat. The Pirates added an insurance run in the eighth and went on to win 3-0.

It was the first time the Huskies have been shutout all season.

Connecticut will play the final game of the series at Seton Hall on Saturday at 1 p.m. then the Huskies will return home for the home opener April 1 at 3 p.m. against in-state foe Quinnipiac.

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After a late-game rally in their home opener fell short Wednesday, the UConn softball team looks to bounce back in a three-game series against Rutgers in Piscataway, N.J. this weekend.

The Huskies (12-11 overall, 0-0 Big East) will take on the Scarlet Knights (16-11 overall, 1-2 Big East) in Connecticut’s first games of the Big East season. Both teams finished last year’s Big East season with 9-13 records, tied for seventh in the conference.

The two teams have not faced each other since the 2011 season.

The Huskies were victorious against the Scarlet Knights that year, winning two-of-three in Storrs.

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The Quinnipiac Bobcats came to Storrs on Wednesday and defeated UConn 4-3 in the first game of the season at Burrill Family Field. The Huskies tried to pull off a comeback, scoring two runs in the bottom of the seventh, but came up short. The three runs scored by the Bobcats in the first two innings of the game proved to be insurmountable for the Huskies.

UConn has struggled throughout the season to get settled early in games, which has cost them crucial runs at the outset.

Coach Karen Mullins said that they “can’t wait until the seventh inning to try and pull it out” in Big East games. She said that it would take a stronger sense of “urgency” going into games if they want to walk away with wins.

Mullins has set the bar for the season much higher than the No. 9 preseason Big East ranking, hoping to finish as “a top-five team in the conference.” One of the necessary steps to achieve that goal would be to take two out of three in weekend series, Mullins said, starting with the series at Rutgers.

Games will be played today at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. as well as Saturday at 12 p.m.

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UConn hosts invitational

By Nick Danforth Campus Correspondent The UConn men’s track and field team will return to action this weekend when they host the UConn Spring Invite. For the second straight week, it will be a nonscoring meet.

The squad opened up their outdoor season last week with a strong performance at the UCF Invite where they compiled 11 top-five finishes. This group of Huskies may be one of the best track teams to ever come through UConn. During indoor, they won the Big East, New England and IC4A titles in the same season for just the second time in program history. Utilizing a large

core of upperclassmen mixed with a few promising young runners, they will look to duplicate that success during the outdoor season.

One change that may help the team narrow their focus is the inclusion of elected team captains.

With 17 fourth or fifth year athletes on the team, the Huskies relied on a large group to provide leadership during the indoor season.

However, for the outdoor season, the Huskies have elected seniors Tim Bennatan, Alex Bennatan, Jake Waruch, Ben Waruch, Jesse Drinks and Cody Unger as team captains.

Not only are these six athletes considered to be great leaders but they have all had success at the highest level as well. Tim Bennatan has two individual Big East titles