The Daily Campus: April 12, 2012

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UConn nixes early admission, gives one deadline for all applicants

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An important change has been made regarding admissions at the University of Connecticut for next year. Instead of having an early admission deadline of Jan. 1 and a regular admission deadline of Feb. 1 for high school seniors applying to the school, there will be one date that all must apply by — Jan. 15.

This change in an application date does have implications. For one, students can no longer have a better chance of receiving merit based aid or acceptance into the university’s honors program simply because he or she has applied by the Early Action deadline. Additionally, all prospective students will be notified on the same date, March 1, of whether or not they have been accepted to one of the schools within the university.

Nathan Fuerst, the director of admissions for the university, believes that this change in admission date will be of benefit to all

involved in the admissions process, including the students.

Fuerst explained that the reason why the university has chosen to switch to one application deadline between the two previous deadlines is because of convenience and an avoidance of anxiety for the students. He further said that many institutions of similar caliber to UConn have gotten rid of their early admission deadline as well.

By having a similar application deadline as other schools, UConn is striving to maintain its reputation as being reputable and competitive.

“The early action process is not as meaningful for us as it has been in the past,” Fuerst said. “At the same time, however, we chose the date of Jan. 15 because it still gives perspective students enough time to read about the school, visit and complete their applications in a timely manner.”

The anxiety that Fuerst mentioned has resulted in recent years due to the rolling admissions process. Certain students would not find out as soon as their friends

who also applied of their admittance status and would then call the Admissions Office, worried.

“More than anything we hope it will reduce the amount of anxiety students experience with the college admissions process,” Fuerst said. “The old admittance process created a lot of anxiety for students who didn’t hear from us right away.” With the previous early action deadline, high school seniors were hearing back as early as November and December about their admission decision.

“I guess it, overall, is the right decision, since it does allow the university to focus on admitting the best students, and less so on when they applied,” said Kevin Santa Maria, a 6th-semester molecular and cellular biology major. “Although hearing early on that I was accepted at UConn was extremely relieving for me when I applied early action.”

Some students, like 2nd-semester ACES student Nicole Raulukaitis, do not think that changing the deadline is necessarily

the best decision.

“I don’t think it would be a good idea because high school seniors are under a lot of pressure to apply to colleges, and school guidance counselors have a lot of transcripts to prepare for the students,” she said. “The extra time will help ensure that the transcripts are done right and that the students have enough time to apply to the universities that they are interested in.

Fuerst, speaking on behalf of admissions, however, believes that this change will increase both accuracy as well as the ability to make decisions as to which students should be a part of the incoming classes. It will also, hopefully, increase the quality of the student application pool.

“This change was made to ensure that we can maintain consistence, reduce anxiety to students and families,” Fuerst said.

“If it contributes to an interest in the university and the quality of students who apply, that it just a beneficial result.”

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Herbst: new Huffington Post blogger

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EDITORIAL: BOTH CONN. SENATE DEBATES SHOULD BE HELD DURING SCHOOL YEAR Students have the responsibility to follow up on debates if they cannot attend.

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The nearest shopping mall may be miles away from Storrs but students had the chance to purchase designer clothing at UConn. Students perused through bins of clothing from brands like Calvin Klein and Banana Republic at discounted prices Tuesday and Wednesday on Fairfield Way across from the Union. The clothing sale, hosted by Phi Sigma Rho, benefited the American Cancer Society. Tomorrow is the last day of the benefit.

Romney rebuts claims that he, GOP are anti-women WARWICK, R.I. (AP) — Presidential candidate Mitt Romney intensified his efforts Wednesday to rebut claims that he and fellow Republicans are insufficiently supportive of women, or even hostile to them.

For the second straight day, the presumptive GOP nominee campaigned at a femaleowned work site, and denounced Democrats for saying his party is waging “a war on women.”

“The real war on women is being waged by the president’s failed economic policies,” Romney told a crowd packed inside Alpha Graphics, in Hartford, Conn. There, and on Tuesday at a women-owned steel fabrication plant in Delaware, Romney said President Barack Obama’s economic policies have disproportionately hurt women.

The events were scheduled before Rick Santorum’s unexpected withdrawal removed the last serious barrier to Romney’s nomination pursuit. They underscored Romney’s sensitivity to Democrats’ efforts to link him to controversial GOP-led efforts to limit birth control insurance coverage for women in some workplaces, among other things.

Polls have found a growing “gender gap”

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in the presidential race. Obama’s advantage among women is outpacing Romney’s edge among men.

While he spoke in Hartford, Romney’s campaign issued statements from Republican women in Congress defending his record. But a conference call with reporters arranged by his campaign hit a snag when aides were asked whether Romney supports the Lilly Ledbetter Act to help women achieve equal pay, the first piece of legislation Obama signed.

“We’ll get back to you on that,” campaign policy director Lanhee Chen said after a pause.

Democrats gleefully publicized the exchange. They glossed over the fact that the issue was divisive, and Romney would be in line with many GOP lawmakers if he opposed the measure. The 2009 law makes it easier for women to file workplace paydiscrimination cases.

Romney repeated his assertion that women account for 92 percent of those who have lost jobs during Obama’s presidency. While that statistic is accurate, it overlooks the fact that more men than women lost jobs early in the Great Recession. The record downturn began

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in December 2007 and ended in June 2009, covering approximately President George W. Bush’s last year in office and Obama’s first half-year.

Romney’s claim also counts job losses in the first two months of 2009, when the newly inaugurated Obama had scant time to redirect the economy. Government figures show that some 3.4 million men and 1.8 million women have lost jobs since the recession began.

In Hartford, Romney said Obama pursues policies that make it “hard to be a woman in business.” He quickly broadened the criticism to all business owners.

“This president has failed American women,” Romney said. He vowed to cut corporate taxes and government regulations, which he said would increase job growth for everyone.

Romney is drawing overflow crowds this week, and he briefly spoke in hallways at both of Wednesday’s events to people who could not squeeze into the main venue.

In Warwick, R.I., Romney fielded questions from an audience of several hundred, including one query about immigration and border security.

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The Huffington Post has a new blogger, UConn’s very own president, Susan Herbst. Herbst is featured on the college blog page of The Huffington Post. Her entries will focus issues related to higher education and specific topics about UConn, including research, economic development and news, according to UConn Today.

Herbst has written about the role of professors and what they spend their time doing in response to the claim that college professors do not work hard enough, specifically at non-research institutions. Speaking from experience, Herbst outlines all the responsibilities a professor has aside from the time they spend teaching in the classroom.

Herbst also wrote an entry about the role UConn will play in the future of medicine through the UConn Health Center’s recent partnership with Jackson Laboratory for the Bioscience Connecticut statewide initiative.

Herbst joins many students at UConn who already write for The Huffington Post.

Quenton Narcisse, an 8thsemester journalism and english major has been a featured columnist for The Huffington Post for the past few months and submits work occasionally. He said he thinks it’s wonderful that Herbst will be joining other Huffington Post bloggers.

“For me, it was one of the most rewarding experiences one can have as a writer and with such a prominent online newspaper like The Huffington Post, all of the material one writes will get full exposure and is seen by thousands all over. I’m certain that whatever President Herbst writes about will shine light on issues here at

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Woman injured in football tailgating accident sues

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A woman who was struck by a U-Haul truck that also killed a friend nearby in a tailgating area at the Harvard-Yale football game in November is suing the driver and U-Haul for more than $15,000.

The truck was being driven too fast at the New Haven site, was not under proper control and was unsafe, Sarah Short said in papers filed in New Haven Superior Court.

Police said the driver, Brendan Ross, was taking the U-Haul carrying beer kegs through a popular tailgating area before the football game when witnesses saw the vehicle turn a corner and speed up, striking three women, including 30-year-old Nancy Barry, of Salem, Mass., who was killed. She was a friend of Short’s.

Short said she suffered “severe and deep bone bruising” and a fracture, skin loss and other injuries. She says she had surgeries requiring skin grafts and other corrective measures.

New Haven looks to curb rising pension costs

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — New Haven is hoping contract talks with city workers will lead to curbs on rising pension costs that the mayor calls unsustainable and that have contributed to dire finances in other cities.

The city’s pension plans were only about 50 percent funded as of the last analysis in 2010, lower than other major cities in Connecticut. New Haven is contributing $40 million to cover its pension costs, nearly double from $22 million five years earlier.

“Self-evidently it’s not sustainable,” Major John DeStefano said.

“That’s why it’s in everybody’s interest to arrive at pension plans that are affordable so that what has happened in some other cities around the country doesn’t happen here.”

Conn. advocates lobby for farm animal rights

HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut animal rights advocates are speaking at a legislative hearing against crates used to confine some farm animals.

Representatives from the Humane Society of the United States, the Connecticut Farm Bureau, the University of Connecticut College of Agriculture and others will speak at the Tuesday afternoon hearing at the Legislative Office Building.

The informational hearing, hosted by the General Assembly’s Environment Committee, will focus on gestation crates for breeding pigs and veal crates for calves.

According to advocates, these crates represent “extreme confinement of farm animals.” They will lobby to phase out both types of crates.

Committee co-chair and Democrat Rep. Richard Roy, of Milford, said there is no legislation on the issue as the crates are not used in Connecticut.

Conn. Capitol hosts New Haven Day

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — New Haven residents, businesses and organizations will be gathering at the state Capitol for the annual New Haven Day event.

City residents and Mayor John DeStefano Jr. will have an opportunity to discuss issues that are important to their community during Wednesday’s early afternoon event.

DeStefano is expected to advocate for red light traffic cameras, local economic development projects and funding for the Youth (at) Work program, which provides employment opportunities to certain New Haven teenagers and young adults.

New Haven organizations also will host information tables and the city will hand out its signature pizza at the event.

Conn. House to vote on death penalty repeal bill HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A bill that would abolish Connecticut’s death penalty for all future cases is facing its second vote in the General Assembly.

Members of the state’s House of Representatives are scheduled to take up the legislation in the Wednesday afternoon session.

The proposed bill would abolish the death penalty for all future cases, but would not directly affect the sentences of the 11 inmates currently on Connecticut’s death row. Individuals convicted under the proposed legislation would receive sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of release in lieu of the death penalty.

The state Senate approved a repeal bill after nearly 11 hours of debate last week.

If passed in the House, the bill would go to Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who has said he would sign it into law.

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Zimmerman arrest follows puzzling disappearance SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — The neighborhood watch volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin to death had been out of touch and, his ex-lawyer says, “a little bit over the edge” before his arrest on a second-degree murder charge.

As George Zimmerman turned himself in Wednesday in the Feb. 26 shooting of the unarmed black teen, experts offered this advice: Stop talking.

“My advice to the client would be, ‘Save it for the trial. It can’t help you.’” said Roy Kahn, a Miami defense attorney,.

The 28-year-old Sanford man was in custody in Florida after a puzzling disappearance that had his lawyers expressing concern for his health and announcing they couldn’t represent him anymore. Zimmerman had called special prosecutor Angela Corey, his former lawyers said, had an off-the-record chat with a Fox News Channel host and put up a website asking supporters for money.

“It would not be in a client’s best interest to give any statement before it’s his time to testify at trial,” Kahn said. “For him to give a statement, since he already has given an interview to the police, any additional statement at the State Attorney’s Office would just create the possibility of him creating conflict with his previous statements.”

Zimmerman’s new attorney, Mark O’Mara, said after his client’s arrest Wednesday that Zimmerman “is very concerned about the charges, but he is OK.” “I’m not concerned about his mental well being,” O’Mara said.

Former lawyers Craig Sonner and Hal Uhrig on Tuesday portrayed Zimmerman as erratic, said he hadn’t returned their calls and texts and was buckling under the pressure that has built in the month since the shooting.

Jack Schafer, a professor at Western Illinois University and a former FBI behav-

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ioral analyst, said Zimmerman’s behavior shouldn’t cause undue concern. After all, Schafer said, he wasn’t charged with any crime and was free to go wherever he wanted after he spoke to authorities after the shooting.

“If I were him, I’d go somewhere in hiding,” said Schafer. “His life is at risk, not by jurisprudence, but by angry people who are rushing to judgment.”

Leslie Garfield, a Pace University law professor in New York, said Zimmerman’s behavior over the last 48 hours should not affect his prosecution.

“Whatever else goes on behind the

scenes before charges aren’t really a factor,” she said. “All that should matter is what his intentions were at the time of the shooting.”

Zimmerman showed the strain in his own words on his website, bearing the American flag.

“As a result of the incident and subsequent media coverage, I have been forced to leave my home, my school, my employer, my family and ultimately, my entire life,” he wrote. “This website’s sole purpose is to ensure my supporters they are receiving my full attention without any intermediaries.”

Study blames ocean CO2 for decline in oyster population

(AP) — Scientists are blaming slightly higher levels of carbon dioxide in Pacific Ocean waters linked to global warming for the failure of oyster larvae to survive in an Oregon hatchery.

They say higher acidity of the water that comes with more carbon dioxide makes it harder for young oysters to form their shells, dooming them in a matter of days, even if they are moved to more favorable environments.

“A lot of studies talk about the year 2050 when ocean acidification becomes a problem,” for sea life, said lead author Alan Barton, production manager at the Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery on Netarts Bay. “It showed up five years ago for us,” and almost put the hatchery out of business.

The study appeared Tuesday in the online edition of the journal Limnology and Oceanography.

“The predicted rise of atmospheric CO2 in the next two to three decades may push oyster larval growth past the break-even point in terms of production,” study co-author Burke Hales, professor of biogeochemical oceanography at Oregon State University, said in a

statement.

The study represents some of the first research taking the issue out of the laboratory and putting it into the natural environment, said Annaliese Hettinger, a doctoral candidate at the University of California at Davis Bodega Lab, who did not take part in the study.

“This is a good example of industry coming together with scientists to come up with potential solutions to the environmental problems we are facing in this area,” she said.

Hatcheries and oyster farms relying on natural reproduction started having trouble with larvae survival in 2005, said Barton.

At Whiskey Creek, which raises larvae from Pacific and kumamoto oysters that originally come from Japan, they began noticing a correlation between times when ocean upwelling was strong and larvae die-offs.

“One day all the larvae in the hatchery was dead,” he said. “It was right in the middle of a big upwelling event. That’s when the light went on for us. We needed to start looking at the water chemistry.”

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Narcisse has enjoyed writing for The Huffington Post and recommends persistence if other students are interested in writing for them.

“Badger them until they respond. It’s not that you’re being a pest; it shows that you care and really want to work there. Let them know you want to work there and just aren’t applying for a position just because it’s ‘cool’,” he said.

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G-forces focus of NTSB air race safety suggestions

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Preventing pilots from losing consciousness from sudden high gravitational forces was among a set of recommendations made by the National Transportation Safety Board to try to avoid a repeat of last year’s horrific air race crash in Reno that left 11 people dead and 70 spectators seriously injured.

At a news conference Tuesday, NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman released the agency’s recommendations and preliminary investigative findings of the Sept.

16 crash at the Reno Championship Air Races.

Investigators said pilot Jimmy Leeward, 74, was traveling at 530 mph around an oval, aerial track when his modified P-51 Mustang experienced some type of “upset” — a significant event that caused the plane to pitch skyward while making a turn, then roll and slam into the ground

nose first near box seating.

Hersman said instruments from the aircraft showed the plane exceeded 9 Gs, and that appears to have incapacitated the pilot as blood rushed from his brain.

“We know very well that that is the limit for human beings, and it is very difficult for people to maintain awareness at 5 Gs — 9 Gs is significant,” she said.

The NTSB recommended that pilots in the Unlimited Class undergo special training to learn how to mitigate the potential effects of high G exposure. The board also said the air races should evaluate requiring pilots to wear special suits to minimize G-forces.

Experts say F-16 fighter pilots, who wear special flight suits, can typically take 9 Gs, but only for a limited time. And those are modern planes designed with tilted seats intended to help keep blood

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Tom Rose, a commercial pilot from Mississippi whose father died in a crash at the Reno races in 2002, said it might be possible to require pilots to wear G-suits to counteract excessive pressure changes.

But he said it might not be practical, and it might not have helped Leeward.

“The thing that happened out there with the G-load he incurred, I don’t know if a G-suit would have mattered. With 10 Gs, slam, it hits you like a baseball bat.”

Rose said some older aircraft may not be set up to accommodate G-suits. But he added that they probably could be retrofitted.

“I don’t know what it would cost,” he said. “But in the scheme of things it’s not something they can’t do.”

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Wal-Mart previews ‘Disc to Digital’ movie service

ROSEMEAD, Calif. (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. previewed its “Disc to Digital” service for converting DVDs into an online library on Wednesday. Based on my experience, I’d give it a six out of 10.

That’s the number of discs I was able to convert from a completely unscientific sampling of my personal DVD library.

The new service allows movie fans to walk into any Walmart, where they can present their old DVDs, and get permanent access to an online version that can be streamed from a home computer or a mobile device. Each DVD conversion costs $2.

Three of my four failed conversions were no surprise — two were obscure documentaries, and one was a film from The Walt Disney Co., which is not participating in the service. One was a bit puzzling: “Water for Elephants,” a fairly successful romance released last year by 20th Century Fox, one of the studios that is partnering with Wal-Mart.

Wal-Mart’s category director for movies, Louis Greth, said the retailer hasn’t yet cleared the rights for all the titles from participating studios. That will result in some

titles not being available. Some actors and directors have not agreed to sign over digital rights to movies they took part in. In the case of director George Lucas, that includes all six “Star Wars” movies.

Fox confirmed that the digital rights for “Water for Elephants” have not been cleared.

Still, with 4,000 titles available for digital conversion when the service launches nationwide on Monday, the retailer hopes to give U.S. customers another reason to come into stores. Wal-Mart also wants to take part in the shift in the way people watch movies. More and more people are choosing to watch on portable devices like Apple’s iPad, and allowing people to convert their DVD libraries is seen as an important bridge to a fully portable age.

Greth called the plan “the right first step” to ease consumers into owning movies online.

Five major studios are participating in the service, which gives them permanent access to their movies through Wal-Mart’s Vudu online movie service.

Customers must bring in the physical discs themselves and an employee will search a database to see if they are

available. For $5 per disc, movies can be upgraded from DVD to a high-definition online version. Blu-ray discs converted to HD will still cost $2 each. Each disc that gets converted gets stamped with indelible ink so it can’t be reused by someone else.

Vudu can be accessed through computers, Internetconnected TVs, video game consoles and by way of a special player available on iPads and iPhones. Access requires a hard-wired Internet connection or Wi-Fi. Participating studios include Viacom Inc.’s Paramount, Comcast Corp.’s Universal, Sony Corp., Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. and News Corp.’s 20th Century Fox. The Walt Disney Co. is developing its own online storage system called KeyChest, and is not involved in the Wal-Mart offer.

The service makes Wal-Mart part of the fledgling UltraViolet system for storing online movies. Several of the participating studios have begun to release new titles with the functionality, which allows purchased movies to be viewed through the Flixster online movie application. Fox has delayed introducing new titles on the UltraViolet standard until improvements are made.

In Colombia, Obama to face FDA wants limits on antibiotics given to animals pressure on Cuba, drugs

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David Martin poses for a photograph with his turkeys raised without the use of antibiotics at his farm, Wednesday, April 11, 2012. The Food and Drug Administration called on drug companies Wednesday to help limit the use of antibiotics in farm animals, a decades-old practice that scientists say has contributed to a surge in dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration called on drug companies Wednesday to help limit the use of antibiotics in farm animals, a decades-old practice that scientists say has contributed to a surge in dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria.

Antibiotic drugs like penicillin are routinely mixed with animal feed and water to help livestock, pigs and chickens put on weight and stay healthy in crowded feeding lots. Scientists have warned that such use leads to the growth of antibiotic-resistant germs that can be passed on to humans.

The FDA has struggled for decades with how to tackle the problem because the powerful agri-

culture industry argues the drugs are a key part of modern meat production.

Under the new FDA guidelines, the agency recommends antibiotics be used “judiciously,” or only when necessary to keep animals healthy.

The agency also wants to require a veterinarian to prescribe the drugs. They can currently be purchased over-the-counter by farmers.

“Now you have a veterinarian who will be consulting and providing advice to these producers, and we feel that is an important element to assure that they are in fact using these drugs appropriately,” said William Flynn, a deputy director in FDA’s veterinary medicine center.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will face fresh pressure on Cuba and illegal drugs when he meets this week with Latin American leaders, some of whom have grown skeptical of his promise to forge a new era of partnership.

Obama will join more than 30 heads of state in the coastal Colombian city of Cartagena for the Summit of the Americas.

Notably absent will be Cuban leader Raul Castro, as well as the president of Ecuador, who is boycotting over Havana’s continued exclusion from the hemispheric meetings.

The White House, wary of a foreign policy distraction in an election year focused largely on domestic issues, has tried to play down a push by some regional leaders to include Cuba at future summits, as well as discussions about decriminalizing drugs as a way of reducing cartel violence.

Instead, Obama will aim to highlight issues that are more politically palatable back home, namely the prospect of Latin America as a growth market for U.S. businesses. The White House says 40 percent of U.S. exports are to the Western Hemisphere.

To make that point even before leaving the U.S., Obama will stop first in Tampa, Fla., for a speech Friday on the benefits of boosting trade ties with

Latin America. Florida is a pivotal state in the general election.

Obama will also join dozens of private sector executives from U.S. companies at a CEO summit Saturday to discuss increasing business ties and trade with their Latin American counterparts.

The president planned to spend two nights in Cartagena and return to Washington late Sunday. In addition to the summit program, Obama will hold a separate meeting with Caribbean leaders, a one-on-one meeting and news conference with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and tour Cartagena’s historic San Pedro Claver church.

Obama’s reception at the Summit of the Americas probably will be more subdued than at the last meeting in 2009, in the two-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. Back then, the newly inaugurated American president was greeted with cheers, winning praise for pledging to be a humble, cooperative partner and raising the prospect of a shift in relations between the U.S. and Cuba.

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NEW YORK (AP) — The price of natural gas has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade, a remarkable decline for a commodity that not long ago was believed to be in short supply.

The country’s supply of natural gas is growing so fast that analysts worry the country’s underground storage facilities could be full by fall and lead to further price declines.

On Wednesday, the futures price of natural gas fell to $1.984 per 1,000 cubic feet, its lowest level since January 28, 2002, when the price hit $1.91. If the price slides to $1.75, it would be the lowest since March 23, 1999.

Natural gas production has boomed across the country as energy companies employ new drilling techniques to tap previously untouched reserves.

The process has raised concerns about water safety, and has been temporarily banned in New York and New Jersey. But where it has been allowed, it has led to increases in drilling, job growth and production.

The falling price of natural gas has been a boon to homes and businesses that use the fuel for heat and appliances, and for manufacturers that use it to power their factories and make chemicals, plastics and other materials. Another benefit: Electricity costs are lower because natural gas is used to generate about a quarter of the nation’s electric power.

From October to March, households spent $868 on average on natural gas, a decline of 17 percent from last winter.

Those savings have helped to relieve the burden of rising gasoline prices. Households spent $1,940 on gasoline from October to March, a 7 percent increase from the same period a year ago.

There is so much natural gas being produced — and still in the ground — that drillers, policymakers, economists and natural gas customers are trying to figure out what to do with it. Last year, the U.S. produced an average of 63 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day, a 24 percent increase from 2006. But over that period consumption has grown half as fast.

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Both Conn. senate debates should be held during school year

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ive candidates are officially seeking the Democratic nomination for the open U.S. Senate position in Connecticut. Last Monday, all five participated in a debate held at von der Mehden Hall here on the UConn Storrs campus. In the name of balance, a Republican debate will also be held at UConn, but that event will not take place until June 14.

Therein lies the problem: the Democratic debate took place while the school year was still in session. The Republican debate, by contrast, will take place during summer vacation.

Seemingly, there was a purpose to holding the events at Connecticut’s primary public institution of higher education: to allow the thousands of college students on campus, many of whom will be voting in their first-ever elections this year, to witness the American democratic process firsthand. Indeed, several questions during the debate last Monday dealt with issues affecting college students in particular, such as Pell grants and the interest rates on student loans.

Most of the thousands of students who live on campus would have been able to attend the on-campus Democratic debate last Monday if they so chose. But comparatively fewer students will be able to attend the Republican debate during the summer months, as many of them will have returned to their homes.

Bringing these types of events to campus is important, but the fact that the two are not equally accessible to students because of timing creates only the illusion of objectivity. If the university and other participating co-sponsors of the two debates wanted to give students of both parties equal access to their candidates, more consideration should have been given to the timing of the events.

Obviously the candidates participating in these events are extremely busy, and arranging to have all of them in the same room at the same time may have been difficult. But using difficult schedules and traveling campaigns as an excuse becomes more difficult when the first Republican debate of the year takes place today – Thursday, April 12 – at Kelly Middle School in Norwich.

Now, the responsibility is on the students to watch these debates, regardless of whether they were able to attend the events live or not. Video footage of the entire Democratic event can be streamed for free online, an option which will hopefully be present for the Republican event as well. Articles were written in the Hartford Courant, Connecticut Mirror and other state news sources. If enough UConn students study these debates with a critical eye, the democratic process will be able to successfully achieve its end goal, regardless of what time during the year the debates were actually held.

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Society needs to embrace all groups

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fter learning the name of his roommate the summer before his first semester at Rutgers University, Dharun Ravi performed a Google search. After discovering posts by Tyler Clementi on a gay website, Ravi logged on to Twitter and typed an obscenity and “He’s gay.” And so began the chain of events that led to the tragic death of Clementi only weeks later.

The trial of Ravi – who was convicted almost a month ago of bias intimidation and invasion of privacy, among other charges – provoked intense discussion about how we, as a society, identify and react to hate crimes. This is a

By Ryan Gilbert seriously important Commentary Editor dialogue.

When bias-related crimes and incidents take place, they demand a special response because of their distinctive psychological effect on the victims. By making members of certain groups frightened and enraged, these incidents can damage the structure of our society and divide communities.

The Tyler Clementi case did not present the typical hate crime pattern, and the American public became entangled in a debate about whether it should have been prosecuted as such. Was the indicted student, Ravi, a hardened bigot or just an insensitive college freshman? Was this a premeditated crime or impulsive misbehavior? Was it anticipatable that his actions would lead to a violent end? Right now, a similar debate is being had in regards to the Trayvon Martin case.

But, in the search for a prosecution that

would measure up to the horror of the loss and pacify public outrage, we may have forgotten to ask the most important questions.

Reports of electronic communication between Ravi and his friends in the weeks before Clementi’s death show a disturbing pattern: “ … He would be born in January/ what a gay month.” “ … I saw him making out with a dude. Yay!”

“Was the indicted student, Ravi, a hardened bigot or just an insensitive college freshman? Was this a premeditated crime or impulsive misbehavior?”

Though appalling in the context of what later occurred, anyone who spends time around teenagers knows that comments like these aren’t at all unusual.

And they beg important questions: Did Ravi and his friends ever learn about gay people or the history of LGBT harassment and prejudice in school? If they had, they might have thought twice about using such degrading language. Were they ever required to participate in anti-bullying programs? If they had, those programs might have taught them skills for standing up to socially hateful behavior. Were there classes on Internet safety or online principles, or did their parents ever talk with them about any of these subjects? Did their schools provide the parents with the tools to talk to

their children?

Ravi’s behavior was disgusting but not unusual. In the wake of his trial, which dealt with the question of a suitable punishment for this one individual – we must not lose sight of the official and public settings that allowed Ravi and his friends to think it was funny or okay to violate his roommate’s privacy, participate in anti-gay rhetoric and other prejudiced behavior.

We must face the fact that any number of young people in any of our communities might have found themselves in a similar situation.

While the verdict offered some measure of justice for Clementi and sends a commanding message to those who would take part in cyber-bullying that there will be serious legal consequences for such behavior, the universal problems of prejudice and bullying are best addressed in society through comprehensive anti-bias education.

Children can be informed at school, at home, in religious and community settings to be more than just socially and emotionally productive members of society, but also willing and able to stand up and be a moral voice against hatred, prejudice and bigotry.

During his first weeks of college, Clementi wrote privately to a friend, “I would love to have like 3 close friends. …

(People) view me as always wanting to be alone … but thats not true … i need some people in my life … I NEED conversation … it’s just that i can’t DO it.”

Real justice for Clementi cannot be found in any verdict, but rather in schools and communities where no student feels socially secluded or disregarded.

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

Words like “Socialism” have ruined political discourse

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bet this has happened to you: you’re having a legitimate discussion with someone interesting, attractive and with a soothing voice. The subject: current events. Perhaps it’s about the health care debate, or the Republican primaries, maybe even international politics and business about the rise of China, India and the demise of the European Union. She or

By John Nitowski he may have demonstrated Staff Columnist their intense knowledge of global politics, issues and economics, and has a well-worded opinion.

And then one of the following comes out of her mouth: “And that’s why President Obama is a socialist.”

“Unfortunately, I thought President Obama was going to start a socialist revolution.”

That word, “socialism,” signifies that the conversation is over. Why? Because it doesn’t mean anything anymore.

“Socialism,” along with a handful of other words ranging from “the Founding Fathers” to “Hitler” are ruining political discourse.

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person who’s been saying, “But President Obama IS a Socialist!/ We NEED Socialism!” here’s a short lesson.

Merriam-Webster defines “Socialism” as, “any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.” Note those first few words, “any of various.” When people refer to President Obama being a Socialist, they tend to think of Obama as some sort of Soviet Union, American rebirth.

After all, everyone knows the Soviet Union was a “socialist” country, so all socialists want us to return to a Soviet system.

And the Soviet Union failed!

Except that the Soviet Union wasn’t the only country that fell under “socialist” ideology.

China is a one-party state run by the Chinese Communist Party and clearly define themselves as “socialist,” but they have a clearly successful Capitalist economy. So what does being a “Socialist” mean anymore? Is it a bad thing like the Soviets, or a good thing like the Chinese?

Answer: it means nothing.

Take the other extreme.

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Rick Santorum once compared a Democratic comment in Congress to “Adolf Hitler in 1942 saying ‘I’m in Paris how dare you invade me.’” Though, I’m not really sure if whatever Congressional rule, in their own country and government, the Democratic Party was engaging in is equivalent to the genocidal machinations of a Fascist dictator. In the same way, I’m still puzzled how a democratically elected President who already stopped two wars is equivalent to the Bolshevik Revolution that killed more people than the First World War. Hitler and Marx (the first “socialist”) were America’s biggest enemies of the 20th-century. Without Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia, the world would not be the place it is today. So it’s understandable why branding your political rivals “Nazis” and “Soviets” is a handy reference. But if you resort to such name calling, you’re essentially saying that you’re uninformed about a certain subject and the only way to verbally express your opinion is to default to a known reference.

Hitler is bad. Socialists are bad. Mandated health care is bad.

Therefore, any mandated health

care is equivalent to Hitleresque takeovers. Of course, anyone who’s taken a HIST 1010 should be able to decipher why.

President Obama hasn’t assumed emergency powers – President Bush did… and he still can’t be compared to Hitler – nor has he enforced agricultural or manufacturing collectivization on… well, any level.

Financial collectivization… maybe, but then again Marx never said anything about that.

So how can any parallel be drawn? When someone tries to use Hitler or Marx to compare contemporary political events, they might as well try to use Harsha or Ogedei Khan. Don’t know those references? Well anyone who discusses politics doesn’t seem to know who Hitler or Marx are either.

The words people use to “simplify” their political arguments aren’t limited to Nazis or Socialists. Listen next time you decide to talk current events with someone. You might be surprised how little is actually understood.

Staff Columnist John Nitowski is an 2nd-semester English major. He can be reached at John.Nitowski@UConn.edu.

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Two US Marines killed, two injured in Morocco

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Syria says it will stop fighting by UN deadline

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria promised to comply with a U.N.-brokered cease-fire beginning Thursday but carved out an important condition — that the regime still has a right to defend itself against the terrorists that it says are behind the country’s year-old uprising.

The statement Wednesday offered a glimmer of hope that a peace initiative by special envoy Kofi Annan could help calm the conflict, which has killed some 9,000 people.

But the regime still has ample room to maneuver.

In comments carried on the state-run news agency, Syria said the army has successfully fought off “armed terrorist groups” and reasserted state authority across the country.

“A decision has been taken to stop these missions as of the morning of Thursday, April 12, 2012,” the statement said, adding: “Our armed forces are ready to repulse any aggression carried out by the armed terrorist groups against civilians or troops.”

The government denies that it is facing an uprising by Syrians who want to dislodge the authoritarian family dynasty that has ruled the country for more than four decades.

Instead, the regime says, terrorists are carrying out a foreign conspiracy to destroy Syria.

Because the regime has treated any sign of

dissent as a provocation, there are only dim hopes for an abrupt end to the bloodshed.

The White House cautioned that President Bashar Assad’s regime has reneged on promises to stop the violence in the past.

“What is important to remember is that we judge the Assad’s regime by its actions and not by their promises, because their promises have proven so frequently in the past to be empty,” White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters in Washington.

Annan is scheduled to brief the U.N. Security Council on Thursday by videoconference from Geneva.

Many activists predict that huge numbers of protesters would flood the streets if Assad fully complies with the agreement and pulls his forces back to barracks. But Syria has ways to maintain authority even without the military, in the form of pro-regime gunmen called “shabiha” and the fiercely loyal and pervasive security apparatus.

Over the course of the uprising, the military crackdown succeeded in preventing protesters from recreating the fervor of Egypt’s Tahrir Square, where hundreds of thousands of people camped out in a powerful show of dissent that drove longtime leader Hosni Mubarak from power.

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Cries of panic and fervent prayers rang out Wednesday as Indonesians rushed toward high ground after two strong earthquakes raised fears of a killer tsunami.

Alerts were raised as far away as Africa and Australia but this time the big waves didn’t come.

In western Indonesia, distraught women ran into the streets clinging to crying children as back-to-back tsunami warnings revived memories of the 2004 disaster that claimed 230,000 lives in nearly a dozen countries. Others screamed “God is great” as they poured from their homes or searched frantically for family members.

“God! What have we done to deserve this?” one mother screamed as residents around her piled into cars and onto the backs of motorcycles. “What sins have we committed?”

Two deadly tsunamis in the last decade — the most recent off Japan just one year ago — have left the world much better prepared.

Sirens sounded along coastlines and warnings spread like wildfire by mobile phone text messaging. Though often chaotic, evacuations began immediately, with streets clogged with traffic, especially in Aceh province, where 170,000 people were killed in 2004.

Patients were wheeled out of hospitals, some still lying in their beds with drips attached to their arms. And at least one hotel guest was slightly injured when he jumped out of his window.

Countries all along the Indian Ocean — from Australia and India to as far off as Africa — received alerts from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii saying they should prepare for the possibility of seismically charged waves.

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Two U.S. Marines were killed and two severely injured in the crash of a hybrid aircraft in Morocco on Wednesday, officials said.

The Marines were taking part in joint U.S.-Moroccan military excercises located in the south of the country based in Agadir, said U.S. Embassy spokesman Rodney Ford in Rabat, who gave the toll.

Capt. Kevin Schultz, a Marine spokesman at the Pentagon in Washington, confirmed that the aircraft involved was an MV-22 Osprey, which takes off and lands like a helicopter and flies like an airplane. The aircraft was participating in a U.S.Moroccan military exercise known as “African Lion.”

The Osprey was flying from the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima, a defense offi-

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In this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), International envoy Kofi Annan, left, shakes hands with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at the beginning of their meeting on the Iranian island of Qeshm, Wednesday, April 11, 2012.

Panic but no tsunami from strong Indonesia quakes Hour later the tsunami warnings were lifted, and damage from the tremors was minimal — something experts attributed to the unique nature of the fault line.

The only wave to hit was less than 30 inches (80 centimeters) high, rolling to Indonesia’s emptied coastline.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the first 8.6-magnitude quake was a shallow 14 miles (22 kilometers), striking in the sea 270 miles (435 kilometers) off Aceh’s coast — making it the sixth-largest temblor in the last half-century.

Just as the region was sighing relief, an 8.2-magnitude aftershock followed, again causing only slight damage.

Experts said that’s because both tremors were what are known as “strike slip” quakes, where friction and shaking along the fault line occurs horizontally, creating more of a vibration in the water.

cial said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the matter is in the early stages of investigation.

The annual exercise which began in 2008 runs from April 7 to 18 and involves 1,000 U.S. Marines and 200 soldiers, sailors and airmen. They were working with some 900 Moroccan soldiers.

According to the U.S. Marine website, the exercise involved “everything from combined arms fire and maneuver ranges, aerial refueling and deliveries of supplies, to command post and non-lethal weapons training.”

The main unit involved in the exercise is the 14th Marines, a reserve artillery regiment based in Fort Worth, Texas, but also includes members of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit based in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

Tunisia marks 10 years since bloody synagogue bomb TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s president reassured his nation’s Jews of their place in society Wednesday in a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of an al-Qaida truck bomb at a synagogue on the island of Djerba that killed 21 people.

President Moncef Marzouki flew to the island accompanied by Tunisia’s grand rabbi, Haim Bitan, to lay a wreath and observe a moment of silence to remember the victims of the truck bombing, which included 14 German and two French tourists. The ambassadors of France and Germany attended, along with the families of the victims.

“All forms of discrimination against Jews, assaults on their lives, possessions or religion are forbidden,” he said in a speech inside the synagogue, as he unveiled a plaque. “Tunisian Jews are an integral part of our people and they share all

the rights and duties. Whoever violates their rights, attacks all Tunisians.”

The speech comes at a time when Tunisia’s small, 1,500-strong Jewish community is facing pressure from ultraconservative Muslim groups, after an uprising last year overthrew Tunisia’s decades-old secular dictatorship.

At a demonstration of Salafi activists on March 25 calling for the implementation of Islamic law, a Muslim religious leader chanted slogans to “prepare for the fight against the Jews,” prompting the leader of the Jewish community, Roger Bismuth, to file a lawsuit against him.

“This trip is a message of solidarity and respect for the Jewish community of Tunisia whose members are considered full citizens,” Adnan Mancer, the spokesman for the president, told The Associated Press.

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Confessions of a Songbird

By Purbita Saha

Former UConn student Kristin Errett has been called the next Sara Bareilles. Errett talks about crafting a career in music.

When Kristin Errett came to UConn she had no idea that she would be leaving soon, with a ticket to Los Angeles in hand and a record deal in the works.

Errett, a Connecticut native, is a thriving vocalist and pianist.

Her work has drawn comparisons to the popular Sara Bareilles and über-hip Norah Jones. More importantly, the 21-year-old musician recently released her first album, and will soon be embarking on a summer tour through New England.

Errett enrolled at UConn in the fall of 2008. She adopted a major in liberal arts, and planned to graduate just like every other student in her class. But after joining Husky Records and performing at a number of its events, Errett was hooked up with a producer from the Killingsworth Recording Company in Hollywood.

Two years after starting college, Errett was already crafting her musical career. She split her time between California and New York to pen some songs and collaborate with three other writers. Eventually, she moved out to L.A. to record her debut album, “Confessions of a Songbird.” Errett spent a total of three months in the studio. After much fine-tuning, “Songbird” was put out in stores in April 2011.

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Philosophy professor stands to reason at book talk

By Jason Wong Staff Writer The UConn Co-op hosted a book talk by Dr. Michael Lynch, a professor of philosophy at UConn, about his book “In Praise of Reason” Wednesday afternoon. According to Lynch, the book defends two claims about reason: the first that democracy relies on debate, i.e. the free exchange of ideas, and the second that there are certain principles of rationalities that are superior to others, e.g. the scientific method.

Lynch began the talk with a thought experiment, asking the audience: “Would you force people to convert to your political thinking if given the ability to do so?” The point of the thought experiment was to demonstrate that most people have an inborn sense of basic principles of reason. Those principles affect what people think and how they make decisions.

He provided a statistic that roughly 60-75 percent of Americans do not believe in evolution and that only 14 percent of those self-reported that this belief was based on evidence. From this, it seems feasible that reasons come second to more arbitrary things like faith. If that’s the case, Lynch asked then wouldn’t the thought experiment from before be justified?

Lynch cited two sources of skepticism regarding the role of reason in human behavior. The first was the idea that reason is not efficacious to decision making. That is to say, emotions are the primary force behind our decisions, and rationalization is what occurs after the fact. Lynch posited that this line of thinking was “overstated,” as well as being

self-defeating and self-undermining. The second is the idea that reason not only gives way to emotion, but also to faith. That is to say, at the end of the day, basic principles are taken on faith.

He then gave a real life example of a controversy regarding the historical and scientific contents of Texan textbooks. “The true conflict is essentially this,” Lynch said. “Which principles of knowing things are best? ...The reason we care about these disagreements is because they affect policy. We need a way to choose the superior principles of reason, what constitutes rationality.”

Following this statement, Lynch read briefly from a passage at the end of Chapter One of his book; a quote by Michael Oakeshott, a conservative British philosopher of the 20th century. In it, Oakeshott condemned a political opponent of his as “The Rationalist,” a man who was “an enemy of authority, tradition...” Lynch then stated that he was proud to fit the description that Oakeshott gave.

After his reading, Lynch took questions from the audience. He emphasized that reason and emotion aren’t mutually exclusive. He said that to argue for a method of knowing, one had to appeal to something besides the truth. The principles he considered superior were so because they are democratic in that they don’t place all knowledge in the hands of a privileged few.

Bret Gaulin, an 8th-semester political science major said, “He did a good job explaining what his book is about. It ties in to his other books, and is a good continuation of the exploration of truth in them.”

Jason.Wong@UConn.edu

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Famed artist to unveil context behind disputed Benton exhibit

By Purbita Saha Focus Editor Is plagiarism appropriate when used for expression? Artist Penelope Umbrico addressed this question while discussing the use of appropriated images in exhibits at this week’s Benton talk.

Umbrico’s lecture is Thursday at 4 p.m. at the Benton Museum of Art. She is controversial for advocating the reuse of Internet images, but she is also popular for her forward-thinking collections. Her projects “Broken Sets (eBay)” and “TVs from Craigslist” are currently being displayed at the Benton. They have previously been included in galleries at the Museum of Modern Art and other museums throughout Europe and Australia.

Umbrico has been at the forefront of the debate about this juncture between art and the Internet. Last week, she was a guest speaker on the National Public Radio show “Studio 360.”

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Artist Penelope Umbrico’s work “Broken Sets” is displayed at the Benton.

She often names her exhibits in a way that makes society question standard perceptions and premature concepts. Furthermore, Umbrico uses her art to compare the infiniteness of the Internet to its closed, circular nature.

The Benton hosts art talks on a regular basis, but this is one of the few times it has had the artist come in and reveal the

true nature behind the exhibits.

Umbrico’s discourse is highly topical and relevant to current problems in society, and it will serve as a bridge between many different subjects and majors that UConn students might find to be significant.

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Philosophy professor Michael Lynch spoke at the Co-op about his book “In Praise of Reason.”

Comedian Bo Burham to perform tonight

By John Tyczkowski Associate Focus Editor

Comedian Bo Burnham will come to UConn this week to headline SUBOG’s Spring Comedy Show, with comedian Derek Hughes opening. Burnham will perform Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts.

Burnham got his start in 2006 by posting self-composed songs online and performing at local shows at colleges, clubs and theatres. He is also the youngest person to record a show on Comedy Central, doing so four days after his e i g h teenth birthday in August 2008, and recorded a CD in

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March 2009, according to the Jorgensen press release for the event.

Tickets are on sale from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily at the Jorgensen Box Office, $5 for students and $10 for non-students. Tickets and more information are available online at jorgensen. uconn.edu.

What’s coming to the new Storrs downtown area

I recently saw the list of restaurants coming to the new Storrs Downtown and, I must say, I’m slightly disappointed.

Not because the selection is poor, but because I graduate right before all the good stuff is finally coming to town.

One of the restaurants that Storrs has been majorly lacking and is finally gracing us with its presence is a frozen yogurt store. Now, I’ve never been to Froyo World, which is the one moving in, but it says on their website that they come out with new flavors every month, which I can get on board with.

I just hope it’s one of those places were you get to pour your own froyo and put the toppings on yourself, because obviously I want to dump way more crushed Oreo bits on there than the ice cream lady will be willing to give me.

Another restaurant coming is Moe’s Southwest Grill. I’ve heard a lot of rumblings about how people would’ve preferred Chipotle, but trust me; Moe’s is better (and this is coming from someone who worked at Chipotle). Moe’s offers way more options, a greater variety of salsa and free chips.

What could possibly be better than that? At Chipotle, you pay $2 for a measly bag of chips and extra for guacamole. Furthermore, unless you’re under 12 (which I’m assuming you’re not), you can forget about getting a quesadilla. Oh, and Moe’s has queso, which is something Chipotle seriously lacks.

The mystery restaurant on the list right now is Dog Lane Café, but one thing this area definitely needs is a cute little place to get coffee, soups and salads.

“I think we need more casual sit down restaurants. It gets aggravating having to drive to Manchester just because I don’t want to order out,” said Amy Hecht, an 8th-semester family studies major. “We need a salad place.”

Right now, the only “café” is Starbucks, and it will be good for there to be other options.

The Storrs Downtown website says Dog Lane will serve grilled items such as sandwiches and paninis, and will be similar to the Vanilla Bean Café in Pomfret, Conn., who will have the same owners.

Kebab Express, another restaurant moving in, will probably bring Sarah’s Pockets some competition, but the place that I think has everyone ready to pee their pants with excitement is Insomnia Cookies.

Basically, Insomnia Cookies has cornered the market of delivering huge, soft, chewy, gooey, warm cookies to your door. One cookie costs $1.25 (which means I’d probably be ordering, like, seven of them), and for another $2.00, you get a glass of milk to go alongside. They have flavors like snickerdoodle, chocolate chip, M&M, sugar and peanut butter, along with brownies that you can mix toppings into for 50 cents apiece.

While I couldn’t be happier for the students who get to enjoy these amazing restaurants (although I secretly hate you all), it got me thinking about what type of food joints students would’ve liked to see open.

“I wish there was a Chili’s,” said Sam Almassian, an 8thsemester resource economics major. “They’ve got good fries, sick drink specials and they’re pretty cheap.”

Ever since Jao Praya went under, I’ve been dying to see

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By Julie Bartoli Senior Staff Writer

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The music business works in dog years – if you want a shot, you need to take off running.

Alabama Shakes did just that with their debut album, “Boys & Girls.”

Made up of four high school friends (the most acclaimed being their powerhouse front woman Brittney Howard), the Shakes have enough raw talent that even their moments of naiveté translate into fortuitous perfection.

Their debut is rough around the edges in the best possible way; amp buzz, static cling and drum crunch straight from the garage.

Howard’s occasionally tight, tense delivery keeps her vocals from becoming excessive, and by comparison her Joplin-esque wails are primal and moving.

“Boys and Girls” is a punk approach to 60s rock ‘n’ soul.

It’s got the D.I.Y. aesthetic without sounding unqualified. The first single, “Hold On,” features Heath Fogg’s swelling guitar riff and Howard’s ardent howls. Her guttural scream on “You Ain’t Alone” is reminiscent of the King of Soul himself, Otis Redding.

“Heartbreaker” evokes images of Robert Plant (not because of the title), “Hang Loose” has a certain

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tion of their undeniable talent.

Other highlights from the record include, “Mountain Sound,” “Lakehouse,” “Yellow Light,” “Love Love Love,” and their latest single “Little Talks.”

Mixing the record up between their strong instrumentation and upbeat sounds with softer, and more empathetic tones, Of Monsters And Men show growth and variety that will easily help them gave a variety of fans.

Overall, “My Head is an Animal” plays into Of Monsters and Men’s strengths, which are their creative yet enticing use of horns or the acoustic guitar and their haunting harmonies between the two lead vocalists Nanna and Riggs.

Often compared to the likes of Mumford and Sons, Arcade Fire, and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Of Monster and Men have in fact created their own sound and produced a record that will keep you listening through this summer.

So apparently, people still listen to the radio.

According to a small sample pool of UConn students, the radio is clutch while sitting in traffic, burning away money and gas and receiving angry messages from the boss. Hearing Adele, Kelly Clarkson, fun., then again Adele makes sipping on that cold latte all the more enjoyable. Many of my interviewees also told me that the radio is an effective release from road rage.

Sometimes.

But who actually values the radio anymore? Have the airwaves just become background noise as we tackle our daily lives and busy schedules? Back in the day I used to sit on my bed and turn on Radio Disney to wallow in middle-school apathy for hours on end. But now I can’t even surf through eight different channels without getting disgusted and having to pop in a Fleet Foxes CD. Now let’s get this straight, when I talk about the radio I’m not referring to NPR or Bloomberg. News stations are doing just fine. They have been thinking of innovative ways to draw in audiences; the use of podcasts and specialized broadcasts has revolutionized the face of the media and upped its economic value. But music channels on the other hand, seem to be going to the dogs. Instead of diversifying and picking up new genres, they seem to conforming to one formula for programming.

They fill the air with long-winded ads to compensate for their tapering budgets, and then pick up the same songs that is being featured on every other frequency. The thing that kills me most is that a lot of the stations will play the same pieces at the same time. As a result, I’m usually confused as to which channel is which by the end of my brief forays onto the radio.

Thankfully, Internet radio has proven to be a new avenue for streaming tunes. With their user-friendly interfaces and large databases of titles, web sites like Spotify and radiotuna provide a pleasant experience for disgruntled listeners. And for more experimental individuals, slacker.com and athena365.com are effective at negating predictability with personality.

Yet the Internet lacks one thing: portability. This gives radio stations the opportunity to compete with their online counterparts. Many of them have split their time between the computer and the antenna. Chicago’s 98.7 WMFT for example, endorses classical and folk art through a variety of broadcasts.

Similarly, WUMB, which has different frequencies spanning Massachusetts, contributes to the grassroots music movement by hosting live sessions and local concerts.

The key to AM/FM success is accommodating listeners with a broad platform of songs. Genrespecific channels such as classic rock and bluegrass jazz have been losing their faithful followers. Consequently, they fail to conjure up the funds that will let them keep their doors open and their soundtracks on the air.

Slowly, these expertise stations are all being converted to mainstream broadcasters that operate under identical notions and foster the same ideas. And slowly, they are contributing to the death of the radio.

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Chuck Berry swing and “I Ain’t the Same’s” chord progressions are so deliciously retro that by the time you get to Howard’s rasping, anthemic chorus, you’re entranced.

However, don’t be fooled by all the name checks and stylistic parallels. The Shakes aren’t nostalgic for a time they’ve never known, nor are they participating in any musical revival – they’re reshaping the genres themselves.

The way Howard digs in to these songs, the way the band alternates from passive swells to thunderclaps – it’s a style that’s purely theirs. It’s genuine, it’s charismatic and it’s completely infectious. Concerns have been voiced over the album’s lack of hooks, but that’s what this is about. The Shakes didn’t aim for radiofriendly singles; they instead created a visceral experience.

Realistically, this is the best it will get for these kids. “Boys &

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Alabama Shake’s “Boys & Girls” is rough around the edges in the best possible way.

Girls” is propelling them toward a major label record deal. From there, Hamilton will get the type of vocal coaching that’ll leave her raw edge conscious and calculated. The amp fuzz will be mixed into oblivion; the guitar solos polished and pulled to the front of the mix. Call me a pessimist, but I’m just preparing myself for an inevitable sophomore slump.

“Boys & Girls” is a rarity – an album that wasn’t deliberate

or conscientious or over, overdubbed. It was an LP from a band that was garnering too much hype to hold back. They dropped it before they could develop an image, before they could refine their sound, before they’d even heard of Nielson SoundScan.

This is as bona fide as it gets; savor it.

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New London duo look to take on professional music world “Until the End of Time” Justin Timberlake

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“Freek’n You” Jodeci

“Nice and Slow” Usher

By Joseph Kirschner Campus Correspondent A.G. (Alex Grimotes) and T-Real (Teaurean Nolan) otherwise known as the “Hearttaker Boyz” are a group from New London that makes music hiphop and R&B music.

Starting to seriously record music their freshmen year of college, the “Hearttaker Boyz” have made their first professional recording with the “Open Heart ‘The Operation’” Mix Tape, which was released in January 2011, performed in front of 1,400 people at the first annual talent show at the Garde Arts Theatre in New London on March 25, 2011 and played a gig at the Crocker House in New London on July 8, 2011.

Alex Grimotes is a 6th-semester business management major at Southern Connecticut State University who first started playing around with making beats

at age 12 with a keyboard he received as a gift from his dad.

However at age 16 A.G. started to seriously get into making beats.

After hearing Kanye West’s music A.G. was inspired and wanted to make his own sound. Starting out A.G. used a webcam microphone, but once things started to get serious he bought an Audio/ Technica microphone for better sound quality.

Teaurean Nolan is a 4thsemester exercise science major at Southern Connecticut State University. T-Real said he has always been into making music.

With past experience playing the trumpet, being on the drum line and free styling on breaks during basketball practice in high school, Nolan said he is self inspired because he has been around music his whole life.

The relationship between the two artists is unique. Starting out as childhood friends who played against each other in recreational

basketball and went to separate high schools, A.G. and T-Real have grown to have the same goal of making professional music.

With future plans to do more music videos and another mix tape this summer, the “Hearttaker Boyz” plan to take their music to the next level by buying more equipment and doing more shows. Even though they are close friends the music they make together is taken seriously.

Grimotes said, “It’s been good having my friend with me because we are both serious about making music. T-Real helps push me to make music.”

By doing collaborations with other local artists such as “The Facey Kid” with the song “Summer Nights,” “Stevie Fresco” on “LoveDrunk (Drank In My Cup Remix)” and “Genesis” featured on the song “Insomnia,” A.G. and T-Real have been working hard to get their music noticed. Nolan said

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the “Hearttaker Boyz” future plans are “just to expand, network, and get our sound out as much as humanly possible.”

Although they would like to put more time into their music Grimotes and Nolan are both 20-year-old college students.

Grimotes said, “I’m just going with the flow right now to get money for new equipment but school comes first.”

Grimotes plans to use his degree to work at a bank or manage a music company. However Grimotes said, “I love making music. I’m going to keep making music.”

The “Hearttaker Boyz’s” “Open Heart ‘The Operation’” Mix Tape is available for free on www.hotnewhiphop.com. The group also has music and updates available on their Facebook and Twitter pages.

There are high expectations for a band coming from Iceland, the home of other successful acts such as Björk, and Sigur Rós. Both have produced experimental and distinct sounds that are quite unlike anything produced in the States.

Though this sextet doesn’t lean toward that genre, their sound cannot be described as anything but captivating or euphoric. Releasing an EP, “Into the Woods” earlier this year, they gave the public high hopes of what was to come.

Fortunately for Of Monsters and Men, the band’s debut record “My Head is an Animal,” does everything but disappoint.

It’s obvious marketing tool to put your strongest tracks at the beginning of your album because most listeners are too lazy to go through the whole thing, so if they tend to like the first couple tracks, they will buy the whole album. The problem that happens most of the time with is that once you get to track

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Of Monsters and Men’s recent release “My Head is an Animal.”

5 – 7, you begin to question why did you spend 16 bucks on an album when you only like three of the songs on it.

After having “My Head is an Animal” on repeat for the past couple of days, it was clear to

me that this record is an exception to that concept. Opening with one of the strongest tracks of the record “Black Paws,” Of Monsters and Men foreshadowed that their “Into the Woods” EP was just a small por-

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Storrs will Jethro Tull returns to ‘70s style still lack good Thai, seafood 8

By Brendon Field Campus Correspondent

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In 1972, British rock group Jethro Tull released “Thick as a Brick.” It went on to be one of the most acclaimed albums and is now considered one of the best in the history of progressive rock. Forty years later, Jethro Tull front man Ian Anderson has released Thick as a Brick 2.”

The album is a return to the progressive style embodied

by Jethro Tull throughout the 1970s. It utilizes an eclectic combination of instruments, from the rock essentials to organ, saxophone and even accordion. The songs vary from electric instrumental to acoustic ballad to spoken poetry, and several combinations of the three. The mix of styles balance well and the transitions, while occasionally abrupt, give the music a distinct and interesting flavor.

Unlike the original “Thick as a Brick,” the new album is not one song that goes for 45 minutes. But it acts as a sequel in that the songs tell the story of Gerald Bostock, the

NEW YORK (AP) – The acrimony that helped dissolve Guns N’ Roses nearly 20 years ago still lingers.

Axl Rose announced Wednesday that he won’t be showing up to see the band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and declined the honor for himself.

In a letter to the hall, band fans and “To Whom It May Concern,” Rose listed several reasons for not attending Saturday’s ceremony in Cleveland, including a feeling that the hall does not respect him.

In declining his own induction, he added: “I strongly request that

I not be inducted in absentia and please know that no one is authorized nor may anyone be permitted to accept any induction for me or speak on my behalf.”

The hall said in a statement that it still plans to induct Rose with the rest of the group. “We are sorry he will not be able to accept his induction in person,” it said.

According to the rock hall only the Sex Pistols have declined induction before.

Although Rose now fronts a reconstituted version of Guns N’ Roses that does not include former members Slash, Izzy Stradlin, Duff

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another Thai place come back, but so far, no luck. Furthermore, Storrs could definitely benefit from a really great seafood place. I know we’re not exactly near the ocean, but hey, neither is West Hartford, and they’ve got Max’s Oyster Bar, which gets voted No. 1 seafood restaurant in the state year after year

by Hartford Magazine.

Regardless of my personal food opinions, it’s a huge step for this area toward finally becoming a college town, and hopefully Storrs can keep expanding until one day the day they become the next Chapel Hill or Ann Arbor. That might take a while.

character created in the first album. Each song focuses on a different part of his life in the past 40 years. The album as a whole shows how menial events can affects one’s outlook on life. This message is carried through Anderson’s always spectacular lyrical work. His words here are less cryptic than they usually are, but they’re still deep, poetic and original.

He uses the songs as a whole to act as metaphors and symbols, and they combine to tell an interesting and thought provoking story. There’s still a fair share of lines like “All bread and butter and jam for his tea” and “No more empty towers of this unholy Babylon.” But strange dialect has always been a feature of Jethro Tull, and quite frankly, their music doesn’t sound right without it.

A lot has changed since 1972, most notably Anderson’s voice. Due to several vocal cord injuries, his singing voice is much higher pitched, nasally and has a limited range. It’s certainly a downgrade from what it used to be and he does

go beyond his limits in places.

But it’s tolerable and is appropriate because the album is a story, his voice has that of an old narrator. He’s also the only personnel to have also appeared on the 1972 album.

While “Thick as a Brick 2” is under his name, it was made using the same of group of people that have called themselves “Jethro Tull” for the last several years; with the sole exception of guitarist Florian Ophale replacing long time member Martin Barre. While I’m an enormous fan of Barre’s work, it’s Ophale’s that makes the album. His work has a lot energy, matches the style perfectly and goes very well with Anderson’s best flute work since “Songs from the Wood.”

The two have several instrumental duets, and not one of them is less than amazing.

While technically a sequel to “Thick as a Brick,” “Thick as a Brick 2” much closer resembles “A Passion Play,” Jethro Tull’s 1973 album.

Unfortunately, it also has some of the same problems as “A Passion Play.”

Occasionally the lyrical syn-

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tax doesn’t match the music, and some of the acoustic sections sound a little thin. But it also fixes much of what “A Passion Play” did wrong. It doesn’t push its progressive tone to the point of pretentiousness, and the narrative flows much smoother.

Is “Thick as a Brick 2” as good as its 1972 predecessor?

No, then again, few things are.

But it does deliver complex and well executed music in a fashion that we just don’t see enough of today. This is easily Anderson’s best work in 20 years and for any progressive rock fan, “Thick as a Brick 2” will certainly satisfy.

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Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses declines induction into Rock Hall of Fame

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In this Dec. 16, 2010, file photo, Guns N’ Roses performs during a concert in Abu Dhabi. Rock Hall spokesman Todd Mesek said Monday, that Green Day members Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool will induct Guns N’ Roses at Saturday’s ceremony at Cleveland’s Public Hall.

McKagan or Steven Adler, some held out hope that the band might reunite at the hall.

Even Slash seemed to leave an opening for the possibility.

“I have no idea what’s going to happen on that day,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press last month. “It’s more like going into it with blinders on and just see what happens.”

But Rose apparently was miffed by such talk.

“There’s a seemingly endless amount of revisionism and fantasies out there for the sake of selfpromotion and business opportunities masking the actual realities,” he wrote.

He added: “So let sleeping dogs lie or lying dogs sleep or whatever. Time to move on. People get divorced. Life doesn’t owe you your own personal happy ending especially at another’s, or in this case several others’, expense.

A rep for Slash said he would still attend Saturday but had no further comment. Green Day is scheduled to induct the group.

Rose admitted that when it was first announced that the band would be inducted, he had mixed feelings.

But “I was honored, excited and hoped that somehow this would be a good thing. Of course, if Guns N’ Roses were to be inducted it’d be somewhat of a complicated or awkward situation.”

Errett says social networking key to advancing in music industry from CONFESSIONS, page 7 Errett did not abandon her education when she left Storrs. She takes classes while sustaining her career, which she said is difficult but manageable. The singer does miss UConn, especially when she catches up with old friends and has cravings for DP Dough, she said. “I would love to do a show on campus,” Errett said. The only problem is she’s not in touch with the new officers of Husky Records.

Errett’s songbird tendencies were revealed at a young age. She began playing piano when she was 10, and was interested in musical theater while growing up.

“I’m pretty much inspired by everything,” Errett said, “especially country music.”

When she writes lyrics she doesn’t just draw from personal experiences. “If I hear a good story I think, ‘I need to make a song out of this,” she said.

Despite the success of her freshman record, Errett isn’t sitting around idly. “Right now I’m trying to play as much as I can,” the artist said. Her venues of choice have ranged from local, such as Pub-32 in Storrs, to notorious, like The Bitter End in NYC. And although she is unsigned for the time being, she continues to write, build up her fan base and promote her CD. Additionally, she is putting together an acoustic version of ‘Songbird,’ and is drawing up plans to form a band in the fall.

As a message to all aspiring musicians, Errett said that organization and social networking are the keys to advancing in the industry. “Follow what’s big,” she said. Having a website, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and YouTube is essential for stardom. Errett can be found on all these platforms. Her website kristinerrett.com provides visitors with the chance to listen to all ten tracks from “Songbird” for free. This includes Errett’s personal favorite, “Sparks.”

On top of that, those who sign up for her mailing list are rewarded with a free download.

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US sues to lower prices of e-books WASHINGTON (AP) — The government says avid best-seller readers who use electronic books have been getting ripped off. Tina Fey's "Bossy Pants," Tim Tebow's "Through My Eyes" and Keith Richards' "'Life" — maybe they should have cost less.

The Justice Department and 15 states sued Apple Inc. and major book publishers Wednesday, alleging a conspiracy that raised the price of electronic books. They said the scheme cost consumers more than $100 million in the past two years by adding $2 or $3, sometimes as much as $5, to the price of each e-book.

If there was price fixing, even the e-book version of the hot-selling Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs, the late genius behind Apple computers, may have cost too much.

Attorney General Eric Holder said executives at the highest levels of the companies conspired to eliminate competition among e-book sellers. Justice's antitrust chief, Sharis Pozen, said the executives were desperate to get Amazon.com — the marketer of Kindle e-book readers — to raise the $9.99 price point it had set for the most popular e-book titles, because that was substantially below their hardcover prices.

The federal government reached a settlement with three of the publishers, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Shuster. But it will proceed with its lawsuit in federal court in New York City against Apple and Holtzbrinck Publishers, doing business as Macmillan, and The Penguin Publishing Co. Ltd., doing business as Penguin Group.

Connecticut and Texas, two of the 15 states filing a separate lawsuit, reached agreements with Hachette and HarperCollins to provide $52 million in restitution to consumers, using a formula based on the number of states participating and the number of e-books sold in each state. Other states in the case may sign onto the agreement, and other companies might be persuaded to join.

Susan E. Kinsman of the Connecticut attorney general's office said it's too early to say how consumers can go about getting refunds. But there could be millions of people applying. A recent Pew Research Center survey found that 21 percent of adults said they had read an e-book in the last year.

Since Amazon introduced the Kindle in 2007, e-book sales have surged. They represented just 2 percent of all titles sold in the United States that year, but soared to 25 percent last year. In 2010, about 114 million e-books were sold at a total cost of $441.3 million.

Holder told a Justice Department news conference that "we believe that consumers paid millions of dollars more for some of the most popular titles" as a result of the alleged conspiracy. Pozen said the scheme added an average of $2 to $3 to the prices of individual e-books.

Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen said the individual book markups went as high as $5 and the total cost to consumers was more than $100 million since April 2010, when the scheme allegedly took effect.

The government lawsuits did not disclose individual titles whose prices were allegedly jacked up.

The Fey, Tebow, Richards and Isaacson books all came out in electronic versions from the named publishers after April 2010.

According to Pozen, Apple's Steve Jobs told publishers involved in the alleged conspiracy that "the customer pays a little more, but that's what you want anyway."

The lawsuit said the effort to get e-book prices increased by Amazon.com came as Apple was preparing to launch the iPad. The government said the conspirators agreed that instead of selling books to retailers and letting them decide what retail price to charge, the publishers would convert the retailers into "agents" who could sell their books but not alter the publisher-set retail price. The scheme called for Apple to be guaranteed a 30 percent commission on each e-book it sold, the lawsuit said.

"To effectuate their conspiracy, the publisher defendants teamed up with defendant Apple, which shared the same goal of restraining retail price competition in the sale of e-books," the lawsuit said.

The European Union conducted an investigation that paralleled the U.S. probe. The Union's Joaquín Almunia, vice president of the commission in charge of competition policy, said in Brussels that he welcomes the fact that the five companies are making proposals to reach an early resolution of the EU case. "We are currently

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Attorney General Eric Holder, right, and Sharis Pozen, acting assistant attorney general, Antitrust Division, left, listens as Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Wednesday.

engaged in fruitful discussions with them," said Almunia.

Hachette denied it was involved in any conspiracy to illegally fix the price of e-books and said it changed its pricing structure – the central government allegation – to facilitate entry by a new retail competitor, Apple.

"Two years ago, Amazon effectively had a monopoly on the sale of e-books and e-readers, and was selling products below cost in an effort to exclude competitors," said Hachette.

Amazon called the settlement "a big win for Kindle owners, and we look forward to being allowed to lower prices on more Kindle books."

After reading the federal complaint, the Consumer Federation of America called it "a 'slam-dunk' case of collusive, anti-competitive behavior."

At Apple, spokesman Tom Neumayr declined to comment on the lawsuit.

Macmillan CEO John Sargent said in a letter to authors, illustrators and agents that the company has not settled because it is "hard to settle a lawsuit when you know you have done no wrong."

Sargent said there were months of discussions with the Justice

Department over a possible settlement, but the government's proposed terms "were too onerous" and "could have allowed Amazon to recover the monopoly position it had been building before our switch to the agency (pricing) model."

"We also felt the settlement the DOJ wanted to impose would have a very negative and longterm impact on those who sell books for a living, from the largest chain stores to the smallest independents." he said.

Sargent denied he colluded with competitors to change Macmillan's pricing. "After days of thought and worry, I made the decision on January 22nd, 2010, a little after 4:00 AM, on an exercise bike in my basement. It remains the loneliest decision I have ever made, and I see no reason to go back on it now," he wrote.

"We have done nothing wrong," said Penguin Group's chairman and CEO, John Makinson. "The decisions that we took, many them of them costly and difficult, were taken by Penguin alone."

At the heart of the e-book pricing debate is the industry's ongoing concern about Amazon. Publishers see the "agency model" as their best, short-term hope against pre-

venting the online retailer from dominating the e-book market and driving down the price of books to a level unsustainable for publishers and booksellers.

What the agency model achieved was to shift the power for setting retail prices on e-books from the retailer — in this case primarily Amazon — to the alleged conspirator publishers, who then exerted pressure on Amazon to comply with the higher prices.

The alleged scheme applied to New York Times bestselling titles, all titles that have gone on sale in the current year and mass market paperback titles.

Amazon's $9.99 price for bestsellers was such a deep discount from list prices of $20 and more that it was widely believed Amazon was selling the e-books at a loss to attract more customers and force competitors to lower their prices.

Amazon also has been demanding higher discounts from publishers and stopped offering e-books from the Independent Publishers Group, a Chicago-based distributor, after they couldn't agree to terms.

When Apple launched its tablet computer two years ago, publishers saw two ways to balance Amazon's power: Enough readers would prefer Apple's shiny tab-

let over the Kindle to cut into Amazon's sales, and the agency model would stabilize prices.

Apple's iBookstore has yet to become a major force, but publishers believe the new price model has reduced Amazon's market share from around 90 percent to around 60 percent, with Barnes & Noble's Nook in second at 25 percent. The iBookstore is believed to have 10 percent to 15 percent.

Macmillan's Sargent has been at the heart of the dispute. In early 2010, as publishers were trying to get Amazon to agree to Apple's pricing system, Amazon pulled all the listings for Macmillan books, including titles like Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections" and Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickle and Dimed." Sargent refused to back down and Amazon eventually gave in.

New e-books from Macmillan and the other publishers investigated by the Justice Department often are priced initially between $12.99 and $14.99, with Amazon making a point of noting that the price was set by the publisher.

Ironically, publishers usually make less money off the agency model than the traditional one because they receive a smaller percentage of the proceeds.

Random House Inc. was the only "Big Six" publisher not to agree to the agency model in 2010 and was not part of the lawsuit. But it did agree to terms with Apple last year.

Spokesman Stuart Applebaum said Random House would have no comment Wednesday.

According to federal court papers, the settlement agreement with three publishers said that for two years they will not restrict, limit or impede an e-book retailer's ability to set, alter or reduce the retail price of any electronic book. It said the retailers will be able to offer price discounts and other forms or promotions to encourage consumers to buy one or more electronic books.

The 15 states in the state complaint are Texas, Connecticut, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont and West Virginia.

Puerto Rico also joined that lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in Austin, Texas.

'Battleship' leads attack of game-based movies LOS ANGELES (AP) – "Battleship" steams into movie theaters overseas this week, giving international audiences the first chance to decide whether a board game-based movie is sea-worthy.

The Hasbro Inc. search-anddestroy game was once a way for kids to while away a summer afternoon. But as it debuts in Europe on Wednesday, "Battleship" the movie has become a potential franchise, sporting Michael Bayinspired special effects, aliens invading Earth, a bikini-model actress, superstar Rihanna and, of course, lots of guns.

Whether the movie symbolizes Hollywood's lack of new ideas or its brilliance in adapting old ones, Comcast Corp.'s Universal Pictures is betting big that it's the latter. With a reported production budget of $200 million, observers say it will need to reap at least $500 million at box offices worldwide to pay off.

Hollywood's love of the sequel, the prequel, the reboot and the adapted novel all originate from the same premise: Moviegoers are more likely to buy a ticket if they are already familiar with the story.

But not since "Clue" bombed in 1985 has Tinseltown gambled on adapting a popular board game with no apparent storyline.

The idea of turning board games into movies has gained new traction in part because of the huge success of "Transformers," and to a lesser extent "G.I. Joe," which are both based on toys from toymaker Hasbro Inc. The three "Transformers" movies have grossed more than $2.6 billion worldwide, helping lift "Transformers" toys to become Hasbro's top-selling brand last year, exceeding 11 percent of its $4.3 billion in annual revenue.

For Hasbro, the movie is a way to get a globally marketed boost for its games business, which Sterne Agee analyst Margaret Whitfield called "stagnant" and lacking inno-

vation. Turning that stagnation around is a goal of Brian Goldner, Hasbro's CEO since 2008. He told investors in February "we're going to reignite our games business."

If it succeeds, "Battleship" will be the advance guard of a whole fleet of planned adaptations of Hasbro games including "Ouija," also being developed by Universal for release in 2013, as well as "Risk" and "Candy Land," which are both in the works at Sony Corp. "Stretch Armstrong," a movie based on the glutinousarmed toy from Hasbro, is set for

2014 release by Relativity Media.

On paper, "Battleship" scores high on the checklist for blockbuster success: a hero in a life-ordeath struggle against incomparable odds, a steamy love interest, a star-studded cast that includes Liam Neeson, and a whole lot of destruction and mayhem.

Marketing of the film borrows heavily on its successful predecessor, and trailers proclaim that the movie is "From Hasbro the company that brought you Transformers."

Churning metal weaponry and explosions are unmistakably remi-

niscent of the special effects used in "Transformers," which was directed by Michael Bay. "It reeks of 'Transformers,' which is all a good thing," says Gene Del Vecchio, an entertainment research consultant and author of "Creating Blockbusters: How to Generate and Market Hit Entertainment for TV, Movies, Video Games and Books."

The movie also has "built-in appeal" with parents who feel nostalgic about the game and want to pass it on to their children, he says.

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» OPINION

Guillien situation can produce good with constructive approach

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Miami manager Ozzie Guillen speaks at a news conference Tuesday. Guillen was suspended for five games for comments about Fidel Castro.

By Dan Kagan Campus Correspondent “I approved the proclamation which Fidel Castro made in the Sierra Maestra, when he justifiably called for justice and especially yearned to rid Cuba of corruption. I will even go further:

to some extent it is as though Batista was the incarnation of a number of sins on the part of the United States. Now we shall have to pay for those sins. In the matter of the Batista regime, I am in agreement with the first Cuban revolutionaries,” John F. Kennedy remarked to renowned

journalist Jean Daniel nearly a year after the conclusion of the Cuban Missile Crisis, some 48 years ago.

In a Time article published this past Monday, Miami Marlins’ Manager Ozzie Guillen went yet another step further. “I love Fidel Castro,” Guillen said. “I respect

Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that [expletive] is still here.”

And that’s not even to mention the embargo; I mean, damn, does that guy command a great cigar industry.

The backlash that has resulted from the controversial skipper’s comments, however, is understandable. The Marlins organization, which just erected a new, state-of-the-art stadium located atop the former Orange Bowl site in Miami’s Little Havana, has received repeated calls from the local Cuban-American community for Guillen’s suspension, or worse, his termination. During recent protests, some have even called for a boycott of the ball club altogether. In response, the Marlins have levied a five-game suspension, meaning that Guillen should return to his duties by April 17 for a home game versus Chicago.

In the meantime, I propose that we perhaps suspend ourselves for a moment as well, above the situation, and before resorting to gut reactions and off-the-cuff emotions, we should ask ourselves: isn’t it all a bit much?

First off, let me assert that I do not share Guillen’s loving sentiment for Cuba’s brutal, long-standing authoritarian dictator, it is notable that Guillen made it explicit that he also does not respect Castro’s system, just Castro the man, a respect he has since retracted. Let me also admit that I am not Cuban, and I have not undergone the oppressive, violent, and utterly torturous realities that many Cubans have had to and, in some cases, still endure to this day at the hands of Castro and his henchmen.

To any victim of Castro’s regime, if Guillen’s removal could in any way ease some of the pain you have undergone, then by all means, write letters, send emails, or make picket signs and take to the streets. It is– for now– your (allegedly) inalien-

able right to do so.

In my opinion, however, the outright media mêlée that Guillen has caused seems to speak to the continued existence of a psychological phenomenon best summed up by the famous Algerian post-colonialist author, Franz Fanon. Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot, he stated, which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

In Castro, Guillen sees a man who has survived against all odds, who has forged a unique Cuban identity despite being dominated, both historically and, some would argue, even today, by the nature of his country's location in America's predominant sphere of world influence according to the Monroe Doctrine.

As western news outlets have demonized Castro, Guillen, who is also a confident and outspoken Hispanic man, has similarly been antagonized on countless occasions by the media. Who Guillen failed to consider, of course, were the victims of the brutality Castro's revolution adopted, regardless of whether that revolution was justified or not. But Guillen's comments illuminate the complex inner struggle of a Venezuelan man attempting to forge some semblance of identity in a place far away from home.

If you ask Guillen himself, he is the first to praise America and the opportunities it has given him.

But that should not minimize his psychological struggle, nor should it the sins of America's Age of Imperialism.

But if we are to ever learn exactly what those sins are, or how they are to be rectified, society cannot treat Guillen’s statements as a crime that must be punished. If Guillen were a learned scholar with doctorates in Cuban history and communications, it would be a different story. But he isn’t. He’s a hardworking baseball player turned manager whose success in his profession, as well as the very nature of the world around him,

had mandated that he leave his home if he were to ever realize the fruits of his talents. Just as someone reading this might doubt the attitudes espoused in this article, which is written by an English major going into a fifth year, struggling to earn a basic degree as a super-senior, it makes sense that the general public should doubt Guillen’s as well. But the point is the dialogue these comments spark. If society seeks to repress Ozzie, it will alienate not only him, but also others who think like him. Guillen’s recent meeting with Cuban-American immigrants and Castro regime victims is instead a much more constructive way to build a cohesive community.

If the gap in understanding that now exists between the Marlins’ organization and the surrounding Cuban-American community can somehow be bridged, Guillen’s comments may turn out to be a blessing in disguise.

Not only could the organization end up growing closer to its fan base and Guillen end up learning more about how to better fit in with the society around him after becoming an American citizen in 2006, but more importantly, a small piece of what it truly means to be a member in the Hispanic-American Diaspora could be salvaged from the ruins of American post-Imperialism.

That being said, if the unrest is unable to be quelled quickly enough, the Marlins may end up taking further measures against Guillen in the future. Like any employer, they have hired him and they reserve the right to fire him. Baseball is a business, and as such, it is built on profit margins, not bringing its fans together. And that is sad.

And that’s not even to mention Ozzie’s 2005 World Series Ring, the first won by a Latino manager in MLB history. I mean, damn, does that guy manage a great ball team.

Daniel.Kagan@UConn.edu

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Sports

» MEN'S TRACK

UConn wraps up 2012 Husky Decathlon

By TJ Souhlaris Campus Correspondent The UConn men’s track and field team hosted the Husky Decathlon at the George J. Sherman Complex, a 10-event meet consisting of both track and field that determines a winner by overall performance. The event began on Tuesday and concluded Wednesday. UConn had four competitors in the meet, but it was junior Jake Waruch that won the three-team decathlon, posting 7,597 points, over 500 points more than the next closest competitor.

Jake, the captain of the team, led after the first day of events and didn’t relinquish his lead.

He dominated the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.09 seconds in the first event of the meet, almost three-tenths of second faster than his 10 competitors. After that, Waruch came in third in the long jump (7.05 meters) and then took second in the shot put.

Waruch didn’t just win the 100-meter, however; he ended up placing first in three other events as well. He shared first with a Southern Connecticut State University athlete in the pole vault, with an official

height of 4.45 meters. Waruch also obliterated his opponents in another short-track event, the 400-meter dash. Waruch came in at 49.69 seconds, grabbing 829 points along the way.

In the high jump, Waruch also captured first with a jump of 2.06 meters which tied him with a University of Rhode Island athlete. Waruch earned 859 points for his high jump performance.

Fellow junior and Jake’s brother Ben Waruch came in fifth overall in the meet with 6,723 points, thanks to top-three finishes in the shot put, pole vault, 100-meter dash and 400-

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meter dash.

Sophomore Sam Smith finished with 6,601 points, which was good enough for seventh, while senior Kyle Rowbotham nipped at his heels coming in eighth with 6,448 points.

Smith’s best finish was third in the javelin, while Rowbotham’s best individual events were the pole vault and the discus throw, placing fifth in both.

The Huskies next meet will be The Dog Fight, a home meet beginning at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday.

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» ROWING

Huskies to travel for Knecht Cup

By Jimmy Onofrio Senior Staff Writer

AP

Last night, the Flyers took game 1 of their series from the Penguins and the Blackhawks face off with the Coyotes tonight at 10 p,m.

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Tim: That is the one red flag with the Flyers, goaltending. Ilya Bryzgalov has yet to show why he’s worth $51 million, but we all know he has the capability to produce when he’s on his game.

We’ve been talking a lot over the last year or so about Philly’s goaltending issues and they became obvious in the Eastern Conference Semifinals last year against Boston. But they have the offensive power to overcome that.

The Flyers have four 20-goal scorers, with Hartnell leading the way at 37, and Jagr Maxime Talbot (19 each), and Jakub Voracek (18) are all capable goalscorers. Defense is vital, but it’s not like there was a big difference between the defenses of the Flyers and Penguins this year, with the Penguins allowing 221 goals as opposed to Philly’s 232. The Penguins scored 18 more goals, but with the narrow gap between the teams, the goaltending issue shouldn’t really be as big a deal as people think.

Tyler: There may not be a big difference in defense however; there is a large difference on special teams, particularly the all-important penalty kill. This season, the Penguins penalty kill

has operated at an efficiency of 87.8 percent, while the Flyers only managed to only kill off 81.8 percent of the penalties they faced, to put them 17th overall in the NHL. On offense both teams are tied for fifth with the man advantage due to the number of goal scorers, each team possesses, however it will be a struggle for the Flyers penalty killers, against the high powered Penguin offense. In the West special teams should not play much of a factor as both the Blackhawks and the Coyotes have the 26th and 29th ranked power play units in the league, meaning no team will have much of an advantage.

Tim: That’s true, but I think when you look at Philadelphia’s penalty statistics from this year, a lot of their penalty minutes came from majors. Obviously, Philly fights more then most teams and with fights a near non-factor in the Playoffs, expect to see the Flyers PK unit off the ice more often.

In the end I think this becomes a dog fight. There’s little difference between these two big rivals and I think especially with it being a rivalry, one of the most heated in the league, and the Playoffs, over seven games it’s going to come down to one little misstep along the way. It could come from either team especially with all the

emotion that’s been building up between the two. The Penguins have Cup-winning experience.

The Flyers have the “fighting in the trenches” experience. I think that may be more valuable here.

Tyler: A “fighting in the trenches,” attitude is certainly an important aspect of the game.

As we saw last year with the Boston Bruins, it can physically help a team gain the upper hand.

However, this same style can hurt a team, especially if the referees don’t swallow their whistles. If the Flyers find themselves falling behind against the Penguins, they will most likely resort to their physical play, which Philadelphia is most known for. This could hurt them, as a physical style of play can lead to unnecessary penalties and will give the dangerous Penguin offense the man advantage. Out in the West, for Chicago to win the series protecting the puck and making good decisions on offense will be the deciding factor. Also the health of Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathon Toews will play a huge factor as he comes back from a concussion.

If Toews can find his mid-season form, I expect the Blackhawks to be a serious contender for Lord Stanley’s Cup.

The Huskies were led by captain Jake Waruch who amassed 7,597 points over the Decathlon.

This Saturday and Sunday, the UConn’s women’s rowing team will compete in the Knecht Cup on the Cooper River in Cherry Hill, N.J. The first and second varsity eight and the first and second novice eight will be competing, as will the first and second varsity four.

The Huskies will be competing against a number of schools they have already faced this season, including UMass, who they hosted last weekend, Trinity, Marist, Drexel and over 20 schools from around the northeast and Midwest. The Knecht Cup is hosted by Villanova.

Last weekend, UConn hosted Massachusetts, and although they rowed well they were only able to notch one win in five races. The novice eight was able to come from behind and win by four sec-

onds, in a time of 7:14. The crew will face over 30 other schools in its division, including traditionally strong teams like Marist and Drexel.

The varsity eight clocked in under seven minutes for the first time this spring against UMass, with a time of 6:53, losing by six seconds. Coach Jen Sanford-Wendry said the crew felt “there was a lot of room for improvement,” while also saying the team did have a strong row.

Second varsity will also face almost 30 opponents, including Big East rivals Rutgers, Villanova and West Virginia.

Last weekend the boat “felt they had a really bad row, never being able to get into a rhythm,” Sanford-Wendry said. Time spent in practice should help the team to find a rhythm this weekend.

UConn has raced on the Cooper River once before, in the Murphy Cup on March 24th. In that regatta, first var-

Starting with Oregon over a decade ago, Nike has rebranded schools’ looks across the country, with Arizona State and Washington State being the most recent ones.

“We’re very aware of those efforts,” Muncy said.

UConn, one of the more premier athletic programs in the country, has benefited from its partnership with Nike. New uniforms, such as the lightweight platinum ones worn by the basketball teams this season, are an example of new looks driven by Nike. Muncy said that all the uniforms for next season have already been signed off on. The uniforms for each season are decided a year in advance. So sometimes it’s tough to take fan reaction into account when deciding on looks each year.

“It’s difficult to take too much immediate feedback into account but certainly we listen,” Muncy said.

I think a more consistent look across the board would definitely help UConn’s identity. The baseball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball and football teams all have their own logo. The football block “C” logo is the only one that is really used by other sports teams at this school. And although I am not really a big fan of the

football “C” logo, mainly because former coach Randy Edsall was so obsessed with it, the logo seems to be gaining popularity.

Although I am extremely underqualified and have a fan’s perspective when it comes to UConn’s threads, if I were to put on my Nike hat for a minute, and think of a plan to make a consistent look for the Huskies, I’d start by leaving the baseball script “C” alone. It is traditional and even Arizona State didn’t make a drastic change to their baseball uniforms. Although I personally like the interlocking “UC” used by the men’s basketball team, I’d scrap it along with the “C” placed against a red basketball team that the women’s team uses. I’d modify a “C” logo and make it the secondary logo for all sports.

The one problem I have with the “UC” and “C” logos, however, is that there are too many schools with those letters across the country. A solution would be to make the Husky logo the primary one for all sports, including football.

Florida and Texas have mascot logos that work for all their sports and are easily identifiable by anyone in the country. UConn has won a lot of national championships with the current Husky logo.

It makes sense for all sports teams to wear it. The current “UConn” font is the best in the country and should be applied to all sports teams as well.

Some fellow students may not prefer the current Husky’s cute and cuddly look. I agree that a Husky with it’s tongue sticking out may not be the most intimidating logo, but it has worked for UConn. There is nothing better than the opposition getting beaten by a team wearing a panting Husky dog on its uniforms. A more stoic and distinguised Husky, like Washington has, would not suit UConn. A fierce Husky with razor-sharp teeth, like Northeastern has, looks stupid. Here’s a newsflash to Northeastern, huskies aren’t vicious, rabid man-eating animals.

They are scrappy work dogs who, after hours of mushing in the cold, start to sweat and stick their tongue out. Changing the Husky would mean UConn would have to establish a new identity, and unlike Arizona State, our sports teams are good enough that they don’t have to. I’d keep the current Husky logo the same and make every team wear it loud and proud.

And I’d let UConn’s teams, not logo, do the barking and biting.

Matthew.McDonough@UConn.edu

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sity was able to make the petite final, putting them in the top 12 but not the grand final. The second varsity eight was able to place third overall in their division.

The Murphy Cup gave the teams very unfavorable conditions with a strong headwind, which hopefully will not be the case this weekend. Forecasts call for mid70s and partly cloudy as of Wednesday night.

Sophomore Natalie Carlone said after the UMass race that the team would be “focusing on cleaning up some details of the race that will improve our time even more, such as the final 500 [meters] of the race.” The racecourse is 2000 meters long. Following the Knecht Cup, the Huskies have only one more match at Holy Cross before the prestigious Dad Vail Regatta and Big East Championships in May.

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Penguins' Evgeni Malkin works against Flyers' Braydon Coburn in the first period.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jakub Voracek beat MarcAndre Fleury from in close 2:23 into overtime to give the Philadelphia Flyers a 4-3 comeback victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday night in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinal series.

Fleury stopped Matt Read's shot from the corner, but Voracek pounced on the rebound to cap a furious rally from a 3-0 deficit.

Daniel Briere scored twice,

and Brayden Schenn added a goal in his playoff debut. Ilya Brzygalov settled down after a shaky start to finish with 25 saves.

Sidney Crosby, Tyler Kennedy and Pascal Dupuis scored for the Penguins, and Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 22 shots, but Pittsburgh struggled after dominating the first period.

Game 2 is Friday night in Pittsburgh.

The rivals delivered on their promise to play "whistle-to-

whistle" and leave out the rough stuff that highlighted their six regular-season meetings. The game featured only a handful of penalties and little of the typical animosity.

Crosby missed the playoffs last season while dealing with concussion-like symptoms and the memory of watching from the rafters as the Penguins lost to Tampa Bay in seven games remains fresh.

The former MVP wasted little time making up for lost time. He gave Pittsburgh the lead on his second shift, shaking off a hit Philadelphia defenseman Braydon Coburn in the corner then bouncing to his feet and flipping a rebound over Bryzgalov's glove 3:43 into the first period.

Kennedy made it 2-0 just over 4 minutes later, his wrist shot from the left circle beating Bryzgalov over his stick.

Philadelphia coach Peter Laviolette called timeout, a maneuver he used successfully 10 days ago after the Flyers fell behind by two goals in the first 5 minutes. It worked April 1, as Philadelphia rallied for a 6-4 victory.

It worked. Just not immediately.

Dupuis gave Pittsburgh a 3-0 advantage with just 37 seconds left before the first intermission, scraping a puck off Bryzgalov's pads and into the net. The goaltender appeared to have no clue where the puck was on the play.

Huskies cool off in Hamden, await USF from OUT, page 14 attacked hard in the bottom of the sixth, capitalizing off of a UConn error and a few hits to earn three runs and take a 5-4 lead, which they would hold on to for the remainder of the game.

UConn returns home for a six-game home stretch when

they host South Florida for a three-game set beginning on Saturday. On Tuesday, Rhode Island will travel up to Storrs for a one-game set, followed

by DePaul for two games the following day.

The Huskies are nearing the end of their regular season.

After their six-game home stretch, they will be on the

road for five games for a three-game set at Pittsburgh and a two-game stretch at St. John’s. After that, only a match-up with Hartford and a three-game series with the visiting Syracuse Orange remains.

Michael.Corasaniti@UConn.edu

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What's Next Home game

April 14 St. John’s 1 p.m.

April 14 USF 12 p.m.

» That’s what he said –Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine, remarking about his team’s 1-5 start to the season.

April 15 St. John’s Noon

April 17 Fairfield 3 p.m.

April 20 Rutgers 3 p.m.

April 17 Rhode Island 4 p.m.

April 18 DePaul 1 p.m.

April 20 Cincinnati 3:30 p.m.

April 22 Louisville 1 p.m.

April 27 Villanova 4 p.m.

April 29 Loyola ` p.m.

Rondo carries Celtics over Hawks

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Men’s Track and Field April 14 Dog Fight All Day

April 21 April 26 Larry Ellis Penn Relays Invitational All Day All Day

April 27 April 28 Penn Relays Penn Relays All Day All Day

Women’s Track and Field Tomorrow Sea Ray Relays All Day

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April 21 Princeton Invite All Day

April 26 April 27 Penn Relays Penn Relays All Day All Day

Rowing April 15 April 14 Knecht Cup Knecht Cup All Day All Day

April 22 Holy Cross All Day

May 11 Dad Vaiil Regatta All Day

May 12 Dad Vail Regatta All Day

Men’s Tennis Today St. John’s TBA

April 14 Sacred Heart 12 p.m.

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Los Angeles Lakers’ Andrew Bynum (17) reaches over San Antonio Spurs’ DeJuan Blair for a rebound during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, April 11, 2012, in San Antonio. Bynum pulled down 30 rebounds.

April 19 Big East Championships All Weekend

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BOSTON (AP) — Paul Pierce overcame a miserable shooting game with a key jumper in overtime and Rajon Rondo finished with a triple-double with 20 assists, 10 points and 10 rebounds to lift the surging Boston Celtics to an 88-86 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday night.

Kevin Garnett had 22 points and grabbed 12 boards before fouling out with just under 3 minutes left in OT, and Brandon Bass, who also hit a jumper in OT, scored 21 points.

It was Rondo’s 19th straight game with double digits in assists.

Jeff Teague led the Hawks with 21 points and Josh Smith had 20 with 11 rebounds. The Hawks had won eight of 11 since losing to Boston at home on March 19.

It was the Celtics’ 11th win in 14 games.

Pierce finished with 14 points.

Bass and Pierce hit jumpers, giving Boston an 88-84 lead early in the OT, but the Hawks sliced it to a one possession game on Kirk Hinrich’s open jumper.

The teams traded turnovers over the next 2 minutes — with the Hawks’ Smith getting picked cleanly by Pierce with 30 seconds to play, but the Celtics’ captain was called for an offensive foul on the other end with 10.1 seconds to go.

Smith front-rimmed a 3 and Boston gained possession after a battle for the rebound went out of bounds off a Hawks’ player in front of Boston’s bench with 1.3 seconds left.

Boston inbounded the ball to Rondo, who fired it in the air as the horn sounded. Pierce, just 6 of 19 from the floor, raised his arms in triumph.

In a back and forth fourth quarter during which the teams traded the lead five times, Boston went up 82-81 on Garnett’s jumper from the top of the key with 1:26 to go, but Zaza Pachulia hit one of two free throws on the Hawks’ next possession, tying it with 74 seconds left.

Bass then hit a short jumper in the lane and the Hawks’ tied it again on Joe Johnson’s jumper with 47 seconds to play.

Pierce, who struggled from the floor all night, missed a 3 but Garnett grabbed the rebound.

After Boston’s time-out, Garnett was forced to take a long fadeaway that missed the rim badly and the 24-second shot expired during a scramble for the rebound.

Teague front-rimmed a long jumper as the horn sounded, sending the game to OT. Boston opened an 80-76 lead on Garnett’s 3-point play when he drove around Pachulia for a reverse layup and was fouled, hitting the free throw to cap a 7-0 spree with 4:04 to play.

» FUTBOL

Champions League Semis Final Preview

By Miles DeGrazia Futbol Columnist It’s down to the last four in the world’s most prestigious club soccer tournament, the UEFA Champions League. All four remaining sides have vanquished difficult opposition and certainly all deserve a chance to lift “big ears” in Munich on May 19th.

The last four includes the two Spanish giants, Real Madrid CF and FC Barcelona and FC Bayern Munich of Germany and Chelsea FC of England. All four teams have strong European experience winning the European Cup a combined 17 times.

FC Bayern Munich v Real Madrid CF (1st leg – 4/17 & 2nd Leg – 4/25) Bayern Munich v Real Madrid, the names alone get soccer fans blood pumping. Two great sides who both take a different approach to the beautiful game, the power of German soccerversus the speed and technical ability of the Spanish game. Despite both being perennial Champions League knockout teams the two sides haven’t met since the 2007 Champions League Round of 16, where Bayern ousted Los Blancos on the away goals rule after the tie ended 4-4. Both teams finished

second in their respective domestic league last season and are both involved in tight league title chases during the run in.

Real Madrid play Sporting Gijón in Madrid three days before the first leg in Munich then face FC Barcelona in a massively important La Liga match in-between the first and second leg. FC Bayern Munich will enjoy an easier run of league fixtures as they play FSV Mainz 05 on the 14th then Werder Bremen on the 21st.

The lineup questions for Real Madrid will be who will play at fullback and right attacking mid.

2011 FIFA World XI right back Sergio Ramos has recently moved to center back and Álvaro Arbeloa has replaced him at right back.

At left back most likely it will be Marcelo but Fábio Coentrão could get the nod ahead of the Brazilian. In the right attacking midfield position three players could start; former World Player of The Year Kaká has enjoyed a good run of form recently and could force his way into the starting XI ahead of two more prototypical right wingers in Ángel di María and José Callejón.

FC Bayern Munich will be going into the tie hoping their injury problems clear up and they can

field their first choice starting XI. Defensive midfield and central attacking midfield are the areas that remain unclear for Bayern and the fitness of Bastian Schweinsteiger will be the most important domino to determine who will play in the anchor role. Luiz Gustavo who has been very impressive recently should partner Schweinsteiger but Anatoliy Tymoshchuk could get in and if Bayern want to attack Madrid Toni Kroos may be deployed in defensive midfield.

In the central attackAP ing midfield position it’s one from three Cristiano Ronaldo of Read Madrid reacts after scoring against for Bayern. Thomas Müller is the most likely player to Khedira, Alonso; Kaká, Özil, start but Toni Kroos has improved Ronaldo; Benzema.

FC Bayern Munich (4-2-3his passing play and may sneak in ahead of Müller. If Bayern 1): Neuer; Rafinha, Boateng, want to go all out attack they may Badstuber, Lahm; Schweinsteiger, start Ivica Olić who’s work rate Gustavo; Robben, Müller, Ribéry; is unmatched by anyone in the Gómez.

Key Matchup: Robben and Bayern squad.

Projected Lineups – Real Ribéry vs. Arbeloa and Marcelo.

Madrid CF (4-2-31): Casillas; Arbeloa, Ramos, Pepe, Marcelo; Miles.DeGrazia@UConn.edu

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Logo logic

Sixth inning errors cost Huskies against in-state foe

Matt McDonough Sometimes the uniform a team wears on the field gets more attention than how they actually play on it. UConn has a distinct look, but usually lets their teams, not uniforms, do the talking. I was lucky enough to meet with Kyle Muncy, Assistant Director of AthleticsLicensing, to discuss the UConn athletics’ brand.

UConn is a Nike school, signing a 10-year, $45.5 million contract to have the Oregon-based manufacturer supply gear for all of its sports teams. Prior to that, not every team wore the same brand. In the 1990’s and early 2000’s, the football team wore varying brands, from Reebok to Aeropostale. Adidas also supplied uniforms to some of the teams, including the soccer program. Until the big deal with Nike, there was a lot of variation between brands. There still, however, is variation between sports teams reagrding logos.

The major programs here, baseball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball and football, all have different main logos. Although the Husky is the most identifiable, often times on uniforms and on television, a singular sport logo is used. Muncy said that the department is looking at developing consistency within the brand.

“I think that’s something that we are all taking a look at,” Muncy said. “There are a lot of different identities across our programs and we’re taking a good, hard look at streamlining that.”

Muncy said the success of the basketball programs have help to drive merchandise sales, but that it is important to look at the school as a whole.

“We certainly want to make sure that we have marks representative of UConn as one,” Muncy continued.

Muncy went on to say that the identity marks pertaining to a singular sport are still good sellers. As for where UConn is headed in terms of its look, Muncy was not at liberty to say.

“I can’t really tell you where it’s going, it’s more of an internal process,” Muncy said.

With Nike as a partner, UConn fans can rest easy knowing the school is paired with perhaps the most famous athletic wear company.

“Nike is a cutting edge company,” Muncy said. “We’re very fortunate to be partnered with Nike... We couldn’t have a better partner.”

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By Michael Corasaniti Staff Writer

The University of Connecticut had a hiccup Wednesday afternoon, dropping a 5-4 decision to Quinnipiac on the road.

Ignoring their three-game sweep by Notre Dame, the Huskies (17-15, 6-3) went into Hamden riding a month long hot streak. But the Bobcats (19-11) refused to stay down after falling behind 4-2 to give the Huskies just their seventh loss in their past 23 matchups.

UConn attacked early with a two-run homer off the bat of junior third baseman Kim Silva in the top of the third off of Quinnipiac’s Heather Schwartzburg (12-3).

Silva’s blast was RBI No. 16 and fifth homer of the season, both good for fourth on the team.

Quinnipiac responded quickly though by scoring off of a UConn error in the bottom of the second.

In the top of the fourth inning, the Huskies tacked on another run with a home run from junior second baseman Brittany Duclos. The blast was Duclos’s second of the season.

The teams exchanged runs the next half innings, setting up a 4-2 UConn lead going into the sixth inning. The Huskies were unable to hold on for the lead though as Quinnipiac attacked hard in the bottom of the sixth, capitalizing off of a UConn error and a few hits

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Junior Kiki Saveriano fires a pitch from the circle at Burrill Family Field in Storrs. The Huskies return home to play South Floirda this weekend.

» LACROSSE

Huskies ready to come out fighting against Irish

By Danny Maher Campus Correspondent The UConn lacrosse team will attempt to win their first conference game on Saturday vs. No. 8 Notre Dame at 11 a.m.

The Huskies (7-4, 0-3 Big East) return home after a thrilling overtime win at Columbia on April 7, which ended with a decisive goal from sophomore Lauren Kahn with three minutes remaining.

Also in the 14-13 win, senior M.E. Lapham scored four goals to give her 158 career goals. This moved her to the top of Connecticut’s all-time scoring list.

But the Huskies find themselves winless in Big East play, which puts UConn’s

Big East Tournament hopes virtually even in scoring marin jeopardy. Only the top four gin; they have scored 133 Big East teams earn the right goals and allowed 135 goals. to play for an automatic bid But, turnovers continue to be in the NCAA toura problem for the nament.

UConn Huskies; their 182 currently is ranked turnovers (16.55 per No. 32 in the latgame) are the most est NCAA Women’s in the Big East. vs. Notre Lacrosse RPI rankThe Fighting ings.

Irish (9-2, 3-2 Big Dame Junior Brittney East) are ranked 11 a.m.

Testa, who was once seventh in the RPI among the nation’s and are led by the Saturday leaders in several Big East points and Sherman statistical categoassists leader, senior ries, has seen her Maggie Tamasitis.

Family GAA rise to 11.48.

Tamasitis has scored Testa and freshman 16 goals and notched Marya Fratoni have 38 assists. The entire combined to average a con- UConn team has tallied 44 ference best, 9.91 saves per assists this season. game.

Tamasitis’s complement is As a team the Huskies are sophomore Lindsay Powell.

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Powell has yet to record an assist in 2012 but she is fourth in the Big East with 33 goals.

Notre Dame is nationally ranked ninth in scoring offense, 14.64 goals per game and boasts seven players who have scored double-digits in goals.

The only two losses came in back-to-back games against conference foes, Loyola (Md) and Syracuse on April 1 and April 5, respectively.

A familiar name on the Notre Dame roster is basketball standout Brittany Mallory.

Mallory, fresh off a national championship appearance in Denver, will play for the Notre Dame lacrosse team for the remainder of the season.

Mallory was twice named an U.S. lacrosse All-American

honorable mention in high school.

Freshman defender Barbara Sullivan was named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll on Monday. She leads the Irish and is fifth in the Big East in ground balls per game (2.36).

She is also fifth in the conference with an average of 1.73 caused turnovers per game.

Junior Ellie Hilling makes her home in the Notre Dame net and she has rarely let any intruders by her. She ranks first in the conference with 8.2 saves per game and has a .427 save percentage.

With a win on Saturday, the Irish would reach the 10-win mark for the tenth time in the program’s history.

Daniel.Maher@UConn.edu

Which NHL team will spur a first round upset?

Chicago Blackhawks

By Tyler Morrissey Staff Writer Hockey fans have been waiting all year; the Stanley Cup will once again be up for grabs. In the west, the Phoenix Coyotes captured their first division title in franchise history, while the Blackhawks have found themselves as the No. 6 seed. Even though Phoenix is a more balanced team then they have been in the past, I still like the sixthseeded Chicago Blackhawks to upset them. Phoenix will not be able to match the skills that the Chicago offense brings to the ice on every shift and a shaky defense will only curb the effectiveness of the Coyotes’ goaltender Mike Smith.

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Will the Blackhawks move past Phoenix...

Tyler.Morrissey@UConn.edu

» POINT/COUNTERPOINT Tim: It’s really hard to call anything an upset in the Stanley Cup Playoffs with the level of competition in the National Hockey League. However, based on the definition of a lower seed beating a higher seed, I’d have to say that the Flyers knocking off the Penguins in the first round would be the most likely upset. No doubt, going down the stretch, few teams were as hot as Sidney Crosby and the Penguins.

However, the Flyers went 4-2 against Pittsburgh in the regular season, which is a very difficult thing to do. While the Penguins are stacked, the Flyers have an abundance of stars like Claude Giroux, Scott Hartnell, and of course the seasoned Jaromir Jagr, who know how to win hockey games this time of year. Even if the Penguins got off to a hot start

at the Igloo, we learned in 2010 that you can never count Philly out.

Tyler: It’s true that the Flyers have an abundance of talent, but where they are lacking talent is where it matters most sometime, between the pipes. How confident can you be in Ilya Bryzgalov after the up and down year he has had this year? When you have superstars like Malkin and Crosby bearing down on you for the entire game, it takes an elite goalie to be able to stop such a powerful rush and Bryzgalov just isn’t up for the task. Out West, the Blackhawks will face a tough challenge in net. But with five top goal scorers with over 20 goals each, look for Chicago to get to the Phoenix goal crease early and

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Philadelphia Flyers

By Tim Fontenault Campus Correspondent

In the series in the East between the four-seed Pittsburgh Penguins and five-seed Philadelphia Flyers, it may seem like a Flyers win would be no big deal, but with many penning Pittsburgh in as Stanley Cup champions, it’d be an upset.

In terms of points, goals, and goals against, there’s not much separating the two. With home ice virtually a non-factor, it’s going to come down to who has the most heart and grit. Some key guys remain from the Flyers team that overcame a 3-0 series deficit against the Bruins in 2010. If they have as much heart as they did back then, watch out.

Timothy.Fontenault@UConn.edu

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...or will the Flyers take down the Penguins?