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Men to face Kentucky tonight for title

By Timothy Fontenault Sports Editor ARLINGTON, Texas – Terrence Samuel knows he is not dreaming, but he also has no idea how he will react if UConn beats Kentucky in the National Championship Game Monday night at AT&T Stadium.

“I don’t how I’m going to feel,” Samuel said. “I might cry.

It’s that big to me, especially to be a freshman and accomplish that goal.”

This trip to the final comes after yet another game in which UConn was the underdog, UConn was in trouble and UConn found a way to win. This time, it was after being down 12 to Florida, the No. 1 team in the nation, a team that had won 30 straight games since the Huskies beat them on Dec. 2. “(Coach Kevin Ollie) just told us keep believing, no matter how much you get down during the game,” Samuel said. “That’s what we do, you know. We’re a resilient team. We just bounce back, and we find a way to cut out that win.”

It also comes at a time when no one expected UConn to be at this point, except for the Huskies themselves.

Ollie guided UConn through last season’s postseason ban, and even once they got back to work for the 2013-14 season, there were few people talking about the Huskies.

To call this season a roller coaster would be an egregious understatement. This UConn team that will play for the national championship Monday night beat Florida before losing to Stanford, Houston and SMU. Louisville dominated them three times–the Cardinals won by 33 points four weeks ago–yet

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A UConn fan, sitting on her friend’s shoulders, joins in on the celebration that erupted down Fairfield Way after the Mens victory against the University of Florida. The Huskies advanced to the NCAA Championship and will play tonight.

UConn beat Memphis (who beat Louisville twice) three times.

In the tournament, the Huskies somehow outlasted St. Joseph’s in overtime. They came back against Villanova while Shabazz Napier spent 12 minutes on the bench in first-half foul trouble.

They benefited from a lack of Georges Niang in the Iowa State frontcourt. They held Michigan State’s Adreian Payne to a couple 3-pointers. Then they made the guards of the nation’s best team entirely irrelevant and beat Florida, again.

“Nobody had us going this

far,” Samuel said, “and we have beaten two of the best teams in the nation during this course of our run. Why stop? Why not keep going and get this championship? We know we have a good team.”

So here they stand, and for the seniors who have won the title once before, back as freshmen in 2011, winning this one, through all the hardship and all the doubt, would be even more satisfying.

“It’s just been so much fun,” Olander said. “This has been a

Although it takes many hours each week and over 40 gallons of sap to make a single gallon of syrup, many students were actively involved throughout the season in producing maple syrup.

“We have about six or seven faithful members who often spend several nights here to make the maple syrup,” 6th semester mechanical engineering major Matthew Mierz said.

Maple syrup produced by the club can be bought directly from the Sugar Shack. All the money raised goes into maintaining the Forestry and Wildlife club, ensuring that the maple syrup production can continue. In addition to maple syrup, the open house featured numerous other items to raise funds.

“We have raffle baskets that we made and some wooden products.

We hope that next year we’ll have more things to sell at our open house” club secretary Rebecca Colby, a 6th-semester ecology and

evolutionary biology major said.

The process for making the maple syrup is highly reliant on outside temperature, and as a result was affected by this years prolonged winter. Under optimum conditions maple trees release the most sap when temperatures fluctuate between below freezing at night to fairly mild during the day. While trees normally begin producing sap in Feb., it was not possible to extract much sap until March this year.

At the open house, members of the Forestry and Wildlife Club attempted to produce syrup made from birch sap for the first time.

Several birch trees were tapped in advanced anticipation for this.

Unlike maple, it takes 100 gallons of birch sap to make a single gallon of syrup and has a lower sugar concentration.

“We’re excited to do this. We’ll see how it goes, it’s new for us,” Mierz said.

Women defeat Stanford, will meet Notre Dame Tuesday

By Matt Stypulkoski Associate Sports Editor

NASHVILLE – The UConn women’s basketball team is making sure to keep up with its male counterpart. A 75-56 win over No. 2-seed Stanford Sunday night at Bridgestone Arena put both teams in

the national championship game for the second time in school history.

Now, the Huskies (39-0) have a date with undefeated Notre Dame in the season’s final game Tuesday night.

“As the season wore on, it almost looked like it was inevitable,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. “Like

it was supposed to happen.”

Despite another terrible shooting night that began 0 of 7 from behind the arc, UConn was able to win comfortably on the back of its defense and strength in the paint.

The Cardinal took a sixpoint lead in the first half – the third straight game the Huskies have trailed by six points – but was never able to take full command of the game.

UConn’s stifling defense kept it in the game when nothing would fall.

The Cardinal’s Chiney Ogwumike was kept uncomfortable throughout the night, drawing different defenders and often attracting double teams when she touched it down low.

“I think that we’re really comfortable and confident with our defense,” Breanna Stewart said. “The fact that we’re able to really pressure people on the perimeter and not let the posts get the position they want on the block, that makes it difficult for other teams.”

Stanford was limited to just 56 points, but that is actually the largest total allowed by the Huskies in the NCAA tournament.

Prior to Sunday, no team had scored more than 54. blanketed by that stout defense all night. The senior, who averaged 26.4 points entering the night, managed just 15.

“It’s tough for a player to have one, two, three people [defending them],” Ogwumike said. “And it’s hard for me to not force things.”

The game turned on a 12-0 UConn run over 3:24 near the close of the first half. Suddenly, the Huskies had turned a six-point defi-

Sweet times at the UConn Sugar Shack

By Fatir Qureshi Campus Correspondent

On Saturday, the UConn Forestry and Wildlife Club hosted an open house event to show guests the maple syrup making process. The event was held at the UConn Sugar Shack, a small rustic looking wooden building, located just off of Horsebarn Hill Road.

Forestry and Wildlife Club members eagerly demonstrated the complex process required to make syrup from tree sap. In order to harvest the tree sap, several trees have to be tapped and connected through piping lines to a holding container. The sap is then taken to an evaporator and boiled. Then, it is filtered.

“We have 150 taps and have tapped 100 to 130 trees, since we can tap some trees more than once,” club president Jennifer Kilburn, a 6th-semester natural resources major said.

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Club members, left to right Matthew Mierz, Jennifer Kilburn, and Rebecca Colby, wait outside the shack, selling homemade maple syrup and related goods.

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A man, 22, of Southbury, was arrested at 3:13 p.m. on April 5 and charged with reckless endangerment in the 2nd degree and breach of peace in the 2nd degree. Police arrested the man when they observed him throwing an open can of beer into the crowd celebrating the NCAA championship. His bond was posted at $1,000 and his court date isw April 15.

A man, 18, of Mansfield, was arrested at Penner Place at 4:57 p.m. on April 5 and charged with reckless endangerment in the 2nd degree. He was arrested while police were monitoring a crowd of approximately 2,000 partygoers at Penner Place at Celeron Square Apartments when they observed him throw an open beer can into the crowd.

His bond was posted at $500 and his court date is April 16.

A man, 18, of Beacon Falls, was arrested at 4:40 p.m. on April 5 and charged with reckless endangerment in the 2nd degree and breach of peace in the 2nd degree. Police witnessed the man throw a full can of beer into a crowd of approximately 2,000 partygoers at Penner Place at Celeron Square Apartments while the crowd was celebrating the men’s final four game. His bond was posted at $1,000 and his court date is April 15.

A woman, 20, of Simsbury, was arrested at Celeron at 4:51 p.m. on April 5 and charged with reckless endangerment in the 2nd degree, breach of peace in the 2nd degree and possession of alcohol by a minor.

While monitoring a large crowd of approximately 2,000 partygoers at Penner Place, officers observed her stand on top of a larger boulder, fill a funnel with beer and then throw the can of beer into the crowd. Police determined she was underage and arrested her. Her bond was posted at $1,000 and her court

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A man, 20, of Guilford, was arrested at Penner Place at 4:31 p.m. on April 5 and charged with breach of peace in the 2nd degrees, reckless endangerment in the 2nd degree, forgery in the 2nd degree and possession of alcohol by a minor. While monitoring a large crowd of approximately 2,000 partygoers at Penner Place, police observed him throw a glass bottle into the crowd. Further investigation showed him to be in possession of four bottles of Bud Light Platinum beer and a fake ID. He was determined to be Under 21.

His bond was posted at $5,000 and his court date is April 15.

A man, 21, of Storrs, was arrested at Carriage House drive at 1:45 p.m. on April 5 and charged with operating while under the influence and failure to drive right. Police observed the man cross the double yellow line on Hunting Lodge Road.

After stopping the vehicle police suspected him to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol and conduct field sobriety tests, which he failed. His bond was posted at $500 and his court date is April 14.

A man, 21, of Valley Cottage, N.Y., was arrested at 5:44 p.m. on April 5 and charged with reckless endangerment in the 2nd degree. Police witnessed the man throw a full can of beer into a crowd of approximately. 2000 party–goers at Penner Place at Celeron while the crowd was celebrating the men’s final four game. His bond was posted at $500 and his court date is April 15.

A man, 18, of Lebanon, Conn. was arrested at Hillside Road at 8:23 p.m. on April 5 and charged with criminal mischief in the 3rd degree. Officers were monitoring a crowd of several thousand partygoers outside Gampel celebrating the men’s win, when

they observed the man damaging a chair outside the Co-op.

His bond was set at $500 and his court date is April 15.

A man, 20, of Trumbull, was arrested at Celeron Square at 8:50 p.m. and charged with breach of peace in the 2nd degree, criminal mischief in 3rd and 1st degree of possession of less than half an ounce of marijuana. Police were monitoring Celeron when offers heard a window smash and saw two males standing at the location of the broken window. The two men ran and were stopped by police. A brief investigation found that one of the men was in possession of a small possession of marijuana. His bond was set $1,000 and his court date for April 15.

A man, 20, of Sherman, was arrested at Hillside Road at 8:42 and charged with breach of peace in the 2nd degree and forgery in the 2nd degree. Police were monitoring a crowd of approximately 6,000 people on Fairfield Way when several people started climbing trees. These people were instructed to get down from the trees by police officers. The man ignored t police instructions and began climbing and swinging in the tree, inciting the crowd and causing further disturbance.

He was arrested upon climbing down from the tree and found to be in possession of a fake Rhode Island driver’s license. His bond was posted at $1,000 and his court date is April 15.

A man, 20, of Trumbull was arrested at 9:03 on April 5 and charged with criminal mischievous in the third degree, breach of peace in the 2nd degree and possession of a controlled substance. Police were monitoring Celeron when offers heard a window smash and saw two males standing at the location of the broken window. The two men ran and were stopped by

place, and these technologies are changing the way courses are being taught,” O’Reilly said.

To actually make an impact with OERs, panOpen is forgoing the stagnate textbook and shifting to the manipulative web content format. A company called SumoPublishing, another client of Partners in Publishing, exemplifies this shift by using web text resources that can be edited from a professor’s computer, and pluggable examples and quizzes can be added directly into the text.

“I actually worked on one of their English courses ,and they worked with us to create content, I was working specifically on these embedded text questions for the readings,” O’Reilly said. “It was really cool to see a process of how to integrate an interactive product like that.” panOpen plans to integrate these advances moving forward, including in-text selfgrading quizzes with the tools for professors to respond to

scores directly in the text.

OER and OER libraries like panOpen have been utilized for a while now on a smaller scale and by a few schools.

However, what panOpen does is use professor reviews to find the most relevant and high quality information and compile that into organized OER. Before panOpen gets through them, many of these texts had utilized strange formatting, jargon and visually look like the notes of a student in class.

These advances come from some surprising statistics regarding student interactions with textbooks.

“It’s to revolutionize the otherwise stagnant publishing rules, only 9 percent of students buy brand new textbooks.” O’Reilly said. “There’s a company we want to work with called PackBackBooks that rents out textbooks for dollars a day because that found that many student only use their books for four days out of the semester!” panOpen was started by Brian

police. A brief investigation found that one of the men was is possession of a small amount of Suboxone, a controlled pharmaceutical substance, in his cellphone. His bond was posted at $1,000 and his court date April 15.

A man, 19, of Farmington was arrested at 1:23 a.m. at Carriage House Drive and charged with operating under the influence, stop sign violation, 1st degree possession of less than a half an ounce of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. The man was stopped for failure to obey a stop sign and police suspected him to be under the influence. A brief investigation found him to be in possession of 0.114 ounces of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. His bond was posted at $1,000 and his court date is April 14.

A man, 22, of Madison, was arrested on Fairfield Way at 9:07 p.m. on April 5 and charged with breach of peace in the 2nd degree and inciting injury to persons. While patrolling the NCAA basketball celebration, officers observed several people climbing trees around Fairfield Way. The people in the trees broke several of the trees limbs.

In addition, they placed themselves and those around the tree at risk of serious physical injury. Officers ordered the man to climb down but he did not comply. After several minutes of ignoring officers’ commands, he climbed out of the tree and was taken into custody. His bond was posted at $1,000 and his court date is April 15.

A man, 19, of East Granby, was arrested at Hanks Hall on April 5 at 10:40 p.m. and charged with possession of alcohol by a minor, forgery in the 2nd degree and 1st degree offense – possession of drug paraphernalia in connection with less than half an ounce of marijuana. Police responded to the Hanks Hall parking lot on the report of a group of men smoke marijuana. After a brief investigation, one male was found to be in possession of two forged driver’s licenses, alcohol under the legal drinking age of 21 and possession of a glass marijuanasmoking pipe. His bond was posted at $1,000 and his court date is April 16.

A man, 21, of South Windsor, was arrested at 9:47 p.m. at Celeron Square and charged

panOpen shifts the textbook paradigm

By Alban Murtishi Staff Writer

With the advent of rapid information sharing, professors and students struggle with new textbooks going out of date before they hit the shelves. panOpen, the open educational resources (OER) library, has the solution; put those textbooks out of print and onto the internet. OERs, which are free alternatives to textbooks for various subjects online, are collected, organized and streamlined on panOpen.com

Peter O’Reilly, class of 2013, is a project manager for Partners in Publishing, a small company out of Glastonbury that is promoting the panOpen platform. His company is marketing the platform to professors for use in their classrooms, as well as conducting reviews with professors to verify high quality content for the libraries.

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Jacobs, a Cornell graduate, who founded a similar online bookstore called Akademos. His experiences with Akademos led to his interest in OER content, which inspired him to create a good looking platform that centralizes only the best material.

As panOpen moves forward, they will eventually have to charge for this content which will end up costing between $15-30. That money will help fund customer support and analytics. The platform just went live two weeks ago, and they will be visiting campus Wednesday 12 to 3 p.m..

“There’s a lot of OER content on the web but so many people don’t know it’s there, and they think it will be low quality because its free. We’re trying to change that,” O’Reilly said.

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with breach of peace in the 2nd degree and reckless burning.

Officers were monitoring the Celeron Square apartment complex in response to the UConn men’s basketball game. Officers responded to the area of Penner Place because of a burning fire located in between buildings two and three. When they arrived they found the man adding trash to the fire, he was then arrested.

His bond was posted at $1,000 and his court date is April 15.

A man, 20, of Southbury, was arrested at 4:31 p.m. at Celeron Square apartment complex and charged with possession of alcohol by a minor, breach of peace in the 2nd degree and reckless endangerment in the 2nd degree.

Officers were monitoring a large crowd of approximately 2,000 partygoers at Penner Place in response to the UConn men’s basketball game. Officers saw him throw a glass bottle into the large crowd. After a brief investigation, he was found to be in possession of 18 cans of beer.

A man, 21, of Meriden, was arrested at Celeron Square apartment complex at 5:15 p.m. and charged with reckless endangerment in the 2nd degree and breach of peace in the 2nd degree. Officers were monitoring a large crowd of approximately 2,000 partygoers at Penner Place in response to the UConn men’s basketball game.

He was observed throwing a can of beer into the large crowd, recklessly endangering the physical safety of other people in the crowd. His bond was posted at $1,000 and his court date is April 15.

A man, 23, of Astoria, N.Y., was arrested at 5:20 p.m. at Penner Place and charged with criminal trespassing in the 1st degree. Officers were monitoring a large crowd of approximately 2,000 partygoers at Penner Place, Celeron apartment complex in response to the UConn Men’s basketball game.

The man was observed breaking glass with the large crowd. He was told by police to leave the area and refused. He was subsequently arrested. His bond was posted at $1,000 and his court date is April 15.

A man, 22, of South Windsor, was arrested at 9:47 p.m. at Penner Place and charged with breach of peace in 2nd and reckless burning. Officers were monitoring the Celeron Square apartment in response to the UConn men’s basketball game.

Officers responded to Penner Place because of a burning fire located between buildings two and three. As officers arrived, they found Weil on scene adding trash to the fire. Weil was subsequently arrested. His bail was posted at $1,000 and his court date is April 16.

A man, 18, of Enfield, was arrested on Fairfield Way at 9:30 and charged with inciting injury to persons, breach of peace in the 2nd degree and interfering with an officer. Police observed him approximately 15 feet up a pine tree immediately adjacent to a gathering of several thousand people on Fairfield Way following the NCAA basketball game. The man was causing a disturbance by jumping on and breaking branches in the tree, which caused others to engage in the same dangerous behavior.

He ignored several orders to come down from the tree and when he was stopped by police, he attempted to flee and was subsequently arrested. His bail was posted at $1,500 and his court date is April 16.

A man, 19, of Fort Plain, N.Y.,

was arrested at 9:14 p.m. in the center of campus and charged with reckless endangerment in the 2nd degree. While monitoring the celebration of a Final Four victory that was taking place in the center of campus, police observed him throw a can of beer into the crowd, creating a substantial risk of injury to other revelers. His bond was posted at $500 and his court date is April 16.

A man, 19, of Cheshire, Conn. was arrested on Fairfield Way at 9:08 p.m. and charged with breach of peace in the 2nd degree and inciting injury to persons. Officers observed several people climbing trees around Fairfield Way. The people in the trees were observed jumping up and down on the tree limbs, breaking several limbs and inciting the large crowd of spectators on Fairfield Way. In addition, they placed themselves and those around the tree at risk of serious physical injury. After several minutes of ignoring officers’ commands. The man climbed out of the tree and was taken into custody. His bond was posted at $1,000 and his court date is April 15.

A woman, 21, of Storrs, was arrested on Hillside Road at 9:51 p.m. and charged with operation while under the influence, disobeying of an officer 1st time and disobeying officer signal, 1st offense. She was pulled over on Hillside Road for failure to obey the signal of an officer.

The woman was suspected of being intoxicated and consented to field sobriety tests that she failed. Her bail was posted at $500 and her court date is April 14.

A man, 21, of Red Hook N.Y., was arrested at 00008 Staff Lot at 1:52 a.m. and charged with operation while under the influence. An officer observed him sitting in the driver’s seat of his vehicle in the staff parking lot, the vehicle was running and the lights were lit. After a brief investigation, the officer suspected he was under the influence of alcohol and subjected him to a series of field sobriety tests that he failed. His bail was posted at $500 and his court date is April 16.

A man, 18, of East Windsor, was arrested on Celeron Path at 10:58 p.m. and charged with criminal trespass in the 1st degree and possession of alcohol by a minor. The man was among the many students celebrating the NCAA playoffs attempting to gain entrance to the Celeron Square complex after UConn Police had cleared the crowds.

He was not a resident of Celeron and was told by police several times he could not gain entrance to the complex. He was warned to leave the area or face arrest.

After the third warning, he did not leave and was placed under arrest. He was then found to be in possession of three cans of Busch beer and was determined to be under the legal age to possess alcoholic beverages. His bond was posted at $1,000 and his court date is April 16.

A man, 19, of South Windsor, was arrested at North Eagleville Rd. at 8:30 p.m. and charged with reckless burning and breach of peace in the 2nd degree.

Officers were monitoring a large crowd of about 1,000 people that had gathered at the north campus dormitories in response to the NCAA Basketball Game.

Officers observed him begin to light a small banner on fire within the group of people. His bond was posted at $500 and his court date is April 16.

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cit into a six-point lead and the Cardinal could never recover.

An unlikely contributor, Kiah Stokes, was a major piece in getting UConn back on top. The junior forward was thrown into the game to add size on the Huskies’ back line and help

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pack in the lane to prevent Stanford’s easy buckets.

That she added nine points was just an added bonus.

“Kiah has been a really, really good defensive player and she’s been a real good shot-blocker,” Auriemma said. “We trust her now – we didn’t in the past – but we do…this is

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two-year process. It started our junior year. It started with a great group of guys and with a new coach in Coach Ollie that’s just been an outstanding figure, and I couldn’t have asked for a better replacement to a Hall of Fame coach.”

If there is another team that knows a thing or two about overcoming skeptics and pulling out big wins, it is Kentucky.

After missing the NCAA tournament last season, the Wildcats entered the season with high expectations, 40-0 expectations in fact.

Kentucky brought in what many considered the best freshman class of all time, and it earned the No. 1 ranking in the preseason poll as a result.

There was even a website made, 40and0.com, to promote what could have been a perfect season.

That dream ended three games into the season with a loss to Michigan State, and the Wildcats lost nine more games after that, often raising questions about the ability of a team of freshmen to compete at the highest level.

But here Kentucky is, with its size and talent, ready to take a crack at winning its ninth national title.

The Wildcats’ starters all have a five-inch advantage on Napier and six inches on Ryan Boatright, but the Huskies have faced height matchups at guard all year.

“I’m not too concerned about the guards,” center Phil Nolan said, “because our guards, that’s what they live for. That’s what

they came to UConn for: to play against other great guards. So I just feel good. I just feel like they’re going to do their job and stay up in the guards.

“And us, as the bigs, we’ve just go to front the post, keep the bigs off the guys and just do our job.”

Nolan and freshman center Amida Brimah both got into foul trouble against the strong bigs of Florida Saturday night, something that will need to be avoided against Julius Randle, who averages 15.1 points and 10.5 rebounds per game and is a potential No. 1 pick in the upcoming NBA Draft.

“He’s strong, and he has a strong left,” Brimah said, “so I have to make sure he doesn’t get too comfortable with going left.”

After the win over Florida, UConn students stormed the floor at Gampel Pavilion, where several thousand watched the game on big screens, and then took to Fairfield Way to celebrate.

The Huskies, some of whom had nearly 200 text messages waiting for them after the game, saw pictures and watched video of the celebrations in Storrs, and as a result, there is even more motivation to bring a fourth national title back to Connecticut.

“That’s what makes it so special is we get to come home to that,” Olander said. “We get to come home to the best fans, to the best arena to play at in college, I think, and it’s so special.”

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the best game that she’s ever played, I think, since she came to Connecticut.”

This is the second time that UConn has made it to the season’s ultimate game in both men’s and women’s basketball – the last time coming in 2004, when both squads took home the only dual national title in NCAA

history. Only two other times, Louisville in 2013 and Duke in 1999, has a school made both national championship games.

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Niels Giffey scores an exclamation dunk in the final minutes against the Gators on Saturday. The Huskies prevailed and will face Kentucky tonight.

Professor unicycles across campus

By David Wiegand Campus Correspondent

Andy Jolly-Ballantine is more than a geography professor-in-residence; he’s a unicyclist.

Jolly-Ballantine uses his unicycle to get around he said, because it’s “about 50 percent faster than walking speed.”

He also uses it to entertain students who “always get a kick out of it.”

He said he first started riding in the fourth grade at an alternative elementary school where part of the curriculum

was teaching students to ride unicycles. He said learning was easy and only took about three weeks.

“When you’re in fourth grade, you’re made of rubber,” Jolly-Ballantine said and you can fall as many times as you need to. Still undeterred by the idea of a fall, JollyBallantine wears no safety gear unless riding a five foot unicycle, he said.

“When I was in grad school in Santa Barbara,” JollyBallantine said, “I practiced with a group—they devel-

oped into a mountain unicycling group,” he said. While he admires their courage, he has not attempted to do any mountain unicycling of his own.

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Universities need to stop inflating grades for student athletes

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ast week the University of North Carolina came under fire for a viral photo of a poorly written, single paragraph essay supposedly written by one of the school’s athletes.

Despite writing at such a low grade level, the student apparently received an A- for the class. This viral essay was part of a larger revelation by Mary Willingham, a UNC learning specialist, who has revealed that UNC may have been offering what were essentially fake classes in order to keep certain athletes (particularly those on the football and basketball teams) academically eligible. According to two former UNC football players, Michael McAdoo and Bryon Bishop, athletic department staff members had directed them to take some of these fake classes so that they could remain on the team. The cases of McAdoo and Bishop aren’t isolated incidents. Other universities have come under similar scrutiny, primarily with basketball and football programs, as those are the most profitable.

This poses two major problems. For starters, this completely goes against NCAA regulations. Artificially inflating grades and enrolling student athletes in madeup courses is not and should not be allowed. There is also no reason that a student athlete and regular student should differ in the academic standard that they are held to. This isn’t to say that universities and professors shouldn’t accommodate student athletes. Practices and travel for games will likely interfere with classes and exams, and accommodations should be made accordingly to allow students to make up the work. However, this does not mean that student athletes should get their grades inflated or receive preferential treatment just to ensure their academic eligibility.

The other issue with this is that in the long run, it is detrimental to the student athlete. The reality is that the majority of college athletes will not move on to the professional level. As such, the situation at UNC and any other university that engages in similar practices is effectively robbing student athletes of the education they need. UNC and all universities need to make sure that while they accommodate for the busy schedules of student athletes, they aren’t diluting their education in the process.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is in dire need of transparency

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n April 10, 2014, South Korean officials will travel to Washington to begin the first round of preliminary negotiations concerning the potential economic effects of deciding to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP, like NAFTA, is a multinational trade agreement currently being negotiated by 12 countries. Various economic institutions including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce contend that the TPP will facilitate free trade as well as introduce international regulatory

By Dan Gorry standards, but in Weekly Columnist reality the TPP is something far more sinister. The truth is, the TPP will impose extreme protectionist measures meant to smother free trade and selfexpression, which is why the agreement is being negotiated almost entirely in secret.

Originally the TPP was between the Asia-Pacific region countries of Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore, ostensibly as a means of integrating their economies. On September 22, 2008 U.S. Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab announced that the U.S. would join the talks, which prompted seven other regional states to enter negotiations over the next five years, and at this point the TPP began to deviate from its foundational principles.

It’s difficult to tell exactly what provisions are contained within the current iteration of the TPP, because the negotiations are entirely closed off from public view-

ing. As US Trade Representative Ron Kirk explained in May 2012, “there’s a practical reason, for our ability both to preserve negotiating strength and to encourage our partners to be willing to put issues on the table they may not otherwise, that we have to preserve some measure of discretion and confidentiality.” Put bluntly, a virtually complete lack of transparency is necessary because if the public knew what is being discussed, we would be against it.

You’ll notice that Mr. Kirk said “some measure of discretion,” which implies that there is at least a sliver of public accountability involved, and in this he’s being truthful. U.S. Senator Alan Grayson (D-FL) has been shown an edited version of the trade agreement, due to his status as a senior Congressman, which prompted him to remark, “having seen what I’ve seen, I would characterize this as a gross abrogation of American sovereignty... And I would further characterize it as a punch in the face to the middle class of America.

I think that’s fair to say from what I’ve seen so far. But I’m not allowed to tell you why.”

Fortunately for us, an unedited leaked draft of the TPP was made public on the Citizens Trade Campaign website in the summer of 2012. Former World Bank Chief Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz outlined in the New York Times the most disturbing provisions of the confidential trade agreement. In his analysis he points out that the TPP vastly increases the amount of risky derivatives banks can sell in foreign countries, and the intellectual property provisions significantly raise healthcare costs by blocking the introduction of generic pharmaceuticals. Worst of all, the TPP allows corporations to overturn state law if they can prove the legislation hurts their

profits. Stiglitz explains how a company like Phillip Morris could unilaterally repeal Uruguay’s universally lauded anti-smoking regulations solely on the basis that it reduces their sales.

So even though the public and the vast majority of government officials are barred from knowing anything about the contents of the TPP, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OH) points out that representatives for U.S. corporations like Halliburton, Chevron, PHRMA, Comcast and even the MPAA are informed and consulted on the trade agreement’s harrowing provisions. Fortunately for us, former Connecticut Senator and MPAA Chairman Chris Dodd will deliver a keynote speech concerning his involvement in passing the Dodd-Frank law’s landmark conflict-free mineral sourcing regulation on April 8th at the Dodd Center.

Given his record as a champion of human rights, he will surely be happy to provide his constituents with some transparency concerning the distressing trade agreement he is privy to.

Even if the TPP was not universally opposed by global health professionals, internet freedom activists, environmentalists, organized labor, advocacy groups and large portions of elected officials, the very nature of its ultra-secretive negotiations should strike all people, regardless of their political or economic affiliation, as being intrinsically anti-democratic. Frankly, the TPP is nothing but an attempt on behalf of multinational corporations to drastically increase their power by outlawing competition across the globe and by prioritizing private profits over states’ sovereignty.

 Daniel.Gorry@UConn.edu  8th-semester poltical science major

Bitcoin should be treated as currency

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I had flashbacks to spring weekend on Saturday and it was awesome.

I’m just going to keep drinking until Monday night, shouldn’t be a problem right?

I misspelled my name so that I can call my bank and contest the payment” - Guy on paying to get into the Bush presidential library The USG bus is in West Virginia. I can confirm they just scored again.

People were right. That first game against Florida was a fluke. Clearly we should have won by a lot more.

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magine walking into a store, buying a cup of coffee and then having to pay capital gains tax on your purchase.

You would have to take into account when you earned your dollar and whether or not its value had gone up– hint, it didn’t, but still.

According to the IRS, people using Bitcoin should have to do exactly that. When the IRS ruled that

By Devin Keehner Bitcoin is property Staff Columnist and not c u r r e n c y, it dealt a major blow to the fledgling currency. The ruling is made more problematic by Bitcoin’s deflationary nature, because unlike the United States Dollar, Bitcoin’s value has the potential to increase.

It’s not paying the capital gains tax that’s the real problem, although that is unjust as well. It’s having to calculate the tax that’s the problem, as each individual unit of currency would have to be treated separately. If one received Bitcoin A one year and Bitcoin B the next, they would have a totally different tax bill for each.

Bitcoin might not be the perfect currency and I don’t see it replacing government

currencies, but it is money and the government should treat it as such. It’s not for the government to decide what is and isn’t a means of exchange. It’s for people to decide how to facilitate trade.

The blame doesn’t lay solely at the feet of the IRS, nor should it be the IRS that fixes this problem. In this case, only congress can restore currency to the people. The monopolization of currency is one the most egregious assaults on liberty ever imagined. The government should both allow the use of alternative currencies and create a process by which to tax them. This would open up the doors for Bitcoin and other competing currencies.

Why, in a supposedly capitalist nation, our Government feels the need to maintain a monopoly on the production of currency is beyond comprehension. The Federal Reserve was established in 1913 and the dollar is a lot older than that. People all over the world have the ability to read this article instantly, but they are still using the same paper money their great-grandfather did.

We gave up innovation for stability and ended up with neither.

Bitcoin is the start of some-

thing wonderful. Currency needs the same free market competition that has graced our industries with new and better products. Fighting progress is unproductive, inefficient, and over time unsuccessful. Our government should be embracing Bitcoin and not killing it. It is innovation and not regulation or legislation that is the key to prosperity.

Innovation isn’t the only reason to keep Bitcoin a currency. Competing currencies have the potential to make recessions weaker and recoveries stronger. The problem with government run industry has always been supply, whether shortage or surplus. The Soviet Union could produce steel, but never in the correct quantities. The same is true of currency, with two exceptions.

The economic consequences of government-run currencies are worse, and currency production is the most widely monopolized industry in history.

To understand this, one must only look to the economic disasters of the past.

It’s clear that the Great Depression was caused by bad monetary policy. Our central bank took deflationary action, sending our economy into a tailspin.

More recently, the Federal

Reserve contributed to the financial crisis of 2008. In this case, too much money was printed, leading to malinvestment. It was this malinvestment that inflated the housing bubble, causing the recession.

Private currencies, on the other hand, could operate on the principles of supply and demand, although Bitcoin does not. This means the private banks would increase and decrease the supply of money as market forces act.

Banks would avoid deflation. Instead, they would print money and loan it out.

However, they would also avoid inflation, or risk losing customers to other currencies.

In this respect, Bitcoin is purely symbolic. Its programming prevents it from acting on market forces like supply and demand.

However, that doesn’t mean that people shouldn’t be allowed to use it, and it definitely doesn’t mean the IRS should be discriminating against Bitcoin users.

 Paul.DaSilva@UConn.edu  6th-semester communications  @PaulTDaSilva

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By Emily Herbst Staff Writer For many of us hip-hop fans at UConn, a lot of fan-girling went down in Gampel Friday night. J. Cole, the underrated “Born Sinner” rapper from North Carolina, performed a set that left us Huskies hungry for more. Covering all the bases with an array of material from past mixtapes “The Warm Up” and “Friday Night Lights,” and the breakout 2011 studio album “Cole World: The Sideline Story,” as well as Cole’s most recent “Born Sinner,” the rapper appealed to all fans of varying longevity.

The concert opener, fellow Dreamville teammate Bas, helped hype students up for the main act.

He performed songs from the recently released “Revenge of the Dreamers” mixtape, a collaboration featuring J. Cole and other artists on the record label. Bas did many UConn shout-outs, praising both our men’s and women’s basketball teams for their recent victories. The opening set lasted a full hour, paid homage to some of Bas’ role models in the game, showed off the rapper’s astute and Schoolboy Q-like flow and pumped us up in the process.

With no fancy introduction or elaborate buildup, Cole appeared. He introduced the show with “Land of the Snakes”, one of the tracks from the summer 2013-released “Born Sinner” (yes, the one that topped the sales of Kanye’s release the same day). After laying down some bars from “The Sidelines Story,” the emotion-filled “Nobody’s Perfect” and the club classic “Work Out,” J. Cole greeted the crowd and expressed–in a short and sweet speech–just how much he appreciated the love. Like Bas, Cole also raved about UConn basketball, leading us into multiple chants throughout the concert and eventually throwing on a UConn hoodie sometime between “Forbidden Fruit” and “Can’t Get Enough.”

Jermaine couldn’t have made his gratitude clearer; the gaps between songs were filled with counting blessings and thank-yous for a history of musical support since his come-up in 2009. There was also a 15-minute break taken to introduce all the members of his live band (electric gui-

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Spring concert artist J. Cole played with opener Bas at Gampel last Friday night. Cole played many hits from “Cole World: The Sideline Story” and two of his earlier albums.

tar, keyboards/piano, drums and two female vocalists whose fit-for-R&B pipes delivered goosebumps).

Though it was warmly familiar to hear the more mainstream classics like “Crooked Smile (Feat. TLC),” “Work Out” and “Power Trip (Feat. Miguel),” the highlight for the die-hard Cole fans was the inclusion of lesser-known gems from the rapper’s first two mixtapes and rougher, more underground tracks off “Born Sinner” (i.e. “She Knows (Feat. Amber Coffman).” Renditions of

these were raw and more intense than you’d experience via an EP listening session; Cole is too good live.

A brief one hour and 20-minute set list, the concert flew before our eyes but still allowed fans to soak up some quality bars and lyricism from Jermaine and even made some of us get a little light-headed during “Power Trip.” Following the two encores, students in the front row, myself included, were lucky enough to get a quick handshake, fist bump or high five from

Cole (in my case, a bear hug)—who personally jumped down from the stage to greet the front row fanatics. All in all, the mutual appreciation between fan and artist was felt and the crowd response was hyped and strong—two traits vital to UConn spring concerts, and ones that made the last one of my senior year unforgettable.

Emily.Herbst@UConn.edu

of April Community School of the Viewing night sky delights Arts shows hidden gems onlookers

By Zarrin Ahmed Staff Writer

Friends, family, teachers and students gathered in the new bookstore at Storrs Center on Friday evening to support the Community School of the Arts during their semi-annual showcase for the spring semester.

This was the first time that the school worked with the bookstore to transform the show into a fundraiser, selling the art pieces and collecting 20 percent of all sales that day, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

The new bookstore has attracted visitors from all over the area, so by the time the show began at 5 p.m., there were already plenty of people lounging in the store and its café. The only difference was the display of artwork around the entire store. Along the curvature of the information desk were art pieces that featured colorful fish detailed with black ink against a blue watercolor backdrop. Pattern prints decorated a storage door, SANTIAGO PELAEZ/The Daily Campus while ink drawing pagodas comStudents from the Community School of the Arts showcased their work at the Co-op at Storrs Center on Friday. A plete with mischievous monkeys lined the windows and the ramp percentage of the sales went to support the school. heading to the café. Youthfulness filled the shelves of the store in the Many of the members are children and books at the Co-op, reached out to the form of plaster fish sculptures and self grandchildren of a lot of strong support- school and offered the bookstore as a portraits bordered with cardboard and ers of the program, namely UConn pro- space for the show. Both Staubach and macaroni spray-painted gold. In most fessors. Even UConn students take some Davies thought it would be a good idea of the sections, there were also personal of the classes offered. to bring exposure to the new bookstore, best awards, given to each student for The programs range from 17 weeks the new puppet museum, and the comtheir best piece produced. a semester for private lessons, which munity art school all at once with the The Community School of Arts is cost around $500 for 30-minute weekly fundraiser. located in the Depot Campus of UConn. lessons, to 12 weeks for group lessons, “I think you can never get enough When it first began 35 years ago, it which cost approximately $300. Art is attention,” said Davies. “We’re kind of a was an extension of the School of Fine offered, including pottery, and instru- hidden gem.”

Arts and served as teaching grounds mental and voice lessons are also a part Davies said the program would love for graduate students. The school usu- of the program. There is an art show once to have credit programs because “a lot ally has an enrollment of between 900 every semester, but in the summer, they of kids want to do that,” where classes to 1,100 students every year and serves are held every week. Since the program could be offered to students interested the entire community. Eva Davies, the is currently looking for a new director, in the subject matter, not just those who program coordinator, said that about half summer courses aren’t being offered study fine arts. of its members are from Mansfield and this year. the other half from neighboring towns.

Suzie Staubach, general manager of Zarrin.Ahmed@UConn.edu

By Katie McWilliams Senior Staff Writer

The Natural History Museum’s plans for a viewing of the spring night sky from the observatory were foiled by rainy skies. Spirits were not dampened, however, and a crowd gathered at the UConn Planetarium for a lecture by physics professor Cynthia Peterson.

The intimate setting of the planetarium was hospitable on the overcast and damp Friday evening, and despite the cloud cover, Peterson’s visual aids allowed attendees to visualize what will happen in the night sky this month.

According to Peterson, April is a busy month for the sky with three unique occurrences.

On April 15, a total lunar eclipse will be visible from Storrs.

For those unfamiliar with the science behind an eclipse, it occurs when the moon passes behind the earth’s shadow, creating a luminous red effect. It is worth staying up until 2 a.m. (prime viewing time according to Peterson) to catch the phenomenon.

On April 22, a never before seen meteor

shower will be visible in the Northern Hemisphere.

The Lyrid meteor shower will last from April 18th to the 26th, with prime viewing during the middle of that range. Meteor showers are colloquially called “shooting stars” and look like brief flashes of light streaking through the sky, Peterson said.

The last night sky phenomenon will occur when Mars becomes visibly close to the horizon.

Characterized by its bright red hue, Mars will easily be able to be seen by the naked eye.

After a planetarium show where Peterson pointed out the major constellations of Orion, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Cassiopeia and Leo, guests were invited to make a moon clock to follow the motions of the moon.

Peterson encouraged students who are interested in the night sky to stop by the observatory, located on the fourth floor of Bio/Physics, after 9 p.m. on weeknights for free viewing sessions.

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Anyone who knows me understands I’m not a big sports fan, but I’m all excited that we’re in a National Championship. It takes me back to the 1999 championship when I was just a wee sevenyear-old.

Back before I decided most sports weren’t for me, I played in a rec basketball league and would watch a few minutes of the UConn Men’s games here and there. But I was seven and my attention span was about 30 seconds. Now that I’m 21 it’s increased to 35 seconds–kind of a big deal.

I don’t actually remember watching that game. Honestly, I was probably playing Pokémon somewhere else. But I do remember going to that parade and seeing the players ride by on a float and that they looked 100-feet tall.

Coach Jim Calhoun was with them as the rode by and I watched as people cheered for a group of men whom they had never met before, but somehow felt a deep connection to.

So I did the responsible thing and looked back at some highlights of the 1999 game against Duke. It was a close game and UConn clinched it in the last 10 seconds with a free throw from El-Amin that put them up by three and then prevented Duke from scoring.

According to the El-Amin highlights the El-AminHamilton hook-up was the success story of the game. They fed each other assists, picked and stole.

That was so long ago that I even had to look up the player’s names. Of course Calhoun was still coach.

I was a freshman when we won the championship in 2011, and that may have been the first time I watched 90 percent of a basketball game in my life. But it was worth it.

After watching that game I understood why Kemba-mania had become such a commotion that even the sports-phobes such as myself were aware of it.

I was actually walking behind Kemba one day on my way to class and he is not a big man.

Strong and broad shouldered, sure, but he was definitely not above six foot like the stats say.

According to some unnamed alumni, UConn used to be a bigger party school back in the ‘90s and early 2000s. Comparing the riots that occurred after the 2011 win to testimonies from those alumni, our celebrations were weak. But everyone thinks that their class is somehow the most destructive and threw the best parties.

If there’s one thing that’s certain, it’s that the UConn Police will be everywhere. It’s not likely that they’ve forgotten the destruction that happened three years ago, especially with the ‘riots’ that happened last week outside of Gampel after we beat Michigan State in the Elite Eight.

Most of the undergrads here were under 10 years old when we won the title in 1999, and now that we’re here it’s a very exciting time. The important thing to do is party responsibly, because nothing’s worse than watching a party from the back of a squad car.

Matthew.Gantos@UConn.edu

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What I’m Watching Underrated:

Saturday Night Live What seems like the only constant in late night now, “Saturday Night Live” is always a go-to.

A personal favorite actreess of mine, Anna Kendrick, hosted the show this past weekend, and didn’t dissapoint with her singing ability. Music was the theme of the night as there were Disney classics abound, from “The Little Mermaid” to “The Beauty and the Beast.” The ladies of the show also got together to perform another musical number.

Pharrell was the musical guest on the SNL stage this weekend, performing his hit, “Happy.” Like Pharrell, SNL never leaves you in bad mood.

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After nine great seasons, CBS’ hit comedy “How I Met Your Mother” has come to its long awaited conclusion.

While many fans and critics were angry and unsatisfied with the conclusion, I loved it.

I actually predicted just about all of it happening. If you don’t believe me, look back at my old reviews and articles.

While I do have minor problems with some aspects of the finale, I found it to be the necessary “legend…wait for it… dary” conclusion to the show I had been hoping for.

If you haven’t seen the finale yet I recommend you stop reading right now because I am going to spoil just about every single plot point. At the beginning of the last season we already knew who the mother was. Throughout the season we met her and got to see how everyone else met her before Ted. We generally knew how they met and while seeing the actual moment was fulfilling it could never be the actual ending because it’s a bit anticlimactic. The finale begins with the end of Robin and Barney’s wedding and skips to the future where we see the next 20 years of their lives play out. We don’t see Ted and Tracy (the mother) meet until the very end, but we do see them together and how it turns out.

“How I Met Your Mother” has always been a show with real life lessons and consequences. The finale continued this. We could have easily gotten the feel-good ending where everyone lives happily ever after and the gang continues to be close until their dying days, but what would we gain from that? Instead we see them at first start to fight drifting apart as their lives and careers take them in different directions. We see Barney and Robin struggle to make their relationship work before finally divorcing and the consequences it has on the

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“How I Met Your Mother” ended it’s nine-season run last week, finally revealing to the audience who Ted marries and has children with.

circle of friends. We see Robin grow older, lonely and alienated from her friends, with no time for a life outside of work.

Finally, we see Ted and Tracy get married and live happily together until she gets sick and passes away. I think many fans were upset with the realism in the finale, but I enjoyed it. As sad as it was to watch, it did the show justice in the sense that it continued to be true to the characters and real life while being funny.

We finally get to see Ted’s kids’ reactions to the end of his story. This was filmed back in season two when it was noticed that they were beginning to age. This is the writers’ way of telling us they knew what they were doing all along, and if you paid close attention they did hint at every single plot twist and turn throughout the series. So am I surprised in the end when an older, widowed Ted finally ends up with Robin, who realized in

her lonely years that Ted was always the one for her? No, I am not. The show was always about how Ted and Robin were going to end up together and if you don’t believe so watch it all again closely and then try to tell me I’m wrong.

However, the problem is time.

Nobody expected the show to go on as along as it did and because of this, the ending no longer seems completely just. So much time was spent showing Ted and Tracy happy together and while Robin and Ted were great, Tracy and Ted were better. I suppose they had to kill time after CBS begged for another season and I loved getting to know Tracy, but it made Robin and Ted seem like a bad match.

The other problem was with Barney and Robin. So much time was spent on them that they seemed so perfect together and deserved each other the same way Tracy and Ted. Showing them grow apart and

divorce was not a problem, but so much time was spent humanizing Barney and turning him from a womanizer into an actual person that it seems unfair to write him off as a lonely womanizer in his older years. The biggest problem with the finale is how rushed it feels. An entire season was spent on a wedding weekend and many episodes and plot arcs simply existed to waste time. After all that, we see the most important 20 years of the show forced into a 40-minute episode. It all feels a bit rushed and poorly thought out.

However, I still cannot argue against how funny, otherwise well written and beautiful the ending was. While I am sad to see my favorite comedy go, I am glad that we at least got the ending we deserved despite its flaws.

Maurilio.Amorim@UConn.edu

Letterman leaves late night

By Alex Sferrazza Staff Writer The television industry was rocked last week when “Late Show” host David Letterman announced he will retire in 2015. With the world speculating on his possible successors, I’d like to offer up my take.

SHOULD: Conan O’Brien.

Fan favorite, Coco is the perfect choice to replace David Letterman. Conan shares Dave’s DNA, both gained their fame as the host of NBC’s “Late Night.” The third longest tenured weekly late-night host in history (after Letterman and Johnny Carson), O’Brien’s been on TBS these past few years and is due for a primetime comeback. On a material level, O’Brien’s unique brand of comedy resembles Letterman’s more closely than any other comic in late night television today. From their shared use of sarcastic, irreverent and self-depreciating senses of humor to the use of “remote” comedy bits where a camera crew follows the host in comedic segments on the road. O’Brien’s audience is the youngest skewing of all late night hosts and while his ratings aren’t too impressive his program remains the most popular among online viewers.

SHOULD: Tina Fey. Another self-proclaimed Letterman fan, Fey is without question the finest writer working in comedy today. Before she started appearing in successful com-

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David Letterman announced last week that he will be retiring from “The Late Show,” which he has been hosting for the past 21 years.

edy films like “Baby Mama” and “Date Night,” providing America with the best political impression of the decade as Sarah Palin and racking up an unholy slew of awards for her sitcom “30 Rock,” Fey had her turn on SNL as one of the most popular “Weekend Update” anchors. Additionally, her last two stints as host of the Golden Globes with pal Amy Poehler have received rave reviews. She’s currently developing another sitcom at NBC and has expressed interest in pursing her film career.

If there’s one woman who could successfully anchor one of America’s biggest late night

shows, it’s Tina.

SHOULD: Ellen DeGeneres. Everybody loves Ellen. Her feel good, friendly brand of humor stands in stark contrast to pretty much every other comic in late night– except maybe Jimmy Fallon.

However, her daytime talk show remains wildly popular and since Oprah’s departure, Ellen has virtually dominated the daytime talk scene.

The question isn’t whether DeGeneres would kill it as host of the “Late Show,” it’s whether or not she’d be willing to leave an already enormously successful program behind.

SHOULDN’T: Craig Ferguson. I love Craig Ferguson. The man’s absurd style of humor and his unrehearsed and often improvised program “The Late Late Show” have cemented Ferguson as a total original. That said, while I think his style of “creepy guy in the basement of CBS at 1a.m.” is brutally funny, I don’t think the program has the mass appeal necessary to survive at 11:30 p.m., nor does it belong there. Craig’s great where he is, although he has it written into his contract that he gets Dave’s time-slot if he

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While it was written as a sitcom, the overall story of “How I Met Your Mother” was actually true to life, with a lot of important messages about relationships, friendships and life. I know a lot of people are going to question my judgment on this, but I am willing to argue that “How I Met Your Mother” was one of the smartest and best written comedies of this generation.

There are too many specific lessons to list, so I’ll focus on a few big ones. The show teaches us that while people in your life are going to come and go, if someone is truly important to you then you have to make the effort to keep them there. It’s very easy to lose touch with people and never reach out to them.

While you may think you’ll see them again someday, it’s really easy for somebody to disappear out of your life forever. This is even true in the Facebook age.

As we have seen throughout the years in the McLaren’s gang, every friend in your life is going to hurt you sooner or later, intentionally or not. The important thing is to always apologize and patch things up without holding a grudge.

With regards to relationships, a book could be written on things the show advised to do and not do, but the main concept to take away is to always go after whomever you want. In the end, people are only going to regret the chances they didn’t take, the things they didn’t say to someone and the people they didn’t go after. Nobody regrets getting rejected once the embarrassment fades and their pride heals. We saw this in Barney going girl to girl as well as in Ted’s peculiar love life. Furthermore, when you want to be with someone, the way Ted always did Robin, you have to tell them and put your cards on the table. It may sting if they don’t feel the same way, but you’ll never move on until you know, just like Ted couldn’t move on until Robin got married. Did nobody else notice he met the mother the moment he accepted that Robin was gone and never going to be his? Well played writers, well played.

Ted tells his kids in one episode that the biggest thing to take away from the show is that life will always work itself out and things will unravel the way they are supposed to. Sometimes the universe is going to present you with opportunities and things you never would have saw coming. Sometimes you are going to run into people or opportunities by chance or coincidence, but it all happens for a reason. You shouldn’t overanalyze everything that happens to you, but you should take advantage of these chances, as they may be there for a reason. You also shouldn’t stress out the way Ted does in every single episode about dying alone, never finding the right person or ending up at the wrong job. We do have to work towards earning the life we want, but things will always work themselves out the way they were meant to. At least that’s what Ted Mosbey says, and I’m willing to believe him.

Maurilio.Amorim@UConn.edu

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Other hosts not right fit from LETTERMAN, page 6 retires and CBS owes him a payout if they refuse it to him.

SHOULDN’T: Stephen Colbert. Colbert is a comedy genius but the man has built his entire career around his political pundit parody “Stephen Colbert” character. He’d have to ditch that persona and tone down the politically charged humor if he were to inherit the “Late Show.” While I’m sure he’d be good, I don’t think I’m ready to see him drop his current act on “The Colbert Report,” which is absolutely irreplaceable.

SHOULDN’T: Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Stewart. Each man currently possesses a wildly popular show and are unlikely to find further fame as host of the “Late Show.”

Kimmel already occupies the same time-slot on ABC while Stewart’s “The Daily Show” has served as the epicenter for America’s political satire for over 15 years. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Alex.Sferrazza@UConn.edu

The best ways to close out an era

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Focus

By Alex Sferrazza Staff Writer

With “How I Met Your Mother” wrapping up it’s incredible nine-year run last week, I thought the timing was perfect to take a look back at some of my favorite series finales from recent memory to see just how the (unexpected) ending to HIMYM stacks up.

“Seinfeld”: Upon its initial airing, “Seinfeld’s” finale received about as much praise as it did criticism.

However, I believe it to be nothing less than an absolute masterpiece.

What better way to end a self-proclaimed show about nothing than by having all of the main characters literally get arrested for doing nothing? That’s exactly what they did.

For violating a “good Samaritan” law by failing to help or alert police after witnessing a man getting mugged (preferring to film the event and make humorous commentary) the famous foursome if Jerry, George, Kramer and Elaine were sentenced to a prison sentence after testimony from pretty much every memorable character from the show appeared for one final cameo appearance. In a word, brilliant.

“30 Rock”: How does one finish off a series full of characters that could be described as live action versions of “Simpsons” characters? Simple– by letting them continue to be their ridiculous selves while at the same time adding just a tad bit of heart.

Seeing the crew of TGS break up was a bittersweet moment, but it couldn’t

have been done more perfectly. Seeing Jack Donaghy depart for a world cruise to turn around after 20 seconds, Pete attempting to fake his death only to be found by his wife wearing a fake mustache and Liz and Tracy have a heart to heart moment...in a strip club: all priceless moments. “ A r r e s t e d Development”: The original series finale of “Arrested Development” was more than worthy of the legendary comedy series. In its final moments, a series of final plot twists added a few more hearty laughs to the series’ repertoire. We Photo courtesy of theguardian.com learn that Michael’s twin sister Lindsay When “Seinfeld’s” finale aired in May of 1998, fans were unimpressed with the plot line where Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer were is actually adopted, arrested for doing nothing. meaning that GeorgeMichael Bluth and “Futurama”: Due to being cancelled instrument the holophonor. Fry finally Maeby Funke aren’t actually related. and revived no less than three times, finds himself the epitome of fame and Additionally, we see Maeby attempt- “Futurama” has had multiple series Leela’s affections. However eventuing to sell the television rights to her finales. None are quite as potent as ally he must choose to relinquish his family’s life story to Ron Howard the original season four finale “The hands to save Leela from entering (the show’s actual executive producer) Devil’s Hands are Idle Playthings.” Robot Hell. What follows remains the who says he sees the project as more In yet another attempt to win Leela’s most touching moment in the entire of a movie, a teaser which has stuck heart, Fry trades his hands for the series. with fans years after the episode’s Robot Devil’s, as the latter’s allow him initial airing. to expertly play the advanced musical Alex.Sferrazza@UConn.edu

Student and musician hosts Inside look at April concerts four local pop punk bands

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By Matt Gantos Staff Writer

Pop punk’s not dead. Even with hip-hop and electronic music currently dominating the popular scene in the northeast, pop punk is alive and well.

Over the next month, your Daily Campus pop punk enthusiast will be bringing you stories about the awesome shows happening in the tri-state area.

On Saturday, April 4, Bayside and Four Year Strong played at the Palladium in Worcester, Mass. The show was the last night of the “Great American Cult Tour,” named for Bayside’s cult following.

However, last night it was almost as if Four Year Strong stole the show. The band calls Worcester its hometown. The number of FYS shirts heavily outweighed the number of Bayside shirts. This might be because Bayside fans actually understand and obey the unspoken rule of not wearing the bands’ merch to their shows.

“It feels so good to be back in our hometown tonight for the last night of the tour,” Alan Day, of Four Year Strong, said as they took the stage. Bayside, on the other hand, thanked the crowd for allowing them to “claim the stage” as their own for the first time ever.

To be honest, I had never listened to Bayside before the show, but was impressed with their live performance. Pop punk shows are all about energy, because most of the time it’s incredibly difficult to hear most of what is going on.

After the performance, I compared some of their studio recordings to what I heard live, and what a difference. Lead guitar and vocal harmonies are so much more pronounced on a recording compared to live sound, which is a shame.

Sometimes hearing the term pop punk makes people think of Metro Station and their song “Shake It” from a few years back, but FYS is representing the other side of the genre.

FYS bursts with testosterone. It creates some sort of mass hypnosis to the crowd to just move, jump and push each other.

The most dangerous time to be in a pit is at the very beginning and end of the set. At the very beginning, everyone still has their energy and starts pushing. Even if you’re not in the middle of the actual mosh pit, there is no standing still.

Then there are the people who like to flail their arms and legs like they’re fighting ghosts. Stay away from those people or you will get

hurt. They generally aren’t looking at what they’re doing and just follow the energy of the music.

Both Bayside and FYS had one thing going for them that made the show more than just a wall of noise blasting at an audience at dangerous decibels, and that was that the crowd knew all of the words.

It’s a huge help to the performance when the crowd can sing back to the band, because it implies that the crowd knows what the songs are supposed to sound like, so as long as the general idea comes out, it’ll all be fine.

That’s the problem with opening bands at a pop punk show, you generally aren’t very familiar with the songs so sometimes it sounds like a bunch of noise. That was the case with American Verse and Daylight.

On the other hand, some bands, like Mixtapes, just have the ability to make good sounds regardless and spew out energy of a big-time band.

So this has been the first installment of Pop Punk’s Not Dead!

On April 11 Taking Back Sunday and The Used head to the Webster Theater in Hartford. Too bad it’s sold out already. But you’ll have an inside man.

Matthew.Gantos@UConn.edu

By Zarrin Ahmed Staff Writer It was an unusually quiet Friday evening.

Most were trying to escape the rain, including the late concertgoers, and the residents of Westwood Road were settling into their evenings. There were only a few lights on throughout the entire street around 8 p.m. All was silent except for the bass coming from the basement of Guild Hall, home to Matthew Gantos, an eighth semester Journalism major.

Pop punk was the theme of the night; that’s how headliner band Salitter describes itself.

Gantos, guitarist for the band, hosted the show at his house and featured bands Silk City, Allapartus and Grinning Dog. The basement beckoned everyone downstairs with the bass emanating from the floor and the howling notes of The Strokes’ “Reptilia” beckoned everyone down the stairs.

Silk City, originally Stamps the Goat when they formed in 2010, hails from Manchester, CT and consists of Tyler Dickens, Chris “Apollo” Hickey and John Schauster. It was their first time playing at the house, but they’ve performed gigs in many other spaces, including impromptu streetside shows during the Manchester Road Race. At the beginning of each song, they gave introductions and explained what the song was about. They described “Italian Ice” as a song with some Spanish flavor in it. They were right; hitting melodies that had the crowd twisting and turning. Some other songs they played included “Pick up the Pieces” and “Oh Maria.” The

band also has a comedy series on YouTube under the name of the band and suggests readers watch the video “Taco Trouble.”

Next up was Allapartus, a four-person band from Purchase, New York. Adam Woodley, singer and guitarist, performed with drummer Kurt Liniger; the rest of the band couldn’t make it. Though it was their first time playing a house show, their aim for the show was to have fun, even with two members missing.

All of the band’s members attend art school in New York; Woodley studies film and Liniger studies New Media.

The Grinning Dog, founded in fall 2011, is comprised of musicians Sky Calibey, Andy Seigel and Rob Strauss. They describe their music as “high flying, wailing guitar riffs, deep, funky bass grooves, and mechanically precise drum beats” that create a “unique blend of rock.”

Salitter closed the night (and the day, since the show was over at midnight). A three-piece pop-punk outfit from New Haven, the band includes drummer Ryan Obier, guitarist and vocalist Gantos and bassist Dan Zold. The band began only a year ago, but has a following of a couple hundred people. The band has progressively poured out material; they have an EP coming out that’s available for download on April 13th, the same date as their upcoming show at the Webster Theater.

Zarrin.Ahmed@UConn.edu

Q&A: Nicole Kidman keeping it real in latest roles LOS ANGELES (AP) — With several films set to debut this year, including such disparate turns as a taxidermist villainess, mysterious amnesiac and an actress-turned-princess, Nicole Kidman will again become a familiar face in theaters.

While maintaining a steady presence in Hollywood for more than two decades, the 46-yearold Academy Award winner has been focusing more in recent years on raising her two daughters with husband and country star Keith Urban — away from the spotlight in Nashville, Tenn.

For her latest role in “The Railway Man,” out April 11, the “Moulin Rouge” and “The Hours” star plays a supportive wife to World War II veteran Eric Lomax (Colin Firth). In the autobiographical adaptation, Patti and Eric Lomax confront his past as a prisoner of war in Thailand, where he worked

on the “death railway,” a 258-mile stretch of treacherous train track running into Burma.

Upcoming this year, Kidman will also play a villainess in “Paddington,” amnesiac in “Before I Go to Sleep,” leading lady Grace Kelly in “Grace of Monaco” and Middle East pioneer Gertrude Bell in “Queen of the Desert.”

In an interview with The Associated Press, Kidman discussed tackling portrayals of realerthan-real women like former nurse Patti Lomax, Gertrude Bell and her highly anticipated role in “Grace of Monaco,” which is opening this year’s Cannes Film Festival. (“Grace” was delayed from release last year following creative differences between the film’s director and distributor.)

AP: You’ve played so many characters over the years, but how do you approach the ones based on actual people, like Virginia Woolf, Grace Kelly and Patti Lomax?

Kidman: Patti is different because she’s still alive and was able to give me information about herself. I didn’t meet her until I started filming. Everyone kept saying, “Do you want to meet her?” I was like, “No, I’d really like to be able to watch her in an interview.” Actually, the producer sat with her for hours — he’s a very good friend of hers — and taped her and sent me the tapes. I basically had access to her whole life, stories about her, her mannerisms and behavior, like I was a fly on the wall.

AP: You have three films com-

ing out with Colin Firth (“The Railway Man,” ‘’Before I Go to Sleep,” ‘’Paddington”). What is it about him that compels you to continue to work with him?

Kidman: I just enjoy him. I really enjoy his brain and his talent, but he has a really great sense of humor. Me and millions of other women in the world go, “Wow! Colin Firth!” My mom adores him. My sister adores him. I’ve just got so many friends who go, “Oh my gosh.

Colin Firth.” I now know him in a different way, but I have such respect for him as an actor.

AP: Tell me what it was like to play Grace Kelly. Have you seen the film yet?

Kidman: I have not seen the version that’s showing at Cannes, but obviously I will. I may be seeing it opening night at Cannes. It was the chance of a lifetime to play her. I really admire her, and I think she has such otherworldly qualities. I think she has an aura about her.

I don’t know if I’m able to capture that, but I was honored to have the chance to. We’ll see.

It’s only a six-month period of her life that we depict. It’s a fairytale. It’s not a heavy drama.

It’s got beautiful costumes. It’s sumptuous.

AP

With several films set to debut this year, including turns as a taxidermist villainess in “Paddington” and an actress-turned-princess in “Grace of Monaco,” Kidman is poised to again be a familiar face in theaters after focusing more in recent years on raising her two daughters with husband and country star Keith Urban away from the spotlight in Nashville, Tenn.

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Students enjoy a game of baseball near Hilltop apartments on a nice spring day in Storrs.

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Oneirology

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HOROSCOPES

Today's Birthday (04/07/14). Mercury enters Aries to launch your next year with a flurry of brilliant ideas and actions. Collaborate with family, friends and community on homegrown projects. Streamline practices and structures before summer, when fun games entice you to play with the kids. Autumn brings an upwelling of profitable creativity, innovation and invention. Devote yourself to your art and passion.

To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Mercury enters your sign today. Expect high energy and creativity for the next several weeks. Accept a challenge. Some projects won't bring in any money, but satisfy with concrete impact.

Disciplined efforts at home reap rewards. Simple fun with family and friends fulfills you.

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Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Continue to increase savings with discipline. For nearly three weeks with Mercury in Aries, ponder a situation and possible strategies. Creative ideas come easier. Your education and experience pay off. You can get whatever you need.

Handle disagreements in private. Finish up old business.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Friends provide inspiration and understanding. For the next three weeks with Mercury in Aries, group activities go well.

Your team's hot. Deadlines could creep up on you... discipline with the schedule keeps it on track, including booking time for the unexpected.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Speculate on different career pathways over the next three weeks.

Hold on to your self-discipline, and your tongue. If you receive unreasonable requests, play it conservative for now. Keep your options open, and make a list. Check it more than twice.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 5 -- You can't be two places simultaneously. Schedule with discipline, and decrease your obligations. Take one step at a time. For nearly three weeks, travel and adventure beckons. Make plans that include intellectual stimulation and creative projects. Free up time by delegating to an expert.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Plans could get disrupted. Go back to the drawing board. Increase organization and decrease clutter. Friends offer solutions.

Communication and clever action lead to profits over the next three weeks, with Mercury in Aries. Count your winnings, and squirrel away part of it.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- A change in plans may be required, with differing priorities and new obligations. Figure out tactics and options. Consider details. Communication with partners opens doors over the next three weeks, with Mercury in Aries. Compromise comes easier. Delegate more. Speak your heart.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- There's more creative work coming over the next three weeks, with Mercury in Aries. Express the possibility of a project in writing. Revise plans and budgets for a stable foundation.

Stay quiet, to avoid misunderstanding or a conflict of interest (and focus on your research).

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Conditions are improving. Articulate the goal, and get playful.

For the next three weeks, it's easier to express your heart with Mercury in Aries. Build up the fun level.

Communicate your passion. Tell (or listen to) a romantic story. Write, record and create.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Disciplined efforts with a partner provides solid results. The competition's fierce. Get into household projects with Mercury in Aries for the next three weeks. Have your home express your family's special quirkiness. Indulge creative talents and instincts. Make a detailed plan before purchases.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 6 -- Balance studies and work with time outdoors to decrease stress.

Over the next three weeks with Mercury in Aries, words come easily, and you're sharp as a tack. Capture your research in writing and images. Stand up for an important cause. Connect the dots.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Patience, thrift and quiet efforts behind the scene move your project ahead. Over the next three weeks, use your budget to track spending and find ways to work smarter and more efficiently. Develop new sources of income. New information influences your personal direction. Quietly consider.

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Monday, April 7, 2014

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Cougars' prolific offense sinks Huskies in 3-game set

By Dan Madigan Campus Correspondent As the Huskies headed into their weekend series with Houston, they knew they would be up against one of the most prolific offenses in the American Athletic Conference.

The Cougars offense exploded for 36 runs on 34 hits in their three games against UConn. This strong offensive showing allowed Houston to sweep the series at Burrill Family Field and remain undefeated in AAC play.

Sophomore Katie St. Pierre hit .500 for the weekend to raise her season batting average to a team leading .391.

First baseman Jaime Edwards also hit .500 and added three RBI. These two stellar performances, combined with talent throughout the lineup and an aggressive approach at the plate, made the Houston lineup a tough matchup for UConn.

“They hit right through their lineup very aggressively,” Coach Karen Mullins said. “They’re definitely a

good hitting team and aggressive of UConn’s season. team.”

The loss on Sunday dropped After allowing 26 hits in their two Duggan’s record to 5-14 on the sealosses on Saturday, the Huskies adjust- son, but the senior pitcher has recently ed and managed to only surrender eight turned in more competitive outings hits in their 8-4 loss on Sunday, largely similar to Sunday, where she walked due to pitcher Lauren Duggan’s ability six but managed to strike out 10 and to neutralize the Cougars’ only surrender eight hits. middle of the lineup.

In order for the Huskies to “Dougie came back remain relevant in AAC and threw competitively play, they will need more and she really threw well, performances from Duggan and we[the coaching like her win last weekend staff] were kind of saying against Memphis. that she threw really well Against the Tigers, against the meat of their Duggan went the distance, order that really hurt us » Notebook scattering five hits while yesterday,” Mullins said. striking out three and Duggan managed to hold Houston’s only walking two, including a span three, four and five hitters to only where she retired 10 straight batters. one hit in eleven at bats, walking If Duggan can continue to compete only one and notching four strike- and build on her recent improvement, outs. Unfortunately, the Cougars’ bot- UConn will be a tough matchup for tom of the order picked up the slack, any team in the American Athletic bringing in five of their eight runs. Conference.

Nonetheless, Duggan’s ability to neuTROY CALDERA/The Daily Campus tralize the strongest hitters in a tough UConn pitcher Lauren Duggan throws a pitch in a game this season. Her performance this season will be important to how the Houston lineup bodes well for the rest Daniel.Madigan@UConn.edu

» SOFTBALL

Huskies' 2014 campaign plays out.

Softball drops 3 to AAC-rival Houston

By Spencer Mayfield Campus Correspondent

The UConn softball team lost three games this weekend to the Houston Cougars by scores of 12-2, 16-2 and 8-4 in Storrs. The Huskies fell to a 7-25 overall record with a 2-6 record in conference play.

Houston’s offensive performance impressed UConn head coach Karen Mullins.

“It was absolutely one of the better offensive performances I have seen this season,” Mullins said. “They hit right through their lineup very aggressively.”

The Cougars’ offense set the tone for the weekend in the first inning of game one.

Houston scored four runs on four hits off of UConn pitcher Lauren Duggan. The Huskies battled back in the second inning when Dominique Pinto scored on a pass ball and an RBI single from Audrey

Grinnell scored Maddy Schiappa.

That would be the end of the scoring for the UConn offense as Houston pitcher Julana Shrum settled down from that point. Houston got on the board again in the fourth inning by scoring another five runs to blow the game open. The Cougars added three more runs in the top of the fifth to extend their lead to 10 runs. The game ended after the Huskies failed to score in the bottom of the fifth and the eight run rule went into effect.

In game two of the series, the Houston offense flexed their muscles once again.

The Cougars scored early when UConn pitcher Katelyn Callahan gave up two runs in the first inning.

Houston put up another five runs in the second inning followed by seven runs in the third inning. The Cougars

offense was just too much for the Huskies to handle; Houston finished with 16 runs in another shortened effort.

In game three the Huskies battled and took an early tworun lead when Grinnell hit a two-run home run. The lead did not last long, however, as Houston scored four runs off Duggan in the second inning.

The Cougars tacked on one more run in the third and another in the fourth.

UConn was able to get two runs back in the sixth inning but they were never able to mount a full comeback.

“I thought that we competed harder today,” Mullins said.

“There is no question Houston is a good team that’s why they are undefeated in the conference. I was pleased that we were able to come back and really compete today.”

Spencer.Mayfield@UConn.edu

Men's track competes in two weekend meets and another second place finish in the javelin throw.

To cap off the weekend, UConn traveled to SUNY in The UConn men's track Albany to compete in the and field team participated fifth annual Dog Fight, which in two meets this weekend. pits the Huskies against the The first was a two-day Great Danes. Overall, UConn decathlon which saw senior coming into this event was 3-1 including a vicSam Smith finishtory last year but ing in third place this year the Great with a total of 6,500 Danes won the points. The first two event 90-73. UConn spots were claimed had eight first place

by University of finishes overall, Rhode Island’s Trent including two first Baltzell in first, and place finishes by Mike DiMambro in senior captain Eric second. » Recap Masington. His two Senior Sean Walsh victories were in finished fourth overall and his day was highlight- the shot put and the discus ed by a second place finish in throw, events which also saw the 110 meter hurdles and a senior Jesse Chapman finish first place finish in the 1500 third and freshman Matthew meter run. Smith finished Graziano finish second.

Freshmen Patrick Hayes with a second place finish in the discus throw, a second and Chinedu Amonu turned place finish in the pole vault in big days in Albany. Hayes

By Matt Kren Campus Correspondent

» TRACK & FIELD

captured first in the 100 meter dash and a second place finish in the 200 as Amonu finished fourth in the 100 and third in the 200.

Other first place finishes were turned in by sophomores Robert Rhodes in the 400 meter, Bryan Fowler in the 5000 meter and Harley Lacroix in the triple jump, juniors Oluwatosin Edwards in the hammer throw and Brian Eilers in the javelin throw.

The Huskies will be traveling to Athens, Ga. on April 12 to compete in the Specs Town Invitational for the first time since 2010. The Huskies are now four weeks away from the American Athletic Conference championship.

Matthew.Kren@UConn.edu

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Take Me Out To…Off-Campus Housing!

Don’t Miss the Spring 2014 Off-Campus Housing Fair!

Tuesday, April 8

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Sports

Stat of the day

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Men’s Basketball

Tonight NCAA National Championship Game Kentucky 9:10 p.m.

Huskies overcome slow start in win

“One more to go.”

-UConn point guard Shabazz Napier on the Huskies’ matchup with Kentucky in tonight’s national title game.

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Women’s Basketball

The number of times the UConn men’s basketball team has lost a national championship game.

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Shabazz Napier

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V for victory

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April 8 NCAA National Championship Game Notre Dame 8:30 p.m.

Golf April 12 and 13 New England Spring Invitational All Day

Lacrosse (7-4) April 11 April 13 Georgetown Marquette 4 p.m.

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Baseball

April 17 Louisville 4 p.m.

April 8 UMass 5 p.m.

April 26 Villanova 1 p.m.

April 12 Cincinnati 4 p.m.

April 13 Cincinnati TBA

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April 8 April 9 April 11 Northeastern Brown Cincinatti 3 p.m. 3:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m.

Softball

April 19 Cincinnati Noon

(7-25) April 9 Providence 3 p.m.

April 10 April 12 Fairfield Louisville (Doubleheader) 3:30 p.m.

Noon & TBA

Men’s Track and Field Matt Jones celebrates after chipping in for birdie on a playoff hole against Matt Kuchar to win the Houston Open golf tournament on Sunday in Humble, Texas.

April 12 Spec Towns Invitational TBA

Lacrosse takes down Rutgers 12-11 in OT

Women’s Track and Field

By Elan Paolo-DeCarlo Campus Correspondent

April 11 Sea Ray Relays All day

What's On TV MLB: Boston Red Sox vs. Texas Rangers, 7:10 p.m., NESN After dropping two out of three to Milwaukee in their home opening series, Boston will look to get its offense going against the Rangers at Fenway Park.

John Lackey, the Red Sox’ No. 2 starter, will take the hill against Texas, who’s coming off a 3-0 win over Tampa Bay. The game is set for 7:10 p.m.

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MLB: New York Yankees vs. Baltimore Orioles, 1:05 p.m., YES The Yankees look to get a win streak going at home against the O’s after defeating the Toronto Blue Jays 6-4 at the Rogers Center yesterday.

Yankees’ starter C.C. Sabathia picked up his first win of the season in Toronto, and center fielder Brett Gardner had a home run.

First pitch is set for 1:05 p.m.

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The UConn women’s lacrosse team extended its winning streak to six games on Saturday night, defeating Rutgers 12-11 on the road in overtime at the Rutgers Stadium Complex.

The Huskies improve to 7-4 overall and 2-0 in conference play with the win. The team is now 2-0 in overtime this season, having previously topped James Madison in extra time on March 9.

“Our girls were extremely confident. This year we took JMU into overtime and knew that we were the better team.

They entered Rutgers overtime with the same poise,” Assistant Coach Chelsea Gamble said.

As has been the case all season, senior Lauren Kahn played the hero, netting the game winner with less than four minutes left in the overtime period. It was her third goal of the match. Kahn is leading UConn in both goals scored and points. Gamble spoke on behalf of the senior and said “Lauren thrives in competitive situations like last night’s game. She made some great adjustments in game, used her teammates, and really became a dominant force. Going into that overtime, she knew our coaching

staff and team had trust in her ability to score off our set play.”

The UConn offense struggled early in the first half, failing to record a shot in the first ten minutes of the game, as they watched the Scarlet Knights jump out to a 4-0 lead behind a pair of goals from Amanda Turturro.

Connecticut got on the board with 16:36 remaining in the first half when Ally Fazio netted her seventh goal of the season to cut the Rutgers lead to 4-1.

Rutgers scored the next three goals of the game before UConn rattled off six consecutive goals to cut the lead to 7-6. Carly Pulmucci started the rally when she picked up her ninth goal of the season. Lauren Kahn, Katherine Finkelston and Jordan Christopher also scored during the 18-minute stretch.

UConn will be back in action on Friday, April 11 when it hosts conference foe Georgetown at the George J. Sherman Family Sports Complex at 4 p.m.

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play a lot better.”

Hartley, Breanna Stewart, Stefanie Dolson, Moriah Jefferson and Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis led UConn as they each racked up double digit points, while Jefferson also recorded her 100th steal this game to help the Huskies in transition. Kiah Stokes had a solid game as she went 4-4 in field goals and racked up four rebounds one block and one steal.

“Kiah has been a really good defense player and shot blocker,” Auriemma said. “We are not afraid to put her out there in big moments. That’s the best game she’s ever played I think since she came to Connecticut.”

Stanford in trouble Midway through the second half, four of Stanford’s five starters were in foul trouble. Thompson, Mikaela Ruef and Ogwumike racked up three fouls each, while Amber Orrange had four fouls. UConn went 17-24 from the foul line and had an offensive advantage.

The looming threat of fouling out had the Cardinal more hesitant when defending, which allowed the Huskies to capitalize on the weak defense.

“I have always said if you play great defense you put yourself in position to win the game,” Auriemma said. “However good your offense is will depend on what the spread is. If your offense is great that night you can win by a lot, but if your offense isn’t great that night you can still win if you play great defense.”

Battle of the undefeated teams This whole season has been waiting in anticipation for the epic match up between UConn and Notre Dame and now it has arrived. Although the Huskies operate with no doubt and are ready to take home the title, they have never been challenged like they will be with the Fighting Irish. UConn recognizes the hype and pressure of this game, they also are able to step back and realize how incredible this game will be.

“It looked to me like as the season went on (the undefeated match up was almost inevitable), like it was supposed to happen,” Auriemma said. “To have the spotlight on Tuesday with two teams that one of them is going to lose for the first time this year seems pretty remarkable to do for one team, much less two.”

What Ollie hoped his player could learn from that game, however, is the intensity that Florida brings.

“It really helped going forward playing against a different scheme and playing against a pressure that they apply each and every play,” Ollie said. “It really allowed our team to understand what level we have to play and compete to ultimately get to a Final Four.

“I just wanted our guys to see how we were rotating, how we were playing, how we were challenging them and that they can have that same experience again and play that same type of way.”

The Huskies look to become the first team to beat the Gators twice in one season since Tennessee during the 2011-12 season when they face off in the national semifinals on Saturday at 6:09 p.m.

Erica.Brancato@UConn.edu

Men’s tennis loses nine weekend matches

By Eugene Joh Campus Correspondent

Sunday. In his No. 2 singles match, Spreyer would grab a close first set 7-6 in a tiebreak before dropping the second 4-6. Spreyer would close out the ensuing ten-point tiebreak to win 7-6, 4-6, 10-7. Spreyer also won with freshman Christopher Toner in the No. 2 doubles match, beating Villanova’s Tim Abbracciamento and Bradley Noves 8-2.

Toner was also a double winner against the Wildcats, as he beat Villanova’s Ryan Peyton in the No. 4 singles match, 6-3, 6-2.

In yet another match that featured a tiebreak, senior Ryan Carr kept it level in the first set at 6-6 with Georgetown’s Alex Tropiano in the No. 3 singles match. Tropiano won the tiebreak, then took the second to record a straight-sets win for the Hoyas, 7-6, 6-3. Carr would similarly lose the first set tiebreak of his No. 3 singles match with Villanova’s Noves, before being beaten in straights, 7-6, 6-4.

The Huskies next host Southern New Hampshire University in a dual meet this upcoming Wednesday at the UConn tennis courts. The first serve is set for 3:30 p.m.

The UConn men’s tennis team fell to a 6-11 record on the season, losing all six singles matches against Georgetown this past Saturday before being edged out

by Villanova 4-3 Sunday.

Junior Wayne Harrell fought to win the opening set of his No. 1 singles match against Georgetown’s Daniel Khanin, winning it 7-6 in a tiebreak.

Harrell was unable to close out the match in the second, however, finding himself a break down before surrendering the second set to Khanin 3-6. Harrell would cede a double break advantage in the third set, as Khanin went on to win the match 6-7, 6-3, 6-1. Harrell would also lose to Villanova’s Thomas O’Brien, 6-4, 6-3, in the No. 1 singles match.

Junior Jacob Spreyer, playing in the No. 2 singles match, couldn’t get the better of Georgetown’s Shane Korber in the beginning frame of their contest, losing the first set 4-6.

Spreyer fought back to level it during the second, however, earning the second set after clinching a tiebreak to win 7-6.

Korber took control once again in the third, however, as he closed out a break lead to take the match, 6-4, 6-7, 6-3.

Spreyer would have a better showing against the Wildcats, as he recorded two wins on Eugene.Joh@UConn.edu

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‘Win it for’

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Huskies defeat Stanford, will play for 9th national title

Tyler Morrissey

Well, here they are; they did it again. Once again, the team nobody believed in shocked us all and is headed back to the national championship.

At the start of the NCAA Tournament, the Huskies were not even ranked in either poll, and they had just finished in third place during the regular season in the American Athletic Conference. All of this is now forgotten, because it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things.

What does matter is that UConn is just 40 minutes away from their 4th national championship.

There’s no need for me to recap everything that happened on Saturday night. You all saw it with your own eyes, and quite frankly, people have already written about it more eloquently than I can.

Ten years ago on a blog called “Sons of Sam Horn,” Red Sox fans left messages on a post about who they wanted the Red Sox to win for in the playoffs that magical season. This year, there are plenty of folks the Huskies can “win it for.”

Win it for Kevin Ollie, who is coaching in his first NCAA Tournament. Without his guidance and wisdom this year, the Huskies would not have been able to accomplish all that they have. Win it for Shabazz Napier, who deserves to end his senior year on top after sticking by his team when times are tough.

Win it for Tom “Big Red” Emery, who had one hell of a time getting a ticket for the games at MSG. Win it for the students who camp outside of Gampel despite bone-chilling temperatures. Win it for that season ticket holder who has been going to games on campus since the Huskies called the field house home. Look for them in the crowd sporting their 1990s Starter jacket–which, in my opinion, is better than any reproduced “throwback” apparel.

Win it for the students who shelled out more than a months worth pay just to cheer on the Huskies at MSG or in Dallas this weekend. Win it for those who fly UConn white and blue just below the stars and stripes in their front lawns each morning. Win it for the UConn alumni who cant be on campus to cheer on the Huskies. If you graduated from UConn, chances are you are well off in your career, but never forget Storrs will always be home. There is a reason “Students Today Huskies Forever” is plastered up all around campus.

Win it for Ray Allen, Rip Hamilton, Khalid El-Amin, Jim Calhoun and all those who cut down the nets in 1999, 2004 and 2011.

Win if for the students and especially the seniors. In 2011, Kemba Walker and company delivered us a national championship when we seniors were just being introduced to what it meant to be a part of Huskymania. Now we have a chance to see the nets come down one last time as students. We have a chance to take one last victory lap down Fairfield Way and one last celebration at Gampel, because the next time we’re there, it will be in our caps and gowns for a different type of celebration.

Most of all, win it for yourselves. We will be cheering you on from the student section in Texas to Gampel Pavilion.

Bring the title home to where it belongs. Make them change the highway sign outside Exit 68 on I-84. Do us proud, Huskies– we’re rooting for you.

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By Erica Brancato Staff Writer

NASHVILLE, Tenn.- UConn’s slow start gave Stanford an early lead, however, just like the past two games, the Huskies were able to shake it off, forget the first half and advance to the championship game of the Final Four as they defeated Stanford 75-56.

Stanford was able to capitalize on UConn’s cold shooting in the beginning of the first half. The Cardinal picked up a quick five points off of UConn turnovers, which allowed them to stay one step ahead of the Huskies.

“I think the game played out, at least in the first half, exactly how I thought it would play out,” head coach Geno Auriemma said. “We knew it was going to be a little bit of a struggle. It’s hard to make shots at the Final Four. Once we settled in and got our rhythm, I thought we played one of the best games we played all year, given the fact that we played a really good team.”

Stanford’s Lili Thompson racked up 10 points in the first 10 minutes of the game, giving the Cardinal a huge advantage on the frontcourt. Although UConn was able to keep Chiney Ogwumike relatively quiet in the first half, Stanford had other tricks up their sleeve.

“I think it’s always an honor for a team to focus so much on me on the inside, but I trusted my teammates,” Ogwumike said. “I think they were the reason we were competitive in the first half. They were aggressive and knocking down shots.”

Ice cold or nah?

With less than 10 minutes left in the half, UConn was able get out of a scoring rut and go on a 10-0 run to gain it’s first lead since the 16 minute mark. Even though the Huskies shot a very low 38.5 percent in the first half they stepped up in the second half.

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“I think we kind of picked up the pressure in our defense… it really changed the momentum of the game,” Bria Hartley said. “I think that’s what our defense does. When we go out there and really make it tough for them to score and we can create offense off of that it really helps our offense and we are able to

The UConn women’s basketball team defeated second-seeded Stanford last night 75-56 to advance to its ninth national title game. Sopohmore forward Brianna Stewart (30) led the Huskies with 18 points and two blocks in the victory.

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‘D’ has been key in Huskies’ championship run

By Mike Peng Senior Staff Writer

ARLINGTON, Texas – The old adage in sports goes, “defense wins championships.”

Throughout the tournament, UConn’s suffocating defense has bailed the team out of its offensive slumps numerous times and allowed the Huskies to claw their way out of large deficits.

Saturday night was the latest exhibit of that phenomenon.

Down 16-4 early against the top team in the country, UConn clamped down its defense and outscored the Florida Gators 59-37 rest of the way, cementing their spot in the national championship game.

All of it started in the backcourt with the tenacious pressure applied by junior guard Ryan Boatright.

“My main thing is making the offensive player uncomfortable,” Boatright said. “I know going into JON KULAKOFSKY/The Daily Campus the game if I can make [the other player] uncomfortable and irriRyan Boatright dunks in an 2014 NCAA Tournament game. His defensive play has been tate him, to any point, or get him critical to UConn’s success this season.

fatigued. If you get fatigued, you make mistakes.”

Florida’s Scottie Wilbekin was irritated by the pesky defense of Boatright all game Saturday.

Wilbekin had committed just two turnovers throughout the tournament but coughed the ball up three times in the Florida loss, a number that baffled him so much he called it “crazy.”

But it’s not crazy. UConn has done this to a lot of people. Just ask Villanova and Michigan State.

In those two games, the Huskies held both teams, which had offenses scoring over 76 points per game, to under 40 percent shooting and managed to win both games despite shooting under 45 percent themselves.

“We live and die on defense. You have to recognize that,” UConn coach Kevin Ollie said.

That’s the mentality Ollie has installed into his team all season, though it’s only recently started to show.

“Of course we had some bumps in the road, like any team has dur-

ing the season, and I believe that Louisville game was a bump in the road,” said Ollie, referring to UConn’s 81-48 loss in the regular season finale. “But I think that really promoted us… We came back and worked. We made adjustments from that game and I thought we got better from it.”

Ollie understands the challenge that Kentucky – another team that averages over 76 point per game – presents for his Huskies in the final game. All he can ask for is 40 more minutes of the same defense that has gotten them this far.

“It’s not always perfect all the time,” Ollie said. “But we’re going to play 40 full. That’s what I believe in my guys… They want to play more. They are built for one more.”

That’s all there is left between UConn and a fourth national championship.

Michael.Peng@UConn.edu

Baseball goes winless at Dodd Stadium Classic

By Matt Zampini Campus Correspondent The UConn baseball team dropped two games to Bryant College and one game to Stony Brook University in the Dodd Stadium College Baseball Classic to fall to 13-16 (2-3 American) on the season.

The Huskies opened the weekend on Friday with a 7-2 loss to the Bryant College Bulldogs. Aaron Hill and Bobby Melley led the way for UConn with two hits and an RBI each. Anthony Marzi made his eighth start of the year for the Huskies but only lasted 4.1 innings, allowing three walks and six runs on six hits.

The Bulldogs jumped out to an early lead, scoring two runs in the top of the first inning. Bryant then brought four runs across the plate in the fifth inning to chase Marzi from the game. Brian Ward took

over for Marzi for just his second relief appearance of the year, throwing 4.2 innings, allowing one run on four hits. The Bulldogs tallied another run in the sixth and the Huskies were unable to rally and make a comeback.

On Saturday, the Huskies scored three runs in the second inning, but Stony Brook brought four runs across the plate in the fifth inning and never looked back.

The Seawolves added two more runs and defeated the Huskies 6-3.

Anthony Kay made the start on the mound for UConn and struggled all afternoon. The freshman went just 4.1 innings, allowing five runs on five hits with seven walks.

UConn had ten hits on the day, and received RBIs from Jack Sundberg and Connor David.

Head coach Jim Penders has used his bullpen a lot this season, and Saturday was no different.

Penders brought in Patrick Ruotolo and David Mahoney in relief to

help UConn stay within striking distance.

UConn was unable to salvage anything out of the weekend, losing again to Bryant 5-3 on Sunday.

Once again, the Huskies had an early lead, grabbing a 1-0 lead and taking it all the way into the sixth inning before giving up two runs in the top half of the sixth. But UConn took the lead back in the bottom half, scoring two runs of their own to take a 3-2 lead into the seventh.

The Bryant offense proved to be too much for the Huskies, however, as they tied the game in the eighth and then scored two in the top of the ninth to put the game away.

UConn will have one day off before returning to the diamond on Tuesday afternoon, when the Huskies will travel to Brookline, Mass. to take on Northeastern University.

Matthew.Zampini@UConn.edu

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UConn freshman shortstop Aaron Hill playing the field in a game this season.