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By Samm Roberts Campus Correspondent A large increase in students and businesses compared to years past were on hand at Thursday afternoon’s Spring Career Fair.

Neil Robinson, from UConn’s Career Services, stressed that the number one thing to do when preparing is to research the companies attending.

“Know what organizations are attending and what they do,” Robinson said. “We make that really easy for students because we have a list on our website with links to their websites.”

Robinson also pointed out the importance of preparation before the career fairs, which could include having a resume on hand and a few questions prepared to show readiness and a genuine interest in a company.

“Prepare a quick, 30-second introduction that can include your name, your major, and why that organization interests you,” Robinson said.

For students that were not able to find a match or connection Thursday, there are still always options for searching for jobs, including on UConn’s Career Services website, where students can reach out to other companies that may not have attended the fair.

While the focus is definitely on a specific crowd, the Spring Career Fair is an event that helps anyone looking to find an opportunity, according to Michael Petro, the Assistant Director of Employer Relations at UConn.

“Today is geared toward seniors primarily and recent alums,” Petro said, “but it’s all about helping UConn students and soon-to-be grads find that great first opportunity.”

Petro stressed the importance of students taking the extra step towards career preparation while

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Students speak with company representatives at the spring career fair yesterday. This year’s fair had increased student attendance and company participants over last years’s.

still at school.

“Every student on this campus should be thinking about their career while they’re here,” Petro said. “Any student should start thinking about that. What skills can I build and what skills do I have that are going to be important to employers?”

Some of those potential employers and their businesses even had to be wait-listed to get a spot at the Spring Career Fair, with students’ resumes being sent to the respective businesses. Of the many companies that did get a spot, however, there were plenty of potential employees wandering around them.

Rich, a representative for

Progeny Systems who was unable to give his last name, was impressed with the showing at the Career Fair, though admitting that, while they had gotten a few good student interests, they were such a small niche of the engineering world that they rarely saw students that were interested in them for long.

“They usually don’t know what it is we do,” Rich said. “In a lot of cases they’ll be like ‘Oh, that sounds like it’s out of my league’ or ‘That’s not what I’m looking for.’ But in some cases, especially when you get into the engineering types, they’ve kind of researched it first, and then they come in and when they’re

looking they have good questions.”

Across the board, company representatives were impressed with the student turnout and preparation and had strong advice for students looking for jobs, internships and other opportunities.

“Do your homework before you come in, know a little bit about some of the companies before you come in,” said Nils, a representative from Target who was also unable to give his last name. “And definitely use the resources that UConn has on campus with Career Services.”

Career Services is located in Wilbur Cross, and information can be found at career.uconn.edu.

“I had a feeling there was going re-election, followed by the mass to be a huge ammunition short- shooting in December of children age,” said Smith, browsing shot- in Newtown, Conn., which led gun shells this week at Dick’s. the president to launch an effort “Especially .22s. It’s probably the to strengthen federal gun controls most popular round out there.” and several states to tighten their Likewise, the laws. .223 ammuni- “There’s a conConnecticut tion used in on Thursday popular semi- cern by firearms became the latautomatic rifles owners that this est to crack is hard to find. down as the At Hunter’s administration will governor signed Haven, a stripa measure — mall gun shop pursue bans on effective immein the farmdiately — that products, bans on ing community adds more than of Rolesville, ammunition. ... It 100 firearms to N.C., north of the state’s assault Raleigh, clerk is nationwide,” weapons ban, Dean Turnage creates a dansaid ammunigerous weapon tion is going out Lawrence Keane offender registry “as fast as we institutes National Shooting and can get it in,” eligibility rules Sports Foundation for ammunition even though new gun conmember purchases. trols are not Hours before on the state’s the law took agenda. effect, hundreds of customers The run started in November streamed out of Hoffman’s Gun with President Barack Obama’s Center in Newington with guns

and boxes of ammunition.

“The bad guys are going to get guns,” said John Power, 56, of Bristol, arguing the new law would not stop a troubled gunman.

The nation’s 100 million firearms owners are driving the market for some 10 billion rounds annually, with demand and gun purchases both increasing the past several months, driven partly by fear that tougher laws will restrict the ability to buy firearms, said Lawrence Keane, whose National Shooting Sports Foundation is based in Newtown.

“There’s a concern by firearms owners that this administration will pursue bans on products, bans on ammunition. ... It’s not limited geographically to New York or anywhere else. It is nationwide,” he said.

Some government critics attributed shortages to federal purchases of bullets, accusing officials of trying to hoard a billion rounds and disarm the populace.

“Department of Homeland Security and the federal government itself is buying up ammuni-

Laws, rumors have ammo flying off store shelves

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gun enthusiasts fearful of new weapon controls and alarmed by rumors of government hoarding are buying bullets practically by the bushel, making it hard for stores nationwide to keep shelves stocked and even putting a pinch on some local law enforcement departments.

At a 24-hour Walmart in suburban Albany, the ammunition cabinet was three-fourths empty this week; sales clerks said customers must arrive before 9 the morning after a delivery to get what they want. A few miles away, Dick’s Sporting Goods puts up a red rope after ammunition deliveries so buyers can line up early to get a number, averting races up the escalator to the gun counter. Both stores are limiting ammunition purchases to three boxes a day.

In mid-January, two days after New York became the first state to toughen laws post-Newtown, hunter and target shooter Mark Smith spent $250 to stockpile ammunition, including $43 for a brick of 500 .22-caliber bullets, commonly used for target shooting and hunting small game.

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Governor signs major gun control law

HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut’s governor signed into law one of America’s toughest restrictions on weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines, four months after having to tell parents that 20 children had been killed in a school shooting.

Also on Thursday, Maryland’s already strong gun laws will become among the toughest in the U.S. after the state Senate passed a measure that will go to the governor, who proposed the legislation, for approval.

The states’ moves come as President Barack Obama tries to urge support in Congress for similar federal measures, but prospects for tough national gun control laws are slim amid political pressure by gun lobby groups and gun owners. Obama has called the Connecticut shooting in December, which also killed six adults and the gunman’s mother, the worst day of his presidency.

“This is a profoundly emotional day for everyone in this room,” Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Thursday.

“We have come together in a way that few places in the nation have demonstrated the ability to do.”

The shooting reignited a national debate on gun control, and Obama has planned a trip to Connecticut on Monday to increase pressure on lawmakers in Washington to act.

Colorado and New York also have passed new gun control requirements in the wake of the Connecticut shooting.

Connecticut joins states including California, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts in having the country’s strongest gun control laws, said Brian Malte, director of mobilization for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence in Washington.

The legislation adds more than 100 firearms to the state’s assault weapons ban and creates what officials have called the nation’s first dangerous weapon offender registry, as well as eligibility rules for buying ammunition.

In Maryland, the state Senate voted for final passage of its gun control measure, becoming the first state in nearly 20 years to require people who buy a handgun to submit fingerprints to state police. Only five other states have a similar requirement: Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey.

Gun-control advocates say the fingerprinting requirement will help keep guns away from criminals because it will make people reluctant to buy guns for people who are not allowed to have them. Opponents say the bill erodes the Second Amendment right to bear firearms and ultimately penalizes law-abiding citizens.

The measure bans 45 types of assault weapons, although people who own them now will be able to keep them.

The measure also limits gun magazines to 10 bullets and addresses firearms access for the mentally ill. People who have been involuntarily committed to a mental health facility won’t be allowed to have a gun.

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Inmate sentenced to additional time for assault

HARTFORD (AP) — A 22-year-old inmate at a federal prison in Danbury has been sentenced to nearly three more years of prison time for assaulting another inmate with a sock stuffed with two padlocks.

A judge in Hartford sentenced Patricia Brown on Thursday to an additional two years and seven months in prison for the May 2012 attack that left her fellow inmate in need of three stitches to her right ear. She pleaded guilty in January to assault with a dangerous weapon.

Brown is currently serving a 30-year sentence after being convicted of murder in 2009 in Minnesota.

The case was investigated by the FBI.

$6.5M awarded in 2006 Danbury Hospital death

DANBURY (AP) — A Connecticut jury awarded $6.5 million Thursday to the family of a man whose death at Danbury Hospital was blamed on excessive sodium, his attorneys said.

Jeffrey Pattison, 44, was admitted to Danbury Hospital in 2006 due to low sodium, attorneys for his family say, and he died more than two weeks later when his sodium level rose rapidly.

Danbury Hospital did not properly monitor Pattison and continued to administer a sodium solution despite the obvious danger that was resulting, said attorneys Sean McElligott and Joshua Koskoff, who represented Pattison’s estate.

“Mr. Pattison died as a result of carelessness and negligence,” Koskoff said. “We all hope this case will case Danbury Hospital to amend its procedures to guard against this preventable death from every happening again.”

Hospital officials say they disagree with the judgment.

Conn. man gets 5 years in prison for injuring baby

HARTFORD (AP) — A Manchester man has been sentenced to five years in prison for breaking 16 of his baby’s 24 ribs during a fit of anger.

The Journal Inquirer reports (http://bit.ly/16vVHyG ) that 21-yearold Anthony Good was sentenced in Hartford Superior Court on Monday after pleading guilty to risk of injury to a minor. He was ordered to have no contact with the boy until he’s 18 years old.

Staff at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center discovered the 11-week-old boy’s injuries on Sept. 11 when he was brought in for fussiness and sleeping problems.

Good later told police he got angry when the boy was being fussy one night. He said he squeezed the baby, then heard cracking noises.

Good’s lawyer says Good made a “critical error in judgment,” but isn’t a bad person.

Torrington reviewing bullying policy after arrests

TORRINGTON (AP) — Torrington officials are looking at updating the school system’s bullying policy after two teenage girls were taunted online over the arrests of four high school football players on statutory rape charges.

A subcommittee of the Board of Education is considering expanding definitions of bullying in the district’s three-year-old, 22-page policy and merging it with the school system’s “safe school climate plan” that’s mandated by the state’s anti-bullying law.

Torrington High School students called the two girls derogatory names in Twitter postings after police charged the football team members with sexually assaulting the girls. The postings prompted school officials to warn students they could face discipline for inappropriate comments directed at other students and staff.

Officials say they want to the bullying policy to conform to the state’s 2011 anti-bullying law.

Penn student from Conn. dies in rock-climbing fall

GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut native who attended the University of Pennsylvania has died after a rock climbing accident in Africa.

Relatives of 20-year-old Oliver Pacchiana told the Greenwich Time (http://bit.ly/17e0F4k ) newspaper that he was killed Sunday when he fell during a rock-climbing expedition in Namibia while on spring break. The Penn junior from Greenwich was studying abroad this semester in South Africa.

Nolan Pacchiana, said his brother wanted to see as much of the world as he could. He said the family was going to visit his brother in South Africa in May and still plans to make the trip.

Oliver Pacchiana graduated from Greenwich High School in 2010 and was enrolled in a master’s program in mechanical engineering at Penn.

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False rumors and fears fuel Ammunition shortages

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tion and components at such a rate, it’s causing artificial shortage of supplies for the regular consumer,” said Jesse Alday, a state corrections officer who was buying a couple of boxes of primers at Hunter’s Haven.

“They’re buying it up as fast as they can, for reasons they’re not officially willing to admit or go into. ... They’re not willing to come up with any answers as to the reasons behind why they have enough ammunition on the U.S., on our own home soil, to wage a 25-year war,” he said. “That’s kind of strange.”

Keane, whose group includes manufacturers, said the reports of massive federal purchases were not true.

The government routinely buys products in bulk to reduce costs, and Homeland Security has said the latest purchases are no different.

Last year, the department put out bids for a total of about 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition over the next five years. The rounds are to be used for training, routine weapons qualification exercises and normal duty by various department agencies.

On a smaller scale, some local law enforcement agencies are also having problems getting ammo.

Jennifer Donnals, a spokeswoman for the Tennessee Highway Patrol, said the agency was still waiting on rifle and shotgun ammunition ordered in November.

In Phoenix, the Police Department has stopped providing officers with 100 rounds of ammunition per month for practice. Sgt. Trent Crump said 10 to 15 percent

of the department’s 3,000 officers, who are assigned .40-caliber and .45-caliber handguns, had taken advantage of the ammunition for practice shooting.

In January, police chiefs in central Texas said they were having trouble arming their officers because of shortages of assault rifles and ammunition.

The major U.S. manufacturers are running shifts around the clock to try to meet increased demand, Keane said. The foundation projected $1.5 billion from ammunition sales in 2011 and $2.8 billion from gun sales, totals that more than doubled in a decade.

Stockpiling has also been fueled by false online rumors, such as one that purports a coming nickel tax on each bullet, which would triple the cost of a .22-caliber cartridge, said Hans Farnung, president of Beikirch’s Ammunition, a retailer and wholesaler in Rochester, N.Y., that sells in seven states.

“I don’t want to call them doomsdayers, but people get on these blogs on the Internet and they drive people’s fears,” he said.

“They do not want to wait around and see.”

The tax rumor was fueled by proposals in Connecticut, California and Illinois that haven’t advanced.

This isn’t the first U.S. run on ammunition. Walmart’s Kory Lundberg said the retail chain previously rationed in 2009, the year Obama entered the White House.

However, sportsmen and tradesmen say the current shortages are nationwide, and the worst they’ve seen.

New York’s law will require ammunition sellers to register and buyers to undergo a background

check starting Jan. 15, 2014.

Richard Aborn, president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, said the run on guns and ammunition isn’t surprising and is fueled by “gross exaggerations,” when reasonable discussion is what’s needed.

Bruce Martindale, a champion marksman from upstate New York who normally uses .22-caliber rimfire ammunition, said it’s now

hard for him to get anything, partly because online retailers are reluctant to ship to New York and risk running afoul of its new law.

“I can’t buy supplies anywhere,” he said. Like many competitors, he has cut back on practice but says he doesn’t see a public safety concern.

“This is legitimate gun owners buying,” he said. “I don’t think criminals are stockpiling.”

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Faced with a documented pattern of teenagers pushed into the criminal justice system for acting out in class, Texas lawmakers on Thursday advanced a measure to start decriminalizing youthful misbehavior.

The Senate unanimously approved a bill that would limit the practice of issuing tickets for minor classroom offenses. The measure, which still must clear the House, would replace misdemeanor citations with counseling referrals and punishments such as community service performed on the school grounds.

“When you have these tickets, you end up having the kids caught up in the system for little violations that should be taken care of in the school,” Sen. Royce West, a Dallas Democrat who wrote the bill, told The Associated Press. “When they go to jail, it becomes a badge of honor as opposed to something that scares them straight.”

For several years, civil rights groups have sought to dismantle a system they call the “school-toprison pipeline.” In a prominent case last month, federal prosecutors signed a consent decree governing the disciplinary practices of a school district in Mississippi.

In Texas, one study has shown that 275,000 non-traffic tickets are issued to juveniles every year.

Others have shown that black future juvenile justice involveand Latino students are more fre- ment, at great expense to taxpayers quently suspended, expelled and and to students saddled with the charged with misdemeanors for long-term collateral consequencclassroom mises.” behavior, such While the as using profan- “So many of state educaity or making tion commisthese students obscene gestures. sioner, Michael L e g i s l a t i v e have other issues Williams, committee hearhas endorsed going on in their ing witnesses the discipline have told law- lives, whether they reform movemakers about ment, other legincidents in involve undiagislative efforts which students to decriminalnosed mental illhave been arrestize school discied in class for ness, unaddressed pline have met unpaid tickets. resistance.

A panel of trauma, learning In the Senate judges recomCriminal disorders or family C o m m Justice mended the ittee changes. Support issues.” this week, came from civil Chairman John rights groups and Whitmire was from conservaMichele Deitch met with sigtives swayed by oppoSenior Lecturer on nificant potential cost sition for a Criminal Justice at the proposal that savings.

“We are University of Texas would similarly thrilled,” said decriminalize LBJ School of Public truancy. Under Ana YanezAffairs. current law, stuCorrea, executive director dents and their of the Texas parents can be Criminal Justice Coalition, a civil fined for failure to attend school. rights group. “Texas’ use of ticketAdministrators from Pearland, ing to address school discipline Frisco and other wealthy suburissues increases the likelihood of ban districts called the proposal

unnecessary. They said most cases are dismissed before creating a criminal record.

Whitmire, a Democrat from Houston, said the problem was more severe in urban districts such as his own, where “they’re literally handcuffing the high school students and taking them to the Harris County Jail based on truancy.”

For administrators, whose job performances are measured in part by attendance statistics, the criminal sanctions provide a valued weapon in the campaign against truancy.

“The No. 1 priority is to get those kids in school, get them educated,” Clark Lowery, an assistant principal at San Jacinto Junior High in Midland, told the committee. He urged lawmakers to keep the fines in place.

While the truancy bill remained pending in committee, reform advocates said the vote for the classroom discipline bill marked a significant step toward breaking the school-to-prison cycle.

“So many of these students have other issues going on in their lives, whether they involve undiagnosed mental illness, unaddressed trauma, learning disorders or family issues,” said Michele Deitch, a senior lecturer on criminal justice at the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs.

Deitch, who also serves on

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Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signs legislation at the Capitol in Hartford, Conn., Thursday, April 4, 2013, which includes new restrictions on weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines, a response to last year’s deadly school shooting in Newtown. The legislation adds more than 100 firearms to the state’s assault weapons ban, sets eligibility rules for buying ammunition, and creates what officials have called the nation’s first dangerous weapon offender registry. Some parts of the bill would take effect immediately after Malloy’s signature, including background checks for all firearms sales.

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Japan central bank revamps policy to boost economy

TOKYO (AP) — Japan is taking aggressive action to lift consumer prices, encourage borrowing and help pull the world’s third-largest economy out of a long slump.

Like the U.S. Federal Reserve, Japan’s central bank plans to flood its financial system with more money — its most far-reaching step to date to get consumers and companies to borrow and spend.

The Bank of Japan’s action will also drive down the value of the yen. A cheaper currency will make Japanese goods — from Toyota cars to Sony TVs — less costly for Americans and other foreigners.

And it will make U.S. and other exports more expensive in Japan.

The move comes as major central banks around the world are acting to stimulate their economies. On Thursday, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said the ECB is considering doing more to shore up the ailing economy of the euro alliance.

The ECB left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 0.75 percent, but Draghi said an interest rate cut was discussed Thursday.

Draghi also said the central bank is considering “various tools” beyond lower rates in case Europe’s economy needs more help.

And the U.S. Fed has said it expects to keep short-term rates at record lows at least until unemployment falls to 6.5 percent from the current 7.7 percent. The Fed also plans to continue buying $85 billion a month in bonds indefinitely to keep long-term borrowing costs down.

“The central banks are being more activist than we’ve seen in decades,” said Timothy Duy, an economist at the University of Oregon. “One central bank after another has to do more because economies aren’t improving as

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Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda speaks at a news conference at the Japan’s central bank headquarters in Tokyo Thursday, April 4, 2013. Japan is making a sweeping shift in its monetary policy, aiming to spur inflation and get the world’s third-largest economy out of a long, debilitating slump.

fast as would have been expected.”

Dan Akerson, CEO of General Motors Co., told CNBC that he feared the Bank of Japan’s policies would give Japanese automakers a price advantage over GM in the United States.

“They’re an export economy,” Akerson said. “You have to be suspicious of what they’re doing and why.”

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Two years after he disappeared from his Long Island home, Disaster the cat was found this week in the heart of Manhattan — by a Times Square haunted house promoter dressed up as a zombie.

Jeremy Zelkowitz, who sells tickets for the Times Scare haunted house, spotted Disaster early Saturday morning crossing 42nd Street. He snatched up Disaster, a black and white cat who appeared to be well-kept and neat, and brought him to a nearby animal hospital.

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Japan’s economy has been sputtering for two decades. Last year, weak consumer spending kept prices flat. The Bank of Japan hopes to increase inflation to 2 percent within about two years.

Economists say Japanese consumers will start spending if they know prices are going rise.

Eswar Prasad, an economist at Cornell University, cautioned that Japan needs more than easy-money policies to repair its economy.

It needs to reduce its debts and reform policies that protect weak firms from competition and undercut the country’s productivity.

“Japan would no longer be a drag on the global economic recovery if it had stronger domes-

tic demand and positive inflation,” Prasad said. “However, it is far from clear that the Bank of Japan’s actions will be able to deliver these positive outcomes in the absence of broader structural reforms that are essential to revive Japan’s productivity and competitiveness. “ Critics also say that without wage increases to match the price hikes, many consumers may be even less willing to spend.

“The new BOJ’s willingness to experiment should be welcomed,” said Uri Dadush, director of the economics program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “But they are also inevitably wading into unknown waters. There is no certainty that the new approach will work.”

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In this undated photo provided by BluePearl Veterinary Partners, Jeremy Zelkowitz, who dresses in character as a zombie for a year-round haunted house in Times Square, holds a cat named Disaster which he found crossing 42nd Street in Manhattan on March 30, 2013.

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Weekday early morning hours, evening hours and weekends available. Send letter of interest and resume to ashfordsupport@ gmail.com The Town of Mansfield is looking to fill a full-time year-round laborer vacancy in the Department of Public Works. The selected candidate will perform semiskilled work in a variety of installation, construction, maintenance and repair projects, roads/streets maintenance, grounds maintenance, and other routine maintenance as assigned. $21.11/hr with benefits. Possession of a driver’s license valid in the State of Connecticut required, possession of a valid CDL A or B license preferred. Must be 18 years or older to apply. Please submit application on-line at www.mansfieldct.gov.

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Book Sale Sat. April 6, 9 - 4 and Sun. April 7, 9-3. Mansfield Public Library 54 Warrenville Rd. (Rte. 89). Hardcovers and oversized paperbacks $1.00, small paperbacks 50 cents.

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UConn’s annual Greek Week begins tonight! The Student Union will be hosting “Late Night Gone Greek!”

Royalty Free Speech

by Ryan Kennedy

Horoscopes Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Listen to

by Brian Ingmanson

the voice of experience. Discipline is required. Draw upon hidden resources. Provide excellent service. It’s all about home and family. There’s more coming in.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- More practice leads to better skills. The more you learn, the more you value your true friends. Take every opportunity to share your love with your partner.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Apply the formula that works. A careful work-related investment may be necessary. Do what you promised. Get it all in on time. Reward yourself with good food and friends later.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Rules simplify things. Your self-discipline’s impressive. Two heads are better than one ... have someone review your work. Send it off, and go out to celebrate!

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Stick to the best quality for longer-lasting value. Mop up messes as they occur today, and prioritize urgent jobs, postponing everything else. Laze around as much as possible.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Let friends teach you, and learn from their mistakes. Create better communications channels to get the word out.

Then get onstage and let it rip.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Follow your new vision, even if you don’t know how. Accept another assignment. Keep providing good service. It’s getting busy and creative. Delegate.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 5 -- Find strength in structure and in the familiar. Create a space that supports you, and get all your ducks in a row. When all else fails, trust your intuition.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Take some time for a short journey that will replenish your batteries. Share your feelings with a family member or loved one. Remember to listen.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- You may have a difficult time getting started. Things get easier later in the day. Money figures into this scenario. Call for reinforcements.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- As long as your ego doesn’t get in the way, you can overcome today’s little challenges. Transform your expectations. Keep the speaking brief. Dance to the music.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 5 -- Enjoy the little quiet moments. Don’t carry the whole weight of the world on your shoulders. Use a lever instead. The answer comes in meditation.

THIS DATE IN HISTORY

BORN ON THIS DATE

1614 Pocahontas, daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Indian confederacy, marries English tobacco planter John Rolfe in Jamestown, Virginia.

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Recent alums give advice to future grads

By Zach Lederman Staff Writer On Thursday night at 7 P.M., the UConn Alumni Association, in a joint operation with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Career Center, and the UConn Honors Program, held a panel in Laurel Hall on the subject of life after college.

The panel featured four UConn alumni, all of whom had graduated within the last three years, and all former members of CLAS. Featured, were Moshood Olatokunbo, an economics major, Andrew Tan, an electrical engineering and entrepreneurship major, Cynthia Luo, a linguistics/philosophy, classics & ancient Mediterranean studies, and English triple major, and finally Maggie Collins, an English major with a minor in communication studies.

The panel began with introductions from each of the four speakers, where they were given the opportunity to give a brief overview of their lives while studying at the university, and a short description of what they’ve been doing since graduation. The remainder of the timeslot consisted of a Q&A session for students to ask the alums about their lives since graduation, and the trials and tribulations they’ve faced.

The panelists seemed prepared and over-

joyed to help students who would soon be in their shoes, and each question was answered thoroughly and with dedication, with each panelist offering their own unique interpretation of the problems, and how to solve them. Katie Farrington, a member of the UConn Alumni Relations Center, said, “We really wanted to bring in some young alums that are fresh out of school, but still have some real world experience. They can really relate to the seniors who are still in school. Plus, it’s clear that kids are a lot more comfortable asking questions to kids their own age, rather than someone older and perhaps a bit stuffier, so that way they can ask some of the more random questions about things like money and socializing.”

The questions themselves ranged from queries on what exactly would change after graduation, to learning to deal with student loans, and of course the oft-wondered questions about how to obtain your first job upon finishing school, the problem of which tended to understandably dominate the panel. “Interning is big,” Olatokunbo said, “Try everything! You need to know what you want to do.” Collins added, “Play off of your interests.” Many tools were suggested as well, such as certain websites and apps like ‘Mint,’ which helps you create and manage a personal budget.

Corporations value planet over profit

working at a crouton factory and working at a furniture store filled with Mexicans and racists. He made fun of racists and homophobes for their irrational complaints about not working, having more drugs and more women available to date – all things that he personally would enjoy.

Though he never went to college, Mauss is currently taking online courses offered by universities like Stamford, reads many scientific books, and watches educational TV shows that all contributed to his fascination for nature, specifically about mating, reproduction and evolution. A plethora of his jokes consisted of examples of how mating and reproduction are more important than survival, and that life is mostly about men trying to get attention from females. He implemented facts about animals songbirds, peacocks and bucks to back his claim. He boiled sex down to a science, even giving historical examples of male competition to get females.

He didn’t mind sharing strange facts about himself with the audience, including his signature sex move which he recently found out was completely wrong. The hardest thing in life, he said, was figuring out relationships, which is something he believes should be an important thing to learn for college students. By taking all his observations and learning about mating, he made jokes about how men try to act macho when women really call the shots.

At the end of the show, he showed the audience the Mausstache – an accessory to put on beer bottles. He stuck around after the show shaking hands with members in the audience and selling Mausstaches.

The purpose of business and the economy is to meet the needs of people and to provide them with the goods and services that they require for a happy and healthy life. However, it often seems that the corporations that dominate global commerce today are, overall, making the world a worse place to live. According to the British newspaper The Guardian, corporations cause $2.2 trillion in environmental destruction every year, and this of course does not account for intangible costs such as the loss of natural beauty. Corporations have also failed in taking care of people. The human rights organization Global Exchange explains: “Economic globalization and the rise of transnational corporate power have created a favorable climate for corporate human rights abusers, which are governed principally by the codes of supply and demand and show genuine loyalty only to their stockholders.”

As consumers, workers and citizens of the world, we do not – and should not – accept the current corporate standard.

We do not need to accept businesses that cost us happiness and health. Eliminating corporations altogether is unnecessary, but demanding a new status quo for big business is essential to building a better world. The recent invention of “benefit corporations” is one example of this change unfolding.

Currently seven states in the U.S. have introduced legislation that allows for the establishment of benefit corporations. A February 2012 article in Yes! Magazine explains that the new legislation releases corporations from their obligation to maximize shareholder profit, and to “broaden their goals to include serving non-financial interests, verified by an independent third party. For example, they may provide low-income communities with beneficial products or services, promote economic opportunity for individuals or communities beyond the creation of jobs in the ordinary course of business, preserve the environment, or improve human health.” The result is that benefit corporations have the legal right to make decisions based on environmental and human factors, rather than just profit.

For example, Timothy Yee, a California businessman who recently converted his company Green Retirement Plans Inc into a benefit corporation, commented that in the past if he wished to sell his business, he’d have no choice but to yield to the highest bidder. “But now,” he explained, “I will consider all my stakeholders and not only stockholders. Any action I take will be done in light of this, and I have legal ground.”

The development of the benefit corporation status proves that prosperous business and ethical conduct do not have to be mutually exclusive. In fact, valuing people and the planet over profit may result in more value added to our everyday lives in terms of improved mental, physical and emotional health. In exciting news, Governor Dannel Malloy introduced H.B. 6356, “An Act Concerning Benefit Corporations and Encouraging Social Enterprise,” which could make this tremendous change a reality in our state. If you would like to see “benefit corporations” in Connecticut, contact your state legislator to express your support!

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Four recent UConn graduates discussed their experience moving from the classroom to the workforce. Students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences were able to ask questions and seek advice.

However, it wasn’t all fun. On occasion, the panelists did discuss some of the major hardships that they’d faced since leaving school. “Be appreciative of what you’ve got,” Luo said. “Once you’re out in the real world, time is no longer only your own, and sleeping, believe it or not, becomes even more valuable than it is to you right now.”

Students seemed satisfied as well. Sergio

Goncalves, a political science and Spanish major, said, “During this whole process, I’ve been a little lost, and like I needed advice.

After coming here, I definitely feel more confident, and a bit less afraid of what’s to come.”

Zachary.Lederman@UConn.edu

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate works to better the world

By Zarrin Ahmed Staff Writer

Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, shared encouraging advice to young children and college students during her lecture at Konover Auditorium on Thursday afternoon.

“A lot of young people think ‘If we can’t make the world an excellent place all at once then why bother?’”

Williams said. “Each and every one of us can find a way to contribute, even in ways we don’t imagine.”

Williams shared anecdotes about her childhood, growing up in Vermont, and being a victim of bullying and seeing others bullied. She recalled when kids began bullying her brother and how angry she got, but she realized that her anger wouldn’t get her anywhere.

She also shared an experience when she stood up to a boy in middle school who pushed the school nerd out of a kickball game. When she stood up to the bully, he backed down. She learned the difference between anger and righteous indignation, the latter is defined as a way

that many people could be helped, if people stood up to their own fears. She spoke with emotion while speaking of how dismayed she was at the injustice.

“That’s what fires me and makes me want to go out and change the world because I hate injustice,” Williams said.

The anger that she felt towards bullies as a kid matured into anger for bullying between countries.

Though she didn’t know what she wanted to do when she got out of college besides reworking United States foreign policy, Williams’ passion to fight injustice led her to become an activist for ten years. As soon as she was ready to give up from exhaustion and work a regular job, she received a phone call from Bobby Muller, President of Veterans for America, and was offered a position to campaign against land mines. After the Vietnamese war, the veterans came back to the countries they fought in to see the effects of the war and figure out their role in it. They discovered land mines left over in places like Cambodia, ones that were frequently picked up by curious children who came to a grisly fate

Personality and relationships influence the Cold War

By Zarrin Ahmed Staff Writer UConn history professor Frank Costigliola spoke at the Co-op on Thursday afternoon, about the personal relationships of Allied leaders Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin based on his book “Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War.” Costigliola earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University, and has been the recipient of fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Guggenheim foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Norwegian Nobel Institute. He served as the former president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 2009 and has been teaching at UConn since 1998. Having already written a few history books, the Princeton University Press published Costigliola’s latest book in 2012.

“Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances” focuses on the character, personalities and relationships of the Allied Powers during the Second World War. Costigliola began by speaking about how each leader took on a “killing job,” and how that job greatly affected each leader.

ZARRIN AHMED/The Daily Campus “Despite all the burden on them, they took time to make UConn history professor Frank Costigliola spoke about his book “Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances: long trips, by air or sea, to How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War.” meet,” Constigliola said.

By examining each leader’s personality, cause by a lack of affection from his mother.

Costigliola explained how he was able to judge He compared Roosevelt’s flirtatious character their underlying political intent. He chose four to Churchill’s indifference; along with the difselections from the book; one to demonstrate ferences in their academic performance, and how they did in school, another to describe the leaders’ relationships with one another. their sex lives, one that focused on their per- Constilgiola claimed that despite all their difsonal views on war and the last about how ferent backgrounds all of the leaders were selftheir personality affected their politics. centered, charismatic and ambitious.

Costilgiola compared and contrasted the After the discussion Costigliola opened the characters of the leaders by examining all the floor for questions and also shared personal factors that affected each. From Roosevelt’s stories he knew about the leaders. overly protective mother and her effect on him, to Churchill’s demand for attention and extravagance, and his “black dog” depression Zarrin.Ahmed@UConn.edu

too soon. The campaign went from a one-person effort and spread to 90 countries with 1,390 groups all over the world.

Williams explained to the crowd about the concept of human security, which is vastly different from national security, and that includes security against problems like foreclosures, lack of medicine, and schools getting shut down. It answers the question, “What makes people insecure?” She told the crowd how the United States spends $711 billion on military weapons while the rest of the world combined spends $698 billion. She argued that much of that money could be used for free healthcare, free college education and an unmatchable public school education - things that give the people a basis for a good life. Though the lecture touched on important subjects, Williams won the crowd over with her humorous personality. She opened the floor for questions from the audience after her lecture.

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Audience laughs and learns from Mauss

By Zarrin Ahmed Staff Writer Comedian Shane Mauss educated an audience at the Student Union Theater about reproduction, evolution and science through humorous jokes as part of the Spring Comedy Series hosted by SUBOG. “I like coming to colleges cause they’re usually an intelligent audience,” Mauss said.

A native of Wisconsin, Mauss moved to Boston in 2004 where, within three years, he got a big break when he was awarded Best Standup Comic at HBO’s US Comedy Arts Festival. He has made special appearances on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Comedy Central’s “Live at Gotham,” Showtime’s “Comics Without Borders,” and BBC’s “The World Stands Up.” He regularly appears on The Bob and Tom Show and has performed in comedy festivals like The Montreal Just For Laughs Festival, The Sydney Comedy Festival and The Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival.

Mauss began the night by poking fun at the TV show, “Finding Bigfoot,” mocking the calls the hosts of the show make, pointing out all the ridiculous routines and practiced actions and reactions, and using facts to contradict the show.

Though he explained how he loves his job as a comedian and getting to travel the country to tell jokes, he enlightened the audience about the first best job – being a Japanese subway packer. The job is to pack people into the subway, which Mauss called the “funniest most horrifying thing” and equated it to “pushing humanity into a tube.”

Sharing job experiences that led to interview advice, Mauss told the crowd about how he held a number of jobs including pushing carts at a grocery store,

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By Alex Sferrazza Staff Writer

By Loumarie Rodriguez Senior Staff Wrtier When ideas begin to dwindle for creating the latest TV sitcom or drama, the next best thing is create a spin off based off a current popular TV show. Not all spin offs are directly connected to the main TV show.

Typically they may have a guest star from the original show in order to draw the connections. Spin offs can turn into something really interesting, because it might dive deeper into characters that we have watched season after season. They can serve as an opportunity to really develop a back-story for characters or continue a story that isn’t finished being told. However there is the obvious and unfortunate spin offs where it’s Photo courtesy of fanpop.com clear that producers and writers are Frasier was a successful spin off sitcom from Cheers, and ran for 11 seasons after attempting to salvage every penny gathering a loyal following. out of the original show.

A lot of fans have a hard time letclassic “Cheers” sitcom. “Frasier” lasted for 11 ting go after a fantastic TV show ends its run. In seasons after “Cheers” ended. It turned out to be order to meet the demands of fans, writers try to one of the most successful spin off sitcoms on create fresh ideas with an old story line. “Angel” TV. It was a different type of humor that people was a spin off from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” couldn’t get enough of. There was a lot of sarcasm After “Buffy” ended in 2001, “Angel” continued and plenty of witty lines that kept people amused until 2004 when it was unexpectedly canceled. for about 11 years. Another very successful spin Despite the pleas of fans and petitions created to off is CBS’s “NCIS,” with its original show bring the show back the network stuck to their “JAG.” Our generation may have been a little guns. too young for “JAG,” since it took place in the “That 70’s Show” put a great comedic spin on mid 90’s until 2005. “NCIS” is currently airing the 70’s era, constantly poking fun at disco and season 10. clothing that reflected the decade. It was sad to Entertainment Weekly recently published an see the zany humor end, which brought about article announcing a spin off from the successful the concept for “That 80’s Show.” It only lasted “The Vampire Diaries” focusing on characters for one season and did not have any references that have reoccurring roles on the show, set to to the original show. Some critics believe “That take place in New Orleans far from the original 80’s Show” focused on a decade too recent for the Virginia setting. “The Vampire Diaries” is a comshow to be really funny. plicated show with a lot of side stories and comAnother unsuccessful spin off was “The plex characters so the material is there for writers Finder,” based off FOX’s “Bones.” Unfortunately to work with. The question that remains is will for Michael Clarke Duncan this was his last TV this spin off work? “The Vampire Diaries” will air performance before his death. After viewing a an episode that will lead into the spin off on April few minutes of the TV show, it was clear why 25. Viewers will then determine whether the writthe show was canceled after a season. The main ers created a spinoff that has substance, linking character tried too hard to be quirky and portray back to the original show, or another Hollywood himself as someone who is unique in solving mys- attempt to cash in. teries. In the end, the main characters trying too hard seem to be a turn off for viewers.

The popular “Frasier” was a spin off from the Loumarie.Rodriguez@UConn.edu

Ebert, nation’s best-known film critic, dies at 70

Last week, longtime Warner Bros. Animation guru Bruce Timm announced that he will be taking an indefinite break from his role as supervising producer at WB Animation, to focus on personal projects.

Timm’s career at WB Animation began in 1989 when he worked on the popular “Tiny Toon Adventures” animated series.

However, Timm’s biggest impact was made in the development of a series of animated shows all taking place within a greater expanded continuity, known as the DC Animated Universe (or DCAU), the most significant of which remains to this day “Batman: The Animated Series.”

Premiering in 1991, the series, co created by Timm, is widely regarded as the most faithful adaptation of the Batman comics in history outside of the books themselves. Inspired by the visual style of the 1940’s Max Fleischer Superman cartoons, the series explored darker and more mature themes than typical children’s show fare and began to break taboos by becoming one of the first children’s animated series in decades to depict the use of firearms. Immensely popular among fans, character backstories for certain characters like Mr. Freeze were adapted into the mainstream comics, as were outright original creations such as Harley Quinn. So great was the series acclaim that to this day, it continues to receive accolades such as being awarded 2nd place among IGN.com’s top 100 Animated Television Series of All Time, behind only Matt Groening’s “The Simpsons”.

A few years later in 1999, “Batman Beyond” premiered.

Taking place in a 2039 neoGotham, the series, an entirely original take on the Batman character, followed the exploits of the future Batman, Terry McGinnis, as he is mentored by an elderly and retired Bruce Wayne. The series was another success.

Timm immediately followed up on the success of Batman: TAS with “Superman: The Animated Series” which faithfully brought the Man of Steel to television

audiences just as “Batman: The Animated Series” had done for the caped crusader. A series of crossover episodes featuring both heroes began to sow the seeds of Timm’s most ambitious project yet, the “Justice League,” a series which teamed up Superman and Batman along with the Flash, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Hawkgirl and Martian Manhunter.

“Justice League” marked the first appearances for many of these heroes on television since the 1970’s show “SuperFriends”.

Like Timm’s previous efforts, the series proved to be an enormous success, and was popular enough to warrant an additional two season continuation after the conclusion of its run.

“Justice League Unlimited” ran from 2004-2006. The finale of Timm’s DC animated series’ which comprised the DCAU, built upon the “Justice League’s” foundation, teaming the established heroes with a plethora of DC heroes and villains making their first animated appearances including Black Canary and Deadman.

During the run of the DCAU shows, Timm was also involved in various spin off films, including wildly praised efforts “Batman and Mr. Freeze: Sub Zero”, “Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker” and “Batman: Mask of the Phantasm”.

Following the “Justice League Unlimited’s” conclusion, Timm has been involved in various capacities, typically as a producer or executive producer in the development of a series, or in successful direct-to-video films based on DC comics properties (completely unrelated to his DCAU works), including “Wonder Woman”, “Batman: Under the Red Hood” and “Batman: Gotham Knight”.

Recently, Timm produced “Green Lantern: The Animated Series” which was cancelled after one season.

While no one knows just how long Timm’s break will be, if this is truly the last we’ve seen of the animation legend, one cannot understate his impact. Timm’s well written series have spearheaded the modern age of the animated action adventure TV program, and stand as the standard from which all other series remain to be judged.

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Hosts revel in LenoFallon changeover

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This 1969 photo shows Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert in the newsroom of the paper in Chicago. Ebert, the most famous and popular film reviewer of his time who became the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism.

CHICAGO (AP) — Roger Ebert had the most-watched thumb in Hollywood.

With a twist of his wrist, the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic rendered decisions that influenced a nation of moviegoers and could sometimes make or break a film.

The heavy-set writer in the horn-rimmed glasses teamed up on television with Gene Siskel to create a format for criticism that proved enormously appealing in its simplicity: uncomplicated reviews that were both intelligent and accessible and didn’t talk down to ordinary movie fans.

Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, died Thursday at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, two days after announcing on his blog that he was undergoing radiation treatment for a recurrence of cancer.

He was 70.

“So on this day of reflection I say again, thank you for going on this journey with me. I’ll see you at the movies.” Ebert wrote Tuesday on his blog.

Despite his wide influence, Ebert considered himself “beneath everything else a fan.”

“I have seen untold numbers of movies and forgotten most of them, I hope, but I remember those worth remembering, and they are all on the same shelf in my mind,” Ebert wrote in his 2011 memoir titled “Life Itself.”

After cancer surgeries in 2006, Ebert lost portions of his jaw and the ability to eat, drink and speak. But he went back to writing full time and eventually even returned to television. In addition to his work for the Sun-Times, he became a prolific user of social media, connecting with hundreds of thousands of fans on Facebook and Twitter.

Ebert’s thumb — pointing up or down — was his trademark. It was the main logo of the long-running TV shows Ebert co-hosted, first with Siskel of the rival Chicago Tribune and — after Siskel’s death in 1999 — with Sun-Times colleague Richard Roeper. A “two thumbs-up” accolade was sure to find its way into the advertising for the movie in question.

The nation’s best-known movie reviewer “wrote with passion through a real knowledge of film and film history, and in doing so, helped many movies find

their audiences,” director Steven Spielberg said. His death is “virtually the end of an era, and now the balcony is closed forever.”

In early 2011, Ebert launched a new show, “Ebert Presents At the Movies.” The show had new hosts and featured Ebert in his own segment, “Roger’s Office.” He used a chin prosthesis and enlisted voiceover guests or his computer to read his reviews.

Fans admired his courage, but Ebert told The Associated Press that bravery had “little to do with it.”

“You play the cards you’re dealt,” Ebert wrote in an email in January 2011. “What’s your choice? I have no pain. I enjoy life, and why should I complain?”

Always modest, Ebert had Midwestern charm but stuck strongly to his belief that critics honestly tell audiences “how better to invest two hours of their lives.”

On the air, Ebert and Siskel bickered like an old married couple and openly needled each other.

To viewers who had trouble telling them apart, Ebert was known as the fat one with glasses, Siskel as the thin, bald one.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The coming Jay Leno-Jimmy Fallon “Tonight” handover is the talk of the late-night TV town.

David Letterman poked fun at Leno and NBC. Leno poked fun at Letterman and NBC. Jimmy Kimmel mocked himself.

Fallon played it cool. And Conan O’Brien took the high road after NBC said Wednesday that Fallon will inherit “Tonight” from Leno in 2014 — as O’Brien did in 2009, before Leno took it back.

“I want to congratulate Jimmy.

That is a really fun gig,” O’Brien said on his TBS talk show, drawing laughs from the studio audience. “It is,” he said, protesting, then added, “And Jimmy is the perfect guy to do it.

Congratulations, Jimmy.”

It was short and sweet.

Letterman, on the other hand, made a three-course meal out of the news on CBS’ “Late Show,” starting with his monologue.

“NBC, God bless ‘em, announced the official date for Jay Leno’s departure — no mention of his official date of return, however,” he said. “I happen to know Jay’s got another job on network that has greater viewership, higher ratings: Univision.”

Then Letterman settled behind his desk for more.

“Good luck to Jay. I know he’ll be out on the road, getting it done and taking care of business. And congratulations on a nice long run there at the ‘Tonight Show,’ if in fact you’re not coming back,” he said.

And there was a “things we’ll miss about Jay Leno” top 10 list, including No. 4: “Can’t remem-

ber the name of the bit, but it’s the one where Jay is walking.”

Leno, who won the “Tonight” job over Letterman in 1992, was ready with a monologue to mark the newly announced transition.

“Folks, I got to be honest with you, I had a really awkward day today. I had to call David Letterman and tell him he didn’t get the ‘Tonight Show’ again,” Leno said.

Then came NBC’s turn to get jabbed.

“I just have one request for Jimmy: We’ve all fought, kicked and scratched to get this network up to fifth place. Now we have to keep it there. Jimmy, don’t let it slip into sixth!” Leno said, according to a network transcript.

Kimmel, whose move to 11:35 p.m. Eastern on ABC helped trigger the NBC switch, played it safe with a mild monologue joke about himself.

“As you probably heard ... I will take over as new host of the ‘Tonight Show,’ he said, only to be interrupted by a producer’s whispered correction.

“Ummm, apparently it was a different Jimmy. ... Does anyone know what the return policy is on yachts?” Kimmel asked.

Fallon, who has about a year to ponder his future promotion, was succinct.

“Welcome! This is ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon ... for now,” he said. “You guys probably heard the news: I’m going to be taking over the ‘Tonight Show’ next February! But don’t worry.

Until February, our focus is right here on whatever this show is called.”

Entering the industry The fashion industry has a very difficult and complex barrier for entry. To make a name for a brand in today’s fashion world, designers and companies are taking more risks and producing more memorably audacious products. The lingering thought that “no idea is original” is often one which poses a conflict for young designers. Then there is Virgil Abloh, who created the hottest brand in men’s streetwear by slapping “Pyrex” branding on ready-made apparel.

To summarize a man of many occupations, Virgil Abloh is one of the most famous non-famous people in the world of today’s popular culture. He is best known for being one of the major creative minds in starting a global brand surrounding fellow native to Chicago, Kanye West. Abloh has had a long career in fashion, even operating his own Chicago and online boutique, the RSVP Gallery. What really pushed Abloh from behind the curtains onto center stage was the introduction of his personal “Pyrex Vision” brand in the latter stages of 2012. This streetwear and lifestyle brand seemingly came out of thin air. What started as a blog turned into an instantly sold-out line of clothing, sported by hiphop heavyweights Kanye West and A$AP Rocky.

Abloh has said that the inspiration for his “Pyrex Vision” idea is heavily based around youth culture and something that kids can participate in creating. As a child, he has stated how iconic Champion sports apparel was to each and every kid who participated in gym class. That shows, because a lot of the inaugural collection featured Champion printed pieces like mesh shorts and football jerseys. The “Pyrex Vision” branding is almost certainly influenced from the overexposure and importance of drug culture in hip-hop music and the culinary craftsmanship that often goes into the subsequent lyrics.

Like many new brands, Abloh and Pyrex didn’t escape controversy. Thanks to the internet, it was suggested that the actual pieces of clothing used for the $400 flannel shirts Abloh produced were actually under $100 clearance items from Rugby Ralph Lauren (which recently got discontinued as a brand under Ralph Lauren). Screen-printing images, numbers and Pyrex logos on ready-made Ralph Lauren and Champion garments and marking the items up to four times their “worth” would not seem like being very original and innovative to the fashion outsider. One could argue that, like many trends in the contemporary art world, this was a case of conceptual appropriation, with the emphasis being on why these pieces are being made, not the final product. However with fashion, a much bigger motive is to create a visually pleasing product, unlike other art forms.

I normally hate to reduce someone’s work down to this, but the “Pyrex Vision” brand’s success is solely because of the A$AP Mob being featured in it’s lookbooks and because Kanye West wore it at a concert of his. After those moments, the internet logged into their collective pay-pal accounts and sought after the newest and hottest trends to look like their favorite artists. With the combination of great timing, major endorsements and the right connections, Abloh created a chaotic and mysterious solo brand. I’ll be curious to see how this brand develops in the future after such a successful beginning.

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Philadelphia gets ready to Motown’s unsung female trio finally gets acclaim play ‘Pong’ on building

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The classic Atari video game will come to life on the facade of the 29-story skyscraper. Hundreds of built-in LED lights at the Cira Centre will replicate the familiar paddles and ball. The effort is the brainchild of Frank Lee, a Drexel University game-design professor.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia is getting ready for a supersized game of “Pong” — on the side of a skyscraper.

The classic Atari video game will be re-created later this month on the facade of the 29-story Cira Centre, where hundreds of embedded LED lights will replicate the familiar paddles and ball.

Organizers expect hundreds of onlookers as gaming enthusiasts use giant, tablemounted joysticks to play from afar. The players will be standing on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a site that offers an unobstructed view of the office building from across the Schuylkill River. “’Pong’ is a cultural icon, cultural milestone,” said Frank Lee, the Drexel University game-design professor behind the concept. “This is my love letter to the wonders of technology as seen through the eyes of my childhood.”

Despite the buzz the idea has received since being announced Wednesday, Lee said it took five years to find people willing to make it happen. He eventually met kindred spirits at Brandywine Realty Trust, which owns the Cira Centre, and at the online news site Technically Philly.

Now, what might be the world’s largest “Pong” game will be played April 19 and 24 as part of Philly Tech Week, the news website’s annual series of events, seminars and workshops spotlighting the city’s technology and innova-

tion communities.

“This is one of the best things I could imagine that could make people aware that there’s something happening here, and bring more people into the fold,” Technically Philly co-founder Christopher Wink said.

Wink estimated about 150 people might play over the two days — most will be chosen by a lottery, but some spots will be reserved for younger students enrolled in science, technology, engineering and math programs.

Among those playing will be 36-year-old Brad Denenberg, one of three winners picked at random during a Tech Week preview on Wednesday. Denenberg, who runs the tech startup incubator Seed Philly, confessed to some trepidation. He said he’s actually not a big gamer.

“My biggest fear is that I’m going to play against some 8-year-old who will destroy me,” Denenberg said.

In today’s gaming era of lifelike graphics — think “Call of Duty” — and colorful characters — think “Angry Birds” — it’s hard to imagine how the pixelated “Pong” qualified as revolutionary when it was introduced in 1972.

The black-and-white arcade game used simple block shapes to simulate two paddles and a ball; the object was for players to hit the ball so their opponents could not return it. A home version paved the way for the game console industry.

At the Cira Centre, the game will be re-created using hundreds of lights already embedded in its north face.

The tower stands by day as a gleaming, mirrored edifice in west Philadelphia, but each night it illuminates the skyline with colored, patterned displays. A spokesman could not be reached for comment Thursday.

Lee said he was driving by the building one night five years ago when he was suddenly struck with the idea that the lights could be configured to play the shape-fitting game Tetris.

The concept grew from there. Last month, after finally securing the necessary permissions, he and two colleagues successfully tested giant versions of “Pong” as well as the classic games “Snake” and “Space Invaders.” People might get to play “Snake” on April 24, Lee said.

The effort has been satisfying on a technical level, Lee said, describing “Pong” as “a large-scale interactive, lightbased art project.”

But he noted it was rewarding on an emotional level as well, comparing it with the excitement he felt as a boy when he would put the “Pong” game cartridge into the console. And he hopes it inspires a new generation of innovators.

“I hope kids ... will go on to be the leaders, and push technology forward and do wondrous things in the future,” Lee said.

DETROIT (AP) — More than 40 years have passed since the recording of Marvin Gaye’s “Save the Children,” but a replay of the song in the studio where it was recorded compressed time and brought tears to the eyes of Louvain Demps.

Demps was no mere fan visiting what’s now the Motown Historical Museum. She was one of the women singing the angelic, high harmonies on the recording — and hearing it in Hitsville USA’s Studio A was too much.

“It’s my heart, it’s my heart,” she said.

For Demps and her fellow Andantes, Jackie Hicks and Marlene Barrow-Tate, moments like these have been private, since the wider world knew only their voices, not their faces. But now in their 70s, the unsung backing group who sang on thousands of Motown songs is finally getting acclaim for its contributions to the groundbreaking, chart-topping music made in Detroit in the 1960s and early ‘70s before the label moved to Los Angeles.

The trio gathered recently to see the exhibit, “Motown Girl Groups: The Grit, the Glamour, the Glory,” which will run through the summer. The Andantes are featured — with equal billing — alongside the Supremes, Vandellas, Marvelettes and Velvelettes.

The joyous but rare reunion was made possible by a sad event the day before: the funeral of former Miracles member Bobby Rogers. For the Andantes, it made their meeting more poignant.

“It is unfortunate that so many are gone and thank God that we are still here — all of us — to be able to see this and see our dream come true,” said Barrow-Tate, who still lives in Detroit, as does Hicks. The two are retired, but Demps, who lives near Atlanta, still sings solo or with others.

The Andantes were the go-to backup singers for most Motown artists, including Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Four Tops and the girl groups themselves. “Save the Children” came from Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” one of Motown’s greatest — and last — albums recorded in Detroit. The Andantes sang backup on many of the record’s cuts — including the title track — and even traveled with Gaye to his hometown of Washington, D.C., in 1972 to perform the disc in its entirety at the Kennedy Center.

Motown Museum officials say the trio, almost always anonymously, sang on more songs than any other group at Motown. They were the female and vocal equivalent to the Funk Brothers, the label’s house band that itself was largely anonymous in its time but gained acclaim through the 2002 documentary film, “Standing in the Shadows of Motown.”

The Andantes’ peerless ability to vocally blend — not only with each other but also with stars such as Gaye, The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles and many others — was one of the factors that kept them in demand behind the scenes. They were so successful that they were seen as essential backup artists, and that limited them from growing more.

The Andantes don’t exactly sing the same old song now when it comes to how they felt about standing and singing in the shadows.

“We did not mind not having our name on someone else’s record,” Hicks said.

“I did,” said Demps, who had dreamed the Andantes might one day be like the Supremes. “I always minded.”

“Well, I didn’t,” said Hicks, who was seconded

by Barrow-Tate.

Allen Rawls, the museum’s acting chief executive, said Motown Records founder Berry Gordy understood the role everyone played in creating and maintaining Motown’s sound.

“The Andantes ... were so instrumental to the foundation of the Motown sound,” Rawls said.

“Imagine if a song like ‘Standing in the Shadows of Love’ was out there (without them). The harmonies behind it may not be the same thing. That’s why they were established in that particular role, helping to create the foundation.”

Gordy called the Andantes “wonderful people” in a recent interview and fondly remembered their contributions: “I recall so many of the sounds from The Four Tops.”

So does Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the group’s lone surviving original member. He recalls the trio’s work on “Baby I Need Your Loving,” The Four Tops’ first hit.

“They were just as important in their background (part) as The Four Tops,” he said. “Their voices on that song made that song.”

Hillary Clinton book expected in ‘14

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Clinton is working on a memoir and policy book about her years with the Obama administration, Simon & Schuster told The Associated Press on Thursday. The book is currently untitled and tentatively scheduled for June 2014.

NEW YORK (AP) — So what does it all mean?

Hillary Rodham Clinton has a deal for a memoir and policy book about her years in the Obama administration, Simon & Schuster told The Associated Press. The book has yet to be titled and is tentatively scheduled for June 2014, in time for the summer reading season and for the midterm elections, when a promotional tour could easily blend with Democratic efforts work to recapture the House.

The former secretary of state’s itinerary will be closely scrutinized for any signs she may run for president in 2016 — any book tour events in early voting states like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina would receive broad attention.

But her book will likely be anticipated on several levels — as a possible signal of a presidential run; as the latest chronicle of one of the most eventful public lives of the past quartercentury; as the continuation of a tradition of secretary of state memoirs that includes Dean Acheson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Present at the Creation” and works by Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright and Clinton’s immediate predecessor, Condoleezza Rice.

“Hillary Clinton’s extraordinary public service has given her a unique perspective on recent history and the challenges we face,” Jonathan Karp, president and publisher of the Simon & Schuster Publishing Group and the book’s editor, said in a statement Thursday. “This will be the ultimate book for people who are interested in world affairs and America’s place in the world today.”

Financial terms were not disclosed. Clinton reportedly received $8 million for the 2003 memoir, “Living History,” also published by Simon & Schuster. As with “Living History,” Clinton was represented by Wa s h i n g t o n attorney Robert Barnett, who has handled deals for President Barack Obama and Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton.

Karp previously served as editor for another Barnett client, Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy, and his memoir “True Compass.”

Hillary Clinton, 65, stepped down as secretary of state earlier this year after serving throughout Obama’s first term. Polls indicate she would be a leading contender for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, but she has yet to announce a decision. Clinton was defeated by Obama for the Democratic nomination in 2008.

According to Simon & Schuster, Clinton will write about everything from the killing of Osama bin Laden and the Arab Spring to China and climate change. She “will share her views as to what it takes for the United States to secure and sustain prosperity and global leadership. Throughout, Secretary Clinton will offer vivid personal anecdotes and memories of her collaboration with President Obama and his national security team, as well as her engagement with leaders around the world.”

Clinton, who already has started writing the book, was often praised as a hard-working and effective secretary of state. But it’s unclear whether she will cover one of the bleakest events of the past four years — the attack last fall against the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, which left four Americans dead and led to widespread criticism of security procedures and allegations by Republicans of an election-year coverup of an act of terrorism.

Simon & Schuster’s announcement mentions the 2011 overthrow of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, but not the Benghazi attack. The publisher did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the attack.

The book will apparently stick to her time as secretary of state and not cover the years immediately following her 2003 memoir, when she was re-elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 and ran for president in 2008, an intense and sometimes bitter campaign that led to widespread reports of animosity between Clinton and Obama.

A person familiar with the book said that Clinton does not plan to write about the 2008 campaign or any possible future runs. The person was not authorized to speak publicly about the book and requested anonymity to discuss it.

Clinton is a well-established author. Her “Living History” was a million-seller that was highly publicized, if only for her take on her husband’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Her other books, all from Simon & Schuster and all released while she was the first lady, include her best-seller about raising children, “It Takes a Village”; “Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids’ Letters to the First Pets”; and “An Invitation to the White House: At Home With History.”

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Consent should be a mandatory part of Sex Ed.

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ecent events, most notably the Steubenville rape case, have thrust the issue of consent onto the national stage. What should have been a rather cut-and-dry case became a politically charged issue after many people spoke out in defense of the attackers. After the perpetrators were convicted, national news media focused on the lost potential of the convicts and barely mentioned justice for the victim, inciting further outcry.

Soon after, two 18-year-old students from nearby Torrington, Connecticut were charged with sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl. This event also sparked a slew of social media-based victim blaming, with many students accusing the girl of ruining the perpetrators’ futures. This, along with the Steubenville case, spurred a group of people to submit a petition on the White House’s “We the People” website, titled “Make Consent a Mandatory Part of Sex-Ed in Public Schools.” We support this proposal, and believe that teaching consent in schools will help to decrease the incidence of sexual assault.

Rape is obviously a huge problem in America. One in four women in college will be the victims of rape, and the Centers for Disease Control estimate that as many as 1.3 million women are raped in the United States each year. Surveys also show that large portions of the public hold incorrect views on consent – a 2005 poll done by Amnesty International found that 30 percent of respondents believed that a rape victim was “partially” or “totally” responsible if he or she was drunk.

At UConn, many organizations and individuals have done great work to combat these dangerous misconceptions, educating students about consent with events like SlutWalk and initiatives like the Violence Against Women Prevention Program. But it would be much better for this sort of education to begin at an earlier age, when students’ ideas about consent are first being formed.

As middle or high schoolers are being taught about contraception and the reproductive system, why not also teach them about the importance of consent?

This sort of education has proven to be very effective. Earlier this year, we editorialized in support of the “Don’t Be That Guy” campaign, which cut sexual assault in Vancouver by 10 percent by putting up posters with messages like, “Just because she isn’t saying no doesn’t mean she is saying yes. Sex without consent = sexual assault. Don’t Be That Guy.” Giving this sort of message in an age-appropriate manner in health or sex ed classes could go a long way in preventing future sexual assaults.

Importantly, getting this sort of education into the curriculum of all schools could be done through an independent, voluntary process rather than a federal mandate that could prove unconstitutional. State-based organizations have already worked together to create something called the Common Core State Standards Initiative, which establishes a set of agreed-upon educational goals for all signatories. Today, all but four states have willingly adopted these standards.

If consent education is added to this initiative, it would be taught in nearly every school in America. And while there are ongoing debates about other aspects of sexual education, such as whether to teach safe sex or abstinence only, everyone should be able to agree that we should teach our youth the importance of consent.

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The land grab and how it has become a defining force in American history

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n Europe, land is a scarce and fiercely contested resource. Every square mile has been warred over by tribes, knights and standing armies for thousands of years and many families and clans, especially in the countryside, have become genealogically intertwined with the land they view as belonging, in perpetuity, to themselves and their progeny. Thus the overwhelming abundance and richness of land on the North American continent must have inspired in European settlers and explorers a sense of wonder and ambitious excitement – here, in America, was

By Chris Kempf more land than Europe could ever Weekly Columnist possibly require for its own sustenance. It was so bountiful, moreover, that Europeans began to conceive of the birth and development of a new race of humans freed from the fratricidal embroilments of Europe and descended directly from the virgin land that stretched itself out beneath them.

But the vastness of America’s land posed challenges to Europeans apart from the obvious fact - though to contemporary observers, not to them – that the land they had encountered was hardly vacant. Indeed, the long, rugged distances separating communities and parcels of land, as well as the extremities of local climates, made settlement of much of the American landscape unappealing and unprofitable. New technologies and new conceptual adaptations of old ones were essential if the American wilderness was to be tamed. Three of those innovations strike me as especially essential – “loose money,” air conditioning and the Interstate Highway System – though many others made notable contributions.

The end result of these innovations was, I argue, the largest and most comprehensive seizure, manipulation and cultivation of land in human history and the most important precondition for the modern America that we know today.

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centers of the country away from New York and Ohio toward the previously sweltering, untamed lands of Florida, Texas and Southern California.

Finally, the automobile and the Interstate Highway, as ultimately intertwined innovations, opened up the whole of American geography to access by the individual American. Highspeed transportation made suburbanization and ownership of one’s own plot of land possible for the white middle class, even as it trapped millions in the decaying cities.

Highways help us come to terms with the vastness of the land, transforming it into the blur that rushes past in our cars’ windows.

The feat of over-spreading the entirety of the North American continent within the first century of the United States’ existence was, to be sure, a monumental and unequaled feat in human history, though fraught with destruction and genocide. I argue, however, that the more contemporary feats of building metropolises in deserts and linking every American to each other through roads and automobiles have proven even more impressive.

They have come at great cost, though: massive energy consumption, suburban conformity and, periodic, debilitating financial crashes all spring from our choice to grab and consume land as fast as we can. We can, thereby, take a certain pride in American ingenuity, ambition and power, but not in the greed that made them possible.

“The vastness of America’s land posed challenges to Europeans apart from the obvious fact that the land they had encountered was hardly vacant.”

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The seizing of large tracts of land in Europe typically required military force and considerable expenditures of resources. However, in America, once the native peoples’ titles to the land had been revoked and their bodies removed to less-desirable tracts further west, it could be bought up in huge quantities, only to be sold soon afterward at a marginally higher price or developed, earning the purchaser a tidy profit. Furious, large-scale land speculation incorporated America’s vast wooded expanses into the economic market, but it was only made possible both by a currency increasingly untethered to the value of bullion reserves and by a banking system happy to print and distribute that money as fast as it could lend it. The looser the money supply and the more arbitrary the value of money, the faster the American landscape could be cut down to economically manageable sizes.

Especially in the American South, however, levels of heat and humidity unknown to the more temperate climates of Europe prevented the expansion of settlement. Until the 1920s, South Florida was home to little more than 10,000 people and persistent tropical disease. Even Washington DC, in the early years of the Republic, gained a reputation as an irrelevant, provincial backwater for its oppressive summer temperatures and its swampy surroundings. The invention and mass-production of air conditioning served to prevent machines from overheating, improve the quality of agricultural produce for consumers and accelerate the still-ongoing southward migration from snowbound Northern cities, shifting the population and political

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They could, dare I say it, prank the whole world!

There’s nothing like a good old fashioned prank.

Sometimes it’s as simple as a well-placed whoopee cushion or a note taped on someone’s back. Across the world, April 1st has been the inspiration for more complicated pranks.

Some disBy Melissa Collins play levels of strategy Staff Columnist worthy of the battlefield, others’ levels of immaturity worthy of the unsupervised elementary classroom.

However in the age of the internet, the toad in the teapot is gradually being replaced by pranks which are not only increasing in complexity, but finding much larger audiences. With today’s technology it is possible to quite literally prank the world.

Not everyone in the world, of course, but a good num-

ber of them. Take Google for example, which has hundreds of millions of unique users running searches every day.

While many know to watch out for Google’s notorious April Fools joke, those who lose track of the date can find themselves eagerly clicking the button and going through the tutorial for Google Nose, Google’s latest smell-based search feature.

So, when do these pranks go too far? In a world that is growing more and more connected every day, people who once had no influence suddenly have an audience of hundreds, or even millions, at the click of a button.

This year we saw pranks from almost every company.

Many, if not all, were harmless gags, just having a little fun.

Youtube’s post announcing the website had been one big

contest and that they would be moving to the judging phase and deleting all of the videos online might have had people going for a few minutes if they were lucky but certainly didn’t cause any harm.

Some pranks got people thinking too, such as Virgin’s announcement of the first glass-bottom plane. With today’s technology it’s not a possibility yet. But maybe with cameras and television screens instead of glass…

But back to the point. Not all April Fools jokes are quite as harmless as a video playing to almost-possibilities in technological advancement. Some use less tact and sometimes cross a definite line.

Starting with the annoying, take Microsoft. According to an article in The Atlantic Wire, the company placed a fake app download for Instagram in its

Window’s phone app store, teasing thousands of customers with the much looked-for compatibility.

“The joke was so bad they seem to have removed the fake app entirely,” wrote Connor Simpson of the Wire.

Another prank that always pulls at my geek heartstrings is ThinkGeek’s annual fake products, such as this year’s “Play-doh 3D Printer” and “Eye of Sauron Desk Lamp.”

Annoying is one thing, but there are a few things every year that cross the line. The winner for worst “prank” this year is Westboro Baptist Church. Perhaps unsurprising, given the church’s track record, this joke was a perfect example of why not everyone should have access to the World Wide Web. One of the church’s Twitter accounts posted the following tweet and

several others like it.

“The United States Military is not full of fags nor does it cater to the fag agenda. #AprilFools” One tweet was even aimed specifically at Blake Shelton, targeting the singer for his 2006 divorce and 2011 remarriage.

“It is A-OK to divorce your spouse & remarry -- whatever makes you happy, God will applaud! #AprilFools @blakeshelton” April Fools has been a day of lighthearted fun and pranking for centuries and all across the world. Some pranks are less tasteful than others, but there is a big difference between tactless and blatantly offensive. Using April Fools’ Day as an excuse to promote a political or religious agenda is not only hurtful to the victims but is a blatant mis-

use of power in the name of “humor.”

As pranksters on April Fools’ Day find their audience changing from siblings and friends to people around the world, they need to consider their actions more carefully.

Jokes that once affected a controlled group now can spread globally to new victims, audiences and even copycats.

Not only are some tricksters unprepared for this type of power, some are completely unaware of it. Companies and individuals need to start taking greater care of who and what they are affecting, even with what they consider to be harmless pranks.

Staf f Columnist Melissa Collins is a 4t h - semester journalism major. She can be reached at Melissa.Collins@UConn.edu.

Why sound bites without context is media mismanagement

Last week, Jon Stewart covered the Supreme Court hearing over Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage act (DOMA) which was the top news story of

By Kayvon Ghoreshi the week.

Stewart Staff Columnist played a sound bite from the hearings in which Justice Elena Kagan questioned Paul Clement, who was defending DOMA. She quoted from the House report in questioning whether the law had been passed due to moral disapproval. Clement’s response to the justice was, “Does the House report say that?” The sound bite gets cut off here and is instead replaced by the laughter of the Daily Show studio audience. Had

the sound bite continued, it would have been evident that Clement was asking a rhetorical question. He immediately follows the question by saying “Of course, the House report says that.” Clement wasn’t exactly a deer in headlights as Stewart may have originally portrayed. However, it is easier to forgive Stewart for this since the Daily Show’s end goal is not to deliver the truth but rather make people laugh. However, when other news media make use of this tactic it can lead to a lot of misinformation.

The most recent example that comes to mind is the past election. At the Republican National Convention one of the clear motifs was, “We Built It.” This saying came as a response to something

President Obama had said on the campaign trail. Plenty of news media, campaigns and even advertisements quoted the President saying “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” It was inconceivable to a lot of Americans that a politician would say a business owner didn’t build their own business. I agree that it would be absurd if he had been making reference to such a thing, but it is important to look at the context of the whole quote: “If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive.

Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own.

Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.”

In context it is much more evident that the “that” was referring to infrastructure and other things that businesses use but are built by and come from the government. It is possible to disagree with his point that government helps businesses with these kinds of services, but that is a far cry from saying he thinks that a business owner had absolutely no part in creating their own company.

A similar situation hap-

pened back in the Republican primaries when the race had come between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. The media had begun quoting Santorum from an event in which he said Romney was “the worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama.” Once again it is important to look at the context of the quote. Prior to that statement Santorum had been talking about the issue of Obamacare. The quote relates to how Romney would have been the worst Republican to pit against the incumbent president specifically on the issue of healthcare, since Romney had essentially created the blueprints for Obamacare when he was the governor of Massachusetts.

Obviously I don’t expect

the news to quote an entire judicial hearing or an entire speech from a politician.

There is a need to shorten these larger events to include the highlights. However, if sound bites and quotes are used, it is important that there is clear context. Without context, sound bites can be distorted and will give audiences a wrong impression of a person or a situation. This can be used to promote an agenda whether it be political or, in the case of the Daily Show, humorous.

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

» TOTALLY RAD/TOTALLY BAD Geno’s still not being open.

Mother Nature’s cold, dry, existential crisis.

Totally bad

Geno’s hair still looking fantastic.

The new UConn wordmark...is new?

The beatdown Notre Dame is getting this Sunday.

Totally saw it coming

Totally rad

What is your favorite 90’s song?

– By Lindsay Collier

“‘Mathematics’ by Mos Def.”

“‘Closing Time’ by Semisonic.“

“‘Never Had a Dream Come True’ by S Club 7.”

“‘All For You’ by Sister Hazel.”

Zachary Duell, 4th-semester civil engineering major

Joe Quinn, 4th-semester accounting major

Tracey Lafayette, 4th-semester English and elementary education double major

Jennifer Del Sole, 6th-semester special education major

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» WOMEN'S LACROSSE

UConn coming off win against Oregon

By Joseph Crisalli Campus Correspondent Over a week removed from a 16-14 overtime win against Oregon, the UConn women’s lacrosse team is ready to face rival Rutgers today.

“Success in overtime is going to allow us to really have momentum coming into the game,” head coach Katie Woods said. “Now we can focus on the Big East and take care of each game one game at a time.”

UConn put seven balls in net in both the first and second half against Oregon, while the Ducks scored five in the first and nine in the second to force overtime.

UConn freshman midfielder Carly Palmucci scored to give the Huskies the lead, 15-14 in overtime, and senior midfielder Morgan O’Reilly put the Huskies ahead for good, 16-14.

“We stayed in the moment, stayed focused on the game plan and continued to fight,”

Woods said. “We could’ve taken care of the ball a little bit better and in transition but, ultimately, it was good to see the team continue to fight against Oregon and have composure and continue to play together.”

The Huskies will travel to Piscataway, N.J. and play Rutgers before traveling to Villanova to take on the Wildcats on Sunday.

“It’s huge to win games in conference and get into the Big East tournament,” Woods said. “We had a tough game last year, a close game the year before, and the team knows how big this game vs.

Rutgers is.”

UConn dropped two straight decisions to Rutgers, 10-9 in the 2010-11 season, and 14-5 last season.

“This Rutgers team is a different team than last year and the year before,” Woods said.

“We know how big of a game this is for us and our seniors want to do everything they can to make us successful. With our 13 seniors, it is a good opportu-

nity for them to lead the team the way that we want to.”

The 13 UConn seniors have combined for 53 points, led by midfielder Morgan O’Reilly who has 14 goals and eight assists. Midfielder Catherine Gross has also been a big contributor, with 13 goals and three assists for the Huskies.

UConn is now 7-1 overall and are currently ranked fifth in the Big East with an 0-1 record in conference play, an 18-7 loss to Syracuse on March 22.

“The loss to Syracuse was tough, and the Rutgers game is a nice big rivalry for us,” Woods said. “We don’t love each other and, ultimately, we want to focus on the game plan and win every possession that we have.”

The Huskies will look for two conference wins this weekend as they will face (8-2, 0-1) Rutgers today at 3 p.m. and (5-4, 0-1) Villanova on Sunday at 1 p.m.

Joseph.Crisalli@UConn.edu

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UConn junior Kacey Pippitt cradles the ball during a UConn lacrosse game played against the University of Oregon at UConn.

» MEN'S TENNIS

» CLUB LACROSSE

Huskies to face Northeastern Villanova and UConn match up

By Jack Mitchell Campus Correspondent The UConn men’s lacrosse team took to the field on Wednesday in Charlestown, Mass. to square off against conference rival Northeastern, the 24th-ranked team in the country.

The Huskies returned to Storrs the proud owners of a hard-fought 8-3 road win. The team currently holds an undefeated 3-0 record on the year and ranked 21st in the most recent MCLA National Ranking.

“We knew Northeastern was a great team. They beat us up pretty bad last year in the PCLL playoffs, so we knew we would need to play our ‘A’ game to win,” head coach Paul Scordato said. “They like to come out and pressure the ball, so we needed to make sure the team was prepared for that hard, constant pressure. We were able to execute our game plan defensively very well, and I think offensively we were able to run our sets with good balance and patience.”

UConn’s offensive performance was headlined by attackmen Michael Horne, who netted four goals, and Kevin Canavan,

who chipped in a hat trick. The Huskies defensive unit – led by senior netminder Jon Sherman – put forth a stalwart effort, stringing together three quarters of shutout lacrosse.

“The attack played very well against Northeastern. They set the tone and scored seven out of our eight goals,” Scordato said.

“Mike Horne, Kevin Canavan and Kyle Wimley also did a great job riding and forcing much needed turnovers. The defense followed the scouting report that was put together by Coach Paolini and executed all of the assignments perfectly. That is why we shut Northeastern down for three quarters.”

UConn’s contest against Northeastern was the first in a series of three upcoming PCLL division games. The Huskies will take on Rhode Island at home this Saturday – their first home game of the season – and then Boston College, the undefeated ninth-ranked team in the country, on the road on April 9.

UConn won a tight 10-9 game on the road against the Rams last season, and Coach Scordato expects more of the same out of this year’s matchup.

“URI is a great team. They have

a new coach and a new image, so they will want to come and play their best game,” Scordato said. “The team needs to remain focused. We only beat URI by one goal last year so they will be bringing their ‘A’ game. It will be our first home game, so I am sure the team will want to play well.

I’m sure it will be a great game, and I hope many folks come out to watch.”

If the first three games are any indication, the Huskies would appear to be headed for another strong season in 2013.

The team has risen to meet the daunting challenge of having one of the toughest schedules in the MCLA and, despite having several tough matchups yet to come, the arrow is most definitely pointing up.

“I have always felt that in order to have a great program and to achieve respect and greatness you need to be challenged,” Scordato said. “Simply put, we had outlined our team goals in the beginning of the season. The team has taken those goals to heart and wants to do everything they can to achieve them. That has been the team’s focus from day one.”

Jackson.Mitchell@UConn.edu

By Mike Peng Campus Correspondent

After over two weeks of layoff due to two canceled matches, the University of Connecticut men’s tennis team (2-7) will return to action on Saturday as they host rival Villanova in a Big East Conference showdown at the UConn tennis courts at noon.

UConn last played on March 20 in Florida when they dropped their match, 7-0, to Embry-Riddle. The team’s scheduled matches against Monmouth and Bryant last week were both canceled due to weather.

Villanova, on the other hand, is 5-8 on the season.

The Wildcats last competed in a match against Georgetown where they suffered a loss, 4-3. The team will travel to Medford, Mass. to take on Tufts on Friday before their match against UConn.

“Being that this is my third year here we have split regular season matches with Villanova,” junior Ryan Carr said. “We beat them my freshman year and lost in a close match last year. Villanova is always a match that our team looks forward too so we look forward to the opportunity to take them down.”

UConn has struggled for most of this season, but the team will look to bounce back with a good start in doubles.

The No. 1 duo of Carr and sophomore Wayne Harrell have stumbled somewhat as of late, dropping three straight matches after reeling off three consecutive wins. The Huskies will need them to return to their old forms if they want to have a chance at winning the doubles point.

As for the team’s troubles in singles competition, head coach Glenn Marshall has stressed youth and inexperience as the biggest obstacles for the team to overcome

this season. Despite that, the Huskies have seen the improvements from freshmen Andrew Ginzberg, Mark HoSang and Zac McEntee in recent contests.

“This year I haven’t been playing my best tennis,” freshman Zac McEntee said. “But I believe it is right around the corner. To pull out a ‘W’ against them I have to realize there will always be issues and problems but I need to find the good and learn from everything. Our team just needs to stay focused, take it game by game, and stay relaxed and I believe we have a good chance to beat them.”

The Huskies are only three matches away from the Big East Championship after this and will need to gel together quickly in order to have a successful campaign in South Bend, Ind. Each of the remaining matches will be at home.

Michael.Peng@UConn.edu

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April 7 NCAA Women’s Final Four (New Orleans) Notre Dame 8:30 p.m.

April 7 April 9 April 10 St. John’s Northeastern Brown 1 p.m.

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Tomorrow Tomorrow April 7 April 10 April 10 Providence Providence Providence Georgetown Georgetown Noon Noon 2 p.m.

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April 12 Cincinnati 3 p.m.

April 14 Louisville Noon

April 19 Marquette 7 p.m.

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April 18 Big East Championships TBA

Women’s Tennis (4-8) Tomorrow

Villanova Noon

April 7 Seton Hall Noon

April 10 Southern New Hampshire 3 p.m.

April 12 Boston University 3 p.m.

April 18 Big East Tournament All Day

Men’s Track and Field Today UConn Decathlon Noon

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» That’s what he said

Rutgers faculty seek more firings

“I don’t imagine we could have played any better than we did in the last two [games].”

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — The call from faculty members and politicians to oust top Rutgers University administrators grew AP louder Thursday, a day after men’s basketball Geno Auriemma coach Mike Rice was fired for mistreating players, shoving them and berating them with gay slurs.

More than 50 faculty members signed a letter calling for the dismissal of Athletic Director Tim Pernetti and an explanation from President Robert Barchi for why he didn’t fire Rice last year when he learned of a video showing Rice’s behavior during practices.

State Senate President Stephen Sweeney also called for Pernetti to step down or be fired. He said Pernetti deserves credit for getting Rutgers into the Big Ten conference but mishandled this situation.

“This incident will continue to hang over Rutgers like a dark cloud for weeks, months and perhaps years to come,” the Democrat said in a statement.

Meanwhile, the number of faculty members calling for Barchi to step down more than doubled Thursday to 28.

The letter calling for Barchi’s resignation was sent to the university’s governing boards on Wednesday. In it, the faculty members cite Barchi’s “inexcusable handling of coach Mike Rice’s homophobic and misogynist abuse” of players, his “pattern of insensitivity and arrogance toward issues of diversity” and the “lack of transparency that he has exhibited in his relations” with faculty, staff and students.

It’s unclear what effect the calls might have on the president or the athletic director. Neither was willing to be interviewed by The Associated Press. Barchi also skipped a town hall meeting he’d been scheduled to attend Thursday at Rutgers’ Newark campus and declined to comment when he left his office. Members of the university’s two governing boards have been mum.

Barchi, a neuroscience researcher before he became a university administrator, was hired a year ago and took office Sept. 1 to lead the university, which has 58,000 students and 13,000 faculty members on three campuses.

He had been president of Thomas Jefferson University, a Philadelphia health sciences university, and before that was an administrator at the University of Pennsylvania.

He was brought to Rutgers as the university takes over two medical schools that are part of the separate University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. The ongoing reconfiguration of the state’s higher education system is intended to expand Rutgers’ life-science research prowess, and Barchi was chosen largely to oversee that.

He had never been an administrator, though, at a school with athletic scholarships.

Over the past decade, Rutgers’ athletic program has grown increasingly ambitious and expensive, largely as the university’s football team transformed from an also-ran to a power in the Big East conference. The school’s teams AP are set next year to join the more prestigious Big Denmark skip Rasmus Stjerne, right, looks over the shoulder of Canada skip Brad Jacobs during an afternoon draw at the World Ten, a move engineered largely by Pernetti, a former TV sports executive.

Men’s Curling Championship in Victoria, British Columbia.

Useful shot that, useful.

Softball (14-13)

Today Rutgers 3 p.m.

36

The average combined points per game for Kaleena Mosqueda Lewis and Breanna Stewart in the Bridgeport Regional.

» Pic of the day

Baseball (16-11) Tomorrow St. John’s 1 p.m.

Stat of the day

—UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma on the play of the Huskies in the Bridgeport Regional.

Women’s Basketball (33-4)

Today St. John’s 3 p.m.

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Stewart has become a big threat from SHOWDOWN, page 12 Most important of the three, Stewart has emerged as a dominant force. She’s averaged 17.3 points per game over the stretch – she missed the opening round game against Idaho due to injury – to go with 10 blocks on the defensive end.

Irish fans will be just as confident in the fact that their team has an undoubted edge in the series as it currently stands, in addition to their nation-best 31-game winning streak.

Skylar Diggins and Kayla McBride have led Notre Dame to a third straight Final Four and are looking to finally break through and be the last team left standing.

It remains to be seen how this matchup of two red-hot teams will play out, but to many, this national semifinal

has the look and feel of a de facto national title game.

The other half of the bracket – where Louisville and California are the two squads remaining – seems to lack the firepower necessary to keep up with either the Huskies or the Irish in the season’s ultimate game. Though both have had plenty of surprises up their sleeves throughout the season, popular opinion says that the UConn-Notre Dame winner has a favorable path to a trophy.

That showdown between the No. 5 Cardinals and No. 2 Golden Bears will take place at 6:30 p.m. at New Orleans Arena. The Huskies and Irish will follow approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of that game. Both contests can be seen on ESPN.

Matthew.Stypulkoski@UConn.edu

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS. 33-4, 14-2

35-1, 16-0

Sunday, New Orleans Arena, 8:30 p.m., ESPN

» NHL

Jagr scores in Bruins debut, Boston wins 1-0

BOSTON (AP) -- Jaromir Jagr scored off his skate in his Bruins debut and Tuukka Rask stopped 40 shots to lead Boston to a 1-0 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Thursday night.

Acquired from Dallas this week shortly before the trade deadline, Jagr joined the Bruins for the pregame skate Thursday morning and quickly endeared himself to the Boston fans.

Brad Marchand’s centering pass went off Jagr’s left skate and past Martin Brodeur to give the Bruins a 1-0 lead with 80 seconds gone in the second period.

Fans, some wearing mullet wigs, gave Jagr a standing ovation when he took the ice for his first shift in the first period and chanted his name after the goal.

Rask earned his third shutout of the season. Brodeur made 25 saves for the Devils.

The Bruins keep pace with Montreal, which entered the night with a one-point lead in the Northeast Division. New Jersey, the defending Eastern Conference champions, fell into ninth and out of playoff position when the New York Islanders went into overtime with the

Capitals on Thursday.

Jagr, 41, is 10th on the NHL career list with 1,680 points over a 19-year career in which he established himself as a star alongside Mario Lemieux with the Pittsburgh Penguins while winning the Stanley Cup in his first two seasons. After stints with the Capitals, Rangers, Flyers and Stars, Dallas sent him to Boston on Tuesday for two prospects and a draft pick.

His presence became even more important for the 2011 Stanley Cup champions when first-line center Patrice Bergeron sustained a concussion on Tuesday night - at least the fourth of his NHL career.

Bergeron, who leads the Bruins with 31 points in 35 games, is out indefinitely.

Jagr took the ice on Boston’s second line with Marchand and Tyler Seguin. In addition to his somewhat inadvertent goal, he whiffed on a backhand with an open shot at the net midway through the second period, and had another open net in the third, when his sweeping shot was blocked by a sprawling defenseman.

» INSIDE SPORTS TODAY

P.11: Jagr scores in Bruins debut. / P.10: Women’s lacrosse looks to keep momentum. / P.10: Men’s tennis to face Villanova on home courts.

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SHOWDOWN IN THE BIG EASY UConn set

» MEN’S TRACK

to host decathlon

UConn and Notre Dame face in Final Four in New Orleans

By Matthew Stypulkoski Senior Staff Writer

By Nick Danforth Campus Correspondent The UConn men’s track and field team faces a loaded weekend with two home meets over the next three days. The action begins with the UConn Decathlon, a two day event taking place at the Sherman Family Sports Complex beginning at noon on April 4. On April 6, the team will compete in the fourth annual Dog Fight where they will square off with their canine rivals, the Albany University Great Danes.

Two athletes to watch in the UConn Decathlon are identical twins Ben and Jake Waruch.

After finishing second and third in the heptathlon in the Big East Championships during the indoor season, both brothers have been named senior captains for the outdoor season.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

VS.

» MEN’S TRACK

» Preview In last season’s UConn Decathlon, Jake Waruch dominated with 7,597 total points, finishing in first place over the two day meet. Ben Waruch also scored 6,723 total points in the last UConn Decathlon, good for fifth place. The 10 events that make up the decathlon are the 100 meter dash, 110 meter hurdles, 400 meter run, 1500 meter run, long jump, high jump, pole vault, shot put, discus and javelin.

In the second meet of the weekend, the Huskies will face the Great Danes in the fourth annual Dog Fight. In last season’s Dog Fight, UConn beat the Danes by just13 points and hold a 2-1 series lead.

UCon wants to continue the success it has had in both indoor and outdoor. After three titles during the indoor season, the Huskies have come out of the gate hot in the outdoor season. A strong showing at the UCF invite, the team’s first meet of the season, was followed by all out dominance at the UConn invite. UConn has 37 top five finishes, including 12 first place finishes in 18 events.

Nicholas.Danforth@UConn.edu

Come Sunday, Geno Auriemma and company will try to put their spin on an old cliché – they’ll be hoping the fourth time is the charm when it comes to playing Notre Dame.

Their struggles against the Irish have been detailed throughout the season, and their three regular season losses against the conference rival have only heightened the anxiety of UConn fans for Sunday’s Final Four matchup.

Despite their difficulties in winning games on 33-4, 14-2 a big stage, the Huskies return to their sixth consecutive Final Four – the longest streak in women’s college basketball history.

And the Huskies faithful wary of the team’s 35-1, 16-0 ability to finally get over hump against the Sun., 8:30 p.m., the Irish can take solace in ESPN, New the fact that their team is Orleans Arena peaking at the right time; the 30-point dismantling of Kentucky showed that they are currently playing their best basketball of the season.

The three highly-touted freshmen – Breanna Stewart, Moriah Jefferson and Morgan Tuck – are finally starting to show their abilities on a consistent basis, and have been difference-makers over the first four NCAA Tournament games.

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UConn guard Kelly Faris drives to the basket against Notre Dame guard Skylar Diggins during the Big East Tournament Final in Hartford, Connecticut.

» STEWART, page 11

» BASEBALL

Huskies begin 3-game series with Red Storm

By Danny Maher Senior Staff Writer

(1-4, 4.54 ERA) on Saturday and junior Brian Ward (1-2, 2.92) on Sunday.

Senior LJ Mazzilli usually UConn begins its Big leads the UConn offense but East schedule with a three- freshman Bobby Melley has game series against peren- had the hottest stick of late. nial conference powerhouse, Melley is hitting 4.19 in his St. John’s Red Storm. First last 11 games and is batting a pitch is Friday at 3 p.m. at team-high .318 in conference J.O. Christian Field. Saturday play. He has started every and Sunday’s games will be game this season and has played at 1 p.m. improved his batting average UConn (16-11, 3-3 in the to .314 over the hot streak.

Big East) played an unusual Junior first baseman Frank first 24 games away from Schwindel leads St. John’s home due to weather condi- with a .360 batting average to tions in Storrs. The Huskies’ go along with a team-leading seven-game win streak in 41 hits and 31 RBIs. Senior early March seems ages ago Sean O’Hare, an All-Big East as head coach Jim Penders’ Preseason selection, is hitting team has lost four of its last .330 with a team-high .445 six games including a 15-5 on-base percentage and 20 beat-down at the runs scored. hands of state foe Both St. John’s Yale, in which eight and Connecticut UConn pitchers gave will be chasing up 18 hits as the Louisville and Huskies trailed 9-0 Notre Dame in the after two innings.

Big East standings The lone bright this spring. Both Notebook the Cardinals and spot was freshman shortstop Bryan Irish are ranked in Daniello’s first career grand the top 25 in each of the slam. major college baseball polls.

The Red Storm blew a St. John’s narrowly holds a 10-run lead against Wagner 56-54 all-time series record and ended up losing a 22-16 over Connecticut. Mazzilli slugfest their last time out. and Billy Ferriter are curIn conference play this sea- rently third and fourth on son, the Johnnies were the UConn all-time hits list. swept by conference - lead- Mazzilli, at 240 career hits, ing Pittsburgh last month is just two hits behind former and took two of three from Husky George Springer for Cincinnati at home. second all-time. Ferriter sits St. John’s (12-16 overall, on 239 career hits and could 2-4 in the Big East) will send also leapfrog Springer this its top three pitchers to the weekend. mound this weekend beginEvery game this weekend ning with junior right-hander will be aired on 91.7 WHUS James Lomangino (0-2, 4.34 and can also be streamed at ERA) on Friday. Senior Sean UConnHuskies.com.

Hagan (1-4, 7.19 ERA) will After the three-game set, get the ball on Saturday and UConn will play a pair of freshman Ryan Horstman New England opponents (4-3, 1.91 ERA) will pitch in before next weekend’s series the series finale on Sunday. at Villanova. UConn will host UConn will counter on Northeastern April 9 and play Friday with sophomore at Brown on April 10.

Carson Cross (5-0, 1.30 ERA), junior Anthony Marzi Daniel.Maher@UConn.edu

BASEBALL

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UConn redshirt sophomore Jordan Tabakman delivers a pitch from the mound during a UConn baseball game played against Quinnipiac University at J.O. Christian field in Storrs.

» ROWING

Northeast teams row on over to Connecticut

By Danny Maher Senior Staff Writer The UConn rowing team will host five northeast teams on Saturday in its only home race of the season. They will race four boats beginning at 7:30 a.m. at Patriots Park in Coventry, Conn.

Contrary to many other sports where home turf is considered an advantage, head Coach Jennifer Sanford-Wendry does not prefer home races.

“The team gets fired up for it because it is our only home race but I don’t see an advantage,” she said. “I actually like traveling much better because I know they are sleeping in a quiet hotel in a comfortable bed with no distractions.”

The first varsity eight will remain the same from last week’s races in Philadelphia, with junior Charlotte Kelley at coxswain leading seniors Hillary Wiles-Lafayette, Caitlin Swallow, Brittany DePoi, Adrienne Barrett, juniors Julia Roth, Kendra Kohanski, Natalie Carlone and sophomore Kathryn Hughes. They finished ninth out of 18 teams last week in the Murphy Cup. The second varsity eight will also remain the same as sophomore coxswain Elise McCormick will lead senior Melissa Soucie, juniors Erin Mounce, Ashley West, Chelsea Zabel, sophomores Abbie Viner, Amanda Litty and freshmen Audrey Kelley and Emily Powers.

Sanford-Wendry added a third varsity eight comprised of seniors

Mara Gauger, Tess Cournoyer, EJ Joseph, Amber Crispino, juniors Emi Nishino, Abi Lowry, sophomores Doe Bagjuz, Teresa Starzecki and Grace Cournoyer.

The final boat UConn hopes to race is the novice eight. Sophomore Steph Varenelli leads freshmen Marissa Minor, Emily Wilson, Megan Duva, Brittany Shakley, Meg Pirsig, Ally Hopson, Peri Stevens and Taylor Hammeke into their first race of the spring season.

Every rower on the squad will be racing on Saturday as long as the visiting teams can field enough rowers to fill a boat.

The Marist women’s rowing team competed against UConn in the Head of Fish in October. The Huskies placed third in both the varsity eight and second varsity eight races. The Red Foxes finished 10th and seventh, respectively. Colgate also put a boat in the first varsity eight race at the Head of Fish and finished 11th, just six seconds behind Marist.

The Coast Guard Academy dropped both races last weekend in its opening race against Wesleyan.

Trinity and UConn met to begin the fall season at the Head of the Riverfront Regatta in Hartford. The Bantam varsity eight beat out the Huskies by 2.31 seconds to win the eight-boat race.

“The expectations for the team are to win,” Sanford-Wendry said. “I am confident that the depth and strength of our team this year can give us wins across the board.”

Daniel.Maher@UConn.edu