The Daily Campus: April 1, 2014

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Huskies reach the Final Four for the seventh straight year, Mosqueda-Lewis named regional MOP

By Matt Stypulkoski Associate Sports Editor Geno Auriemma said after his team’s hard-fought win over BYU that the NCAA tournament isn’t supposed to be easy.

Monday night, No. 3 Texas A&M made sure it wasn’t, but it was still top-seeded UConn that advanced to the Final Four with a 69-54 win.

“It’s not easy to beat anybody at this time of the year because everybody’s playing their best basketball,” Auriemma said.

“We beat a pretty good team today, and I’m really proud of my team. I thought they were really, really, really good when we needed to be really, really, really good.”

Two days after falling behind in the second half for the first time all season against BYU, the Huskies matched their biggest deficit of the season – seven points – 6:12 into the game.

But the points came in bunches for UConn. A 7-0 run

over 1:28 leveled the score at 11-11, and a 15-2 stretch that spanned 5:17 stretched the lead to 13 points.

Texas A&M, however, would not go away. By the first media timeout of the second half, the Aggies had the UConn lead down to three points before the Huskies made a push to turn them away.

“It was really important (to stay composed),” Moriah Jefferson said. “That’s why the last game (vs. BYU), it was really important that we did, because we knew that we could. We had to come out and grind it out and turn up the defense.”

A big piece of the Huskies’ defense was their size and strength in the paint. UConn blocked 10 shots on the night – eight courtesy of Stefanie Dolson – which pushed them past Baylor’s NCAA record of 310 rejections in a single season.

Dolson finished the night nearing a triple-double, with

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Moriah Jefferson drives through St. Joseph’s defense in an NCAA women’s basketball tournament game last month. The Huskies’ triumph over Texas A&M in last night’s matchup will take the team to the Final Four in Nashville, Tenn., where they will play the winner of the North Carolina and Stanford in today’s Elite Eight game.

14 points and 10 rebounds.

After a terrible 3-for-19 3-point shooting night against the Cougars in the Sweet 16, the Huskies started off cold

Ukraine group speaks out

from behind the arc once again.

But they settled in after missing all of their first four shots and finished the night at 39 percent.

Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis knocked down the first of those 3s, and seven of 15 field goals on the night. Her 17 teamhigh points helped earn her

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president for the last two.

“When I joined, the Bioethics club was a niche organization that was perpetually in danger of losing its status as a registered student organization because it had so few members,” Rowland said.

Today, the Bioethics Executive Board alone has more members than the club’s general membership during her freshman year and holds 2-3 special events per year.

Last year, writers had to be comfortable in the bioethics field to have a chance of being published as a way to establish legitimacy for their new journal. Most work published was written by undergraduate bioethics students for other bioethics students. However, the second edition is more disciplinary and accessible, seeking to draw the attention of the UConn community as a whole.

“The second edition is slightly different in that more of our authors are not formally studying bioethics, they just find the subject fascinating. I think this had led to our second edition being a really fantastic mix of technical bioethics and applied bioethics research, with our authors coming from a host of different backgrounds and drawing on a variety of different experiences,” Rowland said.

“Bioethics is an interesting and important topic for all undergrads to think about and we try to convince everyone of that!”

unanimous Lincoln Regional Most Outstanding Player honors and continued her streak of

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Bioethics club launches New Daily Campus ‘The Ethical Biologist’ Russian occupation of Crimea causes worry with students promotions

By Kathleen McWilliams Senior Staff Writer

The lack of response from the international community on the subject of Russian President Vladimir Putin invading Ukraine’s autonomous province is deplorable, representatives from the Ukrainian Student Association (USA) said.

“We’re really concerned nothing is being done about the fact that Russia invaded a country,” Roma Romaniv, member of USA, said.

The situation in Ukraine began to unfold in November after then President Viktor Yanukovych rejected a pending European Union association agreement that would allow the country to have close ties with the EU. Protestors took to the streets to demonstrate against his government and to call for his resignation. What unfolded in Maidan Square escalated into violent protest and the invasion of Crimea by Russian forces.

What happens next is anyone’s guess, but USA members were skeptical that action will be taken on an international level.

“The major problem is nothing is going to be done,” Natalia Pylypyszyn, Daily Campus photographer and President of the Ukrainian Student Association, said.

Luda Susla, another member, said that what is happening in the Ukraine is altogether too similar to a situation that unfolded in Europe 70 years ago.

“This is the 21st Century,” Susla said. “I’d expect this 60 to 70 years ago. We’ve seen this in history before with Hitler in Poland.”

Pylypyszyn said that coincidentally, Poland has become one of Ukraine’s biggest supporters. Internationally, Poland

Tymoshenko. The group tabled in the student union with a petition that called for Tymoshenko’s release and accountability by the Ukrainian government.

Corruption, according to the group, has plagued Ukrainian politics since its independence from the Soviet Union.

“The reason there is corruption,” Susla said, “Its not because they’re bad people, it’s because they need to survive.”

Pylypyszyn added that ending governmental corruption that allowed for lavish presidential palaces is part of what the movement wants to change.

“It’s about changing the Luda Susla whole system in general,” said. “Ukraine Ukrainian Student Pylypyszyn has natural resources and Association member is a highly educated country, but the system is so wrong.” has printed their Coca Cola As for solutions to the concans with the saying “Glory flict, the group agreed that for to Ukraine” and on campus, Ukrainians their sense is that the Polish Cultural Society has splittling the country in two reached out and even created a or annexing Crimea is not the video to raise awareness on the desired outcome. situation.

“It’s so counterintuitive “Poland has been our biggest because it undermines what ally. Even here, the President Ukraine has been trying to of the Polish Club reached do,” Romaniv said. out to us and made a video,” As for how UConn students Pylypyszyn said. can get involved, the group Other attempts at rais- agreed that boycotting Russian ing awareness have included goods was an easy step to take. tabling by the USA to pro“The very least you can do mote awareness not only on is boycott Russian vodka,” the violence in Maidan square, Pylypyszyn said. but the jailing and torture of former Prime Minister Julia Kathleen.McWilliams@UConn.edu

“This is the 21st Century, I’d expect this 60 to 70 years ago. We’ve seen this in history before with Hitler in Poland.”

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Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Barret Katuna Manchester Hall Basement Lounge

The UConn Bioethics Club is hosting a launch party event for their second edition of The Ethical Biologist this Friday April 4th from 2:30p.m. to 4:30p.m. in the Dodd Center.

The Ethical Biologist was first published by the Bioethics club last year and is UConn’s single peer-reviewed undergraduate research journal.

This means it publishes only original work from undergraduates at UConn and around the world. All papers published are reviewed and approved by undergraduate students.

The purpose of the Bioethics club is to “discuss the ethical rewards and ramifications of modern biological issues in a professional manner” according to their mission statement.

The group hopes to incorporate various viewpoints into debates and discussion materials, meeting regularly to consider ethical case studies and current events that raise bioethical questions.

The Ethical Biologist publishes original research articles, short opinion pieces, and “field notes” written with a more personal voice based on relevant personal experience. All cover contemporary bioethics topics.

“We’ve grown tremendously in the last two years as a result of creating The Ethical Biologist,” said president Megan Rowland, graduating Psychology and Physiology & Neurobiology double major.

Rowland has been involved in the club since her freshman year and has been serving as

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By Marissa Piccolo Staff Writer

The Daily Campus Board of Directors has chosen the new student management team for the upcoming Fall 2014 to Spring 2015 year. Brian Kavanagh will serve as business manager, Kathleen McWilliams as managing editor, and Katherine Tibedo, will serve as editor in chief.

The team considers reconnecting with the UConn student body their main focus.

“Keeping readership up and making sure students keep picking up a physical copy of our paper is important,” McWilliams said, “which we can do through good headline writing and better pictures.”

McWilliams is a current senior staff writer.

“I want us to be more involved with the student body,” said Tibedo, who is the present news editor, “and that every student knows we’re where to go to when they want information about something going on at UConn.”

Along with including more content that’s attractive to students, Tibedo hopes to make the paper more visible on campus through sponsoring small events.

Examples include current events panels and having the photography department host a free portraits sessions in the Student Union.

“I’ve been involved since my freshman year and moving up the more involved I was, the more ideas I had for how to make the paper better,” Tibedo said. “The

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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Passover meals at Nosh Kitchen Gelfenbein Commons offers special meals for holiday

ASSAULT/BREACH OF PEACE March 25 A woman, 21, of Waterbury, was arrested at 126 North Eagleville Road and charged with disorderly conduct and assault on a police officer, fire marshall or EMS. The woman turned herself into police on an outstanding warrant for her arrest stemming from a Feb. 2, 2014 incident. During the incident, the woman allegedly kicked emergency responders and spit at them. Her bond was set at $5,000 and her court date was March 31.

March 27 A man, 21, of Mansfield, was arrested at 249 Glenbrook Road and charged with breach of peace in the second degree and operation with a suspended or revoked license. Police were dispatched to Fairfield Way on reports of a male and female verbally arguing and leaving the area in a dark sedan. Police stopped a vehicle matching the description, and determined the operator had been involved in the disturbance. They also found the man was allegedly operating the vehicle with a suspended

license. His bond was set at $1,000 and his court date was March 28.

March 30 A man, 18, of Bristol, was arrested and charged with breach of peace in the second degree. The man was one of approximately 200 students celebrating on Hillside Road near Gampel Pavillion after the UConn men’s basketball team’s victory in the NCAA tournament. Police stated the crowd became unruly by throwing bottles, cans and other objects. The man was observed by police waving a burning magazine in the center of the crowd, allegedly inciting them further. His bond was set at $500 and his court date is April 8.

DRUGS March 25 A man, 21, of Norwich, was arrested at 2372 Alumni Drive and charged with illegal manufacturing, distribution and selling of cannabis, operating a drug factory, illegal manufacturing, distribution and selling of a controlled substance and possession of less than four ounces of a

controlled substance. Police responded to Hale Hall on a complaint of narcotics and arrested the man for allegedly selling marijuana and controlled substances from his dorm room. He was found in possession of Vyvanse pills, 1.8 ounces of marijuana, a digital scale, packaging materials and several water pipes.

His bond was set at $10,000 and his court date is scheduled for April 2 at Rockville Superior Court.

March 29 A man, 21, of Willimantic, was arrested at Horsebarn Hill Road and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, weapons in a motor vehicle and a first offense of possession of less than half an ounce of marijuana. The man was observed by police failing to yield the right of way at an intersection. Police conducted a motor vehicle stop and found the man to be in possession of a baseball bat which the man stated he had for protection – 5.86 grams of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. His bond was set at $1,000 and his court date is April 8.

GM recalls cause teen deaths DETROIT (AP) — As the deaths are tallied from General Motors’ delayed recall of compact cars, one thing is becoming clear: Of those killed, the majority were young.

In a way, this isn’t surprising. Low-priced cars like the Chevrolet Cobalt and Saturn Ion were marketed to young, firsttime buyers and parents shopping for their kids.

But price may not be the only reason for the disproportionate number of youthful deaths.

The faulty ignition switches behind the recall can shut off the engine while the car is in motion. When that happens, power-assisted steering and power brakes are lost, and the air bags won’t inflate in a crash.

In such a situation, inexperienced drivers are more likely to panic and be overwhelmed by the extra effort needed to control the car, safety experts say.

GM has linked 13 deaths to the problem. Others have a higher total, with the majority of victims under age 25. Many also were women, who safety experts say are less likely to have the upper body strength to wrestle a stalled car safely to the side of the road.

“With an entry-level car where you have a newly licensed driver, the freak-out will win the day,” said Robert Hilliard, a Texas personal injury lawyer who is suing GM in several cases. “All that those young drivers are going to do is respond to the panic.”

GM has admitted knowing for at least a decade that the switches were defective. Yet it didn’t start recalling 2.6 million Cobalts, Ions and other small

cars worldwide until February.

CEO Mary Barra has said GM’s safety processes were lacking, and she has bought in an outside attorney to review them.

Through media reports and contacts on a Facebook page, Laura Christian, birth mother of Amber Marie Rose, who was killed in a 2005 Maryland wreck in which a Cobalt air bag didn’t inflate, has found crashes that claimed 29 lives.

Of those, 15 were under age 25, and 18 were women.

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, drivers ages 16 to 24 were involved in 23 percent of the 35,306 fatal crashes in the U.S. in 2012.

Relatives of many who died will attend congressional hearings on the matter Tuesday and Wednesday, and many will wear T-Shirts with Amber’s picture.

Barra will appear as a witness and again issue a public apology, according to her prepared testimony.

Unlike drivers from previous generations, young people don’t know what it’s like to drive without power steering, safety experts say. Even some older drivers could be startled when power steering goes away.

Data suggest parents buy the small cars for their kids. For instance, 68 percent of people who now own Cobalts are 35 to 64 years old, according to the Edmunds.com automotive website. Many of those buyers were at an age when they had teenage children, said Karl Brauer, senior analyst at Kelley Blue Book.

Plus, many parents had the car title put in their names to

reduce insurance costs, he said.

Edmunds also said most buyers had household incomes under $100,000. That made the Cobalt appealing, because in most years it sold for a little over $15,000, or $1,000 to $3,500 less than the two top-selling small cars, the Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic, according to Edmunds.

Parents also complained to GM and the government about the cars on behalf of their children.

In a June 2005 letter to Chevrolet customer service, later forwarded to federal safety regulators, a New Jersey mother said a 2005 Cobalt stalled three times while being driven by her daughter. She said the problem was obvious: “The problem is the ignition turn switch is poorly installed. Even with the slightest touch, the car will shut off while in motion.”

Besides being affordable, the GM cars had four- or five-star ratings in most government crash test categories.

GM’s marketing of the Ion and Cobalt clearly was aimed at young people. Ion ads from the time posted on YouTube showed the car taking young passengers away from high school or childhood.

A Chevy ad portrayed the Cobalt as a renegade younger brother, bumping a Corvette in the rear and provoking a reaction from its older sibling.

Kelly Bard’s parents helped her buy a shiny black 2004 Ion when she was 16 and growing up in Wausau, Wis. “At the time, it really had high safety ratings,” she recalled. “It

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The Nosh Kitchen in Gelfenbein Commons will be serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner to students for Passover. Two seders will be served at the Hillel House seen above. Dietary restrictions on Passover include food made of five grains - oats, spelt, barley, rye, and wheat.

By Juila Werth Staff Writer The Nosh Kitchen in Gelfenbein Commons will be serving Passover breakfasts, lunches and dinners to students who register on the dining services website from April 14 through April 22.

The two seders, April 14 and 15, will be served at the Hillel House as well as in the Rome Ballroom by the Chabad house.

This year will be the eighth year that the Nosh Kitchen is making the kosher dietary restrictions of Passover easy for all Jewish students to follow.

“During Passover you can’t eat food made of the five grains – oats, spelt, barley, rye and wheat – in addition to the regular kosher restrictions, this means that there are a lot of prepared foods we can’t use anymore,” said Bruce Hessing, an Area Assistant Manager and Kosher Food Production Coordinator in Dining Services.

When the Passover meals first began eight years ago, a lot of food prepared specifically for Passover was bought and served by the Nosh Kitchen.

“Now we use as few prepared products as possible,” Hessing said, “instead we serve a lot of meat, poultry, fresh vegetables and some really good Passover desserts.”

It isn’t only the food that is of concern during Passover however. The kitchen that the food is prepared in must also be kashered – made pristinely clean – before the holiday begins.

“We clean the meat kitchen from top to bottom which takes three to four days, then we replace all the equipment with equipment that we only use during Passover,” said Stuart Snyder, a Mashgiach/ chef assistant in the Nosh Kitchen.

This cleaning process would be impossible were it not for the two kitchen set up provided. While the meat kitchen is being cleaned, the dairy kitchen is used, then it is completely closed for the extent of the holiday.

This two feature design is a feature that many non-Jewish students appreciate year round and will miss during the eight days of Passover when registration for kosher meals is required.

“A kosher meat kitchen

doesn’t contain even one drop of dairy which makes it great for lactose intolerant people,” Snyder said.

Vegetarians, on the other hand, benefit from the fact that absolutely no meat is allowed within the dairy kitchen.

“We get a lot of people who like all natural food too,” Hessing said. “Because of the numbers the dining halls must serve they have to buy prepared food. We are smaller, so we can do a whole lot more from scratch.”

UConn was one of the first schools to serve kosher food in a food court style dining hall and is one of the only schools that makes it available to all students. This was made possible by the contributions of many Jewish communities across Connecticut, but especially because of the donations of Morris N. Trachten, a Jewish UConn alum, who understood the need for a dining unit devoted to kosher cooking.

To register for the Passover meals students need to fill out the Passover Request Form, available on the Dining Services website.

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Huskies move to final four Usually the best offensive threat scoring double-digits in all 15 on the court, the sophomore NCAA tournament games she’s forward had just four points through played. the first 25 “She was just “For me to have minutes. incredible – offenEventually, sively and defen- the opportunity she found sively,” Jefferson a bit of a four times, and this said. rhythm and Breanna Stewart being my senior made a livfound herself ing from in foul trouble year, I’m just the charity early on and was stripe, scorforced to sit the extremely excited.” ing six of last eight minutes her 13 points of the first half. the But without their Stefanie Dolson from f r e e t h r o w National Player of line.

UConn center the Year candidate “ T h i s on the floor, the wasn’t even Huskies managed to outscore Breanna’s best ballgame, but Texas A&M 17-8 and carried she just does so much,” Texas an 11-point lead into the locker A&M coach Gary Blair said. room.

For the Huskies, this is the After the break, the long 15th Final Four in program layover showed for Stewart. history and the seventh straight

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year they’ve made it to the season’s final weekend.

“It feels amazing,” Dolson said. “It’s really unexplainable.

There’s a lot of people in the country that play basketball that can’t even say that they make it once or have the opportunity to play for a national championship. For me to have the opportunity four times, and this being my senior year, I’m just extremely excited.”

Dolson and Bria Hartley were both named to the Lincoln Regional all-tournament team, in addition to Texas A&M’s Courtney Walker and Courtney Williams.

UConn will play the winner of No. 2 Stanford and No. 4 North Carolina in Nashville, Tenn. Sunday. That game will take place at either 6:30 or 9 p.m. on ESPN.

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editor-in-chief position was really appealing to me because it gave me a way to continue to help make it better.”

The team also hopes to make the paper more accessible to the student body. They hope to build its social media presence and become more student and user-friendly, said Kavanagh, who works this semester as online marketing manager.

“Balancing the budget, as always, and insuring profitability will be key,” Kavanagh said.

As managing editor, McWilliams will be responsible for all designers and copy editors on a nightly basis. She noted that professionalism, functioning well and minimizing errors, is are her main priorities. “The position is really hands-on and I like that,” said McWilliams, “We’ve gotten a lot of compliments on how profes-

sional our paper is and I want to keep it that way.”

Both McWilliams and Tibedo will work to establish a training program for new writers, to offset the loss of many talented graduating seniors and the experience gap. Along with continuing to give constructive criticism, “News Seminars” have been proposed to get writers to interact more and build a stronger newsroom.

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Power steering issues plague GM cars marketed to teens

NEW HAVEN (AP) — A former Republican congressional candidate and her husband pleaded guilty on Monday in a scheme to set up a phony contract to hide the role played in the campaign by ex-Gov. John G. Rowland, who resigned a decade ago in a corruption scandal.

Lisa Wilson-Foley and Brian Foley pleaded guilty in Hartford. Rowland has not been charged in the ongoing investigation, and a message left for his attorney was not immediately returned.

Wilson-Foley, Foley and Rowland entered into an unlawful conspiracy in 2011 to make illegal contributions to WilsonFoley’s campaign to hide Rowland’s role in the campaign, prosecutors said. The scheme involved creating a fictitious contract between Rowland and an attorney who worked for Foley’s nursing home company, authorities said.

Rowland was paid about $35,000 for services to the campaign, authorities said. The payments originated with Foley and constituted campaign contributions but were not reported to the Federal Election Commission in

violation of federal campaign finance laws, prosecutors said.

Rowland, a Republican, resigned as governor in 2004 and was released from prison in 2006 after serving 10 months on a corruption-related charge.

Wilson-Foley was a candidate in the hotly contested 5th Congressional District representing northwestern Connecticut. She lost the Republican primary.

As part of the scheme, Rowland proposed that he be hired to work on the campaign, authorities said.

Wilson-Foley wanted Rowland to work on the campaign but believed that because he had previously been convicted of a felony disclosure of his paid role in the campaign would result in substantial negative publicity for her candidacy, prosecutors said.

To retain his services for the campaign while reducing the risk that his paid campaign role would be disclosed to the public, Wilson-Foley, Foley and Rowland agreed that he would be paid by Foley to work on the campaign, authorities said.

Foley made regular payments to Rowland for his work on

behalf of his wife’s campaign and routed those payments from his real estate company through the law offices of the attorney, prosecutors said.

Rowland provided nominal services to Foley’s nursing home company to create a “cover” that he was being paid for those services when, in fact, he was being paid in exchange for his work on behalf of Wilson-Foley’s campaign, authorities said.

Wilson-Foley and Foley each face up to one year in prison and a fine of up to $100,000 when they are sentenced on June 23.

Court papers outlining the charges quote emails from a coconspirator identified in court as Rowland.

In one email, authorities say, Rowland wrote that “I want to stay under the radar as much as possible” and that “after Clark gets out of the race it can be different.”

Mike Clark is a former FBI agent who investigated the case that ultimately sent Rowland to prison. He was a candidate in the Republican primary who filed a federal elections complaint over the payments made to Rowland.

HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut officials said the state’s health insurance marketplace experienced a surge in last-minute enrollees and was on track to sign up about 200,000 people in health plans

by Monday’s enrollment deadline, double the original goal of 100,000.

As of Sunday night, 191,961 people had signed up for coverage, with 74,000 in private health plans and the rest in government-funded Medicaid plans, said Access Health CT’s CEO Kevin Counihan.

He said the exchange had been “swamped” on Monday, prompting the predictions of possibly 200,000 total enrollees since open enrollment began in October. It’s unclear how many of those people were previously uninsured. An analysis is expected this summer.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy acknowledged the large enrollment numbers in Connecticut came somewhat as a surprise.

“I don’t think any of us thought, in our wildest dreams, we would be as successful as we are about to be,” he said.

Given the state’s apparent success, Malloy said that Connecticut is ready to partner with other states interested in using Access Health CT’s technology.

About 100 people were packed inside Access Health

CT’s New Britain store on Monday afternoon waiting for enrollment help. Christopher Colon, 52, of New Britain, admitted he should have signed up sooner, saying he thought about it every time he visited his bank across the street but put it off, thinking Congress might delay the deadline.

“I procrastinated. I waited too long,” said the 53-yearold machinist. “It’s just like Christmas. Everybody is procrastinating when it comes to shopping. This time it’s insurance.”

Colon was given ticket No. 83 and told he might have to wait three hours to meet with an enrollment worker. But he took the long wait in stride as he sat with a line of people on a bench.

“It’s just something that you basically need,” he said of health insurance, adding that he hasn’t had coverage for two decades and was lucky “to be one of those people who don’t get sick.”

Staff at the New Britain storefront estimated they had enrolled at least 200 people by late afternoon. They planned to stay until all customers were served.

Robert Strucks, of Newington, said it took him four hours to finally get enrolled. A seasonal employee with a lawn care business, Strucks said he tried to sign

up for coverage online but the website was too slow due to the extraordinary demand and he decided to drive to the exchange’s New Britain store.

Counihan said Access Health CT’s website traffic was extraordinary on Monday.

During the first deadline for coverage, Dec. 23, 2013, there was an average of 833 people visiting the website at a time. On Monday at the Access Health CT’s headquarters, a computer screen that tracked the web traffic often reached 1,300 visitors or more.

Additionally, Access Health CT was impacted by the federal health insurance website shutting down Monday for several hours. Counihan said that affected the ability of staff to verify enrollee’s eligibility for tax credits.

“These are explanations.

They aren’t meant to be excuses,” Counihan said. “It’s just a lot more volume than we expected. But you know what? We’re going to work it through. Our job is to get people insured and get them covered and we’re going to get it done.”

Despite Monday’s wait, Strucks said he was pleased with the coverage he finally got, even though it doesn’t start until May 1.

“I feel comfortable now, more than I did without it,” he said.

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This combination of undated family photos shows, from left, Amber Marie Rose, Natasha Weigel and Amy Rademaker (not seen).

All three were killed in deadly car crashes involving GM’s Cobalt during 2005-2006.

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had good gas mileage, and it was what we could afford.”

The Ion soon began stalling for no reason. Each time, the car became difficult to steer and the key had slipped out of the “run” position.

“It went from being able to steer with two fingers to using all of my ability to pull off and keep away from the intersection and get out of oncoming traffic,” said Bard, now 26.

Even after repeated trips to the dealership’s service department, the Ion kept stalling. Bard had a near-miss on a freeway entrance ramp, where a driver behind her was able to steer around the Ion. He made an obscene gesture as he passed, she remembered. Another trip to the dealer.

Another supposed fix.

Then, as she was making a left turn a safe distance in front of an oncoming bus, the engine stalled again, she said.

“I thought I was going to get T-boned by the bus. I refused to drive the car again until I felt like it was safe,” she said.

The dealer replaced the starter and alternator. At the same time, Bard stopped using a lanyard as

her keychain. She got rid of the Most driver education curIon and bought a Honda as soon riculums cover a loss of power as she graduated from college steering, said Bill Van Tassel, and got a job. manager of driver education GM has said the ignition can for the American Automobile switch off if Association. people have While some long, heavy instructors have keychains, students pracsometimes if tice in cars, their knees many just cover brush against it in the classthe keys. room, and it’s Bard’s lanunclear whether yard had two the young drivkeys and the ers retain the remote coninformation, he trol for the Kelly Bard said. car’s doors.

Young driv2004 Black Ion driver ers have a In 2005, GM notified high crash risk dealers that because of inexthe cars could stall because of perience and immaturity, said the ignition switches. But GM Anne McCartt, senior vice presididn’t recall the cars, theorizing dent of research for the Insurance that even in a stall, people could Institute for Highway Safety. still steer and brake without the “I think emergency situations power systems. bring out both of those,” she Because her car stalled so said. “They’re kids. They’re much, Bard knew she could still young. They may not have as steer it. But other young people much cool, or presence of mind might not be able to handle such as an adult might have.” a situation, according to safety experts.

“I thought I was goint to get T-boned by the bus. I refused to drive the car again until I felt safe.”

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Failure to enforce pesticide regulations shows poor commitment to environment

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ast month, the Hartford Courant published the findings of an alarming report showing that many businesses are not following Connecticut’s pesticide laws, and the state’s pesticide regulation unit is basically incapable of enforcing the laws.

State records obtained by the Hartford Courant said that the Department of Environmental Protection has received more than 400 complaints of pesticide violations in the past three years but issued only 20 fines. The agency is deeply understaffed, underfunded and officials said most of their resources go toward processing license applications, not enforcing pesticide laws.

There are nearly 3,000 licensed pesticide applicators in Connecticut and only nine people in the office to oversee them. Each of those businesses is supposed to file annual reports on their pesticide usage, and many falsify information or never turn in the reports at all. Even more troubling is the fact that officials said they’ve never had enough staff to actually review the reports. Businesses are complaining that competitors who don’t follow the laws are undercutting their profits, and the agency isn’t doing its job to prevent this.

Clearly, these are serious issues. The state’s commitment to the environment and the business community isn’t being upheld. These regulations exist for a reason: certain pesticides can be extremely harmful to the environment and to people. They can stay in the soil for years or contaminate buildings.

A license to drive would be meaningless without police officers on the road to enforce the rules license holders agree to follow, and the same is true for pesticide application. A licensing agreement carries no weight if the body granting the license can’t enforce its stipulations. There will continue to be more abuses of these laws unless they can be enforced Under the current system, law-abiding businesses must spend time preparing and submitting paperwork that won’t even be read, and businesses that don’t abide by the law are often not punished for failing to submit their reports.

The pesticide regulation agency’s budget has been slashed by about 25 percent in the last 10 years, despite the fact that the number of licensed pesticide users has grown steadily. State Sen. Ed Meyer told the Hartford Courant that the environment committee had been pushing for better funding for the agency for a decade. There are no plans to increase funding in the version of Gov. Malloy’s budget that is currently under consideration.

Hopefully, the legislature will recognize the necessity of pesticide regulation and provide the agency with the resources they need.

Game of Thrones and Feminism

A song of female character diversity and Lannister comparisons This article contains spoilers for only the television show with mild explanations on Westeros society further detailed in the books.

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he “A Song of Ice and Fire” book series, and its derivative, “Game of Thrones,” are easily among the best examples of feminist works to date, yet they remain in the confines of medieval limitations. While many critics disagree with the gratuitous amount of naked bodies in the television show, the “sexposition” tactics don’t scream of objectification so much as characterization. The

By Victoria Kallsen representations of female charWeekly Columnist acters is remarkably diverse and encompassing. Most importantly, George R. R. Martin, the author of the series, most expertly draws attention to critiques of the current society with a comparison between Cersei and Jaime Lannister as well as exploration of Dorne politics.

Many describe the sexual content as gratuitous, particularly the scene where Petyr Baelish provides exposition as two women simulate sex in his brothel. However, as the creators of the TV show said to the New York Times, “Every one of those sex scenes is there because we wanted that particular scene in the show.” Doesn’t Baelish’s discussion of his undying love for a certain Catelyn Tully while coaching his prostitutes say more about his character than merely serve as gratuitous pandering?

Furthermore, it isn’t as if every female

character walks around the show with no clothes on; instead, it appears to be more fitting to the characterization. Shae and Ros are sex workers, and nudity follows from that. Innocent Sansa, tomboy Arya, prim Catelyn and regal Cersei remain fully clothed in comparison, along with most of the main female characters. The nudity embodied by Melisandre and Daenerys is more of a powerful and commanding quality, as they remain confident with their expressions of sexuality.

Also, let’s not forget that we often see plenty of male nudity, especially when we recall the vivid Renly/Loras homosexual sex scenes.

Regarding the beautiful diversity of female characters, the series sidesteps the typical Madonna-Whore or Betty-Veronica dichotomy of female characters and instead fleshes out individual characters. Naive and pure Sansa, with dutiful and honorable Catelyn, are often portrayed as courageous. On the other hand, tomboy characters Brianne, Arya and Asha Greyjoy display a different type of courage, “a woman’s courage,” as Brianne describes it. While reaction to Arya has been more positive than, for example, that for Sansa, I believe Sansa’s tale says a lot about how society treats women. She’s continually shuffled around and married off for her claim to Winterfell. Additionally, if you have the benefit of reading from her point of view in the novels, you see all her hate-fueled thoughts regarding Joffrey.

While Daenerys Targaryen remains the pinnacle for many a feminist discussion, she fills a standard void for strong women pieces: a white blonde kick-butt woman with a Buffy’s-been-there-done-that vibe. My Mother of Dragons love remains strong, but Cersei’s anti-hero antics are more persuasive.

Cersei is constantly exploiting, manipulating and will resort to less than heroic actions in order to keep the Iron Throne in her regal hands. (Awesome, right?) While many crit-

ics are skeptical of her, Cersei laughs at the weakness of Lancel and Jaime who succumb to her wiles all too easily. Furthermore, her journey is constantly compared to that of Jaime’s, and she often muses of the place she would have in society if she was born a man.

In the age of anti-heroes, Cersei Lannister is the female answer to the likes of Walter White and Tony Soprano: flawed, often paranoid and murderous.

The last piece of the puzzle is the critique of the traditional medieval male-dominated society. The province of Dorne in the south of Westeros comes into prominence this season with far more liberal class and gender standards. Their practice of equal primogeniture allows for the eldest child, regardless of gender, to inherit their parents’ estate and titles. The resulting clash of cultures remains important for later conflict in the series.

Where does this leave “Game of Thrones?” To be honest, in a really good place. With confident, self-assured characters like Ygritte and Melisandre, strong badass dragon-welding Daenerys, and even demure Sansa, “A Song of Ice and Fire” remains a powerhouse of female characterization with important commentary on a sexist Westeros society. Fantasy has long remained the realm of men of all shapes and sizes, but few women have commanded the narrative especially in a novel so awash with sex, violence and political intrigue. Through a compelling multiple point-of-view narrative device and a commitment to real, varied representations of women, Martin has hit the mark closer than most.

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A swift response: Why the U.N. needs a rapid reaction force

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ich in resources, the Central African Republic is unfortunately also rich in corruption and violence. In a story all too familiar for the continent of Africa, CAR suffered a period of political strife and vicious war before descending into sectarian chaos. Hatred between the country’s Muslim and Christian populations has led to the formation

By Theodore Terpstra of militias Staff Columnist and a rise in sectarian killings.

Although the capital, Bangui, is relatively calm, fighting continues throughout much of the county. In an effort to quell the violence, a security force made up of 6,000 troops from various African nations joined around 2,000 troops from the French military. Belatedly, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon announced earlier this month his recommendation that around 10,000 peacekeepers be deployed to the CAR. Aid agencies and regional experts have warned the international community about the increasing possibility of genocide in the CAR since late last year, yet the U.N. does not plan to send the first batch of peacekeepers until the end of the summer.

Meanwhile, both Christians and Muslims seek refuge and their

places of worship or flee to the forest in an attempt to avoid the militias. So why has the U.N. waited so long to act?

Former U.N. Secretary-Geeral Kofi Annan once described the U.N. as “the only fire brigade in the world that has to wait for the fire to break out before it can acquire a fire engine.” In order to avert a potential genocide, the U.N. has to first authorize a resolution, then gather up troops from its member states, then finally deploy said troops to the troubled region. This process can easily take more than six months to accomplish. It is painfully obvious that this process is a poor way to address the pressing threat of genocide. Some of the U.N.’s most infamous failures, such as Srebrenica and Rwanda, remind us of what is at stake. Most nations have a rapid reaction force to quickly respond to crises overseas, yet the U.N. has no such force. It is time to create a U.N. detachment, which can quickly act to prevent atrocities in nations all around the world.

As head of the U.N. assistance mission to Rwanda in 1994, Romeo Dalliare quickly learned that the U.N. is an organization of penny pinchers. Here lies the first obstacle to the creation of any rapid reaction force: The cost of keeping a small force of soldiers on retainer is a strong factor in the U.N.’s reluctance

to form such a unit. Officially, the U.N. says that it is less costly to recruit a military force when action is required rather than to hold one in reserve. But there is one factor that the U.N. continually neglects to include in the cost analysis: time. As we now see with the events in the CAR, it takes months before a military force can be mustered from the member states. The question that member nations must ask themselves is: “How much would we pay to avert genocide?”

The second obstacle is the long delay before a resolution is finally passed. A standing regulation of the U.N. is that a peacekeeping force cannot be deployed anywhere unless a resolution is passed. This becomes a big complication as it can take weeks to months for even the most uncontroversial resolutions to pass the assembly. In order to make any rapid reaction force effective, the U.N. would have to either streamline the process or place the rapid reaction force under a separate mandate. When time counts peacekeepers may be required within hours, not weeks or months, as the world saw back in 1994 when the Rwandan genocide began practically overnight.

Lastly there is the issue of the U.N. authorizing an offensive force. Genocide could be best avoided if the rapid reaction

force was allowed to act proactively at the first sign of trouble instead of waiting until tensions are bad enough. Romeo Dalliare, whom I previously mentioned, was told beforehand of the imminent genocide in Rwanda by an informant.

If only a portion of Dalliare’s force had been under an offensive mandate, then maybe the Rwanda genocide could have been avoided. Today, more nations are willing to consider U.N. missions that have offensive mandates. The first offensive force was authorized last year when the U.N. allowed its stabilization mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo to form an intervention brigade to fight against M23 rebels. A U.N. rapid reaction force is no longer an unrealistic proposition.

If the world truly wants to prevent the chaos and slaughter that genocide brings, they member states must be willing to pay the price of forming a specialized standing force to act when necessary. For now, the nations of the world can only cross their fingers and hope that the violence in the CAR does not explode into genocide.

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Activism and human rights was the focus of Monday afternoon’s screening of “Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria” at the Rainbow Center.

The film, narrated and researched by Susan Stryker, a transwoman, told the story of transgender activism prior to the “Stonewall Riots,” a movement generally accepted as the first instance of LGBTQIA activism.

The screening was the last event in the Transgender Day of Celebration at the Rainbow Center and showcased the little known history behind transgender activism. The Compton riots occurred in 1966 when police forcibly assaulted the corner diner, where transwomen were known to gather in large numbers late into the night. The documentary described the brutality the women faced on that night as they rose up in defense of their rights, but it also focused on the larger issues the riot was indicative of.

“We had to fight that night, not for our rights as gay people, but our rights as human beings,” said Amanda St. Jaymes, one of the women involved in the riot.

The 1960s, the documentary said, was a great time to be out and about. San Francisco was filled with clubs and people indulged in dancing and parties

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as a lifestyle. Still, transgender individuals were not recognized as valuable members of society and were discriminated against in everyday life.

Tamara Ching, another transwoman who Stryker interviewed, said she remembered being singled out by the police force based on wearing buttons on the wrong side of her shirt or wearing makeup.

“I remembered when the cops would come into the bar and point and say, ‘you and you and you come with us,’” Ching said.

Ching recalled how transgender people were repeatedly jailed and were often kept in solitary lock up. The hatred and discrimination was not just institutionalized in the actions of the police, but others would also taunt the community. One survi-

vor of the riots remembered sitting in Compton’s Cafeteria and having locals pull crosses to the front windows of the establishment, yelling that the women were going to hell.

Alongside exploring the discrimination transwomen faced during the ‘60s (and continue to face today) the film highlighted how, within the LGBTQIA movement transgen-

der people are often excluded from the history of the movements. According to Stryker, as a recently changed woman, she found solace and comfort in researching her demographic’s history.

“Researching transgender history helped me find my identity,” Stryker said.

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Summer movie preview: ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’

By Alex Sferrazza Staff Writer

The biggest man in modern comedy is at it again. Seth MacFarlane, creator of the hit animated FOX sitcom “Family Guy,” will soon release his second feature film to theatres everywhere.

“A Million Ways to Die in the West” is directed by and stars MacFarlane, while his “Family Guy” co-writers Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild return to assist the comic with the screenplay, as they have previously done with “Ted.” Speaking of the 2012 blockbuster, “Ted,” MacFarlane’s debut feature, stands as one of the highest grossing original R-rated comedies of all time, racking up just under $550 million at the worldwide box office.

A sequel is currently planned.

Suffice it to say, the pressure is on for MacFarlane and Co. to live up to their prior success.

“A Million Ways to Die in the West” is a comedy western and will inevitably be compared to the greatest film ever to take place in both of those genres: Mel Brooks’ “Blazing Saddles.”

Set in the old west, the film follows the exploits of a cowardly sheep farmer (MacFarlane) who loses his girlfriend after he backs out of a duel. He gains some courage after meeting a mysterious new woman, and his bravery is put to the test when the woman’s outlaw husband comes to town.

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Neil Patrick Harris, left, stars as Foy alongside Amanda Seyfried, right, who stars as Louise in this scene from Seth MacFarlane’s upcoming film, “A Million Ways to Die in the West.”

In addition to MacFarlane himself, the film is composed of an all-star cast featuring some of the biggest A-List stars in Hollywood today: Neil Patrick Harris, Liam Neeson, Sarah Silverman, Bill Maher, Amanda Seyfried, Gilbert Gottfried and Charlize Theron are all in the cast along with Giovanni Ribisi, best known as the antagonist of “Ted.” Rumor has it, a certain char-

acter from one of MacFarlane’s favorite films, played by Christopher Lloyd, might just have a cameo appearance.

The film won’t be shying away from a hard R-rating either. In a brilliant marketing move, the film’s Super Bowl pre-game ad simply featured a conversation between MacFarlane and the ever-popular Ted the bear that directed fans to check out the film’s

(fairly graphic) trailer online.

If its trailers are any indication, “A Million Ways” looks to be as brutal as it is bitingly funny. A series of random violent deaths – crushed by an ice block, shootouts, engulfed by flames – are interspersed with moments of MacFarlane’s traditionally edgy humor. Silverman (who plays a prostitute) trades lines with Ribisi that highlight these bits.

Additionally, to help promote the film, MacFarlane released a companion book in early March: “Seth MacFarlane’s A Million Ways to Die in the West: A Novel” based on the film script.

“A Million Ways to Die in the West” hits theaters nationwide on May 30.

Riders wowed by view from big Vegas Ferris wheel LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tourists began taking in the view Monday from a skyline-changing observation wheel that offers a unique overview of sparkling Las Vegas Strip resorts, wide skies and craggy brown mountains in the distance.

Van Kim, an airline call center employee from Phoenix, declared the experience “unanimously awesome.”

Kim stood in line for six hours to be in the first gondola to complete the 30-minute ride on the 550-foot High Roller. Its height eclipses the 541-foot Singapore Flyer and the nearly 443-foot London Eye, and is expected to be the tallest in the world until planned Ferris-style wheels are completed in coming years in New York and Dubai.

“It’s probably the best view of the Strip,” said Kim, who made mental images on a sunny and blustery day of the iconic Bellagio fountain across Las Vegas Boulevard and the stunningly green Wynn Golf Club a short distance away.

Kim compared what he saw from his spherical pod with the panorama from an observation deck at the 1,148-foot Stratosphere tower, just 2 miles away. He

said he liked the view better at the heart of the Strip.

“We didn’t feel the wind at all,” he added.

The Las Vegas wheel is part of $550 million restaurant, bar, retail and entertainment development built by casino giant Caesars Entertainment Corp. between its Flamingo, Harrah’s and renamed Quad hotel-casinos.

The Quad used to be the Imperial Palace.

The outdoor pedestrian mall — dubbed LINQ — is across the Strip from the company’s flagship Caesars Palace resort. The walkway features beer bars, shops and a trendy “Cupcake ATM” at a Sprinkles sweets store, anchored by a Brooklyn Bowl venue offering concert, nightclub, bar, bowling alley and restaurant experiences.

It leads to the High Roller, resembling a big white bicycle wheel with spoke-like cables. It sits between two stations of the nearly decade-old Las Vegas monorail line, which runs 3.9 miles and connects several hotels and the Las Vegas Convention Center.

From a distance, the motion of the wheel is nearly imperceptible. Its profile is unmistakable.

At night, it changes hues from blue to red to green to purple. Each of its 28 glass-enclosed and air-condi-

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tioned gondolas can hold up to 40 people. Tickets are $24.95 during the day and $34.95 at night, with frontof-the-line VIP passes selling for $59.95.

About 10,000 people, mostly Caesars employees, took preview rides in recent days before project chief David Codiga and a Caesars executive, Tariq Shaukat, broke champagne bottles Monday at a midday ceremony surrounded by elected officials and dignitaries who then rode the wheel.

Steve Sisolak, chairman of the seven-member Clark County Commission that governs the Strip, emerged afterward calling the view spectacular and the jobs boost provided by the two years of construction important.

“You can see the entire valley,” Sisolak said. “This is going to be one of those things everyone who comes to Las Vegas is going to want to do.”

Another developer’s effort to build a 500-foot wheel called SkyVue near McCarran International Airport has proceeded slowly, leaving twin support spires marking the site across the Strip from the Mandalay Bay resort.

Officials with that company, Compass Investments, say it could open next year.

Sometimes we all need to read a book strictly for the purpose of being entertained; a book where the plot seems silly but is enticing nonetheless. That is how I found myself buying “A Discovery of Witches” by Deborah Harkness.

The back cover described a tale about vampires and witches in Oxford, England. The vampire and witch part sounded a bit cheesy and reminiscent of the “Twilight” series. However, I have been to Oxford and love fantasy novels so I decided to give this book a chance. I didn’t expect to become as engrossed in the plot as I did.

The general premise of “A Discovery of Witches” is the same as “Twilight”: a trilogy in which a girl falls in love with a vampire. Diana and Matthew, the adult main characters in “A Discovery of Witches” have the maturity that teenage Bella and Edward in “Twilight” completely lacked. Diana is a much more likable woman. She has an established career as a historian. When she isn’t in the library researching, she is outside exercising. She has a life before meeting Matthew and when she does meet him, she doesn’t drop everything to follow him around like a puppy. In “Twilight” we never really learn what Bella does with her life besides spend time with Edward.

Did she ever have any aspirations? Her personality was very static. The only thing I can think of that she was passionate about (besides Edward) was becoming a vampire.

Matthew and Edward share some characteristics. They are both extremely overprotective but Edward still wins the prize for being protective to the extent of creepily obsessive. Matthew has a legitimate reason for being protective. The plot in “A Discovery of Witches” centers around Diana finding a book in Oxford’s Bodleian Library called Ashmole 782. This book contains all the secrets vampires, witches, and daemons, the third type of magical creature in the novel, have been hunting for centuries. Not realizing what she found, Diana returns the book to the library with ensuing negative consequences.

Discovering Ashmole 782 causes magical creatures from around the world to antagonize Diana.

They are willing to do whatever it takes to get the book. Matthew’s protection and vampire powers are therefore needed to ensure her safety.

Besides the greater depth given to the characters in “A Discovery of Witches,” I felt that Harkness is a much better writer than Stephanie Meyer. Harkness is extremely creative, implementing history and science into her work.

Unlike Edward, who spends his long life attending high school over and over again, Matthew studies hard to become famous geneticist. Harkness’ scientific explanations of Matthew’s work seem so real and plausible that sometimes I had to remind myself that the book is fictional.

“Twilight” was often far-fetched, sometimes to the point of being absurd. Meyers has a fluffier, casual approach to her novels compared to Harkness.

While vampire novels aren’t my typical go-to read, “A Discovery of Witches” has the elements I greatly enjoy in books: adventure, suspense, romance, and intelligence. I hope these positive qualities found in Harkness’ writing continue throughout the sequels.

In my opinion, this is the vampire novel that should have received the popularity “Twilight” did.

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By Randy Amorim Staff Writer 6. “Superman II”: Despite its troubled production and its obvious dating to its time, this film has actually aged pretty well. The action still holds up, its comic nature is still somewhat enjoyable and Christopher Reeve is still the greatest Superman, playing opposite the chilling villain of General Zod. It’s a shame that ‘Man of Steel’ could not live up to this film, or that any Superman film to come after could even be good.

5. “The Punisher”: This is easily the most underrated comic book film of the last decade. While flawed, we have to remember this film was released pre- “Dark Knight Trilogy.” While “The Punisher” was always intended to be of a darker and more violent tone close to what we see in Nolan’s Batman trilogy, at the time, comic book movies were thought to have to walk a line between dark and light hearted to appeal to the audience.

‘The Punisher’ tells the story of Frank Castle, a former undercover FBI agent. After his last job ends with the death of a mob boss’s son, the mob murders his entire family and leaves him for dead. After surviving and healing, Frank rises from the dead to exact punishment on those responsible. Thomas Jane gives an excellent performance as the law man turned vigilante that could not be outdone even by Ray Stevenson’s great performance in the reboot.

4. “X2: X-Men United”: At the time of its release, some called this the best super hero film ever made. While the “X-Men” franchise has gone downhill since its release, ‘X-2’ did everything a super hero sequel should do. Since it did not need any further introduction from the original, it jumped right into the characters we already met, giving us a darker and more personal look into them while bringing in new heroes and villains as well. The film gave us an incredibly personal insight into Wolverine’s

character while raising the stakes from the original. You could even say that his later spin off film was unnecessary as all the ground was covered here.

3. “Iron Man”: Let’s ignore the sequels and talk about the incredible original. “Iron Man” tells the story of Tony Stark, a billionaire genius running a weapons manufacturing company who builds a powerful weaponized suit to escape terrorists who kidnapped him, then later tries to right his wrongs and fight more terrorists. Robert Downey Jr. was perfectly cast as the arrogant billionaire turned hero. “Iron Man” is what a good super hero movie should be: a character-driven action film with emphasis on the characters and depth.

2. “The Avengers”: Putting a lot of main characters into one film while still giving them all substance and importance is a tricky practice, but it is handled incredibly well here.

While the Marvel universe is still more light-hearted than “The Dark Knight” universe,

“The Avengers” is led by a strong cast, filled with breath taking action sequences, strung together by genius writing and a lot of comic relief. It all adds up into one hell of an action movie.

1. “The Dark Knight Trilogy”: We all knew this was coming. What Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale did with the Batman/Bruce Wayne character, as well as making the story into a realistic crime saga rather than a comic book film, was unprecedented and has been emulated constantly since the release of “Batman Begins.”

Perfectly cast and filled with great action and characters as well as actual substance, this Batman trilogy has set the bar high for what comic book movies and can and should be. I would hate to be Ben Affleck right now.

Notable mentions: “The Incredible Hulk,” “X-Men: First Class,” “Spiderman 3,” “The Amazing Spiderman”

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(AP) What to make of Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah”? Perhaps that’s the wrong question. Indeed, what NOT to make of “Noah”?

Because it is so many things.

It is, of course, a biblical blockbuster, a 21st-century answer to Cecil B. DeMille. It’s also a disaster movie — the original disaster, you might say. It’s an intense family drama.

Part sci-fi film. An action flick? Definitely, along the lines of “The Lord of the Rings.” At times you might also think of “Transformers,” and at one point, even “The Shining.”

But there’s one thing “Noah” is not, for a moment: Dull. So, what to make of “Noah”?

It’s a movie that, with all its occasional excess, is utterly worth your time — 138 minutes of it.

Although the real star of the film is its visual ingenuity, particularly in a few stunning sequences, one must give ample credit to Russell Crowe, who lends Noah the moral heft and groundedness we need to believe everything that ends up happening to him.

Noah’s near-descent into madness would not be nearly as effective had Crowe not already convinced us of his essential decency. At the same time, the actor is believable when pondering the most heinous crime imaginable. It’s one of Crowe’s more effective performances.

It wouldn’t have been possible, though, without considerable liberties taken by Aronofsky and his co-screenwriter, Ari Handel, in fram-

ing Noah’s story. There’s been controversy here, but if you glance at the Bible, you’ll see why liberties are necessary: the story takes up only a few passages, hardly enough for a feature-length script.

And yet, it’s one of the best-known tales in the Bible, if most of us only remember the children’s version, with visions of brightly painted animals standing two-by-two on the ark. But there’s a much more serious backdrop: Man’s wickedness, and God’s desire to purge the earth of that wickedness. Aronofsky dives headlong into this story of good vs. evil, not only between men, but within one man’s soul.

We meet Noah and his family as they’re attempting to live peacefully off the land, and ward off the greedy, violent descendants of Cain. Noah has three sons and a wife, Naameh (Jennifer Connelly, genuine and appealing).

Along the way they pick up Ila, an injured young girl who will grow to love Noah’s son Shem (an invented character, played with sensitivity by Emma Watson.)

Noah visits his grandfather, Methuselah, embodied with scene-stealing vigor by Anthony Hopkins. The old man — and by the way, this is relative, because Noah himself is already over 500 years old, according to the Bible — helps him induce a hallucination, which brings a vision. The Creator will

destroy the Earth in a great flood. Noah’s job, of course, is to build that great ark, and get out of Dixie.

It’s a monumental task, but Noah has help: the Watchers, huge, lumbering creatures made of rock, who, for Aronofsky, represent the biblical Nephilim. Are they angels, giants or men? Interpretation varies.

But it is here that the movie courts ridicule.

These creatures look a little too much like Transformers, and detract from the mystical feel of the film. A giggle is surely not what the director was going for here, but he may get a few.

But that ark? It’s a wondrous thing — constructed on a Long Island field, according to measurements specified in Genesis, and finished up digitally.

Also stunning: the flood itself, more chilling than any you’ve seen in a disaster flick.

It’s also rather magical to watch the animals arrive, two by two (and by virtue of CGI) at the ark.

But for sheer cinematic beauty, it’s hard to beat the dreamlike sequence in which Aronofsky illustrates the story of creation, as recounted by Noah. At this moment, you may well forgive any excesses in the film. Like his flawed hero, Aronofsky has a vision — a cinematic one — and the results, if not perfect, are pretty darned compelling.

This year has seen a strange resurgence in Christian movies. We’ve already had: “Son of God,” a Jesus centric recut of the History Channel’s “The Bible” miniseries, “God’s Not Dead” an atrocity more about Christianity’s fear of atheistic fascism than a crisis of faith, and the upcoming “Heaven Is For Real,” a piece of fluff whose trailer is downright sickening. Christian films aren’t uncommon, but like most genres focused on a niche audience who care more about reassurance in the theme than the actual artistic quality, they normally exist in the form of straight to DVD releases. Is there an underlying explanation for the surge of Christian films hitting theatres?

First, I would like to be clear that I am not attacking Christianity, just their movies.

Almost all Christian films are awful and suffer from the same two problems. The most obvious one is a lack of talent, but this is true of many tertiary genre films. The second is a core dynamic that makes the film completely pointless. In a Christian film, the conflict on a textual or a sub-textual level is faith vs. lack of faith. Spoiler alert: whichever side God is on wins and the protagonist succeeds because of his/her loyalty to their beliefs. When you know that going in, why bother?

Going back to the original question, we are in the middle of Lent and Easter is right around the corner-it’s the optimal season for Christian media.

“The Passion of the Christ” had its theatrical run around the same time in 2004. But I theorize that the true answer lies in a movie that is on the surface the most Christian movie to come out this year, and beneath it the least: “Noah.”

Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah” is an incarnation of the Noah’s Ark story, a part of the book of Genesis. One of the most well-known parts of the Old Testament, Noah comes at a point when God decides to flood the Earth for 40 days to rid the planet of sin and essentially start over with Noah as the first man, having survived the flood on a boat where he kept two of every animal. Upon release of the film’s trailer, Christian audiences assumed they were in for a treat and secular audiences groaned at the sight of what they assumed to be another preachy Bible movie. It grossed a solid $44 million in its opening weekend, but half of what “The Passion of the Christ” raked in over the same time.

It has also become one of the few movies on Rotten Tomatoes where the audience’s score is significantly below the critics’ score. Perhaps this is because it was being seen by the wrong people.

Aronofsky is not a Christian filmmaker. He’s actually Jewish, or at least was raised Jewish, and is one of the most brilliant directors working today. His films tend to focus on fundamental fears deep within the human mind. “The Fountain” was about the fear of immortality, “The Wrestler” was about the fear of aging and leaving behind a personal era of glory for one of uncertainty and “Black Swan” was about the fear of years of backbreaking training to refine a single skill being all for nothing. Much to my dismay, I wasn’t able to see “Noah” this past weekend due to a number of circumstances best compositely described as “college.” But it appears to be about the fear of being the subject beneath an omniscient creator who can completely change the landscape of existence at

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BEIJING (AP) — Johnny Depp showed off a diamond engagement ring that he called a “chick’s ring” on Monday — indirectly confirming rumors of his engagement to actress Amber Heard.

Asked whether he was engaged, the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star replied: “The fact that I’m wearing a chick’s ring on my finger is probably a dead giveaway. Not very subtle.” He laughed as he lifted up his left hand and displayed a single diamond on a band around his ring finger.

His comments follow months of unconfirmed reports of his engagement to actress Heard, 27, who starred alongside Kevin Costner in “3 Days to Kill” released in the U.S. earlier this year.

Depp and Heard starred together in “The Rum Diary,” filmed in Puerto Rico in 2009.

In 2012, Depp split with his partner of 14 years, French model-singer Vanessa Paradis. They have two children.

In a trademark off-the-wall comment, Depp said: “I think that I would be better at making women’s shoes than I would be at wedding planning, I can’t plan anything. I’m really bad at that stuff.”

The 50-year-old actor was in Beijing to promote his new movie “Transcendence.” Depp plays a terminally ill scientist who downloads his mind into a computer in the sci-fi drama that asks: What if we could upload a human mind into a computer? It also stars Rebecca Hall as Depp’s wife and Morgan

Freeman.

“The technology that exists within the film, what I find most fascinating is that a lot of it exists already and by all accounts from scholars and professors and scientists that species of technology is not far away, that kind of artificial intelligence,” said Depp in an interview.

“It’s one of those films that one person is forced to make a choice in an instant, when your loved one is dying and you have a split-second decision if you have the ability to upload their consciousness into a computer, would you do that? It’s quite a strange decision to make but for love I think we would all do it.”

“Transcendence” comes out in China on April 18 — the same day as the U.S. release. China is the only country currently where “Transcendence” will be showing in 3-D — a format popular with Chinese audiences.

China is also the only international stop Depp is making as part of the movie’s promotion tour, illustrating the growing attention Hollywood is paying to the country that now has the world’s secondbiggest box office after the United States.

Last Monday, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L. Jackson promoted “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” in Beijing, followed the next day by “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Jamie Foxx.

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“With regard to Hollywood, China is quite a large market, certainly,” said Depp, who was on his first visit to China. “I think there will be a lot more

films coming here, a lot more people coming here and continuing the trend.”

National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis reopening

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — One of the first exhibits visitors see at the newly renovated National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis displays statues of shackled and branded black men, sitting in a line with knees near their chins, on the deck of a creaking slave ship headed across an ocean.

The powerful, visceral exhibit sets the tone for an evocative, newly immersive museum experience that chronicles the history of the civil rights struggle in America.

The main section of the museum is set to reopen April 5, the day after the 46th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in Memphis. King was killed on April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of the old Lorraine Motel, which was later converted into the museum in downtown Memphis.

The museum, which first opened in 1991, is now ready to show off new, emotionally hard-hitting exhibits and flashy, informative interactive displays. The museum says it attracts 200,000 people every year, but organizers hope the renovations will attract more visitors.

“The museum will be transformed into an even more compelling presentation of the iconic exhibits, oral histories of lesserknown civil rights foot soldiers and visceral, in-the-moment experiences,” said Beverly Robertson, the museum’s president.

Most of the museum closed for renovation in November 2012, except for some exhibits across the street. The improvements cost about $27.5 million, with the money raised through a fundraising campaign. The museum assembled a group of

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scholars who not only made sure the information is historically accurate, but also ensured that the most telling details of the civil rights movement were included.

Museum officials said an upgrade of the interior of the building and the exhibits was needed. The result is a gleaming, more spacious lobby and exhibits that require much less standing around and reading. Changes include a new educational center and refurbished gift shop.

The museum retained its most popular exhibits, such as a replica of the bus in Montgomery, Ala., that Rosa Parks rode, complete with a statue of her and the bus driver. But the Montgomery bus boycott exhibit has been upgraded to add strikingly detailed statues of three women walking next to the bus.

Another mainstay is a replica of a sanitation truck in an exhibit about the 1968 sanitation workers’ strike that brought King to Memphis.

New exhibits include a replica of the U.S. courtroom where the U.S. Supreme Court heard the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954. That ruling made separate-but-equal schools for blacks and whites unconstitutional.

A large March on Washington exhibit shows statues of marchers holding protest signs with the audio of King’s seminal “I Have a Dream Speech” piped in.

There’s even a red phone on which visitors can hear a recording of a conversation between King and then-President Lyndon

Johnson.

New interactive displays offer large touch screens that give visitors state-by-state photos, video, text and audio about important protests and key themes of the civil rights movement.

There are more than 40 new films and various listening posts, including one where visitors can see and hear Malcolm X during a debate.

“You’re listening to the actual people speak,” tour guide Ziara Smith said of the interactive exhibits and listening posts.

“You’re hearing about the movement in their words.”

One display that was not changed was Room 306, where King stayed in his final days. Replicas of the room service cart and an ashtray filled with cigarette butts provide a sense of authenticity to the solemn memorial.

The Memphis museum is not the only one in the country that looks at civil rights or African-American history, or the life of King: There are other prominent sites in Detroit, Atlanta and Birmingham.

But the Memphis museum stands out because it is located on the site where King was killed by James Earl Ray. Visitors standing under the balcony can see the slightly-open window where Ray fired his rifle shot from the boardinghouse across the street. It’s a sobering and chilling experience.

According to King scholar Clayborne Carson of Stanford University, the museum’s renovations present “the best and most recent scholarship on civil rights available today.”

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will. It’s appropriate as the Old Testament is the God-fearing portion of the Bible, as opposed to the New Testament, which is more about God-loving. What “Noah” may be saying, intentionally or otherwise, is that following a faith can bring about as much terror to the mind as it does solace and joy. It might even call into question the true reason why the faithful worship a deity- out of love, loyalty and the prospect of salvation, or pure human fear.

Aronofsky’s version of the tale, which he himself has called “the least Biblical Biblical film ever made,” strays heavily from what is taught in Sunday schools. This version not only focuses more on the internal conflict Noah faces having been selected to be the only survivor of an apocalyptic disaster, but also contains a Biblical world that much closer resembles one of Pagan mythology. This is because in earlier versions of the Bible, the pre Noah era had the Earth running rampant with angels, demons and a number of other creatures who quite frankly would have made Sunday school a lot less boring, at least for me. These earlier version of Noah suggest that the flood was not meant to wipeout the sinful humanity that God was dissatisfied with, but rather to wipe out everything but humanity.

The thing about earlier versions of the Bible is, the institution of Christianity likes to

pretend that they don’t exist.

After all, how trustworthy is an evolving scripture? While the film has been endorsed by a number of Christian groups, others have condemned “Noah” for straying from how it is presented in the Bible today. It’s worth noting that the “Noah” project has been in the works for a long time, with the first draft the screenplay written in 2003. With a name as talented as Aronofsky, it’s not easy to hide works in progress. With Paramount having made multiple cuts of “Noah,” its release has been anticipated for a while.

This leads me to wonder if the slew of Christian films coming out is not an attempt to piggyback off of the success of “Noah,” but rather to counteract it. Christian studios want to tell their stories in the way they see proper, not the Aronofsky’s version which violates their message. If that’s true, it appears that so far “Noah” cannot be eclipsed and I personally hope it remains that way.

Whether or not “Noah” turns out to be a good movie, Darren Aronofsky has made a bold move in his unorthodox adaptation. He joins the ranks of immortals Cecil B. Demille and Martin Scorcese for using the Bible not as a catalyst for a pro-faith message, but to tell a dramatic human story that can compel contemporary audiences. The effort alone should be applauded.

Brendon.Field@UConn.edu

PHOENIX (AP) — The youngest daughter of director and writer Orson Welles is giving film buffs a chance to buy some of his personal possessions, including a camera, scripts and photos from the set of “Citizen Kane.”

Beatrice Welles discovered the relics last year in boxes and trunks and decided to put them up for auction. She said her father would have preferred making the memorabilia available to film buffs and fans as opposed to sending them to a museum.

“It’s about the last thing he would’ve wanted. He just did not believe in schooling, he did not believe in academic things,” Beatrice Welles said in a telephone interview from her Sedona, Ariz., home. “And museums kind of have that connotation and I thought ‘No, this is not right for him.’”

In all, she is handing more than 70 items over to Heritage Auctions, which will stage the auction on April 26.

Margaret Barrett, director of entertainment-related auctions, declined to speculate on any possible bidding amounts but said she expects all the lots to fetch decent bids.

“People are still talking about him decades after his death,” Barrett said. “One of the enduring signs of fame is when young people know who someone is — someone who might have passed away decades ago.”

Barrett said she thinks Welles’ old Bell & Howell movie camera will be one of the bigger sellers.

According to his daughter, he used the camera for home movies. In fact, one of the photos in another lot up for bidding shows Welles using the camera to record a bullfight in Spain.

Other items are reminders of Welles’ more painful Hollywood experiences. Two scripts for “The Magnificent Ambersons,” a 1942 film he wrote and directed, reveal two different endings Welles had in mind; neither ended up in the film. The movie, which centers on a spoiled heir’s attempt to keep his mother from marrying her first love, was famously reedited by someone else.

“They kept on changing his pictures around and not letting him finish them. That hurt him,”

Beatrice Welles said. “The only one he was allowed to do completely from start to end was ‘Citizen Kane.’”

Long considered Welles’ masterpiece for its innovations in editing and cinematography, the 1941 “Citizen Kane” follows the lonely life of wealthy publishing magnate Charles Foster Kane.

Not among the auction cache is any Rosebud-type childhood memento of Welles’. Rosebud was the name of the sled mourned by the titular character in “Kane” that burns at the end of the film. According to Beatrice Welles, director Steven Spielberg bought a version of the sled in 1982, also at auction, and was later teased by her father about its authenticity.

“My father and Steven were having lunch and my father said ‘I hate to tell you something, but there was only one sled in Citizen Kane. Do you remember the ending?’”

Nearly 30 years after Welles’ 1985 death, Beatrice Welles said she was finally emotionally strong enough to sift through boxes of her famous father’s possessions. Her mother, Italian actress Paola Mori, died less than year after Welles. The double loss was devastating.

“When they died ... I just couldn’t even look at the stuff,” she said.

Celebrity interactions and globe-trotting made up Beatrice Welles’ unconventional upbringing, where her father’s “Moviola editing machine was like part of our luggage.”

By the age of 3, Beatrice Welles was getting an education any film student would have loved. She often sat on her father’s lap while he cut movies in the editing room. As she got older, she even pitched in.

“I’d get the two pieces of whatever celluloid film it is on the machine. ... He would tell me where to cut and I would cut and do it for him,” Beatrice Welles said.

Her father wasn’t always comfortable with being revered as a film genius, she said.

“He would say, ‘There are only probably three geniuses ever that existed, one of them being Einstein. I don’t put myself in that category.’”

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HOROSCOPES Today's Birthday (04/01/14). This year sparkles with creativity. Happiness is the name of the game. Romance and partnership bloom after the lunar eclipse in Libra (4/15).

Finances grow all year, especially blossoming after late spring. Launch a fruitful collaboration into the spotlight this autumn (after the Aries lunar and Scorpio solar eclipses, 10/8 and 10/23). Study what you love, and thrive.

To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- The next two days could get quite profitable, although it's not a good time to expand or risk. Finish a job before going out. A disagreement at home could tangle things. An idea in theory doesn't work in practice. Review plans and instructions.

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Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- You're getting stronger and more confident. Inspire, rather than demanding. Listen to a good coach. Today and tomorrow could get active, and fun. Don't dig into savings. The competition's fierce. Admit the truth to a critic. It's not about winning... but playing the game.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Financial success fuels optimism. Nonetheless, slow down and contemplate. Let yourself get retrospective today and tomorrow. Things are getting stirred up at your place.

Controversy arises. Keep confidences. Start with organizing closets and workspaces. Work interferes with playtime... take extra time off later.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is a 7 -- You have more friends than you realized. Together, you share goals to realize a vision. A new trick won't work. Don't take financial risks. You'll be more analytical for the next few days, with help from a technical friend. Let the group find the solution.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Take on new responsibilities today and tomorrow. Consider all possibilities. Choose reality over fantasy. It's a miserable time to gamble. Stand outside the controversy as much as possible. Obligations interfere with fun. Remember your manners, and ask for assistance. Schedule, delegate and make it work.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 6 --Your luck's shifting for the better again. Play ball! Investigate possibilities to take new ground over the next two days.

Postpone household projects until after your deadline.

An expensive option may not be the best. Fantasy and fact clash. Put agreements in writing.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Don't let a windfall evaporate, or follow a hunch blindly. There could be a disagreement over style. Keep your eyes open, and research options. Review your reserves over the next two days. Consider the consequences before making a move. Put in some sweat equity.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Lean on a gentle partner for the next few days. Keep a treasure hidden, even from friends. Accept an offer of assistance. Work on your assignments. Share results.

Be gracious with someone inconsiderate. Consider all possibilities, before choosing your direction.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Put your heads together. Start by learning the rules.

Don't advance... simply maintain position. Work goes smoothly today and tomorrow. Re-assure someone who's flustered. A disappointment could disrupt the action. Profit from meticulous service. Your cool compassion gives another ease.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 6 -- A barrier diminishes. Use your connections to push forward.

It's not a good time to travel, though. Come up with creative and unusual ideas for style and beauty. Have fun without over-extending. You have less energy than expected. A quiet night at home refreshes.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- Neatness counts double for the next couple of days. Take it slow, and review work before finalizing. Personal comfort must be considered. A repair at home or a family situation demands attention. Postpone an outing, and authorize improvements. Don't expand too rapidly.

Easy does it.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 5 -- Get lost in your studies and work. Prepare your position. There's a test or deadline ahead, taking precedence. Squirrel away nuts for winter anyway. A little bit here and there adds up. Exercise and nature clear your mind and restore your energy.

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Padres show it's not all about the money

By Molly Burkhardt MLB Columnist

Sunday night, after a day of madness in the world of college basketball, sports fans shifted their attention to the Opening Night of Major League Baseball. The San Diego Padres hosted the Los Angeles Dodgers Sunday evening, resulting in a Padres home victory.

Despite being titled “Opening Night,” this was actually the Dodgers’ third game. Their 2-1 record began in Australia, where they grabbed two wins from the Diamondbacks. While technically Sunday night’s televised game wasn’t considered the official opening night, baseball fans are just glad to see it back.

The Padres were sporting their camouflage uniforms, a

tradition for all Sunday home games. Pre-game ceremonies were very moving as Padres players honored members of the United States military.

There was also a tribute to Jerry Coleman, former manager of the Padres and later MLB broadcaster. In honor of Coleman, his widow and daughter threw the first pitches.

The press box at Petco Stadium was also renamed in memory of Coleman. This was the first game played since Coleman passed away in early January of this year.

Padres’ Andrew Cashner – whose beard appeared to be in mid-season form, threw the “first” pitch of the season. Cashner had an excellent spring, not giving up an earned run in four of his five starts.

With a quick 1-2-3 inning (including two Ks for Cashner)

to start the night, it seemed this would be an uneventful game.

The game remained scoreless until the top of the fifth, when Dodgers outfielder Carl Crawford fired an RBI single to send Dee Gordon in for the Dodgers only run of the night.

Down by one, the Padres rallied in the eighth, scoring three runs to carry the lead for the remainder of the game.

Outfielder Seth Smith tied the game with a homerun to lead the bottom of the eighth.

Smith’s hard shot to right ignited the Padres crowd. Dodgers pitcher Brian Wilson walked Yasmani Grandal and allowed Everth Cabrera a spot at first base after fumbling Cabrera’s perfectly timed bunt. Chris Denofaria stepped up to bat with two on and put the Padres ahead with a two-run single.

The Padres went on to hold off

the Dodgers in the ninth, leading them to their first win of the season.

There was a big focus on the Padres’ 10-year-old Petco Stadium. The open-air ballpark offers amazing views of the city and is known for having few “bad” seats. One of the most family friendly ballparks, Petco Stadium offers a mini baseball field exclusively for children.

The luxurious ballpark perhaps makes up for the Padres’ moderate payroll of less than $90 million, which, compared to the big-spending $234 million, Dodgers made them the underdogs in Sunday night’s matchup.

The Padres currently hold the first place spot in the NL West, proving (at least for now) it’s not all about spending big.

Mary.Burkhardt@UConn.edu

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San Diego Padres' Everth Cabrera leaps in joy after scoring against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the eighth inning of the opening game of the MLB season in the U.S.

Mosqueda-Lewis peaking at right time Napier named First Team All-American from FOUR, page 12 It would have been six had the 2002-03 Huskies had a senior on the squad.

“It doesn’t surprise me at all,” Hartley said. “You look at the history of this program and they were just able to do so much in the past 15, 20 years. UConn’s always been a dominant program and (Geno Auriemma) is the consistent factor in all of that, him and his coaching staff.

“It’s kind of the way he’s able to bring out the most in players, the way the staff is going to develop players and the concept he teaches his players as well. You go out here and you kind of buy into his way because he’s been through this so many times before.”

For the man on the opposite bench Monday night – and as a coach who’s won a national championship – Gary Blair had the same high praise for Auriemma.

“You don’t know how hard it is to be the favorite all the time and have everybody come at you,” Blair said. “And every game you go on the road is the best crowd of the season for that particular team. … Geno’s very good at making

sure they keep their heads straight.

Just give the guy credit. The players are special, but it all starts with that coach.”

And for those next in line, the hope – or perhaps more accurately, the expectation – is that this class won’t be the last to pull it off.

“People think that just because we go to Connecticut we’re supposed to make it, and that it’s just going to happen for us,” junior Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis said. “But I know being here, that we’ve worked very single year to get where we are, and we cherish it every single year.”

Perfect time to peak Last season, it was Breanna Stewart who toiled through the doldrums of winter before exploding in March. This season, it has been Mosqeuda-Lewis.

After laboring through a regular season marred by two elbow injuries and a bout with mononucleosis, Mosqueda-Lewis has come alive. So alive, in fact, that she was the unanimous Most Outstanding Player of the Lincoln Regional.

“I just look at it as a clean slate,” Mosqueda-Lewis said. “This tournament was a chance for me to turn things around and not really

worry about my injury or sickness.

I’ve just been able to help my team the best I can.”

Indeed, the junior forward has done plenty for her team over the past four games.

Aside from her typical sharpshooting, she has provided a much-needed spark on the glass, especially on the offensive side of the ball. Through four games, she has averaged 17.3 points and 9.5 rebounds.

“It’s really important [to peak at the right time],” Hartley said, who also came on last season in March after struggling with an ankle injury. “If you play well this last stretch in the NCAA tournament, you kind of forget the struggles you had all year.”

Auriemma hasn’t forgotten Mosqueda-Lewis’ struggles, but he certainly appreciates the progress.

“I told her to stop feeling sorry for herself,” Auriemma said, “that nobody was going to feel sorry for her…I was ecstatic for her, that she was MVP of this tournament, how well she played.”

Matthew.Stypulkoski@UConn.edu

Statistics through March 16 First Team Doug McDermott, Creighton, 6-8, 225, senior, Ames, Iowa, 26.9 ppg, 7.0 rpg, 52.5 fg pct, 45.4 3-pt fg pct, 86.6 ft pct (65 first-team votes, 325 total points).

Jabari Parker, Duke, 6-8, 235, freshman, Chicago, 19.3 ppg, 8.8 rpg (55, 303).

Russ Smith, Louisville, 6-0, 165, senior, Brooklyn, N.Y., 18.3 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 4.7 apg, 40.5 3-pt fg pct, 2.1 steals (54, 298).

Shabazz Napier, Connecticut, 6-1, 180, senior, Roxbury, Mass., 17.4 ppg, 5.9 rpg, 4.9 apg, 85.9 ft pct, 1.7 steals (37, 254).

Sean Kilpatrick, Cincinnati, 6-4, 210, senior, Yonkers, N.Y., 20.7 ppg, 4.4 rpg, 2.6 apg, 84.7 ft pct (37, 243).

Second Team Nick Johnson, Arizona, 6-3, 200, junior, Gilbert, Ariz., 16.2 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 2.8 apg, (30, 228).

Andrew Wiggins, Kansas, 6-8, 200, freshman, Vaughan, Ontario, 17.4 ppg, 6.0 rpg (14, 199).

Nik Stauskas, Michigan, 6-6, 205, sophomore, Mississauga, Ontario, 17.5 ppg, 3.1 rpg, 3.3 apg, 44.9 3-pt fg pct, 82.0 ft pct, (5, 128).

Melvin Ejim, Iowa State, 6-6, 220, senior, Toronto, 18.1 ppg, 8.5 rpg, 1.8 apg, 50.6 fg pct, (8, 127).

T.J. Warren, N.C. State, 6-8, 215, sophomore, Durham, N.C., 24.8 ppg, 7.1 rpg, 52.5 fg pct, 35.2 minutes, 1.8 steals, (7, 110).

Third Team Cleanthony Early, Wichita State, 6-8, 219, senior, Middletown, N.Y., 15.8 ppg, 5.9 rpg, 2.0 apg, 84.4 ft pct (3, 104).

Kyle Anderson, UCLA, 6-9, 230, sophomore, Fairview, N.J., 14.9 ppg, 8.8 rpg, 6.6 apg, 48.1 3pt fg pct, 1.8 steals (84).

Julius Randle, Kentucky, 6-9, 250, freshman, Dallas, 15.0 ppg, 10.5 rpg, 50.2 fg pct (81).

C.J. Fair, Syracuse, 6-8, 215, senior, Baltimore, 16.7 ppg, 6.2 rpg (3, 65).

Scottie Wilbekin, Florida, 6-2, 176, senior, Gainesville, Fla., 13.0 ppg, 2.6 rpg, 3.8 apg, 40.0 3-pt fg pct, 1.7 steals (3, 59).

Honorable Mention (in alphabetical order) Karvel Anderson, Robert Morris; Cameron Ayers, Bucknell; Cameron Bairstow, New Mexico; Billy Baron, Canisius; Jerrelle Benimon,

Towson; Taylor Braun, North Dakota State; De'Mon Brooks, Davidson; John Brown, High Point; Bryce Cotton, Providence; Joel Embiid, Kansas.

Tyler Ennis, Syracuse; Aaron Gordon, Arizona; Langston Hall, Mercer; Gary Harris, Michigan State; Tyler Haws, BYU; R.J. Hunter, Georgia State; Jordair Jett, Saint Louis; Shawn Jones, Middle Tennessee; DeAndre Kane, Iowa State (1 first-team vote); J.J. Mann, Belmont.

Javon McCrea, Buffalo; Daniel Mullings, New Mexico State; Aaric Murray, Texas Southern; Marcus Paige, North Carolina; Jacob Parker, Stephen F. Austin; Lamar Patterson, Pittsburgh; Adreian Payne, Michigan State (1); Casey Prather, Florida; Wesley Saunders, Harvard; Marcus Smart, Oklahoma State (1).

Juwan Staten, West Virginia; Keifer Sykes, Green Bay; Xavier Thames, San Diego State; Fred VanVleet, Wichita State (1); Jameel Warney, Stony Brook; Davion Weber, Weber State; Alan Williams, UC Santa Barbara; Pendarvis Williams, Norfolk State; Patric Young, Florida.

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Is David Moyes the right man for United?

By Robert Moore Soccer Columnist

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Manchester United's manager David Moyes applauds supporters after his team's 4-1 win against Aston Villa in their English Premier League soccer match at Old Trafford.

Manchester United has been struggling mightily this season in the Premier League and just about every cup competition and whether the lack of composure on the pitch should be attributed to the players in the squad, the longing for Sir Alex Ferguson or the poor management from David Moyes, United need an overhaul.

The most unsettling of all of United's struggles this season is the fact that the same makeup of players (for the most part) as the squad that won the Premier League last season. Sir Alex Ferguson made every United player, whether he was top class or not, a superb player. With a work rate bar none and the dreaded hairdryer treatment, which players feared in the dressing room, the entirety of Old Trafford were at every beck and call of the manager.

So far this season, David Moyes has done anything but instill a sense of power over his players, or even supporters for that matter.

Moyes appears far too timid in the press, assuring everyone all is well

in the world when it's not.

This is not Manchester United do not let David Moyes fool you.

At the start of the season, "The Chosen One" banner hung proudly over the Stretford End of Old Trafford. Now, the banner is lucky to be intact. However, continued results and a bowing out of the Champions League to Bayern Munich could see that banner be magically ripped to shreds. Then again, to beat the Bavarians, or even tie them, would be a feat in and of itself.

Plain and simple, Manchester United has not been playing to the standards which they've set forth during the past two years. Far too often, Ashley Young, Antonio Valencia and even Adnan Januzaj have been drifting too far wide and focusing primarily on crosses into the box, which have gone begging.

Moyes continues to play Nemanja Vidic, who has made it clear he will be leaving for Inter Milan at season’s end. While Moyes has plenty of youth in his squad – including, but not limited to. Phil Jones, Chris Smalling, Jonny Evans and even Tom Cleverley – when he does employ those younger players, Moyes does not put them in the

correct positions to succeed.

While the entirety of Manchester United seems to be crumbling down, Wayne Rooney has kept United afloat. Rooney's utter brilliance in front of the net, willingness to defend and deafening tackles have been the silver lining for the struggling reds of Manchester.

And whatever rift there may be present between Robin van Persie and Rooney, the Dutchman must get over it and fast. Rooney is here to stay.

There is chaos building in Manchester. The city no longer appears to be red. as Manchester City have quite handily painted every street corner Citizen blue.

Supporters of Manchester United now pay for banners to fly far above Old Trafford saying "Moyes Out" as the supporters have become fed up.

It is apparent that the "20 times, 20 times," chants are few and far between. Supporters are now speaking up against Moyes as he sits in his technical area and even having a few choice words with the retired Ferguson.

Manchester United and the Glazer ownership may have made a six-year mistake, one that

could easily be terminated at seasons end. Just as Arsenal have stood by Arsene Wenger during their own trials and tribulations, it would appear that Manchester United will do the same. Even though United are quite noticeably a bigger worldwide club than the Gunners, Moyes' back is pinned against the wall. Ryan Giggs has his apparent rift with the manager, which is quite unsettling due to Giggs' 20 plus years of service to his beloved club.

More importantly, United are suppose to be coming to the United States this summer for an "International Champions Cup." Talk about an utter disappointment should United fail to qualify for even the Europa League. Then again, as it's a World Cup year I would expect if results continue, a few notables not on international duty will fail to make an appearance in the United States.

All in all, United are falling and the blame game continues.

However, should United somehow or someway get past Bayern Munich in the Champions League, all hell would break loose.

Robert.e.2.Moore@UConn.edu

Prepping for 2014 season, men's soccer takes on Hartford Tuesday

By Tim Fontenault Sports Editor Ray Reid has lost a few weapons since the UConn men’s soccer team’s loss to Virginia on Dec. 6, but the weapons he has remaining, the returning players from 2013, will be on display Tuesday night in Hartford.

After several weeks of practice in the Shenkman Training Center, the Huskies will take their game outside to play the University of Hartford, UConn’s first of five games this April.

The Huskies went 12-3-8 during the 2013 season, UConn’s first in the American Athletic Conference. UConn was the only team to finish undefeated in conference play with a 4-0-4 record that resulted in a second-

place finish behind Louisville in the regular season standings.

Wins over SMU and Central Florida put UConn in the firstever AAC championship game against South Florida, a game the Huskies lost in penalty kicks.

The loss extended UConn’s streak of penalty kick losses in postseason play, a streak that ended a week later.

After a win over Quinnipiac in the first round of the NCAA tournament, UConn, unaccustomed to playing on the road in the postseason, had to go to Maryland-Baltimore County to play for a spot in the Sweet 16.

After 110 minutes passed with the score tied 2-2, junior midfielder Adria Beso beat UMBC goalkeeper Phil Saunders in the penalty shootout, giving UConn

its first ever shootout win in the NCAA tournament.

One week later, UConn again found itself in penalties on the road, this time against No. 1 UCLA. The Huskies eliminated the Bruins, advancing to the Elite Eight for the third straight season.

In the national quarterfinals, senior Kareem Morad scored his first and only goal for the Huskies to equalize against the Cavaliers in the 39th minute, setting up a back-and-forth, nerve-racking second half.

Virginia scored in the 63rd minute, and despite some late chances, the Huskies could not equalize.

UConn has lost several key players from the 2013 squad.

Andre Blake became the first goalkeeper ever drafted No. 1 in

Major League Soccer. George Fochive was drafted by the Portland Timbers. Mamadou Doudou Diouf, a draft pick of the Vancouver Whitecaps, is now on loan with Charleston Battery in the USL Pro division.

The Huskies also lost Morad, midfielders Colin Bradley and Juho Karppinen, and reserve goalkeeper Russell Dougan.

Weapons are still plentiful, however, for Reid and the Huskies. Despite being flirted with by MLS, freshman Cyle Larin, who scored 14 goals in 2013, chose to stay. Beso is among the best returning midfielders in college soccer, and fellow senior Sergio Campbell will surely be up for AAC Defensive Player of the Year.

Replacing Blake is Jake Wagmeister, who kept clean

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Midfielder Adria Beso will be a key player for UConn during his senior season in 2014.

sheets in two games early in the 2013 season while Blake was out injured.

Tuesday’s game kicks off at 7 p.m. After that, the Huskies

will be back in action Saturday against Boston College at Addison Park in Glastonbury.

Timothy.Fontenault@UConn.edu

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“It sucked the air right out of the room. I don’t know what it is yet. ... You hate to see a player go down like that.”

-Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw on the injury to Natalie Achonwa

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April 5 NCAA Final Four Florida 6:09 p.m.

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Natalie Achonwa

That one win was fun.

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Baseball Today Boston College 3 p.m.

April 17 Louisville 4 p.m.

April 19 Cincinatti 12 p.m.

April 4 Bryant 3 p.m.

April 5 Stony Brook 4 p.m.

April 6 Bryant 4 p.m.

April 6 Houston 11 a.m.

April 8 UMass 5 p.m.

April 9 Providence 3 p.m.

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Tomorrow Yale 3 p.m.

Softball Today Boston University 4 p.m.

By Dan Madigan Campus Correspondent After sweeping Memphis at home to pick up its first two American Athletic Conference wins, UConn will take on Boston University on the road in an attempt to extend their win streak to three games.

The Huskies improved to 7-20 on the season with their two wins against Memphis this weekend, snapping a nine-game losing streak. Senior Lauren Duggan played a pivotal role in the first game of the series, throwing a complete game and scattering five hits while striking 7-20 out three in a 4-1 win.

The second game featured a three-run home run from sophomore Lexi Gifford to help propel the Huskies to a 9-6 victory. Gifford hit .500 on the weekend with four RBI, and 14-12 was rewarded by being Today, 4 p.m., placed on the AAC weekly honor roll.

BU Softball UConn hopes to stay Complex hot at the plate as they head to Boston for its first game of the week. The Huskies will need strong performances from the middle of their lineup, to defeat the Terriers.

The Huskies are lead by sophomores Val Sadowl and Gifford, who are first and second for the Huskies, respectively, in batting average and onbase percentage. First baseman Audrey Grinnell provides the bulk of the power in the UConn lineup with a team-leading four home runs and 16 RBIs. BU is 14-12 on the season and is led by Jayme Mask, who leads the Terriers in nearly every offensive category, including batting average, hits and total bases. BU has dropped two games in a row, losing their most recent game to Army 9-3 in West Point, N.Y. Last season, BU defeated the Huskies 5-4 in their only matchup of the season. UConn took a 2-1 lead into the fifth inning but was unable to close it out, as the Terriers scored four runs in the fifth and sixth innings and held off a late UConn rally to get the win. Duggan took the loss for UConn, which dropped the Huskies to 25-25 on the season.

UConn will take on the Terriers at 4 p.m. at the BU Softball Complex.

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Philadelphia 76ers guard Michael Carter-Williams reacts in the closing minutes of their 103-95 loss to the Atlanta Hawks in an NBA basketball game Monday, March 31, 2014, in Atlanta.

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What's On TV MLB: Yankees at Astros, 7:10 p.m., YES Derek Jeter’s farewell tour begins in Houston Tuesday night.

After a third-place finish that saw them end up 12 games behind their arch-rivals, the Yankees opened the checkbook in the offeseason.

AP

New York added the likes of Jacoby Ellsbury, Brian McCann, Brian Roberts and Masahiro Tanaka this winter to improve the roster.

Elite Eight: No. 2 Stanford vs. No. 4 North Carolina, 9 p.m., ESPN The winner of Tuesday’s game at Maples Pavilion gets the chance to end UConn’s unbeaten season on Sunday night.

Stanford has been a regular in the Final Four. Last year snapped a five-year streak of Final Fours for the Cardinal.

On the other side, North Carolina, victors over No. 1 South Carolina, have not been to the Final Four in a while, not since 2007 in fact. The Tar Heels would like a win for coach Sylvia Hatchell, who is battling leukemia.

Daniel.Madigan@UConn.edu

AP

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — An unprecedented season for Notre Dame and coach Muffet McGraw has led the Fighting Irish to a familiar place.

Jewell Loyd scored 30 points and the unbeaten Irish beat Baylor 88-69 on Monday night in front of a raucous home crowd to earn their fourth straight trip to the Final Four.

“I couldn’t be prouder of this team,” said McGraw, who is in her 27th season at Notre Dame. “This senior class came in unheralded and set all kind of records. To win it at home, to celebrate with our fans is special. Jewell Loyd, what a phenomenal game.”

Natalie Achonwa added 19 points and 15 rebounds for the Irish (36-0), who will bring a perfect record into the Final Four for the first time, facing either Louisville or Maryland on Sunday night in Nashville.

The Irish did get a scare Monday when Achonwa hurt her left knee with just under five minutes left.

McGraw said her senior center would have an MRI on Tuesday.

“It sucked the air right out of the room,” McGraw said. “I don’t know what it is yet. ... You hate to see a player go down like that.”

It’s the fourth straight season that the Irish are in the national semifinals. Notre Dame became the sixth school to reach the Final Four in four straight seasons, joining UConn, LSU, Stanford, Louisiana Tech and Tennessee.

The loss ended the brilliant career of Baylor guard Odyssey Sims, who finished this season with 1,054 points — eight short of Jackie Stiles’ NCAA record for

a single season. Sims scored 33 points for Baylor (32-5), but had little help on offense. Her teammates were a combined 12 for 45 with no one else scoring in double digits.

“I had a great run. My four years, I’ve enjoyed it,” Sims said. “Not one moment have I been unhappy at Baylor. I got to play with a lot of great players. This season is probably my most enjoyable. I like the team I’ve been around.”

The win extended Notre Dame’s home winning streak to 28 games.

Baylor was the last team to beat the Irish in South Bend — doing so on Dec. 5, 2012 — but that team had 6-foot-8 star Brittney Griner.

Despite the loss, it was another superb season for Baylor. The Lady Bears advanced to the regional final for the fourth time in five seasons, a year after they were eliminated in the regional semifinals with Griner

by Louisville in one of the biggest upsets in women’s basketball history.

The Irish took control in the first half with senior Kayla McBride on the bench with early foul trouble.

Trailing 21-17 midway through the first half, Loyd and Achonwa got the Irish going. Achonwa, who had a double-double in the first half, started a 14-0 run with a layup.

Loyd then scored the next eight points, including a highlight reel three-point play that made it 24-21 and whipped up the sellout crowd, which included former Irish star Skylar Diggins.

“That was huge,” McGraw said.

“We needed every single thing that she did. Jewell felt like she could score whenever she wanted. We

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Notre Dame’s Natalie Achonwa reacts as she struggles to cut down a piece of the net Monday.

were running things for her and she delivered on every possession.”

By the time Sims hit a pullup in the lane with 5:32 left the Lady Bears trailed 31-24. The Irish led 44-32 at the half as Loyd, who earned most outstanding player of the region honors, finished with 21 points in the first 20 minutes.

Sims rallied the Lady Bears scoring the first nine points of the second half to cut the deficit to 46-41.

After a Notre Dame basket Baylor was called for back-to-back offensive fouls — the eighth and ninth called in the game — and coach Kim Mulkey had seen enough, letting the officials know her displeasure. That earned her a technical foul.

The teams traded baskets over the next few minutes and Baylor closed to within 65-60 before Notre Dame took over scoring 16 of the

next 20 points, including eight from the free throw line. The Irish were 30 for 33 from the foul line in the game.

During the game-changing run is when Achonwa got hurt. She went down holding her left knee and after a few moments got up with help and pointed to her teammates, telling them to get it done before heading to the locker room.

They followed their senior leader’s advice coming away with the victory. And she joined them for the celebration on the court.

The win was Notre Dame’s first in five meetings against Baylor.

The Bears beat the Irish to win the 2012 national championship game that completed a 40-0 season for the Lady Bears. Now Notre Dame is two wins away from becoming the eighth team to go through the season unbeaten.

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FOUR TIMES THE FUN

Women’s basketball win seals UConn’s fourth double Final Four

By Matt Stypulkoski Associate Sports Editor

Tim Fontenault “Why did you stay?” a reporter asked UConn guard Ryan Boatright on Sunday afternoon.

Boatright pulled on the collar of his shirt. He has a lot of tattoos, but there is one that distinguishes itself, a word forever spelled out across his chest.

Loyalty.

“That’s all I know,” Boatright said, donning his East Regional champions T-shirt and hat.

“Growing up, loyalty is everything to me. I committed to UConn and Coach (Jim) Calhoun and the program. And just because we was going through some tough times don’t mean we just leave. I stayed and I play for this program, and I’m reaping the benefits right now.”

Boatright, and all those who stayed through the trying times of the past two seasons, are reaping those benefits.

It doesn’t make sense to anyone outside Connecticut – and I’m sure there are some people in the state still scratching their heads – but the Huskies, those damned, ignored, left-for-dead Huskies are back in the Final Four.

There is a special feeling about this one, this fifth Final Four in program history, one that trumps the feeling of any of the previous four.

This improbable, incalculable run, this one is the most important, because this is the one that took the most work. This is the one that keeps UConn on the map. This is the one that says that wherever the Huskies are, they are going to be a force to be reckoned with.

And it shows that a family united can do pretty much anything.

UConn has been to hell and back almost an infinite number of times in the last few years.

The postseason ban for 2012-13 put the program in a rough situation itself, but then Jim Calhoun retired before the season. Five players transferred or turned pro.

Kevin Ollie was given a sevenmonth contract and told to go coach a team that lacked any form of cohesion five months earlier.

At that point, the Big East was already on its way to the grave.

And as the conference dwindled towards oblivion, the – well, I would use the word “powers,” but I’m about to mention Rutgers – football-playing members of the Big East got snapped up: West Virginia to the Big 12, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Louisville and Notre Dame to the ACC, Rutgers to the Big Ten. Adversity is far from a strong enough word to describe what this program has faced over the last few years. It has been nothing but pure hell, and it almost destroyed this program.

But thanks to Ollie and thanks to the loyalty of Boatright, Shabazz Napier, Niels Giffey, Tyler Olander and DeAndre Daniels, a broken unit became one, and this program stayed on top, even when no one was taking notice.

“It’s one big family,” Olander said, “and I think it’s shown through all the determination that we showed last year, and all the grit and grind that we pulled out to get to where we are now, that it’s just really remarkable what we’re doing.”

Whatever happens in Texas, this has been the most important Final Four run of the five. It kept a family together, and it allowed UConn Country to keep believing.

You hear that, Big Ten and ACC, pass over UConn all you want. They’ll keep winning.

It’s what we do around here.

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LINCOLN, Neb. – The UConn women’s basketball team makes a habit of churning out numbers, statistics and records that are incredible, even knowing its level of dominance. Monday night, they produced yet another in that long line of impressive statistics.

The Huskies have now made 15 Final Fours in their history, but seven of them have come in consecutive years: back-to-backto-back-to-back-to-backto-back-to-back. Stefanie Dolson and Bria Hartley, the two seniors on this squad, have never known a season without a Final Four waiting for them at the end.

“I think it just says a lot to how hard we’ve worked all these years,” Hartley said. “Each team that we’re on, different teammates, but we made sure that we always met our goal. We made sure we tried to play our best basketball every year.”

That alone is astounding.

For a player to go through a program for four years and go 16-0 in the first four rounds of the NCAA tournament is remarkable.

But even more remarkable is the fact that Dolson and Hartley are not the first senior class in UConn history to do it. Far from it.

The Class of ’04 – Maria Conlon, Morgan Valley and Diana Taurasi – did it first. Between then, it has happened three more times. In fact, it has happened for four consecutive graduating classes. Five times total.

Texas A&M’s Tavarsha Scott-Williams (32) tries to get by Connecticut’s Stefanie Dolson (31) during the first half of their regional final in the NCAA college basketball tournament in Lincoln, Neb.

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Loss of Duchene hurts Avalanche’s chances at Cup

By Ryan Tolmich NHL Columnist

There are so many factors that go into crowning a Stanley Cup champion.

So much of hockey’s ultimate prize is based on momentum, as one hot goaltender can carry his team to the Promised Land. Teams have to demonstrate a sense of heart and grit if they hope to survive the grueling, unforgiving playoff tournament. Talent is also key, of course, as the Daily Campus sports staff would stand little chance of kissing the trophy no matter how bad we wanted to win.

However, unfortunately, sometimes the biggest decider of a team’s fate is the injury bug, especially in a sport as

physical as hockey.

Unfortunately for teams this time of year, injuries loom like the proverbial guillotine, sentencing teams to mediocrity or worse. Any late-season injury can turn into a seasonending injury or, at best, a hindrance on a star’s game.

This season’s Cinderella, the Colorado Avalanche, was bit by a Mothra sized injury bug this week when they lost leading scorer Matt Duchene.

Duchene hurt his medical collateral ligament over the weekend when he collided with a teammate on his opening shift.

He will be out four weeks, dooming the Avalanche to fight for their playoff lives in a deep Western Conference without their best player.

It is in no way a death sentence for a team like the Avs. Head coach Patrick Roy has pulled off an amazing turnaround with the team, turning them into one of the West’s most competitive teams.

However, Duchene’s injury serves as a reminder to each and every franchise with playoff hopes how quickly things can change. One big hit, one bad stride, one freak accident and your hopes are dashed.

It’s almost time for playoff hockey and, when it comes to bringing home the cup, sometimes it isn’t how you play on the ice, but who’s healthy enough to stay on it.

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Without Matt Duchene (right) there are questions about how far the Colorado Avalanche can go. It also serves as a reminder of how injuries can alter a team’s Cup hopes.

Huskies hoping for better weather against Eagles

By Jackson Mitchell Staff Writer After battling through a rainsoaked conference series with Rutgers last weekend, the UConn baseball team will take a short road trip today to Chestnut Hill, Mass. to square off against regional rival Boston College, a team that has gone 10 days since its last win.

Head coach Jim Penders said despite the Eagles’ (7-18, 1-11 ACC) less-than-stellar record, they are a team that has emerged from their early-season conference schedule hardened, battle tested and eager to break their current six-game losing streak, having been most recently swept by No. 2 Florida State in a three-game set last weekend.

“They’re playing at home, their first game on their field, hopefully, for them,” Penders said. “They’re going to be ready for us. I didn’t even realize they’d lost six straight and I wish they hadn’t, to be honest with you. I wish they beat Florida State [last] weekend. But they’re going to be primed and ready.”

“They’re going to be excited about playing the Huskies and not the Tar Heels or the Seminoles,

that’s for sure.”

UConn (12-12, 2-3 American) is coming off last weekend’s abridged, turbulent two-game series with Rutgers, in which the Huskies and Scarlet Knights endured two halted games and a rain delay to earn one win apiece.

Penders’ squad racked up 11 runs and 11 hits in its lone series win last Saturday, the type of offensive showing that – along with taking advantage of opponents’ mistakes – he said he’d like to see with more frequency moving forward.

“I think you saw what we’re capable of with those 11 runs, we just have to see that more consistently,” Penders said, “we have to see that on a more consistent basis of cashing in on the opportunities that we’re given by the pitching staff and the opponent’s defense.

Rutgers gave us a few opportunities in the first game that we did not cash in on at all and then the second game we did.

Hopefully the guys are a little bit more confident heading into this week with our bats than we were the previous week.”

Penders said freshman right hander Andrew Zapata will man the bump for the Huskies this afternoon, his fourth start and ninth

appearance of the season. Zapata comes into today’s game with season totals of 26.2 innings pitched, 16 strikeouts, 15 hits, 15 walks and a 1.69 earned run average, good for fifth-best in the conference.

“I think he’s gotten better each time out,” Penders said of Zapata.

“He pitched well at Hartford and deserved to win the ball game, we just couldn’t hit. He’s had three solid outings in a row where I think he’s learned a little something about himself each time, and I’m looking forward to seeing that progression again. He’s good out of the pen for us, but I think he’s better suited to being a starting pitcher, and his stuff should play against just about anybody that we compete against, so I’m looking forward to seeing him [today].”

Today’s game is a rematch of the Huskies’ April 2, 2013 home loss to the Eagles, a contest in which Boston College’s then-freshman designated hitter Chris Shaw – a New York Mets draft pick – belted two home runs and four RBI’s, propelling his team to a 7-4 victory.

“The kid Shaw beat us almost single handedly last year, he hit a couple of balls out,” Penders said.

“So he kind of got them going a little bit, they had been struggling

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After rain disrupted a weekend series with Rutgers, the UConn baseball team will be in Boston Tuesday to play Boston College. The Huskies are looking to go above .500.

up until that point. He’s a guy that can take you deep and you had the wind blowing that day. You don’t want him to beat you and that was where we failed a year ago with BC.” Penders reiterated that he puts little stock into the Eagles’ record and that, if last year’s game is any indication, the Huskies will have their hands full once again.

“Their record does not tell the story,” Penders said. “They’re

playing in an ultra-competitive Atlantic Coast Conference. Their record on paper’s not that good.

They had a lead on the No. 1 team in the nation this weekend and lost.

They’re a very talented group, and we’re going to have to play our best to beat them.”

First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m. Coverage of the game can be heard on 91.7-WHUS.

Jackson.Mitchell@UConn.edu