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RUN OVER BY THE BULLS UConn sluggish, sloppy in final road game. SPORTS/ page 12 EDITORIAL: UCONN SHOULD HAVE MADE TUITION INCREASE REASONING TRANSPARENT More accountability should be shown to students. COMMENTARY/page 4 INSIDE NEWS: BILL WOULD POSTHUMOUSLY GRANT FREEDOM TO 14 NH SLAVES Legislators are considering the request after 233 years. NEWS/ page 2
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Thursday, March 7, 2013
‘Bigggggg Mike’ Manchester Community locked down captured in Iowa PoliceCollege officer accidentally shot while searching for gunman
By Kim L. Wilson News Editor
Michael Moses Tarpeh, the wanted man who refers to himself as Bigggggg Mike, was arrested in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Tuesday, according to a U.S. Marshal. Iowa convenience store and gas station clerk Beckie Hytrek facilitated the arrest after spotting Tarpeh driving away without paying for gas, according to a local Iowa news source, ketv. com. Hytrek wrote down his license plate number and called The Iowa State Patrol, who arrested him along Interstate 80 near Underwood. The patrol said he was driving a stolen car.
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Muchael Moses Tarpeh, also known as Bigggggg Mike, was arrested yesterday.
The UConn Police Department has warrants pending for Tarpeh’s arrest after
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A police officer was accidently shot in the foot Wednesday while searching Manchester Community College and Great Path Academy after a female student reported that she had seen a gunman on campus, according to The Hartford Courant. Great Path Academy, a high school located next to the college, and the community college were in lockdown for several hours on Wednesday while police searched the
premises for the reported gunman. The student described the gunman as a heavy-set man about 5’8’ to 5’10’, and wearing a red, short-sleeved shirt, but no one by that description was found. Police declared the campus secure six hours after the initial report was made, according to The Associated Press, but said they were still looking for the person the student described. The Courant reported that the officer was wounded in the foot during the search by the “accidental firing of a weapon.”
Students were alerted of a lockdown via text message around 1:30 p.m. after a student reported seeing a man with a gun on campus. No gunman was found, The Courant reported, and the lockdown that began around 2 p.m. was called off shortly after 7:30 p.m. State police said the investigation into the report was still under way Wednesday night. The college and high school will re-open tomorrow, according to The Courant.
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USG Senate seeks to smooth out funding issues By Jackie Wattles Staff Writer At the Undergraduate Student Government’s informal senate meeting Wednesday night, the senators continued discussions on how to smooth out the funding process this semester and suggested using the group’s biweekly caucus as a forum to go over funding legislation before it is brought to a vote. This semester, USG implemented a new process for allocating money from the “emergency fund” to on-campus organizations. The new system requires Tier II groups to draft a bill sponsored by two senators that is then put up to a vote in front of the senate. The past two senate sessions have seen lengthy debates, concerns about over-allocating and ideological divisions between senators about what types of activities USG should be funding. To save time at the formal Senate meetings, the senators agreed to use the informal meeting, which happens every other week opposite the formal meetings, to discuss the legislation and get an idea of how the Senate will act before it is put up to a vote. USG Senator Hailey Manfredi said, “We should at least know exactly how much money [the organization] is requesting beforehand. We should be able to talk about it objectively in caucus.”
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USG Senators gather to discuss their current funding process at an informal meeting on Wednesday night. Many of the Senators are noticing improvements to their system and meetings each week.
Currently, the emergency fund has about $3,896.30, compared to about $20,000 the fund held at the start of the spring semester. However, this fund can grow as money is returned to USG from groups that received funding previously and either did not use it all or had to cancel the event the funds were intended for. Additionally, USG Comptroller and presidential candidate Edward Courchaine, aid he is working to move
money from USG committees to the reserve fund to bolster it, though any amount over $200 will require Senate approval. However, a division remains between senators regarding whether or not the low number in the emergency fund is a sign of too much generosity and whether senators should be evaluating the requests objectively, or with consideration of the requests’ “merits.” Shiv Gandhi, the speaker of the USG Senate and can-
didate for USG President, echoed current USG President Stephen Petkis’s warning that the senators have to learn how to say “no.” “It’s our job to determine the merits [of the request] and allocate funds as we see fit,” Gandhi said at the informal meeting. “We can decide not to fund something. The money isn’t always going to be there.” USG Funding Board Chair John Giardina agreed, saying that it is important to consider
whether funding a request is an appropriate use of the emergency fund. “The first time around we saw a lot of things being funded that wouldn’t necessarily be classified as emergencies,” Giardina said. “The second week [we began] really looking at true emergencies, which shows the system can work. This fund is meant to cover the emergencies that groups weren’t able to anticipate for.” The new legislative funding system, which was largely unpopular among senators following its inaugural Senate session in early February, is gaining approval as the senators become accustomed to the process. “It’s definitely improving each week,” Courchaine said. “Anyone whose been working in the details of the process understands it would take a miracle to work perfectly the first time.” Gandhi, however, said there is a fundamental problem with the system. “We need comprehensive funding reform,” Gandhi said. “Even if we believe the system is sound, the people who rely on the system [for funding] may not. In which case, it’s our responsibility to reevaluate.” Gandhi said comprehensive funding reform would be a focus for his administration should he be elected USG president.
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‘SaVE’ would add to sexual violence protection at UConn By Loumarie Rodriguez Senior Staff Writer Deliberations are taking place in the U.S. Senate about the proposed Campus Sexual Violence Act (SaVE), which puts forward a new set of standards for the handling of sexual misconduct on college campuses across the U.S. If passed, it will require the disclosure of incidents of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking in annual campus crime reports. However, a number of strategies targeting sexual violence are already in place at UConn. With the passing of SaVE,
all colleges and universities will be required to provide students and employees access to various sources such as assistance from authorities, changes to hostile academic or work environments and restraining orders. UConn already provides a large list of resources and organizations ready to assist students and employees who have faced incidents of sexual violence on campus. The university currently provides an annual Security and Fire Safety reports that feature resources that students and employees can turn to in the event of sexual violence. Resources include phone numbers for mental health services,
information on how to file a report and security awareness programs. In addition to the protections currently in existence at UConn, SaVE will guarantee that the minimum coverage of procedures will be fair and prompt and will allow for a impartial investigation, carried out by trained officials. “I think the act will serve in an effective way to increase awareness, as well as a higher sense of security for women,” said Lisa Somma, an 8th-semester human development and family studies major. “Besides reported cases, I feel that there are many unreported cases of stalking, sexual
violence, et cetera, that women face in their college years, and it’s not fair for them to feel uncomfortable while attending college.” According to the 2011 Security Report, reported forcible sexual incidents decreased slightly compared to the previous year. In 2010 there were 12 incidents reported, in contrast to 2011, in which only eight incidents were reported. “Having this law in place it will serve as another reference we can go back to in the event of a similar occurrence [sexual violence],” said Jin Lin, a 6th-semester computer science major. Originally called the Campus
Sexual Violence Elimination Act, SaVE was authored by Sen. Bob Casey (D-Penn.) and Rep. Caroline Malony (D-N.Y.) in 2010. Many colleges and universities currently require that action be taken in reported cases of sexual violence, but do not have a prevention policy in place. “In a big university like UConn there is already a lot of awareness on campus safety,” said Kaitlyn Stanton, a 6thsemester resource economics major. “It can’t hurt to have this act in place, and I think it will greatly benefit our campus.”
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What’s on at UConn today... Veterans Job Fair 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. West Haven American Legion This fair is for military veterans, members of the armed forces on active duty, military spouses, and members of the National Guard who are seeking jobs.
Professional Development Conference 5 to 8:30 p.m. Alumni Center This conference will help CLAS sophomore and juniors fine tune their resumes and interview skills and learn how to market themselves to employers. Enrollment is $7 and includes free business cards. Registration is required.
HIV Testing 6 to 9 p.m. Student Union, 403 The Rainbow Center is offering free and confidential HIV tests. There are six spots available on a first-come, firstserved basis.
AETNA Celebration of Nonfiction 7 to 8 p.m. Dodd Center
Highly acclaimed author and poet Diane Ackerman will talk about her published works and experiences with creative writing. – VICTORIA SMEY
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HARTFORD (AP) — As Connecticut’s legislative leaders prepared Wednesday to begin their review of recommendations for new laws affecting gun violence, school safety and mental health care, a new Quinnipiac University poll showed strong public support for gun control measures favored by both parties in the General Assembly. Democratic and Republican leaders were scheduled to meet for the first time since three subcommittees forwarded their suggestions. They will use the recommendations in crafting legislation in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown. The Quinnipiac poll, released Wednesday, showed strong support for measures, including universal background checks, a gun offender registry and new permit requirements. In addition, the poll showed strong support for expansion of Connecticut’s assault weapons ban and a proposed ban on large capacity magazines, two key proposals backed by the legislature’s majority Democrats. “The Democrats have the upper hand here. The public is clearly on the side for gun control measures,” said Poll Director Douglas Schwartz, adding how the poll shows 68 percent support both an expanded assault weapons ban and a ban on magazines with more than 10 rounds.
Probe of Conn. man killed by train may take months
DARIEN (AP) — Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials say it could take months to finish investigating the death of an investment banker who was struck by a Metro-North train in Darien this week. Fifty-five-year-old Kevin Murphy of Darien was hit by a Manhattanbound train just after 6:30 a.m. Monday at the Noroton Heights station. The married father of five worked at the merchant banking firm Brooks, Houghton & Co. in Manhattan. MTA spokesman Aaron Donovan told the Hearst Connecticut Media Group that the investigation could take months and officials are still asking for the public’s help in determining why Murphy was on the tracks. Murphy had a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a master’s degree in finance and accounting from Northwestern University. He had three decades of experience in the financial sector.
Dog with chemical burns prompts Waterbury probe
WATERBURY (AP) — Waterbury police are investigating a possible animal abuse case after a young dog was found with suspected chemical burns. Animal control officers found the 6- to 7-month-old pit bull mix under a bush in an empty lot off Hopkins Street on Monday night, after receiving a call about an injured dog. Officials say it had bleeding flesh on its belly and hind legs. Police believe the dog named Precious may have had a case of mange and someone tried to treat it with chemicals that made the situation worse. Officers are treating the case as animal neglect and possible abuse. The dog didn’t have tags or an identity microchip. It’s being treated by veterinarians and will be brought to an animal rescue operation if the owner doesn’t claim it.
Town celebrates young boys slain by grandmother
NORTH STONINGTON (AP) — The two Connecticut boys killed by their grandmother in a murder-suicide last week were remembered at a service featuring a slideshow of pictures from their short lives. The Second Baptist Church in North Stonington was packed Tuesday with people who came to celebrate the lives of 2-year-old Alton Perry and 6-month-old Ashton Perry. Police say the boys’ grandmother, 47-year-old Debra Denison, shot and killed them on Feb. 26 with a revolver before turning the gun on herself. The Day of New London reports that the pews were packed and the walls were lined with people who couldn’t find a seat. Relatives performed country songs and the readings included stories of biblical figures who lost their children for a greater purpose.
Storm to bring heavy snow, strong winds to Conn.
HARTFORD (AP) — Weather forecasters expect New London County to be the hardest-hit part of Connecticut as a winter storm approaches with heavy snow and high winds. The National Weather Service says 6 to 10 inches of heavy, wet snow could fall in southeastern Connecticut Wednesday through Friday morning and wind gusts could hit 50 mph, bringing possible power outages. A winter storm warning is posted for New London County from 6 p.m. Wednesday to 1 p.m. Friday. Forecasters say Fairfield and New Haven counties could see 3 to 7 inches of snow, strong winds and coastal flooding with tides up to 3.5 feet above normal. The Weather Service says northeastern Connecticut could see 4 to 8 inches of snow and the Hartford area could get 3 to 6 inches of snow.
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Ads out of closet, into mainstream with gay themes, imagery NEW YORK (AP) — A new TV commercial features a goodlooking young woman on a beach vacation lounging next to a goodlooking young man. He bemoans the glare on his iPad and she fills him in on the Kindle Paperwhite’s sun-friendly screen. He clicks to buy one himself and suggests they celebrate with a drink. “My husband’s bringing me a drink right now,” chirps she. “So is mine,” smiles he as they turn and wave at their male loved ones sitting together at a tiki bar. Welcome to the latest in gay imagery in mainstream advertising, where LGBT people have been waiting for a larger helping of fairness, or at least something other than punchlines and cliches. While there are still plenty of those, something has happened in advertising over the last two or three years, nearly two decades after Ikea broke ground in the U.S. with a TV spot featuring a gay couple shopping for a dining room table — a spot that ran only once in New York and Washington, D.C., and was pulled after bomb threats to Ikea stores. Today, gay and lesbian parents and their kids are featured – along with pitchwoman Ellen DeGeneres – in J.C. Penney ads. Same-sex couples have their
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This video still shows an image from a Kindle Paperwhite commercial featuring a young woman on a beach vacation lounging next to a young man, waiting for their husbands, shown in the background at the bar.
own, advertised wedding registries at Macy’s and elsewhere and President Barack Obama offered his seal of approval by evolving into a supporter of gay marriage. Two happy young men sit together eating at a dining table, with wine and romantic candlelight, in a section of a Crate & Barrel catalog marked
“Us & Always.” And we made it through a Super Bowl without any gay jokes at commercial breaks — like the Snickers ad of several years ago featuring two men freaking out after kissing by accident while eating one of the candy bars. Traditionally lagging behind TV and film content in terms of
LGBT inclusion, advertisers in this country are facing considerably less trouble than they used to when taking on gay themes, observers said. Penney’s rebuffed critics and launched a lesbianfocused catalog ad for Mother’s Day that the company followed with a two-dads family — a real family — for Father’s Day.
soda. The prodding has sometimes included graphic ads, such as an online video of a man pouring himself a soda that turns into a glass of glop made to look like fat and an ad featuring a close-up of a smoker’s gangrenous toes. It’s not yet clear how the city will deliver its hearing-loss messages, which will aim to “to better inform and educate New Yorkers about ways to protect hearing from exposure to loud sounds,” particularly long and loud listening sessions on music devices with earphones, the city Health Department said in a statement. Officials plan to use focus
groups and interviews with teens and young adults to decide how to frame the campaign, according to a description from the city Health Department’s fundraising arm, called the Fund for Public Health. It has raised $70,000 so far, from a donor who asked to remain anonymous, said the fund’s executive director, Sara Gardner. The plan got mixed reviews Wednesday from headphone users. Cecilia Sanchez, 17, knows she plays her music loudly through the headphones she wears much of the time – bus drivers have been known to yell at her to turn it down. But the
high school senior finds it relaxing because “it shuts out the whole world,” and she doesn’t think anyone’s going to listen to chiding from city officials. “You can’t really control what people do. I think people get the risks, but they’ll do what they want to do. Especially young people,” she said. But it’s fine with John Cerini, 38, if the city wants to encourage people to keep their headphone volume down – partly because he’s tired of overhearing other people’s music over his own, which he plays at a moderate level on his daily commute between Manhattan and Mineola.
Next NYC campaign: too-loud earphones
NEW YORK (AP) — The city wants young New Yorkers to hear its latest public-health warning loud and clear: Cranked-up headphones can be hazardous to your hearing. So much so that the city is planning a $250,000 social media and marketing campaign to warn teens that they risk hearing loss from listening to personal music players at high volume, health officials said Wednesday. It’s the latest in a slate of efforts on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s watch to urge New Yorkers to eschew unhealthy habits, from smoking to drinking large amounts of sugary
Tarpeh wanted in MA, WV WINTER’S LAST HURRAH from ‘BIGGGGGG, page 1 Tarpeh was charged with credit card theft that occurred in an on-campus apartment. In addition to charges of theft, Tarpeh is wanted by the Morgantown, W. Va. Police Department for aggravated assault and attempted sexual assault. He is also wanted by Massachusetts State Police for an armed carjacking, robbery and assault and battery of a motorist in Lee, Mass. The Lantern, Ohio State University’s student newspaper, reported that Tarpeh was apprehended while driving a stolen car, according to an email from Ohio State Police Chief Paul Denton. The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office in Iowa has him in custody. “Bigggggg Mike’s in custody,” said Brad Fleming, Deputy U.S. Marshal at the U.S. Marshals Service for the Southern District of Ohio,
according to The Lantern. “He was arrested [Tuesday]. He’s in custody now in Iowa.” According to a UConn email alert sent out to students, the victims of Tapeh’s on-campus theft identified him as the person they invited into their apartment and then stole several items, including credit cards, while they were sleeping on Feb. 24. Tarpeh resurfaced near the Ohio State University Campus on Feb. 26, and university police issued a public safety notice the following day informing the campus that Tarpeh was a “dangerous wanted person who may be in the campus area,” according to The Lantern. Fleming told The Lantern that Tarpeh was taken back to the jurisdictions in which he’s charged, like UConn, and didn’t think Tarpeh would be making another stop in Ohio.
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A look at what NKorean vow to scrap armistice means for Korean Peninsula SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953 is, at best, a fragile thing: The countries overseeing it have formally accused each other of more than 1.2 million violations. But North Korea’s threat to scrap the cease-fire next Monday still matters because the armistice is the key document blocking hostilities on the Korean Peninsula, which technically has remained in a state of war for six decades. If North Korea follows through on its threat to nullify the document that set up the heavily armed buffer zone between the Koreas, it could drive badly frayed relations even lower. The threat comes as diplomats at the U.N. negotiate sanctions aimed at punishing Pyongyang for its recent nuclear test and as allies Washington and Seoul plan massive war games set to start Monday. Here’s a look at what the North’s threat could mean for the Korean Peninsula’s fragile peace: ON THE GROUND: The armistice signed on July 27, 1953, set up an apparatus meant to govern a cease-fire ending the war. It can be seen most clearly at the Demilitarized Zone between North and South. The armistice called for the creation of a military demarcation line and the DMZ around it
– a 4-kilometer (2.5-mile) -wide “buffer zone,” with one side controlled by the American-led U.N. Command and the other side by North Korea. The armistice prohibited “hostile acts” within or across the zone. As a hotline between the sides, it set up a military truce commission at the Panmunjom village that straddles the DMZ. By scrapping the armistice, North Korea would be effectively refusing to recognize the DMZ, which is a violent place even with the rules of the armistice in place: Hundreds of troops serving under the U.N. command have died in the buffer zone over the years. “North Korea wants to show it can attack South Korea at any time,” said analyst Cheong Seongjang at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea. “The chance for limited war ... has increased.” The South Korean military says North Korea has violated the armistice by deploying machine guns inside the DMZ, triggering exchanges of gunfire along the border and digging infiltration tunnels. North Korea has accused the U.S. and South Korea of deploying heavy weapons and combat personnel inside the DMZ, conducting war maneuvers targeting the North and firing at North Korean fishing boats near the western sea boundary.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — When 20 slaves petitioned New Hampshire two centuries ago seeking their freedom, lawmakers decided the time wasn’t right and delayed action. Now, 233 years later, legislators in one of the nation’s whitest states have decided the time is right to consider the request. A Senate committee on Wednesday unanimously recommended the full body posthumously emancipate the 14 petitioners who never were granted freedom. Woullard Lett, a member of the Manchester NAACP, said it’s never too late to right a wrong. “It’s symbolic and 200 years late, however then and now it’s the right thing to do,” Lett said before testifying at the hearing. Valerie Cunningham, a historian and preservationist from Portsmouth, said she came across the slaves’ petition in state archives nearly 30 years ago. It was originally submitted to the New Hampshire General Assembly on Nov. 12, 1779, while the Revolutionary War was still being fought. The slaves all served in the war effort and believed the freedom being sought by colonists should be extended to them as well. They wrote, “Freedom is an inherent right of the human species” and that “public tyranny and slavery are alike detestable to minds conscious of the equal dignity of
human nature.” “This is part of American history that just has not been recognized, and New Hampshire is not unique in that regard,” said Cunningham, speaking in the hallway outside the hearing room. Cunningham said in a history she wrote of the black community in the state’s Seacoast region that of the original petitioners, six of the slaves were later freed and 14 died in bondage with legislators never acting on their request. Black people accounted for 1.1 percent of New Hampshire’s 1.3 million people in the 2010 U.S. Census. The state was the last to honor Martin Luther King Jr. with a state holiday, but the slain civil rights leader’s widow and children found New Hampshire residents welcoming when they visited following his funeral in 1968. Cunningham said the state is no less welcoming to blacks than the rest of New England, but the tiny population in New Hampshire makes it more difficult for their voices to be heard. State Sen. Martha Fuller Clarke, D-Portsmouth, is sponsoring the Senate bill. She told colleagues Wednesday that she hopes the Legislature will act quickly to emancipate the former slaves. The approval by the Public and Municipal Affairs Committee means the bill can now go before
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A man looks at a banner of defenders of freedom from South Korea and the United States during the Korean War at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday.
North Korea said this week that its Korean People’s Army Supreme Command will stop all activities at the “Panmunjom mission of the KPA, which was tentatively established and operated by it as a negotiating body for establishing a peace-keeping mechanism on the Korean Peninsula.” The North also vowed to cut off a phone line linking North Korea and the United States at
Panmunjom. FEAR IN SEOUL, TALKS IN WASHINGTON? American and South Korean analysts see the threat as an attempt to win direct aid-for-disarmament talks with Washington by raising fears of war on the peninsula. North Korea wants such negotiations in part to secure much-needed aid and to force the removal of 28,500 U.S. troops
the full Senate. Gov. Maggie Hassan has said she would sign the bill if approved by the full Legislature. Cunningham said acting now would help bring attention to an African-American burial ground in downtown Portsmouth, where a mayoral committee is hoping to build a memorial park. The African Burying Ground Committee has worked for almost a decade to get the memorial built, and though they need additional money, a spokesman said they may break ground on the project this summer. The design would include granite engravings with passages from the petition. The goal of the bill and the memorial park is to celebrate the culture and contribution of blacks to New Hampshire and bring that history to the fore, Cunningham said. “It’s sad that this is not in the schools. We need to make sure that the history we teach is more inclusive,” she added. Lett said he sees the bill as largely symbolic but hopes its passage will mean the Legislature doesn’t plan to wait another 200 years to address the concerns of the black community today. He said those concerns include persistent wage and health inequalities and a disproportionate number of blacks in the state prison system.
A section of a petition filled by 20 African slaves asking for their freedom more than 200 years ago is seen at the New Hampshire State Archives, Wednesday, in Concord, N.H.
stationed in the South. “By disavowing the armistice, North Korea is sending a reminder about just how flimsy the peace regime on the Korean Peninsula is,” said John Delury, a professor at Yonsei University in Seoul. “In Pyongyang’s mind anyhow, this serves to reinforce their argument that formal peace talks and a new security architecture is a prerequisite to full denuclearization.”
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DUNLAP, Calif. (AP) — A female intern-volunteer was killed Wednesday by a lion at a private wild animal park in Central California, and state and local authorities were trying to determine what might have caused the fatal attack. Cat Haven founder and executive director Dale Anderson was crying as he read a one-sentence statement about the fatal mauling at the exotic animal zoo he has operated since 1993. The 26-year-old intern was attacked and killed when she entered the lion’s enclosure, Anderson said, but he refused to answer questions or provide more details. Sheriff’s deputies responding to an emergency call from Cat Haven, in the Sierra Nevada foothills about 45 miles east of Fresno, found the woman severely injured and still lying inside the enclosure with the lion nearby, Fresno County sheriff’s Lt. Bob Miller said. Another park worker had unsuccessfully tried luring the lion away and into a separate pen, so deputies shot and killed it so they could reach the wounded woman, who died at the scene, Miller said. Investigators were trying to determine why the intern was inside the enclosure and what might have provoked the attack, sheriff’s Sgt. Greg Collins said. The facility is normally closed on Wednesdays, and only one other worker was there when the mauling happened, Collins said. The male African lion, a 4-year-old male named Couscous, had been raised at Cat Haven since it was a cub, said Tanya Osegueda, a spokeswoman for Project Survival, the nonprofit that operates the animal park. Osegueda did not know how the park acquired the cub. Cat Haven is a 100-acre facility just west of Kings Canyon National Park. Since the property opened in 1993, it has housed numerous big cats, including tigers, leopards and other exotic species. It is permitted to house exotic animals by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and is regulated as a zoo by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Results of the last 13 inspections by the Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service show no violations dating back to March 2010. The most recent inspection was Feb. 4, USDA records show. Despite state regulations that require annual inspections, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife most recently inspected the facility in January 2011. “We have to do the best we can with the resources we’re provided,” said department spokeswoman Jordan Traverso. The inspector’s written comments were “facility in good condition.” The inspector checked gates, enclosures, water supplies, drainage, cleanliness, ventilation and the general health of the animals.
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UConn should have made tuition increase reasoning transparent
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t’s bad enough that the cost of a college education has continued to rise, even in the midst of a recession, but it is far worse to be in a state of uncertainty as to what exactly will be charged. The Connecticut Mirror reported last week that our own university has supplemented the 25.6 percent tuition increase agreed to in December 2011, with an additional $40 tuition charge retroactive to a decrease in state funding agreed to by the Connecticut legislature last year. When determining the tuition schedule back in 2011, it seems that a clause was written in to allow an overall 2.1 percent tuition increase in case of a cut in the state’s funding of UConn. And it was only on Feb. 28, almost two years after this plan was agreed to, that we suddenly realized that we, as students, are meant to shoulder the burden of the revenue shortfall that the state has caused UConn to experience. We should, as students, feel some measure of outrage about this state of affairs on multiple levels. First, state policymakers should have known that such a tuition increase clause was already in effect and that any action on their part to reduce UConn’s funds would result in a financial blow to its students. Even in a very conservative fiscal climate such as Connecticut’s, the state government has a responsibility to its flagship university to ensure that the productive and enriching work that goes on here can continue unabated. Second, while it may be true that the parties intimately involved with the university’s budget negotiations deal with massive, almost abstract sums of money in managing its finances, it is insulting to think that they would consider $40 to be an insignificant tuition increase that would not warrant review by the Board of Trustees or by the students. To us, $40 might mean a day’s wages, earned while working at the dining hall or while delivering newspapers. No tuition increase is insignificant when so many among us struggle to pay for college without falling into to debt slavery. Third, we should be concerned about the priorities of UConn’s financial planners if the cost of state budget cuts can be so blatantly and carelessly foisted upon the students. When $9 million has been spent on needless renovations to the McMahon Dining Hall, for instance, we students must wonder if we are being swindled. We don’t necessarily object to UConn’s ability to raise our tuition. That may have a proper time and place. But We do object to the flippant disregard shown to us by our university and demand a higher level of accountability and transparency. This is our due as students. 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.
Newtown latest to be blamed on games
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he search for meaning is a natural response to any tragedy, and the latest U.S. mass shooting is eliciting questions about, among other things, the potential role of violent video games. After all, with kids and teenagers spending so much time hammering away at simulated shooters, is it any wonder when they pick up actual guns?” These are the words of Max Fisher of The Washington Post. By Tyler McCarthy In the wake of the horrible tragedy Commentary Editor at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, two culprits have made their way into the national consciousness. The first and most prominent has been America’s gun culture. The second is violent video games. Precious little information is known about the shooter except that he was a troubled loner who enjoyed violent, gunheavy videogames. As a result of this knowledge, and the very strong desire in the country to take action, there has been a tug-of-war over which of these issues should be the source of the U.S. national outrage. So far, gun regulation and control has been the front-runner. It has been the front-runner because it deserves to be. The notion that violent video games that are made with adult content can lead a person to commit as evil an act as Columbine, Virginia Tech or Sandy Hook has some merit. It has very little
merit, but I’ll admit to some. After all, there have been speculative claims that several murders were inspired by video games. However, the notion that our country of gun culture is less of an issue is preposterous. To be clear, this column is for advocating neither to take guns away nor to restrict the Second Amendment or anything over-the-top and overbearing like that. This is a suggestion for the people in the most developed country with the highest gun-related deaths to perhaps rethink its obsession with being armed. There is a difference between having a gun for protection and not being protected without having a gun. Many families keep a weapon in the home, locked away for safekeeping, to guard against invaders. It is the culture that tells citizens that they have to be armed in order to exist in this country safely that is suspect. There are hundreds of countries in this world where people don’t have this mentality, and they all have significantly fewer deaths due to gun incidents. Every time these issues are brought up to gun enthusiasts, they simply try and break down the numbers. “Why yes, I need a 15-round clip in case my attacker is coming at me with a 30-round clip.” Well, if neither party felt the need to be armed in the first place, then the problem is solved. It’s understandable if this sounds naive and counterintuitive to America’s gun culture, but the fact of the matter is this: unless Americans start making this mental shift slowly over time, they’ll never be truly safe. I’m aware that criminals don’t seem keen on laying down arms, but that’s when people’s faith in the justice system needs to take affect. The strongest gun enthusiasts
out there should ask themselves if they would prefer a world where they “need” guns to feel safe. It’s doubtful that anyone’s answer will be “yes.” Now back to the issue of video games. About 80,000 people are playing the newest installment of the popular war game, “Call of Duty: Black Ops II,” online at a given time. That is just one game on one system. Given the amount of people who play these games in the world, you’d think that for these claims directly linking violence in video games to actual violence to have any weight, they’d have substantial evidence to support it. However, in Fisher’s article, he discussed the fact that, with the exception of the United States, countries with high video game consumption are statistically some of the safest places to live in terms of gun violence. To put more perspective on the numbers, in 2010 there were no proven reports of homicides that were directly inspired by video games, other than ones where they were mentioned as a property issue and not a behavioral one. That same year there were 606 accidental deaths from firearms in America. These are just the numbers from people who didn’t actively try and use guns for killing people but were just victims of having them around. Who is to say if there is anything else responsible for the tragedy in Newtown? However, if something needs to come out of it, perhaps finally tackling America’s dependency on being armed isn’t the worst result.
Commentary Editor Tyler McCarthy is an 8thsemester journalism and English double major. He can be reached at Tyler.McCarthy@UConn.edu.
American car culture becoming more Europeanized
Being done with procrastinating for my midterms means I can finally return my attentions to not studying in general. As much as I want to get my exam over with today, I’m hoping to wake up to a snow day... Goooo Little Buddy for getting Co-Exec Director for HuskyTHON 2014! FTK! McMahon remains the only dining hall on campus where you have to explain what’s on your plate to your table every time you sit down. Baxter! Bark twice if you’re in Milwaukee!! Bigggggg Mike has been caught. Let us all have a moment of silence for this now finished chapter in our histories. There’s a bad feeling in my stomach that this snow storm is going to do a lot of inconveniencing and a lot of not cancelling my three Thursday exams. I realized this week that I am too attached to my iPhone when I was successfully able to interpret which vibration was for which notification from across the room. Here come the snow tweets. If you haven’t seen House of Cards yet, just take, like, 9 hours out of your day to watch every episode. Do any dining halls have hot dog bars? And if not when can they have one as quickly as possible for every Thursday?
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t’s not a secret that America has one of the biggest automobile cultures in the world. One of the larger reasons why this is true is because of our unrelenting support for the “Big Three” American automobile manufacturers: Ford, GM and Chrysler. These companies were the first ones to bring cars to the everyday man in the early twentieth century. Yes, other By Anand Gupta f o r e i g n Staff Columnist c o m p a n i e s have since come along making some better vehicles, but the original American companies continue to represent more with their heritage, tradition and jobs that they bring to this country. However, what were to happen if one of the largest American vehicle manufacturers were to suddenly become owned by non-Americans? After Chrysler suffered major financial setbacks in 2008 and 2009, the Italian automobile conglomerate Fiat began to purchase shares in the company. Today, Fiat has a majority stake in Chrysler. Sergio Marchionne, the CEO of Fiat, has said that he wants Fiat and Chrysler to be one company, saying they “belong together.”
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In essence, one of the big three automobile manufacturers, Chrysler, could become completely Italian. Much would be lost if this happens. One of the defining characteristics of American cars is that the majority of them are designed and built here in North America. The rising European influence on our American manufacturers and their more international construction is going to cause a loss of our tradition. The substance behind the emotion of American cars is the people who work behind the scenes – specifically smaller firms and factory workers. Peter ValdesDapena wrote an article for CNN Money about Americans buying American cars. He interviewed Thomas Klier, an economist for the Federal Reserve, who said, “When it comes to longer term benefits, a lot of activity happens in the country in which the company’s headquarters is domiciled.” Moreover, Valdes-Dapena writes, “buying a Ford or General Motors car is still better for the American economy and for American workers, even if the particular vehicle you’re buying was built in Mexico, Canada or Korea. That’s because American car companies make more cars and employ more workers in the
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United States than do automakers based in other countries.” The sources of materials and parts play a key role as well. American companies tend to use materials and parts that were made in the United States, whereas international companies are more accustomed to sourcing international materials and parts. In essence, the progression towards foreign-designed vehicles will cause a decline in the American industrial economy. We take pride in our automobile industry here. This is evident in the fact that American car companies have the most loyal customers in the market. People who buy American cars are less likely to decide that their next car will be from Japan, South Korea or Germany. Many of our nation’s citizens genuinely care about the other American-based companies who supply parts to the larger manufacturers and the American workers who build the final product. Our pride and loyalty run deep within our country. We are forever looking for products that are “made in America,” and rightly so. Obviously, the economy is deep into recovery mode and is in the process of returning to normal. But, the last thing we need is a loss of
American automotive jobs, not because of a decrease in the market, but because of the jobs being shipped over seas. What troubles me is that there is a distinct possibility that if a European conglomerate owns Chrysler, many American jobs will be lost. We will lose factory jobs and managerial positions, and there is an even greater risk that the companies that work under the larger companies will suffer. These include, but certainly are not limited to, the repair shops and garages, aftermarket parts dealers and the makers of the original parts. Granted, the decisions that Marchionne will make are sure to be the best ones for Fiat and Chrysler. However, there is genuine concern that if Chrysler becomes completely Italian, the little guys – the factory workers and the small companies that work behind the scenes to support the automobile industry – will suffer. I hope that if Fiat does eventually buy out Chrysler, they will not fail to account for the people beneath the surface of the automotive world. Staff Columnist Anand Gupta is a 2ndsemester civil engineering major. He can be reached at Anand.Gupta@UConn.edu.
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Every sorority girl’s dream Last night, the PIKE 2013 Dream Girl Pageant fundraiser put sorority girls to the test
By Zarrin Ahmed Staff Writer
Lauren Harrigan from Alpha Phi was crowned winner of PIKE’s 2013 Dream Girl Pageant, a fundraiser for Soldiers Angels Organization. Harrigan took home a $100 donation to an organization of her choice, an invitation to the Pike Formal and a spot on the 2013 composite. In second place was Gabby Pallato from Gamma Phi Beta and in third was Colleen Barnhart from Kappa Kappa Gamma. Before the competition, two Pike emcees introduced the judges – one brother from each fraternity. They then played a video made by the contestants that included a greeting from each and their reasons for participating. Besides Harrington, Pallato and Barnhart, the contestants included Melanie Badin from Delta Gamma, Lauren Hagerty from Delta Zeta, Danielle Grover from Alpha Epsilon Phi and Christina Ostner from Pi Beta Phi. The first portion of the pageant consisted of introductions from the girls, in which they went up on stage and shared short bios and facts such as their hometowns, hobbies and more. Before the talent section, the judges hosted a mini game where they invited a girl from each sorority in the crowd in search of “the fastest hands.” Their objective was to take out all the tissues out of two tissues boxes the fastest. The winner received $25 to Victoria’s Secret. Grover began the talent portion, showing a video of her baking a cake, at the end of which she presented the emcees with a cake. Harrigan danced on stage with the help of her sisters, who rushed onto the platform. Pallato did her own spin on MTV’s Made where she coached three girls and made them into Pike SLAGs (Scholar, Leader, Athlete, Gentleman) in
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Contestants in the PIKE 2013 Dream Girl Pageant. The pageant winner, Lauren Harrigan from Alpha Phi, was awarded a $100 domation to an organization of her choice, an invitation to Pike’s formal and a spot on the 2013 composite. Second place was Gamma Phi Beta’s Gabby Pallato, and Kappa Kappa Gamma’s Colleen Barnhart won third.
four days. Badin showed her patriotism by singing “My Country Tis Of Thee” and then her dance moves to “Soulja Boy.” Hagerty compiled a series of Harlem Shake videos of herself and the Pike brothers, presenting a homemade cooler at the end of her video. Barnhart sang about
her relationship with Pike while a slideshow of pictures with her and the brothers played on screen. Lastly, Ostner made a video of her painting the Pike crest, longboarding down Horsebarn Hill and finding the boys of Pike to present her painting to them. After another mini game where
Irish stepdancing, a style rooted in traditional Irish dance, is distinguishable by a stiff upper body and fast, intricate footwork. Ever since the Irish step dancing act Riverdance received a standing ovation at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest, step dancing has been of particular high regard on the world
stage. This style is thought to have originated from people dancing on unhinged doors, which provided a steady and hard, albeit small, stage. Comprising six vocalists alongside six international dancers and two musicians, the cabaret cast aims to deliver a two-hour showcase of beautiful music and, of course, Irish culture. Celtic Nights is a musical performance with a storyline, which aims to capture the hopes, dreams, struggles and loves of the Celtic people who immigrated to the New World. According to the show’s official website CelticNights. ie, Celtic Nights will communicate a “journey of a people leaving and arriving, their lives spent in a world of ships, trains and planes, coaches and horses, on foot … searching for a place better than Ireland or half as good.” In doing so, the cast hopes to highlight Irish influences on what became known as American music, including bluegrass, Appalachian, country and the songs of the Civil War. Many Irish classic favorites, including but not limited to “Danny Boy,” “Isle of Hope” and “My Love is in America” will be performed, as well as several songs in Irish. All of the singers and dancers, a dozen in all, are highly accomplished in their field. Tickets to the shows are $20 for UConn students and range from $39 to $59 for non-students. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
contestants from the crowd answered questions about Pike, with another Victoria’s Secret gift card awarded at the end, the final part of the night began. The contestants each answered a question to win the hearts of the brothers – questions pertaining to the fraternity itself. Before announcing
the winners, Pike played a video showing soldiers reuniting with loved ones and the purpose of Soldiers Angels. All the proceeds of the show went to the organization, including the proceeds from Penny Wars.
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Celtic Nights come to Jorgensen Spring Concert ticket
By Cole von Richthofen Campus Correspondent Those who have seen professional step dancing will recall its hypnotic qualities. This Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., the traditional art form is coming to the Jorgensen stage, in the form of “Celtic Nights: The Emigrants Bridge.”
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Members of Celtic Nights performing at Penn State’s York Pollo Center. Celtic Nights is a Celtic themed musical performance featuring six vocalists and six international dancers.
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Kendrick Lamar, the headliner for UConn’s Spring Concert. Tickets go on sale March 11 and 12th.
By Focus Staff Spring Concert sales postponed to next week. SUBOG has announced that ticket sales for Kendrick Lamar and Steve Aoki will be pushed from Thursday and Friday to Monday, March 11 and Tuesday, March 12. Students with lottery numbers giving them a pur-
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chase time on Thursday should line up at their respective hour on March 11 at the Student Union Ballroom, while lottery numbers for Friday will be sold March 12 in the Student Union Theatre during their timeslot. For more information visit SUBOG’s website or Facebook page.
» FROM THE WRITER’S CORNER
Creative nonfiction
By Jason Wong Senior Staff Writer
Creative nonfiction, as far as my childhood and adolescence went, was one of the most underrated and unappreciated genres of writing. At the time, being young and stupid, I thought nonfiction was boring because it was constrained by the bounds of reality, and therefore fiction, especially of the sci-fi/fantasy persuasion, was inherently more interesting. Now, being older and somewhat less stupid, I’ve come to embrace nonfiction as a rewarding genre in its own right, as being both entertaining and informative. Still, writing nonfiction can be a bigger challenge than writing fiction. How do you write something that is true without making it as dull as your average history lesson? First of all, recognize that creative nonfiction is telling a story, regardless of the subject matter. General wisdom about conflict, character, etc., still applies. If you’re writing about, say, a day trip to New York City, you are the protagonist of your story, and therefore should be presented in a manner that endears you to your reader. Writing about your own experiences is a really good way of getting into the genre, as you probably will not have to do much in the way of research. You also will not have to create a character – as you are the character – and you can add as much personality and tone to the piece as you like. Basically, you get to write about you, and that practically guarantees that your tone will match your character. Most of the nonfiction I’ve read has been written in the format of an essay in a magazine or journal, but of course, nonfiction can exist within books as well. I’ve mentioned him several times, but Bill Bryson does an excellent job of separating his nonfiction book chapters into individual essays that can be perused out of order and ultimately to great amusement. For example, I recall a passage from Bryson’s biography about the known history of Shakespeare that detailed a failed revolution following a King’s Men production of Richard II. In essence, it went something like this: “The Earl of Essex, having now noticed that his revolution was not drawing out the people of London as he expected, stopped for lunch to gather his thoughts and plan his next move.” The chapter details the attempt by the aforementioned Earl to rebel against the childless Elizabeth, after having paid Shakespeare’s company to put on Richard II in an attempt to galvanize the public. As you can see, it failed rather humorously. All in all, creative nonfiction can cover a wide variety of truly fascinating topics. Biographies do not have to be dry, dusty tomes about obscure personages. They can be witty and humorous. It’s actually better if not much is known about the person in question, because it gives you more wiggle room in characterizing them. Histories do not have to be boring – after all, history is made by people, and people are seldom the giants of humankind we like to portray them as in our textbooks. Benjamin Franklin, founding father, genius inventor, was also riddled with venereal disease because of his many dalliances with French prostitutes. Write a short bio about that, and I guarantee anyone would be interested.
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Mysterious Daft Punk album is ‘coming very soon’ By Joe O’Leary Focus Editor If there’s one thing Daft Punk knows, it’s that absence makes the heart grow fonder. It’s now been eight years since the French electronica-disco masters, Guy-Manuel de HomemChristo and Thomas Bangalter, released “Human After All,” their third album. It’s also been six years since the release of “Alive 2007,” an epic career-spanning mashup album derived from their legendary 2007 tour of the same name; and more than two years since their last release – the soundtrack to Disney’s “TRON: Legacy.” While all of this stuff has aged well (“Human” got a bad rap on release but found love from critics once “Alive 2007” put the tracks in a new light, while their music and cameo were easily the best things about “Tron”), there’s no denying that the two musicians are sorely missed. Tons of electronic music has come out in the meantime, some with direct ties to Daft Punk, like Justice, others blazing new trails like A-Trak and Skrillex. Despite this, much like Simba during Scar’s reign, music fans are waiting patiently for the true kings of the turntable to make their triumphant return. It’s coming, no doubt. After a year or two of rumblings and false rumors, Feb. 28 brought a revamp of the group’s website, featuring a
simple image of the two’s iconic robot helmets split vertically down the middle, a new shiny Columbia logo in the bottom-right corner showing off their new record deal. The plot thickened further during “Saturday Night Live,” when a 15-second commercial featuring the band’s logo, their website image and a sample of an as-of-yet unreleased song quietly aired during a break. By the time Kevin Hart, the host, wished America a good night, rumors and buzz had pushed Daft Punk to the top of Twitter. So what do we know about this mysterious album? Well, it’s coming very soon. Various sources have all but guaranteed it will be released by the end of May. The “SNL” clip and an extended preview posted on the band’s SoundCloud page on Tuesday sounded an awful lot like a legitimate disco album from the 70s, a killer 15 seconds that reaffirm rumors the band recorded this album completely with live instruments (unlike “Human After All,” famously made with only two guitars and a drum machine). More evidence: Nile Rodgers, a legendary producer known for his early work with disco and producing David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance,” Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” and the B-52s’ “Love Shack,” all massive, career-defining hits, has worked with the duo on album four; he’s likely playing the muted rhythm guitar prominent in the commer-
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Daft Punk performing live. It’s been 8 years since the duo, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, released an album, but that should change very soon.
cial. In February 2012, he tweeted about “teasing out the R&B influences” of the band’s music while presumably recording. Tuesday afternoon brought a more direct tweet: “So I hear tell the new #DaftPunk record is the bomb!” Aside from roots in disco, a throwback sound and more famous producers and musicians working with Daft Punk (songwriter Paul Williams, famous for the Muppets’ “Rainbow Connection,”
and Giorgio Moroder, an Italian producer responsible for Blondie’s “Call Me” and the famed “Top Gun” soundtrack, are confirmed; other rumors mention Animal Collective co-founder Panda Bear), precious little is known about the album. However, judging by the past week’s cryptic events, it’s a safe bet that the curtain will be raised very soon.
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Trent Reznor is back, and he brought his wife along
»ALBUM REVIEW “Time Is On My Side” The Rolling Stones
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How to Destroy Angels (stylized as How to destroy angels_ ), a side-project started by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, officially released its first album, “Welcome oblivion,” on Wednesday, March 5. Alongside wife and singer Mariqueen Maandig and longtime-collaborator Atticus Ross, Reznor pulls out all of the experimental stops for a masterful post-industrial electronic record, proving that his 20092012 hiatus from NIN was time well spent. There’s no easy way to describe what a genre like “post-industrial electronic noise” sounds like, but perhaps the best way would be to take Daft Punk’s “Tron” soundtrack and throw it into a blender with a fistful of dirt and gravel. “Welcome oblivion” is a collection of sounds so electric and distorted – and of course experimental – that one can’t help think of “The Matrix” or “Terminator” series. Dubstep, industrial rock and electronic
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A picture of Trent Reznor’s newest endeavor, How to destroy angels_. The group consists of Reznor, his wife Mariqueen Maandig and Atticus Ross. They released their debut album, “Welcome oblivion,” on March 5th.
music come close to the sound of How to Destroy Angels, but the best segue would of course be Reznor’s previous work. “The wake-up” is a fittingly titled opening track that ensures the listener make no mistakes that “Welcome oblivion” is not a Nine Inch Nails album. This being said, Reznor’s influence is glaringly apparent just seconds into the album. “Keep it together” features a weaving of Reznor and Maandig’s voices, yet in a way far-removed from other modern duet vocals like Of Monsters and Men and the xx. Sampling is used to construct several of the beats throughout the album, notably in “And the
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sky began to scream.” What appears to be classic horror movie music is coupled with eerie vocals from Maandig and Marilyn Manson-esque singing on the part of Reznor. Some familiar NIN tracks also seem to be sampled: the low-fi duet “On the wing” is backed by beats not unlike those of NIN’s 2010 album “The Slip.” All of the experimentation aside, this is still very much an album by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. “We Fade Away” sounds like the pair layered industrial noise over the instrumental subtleties that comprised their soundtrack to “The Social Network.” This track most notably deserves a listen with quality earbuds or headphones to fully appreciate the bass. In the song “Too late, all gone,” Maandig repeats the lyrics, “The more we change, everything stays the same,” reminiscent of NIN’s 2006, “Every Day Is Exactly the Same.” I find it amusing, given Reznor’s marriage to Maandig between the two releases. From out of the blue comes
the single “Ice Age,” which literally sounds like it’s been put there on mistake. The song is an outlier not only because it features a banjo, but because it is the only track with clearly discernable instruments. However, in classic industrial fashion, faint electronic noise can be heard throughout the single. Whether or not this indicates a future direction for the band is uncertain, but “Ice Age” sounds like none of the preceding tracks. Normally a big supporter of independent recording, Reznor released several versions of the album with Columbia Records rather than his own label – the Null Corporation. The vinyl version, which this reviewer did not have the pleasure of obtaining, contains two additional tracks and a slightly modified song order. The iTunes bonus tracks are well-worth the money, but it should be noted that the six are actually just the band’s first selftitled EP.
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Ask any stranger with headphones what he’s listening to and you’re bound to receive a thousand different answers. Ask him why he’s listening to the song currently flowing past his eardrums and you’re likely to discover repeat answers. You’ll hear, “it’s on the radio,” “bass-,” and the inevitable “I don’t know, I just relate to it I guess.” The last answer seems cliché enough and yet we almost always accept it. Why? Consider popular music: can we really relate? Do we play Rick Ross because we also enjoy pretending to be a drug kingpin? Does “Watch The Throne” speak to us because we, like West and Carter, have blown 50k on Jordans? More often than not, “I can relate to it” is a lie. I’m being critical here, but not without purpose. “I can relate to it” is a perfectly reasonable response for why we watch most sitcoms, movies and read books, but radios are flooded with polluted lyrics detailing the outrageous sex lives, endless bank accounts or traumatic pasts of America’s most popular musical celebrities. Admittedly, these kinds of lyrics are entertaining, but most pop songs couldn’t have less to do with the lives of listeners. Rarely does an album truly speak to its demographic. Once in a while, however, an artist from the underground breaks through and speaks for the people in the streets, subways and one-bedroom apartments. Rewind to 2008: an unknown rapper from Cleveland with sub-par rhyming skills drops a mixtape. While his lyrics and hooks were raw and undeveloped, his voice painted a vivd and honest picture of a kid who just didn’t fit in, even through $10 ear buds. “They can’t comprehend/ Or even come close to understanding him / I guess if I was boring they would love me more / Guess if I was simple in the mind / Everything would be fine” a 24-year-old Kid Cudi waxed on the mid-tape cut, “Man On The Moon.” On this track and throughout the tape, Cudi discusses the joys and traumas of adolescence. He details long nights with friends and intimate moments with women complemented by fears of being perpetually unsuccessful or misunderstood. Kid Cudi’s first mixtape spoke to high school and college kids and stands today as one of the few albums that really does speak to me. Though in a different vein, Little Brother’s debut “The Listening” is similarly downto-earth. Phonte and Big Pooh detail the trouble with day jobs, burning the candle at both ends, and living fast in their track, “Speed.” “I’m makin’ moves/ But this treadmill lifestyle ain’t workin’ for me/ It’s from ya crib
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‘Self-indulgent and ignorant’ lyrics The artist talks about his history and verge on cliché
A$AP Rocky interview
aspirations alongside Dillon Francis
By Zarrin Ahmed Staff Writer Harlem MC A$AP Rocky and moobahcore originator Dillon Francis opened the floor for questions to college students during a phone interview hosted by the 2013 MTVU Woodie Awards, with topics ranging from music genres to favorite pets. Taking place on Thursday, March 14, in Austin, Texas, the
Woodie Awards consist of recordings of performances by big artists at the Woodie Festival, as well as winners for various categories. Established in 2004, the Woodie Awards have helped numerous artists gain publicity, record sales and mainstream acclaim. The producers of the show have announced a new category called the Chevrolet Sonic College Artist Woodie, which allows artists from NYU, Belmont University and Greenville
College to compete for a spot in the opening set at the Woodie Festival. Dillon Francis, an electronic dance musician known for pioneering moombahton and moombahcore, a fusion of house music and reggaeton, was born and raised in Los Angeles, where he was always interested in scratching and began playing with music early on. He has collaborated with artists like Diplo and has made remixes of numerous songs, including Passion
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Rakim Mayers, known by his stage name A$AP Rocky, is the 24 year old rapper and music video director from Harlem, New York. A$AP participated in a phone interview with college students on March 14, hosted by the 2013 MTVU Woodie Awards.
Pit’s “Carried Away.” During the interview, Francis spoke about the progression of the genres that he is associated with. Inspired by Blink 182 and by comedians, he enjoys doing funny things that other people can enjoy, equating his reputation as a class clown in high school by bringing humor to the classroom of music. Francis also shared that he loves to work with Calvin Harris, a musician that he has listened to for years and always dreamt of creating music with. He closed the discussion with a humorous anecdote about James Mitten Francis, his cat, who only wants to hang out with him at the wrong times. Next up was rapper and music director Rakim Mayers, better known as A$AP Rocky from the A$AP Mob. Mayers grew up admiring The Diplomats, Mob Deep, Run DMC and WU-Tang Clan. He gained attention with his first single, “Peso,” followed by an unofficial compilation titled “Deep Purple.” Mayers said, “I noticed I was on the come-up when I started to see strange people I didn’t even know come up to me and congratulate me on doing such a good job on my music early on.” He gave advice to new performers, telling them to have as much fun as they can and do their best on stage. He also spoke about his dream collaborations with John Lennon or Tupac, and his intention to keep developing as an artist and perfecting his sound. Mayers ended the interview saying, “I am leaving behind a legacy, I’m teaching the youth … It’s a new day and age, we need to bring back the hippie power. It’s not about race, power, ethnicity, color anymore – we’re all one people. We need to get high and enjoy life the way we used to in the 70s.”
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Little Brother, the alternative hip-hop group from Durham, North consisting of rappers Phonte, Big Pooh and 9th Wonder.
from MUSIC, page 6 crib to ya lab to ya job to make a profit/ And at the days end you still got nothing accomplished,” Phonte raps, venting his frustration with his low wage job, static musical aspirations and fading youth. Little Brother’s track, like their entire first album, remains focused on the everyday struggles of Phonte, 9th Wonder, Pig Pooh and men and women like them: local people with steady jobs and imperfect relationships, insecurities and financial difficulties. Like Kid Cudi’s mixtape, Little Brother’s “The Listening” is an album that continues to mean something to me 10 years after its release because in the most honest way, I can relate to it. In the past, stuntin’ on a track might have been cool, but it’s
becoming cliché and its getting there quickly. Maybe it’s the tough economy, but I’m tired of extravagant, self-indulgent, and ignorant lyrics. Rihanna, 2 Chainz, Kanye West and A$AP Rocky are all transmitting at the same frequency, and I’m starting to unconsciously tune them all out. There is nothing wrong with blowing 30 racks at Givenchy and dating models, but I’m clocking in by the hour to pay my rent and take my girl out for pizza and Pabst. I’m not bitter. I’m just realizing that I like music that speaks to me a hell of a lot more than music that doesn’t. So, this Friday, I think I’ll take my three-figure paycheck, skip over the upper-echelon and buy something I can relate to.
Thomas.Teixeira@UConn.edu
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Horoscopes
by Brian Ingmanson
Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- A little effort restores harmony. Your partner offers excellent support now. A balanced checkbook is only part of the story. Imagine the project completed. Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 9 -- Go for substance over symbolism. The longer you know each other, the stronger the bond grows. Prospects are excellent, and offers pour in. Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is an 8 -- You’re gaining confidence. Move quickly to finish up old business, leaving space for new. Figure out what you want, and find a sweet deal. Things line up. Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Get together with teammates for your next epic adventure. Learning together grows the love. Move quickly and pay attention. Say what you want. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- There’s another side to consider. Your well-developed conscience keeps you on the right path. There’s more money coming in, thank goodness. Move quickly to take advantage. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- The resources are available. You can get further than expected. Friends give you a boost. Take action on a brilliant idea. Stay objective, and do what you said you’d do. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 9 -You’re getting compliments. Get started on a plan for a long-term undertaking. Find what you need in your own closets, garage and community. Take charge, and get in action. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Your capacity to concentrate is enhanced today and tomorrow. It’s a perfect time to back up your data before Mercury goes retrograde on March 12. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Keep distractions at bay so that you can work faster and make more money. Write your objective down and post it on the wall. Believe that you can. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 6 -- Go on a fun adventure. Be prepared for the unexpected. Bring brain food and water in a refillable bottle. Let your partner take the lead. Mental stimulation revives. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 6 -- You’re in the middle of a transformational cycle. Seize the day. Replenish your coffers by increasing your income and cutting costs. Dig deeply. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Surround yourself with people who love and care for you. Adapt easily to a change of plans. When you’re in good company, nothing else matters.
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» NBA
The State of the East: Flagrants, Terry and down goes 'Melo
By TJ Souhlaris NBA Eastern Conference Columnist
I’m not going to lie to all the readers out there—I’m in a sulky state of mind right now. There is a multitude of factors causing my dismal mood: graduation is looming just two months away, I don’t want to depart Storrs; the men’s basketball team is finishing its season on Saturday, which just plain stinks for everybody involved; I had two exams this week which I think I bombed worse than Red Sox prospect Drake Britton taking a breathalyzer; and finally, the weather out here is making even the Snow Miser feel chilly. So in honor (I guess) of the negativity plaguing my life at this very moment, I figured…why not make this into a column? Brilliance, I tell you. To quote musical genius Chief Keef: this is the stuff I don’t like in the NBA right now. The Flagrant Foul Inconsistencies In Sunday afternoon’s exciting Clippers-Thunder game, Los Angeles forward Blake Griffin had inside position on Thunder
center Serge Ibaka when Clips forward Matt Barnes launched a shot from the right corner. As Barnes took went into his shooting motion, Griffin looked up at the rim; it was at this moment when Ibaka took his right arm and delivered a quick, accurate cheap shot to Griffin’s man area. Ibaka was immediately called for a foul off the ball, and the referees correctly issued Ibaka a flagrant foul. Inexplicably, however, Ibaka was only given a Flagrant 1, meaning that the Congolese center wasn’t ejected from the game. Take a look at the video when you get the chance, because anybody with two eyes (or even one) can recognize that Ibaka accomplished what he set out to do. How Griffin didn’t blitz Ibaka and attempt to give him the world’s fastest tracheotomy is a miracle in its own right, but that’s a story for another day. Just one night later, Ray Allen was handling the ball in the Heat’s contest against the Timberwolves. Diminutive Minnesota guard J.J. Barea was defending the UConn alum, when Allen threw an arm at him after nearly losing control of the ball. Allen was not whistled
for a player-control foul, which could have easily been called. Allen drove to the left block with his new-found space after clearing out Barea. Barea collected himself and chested Allen with “a little bump,” according to Barea, which had enough force to put the old guy on his back. After an NBA-style skirmish (a lot of yelling and mini-shoving and a lot of people not willing to actually throw hands), the teams were separated and the referees went to the monitor to determine whether or not Barea deserved a flagrant for his shove. After brief deliberation, Barea was sent to the locker room with a Flagrant 2, shocking just about everybody in attendance at the Target Center. The Heat won the game and Barea’s flagrant was docked to a Flagrant 1 by the NBA just a day later. Basketball is a very subjective game and it’s nearly impossible to get all referees (of all different levels of bad and awful) on the same page, but the NBA needs to figure out a way to have flagrants issued consistently across the board. The flagrant foul rule, via NBA.com, states the following:
“Flagrant ‘1’ is unnecessary contact committed by a player against an opponent. The opposing team is awarded two (2) free throws and possession. Flagrant ‘2’ is unnecessary and excessive contact committed by a player against an opponent. The opposing team is awarded two (2) free throws and possession and the player committing the foul is automatically ejected.” Was there “unnecessary and excessive contact” in Ibaka’s case? Absolutely! There is no reason why Ibaka should have stayed in the game after such a bush league play. Anytime a man slaps another man in the groin with intent to inflict pain there should be an automatic Flagrant 2 issued. It’s really as easy as that. Even this Celtics fan will admit that Kevin Garnett should have been ejected a couple years ago after tipping Channing Frye while Frye was in the air for a jumpshot. By the way, the Clippers dropped their game by four points partly because Ibaka stayed in the contest s and made a threepoint play after garnering his flagrant foul. So, yeah, this needs to
change. And I’m aware that Barea had choice words for Allen, but that was not until after he was already on his way to the T’Wolves locker room. And to some extent, Allen deserved it. I give props to Barea for providing a moral victory for Lilliputian basketball players around the world. Jason Terry Playing The Game of Basketball I considered myself quite an ardent Jason Terry fan before the year started. I always made it a point to own the gunning guard in fantasy basketball, and he was always one of my favorite players to watch whenever he took the floor for the Mavericks. When I heard that JET was going to be joining the Celtics, I lost my mind. However, Terry’s performance on the court has been mediocre at best and downright perplexing at its worst. He’s experiencing the second-worst scoring output of his career, with his lowest being during his rookie season. Anytime Terry puts up a shot when the Celtics need a clutch three, it seems to clank off the rim. He’s already 35 years old, and it’s not like Terry
enjoyed playing defense during his prime. If Terry isn’t scoring off the bench and can’t play defense, why even play him? It’s unfortunate the Celtics aren’t deeper, because if they were I’m not sure Terry would even eclipse 10 minutes per game at this point of the season. The worst part: Terry is signed for two more years after this abysmal season. Carmelo Anthony Going Down The Knicks forward went down like a newborn trying to ice skate in Monday night’s game in Cleveland. Melo grabbed his right knee after hitting the floor at the Q, and didn’t return to the game. Apparently Anthony has been dealing with knee issues for a couple of weeks now, but this is the first time that it’s bothered him enough to come out of the game. There’s a slim chance that the Knicks will do much in the playoffs in the first place, so if the Knicks don’t have their MVP candidate, they can kiss their conference title hopes away.
Thomas.Souhlaris@UConn.edu
Which would be the best conference fit: the ACC or Big Ten? from GIVEN, page 12 It is a shame that a developing football rivalry is having its life cut short. Tim: I hate seeing the Rutgers rivalry end, but Syracuse, Louisville, Boston College and Pittsburgh are all now in the ACC. Notre Dame is contractually obligated to play five games against ACC teams. There is opportunity for attractive games, and a better chance for UConn to succeed in the ACC. My biggest concern – money aside – is our other sports. Obviously, basketball would be fine either way, but look at soccer. Indiana may be the reigning champions, but top to bottom, the ACC is stronger and more suited for an elite program like UConn. And I’m
sure Geno Auriemma would rather play Notre Dame, Duke, North Carolina, Syracuse and Louisville than just Penn State and Maryland in conference play every year. Danny: I agree that UConn soccer would be a better fit in the ACC, but considering the abundance of success from Auriemma’s team over the last 20 years, I do not believe the UConn women’s basketball team will have any trouble scheduling those teams as non-conference opponents. The ACC had no sympathy systematically plucking UConn’s rivals away over the last 10 years, and I do not feel UConn should give the ACC any satisfaction after passing over the Huskies so many times. If UConn joined the Big Ten, it
would be the perfect statement that this university will not get walked over. Tim: UConn would absolutely be able to schedule those teams in non-conference. No one plays a stronger schedule than the Huskies, but the games would mean so much more in a conference setting. I do not want this school to be a pushover, but at the same time, I want all of our teams to play in a competitive environment. I think the only sport where the Big Ten is stronger is football, but I think in terms of playing competitively, the ACC suits UConn better. Travel would be easier for teams and fans alike. And as someone who cares about rivalries, as I have already said, I think Syracuse and Boston College are better
draws – given our history – than, say, Ohio State and Penn State. I think that, overall, a more prosperous future is in the ACC. Danny: I just do not think the ACC has shown UConn the amount of respect it has earned, simply passing over the Huskies time after time. Because of this, I do not want to join an unstable conference full of schools that stabbed the Big East and left. The Big Ten offers elite football and basketball. Rutgers might be the only current rivalry waiting for UConn in the Big Ten, but there is always room for new rivalries, especially in men’s basketball against schools like Indiana and Michigan State.
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Boston College head coach Erik Johnson looks on during practice at the NCAA college basketball Atlantic Coast Conference tournament in Greensboro, N.C., Wednesday.
» NCAA BASKETBALL
Pinkston leads Villanova over No. 5 Georgetown PHILADELPHIA (AP) — the dash. That gave the Wildcats Georgetown joined some elite the chance to head behind the company. Just not in the kind of basket and salute the ones that category the Hoyas wanted. stuck around. JayVaughn Pinkston scored 20 The Wildcats beat then-No. points to help Villanova beat a 17 Marquette to improve to 4-2 top-five team for the third time against Top 25 teams. That's put this season, 67-57 over No. 5 the Wildcats in the thick of tourGeorgetown on Wednesday ney talk. night. "We hear it," Pinkston said. Georgetown, Louisville "We try not to think about it." and Syracuse were all ranked Darrun Hilliard scored 14 in the top five before losing to points, Ryan Arcidiacono had 11 the Wildcats at the Wells Fargo and Mouphtaou Yarou grabbed Center. 12 rebounds for the Wildcats, Otto Porter Jr. scored 17 points who finished 30 of 42 from the as the Hoyas (23-5, 13-4) had an free throw line compared to 11-game winning streak snapped. Georgetown going 4 of 8 from The Big East leaders lost for the there. first time since Jan. 19, against The Wildcats still have the Big South Florida. East tournament While the Wildcats ahead. But they were playing to have won enough bolster their NCAA Villanova 67 big games to start tournament creabout the Georgetown 57 thinking dentials, the Hoyas NCAA tournament. would have been It's a swift turnguaranteed at least a share of the around after the Wildcats finished regular season title with a win. 13-19 last season and missed the "We needed this game, NCAA tournament for the first also," Georgetown coach John time since 2004. The 19 losses Thompson III said. "We're play- were a season-worst for a proing for a championship. That's gram that started playing in 1920. something just as important. We The Hoyas were playing for were desperate coming into this a No. 1 seed in the both the Big game, also." East and NCAA tournaments. The Wildcats (19-12, 10-8 But they committed a whopping Big East) also beat then-No. 23 turnovers and never made the 5 Louisville and then-No. 3 big shots down the stretch. Syracuse and have put them"They came out and were selves in solid shape for at least extremely aggressive," an NCAA tournament at-large Thompson said. "You have to bid. give them credit for what they The Wildcats may not play in did, as well as us being careless March at their off-campus home, with the ball." but they expect to be chasing Pinkston's 3-pointer midway the championship somewhere. through the second half pushed With three top-five wins on the the lead to eight and the Wildcats resume, coach Jay Wright said held off a brief Hoyas' run with the Wildcats should be tourna- seven straight points from the ment bound. free throw line. "I would think given where Hilliard shook off early foul everything is right now, we trouble to bury a 3-pointer and would be," Wright said. "We also make it 54-48. Arcidiacono folknow we're close enough that lowed with two free throws and things could happen, too." the crowd of 13,685 went wild Villanova students stormed the sensing yet another upset. court after the first two wins The Wildcats were one of the and security lined the baseline rare teams this season to crack again Wednesday. With students Georgetown's defense, one of the on break, only a few fans made stingiest in the nation. The Hoyas
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Georgetown's Otto Porter Jr. shoots over Villanova's Darrun Hilliard and JayVaughn Pinkston.
held teams to 38 percent shooting and only Pittsburgh cracked 50 percent in a game this season. Led by Pinkston inside and James Bell outside, the Wildcats hovered around the 50 percent mark to torment the Hoyas. Plus 13 steals with 3:40 left in the game sure didn't hurt the Wildcats. Villanova's defense tightened up and forced Georgetown into rushing shots with ticks of the shot clock left. "We were still able to get decent looks, we just weren't able to knock them down," Porter said. Pinkston missed two free throws and the late meltdown so similar to ones in losses last week at Seton Hall and Pittsburgh appeared under way. Pinkston steadied himself from the line the
next time down and hit two for a six-point lead. Hilliard forced a steal at midcourt, then drew Moses Ayegba's fifth foul. He made one of two from the line and Villanova kept a comfortable lead the rest of the way. The Wildcats are feeling good for Wright after some mediocre seasons following their 2009 Final Four appearance. "We know that he's just driving us," Hilliard said. "He wants us to be great and we want to be great." The Wildcats had six turnovers in their first 12 possessions of the game but took the lead when Bell hit consecutive 3s. Arcidiacono hit Bell on a baseline fly-by for a highlightreel dunk. Arcidiacono added a 3-pointer to send Villanova into halftime with a 33-29 lead.
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Callahan: Seek out the sports you don't know as well, see a pro game live from LOVE AT, page 12 moments later, the previously passive referees bring it all to a halt and the game continues. Life goes on. But not before one of the most agile, skilled players in the world, Evander Kane, strikes gold with a goal for the Jets. For the hometown fans, it’s now 1-0 bad guys. Following more hitting and swift skating, the first period closes with a late tip-in score by the Flyers. Winnipeg opened the game with a dominating 12-1 edge in shots, but Philly answered twofold by tying things up both in the shots department and on the scoreboard. The Flyers then start the second frame much like you and I frequently do our days: by hitting snooze. As a result, the Jets now run circles around their slow and seemingly groggy hosts with two goals. The first comes following an amazing individual effort by a Winnipeg forward, who streaks down the right side of the ice before engaging in a 270-degree spin to create space from his defender. He then immediately fires a laser shot towards the net from 30 feet away, which fills the far upper corner of the net.
Hardly a soul in attendance can believe the score, let alone exude anything about it, and so a silent appreciation falls over the Wells Fargo Arena. The silence grows even stronger after the Jets score again. However, with time winding down, Philly captain Claude Giroux rockets a puck, whose speed seems to challenges the sound barrier, between the pipes for a goal. Arguably the best young talent in the game livens the whole place up by bringing the game to 3-2 with 20 minutes left to go. Then, the Broad Street Bullies get to work. Pounding their way through their visitors, the Flyers force Winnipeg into a number of mistakes with physical play. The results are a couple of powerplay opportunities that result in two goals within just minutes of each other. The whole place is sent into a frenzy. A full resurrection from a two-goal deficit seems to be imminent. But then, deliriousness dissolves quickly into paralyzing anxiety. With a long 100 seconds remaining, the Jets fly an extra skater out on to the ice and reel in their goaltender. The offensive
heat gets turned up a notch and the Philadelphia goal gets peppered with shots. The puck seems to be a magnet for both the Flyer goalie and the pipes, as ricochets never stray far and blasts toward the net are in abundance. One minute left. Then, 30 seconds to go. We tick down to 10. Finally, a fateful bounce takes place. The frozen black rubber vaults itself out from the Philadelphia defensive zone towards the empty Winnipeg goal. A skate race ensues, and is narrowly won by 22-year-old Philly center Zac Rinaldo, who fulfills every little Canadian kid’s dream: lighting the lamp just before the final horn. The Flyers win 5-3, and everyone goes home happy, including yours truly. Now, for those of you who are in the position I was a few weeks ago, meet the NHL; the highest level of the best live sporting event there is. Presently, I still don’t know much about the league, but I can tell you that their games are just like that— fast, physical, dynamic and pretty damn rousing. However, that doesn’t mean I was lying to you earlier about this
» GOLF
UConn swings its way to 10th-place finish
By Scott Bernier Campus Correspondent The UConn golf team, led by freshmen Zach Zaback and John Flaherty, finished 10th out of the 12-team field Tuesday at the Charleston Shootout in Charleston, S.C. Despite some blustery conditions, with wind gusts up to 25 miles per hour, Zaback and Flaherty remained calm and gave impressive performances, finishing tied for 26th in the 84-player individual competition. John Flaherty has been a top finisher in UConn’s first two tournaments, displaying a variety of shots and precision on the green to shoot a 73-78-74-225 over the 54-hole tournament. Fellow freshman Zack Zaback returned to form, matching his teammate with a 75-74-76-225, an aggregate score of nine over par. Other UConn players braving the
conditions include sophomore Chris Wiatr, who submitted a 54-hole score of 232 to finish in a tie for 48th, while freshman Stephen Pastore finished 74th with an aggregate score of 249. In a strong, competitive field, USC Upstate won the tournament with an overall score of 881, for a total of 17 over par, while Sam Houston State came in second with an aggregate score of 886. The individual event ended in a three–way tie between John Duke Hudson of the College of Charleston, Easton Renwick of Coastal Carolina and Hayden Garrett of Clemson, who each shot an even-par 216 over 54 holes. Other schools to compete this week included High Point University, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Stetson University and Loyola University of Maryland. The Huskies were able to outlast Navy and Hofstra. The team will be in action again in two
weeks at the Mission Inn Spring Spectacular, held at the Mission Inn Resort in Howeyin-the-Hills, F.L. The tournament will be the first of two held in Florida this month, a welcome change of scenery for the Huskies. The Huskies close out their busy month at the Florida Atlantic University Spring Break Championship in Lake Worth, F.L., from March 29 to 31. With two tournaments completed, the Huskies have shown progress in dealing with difficult courses and equally difficult competition. As they will work to improve for the Big East Conference Championship at the end of April. The youth movement on display currently has provided a boost for this team, and they will look again to their freshmen front-runners to carry this team forward in Florida.
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Flyers-Jets contest being average, as there have been far, far better hockey games played and just as many that were worse. But what you can see is that even the so-so battles of the NHL can be and are spectacular, just like any professional game. The details are all there, if you take the time to look. And up until a few weekends ago, I hardly took a peek inside a pro rink at all. Knowing what I do now about the sport, the regret of waiting so long weighs a bit heavy. So, as a new fan, I urge you to go seek the sports currently unfamiliar, because there’s always more to learn and enjoy. The point here wasn’t to detail personal experience for the sake of reading how much I had a ball that day. That wouldn’t be a column; it would be a diary entry. The idea is to share the fact you can’t quite understand a game until you’ve seen in person. You can’t soak up the atmosphere produced unless you’re inside its bubble. You can’t see the whole picture of any sport through the small frame placed over it by TV. I used to not know the NHL even a one-hundredth as well as I could have. But presently, I do and thus now love (sorry, got to be
careful, *really, really like spending time with) it to the point of pouring more money and time into seeing future games. To be fair, I’m well aware that some tried and true hockey fans would love to sock me where the sun don’t shine right now, because NHL followers are among the most tight-knight sport followings in the entire country. No new or fair-weather fans allowed. I get it. Puck-heads parking only. That’s fine. Why? Well, because it’s their sport, they know hockey better than other fans do their games and to some rink rats, if you don’t know the difference between real icing and that thin layer on your birthday cake, then you ought to get the hell out. Or at least be prepared to throw down. Either is fine with them. Sure, it sounds brash. But that’s a real side of the National Hockey League. And you wouldn’t know that unless you went to a game and spoke with people who go regularly. These few folk absolutely deserve to hold that attitude. Even excluding the fact there is inexcusable lack of national coverage their league receives, NHL fans were forced to endure two awful labor
disputes in the past decade. But, they stuck by their game. Now, even lockouts aside, there’s still plenty you could needle the league for, just like any pro sports conglomerate or large organization, for that matter. But you can’t knock it for failing to deliver in the same great entertainment and goodness that sports as a whole give to society. It’s fantastic. To modify a line from the late, great Herb Brooks, we weren’t all born to be hockey players. Nor even born to be hockey fans. Or, for that matter, grow up a baseball, basketball, football, soccer player or follower. But someplace along the way, we all start to enjoy the common threads all sports share —excitement, passion, togetherness, etc. And those things don't change from game to game. So go ahead, spend a couple bucks and see a live, professional game that you don’t know well. Who knows. If it’s hockey, you may just fall in love at first ice. Follow Andrew on Twitter: @ACallahan24
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The number of complete games pitched by softball pitcher Kiki Saveriano in seven starts.
» That’s what he said “There were some pretty well-stroked balls, but that’s just a part of baseball.”
Men’s Basketball (20-9)
– Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester on his performance yesterday afternoon in a sping training game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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That’s my Boyd!
Women’s Basketball (27-3) March 10 Big East Tournament 6 p.m.
Men’s Hockey (17-13-4) March 15 Atlantic Hockey Quarterfinals 7:05 p.m.
Baseball (6-3) March 9 Sam Houston State 5 p.m
March 10 Sam Houston State 2 p.m
March 12 March 13 Central Sacred Heart Connecticut 3:30 p.m. 3 p.m.
Softball (8-6) March 16 March 16 March 17 March 17 March 19 Central Central Hofstra Hofstra Sacred Heart Connecticut Connecticut 11 a.m. 2:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 4 p.m. 4 p.m.
Lacrosse (4-0) March 9 Fairfield Noon
March 16 March 22 March 26 Binghamton Syracuse Oregon 1 p.m. 3 p.m. 4 p.m.
April 5 Rutgers 3 p.m.
Men’s Track and Field March 8 NCAA Championships Alll Day
Men’s Swimming & Diving March 15 March 16 NCAA Zone Diving Championship NCAA Zone Diving Championship All Day All Day
Women’s Swimming & Diving March 15 NCAA Zone Diving Championship All Day
March 16 NCAA Zone Diving Championship All Day
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Sara Whalen (1994-1998)
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March 9 Providence Noon
Tomorrow Sam Houston State 7:30 p.m
Where are they now? Jon Lester
By Mike Peng Campus Correspondent
For any women’s soccer fan, the image of Brandi Chastain after she scored the winning penalty kick for Team USA in the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup Final against China is unforgettable. Although Chastain was the heroine that day, the most noticeable feature on the picture that appeared on the cover of the July 19, 1999 edition of Time Magazine was a woman bear-hugging Chastain marked with the number “7.” That woman was UConn’s own Sara Whalen. Whalen enrolled at UConn after graduating high school in 1994. She played as a defender for the Huskies in her first three seasons while earning the 1995 and 1996 Big East Defensive Player of the Year honors. In her senior year, head coach Len Tsantiris moved Whalen to the midfield/ forward position, and she didn’t let it go to waste, by scoring a team-best 21 goals with 22 assists that season. One of Whalen’s most memorable highlights at UConn came in the 1997 NCAA Final Four against the then-undefeated Notre Dame Fighting Irish, as she scored both goals in the 2-1 upset win. Over her four seasons as a Husky, Whalen started in a school record of 99 games. She also earned numerous accolades, including NSCAA First-Team All-American from 1995-1997, the NSCAA Player of the Year in 1997 and the Honda Award (nation’s best collegiate female athlete) winner in 1998. During the summers from 1998 to 2000, Whalen became a contributive reserve player on the U.S. national team. The squad won the 1999 World Cup and took home silver from the 2000 Summer Olumpics in Syndey. By the time Whalen returned from the Olympics, the Women’s United Soccer Association was established, and she was assigned to the New York Power prior the inaugural 2001 season. There, Whalen helped the Power to finish third out of the eight teams in the league that year, including a trip to the semifinals. However, Whalen suffered a horrific injury the next season as she tore both the anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament in her right knee after colliding with an opposing player during a match. Shortly after the reconstructive surgery, Whalen had developed a life-threatening infection that caused her heart to temporarily stop pumping during an operation. Whalen made several attempts over the next two years to come back to the sport, but ultimately had to forfeit her career due to the injuries. Since then, Whalen has gotten married to Jon Hess, a Princeton alum and a Nasdaq trader. She also competed in the New York City Marathon in 2004 and finished with a time of four hours, 19 AP minutes and 38 seconds.
Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd throws a pass on the first day of the NCAA college football team’s spring practice, Wednesday, March 6, 2013, in Clemson, S.C.
Michael.Peng@UConn.edu
» NBA
Ibaka no-call leaves NBA community baffled
By Eddie Leonard NBA Western Conference Columnist Some of the best in the West faced each other this past Sunday when the Clippers hosted the Thunder in a highly anticipated conference showdown. Along with the Miami Heat, these two teams are among the most exciting, high flying teams in basketball. The Thunder won the game, 106-102, despite an amazing comeback by the Clippers. However, people are not talking about the comeback or the statement road victory for the Thunder as much as they are discussing the actions of one of the Thunder’s players, Serge Ibaka. Ibaka, the starting power forward for the Thunder, got in an altercation with the Clippers’ well known dunking power forward, Blake Griffin. In this case, altercation is not defined as a normal scuffle. With just under two minutes left in the game, Ibaka boxed out Griffin under the hoop, and swung his arm and hit him right in the groin area as Matt Barnes hit a three to cut the Thunder’s lead to two. After watching the replay, you can clearly see Ibaka glance down, aim and swing at the Griffin’s forbidden area. Griffin dropped to the court for a little while but
ended up staying in the game. Ibaka, on the other hand, was only given a flagrant one foul, which means he would remain in the game. Only a flagrant two foul can lead to an ejection. The Clippers fans flipped out at the call, and could not believe that Ibaka was going to remain in the game. Little did the fans know that Ibaka would get fouled while making a clutch bucket with under a minute left in the game and drill the accompanying free throw. His three-point play gave the Thunder a four-point lead that ultimately sealed the game. After the game, the Twitter world erupted with comments from superstars including Griffin, Dwayne Wade and even LeBron James. If you recall, earlier in the year, Dwayne Wade was suspended on an incidental kick to the groin of the Bobcats’ Ramon Sessions. That kick, however, was nowhere near as blatant as Ibaka’s strike on Griffin. Wade was not only suspended, but he was fined over $200,000. It was ruled on Tuesday that Ibaka would not be suspended and would only be fined $25,000. There was clearly inconsistency in the two rulings, and writers and star players are looking for answers.
Blake Griffin will have a hard time getting those answers if the NBA continues to take the side of people like Kendrick Perkins. After the game Perkins told the media that, “The dude is known for flopping anyway, so that’s what it is. Serge ends up getting the bad end of the stick. I didn’t like the whole thing, period. I thought it should’ve been a double foul.” Obviously, you can expect this reaction from Perkins because he is Ibaka’s teammate. To his point though, yes, when I think of Griffin, I too picture offensive fouls with his furious dunks and terrible flops when someone tries to dunk or drive on him, but just because he has a reputation for flopping does not mean we can just ignore the instant replay. We can clearly see Ibaka look down, aim, swing and strike the Dunk Champion’s groin area. It was obvious that it was intentionally done to harm Griffin. It was not just an arm swinging out of control. Even though the NBA decided to idiodically rule that Ibaka would only be fined $25,000 and face no suspension, it does not change the fact that the foul was a flagrant two. The NBA did say that the call should have been called a flagrant-two, but
the ruling is too little, too late. These two teams have two of the best records in the entire league. They are currently tied in the win column, and that game was a crucial contest, which was affected severely by the non-ejection of Ibaka. Ibaka scored on that “andone” play with under a minute left that essentially clinched the win for the Thunder. Referees may not always get the calls right, but when Stu Jackson and the NBA front office sit down in a non-hostile, air conditioned room, they should be able to get the correct call, and unfortunately they did not. They were quick to pin Dwayne Wade with a suspension, but not Serge Ibaka. Wade also was not a previous offender. The only thing he ever did was break Kobe Bryant’s nose in an all-star game, because Kobe shot on every possession, thinking if you drive to the hole, no one will contest you. Wade only reminded him that they were still playing a game. Now, someone has to remind Ibaka of the same thing. It is only a game, it might have the intensity of war, but it is not a war. And even in war, a below the belt shot is still looked down upon.
Edward.Leonard_iii@UConn.edu
» INSIDE SPORTS TODAY
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Love at first ice
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RUN OVER BY THE BULLS UConn sluggish, sloppy in final road game
Andrew Callahan
It was intended as just a good way to pass the time. Over a recent Saturday afternoon I planned to get in, sit for a few hours amid the crowd, process what I was watching and then head out. The idea was simple. And by the time I took a seat, everything had been going according to uncomplicated plan. However, the occasion then developed into more than watching and waiting - in fact, something much, much more. Now, while the above description could just as aptly illustrate attending a 1920s silent film, it actually refers to the complete oppostion—the loud, violent, lively and brash nature of the National Hockey League. I’m talking about my very first NHL game, which I attended alone and almost by complete accident. Not too long ago, I found myself down in Philadelphia as a witness to a contest between the middling 7-8-1 Winnipeg Jets and unspectacular 8-101 Flyers, in what should have been a truly regular game in this regular season. The two teams did not share much of a history and could not boast of being anything special on their own. In fact, with each squad facing more important games in the days ahead, this puck dropping almost seemed like a bridge just to get there. Sounds just scintillating, doesn’t it? Well, I’ll tell you what it certainly doesn’t sound like - the start of a love story. But, that’s exactly what this afternoon was for me (or at the very least, a fling. I don’t want to scare the league away by getting too serious just yet.). So, how does that happen over a game that no one likely remembers at all, excluding any five-year old who caught a free t-shirt that afternoon? It goes like this: Two Saturdays ago, the puck drops. Less than five minutes later, two sets of gloves follow suit. Hockey’s usual, incredible balance of speed and physicality is put on hold, as the symmetry is smashed into bits while a fight breaks out. Punches land, jeers fly and the entire crowd is on their feet, as though $20 bills are about to fall to them like confetti. A few
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Martino Brock scored 18 points, Victor Rudd had 17, and South Florida beat Connecticut 65-51 on Wednesday night. “He’s a high-energy guy, and he gives us another option scoring and making plays,” South Florida coach Stan Heath said of Brock. “It makes us a better team and a tougher team to guard.” Zach LeDay added 11 points for the Bulls (1217, 3-14 Big East), who have won two straight following a 10-game losing streak. Connecticut (19-10, 9-8) got 23 points and 10 rebounds from DeAndre Daniels. Huskies junior guard Shabazz Napier, averaging 17.6 points in conference games, missed his second consecutive game due to a foot injury. Brock had three baskets and Toarlyn Fitzpatrick made a long-range jumper during an 11-2 surge that gave South Florida a 39-34 lead 5 minutes into the second half. Brock’s layup, a 3-pointer by Rudd and a free throw from LeDay made it 47-36 with 10:10 left. “The second half was the key,” Heath said. “It was kind of a boxing match back and forth, and both teams were throwing punches. I thought the second half, after the first two minutes, we got on a run, and we kept our foot right where it needed to be and finished the way we wanted to.” Brock converted a fast-break layup to put the Bulls ahead 53-38. Consecutive slams by Rudd made it 61-44 with 4:07 remaining.
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South Florida’s Toarlyn Fitzpatrick (32) blocks the shot of Deandre Daniels (2) during the first half of a last night’s game in Tampa, Fla.
» WOMEN’S LACROSSE
Huskies best Bobcats, remain undefeated
By Erica Brancato Staff Writer
The UConn women’s lacrosse team beat University of New Hampshire 11-9 Wednesday afternoon in their home opener. The Huskies battled through the wind, rain and snow to remain undefeated so far this season. UConn’s Lauren Kahn scored the first goal of the game on a free position shot giving the Huskies a 1-0 lead within five minutes of the first half. After UConn’s first goal, UNH aggressively came back scoring two goals giving them a 2-1 advantage. UConn’s Carly Palmucci, Kacey Pippitt, Catherine Gross and Morgan O’Reilly each scored goals to give UConn a 5-2 lead with 10 minutes left. However, by the end of the first half, UNH scored two more goals making it a 6-4 Husky lead. The second half UConn came out on top, scoring two goals within minutes of each other. Morgan
O’Reilly and Jordan Christopher each scored goals to help UConn lead 8-4. The Bobcats made it clear from the start that they were not giving up without a fight. Toward the end of the second half, New Hampshire’s Jenny Simpson scored three consecutive goals in a row along with Laura McHoul’s one goal to bring the score up to 10-9. Although UConn was still ahead by one, there was 10 minutes left on the clock, giving the opposing team ample time to tie or even win the game. The Huskies managed to hold off the Bobcats for the remaining time, while Ally Fazio scored one last goal for the Huskies ending the game at 11-9. “Our weaknesses were that we didn’t really support the ball the way we could have,” head coach Katie Woods said. “We turned the ball over a lot and it was a lot of forced turnovers so it was just kind of awareness and taking care of the ball ..But strengths I think we did pretty well on the draw. We
had a couple times where it got a little dicey but for the most part we won the draws... and at the end of the game when it mattered we did handle the pressure.” With the win over New Hampshire, UConn remains undefeated with a 4-0 record this season. In order to keep the momentum up the coaches are trying to keep the players grounded and focused for the games ahead. “I think we need to stay focused on the little things, you know,” Woods said. Taking care of the ball, making sure our shots follow, things like that, and continuing to really focus on our defense and getting better in those areas as opposed to getting caught up in the excitement of an undefeated situation.” UConn will be put to the test in their next game against Fairfield on March 9.
Erica.Brancato@UConn.edu
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Senior midfielder Lizzie Brown moves upfield yesterday against UNH. UConn won 11-9.
Given a choice, would you place UConn in the Big Ten or ACC? Big Ten
By Danny Maher Senior Staff Writer It is a sad truth but it is time to admit that the Big East, as we know it, is dead. Despite boasting one of the most dominate athletic programs in the country over the last 25 years, UConn has been left unwanted on several occasions and has not received an invitation to join a better conference such as the Big Ten or the ACC. Although there are no signs that either conference will be making a call to Storrs anytime soon, I hope UConn would join the Big Ten because of the football superiority and overall stability compared to the ACC. Would the Big Ten be the best landing spot...
Daniel.Maher@UConn.edu
» POINT/COUNTERPOINT Tim: I grew up a UConn fan. As someone who spent their childhood at Gampel Pavilion and the Hartford Civic Center, as it was called back then, I do not like seeing football drive college sports, especially at a basketball school. I don’t want to see basketball suffer, and I think therefore that the ACC is an ideal location. Danny: There is no question UConn men’s basketball put the university on the map, but there is also no question that football brings in significantly more money than basketball does. The Big Ten claims some of the most storied football programs in the country, including Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State. The ACC is comparatively weak in football and there is no promise that Florida State and Clemson won’t bolt when/if the SEC looks to expand.
Tim: The Big Ten is stronger in football. That goes without saying. Football brings in the money, but I also worry about UConn’s ability to attract fans to watch the team get pummeled by Ohio State, Michigan and company every year. The ACC as a league is weaker, but rivalry games against Syracuse, Boston College and Louisville, among others, would attract fans, and the games would be more competitive. Danny: I do think Rentschler Field can easily attract 40,000 fans on a Saturday to come see the Huskies take on the Badgers, Spartans, Illini, etc. It is tough to see virtually all UConn’s rivals find their new home in the ACC but our biggest football rival, Rutgers, is going to the Big Ten.
» WHICH, page 9
By Tim Fontenault Staff Writer
ACC
At this point, I’m not getting very optimistic about the possibility of UConn leaving the Conference With No Name. A move would require a domino falling in another conference, which does not seem imminent. Add in that UConn is about to take home $20-30 million as a result of the settlement with the Catholic – offsetting the abysmal television deal with ESPN – and it does not seem like we are going anywhere soon. But if UConn does end up leaving, hopefully it will be for a reunion with Syracuse as a member of the ACC.
Tim.Fontenault@UConn.edu
...or the basketball focused ACC?