The Daily Campus: April 3, 2013

Volume CXIX No. 115

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Student featured in Irish dance magazine

By Annie Pancak Campus Correspondent

DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY UConn’s best dance crew competition held at Jorgensen.

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SHIPPING UP TO BOSTON Huskies travel to BU after rained out game.

SPORTS/ page 12 EDITORIAL: UCONN SMOKING BAN WOULD BE A MISGUIDED MOVE USG asks students about making UConn a smokefree campus.

COMMENTARY/page 8 INSIDE NEWS: UN ADOPTS TREATY TO REGULATE GLOBAL ARMS TRADE UN General Assembly approves first international treaty regulating global arms trade.

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When 4th semester UConn student Kelly McCourt was first contacted last week to talk about her being on the cover of “Irish Dance Magazine,” she could not be reached. The president of UConn Irish Rose Murphy responded that McCourt was busy at the World Championship for Irish step dancing.

At the competition, which was held in Boston, and is only the second time the United States have hosted, McCourt came in 14th out of approximately 100 qualified dancers from around the world.

She also holds nine New England and two North American Irish dance competition championships, and All-Ireland world medals.

Last month she appeared on the cover of “Irish Dance Magazine” which included a four-page interview with McCourt inside. “I was contacted out of the blue,” she said, “I had looked up to a lot of the dancers in the magazine so that was exciting.”

In December she had a photo-shoot in her hometown, Bethel, and answered over 30 interview questions through email. After, she kept the magazine a secret until it came out last month. “The dance school was really excited, especially the younger kids because they all get the magazine.”

McCourt said she began taking Irish dance classes in first grade because “friends in my neighborhood were doing it” and “there was a carpool.” At 6-years-old she began competing, and at 8 she went to her first competition in Ireland.

Now a finance major in the School of Business, McCourt still attends class at the same dance school she started at, The Gray School of Irish Dance in Old Saybrook. She said she keeps a car on campus to make the two and a half hour total commute four days a week.

At UConn she is a member of UConn Irish, the Finance Society, and the Business Connection learning community.

While McCourt said most members of UConn Irish, a club centered on Irish culture and dancing, are retired from competition, she said she “met the best people in it.” Murphy said the club was honored McCourt gave time to UConn Irish considering what she called the “full time job” competitive dancing like McCourt’s is.

In the future McCourt said she would like to get a job in finance and teach on the side at the same school she has spent her entire dance career. “They are like my second mothers,” she said of her dance teachers.

To become a teacher she would have to complete an exam requiring her to memorize 30 dances, she said. After passing the exam she would no longer be able to compete, so she does not plan to take it until after she finishes college, she said.

UConn students can see McCourt dance live at UConn Irish’s event “Irish Night” on April 13th from 8-10 p.m. in the Student Union ballroom, or can learn from her and other UConn Irish members at free classes on Thursdays at 7:15 p.m. in room 304 of the Student Union, according to Murphy.

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4th-semester UConn student Kelly McCourt was featured on the cover of “Irish Dance Magazine” last month. The magazine also included a four-page interview with McCourt.

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Support Sandy Hook, glow up the night

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NY state sen. arrested in alleged UConn Club Sports and Recreation to host 5k fun run Friday, April 12 mayor race plot

By Jackson Mitchell Campus Correspondent

UConn Club Sports and UConn Recreation will be hosting their Glow Up the Night 5K fun run event on Friday, April 12. The event, which will begin at 8 p.m., will benefit UConn’s Sandy Hook School Memorial Scholarship Fund, which to date has already surpassed the $1 million dollar mark.

“Club Sports hosts a 5K fun run annually to support both the Club Sports teams and local charities,” Club Sports coordinator Kate Durant said. “Since the tragedy at Sandy Hook touched so many people in the state of Connecticut, we wanted to be able to give back in some way, which is why 50 percent of our proceeds this year are going to the Sandy Hook School Memorial Scholarship Fund.”

The event, which is open to faculty, staff, UConn students, as well as members of the local community, will take place on a certified closed 5K course around the UConn campus. Given that the course is closed, runners and walkers will have the added benefit

and comfort of having a course free from the obstacle of cars and busses.

The Club Sports department – which coordinated its efforts with UConn Recreation throughout the planning process – is hoping that the 5K’s 8 p.m. start time and “glow up the night” theme will draw an even larger turnout in comparison to previous years.

“Night time events – especially 5K’s – are trending now, and we wanted to do something a bit different,” Durant said.

“We also wanted to offer it as alternative programming so that students and the local community could participate in a healthy activity for a great cause. Last year, we had a high turnout of about 225 people. We’re hoping this year to increase that number to about 250 participants.”

The event has been meet with nothing but positivity and encouragement from the UConn community, and to date the Club Sports and Recreation departments have been able to secure several sponsors for the race.

“The UConn community has shown great interest and we have received generous sponsorships from various local business-

es,” Durant said. “We really plan this all year, however working with the community for sponsorships and supports starts during the spring semester.”

Pre-registration for both UConn students and non-students is open now ($15 for students, $18 for non-students), and day-ofrace registration will also be available for $25. Day-of-race registration can be paid for by cash or check only, and pre-registration is encouraged. Check-in and day-of-race registration will take place from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Fairfield Way in front of the Homer Babbidge Library.

Participants who pre-register will receive a race t-shirt, and the top five male and female finishers will receive prizes during a post-race awards ceremony. Glow in the dark necklaces will also be provided to participants, and all runners are encouraged to wear their “brightest, wackiest outfits!”

Free parking will also be available at Y-Lot above McMahon Hall, as well as at North Parking Garage.

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Possible human remains found in new 9/11 debris NEW YORK (AP) — Jim Riches pulled his son’s mangled body out of the rubble at the World Trade Center, but the phone calls still filtered in years afterward. The city kept finding more pieces of his son.

“They’ll call you and they’ll tell you, ‘We found a shin bone,’” Riches said. “Or: ‘We found an arm bone.’ We held them all together and then we put them in the cemetery.”

Those are the phone calls both dreaded and hoped for among the families of Sept.

11 victims. And as investigators began sifting through newly uncovered debris from the World Trade Center this week for the first time in three years, those anxieties were renewed more than a decade after the attacks.

But there was also hope that more victims might yet be identified after tens of mil-

lions have been spent on the painstaking identification process. Two potential human remains were recovered on Monday, according to the medical examiner.

“We would like to see the other 40 percent of the families who have never recovered anything to at least someday have a piece of their loved one,” Riches said. “That they can go to a cemetery and pray.”

About 60 truckloads of debris that could contain tiny fragments of bone or tissue were unearthed by construction crews that have been working on the new World Trade Center in recent years. That material is now being transported to a park built on top of the former Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, where investigators will attempt to find any possible remains during the next 10 weeks, the city said. That’s the material the two potential human remains were found in.

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Construction workers and equipment excavate the southeastern corner of the World Trade Center site on in Jan. 8, 2008

NEW YORK (AP) — A Democratic state lawmaker was arrested along with five other politicians Tuesday in an alleged plot to pay tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to GOP bosses to let him run for mayor of New York City as a Republican.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara called it an “unappetizing smorgasbord of graft and greed” that reveals a New York political culture defined by a single rule: “Show me the money.”

Malcolm Smith, 56, who has served at times as the state Senate’s majority and minority leader since becoming a senator in March 2000, was arrested along with Republican New York City Councilman Dan Halloran, 42, and four other political figures.

Smith, who was removed Tuesday from his leadership post in Albany, had not yet officially launched a campaign for mayor — the first New York City mayoral race in twelve years without Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Smith “tried to bribe his way to a shot at Gracie Mansion,” Bharara said, referring to the official mayor’s residence. “Smith drew up the game plan and Councilman Halloran essentially quarterbacked that drive by finding party chairmen who were wide open to receiving bribes.”

A criminal complaint said that in meetings with a cooperating witness and an undercover FBI agent posing as a wealthy real estate developer, Smith agreed to bribe up to five leaders of Republican Party county committees in the five boroughs of New York City so he could run for mayor as a Republican, even though he was a registered Democrat.

Bharara said $80,000 in cash was promised or paid to Bronx County Republican Party Chairman Joseph Savino, 45, and Queens County Republican Party Vice Chairman Vincent Tabone, 46, who were both arrested Tuesday. The government said Halloran told the undercover agent that he wanted to get his “mortgage situation resolved” and to be named deputy police commissioner if Smith were elected mayor.

What’s on at UConn today...

Finals Rescheduling All Day Wilbur Cross Students who have prior knowledge of a conflict (bunched finals, religious event/obligation, court date, previously scheduled medical appointment, or other qualifying event) must come to Student Services prior to April 26.

Lunch at the Library 12 to 2 p.m.

Babbidge, Plaza Level Bring your laptop, get time-saving research tips, and pick up a free thumb drive. All while enjoying free lunch.

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Annual Poetry Slam 5 to 8 p.m.

SU, North Lobby The Brothers Latino America Unida, Lambda Alpha Upsilon Inc. and the Sisters of Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc. presents the 5th Annual Poetry Slam. Come show your artistic talent through poetry in a friendly competitive slam.

CRT Presents Punk Rock 7:30 to 10 p.m.

Drama Studio Theatre Admission fee between $6-$30. CRT presents Simon Stephens’ play Punk Rock, set at a British boarding school and inspired by the 1999 Columbine shooting.

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DAILY BRIEFING » STATE

Conn. bill requires genetically engineered labels

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut lawmakers are considering a bill that would require the labeling of genetically engineered food.

The bill co-sponsored by more than two dozen legislators passed a vote in the Public Health Committee on Tuesday. It was forwarded to the Senate for further consideration.

The bill would require the words “Produced with Genetic Engineering” to appear prominently on the label of any food if more than nine-tenths of one percent of its weight is genetically engineered material.

Democratic Rep. Philip Miller of Ivoryton, a co-sponsor, said the bill is a response to constituents seeking to make smarter choices about their food.

In response to local farmers and grocers worried about competition, Miller said the law would only come into effect once two other New England states pass similar legislation. Vermont and Maine are considering proposals.

Judge dismisses Eastern Pequots’ recognition bid

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a bid by the Eastern Pequots to gain federal recognition that would qualify them for certain financial aid and the right to have land taken into federal trust for casino development.

The tribe in southeastern Connecticut won federal recognition in 2002 but it was taken away three years later by the Interior Board of Indian Appeals.

The Day of New London (http://bit.ly/Xbzpzz ) reports the ruling filed over the weekend by U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington found the tribe failed to challenge the ruling within a six-year statute of limitations.

The towns of North Stonington, Ledyard and Preston have opposed the tribe’s bid for recognition out of concern that land claims could cut into local zoning and taxation.

Suspended Conn. priest admits to meth charge

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A suspended Roman Catholic priest accused of making more than $300,000 in methamphetamine sales out of his Connecticut apartment while running an adult video and sex toy shop pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal drug charge.

Kevin Wallin, 61, of Waterbury, admitted to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and was scheduled to be sentenced June 25. The prosecution and defense agreed on a sentence of 11 to 14 years in prison.

Prosecutors said the 61-year-old Wallin had meth mailed to him from co-conspirators in California and sold the drugs out of his Waterbury apartment last year. He also bought an adult video and sex toy shop in North Haven named Land of Oz & Dorothy’s Place, apparently to launder the drug money, authorities said.

Wearing a beige prison jumpsuit and sporting a goatee and close-cropped hair, Wallin acknowledged in court that the drug operation involved nearly four pounds of methamphetamine. He said “yes” several times as the judge asked whether he understood the consequences of his plea.

Wallin, former pastor at St. Augustine Parish in Bridgeport, appeared to have no supporters in the courtroom. He was led out of the room in handcuffs and remains detained.

Charges against four other people arrested in the case are pending.

“We’re glad to have resolved this part of the case,” Connecticut U.S. Attorney David B. Fein said outside the courtroom. “It’s a serious conspiracy charge involving a very dangerous drug.”

Conn. dad allowed to have contact with killer son

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A judge is allowing an 80-yearold Connecticut man who helped his son flee to Mexico after he was convicted of murder to have contact with him in prison.

U.S. District Court Judge Janet Bond Arterton on Friday granted a request by Frederick Zachs to write or visit his son, Adam, who is serving a 60-year sentence.

Frederick Zachs served a six-month prison sentence for helping his son flee and sending him money. He was barred from contacting him for three years.

Prosecutors had objected to his request, saying Frederick Zachs helped a convicted murderer escape justice for more than 20 years, and called his sentence “fair and reasonable.”

Arterton noted Zachs is elderly and in poor health and says the no-contact condition serves no purpose now.

Adam Zachs was convicted in the 1987 shooting death of Peter Carone. He posted bond after sentencing, missed a court date in 1989 and wasn’t seen by authorities until the week of his capture in 2011 in Mexico.

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United Nations adopts treaty to regulate global arms trade

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the first international treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade Tuesday, after a more than decade-long campaign to keep weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists, warlords, organized crime figures and human rights violators.

Loud cheers erupted in the assembly chamber as the electronic board flashed the final vote: 154 in favor, 3 against and 23 abstentions.

“This is a victory for the world’s people,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.

“The Arms Trade Treaty will make it more difficult for deadly weapons to be diverted into the illicit market. ... It will be a powerful new tool in our efforts to prevent grave human rights abuses or violations of international humanitarian law.”

The United States, the world’s biggest arms exporter, voted yes.

Iran, North Korea and Syria — all facing arms embargoes — cast the only no votes.

They argued, among other things, that the agreement favors major arms suppliers like the U.S. over importers that need weapons for self-defense.

Russia and China, which are also major arms exporters, abstained along with India and Indonesia, while nuclear-armed Pakistan voted in favor. Many Arab countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Qatar, abstained, while Lebanon voted yes.

Never before has there been a treaty regulating the global arms trade, which is estimated to be worth $60 billion today and which Amnesty International predicts will exceed $100 billion in the next four years.

“Today’s victory shows that ordinary people who care about protecting human rights can fight back to stop the gun lobby dead in its tracks, helping to save countless lives,” said Frank Jannuzi, deputy executive director of Amnesty International USA. “The voices of reason triumphed over skeptics, treaty opponents and dealers in death to establish a revolutionary treaty that

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In this Sept. 13, 2005 file photo, the flags of member nations fly outside the General Assembly building at the United Nations headquarters in New York. The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the first U.N. treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar international arms trade Tuesday, April 2, 2013, a goal sought for over a decade to try to keep illicit weapons out of the hands of terrorists, insurgent fighters and organized crime. The resolution adopting the landmark treaty was approved by a vote of 154 to 3 with 23 abstentions. Iran, North Korea and Syria voted “no” on Tuesday’s resolution.

constitutes a major step toward keeping assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and other weapons out of the hands of despots and warlords who use them to kill and maim civilians, recruit child soldiers and commit other serious abuses.”

What impact the treaty will actually have remains to be seen. It will take effect 90 days after 50 countries ratify it, and a lot will depend on which ones ratify and which ones don’t, and how stringently it is implemented.

As for its chances of being ratified by the U.S., the powerful National Rifle Association has vehemently opposed it, and it is likely to face stiff resistance from conservatives in

the Senate, where it needs two-thirds to win ratification.

Secretary of State John Kerry called it a “strong, effective and implementable” treaty and stressed that it applies only to international deals and “reaffirms the sovereign right of any state to regulate arms within its territory.”

The treaty prohibits countries that ratify it from exporting conventional weapons if they violate arms embargoes, or if they promote acts of genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes, or if they could be used in attacks against civilians or schools and hospitals.

Colo. suspect Nuclear board warns of Hanford tank explosion risk slipped ankle bracelet

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In this March 23, 2004 file photo, workers at the tank farms on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash., measure for radiation and the presence of toxic vapors.

A nuclear safety board has warned a key U.S. senator that underground tanks holding radioactive waste at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site pose a possible risk of explosion. Concerns that hydrogen gas could build up inside the tanks and lead to an explosion at south-central Washington state’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation have been known for some time.

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Underground tanks that hold a stew of toxic, radioactive waste at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site pose a possible risk of explosion, a nuclear safety board said in advance of confirmation hearings for the next leader of the Energy Department.

State and federal officials have long known that hydrogen gas could build up inside the tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, leading to an explosion that would release radioactive material. The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board recommended additional monitoring and ventilation of the

tanks last fall, and federal officials were working to develop a plan to implement the recommendation.

The board expressed those concerns again Monday to U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who is chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and had sought the board’s perspective about cleanup at Hanford.

The federal government created Hanford in the 1940s as part of the secret Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb. It spends billions of dollars to clean up the 586-square-mile site neighboring the Columbia River, the southern border between Washington

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Federal officials have said six underground tanks at the site are leaking into the soil, threatening the groundwater, and technical problems have delayed construction of a plant to treat the waste for long-term safe disposal.

Those issues are likely to come up during confirmation hearings next week for Energy Secretarynominee Ernest J. Moniz. The fears of explosion and contamination could give Washington and Oregon officials more clout as they push for cleanup of the World War II-era site.

Central to the cleanup are the removal of 56 million gallons of highly radioactive, toxic waste left from plutonium production from underground tanks. Many of the site’s single-shell tanks, which have just one wall, have leaked in the past, and state and federal officials announced in February that six such tanks are leaking anew.

“The next Secretary of Energy - Dr. Moniz - needs to understand that a major part of his job is going to be to get the Hanford cleanup back on track, and I plan to stress that at his confirmation hearing next week,” Wyden said in a statement Tuesday.

The nuclear safety board warned about the risk of explosion to Wyden, who wanted comment on the safety and operation of Hanford’s tanks, technical issues that have been raised about the design of a plant to treat the waste in those tanks.

DENVER (AP) — Evan Spencer Ebel ran up a long list of felony convictions before turning 21, joined a white supremacist gang behind bars, assaulted one prison guard and wrote that he fantasized about killing others.

Along the way, he benefited from a series of errors in the criminal justice system before he became a suspect in the slaying of Colorado’s prisons chief and a pizza deliveryman.

He got out of prison four years early because of a clerical error in a rural courthouse. He slipped his ankle bracelet and violated the terms of his parole last month, but authorities didn’t put out a warrant for his arrest until after the killings of pizza delivery man Nathan Leon and corrections chief Tom Clements.

Ebel’s streak came to an end on March 21 after he was pulled over by a sheriff’s deputy in rural Texas. He died after the ensuing car chase and shootout. The gun he used was the same used to kill Clements; the trunk of Ebel’s car held a Domino’s pizza box and shirt.

“We have to do better in the future,” Tim Hand, the head of the Department of Correction’s parole division, said in an interview Tuesday. “It forces us to step back and see what things we need to examine.”

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Gender segregation now As Facebook matures, mandatory in Gaza schools is it losing its edge?

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Starting with the new school year in September, Gaza boys and girls in middle and high school will be breaking the law if they study side by side.

Gaza’s Islamic militant Hamas rulers argue that the new legislation, mandating gender separation in schools from age nine, enshrines common practice.

But women’s activists warned Tuesday that it’s another step in the Hamas agenda of imposing its fundamentalist world view on Gaza’s 1.7 million people.

The Gaza rules appear harsh compared to Western practice but are not unusual in parts of the Arab and Muslim world. In Iraq, for example, boys and girls are required by law to study separately after age 12.

Hamas has been running Gaza since its violent takeover of the crowded coastal territory in 2007.

While the group advocates the establishment of an Islamic state in all of the Mideast, including Israel, it has moved cautiously in spreading its ultra-conservative version of Islam.

It has issued a series of rules restricting women or requiring them to cover up in the traditional Islamic dress of long robes and headscarves.

Other edicts include bans on women smoking water pipes in public, riding on the backs

NEW YORK (AP) — To see what Facebook has become, look no further than the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer.

Sometime last year, people began sharing tongue-in-cheek online reviews of the bananashaped piece of yellow plastic with their Facebook friends.

Then those friends shared with their friends. Soon, after Amazon paid to promote it, posts featuring the $3.49 utensil were appearing in even more Facebook feeds.

At some point, though, the joke got old. But there it was, again and again — the banana slicer had become a Facebook version of that old knock-knock joke your weird uncle has been telling for years.

The Hutzler 571 phenomenon is a regular occurrence on the world’s biggest online social network, which begs the question: Has Facebook become less fun?

That’s something many users — especially those in their teens and early 20s — are asking themselves as they wade through endless posts, photos “liked” by people they barely know and spur-of-the moment friend requests. Has it all become too much of a chore? Are the important life events of your closest loved ones drowning in a sea of banana slicer jokes?

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Palestinian school girls and boys walk in front of a the UNRWA elementary school in Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. Gaza’s Hamas-controlled parliament has passed a law requiring separate classes for boys and girls in public and private schools from the fourth grade.

of motorcycles or getting their hair done by male stylists. Last month, it barred girls and women from participating in a U.N.sponsored marathon, prompting a U.N. aid agency to cancel the race.

Hamas activists, including teachers, have also exerted social

pressure to get all school girls to wear Islamic dress.

When faced with public resistance, Hamas tends to refrain from enforcing the rules. It scrapped a 2009 decree requiring female lawyers to wear headscarves in court after women protested.

“In the last six years, Hamas has been going forward — and sometimes a step backward because of protests — but there is a strategy to implement the Islamic law in society,” said Mkhaimar Abu Sada, a Gaza political analyst and university lecturer.

I literally thought it was the coolest thing to have. If you had a Facebook you kind of fit in better, because other people had one,” says Rachel Fernandez, 18, who first signed on to the site four or five years ago.

And now? “Facebook got kind of boring,” she says.

Chatter about Facebook’s demise never seems to die down, whether it’s talk of “Facebook fatigue,” or grousing about how the social network lost its cool once grandma joined. The Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project recently found that some 61 percent of Facebook users had taken a hiatus from the site for reasons that range from “too much gossip and drama” to “boredom.”

Some respondents said there simply isn’t enough time in their day for Facebook.

If Facebook Inc.’s users leave, or even check in less frequently, its revenue growth would suffer.

The company, which depends on targeted advertising for most of the money it makes, booked revenue of $5.1 billion in 2012, up from $3.7 billion a year earlier.

But so far, for every person who has left permanently, several new people have joined up. Facebook has more than 1 billion users around the world.

Of these, 618 million sign in every day.

Google and privacy: 6 European Union countries take action

PARIS (AP) — Google’s new privacy policy is under legal attack from regulators in its largest European markets, who want the company to overhaul practices they say let it create a data goldmine at the expense of unwitting users.

Led by the French, organizations in Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Italy agreed Tuesday on the joint action, with the ultimate possibility of imposing fines or restrictions on operations across the entire 27-country European Union.

Last year, the company merged 60 separate privacy policies from around the world into one universal procedure. The European organizations complain that the new policy doesn’t allow users to figure out which information is kept, how it is combined by Google services or how long the company retains it.

The fines’ financial impact on Google Inc. would be limited — French privacy watchdog CNIL has the right to fine the company up to 300,000 euros ($385,000), approximately the amount it earns in three minutes, based on its projected revenue of $61 billion this year. Britain can fine up to 500,000 pounds, but rarely does.

But successful legal action would hurt Google’s

image and could block its ability to collect such data until it addresses the regulators’ concerns.

Google dominates the European market for Internet searches. According to one survey, as much as 95 percent of searches in Europe are carried out through Google, compared with about 65 percent in the United States. European regulators have demanded specifics for anyone using Google on what’s being collected and a simpler presentation.

Tensions between privacy and the swiftly evolving ability of companies to spin online usage data into vast profits are ramping up, especially in Europe, where privacy laws tend to be strong and nearly every country has a regulatory body. But Internet users have consistently shown a willingness to give up privacy in exchange for convenience and new online services that Google and other tech companies offer.

Google says it merged its myriad privacy policies in March 2012 for the sake of simplicity, and that the changes comply with European laws.

“There is a wider debate going on about personal data and who owns and controls personal data,” said Colin Strong, a technology analyst with GfK.

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“The question is the extent to which consumers understand the value of their personal data and the extent that they are happy with the trade that they’re getting.”

Each of the six European states bringing legal action against Google has to make its own decision on how to handle perceived violations.

“No one is against Google’s objective of simplicity. It’s legitimate. But it needs to be accompanied by transparence for consumers and the ability to say yes or no,” Isabelle Falque Pierrotin, head of French privacy regulator CNIL, said in a recent interview.

“Consumers have the right to know how the information is being used and what’s being done with it.”

But regulations tend to lag technology, and the delay is more pronounced in a digital age when small bits of information can offer increasingly powerful - and lucrative - insights into the psyches of consumers or voters.

Proposed Europe-wide data protection legislation will take until at least 2015 to be fully implemented.

In the meantime, said Falque Pierrotin, the national privacy regulators must ensure that European consumers are not vulnerable.

Johannes Caspar, a German data protection commissioner, said the company’s policies were vague — it used the word ‘may’ dozens of times on a single page when describing its rights to data.

“Many users don’t even know what is happening with their data and might worry that their private information is used to produce personality profiles of them,” Caspar said.

Though consumers have been using the Internet despite the loss of some data privacy, they appear worried about the potential consequences. The European Commission says 70 percent of EU citizens are concerned about the misuse of their personal data; in the United States, about 65 percent are worried, according to a January 2011 Gallup poll.

In March, Google agreed to a $7 million fine to settle a 38-state investigation in the U.S. into software that intercepted emails, passwords and other sensitive information sent over unprotected wireless networks in neighborhoods worldwide. Google blamed an engineer who rigged a data-collection program for its online mapping service that then collected communications on Wi-Fi networks from early 2008 until the spring 0f 2010.

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UConn smoking ban would be a misguided move

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s you may have seen, Undergraduate Student Government (USG) has been passing around a survey asking students on their thoughts about making UConn a smoke-free campus. If any sort of legislation were passed to make UConn a smoke-free campus, it would mean tobacco smoking would be banned on all University property, including outdoors. The reasons for this would be clear: to promote the image of a healthier campus to bring in new students who might otherwise be turned away by the image of smokers on campus.

While motivated by good intentions, promoting a smokefree campus seems to open a veritable cauldron of worms.

First is the frightening issue of enforcement. The UConn police, already a strained campus enforcement organization, simply does not have the resources to track down every cigarette smoker on campus. They don’t even have the resources to enforce the drug policy that already exists.

Adding a statute for a more common substance than marijuana, and an equally popular one as alcohol is simply adding an unnecessary headache to the UConn police force.

In addition to the financial and temporal strain the ban would be putting on the police, it also alienates a large percentage of UConn’s student body. Non-smokers pushing the ban don’t seem to understand how difficult it is to quit a drug like nicotine. Forcing smokers to find an off-campus location to smoke, or forcing them to do it illegally on campus, just adds another strain that only exacerbates the urge to have a cigarette. It’s unfair to this sizable segment of the student population for a perceived health risk.

Second-hand smoke is already a debatable topic. But any perceived effects are already minimalized with the indoor ban on smoking. Simply put: the campus can’t get any healthier when it concerns smoking without individual efforts. And this ruling may do more harm than good by providing one more reason for the stressed smoker to sink deeper into the habit.

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Is anybody else as excited for the Meg Ryan documentary as I am?!?!?

You know what’s going to be the cause of the end of the world? The metric system. That’s what.

Ten years later, and I’m still sitting in class daydreaming about how awesome it would be if Pokemon were real.

I’ve never been good at darts.

If you were one of those people that April Fooled somebody yesterday...on April 2nd...then you are an awful person and I hope you drown in dining hall cream cheese.

I will gladly fight anyone that doesn’t believe that the best episode of Scrubs was the one where the guy got the lightbulb stuck up his butt.

Finding Dory?? JUST TAKE ALL OF MY MONEY PIXAR If I could have any superpower I would grow the most awesome, longest beard in history. And then be so awesome that I wouldn’t even need a superpower anymore.

Prayers still going out to Kevin Ware.

When I’m old I’m going to wear a bow tie every single day of my life. Laugh at me you say? How dare you.

I’m just the sweet looking old guy with a fresh bow tie.

More than anything do I just want Danny DeVito to be my dad.

Tuesday was going to be a productive day. Then out of nowhere Netflix turned on an now it’s 2 a.m. and I am sad sad excuse for an engineering major.

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It’s time to end April Fool’s Day

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he illustrious holiday that takes place every year on the first of April known as “April Fool’s Day,” has a history, involving a Chaucerian mistranslation, a French poet and lions taking a bath in the Tower of London. But it harkens back to an old Roman holiday (as they all seem to do) of Hilaria. That’s not a joke. Check the calendar.

And while, like any other holiday, it occurs once a year and we get to have a few chuckles

By John D. Nitowski when we taste our salted coffee, or sufWeekly Columnist fer a case of short sheets or maybe an early morning cold shower. April Fools Day seems to have gotten lazy.

I went onto Reddit (shocking, I know) and found many subs blocked. Apparently closing down a website counts as an April Fool’s prank. I went on some of my favorite show and gaming sites and found some very elaborate pranks. Paradox interactive put a lot of thought into “Crusader Kings Z,” an expansion for their very popular “Crusader Kings II.” The original game allows you to play as a medieval dynasty and conquer Europe. The “expansion” would let you control a zombie horde. Not only did they post a bunch of screenshots from this “game,” they even put in a list of all the new features that had everyone who plays this game salivating at the mouth.

Not a single person responded, “Oh, haha!

That’s funny!”

Another lame example: I read the Game of Thrones series of books. On their sub, there was a massive controversy over a “Ranging Initiative.” This was supposedly a viral marketing campaign put out by George R.R. Martin’s publishers where they allowed the moderators of various fansites of “A Song of Ice and Fire” a sneak peek at the first 12 or so chapters.

The mods took this and went all out with it: they created legal ramifications about how they weren’t allowed to show any one. They talked about how OTHER websites’ moderators decided it wasn’t fair to the fanbase and refused to take part in it. In other words, it looked real. To top it off, one of the mods posted their own thing about how despicable and unfair it was, naming certain offenders and calling them out for it.

At the end of the day, I didn’t know what was going on, so I just left.

After they added Orangered and Periwinkle dots I considered leaving Reddit forever. (Which is probably a good decision regardless.)

I’m trying to make three points here regarding April Fool’s Day: 1. If it doesn’t make people laugh, then it’s not funny. Now, some of you may argue that the Paradox interactive developers who created parts of a fake game chuckled, or that the Reddit moderators had a good time. Sure, but the point should be to look back and say, “Yea. That WAS a hilarious prank.” Saying, “Hey! See this wonderful thing? Let me tell you ALL about it…”

See what’s missing? You’re supposed to go, “April Fools!” at the end. Everyone seems to have forgotten this rule.

2. Imagine this scenario: it’s April 1st. I run a store. A man walks into my store. He wants to buy a soda and a pack of gum. I tell the man, “We don’t serve your kind.”

Of course, he uses this store all the time. So he laughs. But I stonewall him. I stare him down. He puts $5 on the counter. I still refuse to accept his money and say, “No, get out of here.” There’s a brief awkward moment.

And he leaves the store.

After he leaves, it’s funny to me because ha! I made him leave. But now I’ve lost his business forever.

Much less funny. In fact, it’s incredibly stupid.

3. All of this happens on the Internet. It apparently takes too much effort to fold someone’s sheets so they can’t get in bed properly, or to even just flush the toilet while someone’s in the shower. Instead, you can tap tap tap away at your keyboard and leave a well-crafted, sadistic, and all around not-funny joke up there for people to go, “Ugh, this.”

So that’s something to keep in mind next year. 1. We may get the joke, but the joke may not be funny. 2. Know when to quit. 3. Enter the real world. Put some effort in. Otherwise, I’m going to have to cancel April 1.

“One main point about April Fool’s Day: If it doesn’t make people laugh, then it’s not funny.”

Weekly columnist John D. Nitowski is an 8thsemester English major. He can be reached at John.Nitowski@UConn.edu.

Future USG elections need to be reformed

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ecently, Shiv Gandhi received 340 more votes than Edward Courchaine in the USG Presidential Election.

However, due to a series of minor rules violations by Gandhi and his campaign team, he was forced to forfeit the election, and Courchaine was declared the winner by default.

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By Gregory Koch unfortuStaff Columnist nate that the will of the student electorate was not recognized because of some small violations. The USG Judiciary was wrong to overturn the results of the election and force Gandhi to forfeit based on small violations.

The point of having student elections is to allow the student will to be recognized in choosing their new president. The student body chose Gandhi as evidenced by the fact that he won by 340 votes.

However, the USG Judiciary chose to ignore that fact and declare Courchaine the winner. This is unfair to the student body and to Gandhi.

One of the violations Gandhi committed was campaigning at an event sponsored by USG. However, this is not Gandhi’s fault because

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he was unaware that the event was sponsored by USG. After all, he was invited to speak there by the organizers of the event. Furthermore, it was the job of the comptroller – who happened to be Gandhi’s opponent, Courchaine, to post USG-sponsored events on the USG website, and he failed to do so. If Courchaine had done his job, Gandhi would have known he could not campaign at the fashion event. It is unfair to disqualify Gandhi because Courchaine failed to do so, and this unfairness is compounded by the fact that Courchaine was declared the winner as an indirect result of his failure to do his job.

Another violation was Gandhi campaigner David Rifkin campaigning without permission from a proper authority. However, Rifkin was given instructions from Gandhi, and was merely confused because it was the first day. While it would make sense to hold Rifkin responsible for his own actions, it is inappropriate to hold Gandhi responsible because his worker failed to follow instructions.

USG could have banned Rifkin from campaigning in the future for a set period of time. They could have also prevented him from running

for office in the future himself. Either one would be reasonable discipline for his violations. However, it is unfair to punish the entire campaign so severely for one worker’s improper actions.

Furthermore, Rifkin is a USG Senator. If even he is unable to figure out whether his actions violate USG Policy, even though he was one of the people who created and approved that policy, it is a sign that the policies are too confusing. How can we expect everyone else to understand and follow the policies when the people who create them can not?

This is not the first time a campaign has been accused of violations. In at least the past two years, one or more campaigns have faced similar allegations. In each case, they were found guilty, but not disqualified. However, Judiciary Chief Justice Shawn Pilares says that the “institution does not rely on precedent.” This is troublesome. If each decision is not based on precedent, then what is it based on? That is unclear, and judging by the inconsistencies between this case and previous cases, the Judiciary probably can not explain it either.

If Gandhi had wanted to

run a dirty campaign, he could have filed allegations against Courchaine accusing him of minor violations and sought to get him disqualified.

Considering how many people Courchaine had supporting him, it is likely one of them committed similar violations to the ones Rifkin committed. Considering how unclear the policies are, I would not blame that person.

Had Gandhi done that, presumably the Judiciary would have had to disqualify Courchaine as well, leaving us with no candidates.

Or perhaps they would have opted not to disqualify either candidate in such a situation, thus applying the policies differently. We have no way of knowing.

However, Gandhi took the high road – he wanted to win by the will of the students, not by disqualification on some silly rule. It is a shame that Courchaine refused to do the same.

Staf f Columnist Gregory Koch is a 6th-semester actuarial science major. He can be reached at Gregory.Koch@UConn.edu.

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UConn’s Encore was named the best dance crew Tuesday night at the Jorgensen during the UConn’s Best Dance Crew competition where dance groups battled for first place.

Hosted by the UConn AllStars, UBDC was brought back this year and showcased the talents of Encore, Luminous and the All-Stars. The groups performed in waves for each section of the night. The judging panel included a faculty member, a student and an AllStar team member.

Emcees Vicky and Amanda began the show with roll calls to audience members from all over campus and by sharing their pranks during April Fool’s. They introduced the hosts of the show and first performance of the night, the UConn All-Stars.

The all girl’s step team took the stage with attitude and confidence, stepping and chanting their routine out. At times they each did their own freestyles and even broke off into groups doing different steps. The performance also included members chanting to the others, and having all the girls join in on sing-song chants like “Move, get out of my way. I do my thing when I step so I need my space.”

Next up, Encore did routines to songs such as “You’re Just Too Good To Be True,” which featured couple dances, and old school steps to songs such as “Mo’ Money Mo’ Problems.” Following them was the new upcoming collaboration of singers, rappers, producers and songwriters called Luminous. The duo had back up dancers to their rap and R&B self-made music. Both teams performed once more each before intermission.

One of the All-Star steppers took over the intermission, calling for a battle between audience members. She invited whoever wanted to com-

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Members of Encore show their moves during ‘UConn’s Best Dance Crew,’ a competition held at Jorgensen Tuesday night to determine which of UConn’s dance groups would come out on top.

pete up to the stage and had four volunteers battle out at first before three more joined up on stage. The crowd determined the final four contestants out of the seven; cheering for the ones they liked the best. It was down to two girls and two guys, but in the end the ladies took the prize with moves that had the

crowd roaring.

The show continued with the “Tell A Story Round” which began with Encore’s dance to “Dreaming with a Broken Heart.” Their performance included two males and one female with props set up to show the men mourning the death of the female and trying to give her flow-

ers. The All-Stars closed the show with a dance routine that included Richard Smith and the female dancers, as well as chairs for props to songs like “Bad” by Wale.

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The Student Union Theater will be filled with bathrobes and burgers Saturday night when WHUS 91.7, UConn’s radio station, hosts a screening of ‘The Big Lebowski’ at 7 p.m. Saturday night.

Directed by the Coen brothers and starring John Goodman, Steve Buscemi and the titular Lebowski, Jeff Bridges’ The Dude, the simultaneously high and low concept comedy became a cult hit almost immediately after its release. Few saw it in theaters, but those who did knew they had seen something special. Fifteen years after its initial release, the film still has a fervent following; the “Lebowski Fest,” a festival celebrating the Coen brothers, has been held across the country annually for more than a decade.

Saturday’s screening is free for everyone. According to a Facebook event sponsored by WHUS, virgin White Russians, burgers and other goodies will be served; all guests who wear robes, bowling outfits or are otherwise recognizably dressed as a character will receive free WHUS t-shirts, with even more giveaways promised.

“However, this is not ‘Nam, this is UConn,” the event page continued; guests cannot get away without wearing shoes or pants despite what the characters wear during the film.

Entertainment Weekly has lauded the film often; at the end of 2008, it named “Lebowski” the eighth-funniest film made between 1983 and 2008; it was also named the 15th-best cult hit made between 1983 and 2008 that year. Famous critic Roger Ebert added the film to his legendary “Great Movies” list in March 2010.

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‘Mudding’ was ‘BUCKWILD’ reality star’s medication

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The sport of tearing into trails in backwoods in trucks and all-terrain vehicles, known among enthusiasts as “muddin’,” is a part of life for many amateur daredevils who love to get dirty in rural West Virginia, just as it was for “BUCKWILD” cast member Shain Gandee.

It was a fitting pastime for the 21-year-old, one of the stars on a show that warned viewers not to mimic the “wild and crazy behavior” they witnessed — swearing, fighting, four-wheeling, even swimming in the bed of a dump truck-turned-swimming-pool.

He and two others were found dead inside an SUV on Monday about a mile from Gandee’s Sissonville home. The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department said Tuesday that autopsies confirmed they died of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning.

The vehicle was stuck so deep in a mud pit that its tail pipe was submerged; it is possible the gas flooded the cabin because of the clogged exhaust.

In one episode, he describes four-wheeling as a stress-reliever: “This is my medication right here,” he says before getting stuck in a mud pit and blowing up his engine. And there was no place he enjoyed being more than behind the wheel in the woods, said Gandee’s cousin Ashley Gandee Lewis.

Just two days before he died, Gandee had gone mudding with people he met Saturday at the grand opening of her general store in Proctorville, Ohio.

“He said, ‘Let’s go!’ And they went,” Lewis said. “Mudding’s just taking your vehicle and finding the biggest mud holes you can get, and seeing how fast you can get through them.

You can fish tail it sideways or get stuck.

“It’s just about having a good time. It’s just about making memories.”

Authorities said Gandee, his 48-year-old uncle, David Gandee, and 27-year-old Donald Robert Myers were last seen around 3 a.m. Sunday at a bar and they told people they were going driving off-road.

The SUV was found by one of Shain Gandee’s friends next to a trail used by four-wheel drive vehicles, about 15 miles outside of Charleston.

The network has not said whether it was filming Gandee at the bar Sunday morning or after he left.

A four-wheeling charity event was being planned, with donations going to Gandee’s family for funeral costs.

Jim Humphrey, a salesman at Morgantown Power Sports, said mudding is just a part of the Mountain State’s history. People who live near lakes and oceans buy speedboats and personal watercraft. People who live near mountains and mud buy fourwheelers, he said.

“People around here just like to get muddy and have fun,” said Humphrey, whose dealership sells 40 to 50 all-terrain vehicles a month at an average price of about $6,500.

West Virginia has an abundance of designated riding trails, including the 600mile Hatfield-McCoy Trails network, which lets tourists and local alike traverse seven West Virginia counties. Local officials say riders have come from as far as Alaska and Canada.

But Humphrey, who used to ride two or three times a week, said locals often prefer to forge their own paths.

“That’s part of it, just the adventure,” he said. “Just getting away from work or whatever.”

That thrill-seeking isn’t without risk. Statistics on off-road fatalities weren’t immediately available, but there were 588 ATV-related deaths reported from 1982-2011, the most recent statistics available from the state Division of Motor Vehicles. Of those, 144 occurred from 20082011.

People more commonly use ATVs, not trucks, Humphrey said.

“BUCKWILD” boasted millions of viewers during its first season and had already begun shooting season two, though it was not without detractors, including U.S. Sen. and former West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin.

He asked MTV to cancel the show in September, telling the network’s president in a letter that the show profits off of “poor decisions of our youth” and that it plays to ugly, inaccurate stereotypes about the people of West Virginia.

“MTV didn’t make those kids do anything that those kids didn’t already do,” Lewis said.

“It’s not like they forced anybody to do anything.”

Shooting for the second season of “BUCKWILD” has been suspended because of Gandee’s death, according to an MTV spokesman.

Manchin was asked about the show again Tuesday during an appearance in Charleston, but he held back any harsh words.

“It’s just awful for a young person, very bright and promising, to have this happen,” he said. “The series, that’s immaterial, it really is. This is all about family, it’s about losing a loved one at such a young age.”

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online dating: earned or unearned?

By Imaani Cain Campus Correspondent Occasionally, you’re at college and you’re single (and perhaps a bit desperate), in an open relationship or maybe you can communicate better with people when you’ve gotten the opportunity to think over your words and write them out. Online dating is usually a thing that people turn to, although it seems to be slightly stigmatized among college students. The idea is that those who register on online dating websites are unattractively desperate, and that the relationships forged on the Internet are lesser in value because they don’t often include face-to-face interaction.

Certain dating sites (such as OkCupid and Plenty of Fish) ask the user to fill out a questionnaire so as to find a stronger match. You are able to see other people’s responses to questions and determine if you’d like to meet them, or if there is even the slightest possibility of chemistry.

Friends have told me the horrifying answers they’ve seen (the most bizarre of which seems to be the ever-popular response of “both are good” to the question “Which is worse, starving children or abused animals”), the skeevy, hypersexual messages they’ve received. Despite this, they have kept their accounts in hopes they will find a partner to suit their needs, be it casual, no-strings-attached sex or the prospect of a loving relationship.

A female student that I asked responded “I try and be cautious with it, because I feel like people portray different parts of their personality to try and meet you. I think it can be sketchy, but I also think it can work out. Certain parts of it can be sus…I do think it’s a little sus, you know?”

Her statement encapsulates a fear that a lot of people have had (or currently have) towards online dating and/ or flirting. There is a certain apprehension with the internet, that people cannot be trusted on it. The documentary (and TV show that spawned from it) “Catfish” has only increased a sense of paranoia.

As the student said, it can be decidedly ‘sus’; there are people who do lie about their identity and/or appearance on the internet, only to shy away once a chance for a physical meeting turns up.

There is also a more earnest fervor for those doing online dating, an intense desire to be as charming as possible. It’s possible that people feel the urge to compensate, as they can’t step through the computer and woo you in a corporeal sense. Is such earnestness attractive, or undesirable?

In our technological era, it is more than commonplace to want to reach out to people through electronics. We exchange numbers for texting purposes and request each other’s Facebook and Skype names. It’s incredibly interesting that there is such a stigma against online dating, when we as a society have fully embraced all other aspects of technology-based communication and/or flirting.

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FILE - This Jan. 2, 2013 file photo shows Shain Gandee, from MTV’s ‘Buckwild’ reality series in New York. Gandee was found dead Monday, April 1, in a sport utility vehicle in a ditch along with his uncle and a third, unidentified person, authorities said.

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Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel (PS3, 360) 5.0/10 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 (PS3, 360) - 7.5/10 HarmoKnight (3DS) 6.0/10 Shattered Haven (PC) 5.0/10 ME3 Citadel DLC)- 9.0/10

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Upcoming Releases April 2 Defiance (PC, 360, PS3) Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge (PS3, 360) SimCity (MAC) Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves (PC) Battleblock Theater (360) April 9 Age of Empires II HD Edition (PC) Age of Wushu (PC) Halo 4: Castle Map Pack (360) Dillon’s Rolling Western: The Last Ranger (3DS) Schedule from Gamespot.com

Focus Favorites Civilization V PC A single game of ‘Civilization V’ will teach you more about diplomacy and economics than you’ll ever learn in a standard university class. Anyone who’s ever given ‘Civ V’ a try will almost assuredly agree.

You get to play god as you lead a civilization from pre history into the atomic age. The turn based strategy of ‘Civ V’ will have you diplomatically making treaties, engaging in or avoiding warfare, and dividing your resources to allow your Civilization to succeed or fail in select disciplines. Do you wish to become a nuclear power and conquer the world? Or emphasize cooperation? The choice is yours.

To call ‘Civ’ addictive is an understatement those who find themselves in a “just one more turn” mentality will soon discover that they’ve been playing until five in the morning. It’s that good.

As for those who’ve given the games’ wildly popular multiplayer mode a try (the game has consistently ranked among the top 5-10 played on Steam at any given time, with tens of thousands of players online daily), they know they’re in for a sophisticated match of wits the likes of which put ‘Risk’ to shame.

If you have a passing interest in history, strategy, or are simply looking for an addictive new time sink, look no further than ‘Sid Meier’s Civilization V.’ -Alex Sferrazza

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A screenshot from 2K’s ‘Bioshock Infinite,’ showcasing the game’s breathtaking visuals and its unique, airborne city Columbia. ‘Infinite’ lives up to its predecessors and then some, with inventive gameplay and a compelling story.

‘Bioshock Infinite’ shows and tells with excellent skill

By Alex Sferrazza Staff Writer To say that “Bioshock Infinite” has garnered high praise in the week since its release would be a gross understatement.

Ken Levine and Irrational Games’ long awaited follow up to 2007’s “Bioshock” has already been called, among other things, both a masterpiece and one of the greatest games of all time. These praises are an understatement. “Bioshock Infinite” is the single most fully realized artistic expression of the 21st century.

While “Bioshock Infinite” in many ways mirrors its predecessor throughout the campaign, beginning with an all too familiar tip to a lighthouse, it immediately becomes apparent from the first few minutes that we’re not in the underwater dystopia of Rapture anymore.

Enter “Columbia,” a floating city in the sky where the founding fathers of the United States are worshipped as deities and a corrupt racist claiming to be a prophet named Zachary Comstock is worshiped as a savior. While at first Columbia seems to be a peaceful utopia, it becomes apparent all too soon that it hides a world

Bioshock Infinite PC, PS3, 360 11/10 (yeah, really)

of power abusers and an increasingly powerful resistance to Comstock and his “founders,” the Vox Populi.

You play as Booker DeWitt, a mysterious figure who finds himself in Columbia as part of a deal to wipe away his gambling debts in exchange for the retrieval of a girl named Elizabeth.

Soon enough you’ll meet up with Elizabeth, who is truly the star of the game. A modern 1912 update of Rapunzel, this brave yet naive 20-something girl has been locked in her tower her entire life.

With her wit, charm and unique perspective, she provides the backbone for the mysteries surrounding this corrupt city.

With her unique ability to open tears into the fabric of space, she proves to be as helpful as she is dangerous.

During your 15+ hour journey through Columbia, you’ll witness amazing sights as the plot becomes increasingly thicker and the content delves deeper into the racist, nationalist and philosophical struggles which define the experience, in the end crafting an unprecedented and deeply moving experience unmatched by nearly anything else in existence.

Like its predecessor, “Bioshock Infinite” is most simply defined as a first person shooter.

In addition to a health meter, the player is now provided a shield, which regenerates after destruction. “Salts,” meanwhile, power fuel super power granting “Vigors,” new plasmids. All three can be upgraded over the course of the title.

Gunplay has been simplified from the first game. Gone are multiple types of ammo, and, only two weapons can now be carried at a time. From a technical perspective, the weapons in “Bioshock” tended to feel a bit clunky; this is no longer an issue. Every weapon in “Infinite” controls like a dream and makes frequent head shots not only possible but an incredibly rewarding challenge. The roller coasteresque skyline also makes combat a lot of fun with an incredible sense of speed.

It must be said that the game’s default difficulty setting (medium) proves to be a bit too easy. I’d recommend that those looking for a typical challenge play the game on “Hard” while those looking for a true hardcore experience should give the super hard “1999 mode” (which can be unlocked by entering the Konami code at the main menu) a try.

The game isn’t just one of the few elite AAA titles that manages to live up to an extraordinarily high level of hype, it’s one of a handful that manages to exceed it by single handedly re-defining the question “What is a video ‘game’?” and challenging perceptions of what a video game can be.

‘Survival Instinct’ bites

‘Walking Dead’ adaptation is pure torture

By Joe O’Leary Focus Editor

There are now two “Walking Dead” video games available in stores. The first, simply titled “The Walking Dead,” is an excellent collection of original adventure game episodes released from April to November 2012, based loosely on the comics the TV show was also adapted from.

The main difference between the first “Walking Dead” and the recently-released “The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct,” other than their differing source material (the latter is based on the TV show), is that the first is great while the second is absolutely atrocious. The two takes on the same basic concept, survival in a post-apocalyptic universe, but where the first takes a realistic and hard-to-stomach story full of drama and hard decisions, the second is content to layer Daryl Dixon’s face on its main character’s face, the rest a single-player “Left 4 Dead” ripoff with what seemed to be a third of the original’s budget.

Playing as Daryl seemed like

a can’t-miss prospect last summer, when the game was released, but it’s clear there was a lack of interest in following up on any actual gameplay. Mostly, Dixon wanders from point A to point B, arbitrarily stopping at different places to find fuel or food, but every experience is the same.

Daryl walks into a zombieinfested zone. If he crouches, zombies can’t hear him, for some reason. Your enemies can only be killed with blows to the head; in game speak, this translates to mashing the knife button four times, sneaking up behind a zombie and mashing the knife button once or shooting them with one of many weapons that all handle the exact same way, the gunshot of which will attract more zombies. Every encounter becomes a chore because gameplay simply does not change with the scenery; it’s the same four stabs every time, occasionally broken up by a crappy twobutton quicktime event that plays out the same way.

Gunplay is especially vapid; my roommates compared “Survival Instinct” to an Onion video parody from a few years ago called “Close Range,” about a video game where the only function is to shoot random people in the head. “Survival Instinct” ends up playing the exact same way

The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct 360 2/10

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A zombie from ‘The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct,’ Activision’s new adaptation of the hit AMC TV show.

every experience, becoming a sluggish war against boredom first and zedheads second, knife after knife going through head after head when they’re not exploding into bits.

That’s the entire thing. The game’s promise dies in a fire almost immediately after a promising beginning that gives the Dixon brothers much-needed backstory in the full series, a decent interpretation of the show’s great opening credits almost lending enough cred to keep players interested. Of

course, the game is a piece of crap foisted onto the public as yet another unnecessary firstperson shooter full of repetitive death and frustration. Stick to Telltalte’s “Walking Dead” games. While they aren’t as active, being adventure games, they have purely human elements sorely missing in “Survival Instinct.”

To deal with “Survival Instinct,” treat it like a zombie: run far away. If that’s not enough, shoot it.

Joseph.O’Leary@UConn.edu

The “Rock Band” series ended its five-year streak of new, interesting DLC yesterday with the release of “American Pie,” the final first-run content developers Harmonix will add to the game in the near future. While a fitting final track for the game, some answers were still left unanswered by the crowds I spoke to at PAX East, whether they were waiting for freeplay at a “Rock Band” stage or having dinner while watching some basketball. Where were the Metallica tracks, when only five of their songs made it into the series? What about Muse, who only had one song? Or Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd, notably absent from Rock Band’s proceedings?

While not all of the answers to these questions can be discussed in full detail (due to vague requests by Harmonix leaders at the PAX East panel they revealed some interesting information at), some good ones did come out.

For instance, the question of Muse, whose “Hysteria” appeared early in 2008, but despite rumors never made it back into the franchise. While a likely culprit would be an exclusive licensing agreement with Activision’s “Guitar Hero” franchise, Harmonix stressed that music licensing, which can involve more than a dozen independent parties, played a big part in negotiations.

Another reason popular bands never made it in; while Muse had been requested more than 600,000 times on the official “Rock Band” song request websites, a popular forum post with 1.2 million views had only been seen by a fraction of that, only one percent of those views being from actual posters in the thread.

Other popular bands with cults of personality on the Internet were negatively affected by a few fans’ fervent following with an absence of interest by mainstream gamers.

As for announced games, such as 2008’s “Rock Band Japan,” international licensing was a big issue, as was Harmonix’s attempt to force a game with large peripherals into a culture with small living spaces. As for a planned collection of Pearl Jam live tracks, complete with “Backspacer” animations and live video, unexplained problems made it difficult for the project, though Harmonix stressed no beef with any actual musicians or publishing companies. (Their tumultuous history with Viacom and MTV Games, which ended with the company being sold and a massive lawsuit, got a few pointed jokes at its expense).

As for Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Guns ‘n’ Roses and other releases you may have seen once on a message board

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Focus

‘Slender: The Arrival’ terrifying, Stones returning to stage: Why should we care? adventurous fun for the PC

By Stephen Skudlarek Campus Correspondent

You’re walking down a dark path in the woods at night. All around you, the forest’s birds chirp happily. Glancing up above the tree line, you see the end of a beautiful sunset as night begins to fall; the stars slowly wink into existence in the sky as the sun continues to drop. The last thing you would feel at that moment is any sense of danger, but as you follow the path through the woods, you come across a strange piece of paper attached to a tree. It has a stick figure picture of a tall man with no face, and the words “Can’t run” on it. Thinking nothing of it, you pull the paper off the tree and fold it into your pocket.

The change is instantaneous.

The second after picking up the paper, all of the birds stop chirping, the sky suddenly turns to night and you can’t shake the feeling that you’re being watched. As you continue through the woods, trying to find an exit, you keep finding these strange pages. After the third one you pick up, you begin to notice how dark the forest has become. A heavy fog has come out of nowhere to obscure your vision; the sky has grown so black that you can’t even see the stars anymore. Directly ahead of you, something flashes past a group of trees, just as the video camera you’re holding is overwhelmed by inexplicable static.

It’s at that moment when you realize that your suspicions were correct: something is hiding in the fog, but it’s not watching you–it’s hunting you.

If you’ve had this experience before, you’ve likely played the 2012 PC title “Slender: The Eight Pages,” arguably one of the scariest games ever made. In Slender, players take on the role of an unnamed protagonist, who must collect eight mysterious pages randomly located throughout the forest. The player is pitted against Slender Man, a tall, faceless specter who wears a suit and crushes his victims using his unnaturally long arms. The most terrifying

Photo courtesy of joystiq.com

In ‘Slender: The Arrival,’ players must find a friend kidnapped by ‘Slender Man,’ a villain who got his start on Internet forums.

aspect of the game is that the player is given no weapons whatsoever–just a flashlight and a camera that experiences static and distortion when Slender Man is near.

The player can only defeat Slender Man by collecting all eight pages; if he finds you before that point, your only options are to run or die.

The sequel, “Slender: The

Slender: The Arrival PC 8.5/10

Arrival” continues the infamous series, improving many areas that were lacking in the first game.

The game actually has a story this time around, setting the player on a quest to discover the whereabouts of their missing friend, Kate. After the prologue chapter, which plays out kind of like a creepy detective story in Kate’s trashed house, the game turns back to its roots.

The second level is a reimagining of the forest from the first game, but with a larger area and clearer landmarks and buildings.

One of the main problems with the first game was that the lighting was so terrible and the game environment so plain that players would easily become lost. The terror players felt would soon give way to frustration and boredom.

In this installment, each area of the level feels distinct and easy to navigate, and the settings feel more terrifying than ever.

My main issue with the game is its graphics. While the first

Slender had graphics so terrible it practically looked like it was drawn with crayon, “Slender: The Arrival” has the opposite problem.

This game’s high-definition graphics look crisp and beautiful, especially in some of the more well-lit areas. At first, I was amazed at how fantastic the game looked.

After trying to actually play the game, I experienced some of the worst frame rate problems I’ve ever had.

I own a fairly powerful gaming laptop, which can handle most challenges with ease. However, even on low to medium graphics quality, my laptop was constantly struggling to keep up with Slender.

Part of the allure of the first game was that since it wasn’t too complicated of a game, most computers could probably run it without issue. The hard truth is that unfortunately, many fans of the series will be unable to play this game without a powerful computer.

That aside, “Slender: The Arrival” is absolutely terrifying.

The story is intriguing, and if you can run it, the game looks great.

Slender Man doesn’t look like a cardboard cutout anymore, which is a definite plus. In terms of fright value, I’d put this game right next to other legendary survival horror franchises like Dead Space, Resident Evil and Amnesia. If you’re looking for a good scare, this game is worth its $10 price tag–just make sure that you have the hardware to run it first.

Stephen.Skudlarek@UConn.edu

NEW YORK (AP) — Ladies and gentlemen, the Rolling Stones.

With Wednesday’s expected announcement of a new Stones tour, those words will again signal the start of a rock ‘n’ roll show. Young music fans may wonder why there’s still a fuss over dad’s, or grandpa’s, favorite band. Here are five reasons to care.

1. LIVING HISTORY: Elvis Presley is dead. The Beatles will never perform again. The Who is down to two originals.

Membership of rock’s Greatest Generation is fading. The Stones, Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney are links to a special time in music history, and you can still see them in concert. If the Stones’ form of classic rock moves you, it’s hard to conceive of a band today building such an impressive catalog in the same style.

Fashion, and the business, has moved on.

2. LIVE BAND: They’ll never admit it, but deep down the Stones surely know they haven’t made memorable new music in decades. They have, however, kept their chops and deliver the songs you want to hear with power and precision. You can’t find a better Stones tribute band.

The Stones are fully aware of

AP

FILE - This Dec. 15, 2012 file photo shows lead singer Mick Jagger, left, and Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones during a performance at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.

their best work; you won’t hear a flabby show. The past few times out, it has been more than greatest hits performed on autopilot.

3. KEITH RICHARDS: There was a time, kids, when Keith was a menace to society, a walking advertisement of the evils of drugs. Now he’s a beloved figure, humanized by one of rock’s best biographies and the model for Johnny Depp’s Capt. Jack Sparrow character in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” series. He’s your cool, crazy uncle. He plays a pretty decent guitar, too.

4. CHARLIE’S FACE: There’s no better facial expression in rock ‘n’ roll than the bemused

one worn by drummer Charlie Watts as he takes in the madness around him. Watch Watts when Mick Jagger does a particularly audacious chicken strut.

5. THE LAST TIME: We’ll be surprised if this is labeled as some sort of retirement tour; they’ve been subjected to so many age jokes over the years that the topic itself is old. And these men are in surprisingly good shape for the years of hard living. But Richards and Jagger are 69, and Watts will be 72 in June. Reality is catching up. Probably even before they expect it, they’ll be singing “The Last Time” for the last time.

‘Bioshock’ dense, remarkable and transcendent from INFINITE, page 6 “Bioshock Infinite” is an incredibly fun first person shooter, far more sophisticated and well realized than your annual “Call of Duty” fare, both in terms of gameplay and story telling.

It takes the wondrous city of

Columbia, packs it as densely as possible with hidden secrets, throws in a remarkable cast of fully realized characters, and wraps it all together in a narrative so brilliantly intricate that it will prove confusing to those who fail to pay close attention. Those who do will be rewarded with

amazing senses of wonder and awe. And when the game finally reveals its megaton secrets, you’ll be left so astounded that you simply will not believe what you just saw. (For more, see the extensive, online-exclusive version of this article at dailycampus.com.)

Alex.Sferrazza@UConn.edu

Gamer’s Piece: Floyd, Zepp and ‘Rock Band’ answers from PAX EAST, page 6

somewhere? Never existed because they never had an opportunity to exist, Harmonix revealed. The Guns ‘n’ Roses collection was always a lie, however, while some interesting information that you can

probably find on the Internet was shown concerning concept art of potential “Rock Band” games surrounding the other two bands, presumably made, shown and rejected around the time of 2009’s “The Beatles: Rock Band.” I’ll leave you

with this: some hammers were falling in one stylized screenshot, while an exclusive video sample was very Nordic, almost like it should have had an “Immigrant Song” of some kind backing it…

Joseph.O’Leary@UConn.edu

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Comics

COMICS

PHOTO OF THE DAY

Fuzzy and Sleepy

by Matt Silber

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Side of Rice

by Laura Rice

Students from all over came to McMahon for International Game Night where participants were able to play some pool, videogames and ping pong with friends.

Classic I Hate Everything

by Carin Powell

An Irish Bull

by Carleton Whaley

Classic Stickcat

by Karl, Jason, Fritz and Chan

Horoscopes

by Brian Ingmanson

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- You’re learning quickly. Provide motivation and teach others, too. Don’t give advice unless asked. Use charm and persuasion. Gain more than expected.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 9 -Advance to the next level. Your intuition is right on target. Friends are glad to lend a hand. A surprise visitor could pop up. Let folks know what you want.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is an 8 -Concentrate on doing what you promised. With power comes responsibility. Do the math, and don’t drop out any numbers. You’re learning fast.

Act decisively.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -There’s more money available; haste is essential to take advantage. It’s a good time to apply for a raise. A lucky discovery brings sought-after information.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- The money is available, once you agree. This could be a lucky break. Plan your course of action, line up the team and get the word out. Love is the most important part.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -Expand your influence. Travel beckons. A dream shows you the way. Be prepared, so you can move quickly when necessary. Accept a partner’s recommendation.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Dreamy interludes could pleasantly distract, but creative shortcuts aren’t a good idea. Keep art elements subtle. There’s more work coming. Your idea works!

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 9 -Reinvent who you are for one another. Create something completely new in your relationship, and be pleasantly surprised by what you discover. All you need is love.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- It’s easier to make money this weekend, but there’s also a risk of pushing yourself too hard.

Balance things so you don’t get burned out. Rest is important.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 9 -- You’re lucky in love again, this weekend and until the middle of May. Your creativity comes in handy to solve problems. Be childish, and play full out.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is an 8 -- This weekend is good for making changes at home.

Think of your house like a blank canvas, and create the perfect space for who you are and what you’re committed to.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 9 -- Your capacity to learn is increased, starting with a great weekend. Be open to new opportunities.

Failures become successes.

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Sports

» NCAA MEN'S HOCKEY

Two Connecticut rivals could meet for national title

HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) — Going into the Frozen Four, the center of the college hockey world may very well be around New Haven, Connecticut.

Rivals Yale and Quinnipiac, whose campuses are less than 10 miles apart along Interstate 91, make up half of the schools playing for the NCAA championship.

Oh yeah, and they don't like each other.

"If you come to one of the games, you see it at Quinnipiac or at Yale, it's a rivalry," Quinnipiac coach Rand Pecknold said Tuesday. "It's gotten pretty good at the games at Yale. And the ones here, I don't think it's a game, it's an event. It's a big-time event and there is certainly a buzz when we play."

Quinnipiac is 10-5-2 against Yale and won all three meetings this season. But both teams have some work to do

if they want to play each other for a fourth time.

Quinnipiac (29-7-5), the regular-season ECAC champions and the top-ranked team in the nation, takes on St. Cloud State (25-15-1), in one national semifinal next Thursday. Yale (20-12-3) faces Hockey East champion UMass-Lowell (2810-2) in the other semifinal in Pittsburgh.

Because of that, Yale coach Keith Allaine declined to even talk about his Connecticut rivals on Tuesday.

"I'm not really sure what it means for the area," he said.

"Our focus right now is on our hockey team and UMassLowell."

Yale hasn't been to a national semifinal since 1952, when there were only four teams in the tournament.

Quinnipiac, which joined the ECAC just eight years ago, is in just its second NCAA tour-

nament, and has never been to the Frozen Four. It was a Division II program until 1998.

Yale upset the West Region top-seed Minnesota and North Dakota to make it to Pittsburgh.

The Bobcats, the tournament's top seed, won the East Region with wins over Canisius and Union.

There were fans were wearing T-shirts at the game that read, "Beat Yale."

Yale almost didn't get a chance to play in this season's NCAA tournament, thanks to Quinnipiac.

The Bobcats shut out the Bulldogs 3-0 in the consolation game of the ECAC tournament. Yale got the last at-large bid only after Notre Dame beat Michigan to knock the Wolverines from that slot.

"I don't feel like we got a second chance," Yale captain Andrew Miller said. "The body of work we did in the regular

season puts us in a position to play in the tournament."

Quinnipiac captain Zach Currie said he and his teammates are happy that both teams made it this far, but would not say if he'll be rooting for the Bulldogs.

"It's great for Connecticut, it's great for the ECAC, it's cool to see," he said. "It's interesting, but at the same time, we're focused on our next game."

There hasn't been much trash talking between the two teams.

Currie and his teammates say they don't socialize with the Yale players, and don't run into them around New Haven.

Bobcats goalie Eric Hartzell, a Hobey Baker finalist for the top college player, said they have a healthy respect for each other on the ice.

"Over the last three years, I seem to have a glove save every year against Miller," he

AP

Members of the Yale men's hockey team celebrate after defeating North Dakota 4-1 in the West Regional Final to earn their first trip to the Frozen Four since 1952.

said. "After every game this year, he just kind of gave me that eye and said good game and told me he hated me."

Miller would not say if he wants another shot at Hartzell and Quinnipiac.

"We want a shot to play for a national championship," he said "So we've put ourselves in a position to do that. If we get the opportunity to play in a national championship game, that would be great."

» SOCCER

Manager's fascist beliefs stir controversy at Sunderland

AP

Paolo Di Canio has come under fire after his appointment as the manager of English side Sunderland AFC due to his support of facism.

LONDON (AP) — Can someone who has admitted to supporting fascism manage a Premier League team?

That question has engulfed English football since Paolo Di Canio was hired by Sunderland on Sunday.

Within seconds of Sunderland trumpeting Di Canio's appointment, vice chairman David Miliband — a former British Foreign Secretary — responded by quitting the club in protest at the new manager's "past political statements."

The clearest was: "I am a fascist, not a racist."

There was also the straightarm salute Di Canio performed in 2005 in front of his Lazio team, which prompted FIFA to rebuke the Italian for performing a gesture adopted by the Italian Fascist regime in the early 20th century.

Di Canio's arrival into management in the world's richest football league has revived the controversies that followed him during a colorful playing career largely spent in Britain

and Italy.

One his first jobs on Monday was to meet with the Nelson Mandela Foundation, a partner of Sunderland, which wanted to discuss the row and seek assurances from the club about its commitment to fighting racism.

While Sunderland chief executive Margaret Byrne said Monday it was "insulting" to accuse Di Canio of "having fascist sympathies," the manager himself is refusing to distance himself from his past support of fascism.

In a heated media conference on Tuesday — as a Sunderland press officer tried to silence reporters — Di Canio was repeatedly asked if he was a fascist.

Each question was rebuffed by the former striker.

"I don't have to answer any more this question," he said, pointing to a statement Monday in which he denied being racist without addressing whether he is a fascist.

"My life speaks for me, so there is no need to speak any more about this situation because it's ridiculous and pathetic. I can't every two weeks, every two months, every 10 months answer the same questions that are not really in my area. We are in a football club and not in the House of Parliament. I'm not a political person. I will talk about only football."

Di Canio was hired a day after Martin O'Neill was fired Saturday following a 1-0 loss to Manchester United, which was designated "Nelson Mandela Day" at Sunderland to mark the new partnership with the hospitalized anti-apartheid leader's foundation.

Di Canio joined team executives in a meeting Monday with the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory's Sello Hatang, who confirmed they discussed "the public debates around Sunderland's new coach."

"At the heart of the partnership (with Sunderland) is a

commitment to our founder's values with a special focus on human rights and anti-racism," Hatang said. "At the meeting on Monday, Sunderland reaffirmed its commitment to these values and the ethos of the partnership.

"It must be stressed that the center's relationship is with the club, not with any individual in the club. " English football's anti-racism group, Kick It Out, was more explicit: asking Di Canio to clarify his political beliefs and warning that its activities can be "compromised by inappropriate statements."

"Football clubs have a responsibility to ensure that their employees demonstrate a commitment to anti-discrimination and equality of opportunity," Kick It Out said in a statement.

"It may be in the interest of both the club and Mr. Di Canio to acknowledge a full and frank commitment to these policies."

When Di Canio was given his first managerial job by Swindon in 2011, a leading trade union withdrew its sponsorship of the English club over his past expression of admiration for Italy's former fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.

And union activists in northeast England responded to Di Canio's arrival at Sunderland by expressing unhappiness at the fascist sympathies of the man who has played for Juventus, Napoli, AC Milan, Celtic and West Ham among other clubs

before retiring in 2008.

Durham Miners' Association General Secretary Dave Hopper, who worked in a colliery where Sunderland's stadium now stands, said Di Canio's appointment "is a disgrace and a betrayal of all who fought and died in the fight against fascism."

"The people who are talking in this way, they don't understand Paolo Di Canio," Di Canio responded. "I don't understand this problem."

The manager's task is keeping Sunderland in the Premier League, with the team sitting one point above the relegation zone with seven matches remaining.

Off the pitch, the club is now also fighting to salvage its reputation, with the Financial Times adding to the growing chorus of criticism.

"Struggling Sunderland is clearly gambling that the furor will be outweighed by the commercial benefit should Mr. Di Canio keep the club in the Premier League," the newspaper said in an editorial published online late Tuesday.

"This may be a mistake, but it is one that Sunderland must have the right to make. Its board should recognize, however, that the price tag is higher than it first thought."

Sunderland's American owner Ellis Short is yet to address the controversy consuming the 134-year-old club.

Huskies look to fix early-inning woes against Terriers from SHIPPING, page 12 With Guches and O’Donnell also producing at the plate, these four players have composed the bulk of the Huskies’ offense this season and will need to leave their mark on the game if UConn is going to leave Boston with a win.

In addition, Saveriano, who is currently projected to start, will need to continue her streak of dominant performances in this crucial road game. Saveriano is 10-4 this season with a 1.57 ERA, the most consistent pitcher in the rotation for Connecticut and the third-best in

the Big East.

The biggest struggle throughout the season has been to get settled early in games, which is costing them at the outset. In the loss to Quinnipiac at home last week, three of the four runs that gave the Bobcats the win were scored in the first two innings of the game.

Coach Karen Mullins said that they “can’t wait until the seventh inning to try and pull it out.” She said that it would take a stronger sense of “urgency” going into games if they want to walk away with wins.

Mullins has set the bar for the

season much higher than the No. 9 preseason Big East ranking, hoping to finish as “a top-five team in the conference.” After dropping two to Rutgers on the road, getting back on track with a non-conference game is likely the team’s best way to reassess where they stand before they continue their Big East season with games against Providence and Georgetown.

The game is scheduled to take place at 4 p.m. on the BU Softball Field in Boston. It can be followed live online via GameTracker.

Kyle.Constable@UConn.edu

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Sports

World Cup Qualifying heating up down stretch

By Miles DeGrazia Soccer Columnist

In just 436 days, Brazil will open the 2014 FIFA World Cup in the Itaquera district of São Paulo against an opponent that had a much tougher journey than them to the World Cup Finals.

Unlike Brazil, the 31 other nations must qualify for the World Cup via confederation tournaments, tournaments in and of themselves that often prove to be excruciatingly difficult. The qualification process takes two and a half years and must whittle 203 teams from six confederations down to just 31.

In FIFA’s weakest confederation, the Oceania Football Confederation, New Zealand clinched the OFC’s top spot during the last international break when they beat New Caledonia 2-1 via a 93rd minute goal by Ipswich Town’s Tommy Smith. With the win New Zealand earned a birth in the Intercontinental playoff against CONCACAF’s

(North and Central America) 4th place team to take place in November, in which the winner gets a birth in the World Cup. Moving slightly west in the world is the Asian Football Confederation, which has four guaranteed World Cup births and an Intercontinental playoff spot against CONMEBOL’s (South America) 5th place team. In Group A of the AFC 4th round, Uzbekistan, South Korea, Iran and Qatar all are still in contention for qualification while in Group B Japan have all but officially qualified leaving Jordan, Australia, Oman and Iraq all fighting for the last guaranteed AFC World Cup spot.

Just south of the AFC is Africa and their confederation CAF (Confederation of African Football). CAF’s qualification started with 53 teams for only five guaranteed World Cup births making it one of the toughest confederations to qualify from. Teams are currently half way through the second round of qualification in which the ten group winners will advance to the third

round and face off in homeand-away ties to determine who receives the five births.

Currently many of Africa’s big names such as South Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, Zambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Egypt, Algeria, Cameroon and Senegal still have a chance to qualify along with some unlikely teams such as Ethiopia, Tunisia, Tanzania, Malawi, Mali and Libya.

Europe is home to FIFA’s strongest confederation UEFA, which has 13 total World Cup places (over 36% of the total field). UEFA qualification has nine groups of either six or five in which the nine group winners automatically earn a birth and the eight best ranked runners up face off in a home and away playoff in order to complete UEFA’s World Cup representatives.

Italy, Germany and the Netherlands have strong enough leads in their groups to start booking hotels in Brazil while some groups are much closer. In Group A, Belgium and Croatia will finish first and second but the order is still to be determined. Group

E has four teams (Switzerland, Albania, Iceland, and Norway) still with a chance to qualify and F and G have three each (F – Russia, Israel, and Portugal, G – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Slovakia). Montenegro are surprise leaders of Group H ahead of England, Ukraine, and Poland, although all four still could finish in the playoff position. In Group I Spain and France will finish first and second with France likely to return to the playoffs where a famous Thierry Henry handball beat Ireland in 2009.

CONCACAF’s (North and Central America) famous final round of qualification better known as ‘The Hex’ has six teams fighting for three automatic World Cup births with the fourth place team facing New Zealand in a inter-confederation playoff. Teams have only played three of ten matches so the qualification picture is still a bit blurry but currently Panama are top of the table with five points with Jamaica in last with just two. Mexico and the United States, who have dominated CONCACAF for the last

three decades, are currently in fifth and third respectively but neither team has hit the panic button just yet.

CONMEBOL’s (South America) qualification process is the longest and toughest journey of all six confederations. It last two years and each team plays 16 matches in some of the most hostile atmospheres on earth. With host nation Brazil automatically qualified, CONMEBOL has four automatic births with

the fifth place team entering a playoff against CONCACAF’s fourth place team. Argentina unsurprisingly lead the way with surprise team Ecuador in second and Columbia in third.

Chile, Venezuela, Uruguay and Peru are all currently fighting for the last automatic birth and the playoff birth.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Rutgers said it would reconsider its decision to retain basketball coach Mike Rice after a videotape aired showing him shoving, grabbing and throwing balls at players in practice and using gay slurs.

The videotape, broadcast Tuesday on ESPN, prompted scores of outraged social media comments as well as sharp criticism from Gov. Chris Christie and NBA star LeBron James.

Athletic director Tim Pernetti was given a copy of the video in late November by a former employee. He suspended Rice for three games a month later, fined him $50,000 and ordered him to attend anger management classes.

In an interview with WFAN Radio on Tuesday, Pernetti said university president Robert Barchi also viewed the tape last fall and agreed with the punishment.

But ESPN's broadcast prompted an outcry, led by the governor himself.

"Governor Christie saw the video today for the first time and he is obviously deeply disturbed by the conduct displayed and strongly condemns this behavior," spokesman Michael Drewniak said. "It's not the type of leadership we should be showing our young people and clearly there are questions about this behavior that need to be answered by the leaders at Rutgers University."

The Miami Heat's James weighed in with a tweet: "If my son played for Rutgers or a coach like that he would have some real explaining to do and I'm still gone whoop on him afterwards!

C'mon."

Rice, who was hired by Pernetti three years ago, is 44-51 at Rutgers, including 16-38 in the Big East, after going 73-31 in three seasons at Robert Morris.

The Scarlet Knights went 15-16 this season and 5-13 in the Big East.

Pernetti said he understands why many are asking why Rice wasn't fired after the initial investigation.

"I spent more time with that option on whether we should fire Mike or not than any other

option," Pernetti said. "At the same the results of the investigation where we ended up, the determination was made to suspend him. My biggest concern as the AD is that I am always trying to protect the interests and reputation of the university and that's what makes this one so difficult.

There is a lot of hindsight, 20-20, .... that there will be no other option than to terminate Mike. I made that decision. I am accountable for it. I have to live with it."

Rice was Pernetti's first major hire after getting the AD's job.

"In the end I am not going to look back and say shoulda, woulda. All I can do is figure out going forward the decisions I can make to fix the problem for Rutgers," Pernetti said.

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United States captain Clint Dempsey pulls Mexico's Javier Hernandez away from Michael Bradley during a 0-0 draw in World Cup Qualifying on March 26 in Mexico City.

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Rutgers men's basketball coach Mike Rice (left) is the center of controversy after video surfaced showing him shoving players and throwing basketballs at their heads at practice.

Messi hurt, Barca draw 2-2 with PSG in Champions League PARIS (AP) — Lionel Messi helped Barcelona gain a slight edge in its Champions League quarterfinal with Paris Saint-Germain, then limped off after injuring a hamstring.

Blaise Matuidi scored on the last kick of the game, giving PSG a 2-2 tie Tuesday night in the first leg of the total-goals series.

Messi, the four-time FIFA Player of the Year, scored his 57th goal of the season in the 38th minute, then favored his right leg in the final minutes of the first half and was replaced by Cesc Fabregas at the start of the second.

Barcelona said Messi will undergo tests Wednesday on his right hamstring.

Barcelona defender Javier Mascherano left on a stretcher in the 84th minute after tearing the medial collateral

ligament in his right knee during a collision with teammate Jordi Alba. Already missing injured defenders Carles Puyol and Adriano Correia, Barcelona said Mascherano will be sidelined for six weeks.

"We've paid a heavy price, because we've lost Messi, and Mascherano for probably six to eight weeks," Barcelona assistant coach Jordi Roura said. "Of course it will be a big loss if we lose Messi, the best player in the world.

But we have Cesc and other options, so we are confident from that point of view."

Xavi Hernandez also scored for Barcelona, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic got PSG's first goal.

In Tuesday's other game, Bayern Munich defeated visiting Juventus 2-0 on goals

by David Alaba 25 seconds in

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Rangers have acquired forward Ryane Clowe from the San Jose Sharks for three draft picks.

The teams announced the deal Tuesday night. The Sharks get the Rangers' second-round pick and a third-round pick in the 2013 draft, and a conditional second-round pick in the 2014 draft.

If Clowe re-signs with the Rangers or the team wins two playoff rounds, the pick remains New York's 2014 second-round selection. If neither occurs, the pick

becomes New York's fifth-round 2014 selection.

Clowe has 11 assists in 28 games and the rugged forward has long been considered the heart of the franchise. He was originally selected by San Jose in the sixth round of the 2001 draft and leaves the Sharks ninth on the team's career points list with 271.

He waived his no-trade clause to join a Rangers team that entered Tuesday holding the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.

Rangers get Clowe from Sharks

Possible NBA team in Seattle leads to request of 44,000 season tickets SEATTLE (AP) — The man who's trying to bring the NBA's Sacramento Kings to Seattle says fans have requested 44,000 season tickets in the event the team actually relocates.

Hedge fund manager Chris Hansen had urged Seattle fans to join a "priority ticket waitlist" to show the NBA how strong support is for bringing professional men's basketball back to the city and calls the result "nothing short of stunning."

Seattle has been without

an NBA franchise since the Sonics moved to Oklahoma City in 2008.

Hansen and Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer have agreed to buy a majority stake in the Kings from the Maloof family for $341 million, but the deal needs league approval.

Owners are meeting Wednesday to discuss the sale and a counteroffer to keep the Kings in Sacramento. A decision expected this month.

and by Thomas Mueller in the 63rd minute.

The second legs of the total-goals series are April 10 in Spain. If the aggregate score is tied, away goals are used as a tiebreaker.

"It's going to be tough there, but it's not going to be impossible," PSG midfielder David Beckham said.

In Wednesday's first legs, Real Madrid hosts Galatasaray and Borussia Dortmund is at Malaga.

Pitt's Steven Adams going pro PITTSBURGH (AP) — It's one and done for Pittsburgh center Steven Adams.

The 7-foot freshman from New Zealand says it's in his "best interest" to enter the NBA Draft rather than return for his sophomore season.

Adams plans to sign with an agent.

Adams started 32 games for Pitt and averaged 7.1 and 6.3 rebounds per game. He led the Panthers with 65 blocks and made 57 percent of his shots.

Considered a project when he signed, Adams improved as the season went on. He had 13 points and 11 rebounds in Pitt's 73-55 loss to Wichita State in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

Adams was the second player to leave the program on Tuesday. Junior guard Trey Zeigler said he was transferring earlier in the day.

Morrissey: UConn and Notre Dame meet once again from "FOUR"-GETTING, page 12 scorer. This is something that Stewart just could not do in previous matchups with teams like Notre Dame.

Since I am very superstitious when it comes to sports, I will not give any predictions one way or another as to what’s going to happen when the Huskies head down to the “Big Easy.”

That being said, if the fresh-

men continue to play the way that they have in the NCAA Tournament, throw out the box scores, forget the close games and don’t bother paying attention to the records or seeds next to the schools names.

For the UConn Huskies all that matters now is making it back to the pinnacle of college women’s basketball and brining home an eighth National Championship.

While the Irish might be a formidable opponent, they can be beaten, just like Baylor was beaten last Sunday. At this point in the tournament, nobody is invincible.

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Lacrosse (7-1) April 5 Rutgers 3 p.m.

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April 14 Louisville Noon

April 12 Cincinnati 3 p.m.

April 19 Marquette 7 p.m.

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April 7 Seton Hall Noon

April 10 Southern New Hampshire 3 p.m.

April 12 Boston University 3 p.m.

Men’s Track and Field Tomorrow UConn Decathlon Noon

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico didn’t have to look far to find its next head coach.

Craig Neal, who spent the past six seasons as the team’s top assistant, was hired Tuesday to replace Steve Alford.

Athletic director Paul Krebs made the announcement in a one-word tweet: “Noodles,” a reference to Neal’s nickname. The university confirmed that Neal would be introduced as UNM’s 20th head basketball coach during a news conference Wednesday.

As assistant head coach under Alford, Neal helped the Lobos win back-to-back Mountain West Conference titles and reach three NCAA tournaments.

Players and fans had voiced their support for Neal as the top choice after Alford revealed last weekend that he was leaving for UCLA. Emotions were raw the last few days, but Krebs’ announcement helped dissolve some of the uncertainty and disappointment that was sparked by Alford’s departure.

While Krebs was guarded about the future of the head coaching spot on Saturday, he said during a news conference that Neal was a candidate and would provide continuity and stability for the program.

“If you’ve been around the program for the last six years, it’s not hard to understand Coach Neal has had a strong impact on the program,” Krebs said. “Craig is a critical part of the success. I think Craig is an outstanding coach.”

Before coaching at New Mexico, Neal spent three seasons with Alford at Iowa.

Prior to that, he spent several seasons with the NBA’s Toronto Raptors as a scout and then as an assistant coach.

Neal played eight years in the NBA, CBA and Europe, beginning in Portland where he was a third-round draft pick of the Trail Blazers in 1988. He also played in Miami and Denver.

A two-year starter at Georgia Tech in the mid-1980s, Neal earned all-Atlantic Coast Conference honors as a senior in 1988 when he set the conference single-season record with 303 assists.

Neal has been involved with every facet of the Lobos program since joining the team in 2007, from on-the-floor coaching to game strategies and recruiting.

The Lobos have a 155-52 record over the last six seasons. They have also qualified for postseason play in all six of those seasons. After earning a No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament this year, they were AP upset by Harvard in their first game.

Notre Dame women’s basketball coach Muffet McGraw questions a call during Tuesday night’s Elite Eight matchup against Duke.

The Fighting Irish defeated the Blue Devils to advance to the Final Four, where they will play UConn on Sunday night.

THE Storrs Side Mosqueda-Lewis, Dolson, Faris named AP All-Americans

By Tim Fontenault Staff Writer After reaching the Final Four for a record sixth consecutive season, three members of the UConn women’s basketball team received All-America honors from the Associated Press.

Sophomore forward Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis was named a Second Team All-American, junior center Stefanie Dolson was named a Third Team AllAmerican and senior guard Kelly Faris was named an All-American Honorable Mention.

Mosqueda-Lewis is an AllAmerican for the second time after being named an Honorable Mention in 2012. A First Team All-Big East selection this season, Mosqueda-Lewis averages 17.7 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. The Huskies’ leading scorer is also the best three-point shooter in the nation, as she is shooting 48.9 percent from behind the arc.

Her 112 three-pointers this season are the most in one season in UConn history. Mosqueda-Lewis was named to the Bridgeport AllRegion Team for her play through the first four games of the NCAA

Tournament.

Dolson was also a First Team All-Big East selection this season.

She leads the team in rebounds at 7.2 per game and ranks second in both points per game at 13.8 and total blocks with 51.

In her final season, Faris has received reward after reward.

Aside from being named an AllAmerican Honorable Mention, she was named to the All-Big East Second Team. Faris also won the Big East Most Improved Player and the Big East Defensive Player of the Year award. Faris averages 10.1 points, 5.6 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 2.5 steals per game.

The Huskies will play Notre Dame on Sunday night in the Final Four in New Orleans. The winner will advance to the national championship game next Tuesday.

UConn is looking for its eighth national championship. Only Faris and fellow seniors Heather Buck and Caroline Doty have won a national championship at UConn.

Since UConn won its first national championship in 1995, only six graduating classes have failed to win two or more national championships.

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THE Pro Side Texas Tech hires former Minnesota and Kentucky coach Tubby Smith

By Andrew Callahan Senior Staff Writer Late Monday night, Texas Tech announced it has hired Tubby Smith as its next head men’s basketball coach.

Smith was recently fired from Minnesota after leading the program there for six seasons.

The long-time coach brought the Gophers to three NCAA tournaments over his tenure, and this season advanced his team to the round of 32. Texas Tech went 11-20 under interim headman Chris Walker, who was the team’s third coach in as many years.

Smith is the latest in a long line of coaches attempting to revive the Red Raider program that includes Walker, Billy Gillespie, and Pat Knight.

Most recently, the school was simply trying to recover from the troublesome one-year term of Gillespie, who was accused of exceeding practice times and poor player treatment. He resigned last September after an 8-23 campaign two years ago, which paved the way for the long-time assistant Walker to step in this past season.

The newest Red Raider coach brings a dearth of experience into Lubbock, TX. Smith won the 1998 national championship and five SEC titles with Kentucky, before leaving in 2007 for Minnesota.

Prior to his time in Lexington, the 61-year old took Tulsa and Georgia to the Sweet Sixteen in the 1990s. Smith has become known in the college basketball world as not only one of the best coaches, but also program builders, specifically at schools that didn’t previously enjoy success in basketball.

He is one of only five coaches to take four separate teams to the NCAA tournament and must leave from a Minnesota program on the rise. Reportedly the school contacted Cincinnati coach Mick Cronin about the position, but Cronin declined due to his commitment to his current program and family. Similar to Cronin, former Minnesota Timberwolves head coach and current ESPN analyst Flip Saunders passed on an offer from the school.

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Tyler Morrissey And then there were four.

The UConn women’s basketball team is heading to the Final Four for the sixth straight time. In women’s college basketball the Final Four and the Huskies seem to go hand in hand. UConn has seven NCAA titles and countless Big East championships.

Calling the Huskies the most dominant program in the sport is a fitting title, but it’s been 2010 since Geno Auriemma and his squad cut down the net as confetti rained down from above.

That being said, the question on everybody’s minds including my own is, can they win the big one? Can this UConn team win it all in New Orleans this year?

The Huskies have had trouble to say the least beating certain teams, but now one of those teams is out of the way. Britney Griner and the Lady Bears of Baylor will only make it to New Orleans if they buy tickets to the games themselves, which bodes well for UConn seeing as the Huskies had a rough time defending Griner in the second half of their meeting back in Jan. The other obstacle standing in the way of another banner raising next season at Gampel is the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. UConn has been beaten by the Irish three times, most recently in heartbreaking fashion in the final real Big East Tournament as we know it. With the exception of Baylor, Notre Dame has been one of the most dominant programs in women’s college basketball this season Don’t be fooled by Skylar Diggins, while statistically she is the best player on this Notre Dame squad, the Irish are by no means a one woman team. Kayla McBride has posted similar numbers to Diggins overall on the season. In fact, in UConn’s last meeting with Notre Dame, McBride scored 23 points while Diggins only tallied 12.

Notre Dame also has a solid three-point shooter in Jewell Loyd, who has shot a team leading .414 percent from beyond the arc.

After taking into account the past three meetings between UConn and Notre Dame, it’s hard to predict an outcome. On one hand the Irish have had the Huskies number all season after beating them three times in a row. However, it takes a lot of effort to beat an opponent three straight times let alone and unprecedented fourth straight time.

I think Auriemma said it best in his press conference after beating Maryland.

“Our freshmen were great today, that’s kind of the story of the game today…”

Auriemma said. “They were the key to the game today for sure.”

With the health of Stefanie Dolson a factor for the rest of the tournament, the freshmen on this team have answered the call to duty, especially Breanna Stewart and Moriah Jefferson. Stewart led her team in points with 21 in the Elite Eight against Kentucky while Jefferson added 10 points respectively.

Stewart has stepped up her game more than anybody on the UConn roster, as the 6’4” center has matured into a new role on this team, a point’s

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After Tuesday’s game against UMass was rescheduled to May 1, the UConn softball team looks to get back on track with a non-conference game against Boston University in Boston today.

The Huskies (1313 overall, 1-2 Big East) will take on the Terriers (9-16-1 overall, 1-2 America East) in the Terriers’ home opener. UConn is 8-6 all-time against Boston 13-13, 1-2 University.

The two teams faced each other last season in Storrs, when the Huskies defeated the Terriers 3-0 in a game pitched by then-junior Kiki Saveriano. A tworun homer hit by then9-6-1, 1-2 junior Marissa Guches Today, 4 p.m. gave the team the lead.

BU Softball Field And with then-freshman Emily O’Donnell going 2-for-3 and scoring the team’s other two runs, UConn got the win at home.

The team’s offense has struggled to remain consistent so far this season. Senior Kim Silva currently leads the team offensively with a .364 batting average after junior Maddy Schiappa cooled off from her strong start. However, Schiappa still boasts a .333 batting average while leading the team in number of hits and runs scored.

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Notre Dame win sets up UConn rematch in Final Four

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Skylar Diggins and Notre Dame are headed back to the Final Four for another rematch with Connecticut.

Diggins shook off early foul trouble to score 24 points and Notre Dame rallied to beat Duke 87-76 on Tuesday night to earn its third consecutive trip to the Final Four. The Irish have lost in the past two national championship games.

“I want to win a championship for coach (Muffet) McGraw bad,” Diggins said. “When you have a coach who believes in you so much I’d do anything for her.”

Kayla McBride added 17 points while Jewell Loyd and Natalie Achonwa had 17 each as the Fighting Irish (35-1) won their school-record 30th consecutive game, earning a fourth meeting with UConn.

It’s the third straight meeting

between the two Big East rivals in the Final Four. The Irish won both those and have dominated the series lately winning seven of the past eight meetings.

Notre Dame swept UConn all three meetings with UConn this season in thrilling fashion winning in overtime and by 1 and 2 points.

The Irish had to rally past Duke to get there.

Trailing by six at the half, Notre Dame took control with a 15-2 run early in the second half to take a 50-42 lead. The Blue Devils lost in the regional finals for the fourth straight year, failing once again to return to the Final Four for the first time since 2006.

Diggins, hampered by foul

trouble in the first half, started the run with her fourth 3-pointer of the game and followed quickly with a no-look feed to Natalie Achonwa, who also grabbed 13 rebounds, for a layup that had drew an impressed roar from

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Diggins added a steal and a layup, and McBride finished the burst with another 3-pointer. The Fighting Irish extended their lead to 60-49 with 9:57 to play, and Duke trailed by as many as 16 before closing the gap only slightly in the desperate final minutes.

The Blue Devils hurt their cause with 21 turnovers.

“I think they were outworking us,” said Diggins, who earned AP All-America honors for the second straight season earlier on Tuesday. “I’ve never seen that from my team. They were getting hustle scrap points. I couldn’t wait to get in that locker room. We had to light a fire. We set the tone on defense and got some stops and played our game.”

In the first half, the game developed better than Duke (33-3) could have hoped.

Diggins was whistled for two fouls in the first 4:10 and went to the bench, and after McBride hit a pair of jumpers, the Fighting Irish looked out of sorts. They extended their lead to 17-13 on a 3-pointer by Kaila Turner and two free throws by Ariel Braker, then went more than seven minutes without a point.

A free throw by Elizabeth Williams for Duke ignited a 13-0 run that took more than six of those minutes. Tricia Liston scored eight in the burst and Chloe Wells finished it with a 12-foot jumper.

Diggins returned with about 8 minutes to go in the half and while playing passively on defense to avoid a third foul, hit three 3-pointers in a span of 2:16, cutting a nine-point deficit to 32-31 with 1:07 left.

A basket by Williams and Wells’ 3 just before the half gave Duke a 37-31 advantage.

The weekend was a homecoming for Williams, a Virginia Beach native, but Duke’s scoring leader missed several shots from in close. She finished 3 for 9 and scored 8 points, roughly half her average.

Liston led Duke with 19 points while Peters added 15.

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Bruins acquire Jaromir Jagr from Stars for prospects

BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Bruins have acquired Jaromir Jagr from the Dallas Stars, hoping the 10th-leading goal scorer in NHL history can improve their shaky offense.

Jagr, who leads the Stars in points this season, was traded Tuesday for two prospects, forwards Lane MacDermid and Cody Payne, and a conditional second-round pick in this year’s draft.

The deal came five days after the Bruins thought they obtained forward Jarome Iginla from the Calgary Flames, only to learn Iginla had been traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins.

In his first season with the Stars, the 41-year-old Jagr has 14 goals and 26 points. Brad Marchand leads the Bruins with 14 goals and Patrice Bergeron is first with 31 points. Jagr has 679 career goals.

Jagr also has six power-play goals, twice as many as Bruins leaders Marchand and Tyler Seguin, and should help the team with the 24th-ranked power play

in the NHL going into Tuesday night’s game against the Ottawa Senators.

With the trade deadline coming Wednesday and the Stars in 12th place in the Western Conference, they decided to trade a player who could become a free agent after the season.

“Jaromir Jagr produced as a consistent scorer for our team all year and we would like to thank him for his contributions to our hockey club,” said Dallas Stars general manager Joe Nieuwendyk.

“With our eye to the future, we have acquired some valuable assets that we believe strengthen our organization.”

Jagr is far below the peak of a career. He’s won five scoring titles, 1998-99 league MVP honors and Stanley Cups in his first two NHL seasons, with the Penguins in 1990-91 and 1991-92, after they took him with the fifth pick in the 1990 draft.

But his strength and scoring ability could spark a Bruins team that was in fourth place in the

East but ranked just seventh in the conference in goals — with only 17 in their last eight games — at the time of the trade.

Jagr joins his sixth team after playing for Pittsburgh, the Washington Capitals, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers and Dallas. He spent three seasons in Russia before returning to the NHL with the Flyers last season.

Jagr’s 679 goals are 11 behind Mario Lemieux, who is ninth in NHL history. Jagr is 12th with 1,000 assists and eighth with 1,679 points. His 116 game-winning goals are second, two behind Phil Esposito, and his 195 powerplay goals are 18th.

The Bruins had preferred to trade for Iginla, and general manager Peter Chiarelli thought he had done that last Thursday in exchange for defenseman Matt Bartkowski, minor-league forward Alexander Khokhlachev and a first-round draft choice.

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for whatever team he picked.

The Stars get two players who were not among the Bruins’ top prospects.

MacDermid, 23, has played in eight NHL games with no points and seven shots. In 37 games this season for the Providence Bruins of the AHL, he has four goals and two assists.

Payne, 19, had 24 goals and 21 assists with 75 penalty minutes in 60 games this season with the Plymouth Whalers of the Ontario Hockey League. The Bruins drafted him in the fifth round last year.

The second-round pick becomes a first-rounder if the Bruins reach the Eastern Conference finals this year.