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MODERN DANCE TELLING A STORY Dancers performed numbers from various eras of music. FOCUS/ page 5
HOW SWEEP IT IS Huskies sweep Villanova to improve to 22-13.
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Parking services: ‘We’re undercharging’ STUDENT PERMIT RATES
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Parking rates to increase drastically over next five years By Kyle Constable Staff Writer Parking rates at UConn will rise dramatically over the next five years as the campus’s parking apparatus adjusts to new budgetary requirements from the university, according to Parking Services officials. “We’re undercharging,” Parking Services Manager Martha Funderburk said. “It doesn’t feel like it, because we’re in Storrs, Connecticut, but this is a big university and just because it’s not in the middle of a city doesn’t mean that the parking doesn’t have costs. I mean, maintaining the garages, maintaining the lots – that’s not cheap.” Rates are set to increase by as much as
68 percent on some permits starting next year. Only rates in W Lot and the student parking garages will remain the same at the start of the fall semester. After the completion of the five-year plan presented by Parking Services, the cost of some permits will have increased by as much as 172 percent. The reason for the increase in parking rates is a change in university policy following the presentation of the McKinsey & Co. report in 2011, which was commissioned to find ways for the university to become more efficient. The report found $50 million in savings for the university if certain changes were made to the university’s vast operating structure. One of those changes required Parking
Services to become self-sufficient, no longer having to take funds from the general university fee, according to Funderburk. This amounts to a $2.5 million cut to Parking Service’s annual operating budget, Funderburk said, leaving them with few options to make up the difference. The university originally requested the budgetary changes to be made within two years, but Parking Services believed forcing such substantial increases on students in such a short span would be “a little much to put on people.” The rejection of the two-year plan resulted in the creation of a five-year plan, which was approved by the student fee advisory committee and implemented at the start of this fiscal year.
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Students run throughout campus despite the rain and cold during the Glow Up the Night 5k Race held by Club Sports on Friday, April 12th. Details on page 2.
Open house helps admitted students decide By Domenica Ghanem Campus Correspondent
Saturday morning saw nearly 8,000 parents and prospective students from 22 states for UConn’s Admitted Students Day 2013. These visitors could be easily spotted everywhere on campus, Co-op purchases in hand. This open house was designed to help admitted students make a decision on whether or not they will attend UConn. Nathan Fuerst, the director of Undergraduate Admissions, said, “We are incredibly happy and satisfied with the quality of the students in our applicant pool.” Fuerst noted that these admitted students collectively have some of the highest test scores and GPAs in UConn’s applicant pool history. It is also the largest group of admit-
ted students on record. The students and parents were ushered into Gampel Pavilion for a short introductory ceremony. They were then given the options to attend academic and program presentations, go on campus and residence hall tours, or attend a resource fair. There were presentations for students that knew which major they were going into and for those that were still undecided. There were also special presentations for possible incoming transfer students. Other programs included informational sessions concerning financial aid, student involvement, learning communities, and other concerns for students new to the college experience. At each of the presentations students and parents were encouraged to voice their questions and concerns.
A resource fair gave prospective students the opportunity to meet with staff and advisors for many different programs at UConn including Summer Programs, the Rainbow Center, Public Safety, and Greek Life. Student-guided campus tours left from Fairfield Way every 15 minutes. Students and parents were taken to academic facilities, athletic complexes and resident halls. During residence hall tours, the admitted students and their parents could explore Alumni, Buckley, North, or Northwest. “I took the residence tour at Buckley. It looked spacious and nicely organized,” said Meg Riley, a possible incoming freshman Honors student.
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Leaked logo gets mixed reactions
By Loumarie Rodriguez Senior Staff Writer
The new UConn logo was leaked this past Thursday by an unknown source and has been receiving mixed reviews from the student body. The logo was supposed to be revealed on April 18 at a ceremony, but it was leaked on Twitter according to Michael Enright, the associate director of Athletics and Communications. “We’re [UConn Athletics] not sure how it got out there,” said Enright. “But we had to confirm that this was the new logo and we are still having the event for the logo next Thursday.” Enright could not answer all questions about the new design of the logo and when exactly the switch to it will occur, however he directed that these questions will be answered on April 18. The new logo was created by Nike and had been in the works since the spring of 2012. The logo features characteristics that are similar to the traditional Siberian husky, according to UConn athletics. After the new logo was leaked many students and the UConn community shared mix reviews of the new look for the university. “I do like it [new logo],” said Christine Choi, 6th semester psychology major. “I’ll miss the old friendly Jonathan the Husky. I like the fact the new logo is based on an actual husky. It makes us seem as a university edgier and aggressive.” Many students like Choi agreed that the new look is less friendly but still portrays UConn as more dynamic and fierce. However, students not pleased with the change to the logo complained that the new logo looks similar to other colleges’ logos and no longer stands apart. One of the main complaints was that there was no student input when creating the new, logo as done previously when changing the logo in 2002. “I hate it,” said Jake Clark, 4th semester strength and conditioning major. “It looks flat and generic. They even changed the colors from a white to a blue husky and it looks like a piece of clip art, not a college logo. It makes sense [changing UConn’s logos] but there should have been more student input.” Enzo Marino, a 6th semester history major says that the new logo is not family friendly like the previous one. He believes a lot of the sporting events that occur at UConn are aimed for family outings or functions. “It’s silly because we are called UConn country,” said Marino. “We are moving away from the family feel with this logo and the new look. Basketball games are typically family events and now it’s becoming this fierce thing.” Some do like the change in UConn’s branding. Michael Chapman an 8th semester sports promotion major believes that this significant change is what UConn needed. He also believes that many students are stuck on the old logo because the new look is very different from. “I like it [the new look] and it’s good for the school,” said Chapman. “UConn wasn’t recognized as one with different logos but by doing this I think it will unify the school. It’s a good look and I’ve heard a lot of negative feedback. People are hesitant about change but they will come around soon and recognize that we are still the same school. The logo is just a picture.”
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What’s on at UConn today... University Scholar Information Session 12 to 1 p.m. Rowe CUE, 132 The University Scholar program offers motivated and academically-talented students the flexibility to craft individualized plans of study during their last three semesters.
Baseball vs Fairfield 3 p.m. J. O. Christian Field UConn baseball takes on Fairfield this afternoon at J.O. Christian Field.
Rainbow Center Panel 5 to 6:30 p.m. SU, Rainbow Center A panel of students who identify with the LGBTQIA community and various religious affiliations will be available to answer your questions. This event is meant to help bridge the gap between these groups.
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Stalking the great white whale tooth
SHARON, Conn. (AP) — The narwhal is one of the most mythical and unusual members of the whale family, with its left front tooth, or tusk, that juts about 8 feet into the air, resembling an ivory sword. The mammal has inspired the unicorn legend, along with other tales. It has also confounded experts. “The narwhal has baffled scientists for hundreds of years,” said Dr. Martin Nweeia, a Sharon dentist, who has been on a 13-year mission to study the shy, elusive whale. He has led four expeditions and collaborated on eight to the whale’s Arctic habitat at the northern tip of Baffin Island in Canada. The mysterious tusk of the narwhal “pierces through their upper lips and sticks straight into the air, defying most principles and properties of teeth,” said Nweeia, who is also a research scientist, funded by the National Science Foundation. The fabled narwhal tusk appears to have multiple functions. “Most mammals’ teeth have been shown to be sensory,” Nweeia said. But what is so unusual about the narwhal’s tusk is that it appears “to sense its environment with millions of open sensory connections that go from its inner blood and nerve supply to its external surface. We’ve never seen anything like it before.” The tusk seems to function almost like a weather barometer, allowing the narwhals to sense subtle changes in temperature and barometric pressure that alert them to the arrival of cold fronts, which could cause ice channels to freeze, according to Nweeia. “To find this out is truly extraordinary,” he said.
Skakel blames lawyer in latest Conn. murder appeal
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel is trying to get his 2002 murder conviction overturned by arguing that his trial attorney failed to competently defend him against weak evidence, reigniting a long simmering debate over the strength of the sensational case. A trial starts Tuesday in Rockville Superior Court in the latest appeal by Skakel, the 52-year-old nephew of Robert F. Kennedy’s widow, Ethel. Skakel is serving 20 years to life in prison for the 1975 golf club bludgeoning of his Greenwich neighbor Martha Moxley when they were 15. Skakel, who has lost a series of appeals over the years and a bid for parole last year, is hoping to get out of prison through a writ of habeas corpus arguing he was deprived of his constitutional right to effective legal representation when Michael Sherman was his attorney. Dorthy Moxley, the victim’s mother, said she will attend the trial. She said that there is no new evidence and that she hopes it will be the last appeal because it brings back painful memories. “There are things that you put out of your mind and you don’t want to think about, but it all comes back,” Moxley said, her voice breaking. Skakel’s current attorney, Hubert Santos, argues that his client’s conviction is based on two witnesses of dubious credibility who claimed Skakel confessed to the crime. He contends the verdict likely would have been different if Sherman had conducted an appropriate investigation, obtained evidence and challenged inappropriate state evidence.
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Peace Corps brings senior back to her ‘roots’
By Annie Pancak Campus Correspondent This article is part of a series highlighting this year’s seniors who have outstanding achievements in their undergrad or outstanding plans for their post-grad. After graduating in May, UConn senior Theresa Govert has two and a half months left in the United States. She will spend the next two and a half years in Botswana in southern Africa. Govert, 22, will be working in the Peace Corps for the HIV/ AIDS capacity building project. She will be immersed in Tswana, a language she will have to learn, perhaps live in a village without electricity and running water and focus her energy on building a community to best serve the HIV/ AIDS epidemic. This will be Govert’s third time in Africa. She was born in Naivasha, Kenya and lived there until she was eight while her parents were running a Peace Corps program. It was then that she became interested in Africa, she said. “I feel like I was born and raised in a very generous Peace Corps and Kenyan community, so I feel very connected to my roots there.” After leaving Africa, her family moved to East Haddam. In 2009 Govert was a first year student at UConn and took a women’s studies class. “It opened my eyes to how the world works,” she said. From there she became a “Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies” minor and got involved with the Violence Against Women Prevention Program (VAWPP). During her sophomore year, Govert VAWPP friends were studying at the UConn in Cape Town, South Africa program. While reading their Cape Town blog one day she saw a quote the struck her, she said. The quote was “If you have come here to help me, you can go home. If you have come here because your liberation is tied up to mine, then you can stay.” Govert was inspired; she
called her father to share the quote. He told her that he had that same quote hanging up in his Peace Corps office in Kenya. To Govert, this was a sign for her to participate in the Cape Town program. Spring semester of her junior year, Govert headed to Cape Town. She was supposed to be there from January to May, but did not leave until August. After the UConn program in South Africa, she spent a month living with family friends in Tanzania and spent two months working in a rural village in Uganda. She said her time in Uganda had the greatest impact on her. Govert was one of four international interns and two Ugandan interns at the Uganda Village Project, which was started by a friend of a friend of her mothers. The team assessed the village for health needs, pin pointed leaders in the community and formed birth control and sanitation and hygiene programs. “We did a lot of community building, that sense of all working together for a happier, healthier world … I was really happy,” she said. Govert told a story of her last night in Uganda. “We had meal with the host family and with the villagers we had worked with. It was a very emotionally intense meal. … In the distance there was drumming from a different celebration. … Earlier that day a truck had gone through the village so all the rocks were turned over. There was a full moon, and we decided to take a walk though the village, and the white tops of the rocks looked like fallen stars. … It was very meaningful.” Her time in Uganda convinced Govert the Peace Corps was right for her, she said. Govert said she filled out the Peace Corps application this past October. In January she had an interview in Providence with the point person for UConn students. A week later she heard she was nominated to leave in July for the health sector. The process for getting ready began which included
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Senior Theresa Govert will be leaving for Botswana after graduation to work in the Peace Corps for the HIV/AIDS capacity building project.
having fingerprints sent to the FBI. Govert did not know she was going to Botswana until two weeks ago. She was hoping that she would be placed in Africa because she had done a lot of reading on HIV/AIDs and gender based violence in South Africa. Botswana is above South Africa. Botswana has the second highest HIV prevalence rate in the world, said Govert. The Peace Corps had decided to leave Botswana in 1997 after major success but decided to return in 2000 to address the HIV/ AIDS epidemic. When Govert arrives in the country she will focus for the first three months on learning the language. Then she will be placed in a village, most likely by herself. During the post-application process, she remembers being asked whether she would be comfortable in a village without running water, to which she replied, “yeah, I want
to do that actually.” She said she was not worried about being by herself. After being in Uganda, she realized friendships could form across age, language, and cultural barriers, she said. During the 27 month planned she does not anticipate returning to the U.S., although she thinks her parents will visit her. The only minor worry she has is being a vegetarian in a culture that does not understand the word. The diet in Botswana is based on meat, millet, maze, and beans, Govert said. She will be a situation person, she said, and eat meat if she thinks it is part of the experience. Anyone interested in the Peace Corps can learn more at www. peacecorps.gov or for questions email the regional office serving Connecticut at nyinfo@ peacecorps.gov.
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Admitted Man sets himself on fire, Runners glow through rain, cold students get dies in Willimantic a taste of campus life » FUN RUN
By Samm Roberts Campus Correspondent
WILLIMANTIC, Conn. (AP) — Willimantic police say a man set himself on fire at a local gas station and later died at Windham Hospital. Police told WFSB-TV (http://bit.ly/11cNtJB ) that the man doused himself with gasoline and lit himself on fire Saturday night at the Chucky’s gas station and convenience store on West Main Street. Authorities say bystanders put out the fire before firefighters arrived. The man was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police haven’t released the man’s name. It’s not clear why he set himself on fire. Police and the fire marshal are investigating.
Hartford reviews credit card use after complaints
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Hartford city auditors are reviewing the credit card use of 185 city employees at the request of the City Council president, who says he received complaints from some government workers and residents about possible misuse of the cards. Officials released records this week showing that city employees, including Mayor Pedro Segarra, have charged tens of thousands of dollars on the cards for meals, hotels, airline tickets and other expenses since January 2011. Council President Shawn Wooden asked the city’s Internal Audit Commission last month to review use of the cards by the 185 city employees who have them and to report back before the end of this month. “Certainly on the surface some of the charges look troubling, but I’m very much interested in the audit commission’s findings because they will investigate and look behind the charges,” Wooden said. “The public scrutiny is pretty high on this right now. It’s very important to get to the bottom of it as quickly as possible.”
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The Glow Up the Night 5K Race on Friday went off well, despite the partial rain and cold temperature. The race, which originally started as the Club Sports Fun Run, benefitted the Sandy Hook School Memorial Scholarship Fund, with half of its proceeds going into the scholarship fund, while the other half goes back to Club Sports. The Homer Babbidge Library was packed with bright green shirts as people registered or signed in before the race. The energy was high, and the racers seemed excited. Danielle van Vierssen, the administrative graduate assistant, was pleased with the way things turned out this year. “I’m happy with the turnout, even though it’s not the best weather,” she said. Of the 344 preregistered runners, over 200 people showed up, including people signing up the day of the race. Right before the race began, van Vierssen was running around with last-minute tasks,
making sure everything was ready and handing out glow sticks to volunteers so they could be seen. “We actually offer the opportunity to all of our club sports teams,” she said, “and then the ones who respond are actually the ones who get to volunteer. They actually have to do volunteer events as part of club sports, so a lot of people choose to do this one.” She also explained about the prizes that would be awarded to the winners at the end of the race, after all of the racers had arrived back. “We actually get all of our prizes donated from our sponsors,” she said. “So everything we hand out is from our sponsorship or something from club sports or recreation.” Kate Durant, the Club Sports coordinator, said this was her seventh year coordinating the race, including the years when it had been called the Fun Run. While five out of the seven years had been not-so-great weather, she said, “It’s not so terrible. It could have been so much worse.” The winner of the race, Nick Migani, also agreed that the
weather hadn’t been to bad. “The air’s cold and it’s rainy and windy out,” he said, “but it’s a little bit warmer than I thought it would be, actually.” Migani, who won last years race, crossed the finish line at seventeen minutes and thirtyone seconds. “I had to come back,” Migani said. “Got to defend the title.” As more people completed the race, the crowd by the finish line grew, and so did the cheers as teammates and friends approached the end of the race. During the awards ceremony, Migani and the first place female, Kali Cika, were both awarded baskets full of prizes from the sponsors. Second, third, fourth, and fifth places winners of both sexes were awarded backpacks with medals attached. “It was nice that the entire thing, there were people,” Migani said. “Not only volunteers, but students standing there and cheering you on the whole time. It was really nice.”
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For some students this was their first view of the UConn campus. “It is big and overwhelming,” said Riley. “It is hard to focus on everything the tour guides are showing you but it definitely gives you a sense of the campus.” The visitors had the opportunity to eat at the dining halls, the Student Union, and other eateries on campus. Many of the visiting families mingled with current UConn students to get their perspective on what it is like to be a Husky. Parents also had a lot to take in. “The tours are very short but they are informational,” said Meg Riley’s father, Bob Riley, “I found the tour guides to be very engaging.” As for whether or not Admitted Students Day actually helped with the decision-making process Riley said, “It’s a lot to take in, but I could maybe see myself here.”
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“We do realize that it is a substantial increase, particularly for some of the areas,” Funderburk said. “With the zones, what we tried to do was give options. So right now, resident/commuter is $110. Well, you could still pay $110 and park in W Lot. So, you could neutralize the increase, it would just not be as convenient.” Unfortunately, not all students will be able to park in W Lot and some will inevitably be affected by the increase. As a result, there is concern about the effect this will have on students who commute to campus and have to buy a parking permit. While permits for $110 will still be on sale next year in W Lot, even those prices will increase in the following years. Joshua Paul, a commuter senator in Undergraduate Student Government, has raised a few concerns about current parking structure, but also has a few ideas that could help resolve the situation for commuters. “Obviously they have to raise their rates,” Paul said. “But maybe instead of having one lot $110 and then another lot $175, maybe they can keep the same structure and have all lots be $150 ... and keep it the same price for every single lot.” He also went on to discuss an idea USG Chief of Staff Syed Naqvi came up with, which would have Parking Services issue permits on a lot-by-lot basis as opposed to a zone-byzone basis. Paul said this plan would save commuters the time of searching for available spaces in lots closer to the center of campus within their zone, only to find the lot is full and have to search for another space in
another lot. He said this happens to him on a regular basis, and he typically ends up having to park in W Lot after extensive searching. Paul plans on conducting a survey of the commuters on campus to determine their preferences on whether the rates should increase uniformly instead of through the tiered structure and if Parking Services should issue lot-specific passes instead of zone permits that cover multiple lots. If either of those ideas find favor among the commuters, Paul plans on presenting legislation before Undergraduate Student Government in time for their final meeting of the semester in two weeks to urge Parking Services to make one or both of the changes. In the meantime, however, Parking Services is offering an alternative for commuters that may help to reduce the cost of parking on campus. According to Parking Services’ report to their advisory committee, a “student car pool program” will begin this fall, allowing students to register a single permit in up to four students’ names. One hangtag permit will be issued to the group so any of the students’ vehicles can be parked on campus. Additionally, the program also gives each student two day-permits per semester for days when there are complications within the car pool group. These students can also buy up to three additional day-permits at $1.50 each should complications continue. While this will not solve the rate increase problem for students entirely, Funderburk believes it will help to alleviate the pain of the additional cost.
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Parking services says parking rates will rise dramatically in the next few years due to budgetary requirements from the university.
“I suspect there are students who are already carpooling,” Funderburk said. “They’re just not seeing any financial benefit from the permit. They’re getting the gas benefit, which is no small thing these days, but the permit at least now will be another incentive.” So commuters may have some solutions on the horizon, but residents wanting to park on campus are not as fortunate. Students who live on campus already have to deal with the rising cost of on-campus fees, and the increase in parking rates does not come as good news for students who are looking to keep a vehicle on campus. Brendan Costello, a 2ndsemester political science and economic double major, cur-
rently parks off campus at the Hope Lutheran Church, but plans on bringing his car on campus at the start of next semester. When he found out about the rate increase – which will jump 47 percent in most lots from the time he begins parking on campus in the fall to the time he graduates – he found it to be surprising. “I know it was significantly cheaper to park on campus than it was off, but I just didn’t have enough credits,” Costello said of his situation this year. “It certainly will be annoying as the prices increase from yearto-year, and I will be planning on parking during my sophomore, junior and senior years. ... It’d be nice if it stayed at that $160 rate, which I was certainly
planning on. It’s still cheaper than what I’m paying now, but certainly that is a huge increase over a period of three years.” Without a solution for residents in sight, the increases will hit the wallets and pocketbooks of students living on campus hard. However, Parking Services plans to continue to devise ways to make the expense more affordable. “The university has left us with no other alternative, we have to raise the rates,” Funderburk said. “We’re trying to come up with different ways to soften the blow. I mean, nobody likes it when their rates go up on anything, especially not parking.”
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Gun ownership should be public information
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onnecticut recently passed a series of laws to crack down on gun violence in the state. Following the Newtown tragedy and the fact that gun related incidents have doubled in the city of New Haven since 2009, Conn. lawmakers have decided that enough is enough. Part of this new plan involves the creation of a statewide weapon offender registry for those who are convicted of a range of crimes that involve firearms or another deadly weapon. Many are upset by the idea that a registry will exist of people who own guns. However, the registry will only include those convicted of a crime, not simply accused. In addition, the new law only creates a registry that is accessible to the police in the state. However, despite complaints, there may be wisdom in allowing this list to be seen by the public and not just the police. Although there isn’t any real practical reason that people would want access to such a registry, it is a matter of transparency. The information that this registry is taking time, money and effort to produce is compiled of information that is already available to the public. Right now, almost any citizen has the means to go around the state and compile this data that is based entirely on information that is already public information. The idea that this registry is going to be somehow safer or less of a hindrance because only law enforcement officials have access to it is a bit of governmental smoke and mirrors. The information is not special to police, it will just be in a more convenient format for them. There is no reason to keep it from the public other than to make the information that they might want slightly more difficult to see. It is not our place, with this column, to question the wisdom behind creating this registry at all. However, if the state of Conn. wants to be the first to have a statewide weapon offender registry, then perhaps they should set a clear and less embarrassing example for the rest of the country. Trying to say that the list is somehow more secure simply because the general public doesn’t have access to it is false. This is because they already have access to it, just in a different format. If the government wishes to make gun owners feel safe, they should do it with actual legislation that protects their rights, as they have in many ways. However, the gun registry not being made available to the public is not safety or privacy, it is merely the illusion of safety and privacy. For that reason, the state of Conn. should make this new registry available for the public to see. Not because it is of dire importance for the average citizen to know whom the gun offenders in the state are, although many would argue differently. It must be made public because it is a compilation of already public information, the idea of suddenly making a new way of organizing it private information is preposterous. The Daily Campus editorial is the official opinion of the newspaper and its editorial board. Commentary columns express opinions held solely by the author and do not in any way reflect the official opinion of The Daily Campus.
So apparently every golfer wife is a super model. That alone will be my motivation to get better at golf this summer. There’s nothing scarier than waking up on a Saturday morning to about 9,000 high school seniors scrutinizing your school. How do you know you have the best girlfriend on the planet? When she shows up unexpectedly delivering you Insomnia Cookies. By the time I read this in the DC tomorrow morning, I will probably just be writing the conclusion of a paper I’m starting now. Still on Cloud 9 about the women winning the championship; if only I could have been in Hartford today. Why Kobe I wish it didn’t have to be himmmmmmm If someone would be down to explain to me how I got sun burnt this weekend I’d be all ears. It’s so close to the start of wiffleball season I can’t even stand it. #pumpedforwiffle Stuff on my rabbit may easily be the best Twitter account of all time, close second to Phil Jackson. Somehow I have already taken for granted the fact that a 7/11 exists on this campus. Who have I become?!?!
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Technology in a changing print landscape
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raveling by train to Rutgers last Thursday, I used my iPhone to check Twitter, where standup comedian Gilbert Gottfried posted “I’ll be at [Stress Factory Comedy Club] in New Brunswick, NJ this Thursday.” Coincidentally, I was going to be in New Brunswick that night. I used the Safari Internet feature on my iPhone to look up the venue’s street address, located only 0.4 miles from the train station where I would be pulling in. I used the iPhone maps feature to give stepBy Jesse Rifkin by-step directions Associate Commentary Editor for walking there. After arriving, I used the iPhone camera to take a photograph of me with Gottfried. Then I used the Facebook and TweetDeck apps on my iPhone to share the picture with my friends. Why was I at Rutgers? To attend a conference centered on print journalism. It may seem a humorous juxtaposition that all this technology was used while en route to an event focused on such an “old” form of media. Actually, it is not unusual at all. Technology is changing print journalism drastically, but not in the way many people think. Some are under the mistaken impression that technology will kill newspapers and print media, which has already been proven not to be true. The Internet is not “new” anymore, and almost anybody who was going to switch from newspapers
to the Internet for their news coverage probably already did so by around 2007. Nobody is suggesting newspapers will be as popular as they were in the pre-Internet era, just as radio was never as popular once television emerged. But radio is still big… and so are newspapers. No, the change is not so much that technology is killing newspapers. Rather, the fundamental change is that technology is allowing newspapers to produce even better content. The Rutgers conference, sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists, featured plenty of similar stories from guest speakers and panel discussions. Top editors at the State University of New York [SUNY] Brockport student newspaper The Stylus held a lecture called “When Tragedy Strikes on Campus,” about what (in retrospect) they did right and wrong when covering the September murder of freshman Alexandra Kogut by her boyfriend, a crime which received national attention. Since Kogut was only a few weeks into her freshman year, few people at the campus knew her. Yet the paper was able to use technology to piece together a chronology of her ultimately-fatal relationship with Clayton Whittmore – including speculating on her eerily cryptic final tweet, hours before her death, reading “Should’ve known.” Martin Gottlieb, editor-in-chief of The Record, one of the 50 largest newspapers nationally, delivered the conference’s keynote address. Gottlieb told the story of Zalik Williams, who was killed by police after escaping from the police station where he was being held for a domestic violence arrest. The story appeared on the front page of the print newspaper, attracting consider-
able attention in the state. Then the newspaper went to court to get security camera footage of the Williams’ escape. The court agreed and The Record posted the video on the website, something which obviously is impossible in a print edition. For a local example, take The Daily Campus. Perhaps the best articles published during my time at UConn has been the April 2012 series by Mac Cerullo on how much money UConn lost by qualifying for the Fiesta Bowl. (You’d think the school would gain money by making the football playoffs, but you would be wrong.) Cerullo obtained documents and data from thirty colleges to make the playoffs over the previous three years and used Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to calculate all sorts of data: which school sold the fewest tickets, which school required the most in expenditures, which school had the greatest total financial loss or gain, plus averages for all these figures. This would have proven significantly more difficult absent a computer program to sort and calculate all the data. Who would want to compute all that by hand? Did technology hurt the print newspaper and print journalism businesses? No doubt. But for the newspaper industry, the worst of the storm has passed. Instead of completely obliterating print media, technology has unexpectedly provided print media new tools for research and access. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
A ssociate Commentar y Editor Jesse Rifkin is a 6th- semester journalism major. He can be reached at Jesse.Rifkin@UConn.edu.
Logo changed without any community input
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ast Thursday, the UConn athletic department unveiled what they called “a new Husky for a new era.” This new logo has drawn much commentary, both positive and negative. Many people criticized it for variGregory Koch ous reasons, such as the Staff Columnist abandonment of the “nice” Husky and the inclusion of major non-white elements for the first time ever. However, the worst part of this ordeal is that the logo was made without consulting alumni, current students or anybody except Nike. The new logo is part of a moneymaking trend seen at several Nike schools where Nike has unveiled “modern” logos and uniforms and abandoned tradition. For instance, the Oregon State Beavers always had a logo that looked like a normal beaver prior to Nike redesigning it. Like normal beavers, it was not particularly ferocious or tough-looking. However, Nike intervened and changed the logo to a tough-looking mascot that only vaguely resembles an actual beaver. Additionally, Nike recently removed almost all of the traditional Carolina (powder) blue from UNC football’s road uniforms, replacing it with black,
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which is not even a school color. In none of these cases did Nike or the schools consult the students or alumni beforehand to see if that was what they wanted. Their thought process was simple – whether these people like the new style better than the old one or not, they still will buy new merchandise, such as jerseys and t-shirts. This means more money for the schools’ athletic departments and more money for Nike’s corporate pockets. It also promotes Nike’s brand, which means they get more money through other avenues. If people don’t like the new logo, they should refuse to buy any new merchandise, but that will not happen on any large scale. Nike and these schools overlook an important fact – college athletics is not supposed to be tarnished with greed. Professional sports have long been influenced by the greed of owners and players alike. However, amateur sports are supposed to be the last pure frontier. Thanks to Nike, that is no longer the case. It is possible that most students and alumni like this new logo better than the old one. Almost invariably, they will adjust to it eventually. However, even though everyone will learn to adjust, there are people who like the old logo better, due to its nice personality,
its associated tradition, or some other reason. These people should have had their voice heard before a rash decision was made. In 2005, Marquette University was considering changing their nickname from Golden Eagles to something else. However, rather than unilaterally make a change, Marquette consulted students and alumni and held a vote online to determine what, if anything, the school should change its name to. “Golden Eagles” defeated “Hilltoppers” in a runoff and the nickname was retained. Had UConn held a similar vote before changing the logo, offering students and alumni one or more new Husky options in addition to the original, it is possible the result would have been the same as it is now, and the new Husky logo would have been chosen anyway. However, at least then it would have been the UConn community choosing it instead of some corporate bigwigs at Nike. On the other hand, it is possible the community would have opted to retain the tradition associated with the old Husky logo. If that is what the UConn community wants, the athletic department should honor that decision. After all, it is the students who currently pay tens of thousands of dollars in tuition. Additionally, these are students
who pay relatively high prices for student athletic tickets which are relatively hard to obtain compared to other schools. To those students, the difficulty in supporting their Huskies is well worth it. These proud members of the UConn community deserved a say in deciding one of the most significant symbols of the athletic department and of the University itself. Additionally, the alumni still support the Huskies and take pride in their school years after they graduated. Some of these people give back to the athletic program or the school itself as a way of expressing their gratitude. Many alumni also attend athletic events and cheer on their beloved Huskies who will be competing under the new logo starting next year. They too deserved a say in the logo’s design. The University of Connecticut professes a mission of “students today, Huskies forever.” It is a shame that neither students nor alumni had a say in the look of that Husky.
Staff Columnist Gregory Koch is a 6th-semester actuarial science major. He can be reached at Gregory.Koch@UConn.edu.
“I, for one, think Weiner would be a great New York City mayor. For one thing, we wouldn’t have to worry about a soda ban it because we’ve all seen that he puts more than 16 ounces in his cup.” –Stephen Colbert
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1947 Jackie Robinson, age 28, becomes the first African American player in Major League Baseball breaking the color barrier.
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Modern dance telling a story
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By Kathleen McWilliams Staff Writer The Parsons Dance Company performed their repertoire at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts for a packed house on Saturday night. The company, founded by David Parsons, performs their modern dance choreographies across the world. Jorgensen director Rodney Rock introduced the eight-piece dance group in glowing terms. “This evening we have a national treasure, as far as I am concerned. As George Balanchine, the Russian ballet director once said, ‘I don’t want dancers who want to dance; I want dancers who have to dance.’ I believe Parsons Dance Company is composed of people who must dance,” he said. Parsons choreographs all of the work himself, but as Elizabeth Koppen, the group’s associate artistic director, said, “David has a great collaboration with the dancers…he wants dancers to have their own creativity with the work, he wants their input.” This combination of structured instruction from Parsons himself and the ability for dancers to have their own creative license, creates a fluid and energizing dynamic between the dancers and the dance. The group began their performance with a dance entitled “Round My World.” In this piece, the dancers began standing in a circle, illuminated by a single beam of yellow light, stretching out as if waking up in the morning. The dance was
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The Parsons Dance Company told different stories through modern dance this past Saturday at the Jorgensen theater. The different dance numbers had different influences from various eras and music.
created from many circular movements by individual dancers and the group as a whole. “The first piece was absolutely life changing,” said Mansfield resident Anita Kenning, “I felt as if it were the first time I really could see how dance tells a story. Here it seemed to be of birth, life, and maturation.” The second piece in the program was entitled “Cuts” and consisted of a male and female dancer dancing to modern Italian rock music. The dancers moved like puppets with the other dancer controlling their
Shocking facts on suicide rates among Asian Americans
Doctor Eliza Noh provided shocking statistics concerning suicides committed by Asian Americans in the past three decades and the effects of the “model minority myth” during a lecture at Laurel Hall Friday afternoon. Noh is the coordinator and associate professor in the Asian American Studies Program at California State University, Fullerton. Her research has been featured in various print, radio, TV and internet media on local, national and international levels. It centers on suicide and depression among Asian American women. Noh is currently writing a book based on her study of the effects of racism and sexism on Asian American female suicidal tendencies. The event was hosted by the cultural sorority Kappa Phi Lambda and the Asian American Mental Health Working Group. Angela Rola, director of the Asian American Cultural Center and member of the Mental Health Working Group, introduced Noh after a brief description of the group and its origins. The Asian American Cultural Center noticed more and more students with concerns of mental health issues seeking help in a private and affordable setting with staff that can relate to and understand their ethnic backgrounds. However, Mental Health Services on campus
movements with subtle body language. The third piece was entitled “Remembrances”and involved American folk music classics such as “Poor Warfaring Stranger” and “There Ain’t Anymore Liquor in This Town.” Like the other pieces, this dance told the story of the hard times of the 1920s and 1930s through the dancers’ smooth and controlled movements. After a brief intermission, a feat of dance and athleticism was performed in the form of the piece “Caught.” This
dance included the use of a strobe light and a dancer who appeared in midair during the light of the strobe. The impeccable timing and strength of the dancer manifested itself in the dance, as the dancer appeared to float across the stage in the air instead of jumping across of it. This performance was met with a standing ovation for Ohio-native dancer Ian Spring. The last piece was a collective group effort and the only dance in which all eight members appeared. Entitled “Swing
Shift,” this dance called upon playful and festive movements as well as bright lighting, almost as if to convey the atmosphere of a party. Parsons Dance was met with a standing ovation at the end of the performance and it is safe to assume that the audience agreed with Rodney Rock when he said, “David Parson’s original work makes him one of the greatest choreographers of the 21st century.”
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Doctor Eliza Noh informed students on shocking new facts on suicide rates amongst Asian Americans.
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does not currently have a faculty member that identifies as Asian American. In the spring of 2008, the Asian American Mental Health Working Group was formed to help faculty and staff better serve the diverse Asian American student body. Dr. Noh first went over suicide rates between 1981 and 2010, including the fact that Asian Americans between the ages 5-9 and 70+ have the highest suicide rates of any other ethnic category, explaining any apparent discrepancies in the data. She then went over the leading methods of suicide used by Asian American females (suffocation), white females (poisoning) and white males (firearm). She explained that since most suicides committed by Asian American females are less violent than those of white males, the quantity of Asian American female suicides is greatly overlooked. In her research, Dr. Noh interviewed 43 Asian American women in the San Francisco Bay, Houston, New York and Los Angeles/Orange County areas. Noh’s interest in the research was first spurred in college, when her sister committed suicide. She wanted to find out why the numbers were so high and affected Asian American females in particular, coming to find out about the “model minority myth” – the myth that all Asian Americans hold Confucian values; hard
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Space Mountain closed as Disney reviews safety
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Yhe “It’s A Small World” ride, at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. An attorney says a disabled man, Jose Martinez, was awarded $8,000 by Disneyland after the “It’s A Small World” ride broke in 2009, stranding him for half an hour.
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Three rides at Disneyland, including the famous Space Mountain roller coaster, were temporarily closed over the weekend as the company reviewed its employee safety protocols after citations from state regulators. The citations were received Friday from the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, according to Disneyland Resorts spokeswoman Suzi Brown. The closures Saturday of Space Mountain, the Matterhorn Bobsleds and Soarin’ Over California were voluntary and were made out of an abundance
of caution, Brown said Sunday. “We constantly strive to maintain a safe work environment for our cast members and contractors — and we are reviewing certain protocols,” she said. The citations were related to an incident in November when a contracted worker was injured while performing maintenance on the exterior of the Space Mountain attraction. Disneyland failed to adequately correct “known fall hazards” that existed on the exterior of Space Mountain, according to a description of the citation on the Cal/OSHA website. “Furthermore, Disneyland Resort failed to have approved
anchorages or approved tiebacks for contract employees to attach to when performing scheduled exterior building maintenance,” the description reads. The Matterhorn reopened Sunday. Brown said Sunday it is unclear how long the other two rides will remain closed. Space Mountain and the Matterhorn Bobsleds are at Disneyland. Soarin’ Over California, a simulated hangglider flight, is at Disney California Adventure. Officials with Cal/OSHA did not immediately reply Sunday to a request for comment.
This week we stretch all the way back to the original GameBoy. Not GameBoy Advance, not GameBoy Color, the one that looks like a cell phone from the 80’s with a little screen on it. Obviously I’m leading up to talking about “Pokémon Red and Blue” versions, the beginnings of a massive franchise. What started with two versions of the same game evolved into 21 total versions (including four versions of remakes) with two more to be released soon for the 3DS. The original “Red and Blue” featured 151 species of Pokémon. The catch was that you couldn’t get all of them in one game, some Pokémon were exclusive to either “Red or Blue” encouraging players to trade with friends or buy two games. Including later generations, the official count of Pokémon is 649 species. Who has time for that? Even with an emulator with speed enhancement that’s just a pain. Though all 649 Pokémon cannot be caught in any one game, it’s the ones that you deem your favorites and spend your time with that matter. Training Pokémon for battle can be a lengthy process, but it teaches commitment and hard work, for your thumbs as well as your attention span. Anyone who has played has felt some sort of emotion attachment to their pixilated friends. They can come through in the clutch, hang on by a thread, or lag behind until they learn an advanced move and suddenly move up on the party depth chart. Most players never actually catch all of the “Pokémon” in the game, but just collect all the badges and get their favorite ones. Seriously, does anyone ever catch and train a Tentacool? In “Pokémon Gold and Silver” Versions, 100 new Pokémon and a new map were added increasing the challenge. Players were excited for this because they added some really adorable Pokémon as well as some really intense ones. As generations of the game were released the creative squad started losing steam. Pokémon became less and less like ironic puns and combinations of wild animals and plants and began to take other forms. One of the most embarrassing creations is Vanillite and its evolutions. Essentially the Pokémon is an ice cream cone. And it evolves into more ice cream and then finally, wait for it…two scoops of ice cream. This is just an example of the ‘let’s make more so people buy it’. While the graphics and gameplay have definitely improved over time that is not what is up for dispute. It’s the Pokémon themselves that give the game its character. When you start slacking there it is just insulting. Cut your losses “Pokémon” team. People are alway’s going to buy your games to see if there’s a Pokémon cuter than Pikachu, but at what point do you start abandoning pride? For me, it was that ice cream abomination. The concept of the game will unlikely remain the same, train Pokémon, fight for badges, be the best. And for that I thank you, because that is the true joy of the game, but stop trying so hard to make new species. Just accept that the franchise is in its golden years and release a platform game that’s not “Stadium” or “Coliseum” already! Since you must actually enjoy Pokémon to make it to the end of this column, tweet at me @ MidEggWizard if you have anything to say.
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personal incompetence are absolutely show stealing. In all, the premiere of “Mad Men” was an excellent two hours of television, proving once again why Weiner’s series has become so acclaimed. While it does take a while to kick up, the brilliance of the second and third acts more than make up for it. And while the ensemble cast delivers a predictably solid performance, the episode focuses on some of the more featured characters of Don, Roger, Peggy and Betty, eschewing the likes of Pete and Joan whose appearances are somewhat limited. However, despite its length, “Mad Men” is no film, and one can expect those characters’ story arcs to be extended later in the season. All in all, continued solid brilliance.
Everybody has their own problems that seem more important than everyone else’s to them, but when aliens invade Earth, your plane crashes on an island that is probably purgatory or there is some sort of apocalypse, do they really seem that important to anyone anymore? TV sure seems to think so. I suppose everyone has baggage they bring with them everywhere they go, but I’m tired of seeing people in disastrous situations forcing their problems on everyone else selfishly as if they would really have time to care. To quote a crazy woman, “Ain’t nobody got time for dat!” The characters of “Lost” are stuck on a strange island with a monster, other people who they see as dangerous, ghosts and other strange things that J.J. Abrams expected me to buy into without ever questioning whether or not they died in the plane crash. Yet what’s more important than finding a way off of this island is to turn this island into some sort of diverse rehab where everybody cries about their problems and grows within nature into new people. Very few people seemed to be interested in building a raft off of the island in the first season. The “Walking Dead” cast is no different. While most of them want to survive and put aside all their differences and problems, not everybody can make things so simple. We have a redneck in season one who makes time to be incredibly racist while awaiting a horde of zombies. Throughout the entire show Andrea has always made everything about her problems and emotional issues and used to talk about suicide as if they all did not have bigger problems like trying to survive. In the latest season Rick spiraled into some sort of strange emotional and mental instability where he even pretended to talk on the phone to all the people he killed. Instead of anyone ever grabbing him and attempting to snap him out of it or talk some sense into him, they all just allow him to await his own epiphany while making incredibly important decisions that affect everyone. When somebody found him on the phone pretending to talk to people instead of realizing how messed up and how big a waste of time this is and that their leader was putting everyone at risk by sitting around playing telephone, Hershel just lets him get back to it and allows it. They all just allow Rick to be crazy all season and do crazy things without ever thinking that maybe they have bigger problems and that this is all just a waste of time. Then again, the writers only wrote all this to waste time. The last instance of this that really bothered me was in “Battle: Los Angeles.” Aliens have invaded Earth and are killing everyone. The marines fighting back we follow are led by Aaron Eckhart. One of the marines in his group blames him for the death of his brother in some battle or something before the movie began. I’m sorry for his loss and all, but there is literally an intergalactic war going on and everyone is dying. Yet, him arguing and being pissed off at the guy attempting to lead his group had to happen in the midst of all this? People can be selfish, but can they really be that selfish? Movie and TV writers seem to think that personal problems are always more important than anything else going on.
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The ‘Greendale Gang’ have found themselves in awkward silences with yet another unusual situation plaguing Greendale Community College. In order to solve an odd situation the only way they can do so is with puppets.
By Matt Gantos Campus Correspondent Crazier things have happened at Greendale, but the Greendale Gang has found themselves in an extended awkward silence, after a hot-air balloon accident ending with hallucinogenic wild berries and secret sharing. When said like that it sounds a bit ridiculous, but it only keeps going. The study group is mandated by their dean to resolve the awkward situation by using puppets. Yes, puppets, that’s right. Most of the episode was filmed using large Muppet-style puppets voiced but not moved by the actual cast. The first scene with the puppets involved the group playing on a post-season two hiccup that all shows go through, how to not make the same jokes and situations over and over.
Deciding that they needed pets. adventure, the gang set out on a The second song was actually hot-air balloon, which would be led by Jason Alexander, George reenacted as puppets. Costanza from “Seinfeld,” who This was not the first time made a brief guest appearance something like puppetry hap- as a Greendale Grad who now pened in the show. The Season lives in the woods. Two Christmas episode was creThe song ends with ated almost entirely with stop- Alexander’s character feeding motion dolls and the puppets wild berCGI background. ries and walking off Community Last Thursday’s into the woods leaving Thursday 8:00 p.m. the puppets on their episode was very similar in that own during a psycheaspect, except for delic trip. the study group Aside from the extra were the only peogimmicks, the episode ple turned into puphad all the goods that pets. Everything fans expect, every else was live-action with the character had a small part, exception of the hot air balloon subtle jokes and throwbacks, scene. an emotional interlude and a Not only were there puppets, ‘Winger-solves-all’ resolution. but they sang. While the three The subtle jokes however, musical numbers each had some are getting less subtle. Dean good jokes, it was a bit much, Pelton’s infatuation with Jeff especially paired with the pup- Winger is a reoccurring joke
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that seems to be turning into the Dean’s only joke this season. This episode also appears to be the last episode to feature Chevy Chase. Aside from the finale which was filmed prior to Chevy reportedly quitting the show, it seems that his character Pierce never made it out of the woods, and the rest of the cast seems to be relatively unaffected by it. If writing off a four-season character is as easy as saying, ‘Oh we got lost in the woods and we lost him, but the rest of us are ok’ then “Community” just did it. Fans hope not, but sometimes it is just simpler not to dwell and hope it blows over. As a whole the episode delivered a little below par for the series, even with the puppets and singing, but nonetheless was brilliantly written and performed.
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What I’m Watching The Mindy Project Underrated: Tuesday 8 p.m. FOX
After long hours of studying or a hard day of classes it’s nice to relax and not think for a little while. Having a few laughs is great way to de-stress after a long day. ‘The Mindy Project’ I feel is that show where you can sit back and enjoy for a bit before jumping back into work. If you need a half hour breather then tune in for a zany main character as well as an unusual cast. The episodes are short which makes it perfect to view during study breaks. Some concepts of the show are a bit corny but it’s good enough to have me laughing out loud which I do appreciate. If a TV show can actually have me laughing out loud then the writers are doing something right. She’s an unusual doctor which unfortunately we might not ever meet in real life because everyone is so serious at the doctor’s office. -Loumarie Rodriguez
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Dealing with a lot of personal issues Don Draper faces many challenges of his own mind. Attempting to reshape himself by staying faithful to his wife however his new life style is only short lived.
By Alex Sferrazza Staff Writer With a runtime of 89 minutes, the two part season premiere of “Mad Men” would qualify as a feature film if released as such. In many ways it is designed as one. The episode takes full advantage of its runtime by setting itself up much more slowly than your typical episode. However, just when you almost find yourself fatigued from the slow pace, the episode kicks into high gear, on par with some of the very best episodes of the series. Here the series begins to truly delve into the dark, empty, aloneness of Don Draper’s mind, as expected per the season five finale’s finale scene. Fittingly, the very first time we see the character on screen this season, he can be see reading a copy of Dante’s Inferno. Don attempts to turn a new cheek
in the episode, being faithful to creator Matthew Weiners handling his wife, chatters with a fellow of the scene was brilliant. military veteran at a bar rather For other characters, we did see than picking up a woman and even the story lines progress per usual. hosting a traditional dinner party Peggy is settling into her new job at home with his wife. This new at a competing rival ad agency. change comes crushing down sudHowever, what really steals the denly as Don ends up cheating on show are Roger Sterling’s (John his wife (yet again) on Slattery) scenes. New Year’s Eve, perAfter Roger’s mothMad Men haps to find some sort dies, a lackluster Sunday 10:00 p.m. er of escape from recent attempt at a memofailings at work and rial service is held feelings of inadequacy only to be broken after he views a docup by Roger’s own tor friend of his bravely insecurity. To top save a life. It is Jon it off, he is then Hamm’s remarkable witness to a correperformance as Don that truly sells sponding series of “acts” where these morally ambiguous scenes. upon his supposedly consoling Betty Francis (January Jones), ex-wife and his daughter attempt Don’s ex-wife, takes a trip to too ring money out of him. As the seedy ghetto of New York is seen numerous times during the search of a runaway friend of her episode, the subsequent visit of daughter. The disparity between Roger to a psychiatrist discussing the classes here is remarkable, and these and other perceived areas of
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Bieber criticized for Anne Frank comment AMSTERDAM (AP) — Justin Bieber wrote an entry into a guestbook at the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, saying he hoped the Jewish teenager who died in a Nazi concentration camp “would have been a Belieber” — or fan of his — if history were different. The message triggered a flood of comments on the museum’s Facebook page Sunday, with many criticizing the 19-year-old Canadian pop star for writing something they perceive to be insensitive. Calls made and emails sent to Bieber’s publicist and agent in Los Angeles weren’t immediately returned. Museum spokeswoman Maatje Mostart confirmed that Bieber visited Friday evening. She said the museum was happy to have received Bieber and didn’t see anything offensive in his remarks. Anne Frank hid with her family in a small apartment above a warehouse during the Nazi occupation of World War II. Her family was caught and deported, and Anne died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen in 1945. The diary she kept in hiding was recovered and published
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after the war, and has become the most widely read document to emerge from the Holocaust. Bieber’s whole note read: “Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a Belieber.” Mostart said Bieber called ahead and was given a guided tour. Bieber’s remarks led to criticism from some quarters, as a Facebook response insulting Bieber received more than 1,000 “likes” — slightly more than the museum’s original post about the incident. Meanwhile on Twitter, posts mocking Bieber and imagining that he had visited the museum and walked away thinking only of himself began circulating Sunday, though the message is open to interpretation. Some of Bieber’s 37 million followers also tweeted messages of support. Others in his fan base — which is heavily weighted toward young girls — tweeted that they didn’t know who Anne Frank was. Frank was 13 years old when she began keeping her diary in 1942. Like many teenage girls, she made a collage of the celebrities of her day — movie
stars, dancers, and royalty — and kept it on her bedroom wall. “Our little room looked very bare at first with nothing on the walls; but thanks to Daddy who had brought my film-star collection and picture postcards ... with the aid of a paste pot and brush, I have transformed the walls into one gigantic picture,” she wrote on July 11, 1942, just days after going into hiding. “This makes it look much more cheerful.” Many of those pictures can still be seen on the walls of the museum Bieber visited Friday. Bieber has had a tough few weeks in Europe. He had to leave a monkey in quarantine after landing in Germany without the necessary papers for the animal. Before that, the 19-yearold singer had a trying stay in London. The star struggled with his breathing and fainted backstage at a show, was taken to a hospital and then was caught on camera clashing with a paparazzo. Days earlier, he was booed by his fans when he showed up late to a concert. He performed in Arnhem, Netherlands, on Saturday night, and will next perform three nights in Oslo, Norway.
Richards joins Clapton at Crossroads Festival NEW YORK (AP) — Eric Clapton’s Crossroads festival has become the mecca for riff worshippers, so it was appropriate that guitar deity Keith Richards made a surprise appearance to perform with Clapton. The Rolling Stone received perhaps the most sustained standing ovation of the night as he joined his old pal toward the end of Crossroads, a two-night concert festival at Madison Square Garden that brought together a dazzling array of guitar masters, from John Mayer to Jeff Beck to legends like Buddy Guy, and of course, Clapton and Richards. Richards — whose Stones announced another tour earlier this month — flashed his typical wry smile to the crowd before joining Clapton in playing the blues standard and Clapton favorite “Key to the Highway. “ “Now we’re gonna rock it up,” Richards said before launching into “Sweet Little Rock N’ Roller.” Richards’ appearance was only the beginning of Clapton’s hour-plus-long set, which included hits like “Crossroads” and “Little Queen of Spades.” It also featured other special guests, like Robbie Robertson, who sang the classic “I Shall Be Released.” “I just want to say it’s an honor to be here in honor of Crossroads and Eric Clapton,” Robertson said. Crossroads Guitar Festival,
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Eric Clapton performs at Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013 at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, April 14, 2013, in New York.
which benefits Clapton’s Crossroads Centre for substance abuse in Antigua, has been held every three years since 2004; this Friday and Saturday was its first at Madison Square Garden. The show lasted almost five hours, with each performer showcasing his particular brand of wizardry on the instrument. (All the headliners were men, though there were a few women as supporting players in the program.) Clapton joined Los Lobos and Robert Cray early on, and Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks played an acoustic set and brought out Gregg Allman. Keb’ Mo’ and Taj Mahal paid tribute to the blues in their acoustic set, while newcomer
Gary Clark Jr. had the crowd on its feet throughout most of his electrifying set, which was followed by another fiery set, this one by Jeff Beck. Other highlights were a performance by blues great Buddy Guy and a set from Vince Gill, Keith Urban and Albert Lee. “It’s one of the greatest things that ever happened, getting this invitation from Eric Clapton,” Gill gushed onstage. The night ended with just about all the evening’s performers coming back on stage for a jam session with Clapton. “See you in three years,” Clapton told the crowd before exiting the stage.
NEW YORK (AP) — Fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander has been portrayed as a predator and monster in coast-to-coast cases accusing him of raping aspiring models he lured to his apartment with the promise of fame. But here’s how Alexander sees himself: an accomplished artist featured on “America’s Next Top Model” who once worked with the likes of Paris Hilton, a practitioner of yoga, an admitted philanderer — but not a criminal. “We were all searching for companionship. We were all searching for success,” he said during a jailhouse interview this week with The Associated Press. “The expectations were different. We got so caught up in the whole hype.” The 38-year-old is lanky, with a wide grin, thick black hair stylishly cut and Buddy Holly
glasses tucked into the front of his drab prison jumpsuit. He is relaxed and articulate as he explains why he believes he was a victim and says his conviction and sentence of 59 years to life will be overturned based on new evidence that he says exposes a conspiracy. “I have 100 percent faith and confidence that I will be freed,” Alexander said shortly after a court appearance in Manhattan, one of several jurisdictions where he’s faced criminal charges. Alexander was on the brink of fame and fortune, living a fast life of women, celebrities and travel, until allegations surfaced in 2007 that he was preying on wannabe models, some as young as 14, by offering them a window into the industry. During this era, he said, he wasn’t good at separating business from pleasure. He dated
multiple women at once; most he met online. They traveled with him and stayed with him in his apartments in New York and Beverly Hills. Many of these women would later go on to accuse him of forcing them to perform lurid sex acts. Alexander willingly admits he was a lousy, selfish boyfriend who was taking advantage of his newfound fame. “My culture created the Kama Sutra,” the Kerala, India-born Alexander said, referring to an ancient Hindu text on sexual behavior. “Sex is not something that intimidates me.” But he said he didn’t force women into anything. While he was working on a deal to take his brand public, he says, the conspiracy was growing slowly around him, made up of angry, bitter women who felt partially responsible for his success and wanted more than he was giving them.
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image of success results in them being overlooked in the distribution of needed resources. Using examples of stereotypes that Asian Americans perpetuate, like Amy Chua giving into the ideas of a “tiger mother,” Noh demonstrated how this “insidious trauma” builds over time with social backlash, racism and sexism and social outcasting. She outlined ways to prevent and intervene, including providing nonjudgmental dialogues, free or affordable mental health care, culturally and linguistically competent services,
alternatives to Western models of healing and therapy, suicide research focusing on Asian Americans and critiquing the model minority myth. During a question and answer session afterwards, Dr. Noh not only shared more information about her research but asked members in the crowd about their knowledge and expertise, including a graduate student who works on mental health issues in Japan.
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work, respect for authorities, family cohesion and sacrifice which translates to success and low crime rates. The term was coined by William Peterson in 1966 and later used by the U.S. News and World Report in the same year in an article that compared Asian Americans to African Americans. Dr. Noh explained that the model minority myth is harmful to Asian Americans in three ways: it pressures them to live up to it, makes them vulnerable to racism and sexism and the
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Horoscopes by Brian Ingmanson
Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Consider the possibility of being lazy, but not so much that you miss new opportunities when they come knocking at your door. Be ready to expand and grow. Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- All is not as it appears. Work could be complicated by delays, and a lack of funds could threaten plans. Close review of the finances provides choice. Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Humility grants grace. The next two days present extra opportunities for partnership. Work out strategies, delegate who does what and manage it all as a team, with love. Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 7 -- There could be a conflict between public and private obligations. Changes may be required. It’s getting busy, and there’s more work coming. Keep track of expenses. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Doing the homework increases your chances for success. You’re entering a romantic phase, full of pleasures, social life, children and creativity. Things seem easy. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Your home and family call for your attention. Rebuild old bridges. Write a love letter or a poem. There’s plenty of money, and none to waste. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Be patient with someone who isn’t, and be entirely honest with yourself. It’s a good exercise, to paraphrase Sigmund Freud, whose birthday is today. Notice your feelings. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Anything is possible, if you set your mind to it. Save the right amount of energy for sustained success. The more you do, the more you’re in demand. Hand out business cards. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Avoid making big decisions today, or at least weigh your options carefully. Your attention to detail is enviable now. Choose privacy over public venues. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Spend more time at home but not necessarily alone. Your friends offer support and love when you need it. Think and grow rich together. There’s creativity afoot. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- Now’s a good time to go over your accomplishments and goals. Go for what’s next, even if it requires a change in plans. Surround yourself with friends this evening. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is an 8 -Challenges may show up at your doorstep. You could bravely incorporate them into your plan and emerge a hero. Don’t deplete your resources. It all works out.
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Scott beats Cabrera in a playoff at Augusta
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Adam Scott and his caddie Steve Williams reacts to his putt dropping on the second hole of a playoff to win the Masters golf tournament.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Adam Scott finished the job this time, and put an end to more than a half-century of Australian misery at the Masters. With the two biggest putts of his career, Scott holed a 20-footer for birdie on the 18th hole of regulation that put him into a playoff with Angel Cabrera, and then won his first major championship Sunday with a 12-footer for birdie on the second extra hole. Scott leaned back and thrust his arms in the air after the putt dropped on the 10th hole, a celebration for all of Australia and personal redemption for himself. It was only last summer when Scott threw away the British Open by making bogey on his last four holes to lose by one shot to Ernie Els. The 32-year-old handled that crushing defeat with dignity and pledged to finish stronger given another chance.
"Next time — I'm sure there will be a next time — I can do a better job of it," he said that day. Scott was close to perfect, and he had to be with Cabrera delivering some brilliance of his own. Moments after Scott made his 20-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole for a 3-under 69 to take a one-shot lead — "C'mon, Aussie!" he screamed — Cabrera answered with an approach that plopped down 3 feet from the cup, one of the greatest shots under the circumstances. That gave him an easy birdie and a 2-under 70. They both chipped close for par on the 18th in the first playoff hole, and Cabrera's 15-foot birdie putt on the 10th grazed the right side of the cup. With his long putter anchored against his chest, Scott's putt was true all the way. The Masters was the only major an Australian had never
won, and Scott was among dozens of golfers who routinely rose in the early hours of Monday morning for the telecast, only to watch a horror show. The leading character was Greg Norman, who had four good chances to win, none better than when he blew a six-shot lead on the last day to Nick Faldo in 1996. There was Jim Ferrier in 1952, Bruce Crampton 20 years later, and Scott and Jason Day only two years ago. Norman, though, was the face of Aussie failures at the Masters, and Scott paid him tribute in Butler Cabin before he slipped on that beautiful green jacket. "Australian is a proud sporting nation, and this is one notch in the belt we never got," Scott said. "It's amazing that it came down to me today. But there's one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that's Greg Norman. He's been incredible to me and all the
great golfers. Part of this belongs to him." Scott was just as gracious in victory as he was last summer at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. He and Cabrera flashed a thumbsup to each other after their shots into the 10th hole in the playoff, and they walked off the 10th green with their arms around each other when it was over. "Such is golf," Cabrera said. "Adam is a good winner." It was a riveting conclusion to a week filled with some awkward moments. There was the one-shot penalty called against 14-year-old Guan Tianlang that nearly kept the Chinese teen from becoming the youngest player to make the cut. There was the illegal drop by Tiger Woods, who was given a twoshot penalty over questions and confusion about why he was not disqualified for signing an incorrect card.
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Heat set franchise home mark, top Bulls 105-93 MIAMI (AP) — Carlos Boozer turned his shoulder and knocked Dwyane Wade to the floor, while Nate Robinson shoved LeBron James as the NBA's reigning MVP leaped near the basket. All in the same sequence, no less. It was physical, rugged and exactly what the Miami Heat needed as part of their preparations for the playoffs, which start this coming weekend. James scored 24 points, Wade finished with 22 and the Heat set a franchise record for home wins in a season by topping the Chicago Bulls 105-93 on Sunday. "It was good, especially against this team," said James, who had seven rebounds and six assists. "You're definitely not just going to show up and win against these guys. You're going to have to work for it. So for us, to continue to get better and for us to have a really physical game, good game, testy game, we liked it." Chicago had more fouls (30) than field goals (29), the first time the Bulls have managed that in a regular-season game since Nov. 19, 2008.
The Bulls sent Miami to the line a season-high 41 times, and at times were so reliant on the 3-point shot that they went more than 16 minutes to open the second half without a single 2-point basket. "We're trying to get ready," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "And you play a team that's physical like this, it gets you ready." The Bulls shot 35 percent, and were far better outside the 3-point arc (11-for-26, 42 percent) than inside it (18-for-56, 32 percent). Robinson missed 11 shots himself. Miami's "Big Three" of James, Wade and Chris Bosh Chicago missed 12 — comMiami bined. "That's the best team in the NBA as of right now," Robinson said. Mario Chalmers and Chris Andersen each scored 15 for Miami, which improved to 36-4 at home — topping the 35-6 mark by the 2004-05 Heat. Bosh had 12 points, nine rebounds and four blocks for Miami, which also got 11 points from Mike Miller. Miami is at Cleveland on Monday, with Wade, Udonis
Haslem and Shane Battier not even making the trip. James said he would be a game-time decision Monday, but "leaning toward" not playing against his former team. Boozer finished with 16 points and 20 rebounds for the Bulls, who snapped Miami's 27-game winning streak last month. Luol Deng led Chicago in scoring with 19, Robinson and Kirk Hinrich scored 14 apiece and Jimmy Butler added 13 for the Bulls, who played without Joakim Noah (foot), Taj Gibson (knee), Richard Hamilton (one-game NBA suspension) and 93 of course, Derrick Rose, has been out all year 105 who while coming back from a knee injury. "We just have to keep moving forward and concentrate on improving," Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said. "Hopefully we will get a couple of guys back soon. I don't want us thinking about the playoffs. I want us thinking about the game (Monday) against the Orlando Magic." The loss keeps Chicago in the No. 6 spot in the Eastern Conference, just behind Atlanta.
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Miami has wrapped up home-court advantage throughout the playoffs, and opens the postseason at home next weekend against the Milwaukee Bucks. The Bulls (43-37) are a game behind Atlanta (44-36), though Chicago would own the headto-head tiebreaker. Chicago is at Orlando on Monday and plays host to Washington on Wednesday. Atlanta hosts Toronto on Tuesday and closes at the New York Knicks on Wednesday. "We need to play well these last two games and get as healthy as we can be," Hinrich said. For the Heat, that get-healthy mission has been the mantra for a few weeks now, with Wade, James, Bosh, Haslem and Battier all among those dealing with nagging issues of late. And after Sunday, there might have been a few more bumps and bruises. There were no fewer than six instances of Heat players ending up on the floor in the first 6 minutes alone. "We wanted to win," Bosh said, "and we always want to protect home court." James made his first seven shots,
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Chicago Bulls' Luol Deng, right, drives to the basket as Miami Heat's LeBron James (6) defends during the first half of an NBA basketball game.
one of them a dunk off a bounce pass by Chalmers to give Miami a 46-31 lead midway through the second quarter. The dunk was with such force, Hinrich found himself flinching to get out of the ball's way. The Bulls bounced back quickly. A 23-10 run to end the first half got Chicago within 56-54 at the break, and briefly took the lead when Jimmy Butler converted a fourpoint play to make it 61-60. But the Heat regained control
before long. Up 78-71 with 3:40 left in the third, Wade tried to throw a soft lob to James, on the play where he got leveled by Boozer and Robinson sent James into an awkward collision with the basket stanchion. A clear-path foul against Boozer was called, the lead went to 82-71 on that sequence and the Heat still were up nine entering the fourth. "I thought we played very well as a team from the start of the game to the end," Wade said
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Girardi's OT goal lifts Rangers over Islanders
UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — After playmakers on both sides of the New York-New York backyard brawl were stymied by goalies and goal posts, it was a defensive defenseman who finally broke through to end a playofflike deadlock. Dan Girardi gave the visiting Rangers a key 1-0 win Saturday night when he scored his second goal of the season 3:11 into overtime to knock off the Islanders at fired-up Nassau Coliseum. With both teams on track for the postseason — although their holds on playoff spots are tenuous — Girardi took a lead pass from Derick Brassard, raced in on goalie Evgeni Nabokov, and beat him with a rising shot just when a shootout seemed inevitable. "I drove to the net," said Girardi, who has 31 goals in seven NHL seasons. "He made a great pass. AP This says a lot about our team, the character of our team. New York Islanders' John Tavares hits the ice as New York Rangers' Steve Eminger (44) "The Islanders are a good team. and Brian Boyle (22) scramble for the puck in the second period.
They threw everything they could goalie, finished with 29 saves for at us. We were very strong in his first shutout of the season and front of the net." 44th in the NHL. Henrik Lundqvist and Islanders Lundqvist skated the length of counterpart Nabokov staged a the ice after Girardi's goal to join classic goalie duel that Girardi in the celebration with his teamfinished. mates at the other end. "You guys might have had fun "That was a long skate, but it watching it, but from a coach's was well worth it," he said. "They point of view, there are a played hard. It was an lot of things we need to exciting game to play work on," Rangers coach in. It was fun, a lot of Rangers 1 fun. Like a playoff John Tortorella said. The Rangers are Islanders for sure. 0 game eighth in the Eastern "It was a relief and Conference playoff race, exciting to see the one point behind the Islanders. puck go in." The Rangers lead ninth-place Nabokov stopped 19 shots in Winnipeg by two points with taking the tough-luck loss. While seven games remaining — one the Islanders wanted two points, more than the Jets. The Islanders getting one could go a long way have six games remaining, but toward giving them a return to only one more at home before the playoffs. they finish on a five-game trip "It's tough to swallow that pill, they hope will end in their first to play the way we played and playoff berth since 2007. lose in overtime, but there's a Lundqvist, last season's Vezina lot of positives," he said. "Both Trophy winner as the NHL's top teams were battling and I think
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both teams deserve a point. "This was exactly a playoff game." However, Tortorella disputed the notion that these teams currently have a rivalry. "We need a good old-fashioned playoff series. That's when you create rivalries," he said. "Tonight's game brings a different intensity because we are close together in points. I don't buy the rivalry." The Rangers are 5-1-1 in their last seven. The Islanders, who had won their previous three, are 8-1-2 in their last 11. The Rangers started overtime with a minute left on a power play, created when Kyle Okposo slashed the stick out of Girardi's hands. Before that, Islanders forward Colin McDonald struck the crossbar with a tough-angle shot 1:41 into the third — the latest in a slew of shots that were kept out by posts.
Agabiti: How much is too much when it comes to replay in sports? from IS THERE, page 12 call via Twitter. “This can’t happen in a major league game,” Maddon said. It certainly can’t. But the question remains, how much is too much when it comes to replay? You can’t be a troglodyte like the MLB is, but at the same time, you can’t just have every fan and his mother calling in about bad calls like the PGA does. There’s no perfect replay system. College football reviews literally everything and it slows the game down way too much. The NFL is
now too vague and it leaves coaches unsure of whether or not they can throw that red flag. As for the NBA, the days when replay can fix flopping, showboating and blatant traveling violations don’t seem very near, so a good replay system just doesn’t seem worth it. A guy can skydive from space but a good replay system can’t be implemented? Got it.
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Same goals, different expectations for Knicks, Nets
By Mike Corasaniti Associate Managing Editor
The field has been played through and the nets have all been cut down, but basketball madness may just be beginning in the Big Apple. With the season quickly winding down, both New York City NBA teams are priming themselves for the beginning of postseason play. Both boast a lot of promise heading into the first round, scheduled to start next Saturday, but both also head into the playoffs with unique challenges laid ahead of them. The Brooklyn Nets, who have not made the postseason since the 2006-07 New Jersey Nets fell in the second round, are once again slated for late-spring basketball with the Atlanta Hawks most likely to be their first matchup. Returning to the playoffs after a long absence is an obvious challenge for any team. No amount of
success in the regular season can directly translate to postseason results. But Brooklyn is making its debut in their new city with a wellbalanced attack strong enough to breeze by Atlanta and maybe give Miami, their likely second round opponent, a little scare. Led by point guard Deron Williams, who has averaged 18.9 points per game on top of nearly eight assists per game, the Brooklyn offense has averaged more than 96 points per game. Their strengths have not even been in their scoring but rather in their rebounding and defensive play, which ranked tenth and fifth, respectively, as of Sunday. Behind center Brook Lopez, the Nets have created a game plan that is very difficult to score against; that could lead to major issues for opponents in coming weeks. A quick ride on the R train presents some different challenges for a different New York team
at Madison Square Garden. The Knicks, who won their first Atlantic Division title since their 1994 season ended in the NBA Finals, will be returning to the playoffs for their third consecutive season. The challenge for the Knicks this season, compared to the last two (to simply make the playoffs and hold their own once they’re there), is to prove that they are not just contending for a spot in the conference finals but contending for an NBA Championship as well. The Boston Celtics will be New York’s likely first round opponent with the Indiana Pacers as their likely second round opponent if everything goes according to plan (not to look too far ahead). The Knicks match up well with both teams; one of their main challenges right off the bat may be keeping Miami off their minds long enough to focus on getting through the first two rounds alive. Carmelo Anthony has been
burning down the barn for weeks now, which could prove to be perfect timing as he takes his hot play (which has skyrocketed him into position to win the NBA scoring title) into the first round against the Celtics. Behind the scoring machine, the NBA’s oldest team will have a wealth of experience and versatility on their side with secret weapons like Chris Copeland and some now-not-so-secret weapons like Steve Novak. Both New York basketball teams are back in the playoffs, with different expectations but similar goals, in hopes of bringing back some hardware to the boroughs. This weekend will begin the journey for New York and Brooklyn; only after the twomonth ride is over will their hopes and expectations be seen for how realistic they actually are.
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New York Knicks' Carmelo Anthony reacts after dunking the ball during the second half of the NBA basketball game against the Indiana Pacers.
»NCAA HOCKEY
Yale knocks off Quinnipiac 4-0 to win NCAA title
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Yale's Andrew Miller celebrates his breakaway goal in the third period of the NCAA men's college hockey national championship game in Pittsburgh.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Yale captain Andrew Miller stopped a reporter when he asked what it felt like to be the final school to make the 16-team when the NCAA hockey tournament began. Actually, we were the 15th seed," Miller said. And ultimately, the last one standing. Miller capped his brilliant career with a breakaway goal in the third period, Jeff Malcolm stopped all 36 Quinnipiac shots and the Bulldogs won their first NCAA championship with a 4-0 victory Saturday night. It was sweet revenge for Yale (22-12-3), which lost the three previous meetings with the top-seeded Bobcats by a combined 13-3. The nation's oldest hockey program, however, left no doubt in the final, riding the play of Malcolm and some unlikely offensive contributions
to capture a title 117 years in the making. "Tonight was our turn," Yale coach Keith Allain said. The Bulldogs have been playing hockey since 1896 but had only made the tournament twice before Allain took over in 2006. The Yale graduate accepted the job with the promise from his bosses the school would do what it takes to be competitive. In seven seasons he guided the Bulldogs all the way to the top. "I came back to prove you could go to the best university in the world and prove you can play hockey at the highest level," Allain said. Yale did it throughout the tournament, knocking off three No. 1 seeds, including its Connecticut rivals from just down the street. Quinnipiac (30-8-5) — located less than 10 miles from the Yale campus —
spent most of the year ranked No. 1. The Bobcats (30-8-5) hardly looked like it after Yale's Clint Bourbonais redirected a shot between goalie Eric Hartzell's legs with 4 seconds left in the second period and freshman Charles Orzetti scored his first goal in four months 3:35 into the third to make it 2-0. Miller, the tournament's Most Outstanding Player, then broke loose and flipped a backhand by Hartzell for his 18th goal of the season. Pittsburgh native Jesse Root added an empty netter to set the coronation in motion. "You've got to play your game," Miller said. "We had some great players on our team. A lot of guys that don't get noticed, they're our heroes." Hartzell stopped 27 shots, but the Hobey Baker finalist let in a couple of soft goals that gave Yale all the momentum it would need.
"I thought we were the best team in college hockey for the season," Quinnipiac coach Rand Pecknold said. "Unfortunately, we didn't prove it tonight." The Bobcats dominated the season series, sweeping all three meetings by a combined score of 13-3. Quinnipiac trailed for all of 18 minutes in the three games combined and Hartzell allowed only one goal in the previous eight periods against Yale. Yet Pecknold insisted the Bulldogs weren't the same team the Bobcats steamrolled 3-0 three weeks ago in the ECAC tournament consolation game. Yale tripped up national powers Minnesota and North Dakota to make the Frozen Four for the first time since 1952, then edged UMass Lowell 3-2 in overtime in the semifinals Thursday.
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Justin Upton, Braves beat Nats for 9th straight win WASHINGTON (AP) — Forget about last year. This season, the Atlanta Braves are looking very much like the team to beat in the NL East. Justin Upton and Andrelton Simmons homered, and the Braves cruised to their ninth straight victory Sunday, beating Washington 9-0 to complete a three-game sweep of the defending division champion Nationals. Chris Johnson had four hits and two RBIs for the Braves, who received a sparkling pitching performance from Paul Maholm. After forging two-run victories on Friday and Saturday, Atlanta took a 7-0 lead in the third inning against Gio Gonzalez (1-1) and coasted to the finish. "We know the Nationals are supposed to be pretty good, so it was good to make a statement early," Simmons said. "Let them know we're going to be tough to beat."
In compiling the best record in Johnson said. "We just got waffled the major leagues, the Braves (11- today. I don't put too much stock 1) have outscored the opposition in it." 62-23 and built a 20-6 advantage Maholm (3-0) allowed four hits in home runs. in 7 2-3 innings, walking one and "It's early," manager Fredi striking out seven. The left-hander Gonzalez said. "I don't think we're has not surrendered a run this seagoing to play .998 baseball the rest son in 20 1-3 innings over three of the way, but it sure starts. is better than 1-11." "He mixed it up well, The Braves have mixed his speed up," swept three straight Gonzalez said. "We Atlanta 9 Fredi series (Cubs, Miami gave him a nice little and Washington) for Washington 0 cushion to work with, the first time since and he kept it. Sometimes April 2000, when they swept four that's not easy to do." in a row (Phillies, Pirates, Dodgers, After giving up two singles in and Padres). the eighth, Maholm was replaced Washington has lost seven by Luis Avilan, who walked Bryce straight to Atlanta, dating back to Harper to load the bases before last year. The final game of this retiring Ryan Zimmerman on a series was a stark contrast to the comebacker. other two. Gonzalez yielded seven runs and "We should have won the first seven hits in five innings for the one. We were right there on the Nationals, who won 98 games a second," Nationals manager Davey year ago to Atlanta's 94.
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"I take the blame on this one 100 percent," the left-hander said. "The Braves right now are running hot. They're red hot right now. You got to give them the credit. They're a tough hitting lineup and a good rotation." Gonzalez came in with an 0.82 ERA in two starts, but he struggled from the outset in this one. B.J. Upton lined the first pitch of the game into the left-field corner for a double, only his second extrabase hit in 39 at-bats this season. Brother Justin Upton walked with one out and Evan Gattis doubled in a run before Johnson delivered a two-out, two-run single up the middle for a 3-0 lead. Justin Upton hit his seventh homer leading off the third — he didn't hit No. 7 last year until June 23. After a walk to Dan Uggla and a single by Johnson, Simmons drove a full-count pitch over the left-field wall to make it 7-0.
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Atlanta Braves' Andrelton Simmons is greeted by teammates Dan Uggla, center, and Chris Johnson as he steps on home plate after hitting a three-run home run.
Ferriter and Mazzilli help lead UConn past Villanova Celtics lock up East's 7th seed, rout Magic 120-88
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A UConn baseball player swings at a pitch while his teamates look on at a recent game at J.O. Christian Field.
from HOW, page 12 ting to UConn starter Brian Ward in the second and third innings, the Huskies responded by tacking on runs in three straight. The big inning was the sixth,
as UConn jumped on starter Josh Harris and reliever Chris Haggarty to the tune of three runs. Huskies’ center fielder Billy Ferriter knocked in two and second baseman LJ Mazzilli brought the third around during the rally. At that point, the UConn lead
stood at 5-2. They would not relinquish it, despite working into some trouble during the seventh inning. The Wildcats managed to cut the deficit to just one on the strength of a Connor Jones home run, but the bullpen clamped down after that. Will Jolin picked up the save by going three innings and giving up just one hit. The sweep brought the Huskies (22-13, 8-4 Big East) closer to Louisville and USF, who are tied for first in the Big East standings. Both teams sit at 7-2 in the conference. UConn will have a chance to cut into the Bulls’ lead as they visit New Britain Stadium and J.O. Christian Field next weekend.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Celtics coach Doc Rivers is going to be cautious with how hard he pushes Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce over Boston's final two games of the regular season. At the same time he doesn't want his aging stars out of game shape entering the playoffs. An easy night against the Orlando Magic allowed him to satisfy both concerns. Courtney Lee scored 20 points and Jeff Green added 17 as the Celtics cruised to a 12088 victory over the Magic on Saturday night. The win locked up the seventh seed in the Eastern Conference for Boston, which never trailed in beating Orlando for the eighth straight time. "It's a fine line between rest and health," Pierce said.
"With this team you want to be as healthy as we can get at this point. Right now we're as healthy as we're gonna be for the rest of the season. ... If we play the next couple of games or if we didn't, the most important thing is that we're ready for the playoffs." All five Celtics starters reached double figures, with Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce scoring 14 and 12 points, respectively, after sitting out Friday against Miami. Tobias Harris led the Magic with 22 points, and Nik Vucevic added 16 points and 12 rebounds. Orlando hasn't won back-toback games since December. The Magic play their final home game of season on Monday against Chicago, and head to Miami for the season finale on Wednesday.
With the rest afforded to the veterans and extra playing time to the younger players, Celtics coach Doc Rivers feels good about his team in spite of the surprises dealt to it this season. He said he feels like the players are setting themselves up for a "pretty good run." "I like our team. I like our team a lot," Rivers said. "The key for us is to get through these two games, have some great practices and get ready for the playoffs. That's what you play the whole season for." The Celtics conclude their regular-season schedule against Indiana on Tuesday and at Toronto on Wednesday. After resting their sore ankles the previous night, Celtics coach Doc Rivers reinserted Pierce and Garnett into the starting lineup against the Magic.
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The number of doubles UConn secondbaseman LJ Mazzilli has hit this season for the Huskies.
» That’s what he said
Away game
“Maybe this is how my book ends. Maybe Father Time has defeated me...Then again maybe not!”
Baseball (22-13)
—Kobe Bryant on tearing his Achilles tendon. Tomorrow Fairfield 3 p.m.
April 19 USF 3 p.m.
April 20 USF 1 p.m.
April 21 USF 1 p.m.
April 23 UMass 3 p.m.
April 18 Bryant 4 p.m.
April 20 St. John’s Noon
April 20 St. John’s 2 p.m.
Softball (17-19) Tomorrow UMass 4 p.m.
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April 17 URI 3:30 p.m.
Lacrosse (11-1) April 21 April 19 Marquette Notre Dame 3 p.m. 7 p.m.
April 26 Georgetown 1 p.m.
April 28 Loyola Maryland 1 p.m.
Men’s Tennis (4-10) April 18 Big East Championships TBA
Women’s Tennis (7-10) April 18 Big East Championships TBA
Men’s Track and Field April 20 UConn Classic Noon
Women’s Track and Field April 20 Princeton Invite All Day
Rowing April 17 Massachusetts All Day
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Hurricanes end skid, top Bruins 4-2
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Jiri Tlusty helped the Carolina Hurricanes find a way to end their long losing streak. Tlusty scored two goals, giving him a careerhigh 19, and the Hurricanes ended a seven-game losing streak with a 4-2 victory over the Bruins on Saturday. The go-ahead goal came from Joe Corvo on a power play at 9:36 of the third. The win was Carolina’s first in the month of April and the Hurricanes also ended an eightgame losing streak at home. “I’m happy for the guys,” Carolina coach Kirk Muller said. “They’ve been playing like that for a while. Tonight they stuck with it and played an intense, energized game against a good hockey club. They played the right way and finally got some reward for it.” Jeff Skinner added a first-period powerplay goal, the first time this season Boston had allowed two power-play goals in a game. Carolina goalie Justin Peters stopped 28 shots while Boston’s Tuukka Rask had 34 saves. Peters’ most impressive stop was a glove save on Jaromir Jagr during a 5-on-3 power play midway through the second. “I wanted to put forth a great effort for the boys because of how hard they’ve been working and how great the atmosphere has been in here,” Peters said. “It was nice to get a result. Jagr is an unbelievable player and it’s an honor just to play on the same ice surface as him.” Tyler Seguin and Milan Lucic scored for the Bruins. “We had some brain cramps out there tonight,” Boston coach Claude Julien said. “The mistakes we made tonight were not helpful — two powerplay goals. Those are things we’re dealing with right now.” The teams were tied 1-1 after a wild first period that had three fights. Boston’s Shawn Thornton tangled with Kevin Westgarth at 14:14, while Jay Harrison fought Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara at 18:41. Carolina’s Nicolas Blanchard, in just his second NHL game, dropped the gloves with Gregory Campbell at 19:32. Lucic opened the scoring at 6:07 of the first, scoring his sixth goal on a deflection. Jagr had an assist for his 1,686th career point. Skinner tied it on a power play at 19:24, taking a pass from Alexander Semin — who finished with two assists — and beating Rask from behind stick-side. Tlusty gave Carolina a 2-1 lead at 14:04 of the second, receiving Eric Staal’s pass from behind the net in the right circle and lifting it over Rask’s right shoulder. “Those guys who fought did a great job,” AP Tiger Woods swings his putter after his bogey on the fifth hole during the fourth round of the Masters golf tournament Sunday, Tlusty said. “Westy is a tough guy and Thornton is a tough guy, too. Blanch had a hell of a fight. in Augusta, Ga..
Not Tiger’s day
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Buchholz no-hit bid ends in 8th, Sox top Rays BOSTON (AP) — Clay Buchholz was a nervous 23-yearold rookie when he threw a nohitter in his second major league start. He was more relaxed when he nearly did it again Sunday. “A lot more than the last time it happened,” the 28-year-old right-hander said after not allowing a hit until Kelly Johnson’s broken-bat single leading off the eighth inning of Boston’s 5-0 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday. That’s not the only difference in Buchholz from that second start for the Red Sox on Sept. 1, 2007. “He knows himself more as a pitcher,” said Red Sox manager John Farrell, who was their pitching coach from 2007-10. “I think where that shows up is in those spots where he’s got men on base, runners in scoring position. You don’t see that emotional spike as evident as maybe his first year or so. That’s where he’s been able to execute quality pitches in those tight spots.” There weren’t many of them Sunday, when Buchholz had excellent command of four pitches. He allowed two hits and four walks in eight innings and struck out a career-high 11. Johnson singled with an 0-1 count on Buchholz’s 101st pitch,
sending the ball over first baseman Mike Napoli while the top part of the bat landed near the front edge of the infield between first and second. Buchholz got Sam Fuld to ground into a double play and then allowed Desmond Jennings’ double off the left-field wall. Ben Zobrist flied out to left fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. Johnson had struck out in his other two at bats. “I was feeling I had to do something different,” he said. “I put my back foot a tad closer to home plate and picked up a Sam Fuld model bat. He threw me two breaking balls, and I wasn’t expecting that. Luckily I was in a good enough position on the second one.” Catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia took the end of the no-hit bid hard. “It killed me because I’ve seen Clay throw really well,” he said, “but today was amazing.” Buchholz (3-0) lowered his ERA to 0.41 and has allowed one earned run in 22 innings He left after 109 pitches, and Andrew Miller finished with a one-hit ninth. “I always tell people when they ask me about the no-hitter and everything, I tell them I’ve been trying to do it again since
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Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Clay Buchholz fist bumps with Shane Victorino (18) while leaving the field after losing his no hitter the eighth inning.
that day and it hasn’t happened,” Buchholz said. “That shows you how far luck goes with being able to go out there and throw a game like that.” Of course, the Rays have been struggling against just about every pitcher. Their batting average dipped from .221 to .212 on Sunday and they’ve scored just 33 runs, the fewest in team history after 11 games. And they have only four homers, tied with Kansas City for the fewest in the AL. “We’ve got to hit the ball
better to get everybody’s spirits up,” Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon said. “When you’re not hitting the ball well, you get that bad vibe among the group. It’s hard to really keep them pushing, moving or motivated. But we’ll get going. We’re just not hitting the ball.” Buchholz’s performance came one day after the Mets’ Matt Harvey pitched 6 2-3 hitless innings at Minnesota before Justin Morneau homered off the right-field foul pole in New York’s 4-2 win.
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HOW SWEEP IT IS
Is there no happy medium?
Huskies sweep Villanova to improve to 22-13 By Matt Stypulkoski Senior Staff Writer
Dan Agabiti Socrates is rolling in his grave right now. Sports replay has taken his Golden Mean and thrown it out the window. In its place is a choice of two idiotic extremes. On the one hand, you have the PGA. The replay system is pretty simple. Any curmudgeon or stickler sitting around on a Friday doing nothing but watch golf can call in and report a rules violation. There’s actually a number that can be dialed and a viewer can report a possible rules violation. It’s kind of funny, really. Most of the guys watching the Masters probably couldn’t even see the buttons on the TV remote— that is, if they’ve moved on from a television dial—and yet the PGA not only allows, but encourages them to call in violations. But here’s the clincher: the PGA listens and acts on that. A viewer called in the Tiger Woods violation and Woods was given a two-stroke penalty for an incorrect drop of the ball. The PGA seeks tradition, the preservation of the rules, the sanctity of the sport and all that other jargon. But hilarious rhetoric aside, what the league works with is glorified tattle-taling. The right call should be made, but it shouldn’t have to get to a point where folks are calling in rules and the league is retroactively punishing people and doing so at such an annoying frequency. On the other side of the annoying tradition spectrum is Major League Baseball. Here’s a league that’s so determined to keep tradition that it is permanently stuck in the late 19th century. Technology shall have no part in perverting the hallowed state of America’s Pastime. Don’t even think about replays, the MLB won’t hear any of it. Pretty much the only things that can be reviewed in an MLB game are fair/foul home runs, fan interference and determination of whether or not a ball left the playing field. Yes, home run calls are a big deal, but the replay system in its current state is pretty much useless. Close play at home in a tie game in the ninth inning? Nope, they’re not reviewable. Terrible third strike calls or awful ball-four calls? Too bad. Pick-off plays at first base that the ump clearly gets wrong? No dice. Tuesday night, umpire Marty Foster made what was probably the worst third strike call in the history of baseball. With Texas Rangers pitcher Joe Nathan on the mound looking for a save in a 3-2 game in the top of the ninth against the Tampa Bay Rays with two outs, a man on first and a full count, Foster gained his fame. On a pitch that was about as low and outside as a pitch could be, Foster called it a third strike and just like that, the ball game was over. But thanks to umpire infallibility, no replay was needed. Even Nathan, as he approached his catcher as soon as the game ended, had a smile on face and said simply, “wow.” Yeah, Nathan knew he got away with something. Afterward, Rays’ manager Joe Maddon chimed in on the
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The starters were superb and the bullpen was strong enough to hold on as the UConn baseball team swept its series at Villanova this weekend. The series kicked off on Friday afternoon with a gem by Carson Cross, who threw seven scoreless innings – extending his streak to 22 straight – by allowing just five hits and one walk while striking out seven. He didn’t get much support on the offensive side, but four runs on the day were just enough to get him the win, as the Huskies held on in the ninth by a score of 4-3. Saturday was much the same story; UConn was unable to explode with Recap the bats but Anthony Marzi followed Cross’ lead, scattering seven hits and striking out 12 over seven innings to allow just one run. The lone tally for the Wildcats came in the first inning as catcher John Cialone singled in center fielder Paul Rambaud to take the lead. The Huskies responded in the next halfinning and chalked up two unearned runs thanks to a balk, an error by first baseman Max Beermann and a passed ball. That lead would prove permanent; Jordan Tabakman got his second save of the weekend in the 4-1 win. There was far more offense on both sides during the finale but the result was ultimately the same. After Villanova took a 2-0 lead by get-
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UConn baseball travelled to Villanova this weekend and swept the Wildcats in a three-game series.
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Huskies rout Cincy, survive in OT against Louisville By Erica Brancato Campus Correspondent The UConn women’s lacrosse team played both Cincinnati and Louisville this weekend in conference games. Friday, the Huskies defeated the Bearcats 152. Sunday, UConn beat Louisville 12-11 in overtime. With these two wins, UConn improved their overall record of 11-1, 4-1 in conference play, and 5-0 at home. UConn came out strong in their first game of the weekend. Senior Catherine Gross scored the first two unassisted goals within minutes of the game starting, giving UConn the upper hand with a 2-0 lead. Although Gross’ two goals came early on
in the first half, Cincinnati give the Huskies a 13-0 lead. couldn’t keep up with the Cincinnati’s Sarah Del Bene fast paced Huskies. Lauren scored the first goal for the Kahn scored four goals, Bearcats with 14:11 left in Morgan O’Reilly scored the second half. The unastwo, while Carly sisted goal helped Palmucci, Gross, and Cincinnati, yet Kacey Pippitt each the team couldn’t scored one goal to keep the intensity help UConn domiup. Pimental and 15 O’Reilly scored nate the first half. UConn Goalie, Shannon Cincinnati 2 one goal each to Nee and the ruthhelp the Huskies Friday less Husky defense dominate in the prevented Cincinnati UConn half as 12 second from scoring any well. With 6:38 goals in the first Louisville 11 left on the clock, half, giving UConn a Cincinnati’s Sunday whopping 11-0 lead. Megan Bell The second half scored an unasof the game seemed much sisted goal to wrap up the more relaxed for UConn. game at 15-2. Alexandra Crofts and Sunday’s game against Madalyn Pimental each Louisville was close and scored unassisted goals to intense. The first half was a
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back and forth battle between the equally matched teams. By the end of the first half Louisville’s Nikki Boltja scored three consecutive goals to give the Cardinals a 6-3 advantage. The beginning of the second half began as a back and forth battle, until Louisville’s Colleen O’Malley scored a goal with four minutes left to give the Cardinals an 11-8 advantage. UConn fought back as Kacey Pippitt and Palmucci each scored goals within seconds of each other in hopes to tie the game. With 30 seconds left on the clock, Louisville had possession of the ball and was ahead 11-10. In attempts to stall and finish the game with the win, the Cardinals passed it to an open defender near their
goal. The defender rounded the crease of Louisville’s goal and tried to run it past a UConn player, but she managed to drop the ball. Pippitt gained possession of the dropped ground ball and passed it to O’Reilly who scored a goal with one second left on the clock to tie the game. Overtime was long and hard fought but UConn prevailed in the end. With eleven seconds left O’Reilly passed the ball on a free position shot to Pippit who scored the game-winning goal. This thrilling overtime kept UConn’s winning streak alive. The Huskies will be put to the test on Friday when they take on Marquette.
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» SOFTBALL
Softball drops three staight games to Cards
By Tim Fontenault Staff Writer The UConn softball team was swept on the road by No. 11 Louisville during a threegame Big East Conference series this weekend. With the sweep, the Huskies drop to 17-19 on the season and 3-8 in conference play. UConn is now in ninth place in the conference with 11 more Big East games remaining before the conference tournament in May. Louisville had little trouble taking care of the Huskies this weekend, but they did need extra innings to beat UConn on Saturday afternoon. Audrey Grinnell and Brittany Duclos drove in runs for the Huskies in the opening game, giving UConn a 2-0 lead heading into the bottom of the seventh. But
after Lauren Duggan allowed a run in the bottom of the inning, Katelyn Callahan came in and blew a save opportunity by allowing the tying run. Callahan stayed on for the eighth inning and allowed Louisville to get the 3-2 walk-off victory. In the second game on Saturday, Louisville had an easy time against UConn ace Kiki Saveriano. The Cardinals scored six runs on eight hits against Saveriano over five innings. Alyson Ambler allowed two more runs over 0.2 innings of work. Saveriano was back on the mound for the rubber game on Sunday and the Cardinals got to her early and often. Louisville scored three runs in the first two innings en route to a 4-1 victory on Sunday. Saveriano went the distance – allowing five hits
while striking out four batters, walking three and hitting one. She drops to 11-9 on the season. Duclos drove in the lone run for the Huskies. Her single in the fourth inning brought Kim Silva around to score and cut the lead to 3-1. Louisville moves to 37-6 overall and 10-1 in the Big East, putting them in second place behind South Florida, who improved to 13-1 in conference play this season. UConn has a busy week ahead, playing at UMass on Tuesday and Rhode Island on Wednesday before returning home to play Bryant on Thursday. The Huskies will then host St. John’s in a threegame series on Saturday and Sunday.
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UConn freshman Lexi Gifford throws the ball in the infield in a recent game at Burrill Family Field at the Connecticut Softball Complex.