The Daily Campus: April 19, 2013

Volume CXIX No. 127

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Friday, April 19, 2013

New uniforms bring unity to athletics

By Tim Fontenault Staff Writer

‘GIVERS GEAR UP FOR WORLD BOOK NIGHT Students and Staff to distribute books needed in community.

FOCUS/ page 5

HUSKIES ON THE STREAK UConn rallies to top Bryant, hosts St. John’s this weekend.

SPORTS/ page 12 EDITORIAL: RACIAL INTEGRATION NOT A ‘PARTISAN ISSUE’ Ending racism should not be treated as another move in the political game.

COMMENTARY/page 8 INSIDE NEWS: LAWMAKERS PRESSURED TO RESTORE CUTS Suggestions to raise taxes at odds with governor’s position.

NEWS/ page 3

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One week after the unveiling of a new logo, UConn Athletics introduced new uniforms for several teams that will debut when fall sports begin later this year.

Athletics held a presentation in Gampel Pavilion on Thursday afternoon, where members of the men’s basketball, women’s basketball, football, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, softball, volleyball, field hockey, baseball and men’s hockey teams modeled the new uniforms.

UConn and Nike have been working on the process of rebranding the athletic department for about one year as UConn prepares to enter a new era. 22 of the 24 athletic programs will be competing in the American Athletic Conference beginning in the fall, with the exceptions being men’s and women’s hockey.

Women’s hockey competes in Hockey East, while men’s hockey has one more year in Atlantic Hockey before moving to Hockey East.

Something that came up several times during the presentation is the idea that all teams now share an identity.

For several years, the athletic programs at UConn have had varying logos. For the 2012-13 academic year, there are two variations of the logo, and the men’s basketball, women’s bas-

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LEFT: UConn’s Lyle McCombs models the school’s new NCAA college football uniform. RIGHT: UConn’s Kelly Faris models the school’s new NCAA college basketball uniform. The new uniform comes out of a marketing partnership between the school’s athletic department and Nike, which helped design it at no cost to the school.

ketball, football, baseball and men’s soccer teams all had different logos than the rest of the programs.

Beginning in 2013-14, there

will be one logo used across all sports, and that is featured on every uniform in one way or another.

The new uniforms for every

sport display “UCONN” across the front in blue or white with red trim. With the new uniforms and one logo, there is a sense of unity amongst the

Inside: Collector’s edition of the 2012-13 season women’s basketball team championship jacket.

Students strip down for charity

» FUNDRAISERS

UConn Empower to host Connecticut’s first underwear mile on Saturday

fundraisers to raise money for long-term empowerment initiatives in Southeast Asia and To m o r r o w, U C o n n Africa.

The members plan on using Empower will be holding UConn’s first ever underwear the money earned from this mile. The event is not only the event to travel to West Africa first for the University, but it and visit the orphanage, A will also mark the state’s first Better World Cameroon. There they will ever underwear help build run. online learnThe idea of ing centers the underwear and work on run, which public health began in 2006 at projects.

San Diego State “I personU n i v e r s i t y, ally didn’t has since been know that popularized at it was to dozens of other raise money Universities. for UConn “We thought Empower it would be a to help with great way to orphanagbring the cames, so that pus together me with an event Lior Trestman makes even more that appealed to Community relations excited to do a broad swath of the population,” officer of UConn it and be a of helpsays 4th semesEmpower part ing those ter community that are in relations offineed,” 4th cer of UConn Empower Lior semester nursing major Alissa Trestman.

The organization, which Barbier said. “I know from was started at the end of last experience seeing children in year, consists of approximate- 3rd world countries in the ly 40 members that put on conditions that they’re in, so

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“We thought it would be a great way to bring the campus together with an event that appealed to a broad swath of the population.”

I think it’s great that UConn Empower is involving the whole community to be a part of this.”

Barbier is also excited that UConn is doing something as a community.

With help from the RHA and Husky Records, UConn Empower has been working hard since last semester to make this event possible. The Underwear Mile is only one of the events taking place in tomorrow’s UConnapolooza.

Along with the race, there will be live concerts, dunk tanks, obstacle courses, and a rave tent.

With so much going on and Spring Weekend rules once again set in place, students like 4th semester biology major Nemil Perez are looking forward to this weekend.

“The event seems like an opportunity to relieve stress and gives oneself the sense of freedom,” Perez said.

Although it is called the Underwear Mile, UConn Empower emphasizes the fact that people are free to run in whatever makes them feel comfortable. The only request the organization has is that people wear something creative, such as costumes or body paint.

The creative aspect of this run is what attracted 4th semester nursing major Katrina Keane to the event.

“I love any kind of race that I can participate in that raises money for a good cause.

This is such a cool new twist because you can walk or run and get creative in what you wear,” Keane said. “It will really attract many different people and can be a great way to unite people who normally wouldn’t be participating in the same run.”

Since this run is unique in its dress code, the concern of body issues has come up, but Trestman says the event will have a positive and supportive atmosphere that welcomes all different body types. Building acceptance of your own body is one of their most important messages of this event, she says.

With so much anticipation from students, UConn Empower plans on making the underwear mile a tradition. Their hope is to eventually move the date to Spring Weekend to show that students can have fun in a healthy, positive way.

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athletes.

“I think it says a lot,” senior guard Kelly Faris of the women’s basketball team said, “not

» NEW, page 3

USG addresses students’ issues with HuskyCT

By Jackie Wattles Staff Writer

An Undergraduate Student Government Senator has spearheaded an effort to address the long held concerns of students with the HuksyCT system by broadening instruction students and faculty receive and relaying complaints to the software providers.

Earlier this semester, USG Senator Anthony Minniti, a senior turfgrass management major, issued a survey to which 1,034 students across all UConn campuses responded.

“Some of the big issues were buggy notification systems and confusion with the discussion section,” Minitti said. “And people think students and faculty are not properly trained on how to use it.”

Minitti, along with sending a copy of the complaints to the software company that supports HuskyCT, plans to discuss them with David Oimette, the executive director of First Year Experience, and has been working on ways to increase the instruction for new students.

Oimette said FYE classes already have an instructional component for HuskyCT, but he knows the system is not always user-friendly.

“Certainly part of what we’re trying to do is help students be technologically savvy,” Oimette said. “But some things are not intuitive. Some features you have to put a little more time into.”

This may be a reason for another frustration brought up

» SOCIAL, page 2

What’s on at UConn today...

Polish Fest 4 to 7 p.m.

Wilbur Cross, North Reading Room Polish Cultural Society invites you to attend the 5th annual Polish Festival featuring free great food, traditional dancing, a DJ, music and activities, including hands on crafts and performances by Chór Młodych Serc.

Chordials’ Spring Concert 5 to 7 p.m.

Student Union Theater Join UConn’s first all female a cappella group for their spring concert.

They will also have their new CD “The Chordial Bunch” available that was recorded this past September.

Ebène String Quartet 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Jorgensen Distinguished by its youth, open-mindedness and versatility, France’s Ebène Quartet has had a meteoric rise to the top.

Mmong the world’s most sought-after quartets, the group made its U.S. debut tour to widespread critical acclaim.

Late Night Has a Picnic 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Student Union This late night features karaoke, spin art frisbees, gimp bracelets, giant chess, twister, and checkers, origami, giant snakes and ladders, family reunion photo t-shirts and decorate your own cactus.

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DAILY BRIEFING » STATE

Conn. couple charged with smuggling baby into US

HARTFORD (AP) — A Connecticut couple has been charged with smuggling an infant from Guatemala into the United States.

A federal complaint released Thursday says 42-year old Maria Gonzalez of Stamford and her husband, 36-year-old Henry Fernandez Lopez of Fairfield, brought the infant into the country after making an agreement with the child’s mother who was 14 years old at the time.

The couple is charged with illegally bringing an immigrant into the U.S. and harboring the child, as well as conspiracy to commit those acts.

Gonzalez also is charged with misuse of a U.S. passport and forgery or false use of a passport.

The case may represent the desperate measures that prospective parents are willing to take to adopt children from Guatemala since that country shut down its international adoption program more than five years ago. The country’s quick-stop adoptions had made the nation of 14 million people the world’s second-largest source of babies to the U.S. after China.

But the vibrant business came to a halt after an August 2007 raid on what was considered the country’s most reputable adoption agency, used by many Americans. Guatemala remains closed to inter-country adoption, according to the National Council for Adoption.

Conn. nuclear worker tests positive for alcohol

WATERFORD (AP) — A reactor operator at the Millstone nuclear power complex in Waterford has been suspended after officials say he tested positive for alcohol at work.

A spokesman for Millstone owner Dominion told The Day of New London (http://bit.ly/XIuQgp ) that the worker was given breath and urine tests for alcohol Tuesday night after his supervisor noticed unusual behavior. Spokesman Ken Holt says the tests came back positive and the worker was suspended pending a review by Millstone medical officers.

The reactor operator’s name wasn’t released. Holt says the worker was assigned to the Unit 3 reactor, which has been shut down since Saturday for routine refueling.

Holt says the employee wasn’t in a control room or near the reactor at the time.

The incident was reported to the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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News

Social media may be added to HsukyCT from HEADLINE, page 1

by many students: that not all professors use HuskyCT. Katherine Robinson, a sophomore individualized major, said though she’s never had trouble with using HuskyCT, she wishes use among faculty was more uniform.

“I don’t find anything particularly difficult about it,” Robinson said. “But it’s frustrating when some professors use it and others don’t.”

This year marks the first HuskyCT running on the new software system, which is supported by software from the company Blackboard. The newer system presents a different interface for professors to design a

HuskyCT page for a class that may be more complicated.

Minniti has been working with Kim Chambers, UConn’s director of Educational Technologies, on how to adjust instruction to address the concerns.

“The faculty are working on adjusting to the new system,” Chambers said. “We’re running workshops and we have the digital learning center. There’s lots of different ways we assist faculty and help students.”

Though the newer version has not appeased student concerns, Chambers said the new system will now have four updates every year: two that maintain the program and fix bugs and two that “enhance” the software or adjust

and add tools.

Chambers said the next update, set to go into place at the end of the semester, will make changes to the calendar and discussion tools.

Chambers said his department is also looking into an optional expansion of the “Who’s Online?” tool. The update would add a social media element to HuskyCT and allow users to create profiles and find students and faculty with similar interests to make connections or form study groups.

“We’re currently testing it and talking to students,” Chambers said. “But there are some concerns.”

The information posted to the

“Who’s Online?” tool would go to Blackboard’s servers, rather than remaining localized where UConn can monitor it and keep it secure.

Sophomore pre-kinesiology major Dane Rosa said he doesn’t think adding a social networking component would be useful.

“We already have enough social media through Facebook and Twitter to meet people,” Rosa said.

Robinson agreed the function would be largely unused.

“I think that would be weird.

HuskyCT is supposed to be a space for academics,” Robinson said.

Jacqueline.Wattles@UConn.edu

» GOVERNMENT

Lawmakers pressured to restore cuts

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Whether it’s from the hospitals or parents who rely on state health insurance, Connecticut lawmakers are feeling heavy pressure to find the money necessary to restore cuts in Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s proposed budget.

And some of those groups are suggesting the Democraticcontrolled General Assembly raise taxes to replenish those reductions, a move that’s at odds with the Democratic governor’s opposition to higher taxes.

“What else are we going to do?

We have to do something. We can’t keep cutting food, health care and public education,” said Nancy Boone, a project coordinator for the Connecticut Alliance for Basic Human Needs, during a rally this week for the esti-

mated 37,500 parents who will lose their HUSKY A insurance coverage beginning Jan. 1 under Malloy’s budget. The governor contends the parents will be able to take advantage of federal subsidies to buy private insurance under the new federal health care law.

Boone’s organization is part of a coalition advocating for a higher income tax rate for the state’s top income earners and requiring multistate corporations to pay taxes on profits earned in Connecticut, among other revenue changes.

The legislature’s two budget committees were scheduled to vote Friday on separate spending and tax plans, in response to the two-year $43.8 billion budget proposal Malloy unveiled

in February. Once both plans are approved, as expected, final budget negotiations between legislative leaders and Malloy will begin. They face a June 5 adjournment deadline.

Rep. Patricia Widlitz, D-Guilford, co-chairman of the Finance Revenue and Bonding Committee, said her tax-writing panel is trying hard to “work within the parameters of the governor’s proposal” and not raise taxes. She acknowledges, however, there are mixed opinions among House Democrats and it has been a difficult process.

“It’s just that we have to strike that balance and it’s a tough one given the revenue stream,” she said. “When we did raise taxes substantially two years ago, it

just hasn’t produced the revenue stream. So, I don’t think piling more on at this point is going to help the overall economic situation.”

But Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, said he believes there ultimately will be a push by Democrats to increase taxes.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if they put that decision off to the second year of the budget and play games with the first year,” he said, predicting members of the Democratic majority will push for the higher income tax rate on the wealthy.

McKinney and other Republicans contend the legislature should instead focus on cutting spending to balance the budget.

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New husky logo brings ‘meaner,’ ‘more aggressive’ look to uniforms from NEW, page 1

just for the sports and the actual logo, but the idea behind it.

Everybody’s got the same logo now and we’ll all be more together, more cohesive as a unit, so I think it will be good.”

The new image includes a new husky that looks meaner than the old logo, which featured a husky that looked welcoming and friendly. Replacing an all-white husky, the new logo resembles a Siberian husky.

“I think the original husky was a little, approachable dog,” redshirt junior running back Lyle McCombs of the football team said, “but this one’s a little meaner, more aggressive, so it’s a good look.”

Despite blue and white being the official colors of the university, the new uniforms feature red trim around the letters and on the sleeves.

The uniform least affected by the changes is the men’s basketball team, which will look like the one that fans have become accustomed to in recent years.

There are two versions of the new football helmet, a white one for away games and blue for home. Unlike helmets of years past, the new helmets are blank on the side, have the word “UConn” across the back, and feature a stripe that goes down the middle with eyes that appear to be peering out of the top.

“The helmet is what caught my eye,” McCombs said. “I like the logo, you know, everyone’s going to look to the helmet. I like how the eyes are right in front looking at the opponent.

It’s a meaner, more aggressive look and that’s what you need, especially in football.”

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Friday, April 19, 2013

‘Givers’ gear up for World Book Night

By Zarrin Ahmed Staff Writer The annual World Book Night saw an increase in participants, with over 30 “givers” picking up their books at the Co-op Thursday afternoon.

As posted on the website, World Book Night is the product of the London Book Industry Conference in May 2010, whose goal was to promote a way to encourage more adults to read. By giving away books, World Book Night hopes to spread a love for reading by inspiring “passionate readers to go out into their communities and share copies of their favorite books with those who don’t regularly read.”

“It’s wonderful because I love to read and I love sharing that,” said UConn Health Services nurse Susan Lund. “Not everyone has access to books.”

Lund learned of the event when her friend sent her the Facebook page. After she found the official website and read more about the event, her excitement to join convinced her to send in an application to become a “giver.” Two months later, World Book Night welcomed Lund as a “giver” for the book “La Casa En Mango Street.”

Lund spoke about how the book,

published in both Spanish and English (Lund chose the original Spanish version), would benefit the community that she lives in. Noticing many Spanish speaking residents in the Windham Area Interfaith Ministry, she hopes the books will help children growing up in Spanish speaking households to read literature in Spanish, rather than entirely English texts.

Suzy Staubach, the General Books Division Manager at UConn, gave away copies of “My Antonia,” that she read in high school. Staubach wanted to share a classic book and chose the Willa Cather novel after rereading it recently.

She says she will distribute the books in her town, specifically at the Ashford Transfer Station. Having seen the first World Book Night at UConn last year, Staubach was pleased with the turnout this year, which doubles that of last year.

World Book Night keeps expanding every year to include more varieties of literature, ranging from languages, time eras, target audience, genres and messages. From books like “Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life,” a novel about a middle schooler trying to “break every rule in his school’s oppressive Code of Conduct,” to “A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court” by

“The Muppets...Again!” will co star Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey and Ty Burrell alongside America’s favorite puppets when it releases on March 21, 2014.

On the PIXAR front, the upcoming film “The Good Dinosaur” directed by Bob Peterson, the co director of “Up,” is based upon the idea of “What if the Dinosaurs never went extinct?” The film will release on May 30, 2014.

However, more immediately, “Monsters University” the prequel to 2001’s beloved “Monsters Inc.” was screened in a near finished version for Cinemacon attendees where it received a glowing reception, good news for those hoping to see the film on June, 21.

Of course, Disney’s upcoming piece de Resistance is “Saving Mr. Banks,” a feature which will chronicle Walt Disney’s years long struggle to obtain the film rights to “Mary Poppins” from author P.L. Travers. The film notably stars Tom Hanks as Walt Disney, marking the first time the legendary filmmaker has ever been portrayed on screen by another actor. The picture is due out on Dec. 20.

Some of us have taken ethics classes in order to fulfill a philosophy requirement, but this is not the same as truly incorporating social and environmental responsibility into our everyday lives. Often, as we pursue science by working for hours in the lab or business by constantly networking and updating our resumes, we get so focused on our specialties that we lose sight of the big picture – that is, how our careers and our lifestyles are impacting the world. Brilliant scientists, for example, have developed incredible inventions like atomic weaponry and genetically modified organisms, but our society does not hold them accountable in any way for the consequences of their inventions. Likewise, corporate managers are considered successful if they shave costs and expand profit margins, regardless of whether this results in increased human suffering or environmental damage. David Orr, a renowned environmentalist and educator, believes that our education system is fostering this disconnection, and that the system could (and should) be changed. Dr. Orr advocates a curriculum that prioritizes the development of a student’s morality and character before emphasizing book knowledge and academic achievement.

In his seminal address, “What is Education For?” Dr. Orr illustrates that our education system has in many ways “created a monster” by perpetuating the myth that we aren’t responsible for the consequences of our career-related actions. To make his point, he quotes the famous author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.

Speaking about the Nazis, Wiezel insisted that the Nazi leadership was actually composed of very intelligent people. The problem wasn’t that they were stupid, but that their seemingly advanced education “emphasized theories instead of values, concepts rather than human beings, abstraction rather than consciousness, answers instead of questions, ideology and efficiency rather than conscience.” The result, of course, was one of humanity’s worst atrocities.

The arbitrary disconnect that we’ve created between our personal actions and the wellbeing of the world has led to our current environmental and social crises. As Orr states in his address: “The truth is that many things on which your future health and prosperity depend are in dire jeopardy: climate stability, the resilience and productivity of natural systems, the beauty of the natural world and biological diversity.

It is worth noting that this is not the work of ignorant people. It is, rather, largely the result of work by people with BAs, BSs, LLBs, MBAs and PhDs.” A simple action that we can all take towards owning up to our individual impact is to be actively engaged in the UConn community, and to find the connections that exist between our careers and the welfare of people and the planet. An excellent way to start would be to attend one of the many events being hosted

by UConn’s Climate Impact Mitigation and Adaptation series taking place this month.

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“Givers” picked up boxes of books they had selected in order to distribute them to members of their communities and neighboring communities who are in need of books.

Mark Twain, the books given away represent all varieties of content. On the Official World Book Night page, there is information about the organization itself, including its history, mission and how it operates. There is also a book list with information about each book.

World Book Night will be celebrated

throughout the entire world on April 23, which is also the UNESCO International Day of the Book, chosen in honor of Miguel de Cervantes, who died on April 23, 1616.

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Quartet concert tonight

By Focus Staff

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Adam Mamawala, a 25 year old comedian from Hoboken, New Jersey performed his comedy set at the Student Union Theater on Thursday as part of the spring comedy series. He has performed at over 125 colleges and the House of Blues in Las Vegas.

Spring concert anticipation From the moment students arrive back from winter break, they anxiously wait for the announcement of the spring concert’s headliner.

The spring concert is one of UConn’s biggest events of the year where students gather to hang out and go crazy for the night.

SUBOG does a good job hyping up the excitement of the announcement until the actual day the headliner is announced. As the anticipation grows, so do students’ expectations. After announcing the headliner, there are typically a few moments of confusion before students break out in excitement. Then there is the other half of the student population that complains that they don’t know the artist and wonder why UConn didn’t get someone else. But there is no pleasing everyone, especially in the music business.

SUBOG does, however, manage to get artists that are well known enough to please a large population of students.

Though Kendrick Lamar just recently appeared on the music scene, he is sensational enough for UConn students to scramble to get tickets for his

Anyone looking to start their weekend with some live music not interested in the rap and EDM of Spring Concert have another option on campus as the Ebene String Quartet plays at Jorgensen Friday night.

The quartet, a group of four string players from Paris, will perform a varied set of classical music, including Mozart’s “Divertimento in F Major, K. 138,” Mendelssohn’s “Quartet in F minor, Op. 80” and Tchaikovsky’s “String Quartet in D Major, Op. 11, ‘Accordion,’” according to a Jorgensen press release.

The quartet features violinists Pierre Colombet and Gabriel LeMagadure, viola player Mathieu Herzog and cellist Raphael Merlin;

this is their second time playing Jorgensen.

Ebene, which means “ebony” in French, refers to both the musicians’ black wood instruments and the African American musical tradition which all four love, said the press release.

The Times of London has said the quartet plays “with a rare degree of expressive subtlety, blended sonorities and electrifiying joy.”

The concert is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m., with a concert talk hosted by UConn music professor Glenn Stanley preceding it at 6:45 p.m. While tickets for the general public are priced between $34 and $36 each, UConn students with valid ID can get in for only $10 and non-UConn students can buy tickets for $15.

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concert. Students were selling their time slots for when they could buy tickets to try to get the best seats in the house, which is mainly floor seats.

Although every year students complain about that year’s headliner, they still go crazy when tickets are on sale and the tickets sell out fast.

In years past, SUBOG has booked numerous well-known artists that make other universities green with envy. Every year the headliners are different, and although they are of similar genres they still bring their own unique flavor when performing. In 2009 the ‘candy shop’ rapper 50 Cent graced UConn with his presence.

His music certainly did not appeal to everyone.

However 50 Cent is a big name in the music industry that most people recognize, which for some students made the concert more appealing.

In 2010 another popular artist, Kid Cudi, made his appearance at UConn. Many students interviewed at the time were disappointed because his set was only 45 minutes. Cudi was also very late, arriving at 11:15 p.m. Despite his tardiness and brief performance, students still remember the concert fondly.

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Lu’s Cafe holds weekly jazz nights on Thursdays to showcase student musical talent.

Coming soon to a theater near you

By Alex Sferrazza Staff Writer

Cinemacon is going on in Las Vegas this week. Yesterday, Disney highlighted its slate for 2013 and beyond.

We begin with the state of Marvel Universe films. Of course, everyone knows “Iron Man 3” will soon be released on May 3. The god of thunder will return in “Thor: The Dark World” due out on Nov. 8th. “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” will follow on April 4th, 2014. Meanwhile, Avengers’ director Joss Whedon let it slip this past week that the sequel is due to begin filming early next year.

Disney’s biggest summer blockbuster could perhaps be “The Lone Ranger,” which will re-team producer Jerry Bruckheimer with “Pirates” director Gore Verbinski alongside Johnny Deep who will fill the role of sidekick “Tonto” to Armie Hammer’s titular masked hero. The picture will release on July 3rd.

“Frozen,” due on Nov. 27th, is the next upcoming feature film from the Walt Disney Animation Studios. A CGI adaptation of the classic Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale

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Young comedian Mamawala performs

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“The Snow Queen,” carrying on from the wild box office success of “Tangled,” Disney has decided to award the film another “gender neutral” title in the hopes of not alienating the young male audience a la “The princess and the Frog.”

The biggest news unveiled was Disney’s major plans for the Star Wars franchise, which they have recently acquired. The bombshell announcement? In addition to J.J. Abram’s upcoming “Star Wars Episode VII” due out in 2015, as well as the following Episodes VIII and IX, the mouse house has announced that they plan to release a stand alone spin off “Star Wars” film every year we do not see a release in the core trilogy. So for any Star Wars fans who were worried that Disney was going to milk the franchise for all it was worth, unfortunately, your worst fears have been realized.

Disney did briefly mention “Tomorrowland,” an upcoming secretive Sci Fi film from director Brad Bird starring George Clooney slated to release on Dec. 19, 2014.

“Malificent” starring Angelina Jolie as the titular villain, will showcase the events of 1959’s animated feature “Sleeping Beauty” from the perspective of the villains is set to release on July 2, 2014.

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By Loumarie Rodriguez Senior Staff Writer Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!

We are living in a very zombie - happy society. People cannot get enough of the zombie sensation. A lot of the latest movies and TV shows are all related back to the zombie phenomenon. ‘World War Z,’ ‘The Walking Dead,’ ‘Warm Bodies’ and even ‘Zombieland’ has become a TV show that can be found on Amazon instant video.

What attracts people to the zombie epidemic? And why hasn’t the craze tired out yet because, personally, I think it’s time to get creative or move on with the genre.

If you really think about the concept of a zombie apocalypse it is actually very terrifying. The notion that a disease can turn you into a brainless creature that chases after friends and family wanting to eat their flesh is a scary concept. It’s a fate that none of us ever wants to meet, yet people continue to fantasize how cool it would be to kill zombies. Perhaps they never took into consideration that there is the possibility of having to kill a love one in the process.

Many people claim they have their self-defense plans ready, however is anyone actually prepared for a zombie outbreak? If a zombie walked into a classroom I’m sure the first reaction from a good majority of students is to panic.

I understand the whole concept of zombies is appealing to many people because of the science behind it. What makes it more fascinating is becoming a zombie always leads back to some type of infectious disease.

I think it’s this fact alone that draws people in - that a sickness that occurs in everyday life can cause people to transform into this horrifying creature.

Also, as pointed out by recent guest speaker Matt Mogk of the Zombie Research Society, there

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are actual diseases out there that can be affiliated with zombie like qualities if a person were to catch the disease. Maybe it’s the concept’s believability that attracts people to zombies?

Although there is a very curious perception of zombies, perhaps it’s time to do something different with the zombie genre.

It’s always the same storyline beginning with some terrible disease, the dead coming back to eat the living, while the heroes desperately fight them off and try to find a cure. According to Chinese legends, their version of a zombie, a Jiangshi, cannot walk around; they actually have to hop around because of post mortem. They reanimate due to an unbalance of chemical compounds found in the dirt after being buried, which is a very different direction from disease outbreak. Can you imagine a terrifying zombie hopping after you, this would be one way to put a comedic spin on the zombie genre. The Jiangshi zombie is based off more magic or supernatural qualities rather than actual lab science. Perhaps it may lose some of its appeal since it’s not fact based like American zombies, but it’s still a unique interpretation that can be fun to write or film.

We need to find a new obsession for horror movies. Perhaps we can dive deeper into the legends of mummies. In a way they are sort of related to zombies. Also, legends on witches aren’t really explored aside from the ‘Harry Potter’ franchise, ‘The Craft’ or ‘The Blair Witch Project.’ There has to be some new creativity in the monster category. We manage to exhaust both werewolves and vampires, yet zombies continue to stay strong. If zombies plan to stick around then there has to be something new or creative because after a while the genre begins to blend together.

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In the interest of continuing what seems to be this week’s theme of zombies, I feel it’s important for students, especially those who are new to the campus, to really get a feel for where the best places are around campus to survive throughout a zombie outbreak. I’ve taken it upon myself to explore some of the lesser known areas of UConn (and surprise a few unknowing professors as I mistakenly wandered into their classrooms) in order to bring you the Daily Campus’ Official UConn Zombie Survivial Location Index, also known as the DCOUZSLI for short (pronounced as “Doh-Coo-Zalee”).

First off, if you’re thinking about going to any of the following locations, you might as well go outside and get bitten now, because you’re going to be zombie-bait in any of them. This list includes the Union, the Co-op, Homer Babbidge, the Dining Halls, or really anywhere that has multiple entrances, contains large quantities of food, and is a popular location amongst the student population. These are the places that everyone will be going to for food and shelter, and if there’s one thing worse than zombies during a zombie outbreak, it’s other people. Once society collapses, people will do anything to survive, and this includes bashing your brains in for your food.

However, we do need food and water, so other places like Hawley Armory, the School of Fine Arts and most classroom locales aren’t going to be sustainable in the long term.

Running out of food and starving to death or dying of dehydration is just as bad as getting eaten by a zombie, and trust me when I say that the water fountains in these places aren’t going to be on for very long, once the maintenance stops. So, with this requirement of food and water, lack of people and obviously defensibility against the undead hordes, where can we go?

The best possibility is going to be the Family Studies building. Not only is it closer to the edge of campus and made out of sturdy brick with only two entrances, but it’s right near a fresh-water lake. Is the water clean? No, but it will certainly stop you from dying if it’s absolutely needed. In fact, water isn’t even that difficult to purify. The real benefit to the Family Studies building is the underground eatery, Lou’s Café. Yes, a café! Not only will we find ample amounts of bottled water and processed foods, but it’s underground. Block up the very small windows, shut the single door and barricade it, and you’re safe. Not that many students know about Lou’s either, so if you can get there first, you can likely hold up for a long while. There’s enough food for a single person to stay alive by themselves for

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art when playing a song.

For now, the service is only available in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

In a blog post, the company said its service “will change the way people find music.” It is calling the app (hash)music, following Twitter’s practice of using hashtags to organize tweets around topics.

Thursday’s announcement about a music service had been expected. “American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest tweeted about it last week.

As more music is sold through the recommendations of friends on social networks, observers said it’s

It was the Windham Walmart where a piece of my childhood died. A casual Sunday filled with a shopping list of cleaning supplies and groceries turned into an unwanted afternoon of nostalgia and retrospect. I didn’t catch it at first, maybe because my mind chose not to process the first image. A huge display full of And 1 and Fubu sneakers and apparel towered over the men’s section, dominating everything in it’s vicinity. Two of the most popular, global, and important brands of my childhood and adolescence had now dwindled into the dark cellar of corporate America, never to see the light of “cool” ever again.

I spent that entire afternoon thinking about how these two brands which used to be the go-to choices of my favorite athletes and celebrities had now been embarrassingly slapped with a yellow smiley face and “rollback” prices.

Fubu was once the premiere “urban” clothing brand. The vision of founder Daymond John turned into a $350 million business by 1998. Fubu was global, earning investments from technology giant Samsung. The brand earned Congressional awards and NAACP awards for the entrepreneurial vision of the founders. Fubu had even developed a record label, and their debut album featured superstar artists such as LL Cool J, Nas, and Ludacris.

Looking back, the “Platinum” Fubu capsule collections that they put out were definitely geared towards the young kids like myself interested in the brand. It was strange for grown men to be wearing gear with the images of Fat Albert and friends and the colorful Harlem Globetrotter logo printed on black denim and warm up sweats, but that didn’t stop me from shutting down the hallways in 6th and 7th grade.

What Fubu was for fashion and lifestyle in the 90s and early 00s, And 1 was the counterpart for athletics.

Though a basketball brand at heart, And 1 really represented the “counter-culture” of traditional athletics in general. The world famous And 1 Mixtape series and tours around the world showcased what real streetball in American cities was like. It was flashy, precise, athletic, competitive, and entertaining.

The mixtapes were a genius combination of basketball and hip-hop, turning no-name talents from cities like Atlanta, New York, and Chicago into household names. Hot Sauce, Skip to My Lou, A.O., and the Professor were just a few of the bigger stars that the And 1 series had to offer. Vince Carter wore And 1 sneakers when he put on the greatest NBA Dunk Contest performance of all time in 2000, Chauncey Billups wore And 1 shoes when he won the NBA Finals MVP in 2004, and half of my 8th grade basketball team wore And 1 shoes that same year in 2004 when we won the county championship and went 15-1.

To see these two huge brands have sunken into a deal with corporate giant Walmart not only hurt to witness two inde-

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Students participated in a Humans versus Zombies event on campus.

quite a long time, and more than enough for a friend.

Other secondary choices, if Family Studies is compromised, include the Biology or Pharmacy Buildings, and possibly one’s own dorm room, provided you live on the second floor or higher (Alumni and McMahon are best for this, as the higher floors are locked without a key-card). The doors to the buildings are heavy and metal, and the doors to each room are heavy wooden ones with thick metal locks, difficult to break through without serious help. Plus, most of us have at least a little bit of food and drink stashed somewhere.

If there are zombies lurking about, I would suggest remaining in your room or someone else’s room with the door firmly locked, until you absolutely cannot stay anymore. Biology and Pharmacy make a little less sense, but they can be used if necessary, and when in a large group. They’re high off of the ground and typically contain large supplies of water, if not food. Use these only as a last resort, if all else has been compromised and work on barricading the higher floors to keep them safe. Above all, keep everyone calm.

Zachary.Lederman@UConn.edu

Carrier oil tips for better skincare

By Julie Bartoli Senior Staff Writer

A common misconception in the skincare community is that the sole purpose of carrier oils is to dilute essential oils. While carrier oils can be used for this reason (diluting essential oils makes them safe to apply to the skin), they also have incredible skincare benefits on their own. Carrier oils can be applied directly to the skin, and each oil offers a unique healing and/or moisturizing experience.

Some general rules for choosing carrier oils are, buy from a brand you trust and always make sure the oil is cold pressed.

Also, if you check the ingredient list on your oil, the only ingredient should be the oil itself (ex. A bottle of jojoba oil should include nothing more than “100 percent cold pressed jojoba oil). If

you see any fragrances, preservatives or ‘mineral oil’ listed, steer clear. The final rule is—make sure the oil doesn’t smell strongly. The only oil that should have a vague scent is avocado oil. If you crack open a bottle of sweet almond oil and can clearly smell almonds, that means your oil is either toxic or loaded with synthetics. A few fantastic and reliable vendors include Dessert Essence, NOW Foods and Dr. Adorable.

Onto the oils themselves. Below is a list of some of the most popular carrier oils, along with their shelf life and uses.

Sweet almond oil: Sweet almond oil does not absorb quickly into the skin, so its moisturizing benefits are limited.

However, it can act as a strong protective shield if you spread a thin layer over your face on a windy day. It’s also known to relieve muscle pain.

Shelf life: 1 year Avocado oil: In spite of its rich texture, the oil is deep penetrating, which makes it great for dry or mature skin. Even more useful, though, is Avocado oil’s ability to relieve dryness caused by eczema or psoriasis.

Shelf life: 1 year Grape seed oil: This oil’s mild astringent properties make it a great toner, and along with its low price, it’s also great to use for removing makeup. It’s nongreasy and perfect for acne-prone skin.

Shelf life: 1 year Rose hip oil: When rose hip oil entered the skincare scene a few years ago, it was originally considered an essential oil. It has since been found that there’s nothing volatile about the substance, and many now consider it a fixed or carrier oil. Rose hip oil is popular because it has

incredible anti-aging properties (it’s very high in fatty acids), and fights scar tissue.

It has wrinkle-reducing powers, so use it on skin creases (around the eyes, corners of the mouth, etc.) It also can reduce the appearance of skin discoloration.

Shelf life: 6 months when refrigerated, 3 when not Jojoba oil: My absolute favorite oil, which is technically just a liquid wax.

Jojoba is a skincare stable because its structure most resembles that of human sebum. Thus, when it is rubbed on the skin, combining with the skin’s natural sebum, it acts as an emulsifier by unclogging pores. Along with grape seed oil, jojoba is great for acneic skin or for acne prevention.

Shelf life: Forever! The oil is an antioxidant—it never becomes rancid.

Julie.Bartoli@UConn.edu

Tuning in: Twitter launches music app

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This image taken from an iPhone shows the new Twitter music app. Twitter announced the new app uses tweets and other Twitter activity to detect the most popular tracks.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Twitter has launched a service that lets people find music they like and tweet songs from iTunes, Spotify and Rdio.

Twitter made the app available for download from Apple’s online store and also launched a Web version on Thursday. Twitter said the service will eventually be available on Android devices as well.

The service uses information from Twitter chatter to detect popular tracks as well as new artists.

Users who follow musicians can see other artists those musicians follow and can listen to 30-second clips of songs by them.

Tapping the play button on an image of an artist plays a clip from one song picked to represent them. In the case of Gotye, for

example, a tap plays a preview of “Eyes Wide Open.” Users can tap another button that opens iTunes where they can buy the track. Or they can play full songs by signing up for a $10-a-month subscription from Spotify or Rdio.

While users can tweet what they’re listening to and add a few characters of comment, they have to go back to the regular Twitter app for normal Twitter functions.

However, the people you’re following and who’s following you are integrated across both apps.

The music app is strikingly more visually appealing than the regular Twitter app. Squares of photos of artists fill the screen and bounce around in response to swipes. The app also starts a turntable spinning with a little picture of album cover

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Despite complaints, artists entertain

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With the large amount of students brought in by Cudi’s performance, SUBOG booked another hip hop artist, B.O.B., as the headliner in 2011. Even though some students grumbled over another rap artist, 3,000 students attended the concert. B.O.B. brought the Far East Movement, a group that turned into a sensation themselves, as his opening act.

SUBOG hit a double whammy that year by bringing in two big

names for the Spring Concert.

Last year Wiz Khalifa mesmerized the student body with his music in his sold out concert. Khalifa was yet another artist who was becoming big in the music industry especially with his hit ‘Young, Wild and Free.’

Students will complain about every artist brought in for the spring concert. But in the end the shows sell out.

Loumarie.Rodriguez@UConn.edu

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pendent brands “sell-out”, but really made me think about the longevity and stress of competition and evolution of those type of companies in the fashion and athletics world.

Other than worldwide companies like Nike and Adidas, not many other athletic and fashion brands geared towards basketball and streetwear have made it out of the 90s in America. Unfortunately for Fubu and And 1, they

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were pressured into a business deal that clearly they couldn’t resist. It’s tough to see independent brands lose sight of their founding, but I understand. I still smile whenever I see a mesh “05” Fubu jersey at a thrift store, and I’m still amazed when I watch my old And 1 DVDs seeing “The Air Up There” doing a 720 dunk.

Jamil.Larkins@UConn.edu

Twitter expands into other online services from TUNING, page 6 natural for Twitter to get involved.

“Social media is the current and the next frontier in terms of marketing everything,” said Larry Iser, a Los Angeles music lawyer whose firm represents Justin Bieber. “One tweet from Justin Bieber can launch a new product or a new artist. It makes sense Twitter wants to come to the space and do what Myspace has been trying to do for years.”

The music service’s debut comes less than

three months after the release of a Twitter video app called Vine that distributes six-second clips that can be played in a continuous loop.

The expansion into other forms of media besides text and photos is part of Twitter’s effort to make its messaging service even more appealing to its more than 200 million monthly users. More frequent usage of the service creates more opportunities to show ads — the main way that Twitter makes money.

The foray into music could open up a new channel of revenue as well. Apple Inc.’s iTunes

pays partners a few cents for every song sale that is a direct result of an online referral. If Twitter’s recommendations persuade enough people to buy songs after hearing excerpts, these bounties could add up.

Neither Rdio or Spotify are paying bounties to Twitter for new sign-ups, the companies confirmed.

Within a few hours of the service going live, new sign-ups and song plays on Rdio were already “spiking,” said Malthe Sigurdsson, Rdio’s vice president of product.

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Racial integration not a ‘partisan issue’

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ost UConn students would be surprised to learn that a town in the United States still holds racially segregated proms. Yet that’s exactly what goes on in Wilcox County, Ga., a county of about eight and a half thousand people, over a third of which are black. Huskies may be even more surprised to hear that Georgia’s governor recently refused to endorse student efforts to fix this problem and create an integrated prom. We believe that Governor Nathan Deal should apologize for his refusal and lend his support to these students who are working to improve their community.

The reason that a whites-only prom continues to exist anywhere in the United States, even with our numerous antidiscrimination laws and court rulings, is because it is organized by a group of parents rather than the school itself. While it is illegal for the government to discriminate based on race – it can no longer segregate schools or refuse to hire individuals based on their skin color, for example – private organizations are allowed to practice this sort of racial prejudice.

Thus, in Wilcox County, groups of parents have organized segregated proms for decades. Since Wilcox High School and the town don’t foot the bill or plan the events, they are totally legal. Yet while the Constitution’s freedom of expression protects these sort of activities, just because something is legal does not mean it is right, and it is clear that segregated proms are very harmful for students of all racial backgrounds. In addition, as the school does not host any sort of official prom, there has never been an opportunity for students to celebrate the end of their high school careers as a single community.

A brave group of black and white students from Wilcox High School recognized this problem and, rather than pursue the futile route of legal action, took matters into their own hands and decided to organize the first integrated prom the town has ever seen. They have launched a fundraising campaign in order to hold their own event open to all races, and are organizing the new prom completely on their own.

This inspiring initiative was noticed by many, receiving national media attention and the support of high-profile individuals and organizations. A state-based progressive organization, “Better Georgia,” decided to seek endorsements of the students’ efforts from elected officials. While the government is not directly involved with the issue, “Better Georgia” hoped that well-known officials would lend their name to the cause in order to increase its visibility and credibility.

So far, seven officials – four Democrats and three Republicans – have publicly supported the effort. However, when Governor Nathan Deal was asked for his support, he refused to take sides in the matter, and his office issued a statement calling “Better Georgia” a “…leftist front group for the state Democratic party” and saying Deal was not “going to lend a hand to their silly publicity stunt.”

While it’s true that “Better Georgia” falls on the left side of the political spectrum, it’s disgusting that Governor Deal thinks of ending racial segregation as just another wedge issue in the game of party politics. He should stop being blinded by petty partisanship and work with all supporters of this incredibly important effort.

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Our opponents are going to be so confused by how ugly our football helmets are that they won’t even notice how UConn runs the ball on EVERY SINGLE FIRST DOWN EVER.

Bush deserves credit for his intentions

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he first vote I ever cast meaningfully, as an 8-year old elementary school student voting in a 2000 mock presidential election, was a vote for George W. Bush, much to the chagrin of a friend of mine who had become a fervent Democrat even by the third grade. As I don’t recall anything about Bill Clinton from my childhood or, for that matter, much of anything having to do with the news before 2000, it was the first political act of my life and a highly amusing one in retrospect.

By Chris Kempf My parents, both firmly left-of-cenWeekly Columnist ter in their politics, were also greatly amused at the time that their son had voted for the dimmest bulb of the Bush family.

But having listened to the candidates’ policy positions and viewpoints (condensed and translated, of course, for third-grader’s ears), I concluded that Bush not only had a better plan for the education and wellbeing of “kids like me,” for whatever inscrutable reason I may have identified then, I felt that there was a sort of moral wholesomeness to him that was absent in his opponent, Al Gore, and that he would be the right man to lead the country.

I think that it would be fair to say that I grew up, along with every other American kid of my approximate age, in a political environment defined by the personality of George W. Bush. I remember watching him stand atop the rubble of the World Trade Center with a bullhorn at his lips, vowing that the United States would avenge the thousands dead on 9/11. When he ordered the invasion of Iraq, I broke the news to my elementary school over the morning news broadcast. (This aroused the ire of the principal, who rightly found it inappropriate for me, the school’s weatherman, to be discussing warfare with third graders,

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landscape depicted to us by our President determined the nature of our response to 9/11. That war on terror, as a campaign against an imminent and destructive threat to the survival of America, ended in part because President Obama’s perception of global affairs is that of a level-headed realist. Nuance and pragmatism, rather than a crusader’s zeal, are the hallmark of his foreign policy.

But looking back on the Bush years and all of their conflict and turmoil, I find it harder and harder to rationalize the hatred that I felt for Bush in my early years. I cannot blame George W. Bush for the crises that he faced, or his worldview, his determination or his unshakeable sense of moral direction.

Indeed, much good should have and did come of those qualities – recall, for instance, his initiative to arrest the spread of AIDS in Africa, which is estimated to have saved over one million lives through the widespread provision of anti-retroviral drugs. We could not have asked him to temper or repress them. We have instead ourselves to blame – if blame is indeed appropriate – for electing and re-electing such a man to deal with the world’s moral complexities from the most powerful political position on Earth. It is in that sense, then, that I regret that first vote of mine, cast merely thirteen years ago but in a wholly different political epoch.

“I cannot blame George W. Bush for the crises that he faces, or his worldview, his determination or his unshakeable sense of moral direction.”

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

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I followed the movement of U.S. troops from Basra to Falluja to Baghdad on a National Geographic map as reports about the war’s progress came through the radio in my room and rejoiced when the President famously and portentously declared, two months into the war, “Mission Accomplished.”

It was only after the costs and body counts began to swell that I turned against him, as so many did, denouncing him as a warmonger and petrocrat when we could no longer conceive that there had been a mission in the first place.

It was hard to be indifferent toward Bush. He provided a moral certitude and strength to a stunned nation in the wake of the 9/11 attacks that few leaders could. Immediately following the crisis, the president’s approval rating spiked to an all-time high, for any president, of 90 percent – an unfathomable figure given today’s political realities.

It was comforting to hear from him that the United States had come face to face with pure evil in the form of al-Qaeda and that we could find a common strength and courage in our natural virtues. In that rarefied moral atmosphere, it must have been almost impossible to resist the urge to follow the President blindly, first to Afghanistan and then to Iraq, since our new wars there had taken on the guise of a moral crusade against evil. Perhaps we could not have resisted – trauma had made criticism almost impossible. The moral

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Patenting something so new Gene patents don’t mean species are in violation of copyright will lead to unclear future

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n Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments concerning an emerging issue in science, medicine and law: genetic patenting. The ACLU is suing Myriad, a pharmaceutical company over the constitutionality of issuing

By Kristi Allen patents for individual, Staff Columnist isolated genes.

There are many layers of complexity in this case – the developing science behind genome sequencing, the huge sums of money involved in drug patents, ethical dilemmas, divides in the scientific community and the fact that this case will probably establish an important precedent. Given all of this, the Supreme Court should rule that gene patents are not constitutional. Genome sequencing is one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs in recent history, and it’s too early to divide the spoils of it among a couple of pharmaceutical companies.

The case under review involves Myriad, a biotechnology company that holds patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, mutations of which indicate a higher likelihood for developing breast and ovarian cancer. Myriad has sole access to its database of sequences and the exclusive right to code for that gene. If a woman wants to be tested for mutations, Myriad is the only company that provides that test, for a fee of about $3,000.

So Myriad can prevent scientists from sequencing that section of any genome using techniques developed independently from their company.

The legal crux of the argument is whether or not isolated

genes are “natural phenomena,” which would make them ineligible for patenting. Myriad argues that, while the sequence itself is found in nature, it has to be created separately in a lab in order to be researched and is thus eligible for patent. Myriad is right to assert that their work deserves recognition and protection, but their work was not the genome itself. They may have invented the techniques to decode it, but it already existed.

Myriad can patent their techniques of isolation, their tests and the products that might come out of this research, but it doesn’t make any sense for them to be able to patent the ability to study something that even they admit is naturally occurring.

The best defense of genetic patenting is that it incentivizes research. Corporations are pouring millions of dollars into genetic research and development because they believe they will be able to reap the profits of having an exclusive right to a particular gene. Myriad put up almost $500 million for the BRCA genes before it broke even. While a patent may provide a good short-term incentive, it’s not that simple.

Monopolies are never good, and a monopoly on information is even worse. It will hurt patients and science as a whole to have to deal with a licensing and legal framework simply to study something. Universities and academics that want to study a particular gene for reasons completely unrelated to profit could be forced to pay fees or obtain licenses just to study a gene.

Furthermore, competition is always a better incentive to innovate. Broadening the playing field and will force companies to develop better drugs,

rather simply being the sole company with the authority to develop a drug for a specific gene. Patents provide shortterm incentive for companies to research a particular gene and develop products around it, but if furthering our knowledge of the human genome and advancing medicine is the goal, then hiding information is not going to help.

The argument that companies will not pursue genetic research if they can’t patent specific genes is ridiculous. Genetics are the frontier of science and medicine, and these pharmaceutical companies know that.

There is nothing that will stop them from scrambling to find the best, most innovative products, except not having to worry about competition. Myriad can make a killing off of the BRCA genes because there’s no incentive to provide a better service.

In addition to harming medicine, gene patents hurt science in general. Researchers not affiliated with for-profit businesses are still subject to the patents. While it’s true that Myriad often gives permission for some research to be done on its genes, the maze of paperwork and cost of a license will deter a lot of scientists.

This will still be true in the future if gene patents aren’t declared unconstitutional.

About 20-30 percent of the human genome is patented, and we need to act now to reverse this trend. The Supreme Court should rule that gene patents are unconstitutional and allow science, medicine and technology to take a step forward.

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

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arlier this week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Association for Molecular Pathology v.

Myriad Genetics, a case on the issue of gene patents. For the most part the argument has centered on the legality of gene

By Kayvon Ghoreshi patents as it relates to Staff Columnist patent law and whether gene patents are effective or detrimental in progressing medical research. By and large, gene patents are legal under current law and are a necessary part of enabling genetic research and any tests, drugs, and treatments that result from it.

The Supreme Court has ruled in the past that “products of nature” are not subjected to patents, so one could not patent a new species of turtles they discover for example. Since we are technically a part of nature, human genes are undoubtedly also part of nature. However the genes that are currently inside your cells aren’t what are being patented. A company isn’t going to come to your door and demand a royalty because your liver cells are using “their gene.”

So what is actually being patented? To understand this you need to look at the biological processes involved.

Genes exist in our DNA as exons which are interrupted by sequences of “junk DNA” referred to as introns. These DNA sequences are then copied to form RNA. Introns are then spliced out of this RNA to form messenger RNA which is what is sent out into the cell to form the protein.

Scientists isolate the mRNA

and convert it into a DNA molecule called complementary DNA (cDNA). It is this cDNA that is sequenced and then patented. cDNA does not exist until it is isolated and synthesized by a scientist and thus it technically does not exist naturally. In the same way, one cannot patent oxygen, but the element americium is patented, because it does not exist in nature. Genes also meet the utility requirement of patent law as they can lead to a test or a drug.

So from a legal perspective, genes, in particular sequences of cDNA, fall into the realm of things patentable under current law. The other argument used against gene patents is that it inhibits research. Numerous patients haven’t been able to access certain genetic tests, such as the BRCA1 test in the Myriad case, because of the cost. Gene patents lead to a sort of monopoly that biopharmaceutical companies can have on certain genetic tests and thus charge thousands of dollars. However, this isn’t something exclusive to gene patents as patents in general can create monopolies. The larger issue is that while gene patents can appear to be evil in this situation, like most patents, they are also a necessity.

I would love if public organizations could do the research and development necessary to bring tests and drugs to market, but this isn’t feasible. The fact of that matter is that it is estimated that it costs close to $800 million to bring a drug to market and it costs roughly the same before any beneficial product comes from researching an

individual gene. Private companies will have the resources necessary for the research and development. If a biopharmaceutical company is going to put in the necessary time and be able to raise the necessary funds from investors they need a patent. A patent is the only thing that provides a profit motive.

Why would any sane investor or business put forth hundreds of millions of dollars if another individual could just copy all the research and profit themselves? And while many claim that it is impossible for others to research the gene, this isn’t the reality.

Other companies can pay for a license to research a patented gene and patent holders will often allow non commercial research.

There are certainly adverse effects with gene patents, but think of it in this manner. Isolated B12 vitamin from beef muscle is patentable. Isolated erythropoietin from urine to treat dialysis patients is patentable. How is an isolated gene different from this? When it was written, patent law looked to deal with machinery and didn’t anticipate the field of genetics. So until changes come to the current law there is nothing that prevents gene patents since what is being patented is technically not found in nature. In addition to their legality, gene patents will continue to be an integral and necessary part of furthering genetic research.

Staff Columnist Kayvon Ghoreshi is a 2nd-semester biology major. He can be reached at Kayvon.Ghoreshi@UConn.edu.

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Derek Jeter suffers setback, won't return until after All-Star break NEW YORK (AP) — Derek Jeter will be sidelined until after the All-Star break because of a new fracture in his broken left ankle — a blow to a New York Yankees team already reeling from injuries and one that raises long-term questions about the 38-year-old shortstop's future.

Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said Jeter should be able to resume his rehabilitation when the new crack heals, in about four to eight weeks.

Cashman has repeatedly maintained the 13-time All-Star should be able to return at his previous level of play.

Jeter will not require surgery for the break, Cashman said after speaking with Dr. Robert Anderson, who operated on the Yankees' captain on Oct. 20.

"He told me 95 percent of the people that have this, they come back from it fine. You just have to back off," Cashman said.

"But it's a setback, so it's not a good situation," he said.

Then again, the Yankees and Jeter repeatedly said all winter that he would be ready to play on opening day. And Jeter, whose range already has declined, turns 39 on June 26.

Jeter was hurt last Oct. 13 in the AL championship series opener against Detroit. He was limited to five spring training games and 11 at-bats, and when the team left spring training he stayed behind for rehabilitation at New York's minor league complex in Tampa, Fla. After three straight days of workouts, Jeter went to Charlotte, N.C., and was examined Thursday by Anderson.

"They did a new CT scan which revealed a small crack in the area of the previous injury, so we have to back off and let that heal," Cashman said before New York played Arizona.

"This is obviously a setback. In terms of speculating on when we might see Derek back with us, we'd be looking at some time after the All-Star break."

Cashman himself is recovering from a broken leg sustained in a spring training skydiving accident and entered the press

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conference room at Yankee Stadium in a motorized scooter.

"Clearly he hasn't done anything wrong," the GM said. "He was cleared to play. This is the third CT scan he's had. His prior two CT scans showed the healing and 100 percent healing. He wasn't cleared for the baseball activities and cleared to play until he had 100 percent healing, so this is a new fracture, but a small one. That's I guess the only good part. They kept saying the word 'small.'"

Jeter is among four regulars missing from the Yankees' lineup, a group that totals 32 AllStar appearances. The defending AL East champions began the day with an 8-5 record.

Outfielder Curtis Granderson broke his right forearm when hit by a pitch from Toronto's J.A. Happ in his first at-bat of spring training on Feb. 24 and is expected back next month. First baseman Mark Teixeira also hopes to return in May from a partially torn tendon sheath in his right wrist sustained March 5 while with the U.S. team at the World Baseball Classic. And third baseman Alex Rodriguez isn't expected back until after the All-Star break following left hip surgery on Jan. 16.

Jeter didn't play in his first spring training game until March 9, played again March 11 and returned to shortstop for the first time on March 13. After playing the field for consecutive days on March 15-16, he felt soreness.

He was scratched from the starting lineup on March 19 and had an anti-inflammatory injection.

"He's obviously the toughest one we've ever had, and when Derek Jeter continues to have issues that don't go away, that means more than just your typical something," Cashman said. "So that's what led to the follow-up with Dr. Anderson in Charlotte."

Eduardo Nunez and Jayson Nix have split most of the time at shortstop this season, with Robinson Cano shifting over for one inning. Nix has two errors and Nunez none.

Women's lacrosse set to take on Marquette

By Joe Crisalli Campus Correspondent Coming off of a 12-11 overtime victory over conference rival Louisville, the No. 18 UConn women’s lacrosse team will face Marquette at 7 p.m.

It was UConn’s fourth overtime game this season; all victories.

“Overall, I thought we did well in the overtime and executed our game plan,” coach Katie Woods said. “Everyone was composed and connected but urgent at the same time.

We’ve had a lot of experience this season with overtime so that has helped our team down the stretch.”

UConn (11-1, 4-1) is now

ranked third in the Big East, while Louisville (8-6, 0-5) dropped to eighth in the conference.

UConn was down 11-8 with 4:28 left in the game and were able to net 3 goals to force overtime.

The Cardinals outshot the Huskies 20-19, but UConn had two shots in overtime, and senior forward Kacey Pippitt was able to net the game winner.

Pippitt, and senior forward Morgan O’Reilly led the charge for the Huskies with 13 points combined.

“I think we played really hard this past weekend,” Woods said. “We outhustled our opponents in both games which allowed us more opportunities to put the ball away. I

think we can always take care of the ball better in our transition.”

The Huskies have won five straight games and will play three out of their final four games in the regular season versus conference opponents.

“The last stretch of the season is going to be a big test for us,” Woods said. “We’ve got four games left and three of which are top 10 or top 20. It’s exciting more than anything else and I think this team is ready to do some great things.”

UConn is going into the game against Marquette having scored 11 or more goals in all but two games this season.

The Huskies have scored 158 goals in 306 shot attempts this year, while holding their

opponents to 107 goals on 289 shots.

UConn has allowed more than 10 goals in only five of their 12 games played so far this season.

“The team knows what is on the line and they understand,” Woods said. “So the energy and focus is there naturally.

We have a special group of seniors that are more than determined to make history in their final year.”

The game against Marquette at 7 p.m. will be the final of the regular season for the Huskies, ending a four game home stretch at the George J. Sherman Sports Complex.

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Rutgers and Mike Rice reach $475K settlement

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Rutgers University has reached a $475,000 settlement agreement with Mike Rice, agreeing to pay the fired men’s basketball coach for the remaining two years of his contract, university officials announced Thursday night.

“Tonight’s agreement is in the best interests of the university, and I am pleased this issue has been resolved,” President Robert Barchi said in a statement after spending the day fielding questions from state lawmakers over the school’s basketball scandal.

Barchi fired Rice on April 3 after the coach was caught on video hitting, kicking and taunting players with anti-gay slurs at practice.

Under his contract, Rice was owed a little more than $1 million for the next two years at 75 percent of his contract amount, plus an additional $100,000 for completing the 2012-13 season.

Barchi told a New Jersey Assembly budget panel earlier Thursday that he would not approve a hefty payout to the disgraced coach.

“My personal position is that the university was damaged by his actions,” he said. “My personal position is there was conduct there that was unethical, not acceptable.”

Gov. Chris Christie, who is a lawyer and father of a college athlete, also has said Rice should have been fired for cause.

Barchi said severances worth between $420,000 and $1.2 million had been finalized for two other officials caught up in the scandal.

The university’s lawyer and athletic director both resigned in what Barchi termed mutual separation agreements.

Rutgers took steps last week to publicly address fallout from the scandal, announcing an independent review and hiring a respected former state attorney general as the school’s new top lawyer.

The measures were intended to get the university back on track during a time of transformation.

Rutgers is absorbing most parts of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, which gives it a coveted medical school, and is working on a strategic plan for how to catapult the school to be among the highest regarded public universities in the nation.

The university, set to enter the Big Ten Conference, is reported to have reached a tentative agreement with Los Angeles Lakers assistant Eddie Jordan to take over as coach of the scandalmarred program.

The video of Rice, taken at practices during his three years at Rutgers and aired on ESPN, showed numerous clips of the coach firing basketballs at players, hitting them in the back, legs, feet and shoulders, grabbing players by their jerseys and yelling obscenities and using anti-gay slurs.

Barchi was called to the Statehouse in Trenton on Thursday to answer questions as lawmakers AP reviewed $487 million in proposed aid to the Toronto Blue Jays’ Rajai Davis spins through air after being brushed back by a ball from Chicago White Sox pitcher Chris Sale state’s largest university. Hours later, the settlement was announced. during the fifth inning of their baseball game, Thursday, April 18, 2013, in Toronto.

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Red Sox DH David Ortiz to make season debut Friday CLEVELAND -- Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz, who hit a home run for Triple-A Pawtucket on Thursday afternoon, is headed for Boston and is expected to be activated for Friday night’s game against the Kansas City Royals.

“He feels good about where he’s at,” Red Sox manager John Farrell said Thursday, “and all things point to his return tomorrow when we get home from this trip.”

Ortiz was on the disabled list when the Red Sox opened the season in New York and flew to the team’s training facility after that series to continue his rehab. He joined Pawtucket on a rehab assignment that began last Thursday.

He played in five games while in Pawtucket, and had 18 atbats, just short of the 20 to 30 that Farrell had estimated Ortiz would need before joining the club. Ortiz had four hits for a .222 batting average. Thursday’s home run was his only extra-base hit. He struck out in his other two at-bats.

“Having his presence in the middle of the order certainly speaks for itself, for the number of years and success he’s had,” Farrell said, “but I think he gives

us the potential to lengthen our lineup even more, and we’re certainly looking forward to seeing him in the clubhouse tomorrow.”

Ortiz will have missed the team’s first 15 games while he was on the DL. The Red Sox were 10-4 entering Thursday night’s game against the Indians, with Farrell rotating the DH spot among Jonny Gomes (7 starts), Daniel Nava (5) and Mike Napoli (2).

“It’s been great,” Farrell said of how the team has played without Ortiz. “I can’t say enough about the way we’ve played defense, the way we’ve pitched. We’ve scored runs in bunches at times, and yet we’ve scored some timely runs to lop a couple games off as we get guys back to us.

“We have weathered some of that uncertainty. It will be good to get everybody back and be at full strength.”

Ortiz said it works in his favor that the team has played so well without him.

“That’s less pressure for me,” he told the Providence Journal.

“Now I know I can take my time to do my thing and work into that good funk, not trying to do too much or trying to carry the team on my back. The team is playing well. Hopefully it con-

Huskies travel to face Penn State for tournament

By Scott Bernier Campus Correspondent Fresh off of their first tournament title of the spring season, the UConn golf team will look to continue their hot streak as they head to Pennsylvania this weekend for the Rutherford Intercollegiate Tournament, hosted by Penn State in State College.

Last weekend, the Huskies posted an incredible stretch of team play through 36 holes, winning the New England Division I Championship by 12 strokes.

UConn was led by freshman Zach Zaback, who torched Newport National Golf Club with a first round 6-under 66 and ended the tournament at 5-under par. Zaback was the only golfer in the field to break par. His outstanding play inspired his teammates to follow suit, allowing the Huskies to build significant momentum as they gear up for the Big East Conference Championship at the end of April.

Their final tune-up before then comes this weekend at Penn State, which boasts two championship golf courses – with the Blue Course requiring much

more from the golfer off of the tee. The course measures in at 7,214 yards from the championship tees with plenty of different shots for players to attempt. The front nine contains 27 strategically placed green-side bunkers.

Five of the first six holes require golfers to play a fade off the tee, meaning striking the ball off to the left and curving it back to the right matching the contour of the fairway. The par 3’s throughout the course provide plenty of difficulty, beginning with the fourth hole, which plays 216 yards and requires a long iron into a tight green surrounded by three bunkers.

Once through the difficult front nine, the back nine provides a links style atmosphere, with plenty of length and plenty of choices for golfers to go for the green or lay up with a short approach shot.

An interesting feature of the final nine holes is the par 5 12th hole, a 623-yard mammoth of a hole that will easily require three shots to reach the green.

Zach Zaback was a tournament best 5-under on Par 5’s last week and will certainly look to continue that trend.

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UConn rallies to top Bryant, hosts St. John’s this weekend

By Jack Mitchell Campus Correspondent The UConn men’s lacrosse team is now the proud owner of a 7-1 record after a successful road trip to Bel Air, Md. to take part in a local jamboree event. The Huskies squared off against a pair of Southeastern Lacrosse Conference opponents, Virginia Tech and Clemson. UConn defeated Virginia Tech 8-7 last Friday and downed Clemson 9-5 on Saturday. The team is currently in second place in the Pioneer Collegiate Lacrosse League and ranked #17 in the MCLA National Poll.

“We came away with two wins, that was the business part of what we tried to accomplish,” head coach Paul Scordato said. “But I also thought the team became closer and more focused. That is why these type of trips are important, not only to win, but to also get the team unified for the rest of the season.”

Leading the way statistically for UConn was junior attackman and reigning PCLL Offensive Player of the Year, Kevin Canavan, who posted a total six goals and one assist over the course of the two games. Canavan currently leads the team in points per game with four, and is second on the team in overall points with 28 on the year.

Senior captain and attackman, Michael Horne, currently leads the team with 31 points.

“We knew that the trip to Baltimore would require a lot of preparation in advance,” Scordato said of his pre-trip gameplan. “I thought the defence played very well against Virginia Tech, especially Pierce Bushby who also scored a goal. Virginia Tech is an explosive team and can score goals in bunches, so we needed to make sure we neutralized their offense at all times.”

Not only did the successful trip help UConn’s postseason chances, it also made a strong statement about the lacrosse program as a whole.

“It was a great experience for the UConn program,” Scordato said. “Everybody knows that the Baltimore area has a long, deep lacrosse tradition, and to go down there and get two wins against two Southern teams was a great accomplishment for the UConn lacrosse program. The folks who ran the jamboree did a great job making us feel welcome the whole time.”

The Huskies – whose regular season ends on April 26 – are about to make their final push into the MCLA Playoffs. The team has four games remaining on its regular season slate, including three divisional matchups, one of which will take place in Storrs on April 24 against NH. “The team and especially the seniors now need to know that the season is coming to an end,” Scordato said. “It will be part of their responsibility to make sure the team stays focused so that we win out the rest of our games and make the MCLA tournament.”

UConn will embark for another multi-game road trip this weekend. The team is set to play the University of Pittsburgh on Saturday and the University of Buffalo on Sunday.

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By Tim Fontenault Staff Writer Marissa Guches had three RBIs as the UConn softball team began its fourth winning streak of the season with a 5-2 win over Bryant on Thursday in Storrs.

The Huskies struggled early, as Kiki Saveriano, the ace of the pitching staff, allowed two runs in the top of the first inning, meaning UConn had to play from behind before they even got the chance to bat.

The Bulldogs’ advantage was short-lived, however.

Audrey Grinnell began the second inning with a home run to right field. It was Grinnell’s sixth home run of the season, and her second in as many games.

The next three batters reached to load the bases for Guches, who stepped up as a pinch-hitter for right fielder Heather Fyfe. Guches hit a line drive down the left field line that cleared the bases and resulted in her team-leading 12th double of the season, giving the Huskies a 4-2 lead.

Saveriano, who has pitched 148.2 innings this season, lasted only four on Thursday before being forced from the game due to finger soreness. She allowed two runs on three hits while walking four batters and striking out three, picking up her 12th win of the season in the process. Despite the setback, coach Karen Mullins said that Saveriano will pitch two of the three games in this weekend’s series against St. John’s.

Katelyn Callahan entered the game in the fifth inning. Despite UConn’s 5-2 advantage after another run was added in the bottom of the fourth, it was a non-save situation for Callahan. She pitched the final three innings, allowing two hits while walking three batters and striking out one.

This weekend’s series could be a turning point – for better or for worse – in UConn’s season. The Huskies will host St. John’s for a three-game series on Saturday and Sunday. UConn and St. John’s are both 3-8 in the Big East Conference, with the Huskies currently sitting in eighth place in the standings. Only the top eight teams make the Big East Tournament in May. A double-header will be played on Saturday, with games being played at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. The final wgame will be played at noon on Sunday.

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UConn junior left fielder Maddy Schiappa slides back to first base during the Huskies’ game against the Bryant Bulldogs on Thursday.

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Men’s track to host UConn Classic to conclude regular season

By Nick Danforth Campus Correspondent The UConn men’s track and field team returns to action on Saturday when they host the UConn Classic, their fourth and final home meet of the year, at the Sherman Family Sports Complex in Storrs.

The Huskies are coming off one of their most competitive meets of the year, the Battle on the Bayou, in which they faced off against four teams nationally ranked in the USTFCCCA Top 25. The Huskies proved that they are capable of hanging with some of the nation’s top schools, as they finished just seven points behind second place Penn State and

two points behind third place Arizona State.

Collecting one of the Huskies’ four first place finishes at the meet was senior Cody Unger. With the first place finish in the javelin throw, Unger was named the Big East Field Athlete of the Week. It was the first time a UConn field athlete has earned the honor this season, and the first of Unger’s career. Unger’s toss of 68.37 meters ranks first in the conference and 20th in the nation.

Also with first place finishes at the Battle on the Bayou were James Agati, Bryan Fowler and freshman Alvaro Chavez.

“The team goals coming into this meet were to execute and leave an impact,” Chavez

said. “LSU and Penn State are huge track and field programs and having the opportunity to compete against these schools means we’ve got to step it up.

We performed well, but there were some points left out there that could have helped us. This meet also helped us prepare for the Big East [Championships], which is our most competitive meet of the season. We have a few more weeks to prepare, and like Coach [Greg] Roy said, ‘we can move mountains’ in those few weeks.”

Preparation for the meet begins with the UConn Classic, which is scheduled to begin at noon on Saturday.

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A UConn track athelte jumps over a hurdle during a meet at the track of the University of Connecticut.

Baseball heads into crucial weekend against South Florida

By Matt Stypulkoski Senior Staff Writer

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Senior LJ Mazzilli attempts to complete a double play during a game at J.O. Christian Field.

The UConn baseball team has gotten hot at exactly the right time to make a push for the Big East regular season title.

After a five-game winning streak that included a sweep of conference foe Villanova, they sit just a half-game back of South Florida and Louisville, who are tied for the conference lead.

Though the conference leaders each have three games in hand, UConn (22-13, 8-4 Big East) will have an opportunity to make up some of that ground come this weekend, as the Bulls (23-14, 7-2 Big East) travel to Connecticut for a weekend series.

But in order to do it, they’ll need to beat a tough USF pitching staff.

“We’re going to face a really good guy on Friday night, and that’s what we’re focused on right

now is preparing for Jimmy Herget and the way that he throws,” UConn Coach Jim Penders said after the Huskies beat Fairfield on Tuesday. “He’s a freshman that we haven’t seen in person yet but we know a little bit about him, and we’re getting reports that he’s a very competitive kid and we’re going to have to be really good on Friday to beat him.”

Though Herget, who’s racked up a 4-1 record and 1.55 ERA this season, leads the Bulls’ staff, he’s got some excellent pitchers behind him as well; South Florida carries just a 4.04 team ERA. That should make for an interesting pitching duel over the course of the weekend, as the Huskies enter the series boasting a 3.04 team ERA – good for No. 35 in the country in that category.

Like Herget, UConn ace Carson Cross has been marvelous all season long. He’s put up a 6-1 record and 1.40 ERA over his first nine starts. Cross, who will likely get

the nod on Friday, has also struck out 59 batters and walked just 13 this season.

In order to make the NCAA Tournament as an at-large team, the Huskies will have to have a strong finish to the season. They currently sit at No. 76 in the RPI rankings, but need to move closer to about No. 45 in order to be in serious contention for an at-large bid. The Bulls will likely need to win the Big East Tournament to have any chance at an NCAA bid, as their RPI currently places them at No. 137.

Friday’s contest will be played at New Britain Stadium, home of the Eastern League’s New Britain Rock Cats. That game is slated for a 4 p.m. start. Saturday and Sunday’s games will both be played at J.O. Christian Field in Storrs, and are set for 1 p.m. and noon starts, respectively.

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