Volume CXIV No. 2
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Irene’s wrath leaves students in dark
By Michael Corasaniti Campus Correspondent
SUBOG FILM LINEUP FULL OF HOT TITLES ‘Deathly Hallows’, ‘Bridesmaids’ to be shown.
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It was the storm that everyone saw coming. Then, by Sunday morning, more than half of campus couldn’t see a thing. Hurricane Irene, the Category 2 storm that prompted infinite emergency alert texts, left a good portion of campus and off-campus apartments without lights, power or running water. “This hurricane and power outage is affecting me in every way possible,” said 7thsemester journalism major Megan Toombs, who is living off campus. “I moved into my apartment a week before school started, so the hurricane and power outages did not affect my move in. But
now I have to come to campus to use the Internet and shower at a friend’s suite.” According to MansfieldStorrs Patch, 93 percent of Mansfield’s residents were still without power as of 5 p.m. Monday. In addition, Mansfield’s director of emergency management John Jackman said that “very little had been done” by the CL&P to address the situation at all. “Power lines are down everywhere. I had to go to UITS an hour before class to print out my schedule and find all of my classes,” said Scott Pawlow, a 9th-semester physics major. Among students on campus who had their move in days rescheduled, the power outages forced some students to arrive as late as Tuesday
morning. “The storm stopped me from moving in,” said Mariah Monroe, a 3rd-semester journalism major. “I was supposed to come Sunday and then Monday but I had to just move in [Tuesday] morning instead. And as of now I still don’t have any power.” According to UConn spokesman Michael Kirk, with the exception of depot campus, the ice rink and a few others, almost all dorms and buildings on campus have power including Shippee and Northwood, two of the last powerless dorms who regained electricity late Monday evening. However, it was still a rough weekend for many on campus.
» McMAHON, page 2
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Students living on and off campus were without power this weekend and many nonemergency services were closed.
First day, move-in day postponed due to hurricane
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Senior wideout captains following three Big East SPORTS/ page 14 EDITORIAL: THANK YOU, AUSTIN, AND WELCOME ABOARD, HERBST Austin kept the university excelling between presidents.
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Students peruse and purchase posters at a pop-up shop on Fairfield Way Tuesday. The poster shop was closed Monday due to Hurricane Irene.
UConn No. 16 in Sierra Club’s ‘Coolest Schools’ By Kim Wilson Staff Writer UConn has moved up in the ranks of the Sierra Club’s “Coolest Schools” list, which rates sustainability efforts and recognizes schools’ efforts to create a “green” campus. Ranked 49th in 2010, UConn is now ranked 16th out of 118 colleges nationwide. The Sierra Club is a grassroots environmental organization whose goal is to “practice and promote the responsible use of the earth’s ecosystems and resources.” The “Coolest Schools” rankings are based on a survey submitted by UConn’s Director of the Office of Environmental Policy that consists of 10 environmental categories such as “efficiency” and “waste management.” This year, the University of Washington topped the list with a score of 81.2. UConn scored a 70.5. Last year the Sierra Club raked 162 colleges across the nation, and the 2010 winner was Green Mountain College with a score of 88.6. In this year’s rankings, Green Mountain College ranked No. 2 with a
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The newest UConn classroom building has a garden on its rooftop - one of several efforts made by UConn to promote a ‘greener’ campus.
score of 81.1. Last year, UConn received a score of 70.9. UConn made several major green improvements to the campus last year that helped contribute to the 33-school jump in the Sierra Club’s rankings, including the addition of the
new Classroom Building, which features a green roof that will reduce stormwater runoff and energy costs through air conditioning and heating. UConn also opened a waste compost facility that will recycle an average of 5,000 tons of
manure and leaves every year, reducing and reusing waste for a more efficient campus. Last spring, UConn established the EcoHouse Spring Valley Farm, a living commu-
» ECOHUSKY, page 2
The damage from Hurricane Irene caused the University of Connecticut to cancel the first day of school and officially start classes Tuesday, Aug. 30 instead. In preparing for this hurricane, UConn also pushed ahead the move-in date for students by one day to Friday, Aug. 26th, to allow students to move in before the hurricane hit. Some students, like Abby Dancause, a 7th-semester health care management major, were able to move in before the hurricane hit. “I left my house Saturday at 5 a.m. to beat the move-in rush, since the hurricane was keeping students from moving in Sunday,” Dancause said. Other students, like Melissa Touma, a 7th-semester anthropology major, were more affected by the hurricane. “I moved most of my things on Saturday,” Touma said. “But I didn’t have time to set everything up in my room.” “I came back to my apartment Monday, but with no power or water, so I can’t do the necessary cleaning until the electricity comes back,” Touma said. “I’ve been staying with a friend on campus so I can shower and have Internet connection in order to get ready for my classes Tuesday.” Another commuter student, Brian Coughlin, a 7th-semester history major, also had similar issues with the resulting power outages as part of the aftermath of the hurricane. “The last few days have alternated swiftly between playfully inconvenient and borderline apocalyptic as we have no light, water, power or Internet at my apartment in Willington,” Coughlin said. UConn cancelled the first day of classes to allow students more time to move in and prepare for classes, yet some students are unsure of how this missed day will affect their classes this semester. “One of my major-specific classes meets only on Monday nights, so with the hurricane and labor day, we won’t even meet until the third week of classes,” Dancause said.
» AFTERMATH, page 2
What’s on at UConn today... Classics & Ancient History Club 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Student Union, 416A Come to the first meeting of the Classics & Ancient History Club for the 2011-12 year. All are welcome.
Paralegal Program Open House 6 to 7 p.m. Greater Hartford Campus SCome learn about UConn’s Paralegal Litigation Certificate Program.
Project 35 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Benton Museum of Art The project is a collection of video pieces from 35 international curators.
UConn Outing Club 9 p.m. Student Union, The UConn Outing Club, a group of students who enjoy outdoor adventure activities, are having its first meeting of the semester.
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Conn. extends ban on price gouging in power outage
HARTFORD (AP) - Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen has extended through Labor Day weekend a ban on price gouging for gasoline and heating fuel. Jepsen said Tuesday he will extend the notice of abnormal market disruption for energy resources to 5 p.m. Sept. 6. It had been scheduled to expire at midnight Wednesday. State law says unconscionably excessive prices are a gross disparity between prices before and after a market disruption such as Tropical Storm Irene. An amount charged by the seller that is not the result of higher costs is evidence that a price is unconscionably excessive. Jepsen says he extended the ban because of widespread power outages that include many gas stations.
Conn. man sentenced in pot growing scheme
HARTFORD (AP) - An Oxford man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for what prosecutors say was his leadership of a marijuana growing and distribution conspiracy. Cheyne Mazza was sentenced Monday in federal court in Hartford. The 29-year-old Mazza also was sentenced to five years of supervised release. Mazza’s sentencing follows by less than a week the sentencing of a former Ansonia alderman and two others who were caught growing more than 1,400 marijuana plants. Joseph Cassetti, the 61-year-old exalderman, Sterling Mazza of Oxford and James Canavan were sentenced to more than three years in prison. All pleaded guilty to drug charges. Prosecutors say the pot growing and selling operation ran from March 2008 to January 2010.
Wozniacki wins 4th New Haven tourney
NEW HAVEN (AP) - No one has ever beaten Caroline Wozniacki in New Haven, and Hurricane Irene couldn’t do it either. The world’s top-ranked player stayed ahead of the storm Saturday and won her fourth consecutive New Haven title, defeating Czech qualifier Petra Cetkovska 6-4, 6-1 in the finals. Wozniacki, the top seed at next week’s U.S. Open, improved to 17-0 at Yale. “I just have a good momentum every time I play here,” she said. “The balls are good. The tournament is nice. You always play better when you like to be around a tournament. I’m really pleased to be in this situation — win four straight times in a row, it’s really unbelievable.” Cetkovska, who is ranked 40th, had won seven consecutive matches since the start of qualifying. She beat fifth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska, fourth-seeded Marion Bartoli and second-seeded Li Na. But she couldn’t stop Wozniacki, who also is the top seed at the U.S. Open. “I’m really happy to be here, to go so long, so far in the tournament,” Cetkovska said. “Now when we are in the final, we want to always go further. So obviously I wanted to try to win, to do even better. But today it was just a little bit too much. Caroline, she’s just playing great.”An alcohol breath test performed at the police station determined that Watson’s blood alcohol level was 0.05 percent, below the state’s 0.08 limit.
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Mexican journalist gets political asylum in US
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - The U.S. government has granted political asylum to a Mexican television cameraman who says his government can’t protect him. Alejandro Martinez also says the Mexican government put him at risk by showing him on national TV after his release by alleged drug traffickers who kidnapped him. Martinez was held for about a week by alleged drug dealers who demanded to have a message aired on national television. Carlos Spector, Martinez’s attorney, said Tuesday that decision is proof the U.S. recognizes the inability of the Mexican government to protect its citizens and journalists. After fleeing his home country, Martinez spoke out against the Mexican government. He is the second Mexican journalist to be granted asylum by the U.S. after Jorge Luis Aguirre, who claimed political persecution, was allowed to stay.
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Items below list charges filed, not convictions. All persons appearing below are entitled to the due process of law and presumed innocent until proven guilty. Individual police blotters will be taken off the website three semesters after they have been posted. Aug. 6 Tony Vilaysane, 20, of Ansonia, was arrested at 6:08 p.m. on North Eagleville Road and charged with larceny in the sixth degree. Police were called to a shoplifting complaint at the UConn Co-op. Tony Vilaysane was found to have stolen a pair of nail clippers valued at $2.99. His bond was set for $500 and his court date was Aug. 16. Aug. 7 Andres R. Villar, 19, of Mansfield Center, was arrested at 9:45 p.m. on Storrs Road and charged with forgery in the first degree, manufacturing, distributing and selling of a controlled substance, manufacturing, distributing and selling drugs by a nondrug-dependant, two counts of possession of narcotics with the intent to sell near a school, interfering with an officer and possession of drug paraphernalia in a drug factory. Villar was the passenger in a car that was stopped for a motor vehicle violation on Route 195 near E.O. Smith
High School. When asked to exit the vehicle, Villar ran from officers and was apprehended after a short foot pursuit. Villar had 24.3 grams of marijuana, 1 gram of cocaine, a scale, small plastic bags, a notebook containing costs of previous drug transactions, $1,054 cash and three counterfeit $50 bills. His bond was set for $50,000 and his court date was Aug. 8. Gavin G. Furlong, 20, of Mansfield Center, was arrested at 10:16 p.m. on Route 195 and charged with weapons in a motor vehicle and possession of less than one half ounce of marijuana. Police stopped Furlong’s car by E.O. Smith High School for speeding. Furlong was found to have less than half an ounce of marijuana and a springloaded switchblade knife. His bond was set at $1,500 and his court date was Aug. 16. John S. Dewart, 18, of Coventry, was arrested at 11:17 p.m. on Route 195 and charged with weapons in a motor vehicle. Dewart was stopped on 195 for a driving violation. Police found him to be in possession of an illegal weapon. His bond was set at $1,500 and his court date was Aug. 15.
and charged with operating an unregistered motor vehicle and driving while under the influence. Police responded to a complaint of a damaged vehicle on Walters Ave. Bellanceau was identified as the driver of the car and officers suspected he was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Bellanceau failed a series of sobriety tests. His bond was set at $500 and his court date was Aug. 22. Aug. 18 Wesley S. Contro, 20, of Tolland, was arrested at 2:50 p.m. at the UConn Co-op and charged with larceny in the sixth degree. The University Police Department was notified that a shoplifter was being detained at the UConn Co-op. Police arrived and, after a brief investigation, arrested Contro. His bond was set at $500 and his court date was Aug. 30.
Aug. 10 Evan G. Bellanceau, 22, of Brooklyn, was arrested at 9:11 p.m. on Walters Ave.
Aug. 22 Keelan J. Freitag, 22, of Mansfield, was arrested at 7:31 p.m. at the Bio-Physics Building and charged with assault in the third degree. Officers responded to the roof of the Bio-Physics Building on a report that a male was seen punching a female in the face. The pair was found and it was learned that Freitag punched his girlfriend on the lip causing it to bleed. His
other devices charged with no power. “I lost battery power in my phone so I basically lost contact with everybody,” said Anthony Catarino, a 1stsemester undecided major. On the opposite side of the coin, many dorms such as McMahon, Alumni and most of South proved lucky during the storm as they never or barely lost electricity.
“I only lost power for a few minutes. I was actually asleep so I didn’t even notice,” said Tae Kim, a 1st-semester prepharmacy major. Unfortunately, much of campus was not lucky enough to sleep through or dodge the massive power outages. “I was hoping for a smooth start to my senior year,” Toombs said. “But now that school has started, I still have
Aug. 28 Steven M. Mallqui, 23, of Stamford, was arrested at 3:04 a.m. on Gilbert Road and charged with failure to drive right and operation of a vehicle while under the influence. Officers conducted a motor vehicle stop on Gilbert Road after watching it cross a double yellow line. After talking to Mallqui, officers suspected he was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Mallqui was subjected to a series of field sobriety tests, which he failed. His bond was set at $500 and his court date is Sept. 6.
Aug. 29 Kenneth F. Judge, 19, of Storrs, was arrested at 12:33 a.m. on Route 195 in Storrs and charged with breach of peace in the second degree and forgery in the second degree. Judge was observed having an argument with two other students, culminating with Judge shoving another student in the chest. After being placed under arrest for breach of peace, Judge was found to be in possession of a false driver’s license. His bond was set at $1,500 and his court date is Sept. 6.
Aug. 30 Christopher D. Gutierrez, 24, of Milford, was arrested at 1:55 a.m. at Dick’s Auto and charged with failure to drive right and operation of a motor vehicle while under the influence. Police conducted a motor vehicle stop after watching the car cross a double yellow line. After speaking with Gutierrez, police suspected he was driving while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Gutierrez failed a series of sobriety tests. His bond was set at $1,000 and his court date is Sept. 7.
South, Alumni did not lose power
from IRENE’S, page 1 “It was quite frustrating,” said Ayesha Ramnath a 3rdsemester environmental sciences major. “I had a friend in East Campus who lost power and had to stay with us. Getting food was even worse. The dining hall in South was extremely crowded.” Another stressful issue for students was figuring out how to keep laptops, phones and
no water or power…everything is chaotic and will continue to be until the power and water are back on.” Slowly, the effects of Irene are fading and everything is starting to turn back on for UConn. But for now, some Huskies are still in the dark and it is unsure for how much longer they will remain there.
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Aftermath affected commuter attendance
from FIRST, page 1 Other students are unsure of how this will affect their courses. “I don’t know yet how a missed day will affect my classes, but it didn’t make it easier to get ready for them,” Touma said. “That’s for sure.” “I can’t access HuskyCT easily to get the necessary updates for
my classes, including the syllabus or any books I still need to get for them,” Touma said. Other commuter students, like Tom Farnham, a 7th-semester computer science major, have been so affected by the aftermath of the hurricane that they will be missing the first day of school. “I’m sure there’s a way for me to get to UConn but between
redirects, road conditions, and potential construction delays from power trucks and tree crews, its more trouble than its worth,” Farnham said of commuting to school for the first day. “I’ll miss the first day of class and pick up right again tomorrow, but for others, that’s probably a different story,” Farnham said. The aftermath of the hurricane
Contest, which encouraged students to reduce energy consumption for one month. South B, the winners of the contest, reduced their energy by 6 percent throughout the duration of the contest. EcoHusky’s goal with the competition was to raise awareness about energy conservation and reduce the campus’ negative environmen-
tal impact. The EcoHusky group is open to all students who are interested in promoting green living. Meetings are held every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Student Union Room 303. Students are encouraged to recycle all recyclable plastics, glass, cardboard, paper and metal items in the recycling con-
has also affected other commuter students from getting to campus. A downed power line on Route 44 has made the Apartment Shuttle unable to reach Clubhouse Apartments, according to the Department of Transportation. No bus service will go to these apartments until further notice.
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EcoHusky, Whitney dining promote ‘green living’
from UCONN, page 1 nity where students grow organic food for Whitney dining hall. Spring Valley Farm also focuses on cutting electricity use and promotes “green living” on campus. Last year, the UConn EcoHusky group held a Water and Energy Conservation
tainers across campus, reduce shower times and turn off electronics and lights when they are not in use. UConn has been taking steps to create a more environmentally conscious campus, but student involvement is necessary to keep the campus green and constantly improving.
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Transportation almost normal
NEW YORK (AP) — There wasn’t a spare seat to be found on planes or buses Tuesday as travelers stranded by Hurricane Irene finally headed home. The nation’s transportation system was nearly back to normal, giving hope to vacationers looking for a trouble-free Labor Day getaway. While planes and buses were operating on near-normal schedules, throughout the day Amtrak remained paralyzed between New York and Philadelphia. Late in the day, railroad officials announced that flooding had receded, repairs were made and service would resume Wednesday morning. That was little solace to those who missed out on vacations, canceled business meetings or searched for days to find any way home. “I have work waiting for me, so I’m losing time and money,” said Washington attorney Betty Sinowitz, who was stuck at New York’s Penn Station after her train was canceled. Fliers fared much better. Only a handful of flights were canceled Tuesday compared with more than 1,700 on Monday, according to flight tracking service FlightAware. A total of 14,000 flights were scrapped in the days before, during and after the storm. Most airlines said that the backlog of stranded passengers would be cleared by the end of Tuesday.
But the frayed nerves were still evident — and they extended beyond stranded travelers. At least one airline said it could have moved more passengers to their destinations ontime if not for New York airport officials’ decision to shut down at noon on Saturday. That “threw a huge monkey wrench into our planning,” said David Holtz, managing director for operations at Delta. The airline had planned to keep flying through Saturday evening. Delta canceled additional
flights to adjust. Susan Baer, the aviation director for the agency that runs New York airports, said the shutdown of the city’s public transit system — which most employees use to get to work — affected its decision to close the airports. Despite the sooner-thanexpected shutdown, some airlines praised the efficiency of the airports’ reopening. “The coordination was really extraordinary,” JetBlue CEO Dave Barger told CNBC on Monday. “I really don’t think
we could have had a more effective startup.” Reopening airports means much more than just switching on the lights. In New York, for example, it involved doing everything from clearing cots used by stranded travelers to making sure airport staff could show up to work. With the city’s public transportation system limping back into service, Baer said security agents were picked up by their managers in vans to ensure that they’d make it to work on time.
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Travelers walk through doors at the Trenton train station early Monday in Trenton, N.J., without seeing a sign that says there is no train service. New Jersey Transit rail service was suspended Monday due to damage from Hurricane Irene.
Marsh fire smokes out New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Mayor Mitch Landrieu said Tuesday he spotted a second marsh fire during a flight over one that has hazed the metro area with smoke for three days, and it was so close to a highway that he declared an emergency, allowing him to call out the Louisiana National Guard to help. Four helicopters based in Hammond were dropping water from 500-gallon baskets onto the fire and five based in Pineville would join them Wednesday, said Brig. Gen. Glenn H. Curtis, director of the joint staff for the Louisiana National Guard. Haze from the fire was reported as far west as the Baton Rouge metro area, the National Weather Service said. It expanded its smoke alert from New Orleans and six suburban parishes to 23 parishes, including towns 100 miles from New Orleans. As of Tuesday morning, the original fire had burned all but about 537 acres — about eighttenths of a square mile — of the trees, shrubs and grass on a 1,552.5-acre area surrounded by canals, said Ryan Berni, spokesman for Landrieu. It started in
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Jasmine Groves covers her face and eyes as she crosses Poydras St., amidst thick smoke from a burning marsh fire nearby, in downtown New Orleans, Tuesday. Easterly winds kept a pall of smoke from the fire over the New Orleans area for the third straight day.
the center of the area and has been spreading outward. "It would take an armada of helicopters" to drop water on it and douse it, said state Rep. Austin J. Badon, Jr., D-New Orleans, who flew over the fires separately from Landrieu. Landrieu said he was told that each basket of water, when it hits
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The United States can’t lead the world in the 21st century with its current energy policy, Vice President Joe Biden told alternative technology supporters Tuesday at a clean energy summit in Las Vegas. Biden said the nation is already trailing China and Germany in green technology. It will trade its dependence on foreign oil for a dependence on foreign clean energy technology if its leaders don’t act to help fledging green researchers and businesses, he said. “If we shrink from deciding whether we are going to lead in the area of alternative energy, renewable energy, then we will be making the biggest mistake that this nation has made in its history,” Biden said during his keynote speech at the fourthannual National Clean Energy Summit at the Aria hotel-casino. Biden said the future will demand cities that produce all the energy they consume; battery-powered cars able to travel great distances and bacteria that converts sunlight directly into fuel, among other innovations. “Innovation and energy will go on whether or not we join and no nation which expects to be a leader of other nations can fall behind,” he said. Biden announced during his speech that five technology companies receiving up to $6 million each from the Department of Energy have since attracted more than $100 million in private investments. The firms in North Carolina, California and Colorado are developing advanced grid scale batteries or new approaches to biofuels or waste heat recovery. Biden said the private investments demonstrate that the green industry needs both public and private contributions to succeed. “No previous generation has had that debate about whether or not we are going to lead the
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Thank you, Austin, and welcome aboard, Herbst
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resident Susan Herbst’s official inauguration as UConn’s 15th president isn’t until Sept. 16, but it’s never too early to welcome a new Husky. It’s also never too late to thank a fellow Husky, President Austin, for keeping the president’s seat warm and our university excelling. Much has been said and written about President Herbst being UConn’s first female president, but we shouldn’t let that one detail, though certainly noteworthy, distract us. The fanfare accompanying President Herbst’s arrival may pale in comparison to former President Hogan’s – the inauguration ceremony with fireworks, office renovations, a house nearby to live in rather than the recently restored presidential mansion, the six life-size cutouts of him around campus – but we should acknowledge and appreciate the experience, determination and vision President Herbst brings to our university. Acknowledging that the role of a university president is steeped in philanthropy, President Herbst recently announced that she and her husband were donating $100,000 of their own money as an example of how donations are important to the university’s future. In an interview with “UCONN Magazine,” President Herbst said, “We must all accelerate our efforts in philanthropy. I will work hard with our alumni, donors, and other stakeholders to build our endowment and achieve more protection against difficult economic trends. Public higher education is what made America what it is.” Our new president’s commitment to philanthropy and the distinctive elements of a liberal arts education are encouraging, and we should look forward to participating in her plan for our university while also reaping the benefits. Let’s face it: the more generous the alumni and donors are, the more access we have to everything that makes attending UConn a one of a kind experience. President Herbst has said that being the president of our university is her “dream job” and we should take her at her word. Our pride as Huskies is blatant and a force to be reckoned with. We know that it’s sometimes easy to be too eager, idealistic and hopeful at the beginning of a new year, especially with a new president, but it’s that optimism and excitement that drive us forward. The Daily Campus editorial is the official opinion of the newspaper and its editorial board. Commentary columns express opinions held solely by the author and do not in any way reflect the official opinion of The Daily Campus.
I’m angry Irene is affecting UConn football, but at least she saved us from enduring the hip hop comedy jam. With the power being out at UConn for so long, someone is bound to wind up pregnant. My professor taught class today walking around barefoot. I’d hate to know what his feet touched on the floor of Arjona. I saw a white husky in Belgium this summer. Guess Jonathan studied abroad too. Nothing says welcome back to Storrs like the construction outside of Connecticut Commons that begins at midnight. I only had one class today and I’m already tired of school. I hope NBA 2K12 has a Create-a-Kemba mode. The other day out of frustration I responded to the UConn alert text with “Useless,” thinking it wouldn’t go through. It did. Dear freshmen, there is no need to all go line up at once to buy football bus tickets exactly the moment hey go on sale. They’ll still be there later. Glad to see that the instantdaily is immune to Hurricane Irene. Andre Drummond is now everybody’s favorite freshman.
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Why UConn’s budget received cuts this time around
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he “Pirates of the Caribbean” series had consecutively larger budgets for its first, second, and third movies, according to industry estimates. However, for its fourth installment, released this summer, the production budget decreased. Then, when the film premiered, everybody hated it. UConn is facing a similar financial situation. After more than 20 years of consecutive increases, UConn is decreasing its annual operating budget this year, dropping 1.9 percent following last year’s 5.8 percent increase. Will this yield negative effects? Many fear that cuts could jeopardize UConn’s reputation as being “among By Jesse Rifkin the best public Weekly Columnist institutions in the nation.” Still, it is generally accepted that the current economic situation renders these cuts necessary. This is what most people believe. I am not one of those people. Sure, it’s convenient to blame problems on outside sources, such as the stock market, Congress or the governor. Indeed, external factors certainly played a role in necessitating this budget cut. But, focusing solely on those external factors means ignoring what UConn itself did by spending during good economic times as if bad economic times would never arrive. UConn’s budget increased annually for
the past 20 years, even throughout the Great Recession of 2007-09. During the 2002 economic downturn following the terrorist attacks, UConn’s budget still enlarged an astonishing 13.6 percent.
“Even if UConn had increased budgets for the past 20 consecutive years, more conservative increases throughout would likely have resulted in a comparable budget for this year, without the negative publicity associated with the cuts.” Why did this trend occur so consistently, despite three economic recessions within this 20-year period? Two major culprits: the ‘UCONN 2000’ and ‘21st Century UConn’ improvement projects enacted in 1995 and 2002, respectively, costing $2.3 billion total. The price tag could hardly be considered cost-effective: a commission report from former Gov. Jodi Rell concluded that “corners had been cut, problems had been ignored, and oversight was lacking in the university’s handling of the construction program.” How was all this paid for? Largely, by you. Over the last two decades, the portion of UConn’s budget comprised of Connecticut state funds plummeted from 50.0 percent to 31.8 percent. Meanwhile,
the budget portion from student tuition and fees skyrocketed from 17.6 percent to 32.2 percent. This means that our public university now receives more money from student tuition and fees than from state funds. Let me make perfectly clear that I do not enjoy cuts, nor do I desire them. But, if budgetary increases that steep occur for that long, the process is unsustainable and must end. That time is now. A good economy is an excuse to spend more, not an excuse to spend recklessly. A May 2000 Connecticut Associated Press headline read “‘Help wanted’ is the sign of the times in Connecticut.” The story elaborated, “Unemployment was a low 3.9 percent last month, and in Connecticut, it was an even lower 2.3 percent.” Quoted experts claimed, “College students, especially those with marketable skills, will be scooped up in a heartbeat,” and, “Now, companies are recruiting students as young as college sophomores and juniors.” The moral here is apparent: Do not spend during good times as if bad times will never arrive. Even if UConn had increased budgets for the past 20 consecutive years, more conservative increases throughout would likely have resulted in a comparable budget for this year, without the negative publicity associated with cuts. Instead, people are fuming over unprecedented reductions in university services.
Weekly columnist Jesse Rifkin is a 3rd-semester political science major. He can be reached at Jesse.Rifkin@UConn.edu.
Academic performance not a determinant of future job
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ith the aftermath of Hurricane Irene dominating local headlines, you may have missed a lesser-known topic: the release of Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll’s annual report on the state of public opinion in education. By Thomas Dilling According to Staff Columnist the poll, an overwhelming majority of Americans– 76 percent– believe that “high-achieving high school students should be recruited to become teachers.” This astounding number is deserving of attention, but even more deserving of rebuttal. First and foremost, the idea of children being recruited to any specific field, much less education, ought to be reconsidered. A system in which recruiters are in charge would waste resources courting uninterested students, at the expense of those with a genuine interest in education. Children aren’t just chess pieces, waiting to be moved into a square that is designated for them by recruiters– they are people with their own passions and desires. So, the premise of the question is fundamentally backwards. It shouldn’t be anyone’s responsibility to seek out or recruit future educators.
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Rather, the focus should be on those students with an interest in education to seek out that profession.
“A system in which recruiters are in charge would waste resources courting uninterested students, at the expense of those with a genuine interest in education.” Secondly, I contest whether the desired end of more academically-inclined educators is really all that desirable. Conventional wisdom may lead us to believe that greater academic achievement will lead to greater teaching success, but this isn’t necessarily the case. Consider Howard Gardner’s framework of multiple intelligences, whereby individuals have greatly varying abilities across multiple spectrums. It takes a certain extent of arrogance to think that a single statistic like academic performance can predetermine one’s success
in such a multifaceted profession like education. But let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that better academic performance does imply better teachers. Presumably, then, better academic performance would imply better success in a whole host of careers. Do we really want to crowd out advancements in medicine or engineering, for example, or even in future industries that have yet to even emerge, because the “best and brightest” have been recruited into teaching grade school curriculums? As Andrew J. Coulson of the Center for Educational Freedom points out, using data from the National Center for Education Statistics, public school enrollment has increased just 9 percent since 1970, while public school employment over that time has increased nearly 100 percent – half of which are teachers. America has a greater teacher to student ratio than countries that outperform us academically, yet among respondents, science teachers were rated as more important than scientists, albeit only marginally. I view this as a fundamental disconnect among much of the population, which fails to see education as a means to an end, and rather, just merely as an end of itself. What utility does education have if
only to be used for the sake of educating? This isn’t to say that students should be steered away from science education, which clearly has a purpose, but rather to re-evaluate whether they should be steered toward it, given the existence of alternative careers. Finally, the same poll also revealed that an overwhelming majority of parents are already content with their local teachers and schools. 69 percent of respondents gave their child’s teacher an A or B grade while 79 percent gave their child’s school an A or B grade. If parents feel that their children’s teachers and schools are doing well, it is illogical that they simultaneously suggest measures to recruit what they perceive to be better teachers. Moreover, 70 percent of the respondents feel that teaching is a natural talent as opposed to a result of training, which is inconsistent with their demand for academically-inclined teachers. After all, if teaching ability isn’t learned in an academic setting, high academic aptitude won’t help in acquiring this “natural talent.”
Staff Columnist Thomas Dilling is a 7thsemester biological sciences major. He can be reached at Thomas.Dilling@UConn.edu.
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I Hate Everything by Carin Powell
Royalty Free Speech by Ryan Kennedy
Editor’s Choice by Brendan Albetski
Horoscopes 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 an 8 -- You may feel moved to take a stand for justice. Act decisively. This may seem risky, so steel your nerves and follow your heart. A new door opens. Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Friends are glad to help. An authority may need persuasion, so collect signatures. Don’t get stopped by a lack of funds. Together, you have everything you need. Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Hold off on travel. Spend time planning and inventing with a partner, and take notes. Work out the strategy. Let them take the lead. You’re building something great together. Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 9 -- You’re backstage, well-rehearsed and ready to go. You’ve got power and charm to inspire. Sometimes it’s even more effective from the wings. Have another person succeed. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Avoid an obvious pitfall, especially where money’s involved. Listen to your heart for the next steps to take. Drop a project that lacks soul. You’re lucky in love. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Your energy level is on the rise, and so is your capacity for communication. Balance inspiration with perspiration. You can make it all happen. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Early misunderstandings get clarified by afternoon. Don’t get discouraged by small obstacles, and keep your eye on the big picture. There’s plenty to glean here. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- You can get through where others fail, but watch out, as you might forget an important detail. Don’t lose what you have in order to get more. Go slow and be persistent. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Avoid communication glitches by taking the precautions that you see fit. You may be pushed into action, but you still have a choice. Speak what you’re committed to. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 5 -- Taking some time off may be the appropriate thing to do now. Don’t worry about the money. Everything that’s needed will come. Honor your heart. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- Avoid risky business. Make sure what you build is solid. Surround yourself with good friends. Talking is not necessary. Sometimes silence
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WikiLeaks site comes under attack
LONDON (AP) — The WikiLeaks website crashed Tuesday in an apparent cyberattack after the accelerated publication of tens of thousands of once-secret State Department cables by the anti-secrecy organization raised new concerns about the exposure of confidential U.S. embassy sources. “WikiLeaks.org is presently under attack,” the group said on Twitter late Tuesday. One hour later, the site and the cables posted there were inaccessible. WikiLeaks updated its Twitter account to say that it was “still under a cyberattack” and directed followers to search for cables on a mirror site or a separate search system, cablegatesearch.net. The apparent cyberattack comes after current and former American officials said the recently released cables — and concerns over the protection of sources — are creating a fresh source of diplomatic setbacks and embarrassment for the Obama administration. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack. The Associated Press reviewed more than 2,000 of the cables recently released by WikiLeaks. They contained the identities of more than 90 sources who had sought protection and whose names the cable authors had asked to protect. Officials said the disclosure in the past week of more than 125,000 sensitive documents by
WikiLeaks, far more than it had earlier published, further endangered informants and jeopardized U.S. foreign policy goals. The officials would not comment on the authenticity of the leaked documents but said the rate and method of the new releases, including about 50,000 in one day alone, presented new complications. “The United States strongly condemns any illegal disclosure of classified information,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said. “In addition to damaging our diplomatic efforts, it puts individuals’ security at risk, threatens our national security and undermines our effort to work with countries to solve shared problems. We remain concerned about these illegal disclosures and about concerns and risks to individuals. “We continue to carefully monitor what becomes public and to take steps to mitigate the damage to national security and to assist those who may be harmed by these illegal disclosures to the extent that we can,” she told reporters. Neither Nuland nor other current officials would comment on specific information contained in the compromised documents or speculate as to whether any harm caused by the new releases would exceed that caused by the first series of leaks, which began in November and sent the administration into a damage-control frenzy. WikiLeaks fired back at the
criticism even as its website came under cyberattack. “Dear governments, if you don’t want your filth exposed, then stop acting like pigs. Simple,” the group posted on Twitter. Some officials noted that the first releases had been vetted by media organizations who scrubbed them to remove the names of contacts that could be endangered. The latest documents have not been vetted in the same way. “It’s picking at an existing wound. There is the potential for further injury,” said P.J. Crowley, the former assistant secretary of state for public affairs who resigned this year after criticizing the military’s treatment of the man suspected of leaking the cables to WikiLeaks. “It does have the potential to create further risk for those individuals who have talked to U.S. diplomats. It has the potential to hurt our diplomatic efforts and it once again puts careers at risk.” Crowley set up a crisis management team at the State Department to deal with the matter and said officials at the time went through the entire collection of documents they believed had been leaked and warned as many named sources as possible, particularly in authoritarian countries, that their identities could be revealed. A handful of them were relocated, but Crowley said others may have been missed and some could not be contacted because the effort would have increased the potential for expo-
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sure. The new releases “could be used to intimidate activists in some of these autocratic countries,” he said. He said he believed that “any autocratic security service worth its salt” probably already would have the complete unredacted archive of cables but added that the new WikiLeaks releases meant that any intelligence agency that did not “will have it in short order.” WikiLeaks insisted it was “totally false” that any WikiLeaks sources have been exposed and appeared to suggest the group itself was not even responsible for releasing unredacted cables. The group seemed to taunt U.S. officials and detractors in yet another Twitter message late Tuesday, asking what they will do “when it is revealed which mainstream news organization disclosed all 251k unredacted cables.” The AP review included all cables classified as “confidential” or “secret,” among the more than 50,000 recently released by WikiLeaks. In them, the AP found the names of at least 94 sources whose identities the cable authors asked higherups to “protect” or “strictly protect.” Several thousand other of the recently published cables were not classified and did not appear to put sources in jeopardy. The accelerated flood of publishing partly reflects the collapse of the unusual relationships between WikiLeaks and news organizations that previously were cooperating with it in exchange for being given copies of all the uncensored State Department messages. Initially, WikiLeaks released only a trickle of documents at a time from a trove of a quarter-million, and only after considering advice from five news organizations with which it chose to share all of the material. The news organizations advised WikiLeaks on which documents to release publicly and what redactions to make to those documents.
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WORLD BRIEFS Vietnam sentences 6 to death for drug trafficking HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A court in northern Vietnam has sentenced six people to death for heroin trafficking. The State-run Tuoi Tre newspaper said Wednesday the six were convicted of trafficking 73 pounds (33 kilograms) of heroin from 2007-2009. Four other defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment on the same charges at the trial at the People’s Court in Hoa Binh province. The court handed down jail terms from one year to 20 years against 11 others for illegal drug trading or failure to report criminals to authorities.
Suicide bomber kills 8 at Shiite MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine foreign chief is quoted as calling the former U.S. ambassador to Manila “a dismal failure” over her leaked comments criticizing late democracy icon Corazon Aquino. The Philippine Daily Inquirer published a 2009 embassy cable from whistle-blower WikiLeaks that quoted former Ambassador Kristie Kenney as saying Aquino’s credibility as a moral crusader was tarnished because she associated herself with ousted President Joseph Estrada in protest movements against then-leader Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano blasts out ash MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Popocatepetl (po-po-ka-TEH-pehtel) volcano south of Mexico City is shooting blasts of ash from its crater. Mexico’s national disaster prevention agency says the volcano has spewed ash more than a half mile (a kilometer) into the sky four times Tuesday. It says there is a possibility ash could fall onto Mexico City overnight. The agency is urging people to stay at least 7 miles (12 kilometers) from the crater.
Asia markets lower on slumping US, EU confidence BANGKOK (AP) — Asian-Pacific shares were mostly lower in early trading Wednesday, with market sentiment dampened by a slump in U.S. consumer confidence and a downturn in economic sentiment in Europe. After four days of gains, Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index lost 0.4 percent at 8,911.35. Australia’s S&P ASX 200 index lost 0.2 percent to 4,259.80. South Korea’s Kospi index was flat at 1,843.90.
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SUBOG film lineup full of hot titles By Joe O’Leary Staff Writer Looking for something to do this weekend? Every Thursday through Sunday, SUBOG screens films in the Student Union Theatre. Firstrun selections, fresh out of your local multiplex, hit the screen Thursday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Tickets are $2 with a UConn student ID and $4 without. On Friday nights, a free film is shown for Late Night; sometimes it’s old, sometimes it’s brand new, but no matter what, it’s free. This year’s movie schedule kicks off Thursday night at 9 p.m. with a screening of the smash hit comedy “Bridesmaids.” The highestgrossing comedy in history starring women will also be shown Saturday at 8 and 11 p.m. Friday night brings the popular comedy, “The Hangover,” for a free screening at 10 p.m. Changing things up slightly is Sunday’s showing of “Paul.” The hilarious film starring Seth Rogen will be screened for free outside the CLAS building at 9 p.m. Enjoy your Labor Day with laughs on the quad. The weekend of Sept. 8-11, Jack Sparrow takes over the Student Union. “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” will be shown on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday nights
and Friday’s free selection is “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.” Sept. 15-18 brings a pair of DC Comics superheroes to the Union Theatre. The week’s first-run flick is the blockbuster “Green Lantern,” starring Ryan Reynolds. The power-ringed superhero will defend the world except for Friday night, when he hands the screen to Batman; “The Dark Knight” for the Late Night free movie of the week. It’s a weekend for Pixar fans and Larry The Cable Guy enthusiasts from Sept. 22-25, as “Cars 2” and “Cars” will take their respective turns on the big screen. This year’s sixth-highest grossing film will be the first run selection, while the original will be the free Friday film. Cameron Diaz and Jack Black hit the Theatre next, as Diaz’s smash hit “Bad Teacher” comes to UConn on Sept. 29, Oct. 1 and Oct. 2, with “School of Rock” as Friday’s Late Night selection. Oct. 6-9 will be controlled by Optimus Prime and the Transformers; “Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon” will be shown as the firstrun pick, while 2009’s hit “Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen” destroys the screen on Friday, Oct. 7. For Homecoming, the weekend of Oct. 13-16, a pair of family-friendly films come to the Union; “Winnie the Pooh” will bumble through
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SUBOG’s Fall 2011 film lineup includes the annual “Harry Potter” marathon in late October, as well as both movie installments of the final novel. On September 4, there will be an outdoor showing of “Paul” on the Great Lawn
as the first-run selection on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, and Pixar classic “Monsters Inc.” will be shown Friday during Late Night. Oct. 20-23 brings “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1” as the Late Night free film and Part 2 as the first-run selection. That weekend also holds a Harry Potter movie marathon. Each of the first three films
will be shown in the Student Union Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 22 starting at 11:15 a.m., and films four through six will be shown on Sunday, Oct. 23 at 11 a.m. Tom Hanks comes to UConn from Oct. 27-30, though not in the flesh. “Larry Crowne” will be shown Thursday through Sunday as the firstrun pick, and Best Picturewinner “Forrest Gump” will
play Oct. 28 for Late Night. Nov. 3-6 brings a pair of Westerns to the Union; “Cowboys and Aliens,” with Daniel Craig, will be the first run selection, then the Oscarnominated “True Grit” will be shown Friday night. SUBOG ends the year with a quartet of comedies. Nov. 10-13 brings Steve Carell’s “Crazy Stupid Love” as the first-run and “The 40-Year-
Old Virgin” as the Late Night pick. After Thanksgiving, Dec. 1-4 plays host to Danny McBride’s “30 Minutes or Less” as the first-run and “Pineapple Express” as Late Night’s film selection. More information about the SUBOG film series can be found at subog.uconn.edu
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2011 MTV Video Music Awards earn top ratings among viewership NEW YORK (AP) — In a television rarity, the most popular show during the past week was on a cable channel and not a broadcast one. MTV’s annual Video Music Awards on Sunday were seen by 12.44 million people, the Nielsen Co. said. That’s MTV’s biggest audience since at least 1993, the extent to which its viewership records stretch, and likely in the network’s history. Meanwhile, broadcast’s most-watched show last week, NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” logged just under 12 million viewers on Tuesday. The feat shows how the distinction between broadcast and cable has grown meaningless for many viewers, particularly younger ones. It’s not clear how often a cable telecast has beaten anything broadcast has done during a week; Nielsen records show it hasn’t happened during
the past two years. In 2007, the Disney Channel premiere of “High School Musical 2” brought more than 17 million viewers to the screen and finished on top during its opening week. It didn’t hurt that broadcast was airing mostly reruns and reality shows during the latesummer week. MTV took advantage of the VMA interest to run a special episode of “Jersey Shore” on Sunday, reaching more than 8 million viewers. Its new scripted comedy “I Just Want My Pants Back” had 5.1 million viewers. Except for four shows on CBS, that was more than any other sitcom on broadcast TV. CBS was the most popular broadcast network, averaging 6.4 million viewers (4.0 rating, 7 share). NBC had 5.5 million (3.4, 6), ABC had 5 million (3.1, 5), Fox had 3.1 million (1.8, 3), ION Television had
1.1 million (0.8, 1) and the CW had 780,000 (0.5, 1). Among the Spanishlanguage networks, Univision led with a 3.7 million viewer average in prime time (1.9, 3). Telemundo had 1.1 million (0.6. 1), TeleFutura had 430,000 (0.2, 0), Azteca had 210,000 and Estrella had 180,000 (both 0.1, 0). During a busy news week with the Libyan fighting, East Coast earthquake and Hurricane Irene, NBC’s “Nightly News” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8.8 million viewers (5.7, 12). ABC’s “World News” was second with 7.7 million (5.2, 10) and the “CBS Evening News” had 6.1 million viewers (4.1, 8). A ratings point represents 1,147,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation’s estimated 114.7 million TV homes. The share is the percentage of inuse televisions tuned to a given show.
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Lil Wayne performs at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles. The show was the most viewed program during the past week, having been watched by 12.44 million people.
Braving the storm; what UConn students do when power goes out By Stephanie Ratty Focus Editor
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Students walk past a tree on campus that suffered considerable wind damage during Hurricane Irene. Similar scenes could be seen throughout campus in the days following Sunday’s storm.
When Hurricane Irene blew through Storrs, she did more than dump rain and take leaves and branches with her. The storm closed retailers, emptied shelves of flashlights, batteries and water, and even cancelled all of Sunday’s Husky WOW events. Dozens of broken trees littered Storrs and the surrounding areas, knocking out electricity for students in several dorms, apartments and offcampus houses. Still, even amidst widespread power outages, UConn students made the best of the situation, turning to hospitality from friends and university resources. Many are still living in darkness without water or Internet, and have had to get creative to make sure they are presentable for the first week of classes. “I became the fifth roommate in an all-guys apartment,” said 7th-semester English major Genna Sperling. Sperling, a Carriage House resident, who was forced to shower at friends’ apartments in Charter Oak.
She and her housemates have spent the time playing cards by candlelight, sitting around bonfires and using solo cups as makeshift restrooms. While Sperling said she is still without power, others like Mandy Cook finally had electricity restored in the past 24 hours. Cook, a 7th-semester communications and journalism major, said she and her fellow off-campus housemates had to improvise for meals and showers. “We didn’t shower for a couple of days,” Cook said. “We ate crackers, dry cereal, and my friend swiped me into the dining hall at one point for a meal.” Cook also said she and her friends used candlelight to play cards. “It felt like the stone age having to go to the bathroom, get dressed, etc. by candlelight.” Most off-campus students were and might still be without power. Yet many of those lucky enough to live in unaffected dorms and apartments offered to help out stranded friends. Jennifer Yoguez, a 7thsemester journalism major, has had a friend sleep on her
couch in Hilltop Apartments for the past few days. “She came over Saturday,” Yoguez said. “And the electric company said they didn’t know when her lights would come back on.” Yoguez said her friend, who resides in Walden Apartments, has been grateful to watch television, use the Internet, and simply prepare for classes. Other students around campus have found creative ways to get around the power outage. Some have been seen boiling water over charcoal grills, lining up in hoards for a hot meal at McDonalds or even using local ponds and lakes to bathe. Since there had been no classes and therefore no homework, a vast number of students took advantage of the outdoors for games of Frisbee and soccer in the daylight. As some students on and off campus still wait for electricity and water to return, they have become more ingenious, and at times neighborly in the absence of Facebook, Twitter and reality TV.
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Super Metroid debuted in the mid-1980s with the Nintendo Entertainment System. This month marks the 25th anniversary.
By John Tyczkowski Associate Focus Editor
The classic “Metroid” series of games celebrates its 25th anniversary this month. Samus Aran first donned her power suit for the original “Metroid” for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) back in August 1986, and the popular game continued to spawn sequels across all of Nintendo’s consoles, eventually becoming one of the company’s most successful franchises. The original game featured a surprisingly complex plot, including a lone bounty hunter being sent to destroy a base full of dangerous creatures called Metroids, weaponized by the evil Space Pirates attempting to bring down the peaceful Galactic Federation. Its nowsignature gameplay was entirely different from its contemporaries. “Metroid” combined the popular platformer-style of action gaming with the nonlinear backtracking exploration found, at the time, only in roleplaying games. The result was a new action/adventure genre. “Metroid” was also unique in that the player received different ending sequences depending on how fast and thoroughly
it had been completed in terms of areas explored and items picked up. This system held the biggest surprise for male gamers, when upon receiving the best ending sequence, Samus would remove her helmet and suit to reveal that the entire time, gamers had been playing as a woman. “Metroid” was the first game to introduce a female protagonist in an action game, something that was revolutionary in 1986, a full decade before Lara Croft and “Tomb Raider.” The Metroid appeal has continued to captivate gamers and developers alike since its first release. A sequel, “Metroid II: Return of Samus,” followed on the Game Boy in 1991. Success on the mobile platform led to “Super Metroid” on the new Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994. The franchise fell into a slight lull after 1994, and a new Metroid game would not appear for another eight years. In a much-promoted dual release, “Metroid Fusion” for the Game Boy Advance and “Metroid Prime” for the Nintendo GameCube were released in November 2002. Both games marked a radical departure from the earlier
formats. Fusion added a linear, objective-based storyline with little free exploration. Prime took an even more radical step in changing its format from platformer to first-person shooter. The rest of the decade saw a Metroid renaissance of sorts, with seven other Metroid games released from 2004 to 2010. “Metroid: Zero Mission” was released for the Game Boy Advance, a re-telling of the original Metroid game, and a sequel to “Metroid Prime” on the GameCube, in 2004. A second sequel came in 2007, and in 2010, “Metroid: Other M” on the Wii introduced further gameplay changes to the series, such as melee attacks, a third-person shooter perspective and motion control. The Metroid series has been growing by leaps and bounds since its inception 25 years ago. The ability of the franchise to continue to please gamers across different consoles and varied gameplay formats assure that Samus Aran will be around for years to come.
click what we want, and it’s easy to pay too, said 5th-semester economics and philosophy double major St.John McCloskey. It’s a handy tool.” Although many local restaurants are included, CampusFood organizes the plethora of options into categories making ordering food as convenient as possible. Once a campus is selected, the website is broken down into a number of tabs so students can modify their search to meet the needs of their stomachs, their schedules and their wallets. Although not all of the 32 local restaurants listed deliver or have online ordering options, grub from 11 restau-
rants, including favorites such as Wings Over Storrs, Jack Rabbit’s, Husky Pizza and D.P. Dough, can be delivered with little more effort than a few clicks. “The only reason I didn’t order food on CampusFood yet is because I did not have internet, said Laurelle Giovannolli, a 5th-semester chemical engineering major. And it was hard because I didn’t have all the menus.” The “online ordering” page is divided into sections. Tabs here bring up a list of restaurants which are currently open, deliver and which deliver for free. From there, students can select a restaurant, and the
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Danny Boome, Iron Chef Michael Symon, Daphne Oz, Clinton Kelly, Evette Rios and Carla Hall pose after a rehearsal for “The Chew”
NEW YORK (AP) — Gnaw on this: Can some of food and style TV’s biggest stars, Mario Batali and Clinton Kelly among them, help ABC soap fans get over cancellation of their favorite stories? The network’s counting on it for “The Chew.” Iron Chef or Martha Stewart this isn’t. Nor will the five co-hosts take on top news of the day like their cousins over at “The View” once the show premieres live on Sept. 26 in place of “All My Children” and “One Life to Live.” What you’ll see is simple, fun tips for cheap and easy living. During a recent practice run, the ever-adorable Iron Chef Michael Symon salted skirt steak as he shared about his Greek-Sicilian mother and made it clear: Vinaigrette is two parts fat to one part acid. Kelly, co-host of TLC’s “What Not to Wear,” urged parents to bring their kids back to the dinner table by letting them draw on butcher block paper for placemats. Got some shriveled citrus? Don’t let it go to waste. Slice it up and float it in a vase topped by a cheery hydrangea blossom. If it sounds like stuff the more sophisticated Stewart might have thought up in kindergarten, you’re right, but that’s OK with Chew’s executive producer, Gordon Elliott.
He’s going for “easily digestible, pardon the pun.” Besides, the food porn’s good with lots of delectable close-ups. Elliott explains: “People don’t have time to sit for an hour and watch a story. ABC came to me and said we’ve had great success with ‘The View’ but we’d like to get into food. I thought ‘The View,’ food, ‘The Chew.’ We do more than just chop and chat. Our co-hosts are relatable.” True, they are. It’s also true that people may not sit in the middle of the day. But that’s why DVRs were invented, so folk like the soap faithful can relax after dinner with their decades-old shows. Will they be firing them up for “The Chew,” or tuning out altogether to chase down their soaps online? “I really don’t believe that disgruntled refugees from ‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life to Live’ will swallow ‘The Chew,’” said TV analyst Shari Anne Brill. “This is about how it’s become more expensive to produce scripted content. The audience has shifted.” So, this shifting audience. Is it the same audience already wondering just who the heck Chew cocost Daphne Oz and design expert Evette Rios even are? Oz wrote the best-selling “The Dorm Room Diet” and is the
daughter of TV doc Mehmet Oz, for the record. She opened up during the Chew run-through — in front of a live audience — about her upbringing as a vegetarian. Rios was featured speeding through Oz’s tiny New York City kitchen on a taped makeover that included, yes, a pegboard for extra hanging storage. Did you know there’s something called stainless steel paint? In case you can’t afford appliances in the real thing. Rounding out the Chew crew is the extremely animated Carla Hall, a “Top Chef” finalist and perky fan favorite who brings on a never-say-die approach to catastrophe in the kitchen. If the top cracks on your cheesecake, for instance, don’t get mad, discouraged, depressed. Cover it up with a world of whip cream and berries. Promos for “The Chew” have begun airing, already annoying the soap faithful, some of whom took to the sidewalk at ABC Studios in April to protest when the network canceled their shows. They handed out leaflets that declared “The Chew” and other replacements “glorified infomercials appropriate for late-night basic cable channels, not for a major broadcast network.”
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through a menu, which even allows for comments to be sure their order is complete. It’s handy for saving money, too. With an entire tab titled “coupons & specials, CampusFood caters to college students’ empty pockets. “Sometimes I order food online instead of calling just to use a coupon,” said Aaron Dick, a 5th-semester biology major. Not only are discounts and specials listed by restaurant, coupons can be won by collecting “points” earned by ordering online. The only inconvenience with CampusFood is the time it takes to walk outside to pick up your meal, but that short trip saves you the hassle of
going out of your way to trek through rain, snow or other elements. Even in nice weather, online ordering can save time that you could be using to relax or study. “CampusFood also lets you store your information so it’s quick and easy,” said Giovannolli. “That way, you don’t have to go through and type in your address and payment preference every time you order.” And when other options are fading as the night goes on, CampusFood is available as late as 4:00 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights.
Students should consider CampusFood for covenience, frugality
By Kayleigh Kangas Campus Correspondent
It’s 1 a.m. on a Saturday. You’re starving, but everything on campus is closed. The only food you can get is at least a 15-minute walk away. What if there were a way to bring the food to campus? CampusFood.com is a website designed to facilitate food orders by eliminating messes of paper menus, miscommunication and busy signals. It houses the menus for more than 2,500 restaurants across the country clustered near more than 300 campuses, including UConn. “We can all huddle around,
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Clooney to show work at Venice Film Festival VENICE, Italy (AP) — George Clooney’s “The Ides of March” opens a star-studded Venice Film Festival on Wednesday, and fans will also see two other Hollywood actor/directors, Madonna and Al Pacino, premiering their latest directorial efforts. Clooney’s political drama is among 23 films — five from Hollywood — vying for the coveted Golden Lion, which will be awarded Sept. 10. The jury will be headed by American director Darren Aronofsky, a two-time Golden Lion winner whose “Black Swan” was launched to huge Oscar success after opening in Venice last year. “The Ides of March” tells the story of an ambitious campaign press secretary, played by Ryan Gosling, who gets swept up in a political scandal in the last frantic days of a heavily contested primary
race. The film, which also stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Giamatti as rival campaign managers, is adapted from the play “Farragut North” by Beau Willimon. Clooney said the movie was ready to begin filming when Barack Obama was elected U.S. president in 2008. “Suddenly, a cynical film about politics seemed badly timed. Everyone was too optimistic,” Clooney wrote in film notes. “It only took about a year before all the optimism evaporated and the timing seemed perfect.” In all, 66 films will make their world premiere at the 68th edition of the world’s oldest festival. It is the first time since World War II that all feature films in the festival’s three official events — in competition, out of competition and the “Horizons”
avant-garde section — are world premieres. Nearly half of the festival’s lineup is high-powered English-language films, a sign of its growing prestige in the eight years that it has been directed by Marco Mueller. The strong selection also includes Roman Polanski’s “Carnage,” an adaptation of the Broadway show “God of Carnage,” featuring Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz; David Cronenberg’s take on psychoanalysis, “A Dangerous Method,” featuring Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender; and “Shame,” a drama by British director Steve McQueen featuring Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. Other American movies in competition include end-ofthe-world film “4:44 Last Day on Earth” by Abel Ferrara;
“Dark Horse” starring Mia Farrow and Christopher Walken and directed by Todd Solondz; “Killer Joe,” a black comedy by William Friedkin starring Matthew McConaughey in the title role; and the second feature film by Ami Canaan Mann, “Texas Killing Fields,” a murder drama featuring Sam Worthington and Jessica Chastain. ipated events at Venice this year is Madonna’s second feature film, the U.K. production “W.E.” The movie, which premieres out of competition Thursday, intercuts between the romance of a modern woman (Abbie Cornish) and the relationship of American socialite Wallis Simpson and Britain’s King Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne for love in the 1930s.
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George Clooney, center, plans a shot during filming of “Ides of March” in Cincinnati.
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Cartoonists create strips as memoirs leading up to 10th anniversary of 9/11
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Top: King Features Syndicate commemorates 9/11 in the Snuffy Smith comic strip. Bottom: King Features Syndicate released a Family Circus cartoon for the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Ninety cartoonists banded together to dedicate their strips to the memorial.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sept. 11 is etched in the memories of millions, and as the 10th anniversary nears, cartoonists are etching their thoughts and emotions about 9/11 into comic strips. With the anniversary falling on a Sunday, more than 90 cartoonists with five different syndicates have banded together to dedicate their strips on Sept. 11 to those whose lives were lost in the attacks. Sept. 11-themed strips will appear from the writers and artists of “Family Circus,” ‘’Mallard Fillmore,” “Candorville,” “Doonesbury” and “Pluggers,” among others. Jeff Keane, who co-authors “The Family Circus,” was immediately sold on the idea when approached by King Features, his syndicate. “I knew that it was something that I think would work for ‘Family Circus’ if I could find the approach for it,” he told The Associated Press. “Because ‘Family Circus’ is more of a realistic look at family, and I don’t necessarily have a cartoon that is a ‘joke a day,’ but more sentimental and more emotional, it was easier for me to look at it that way.” Jim Borgman, the co-creator of “Zits” with Jerry Scott, about a permanent teenager and his parents, called the upcoming anniversary something that cannot be ignored. “As a cartoonist we would have all been wondering ‘Is it OK to deal with this topic in our work?’ Of course you can, but there is something comforting about the thought that a bunch of us are going to be struggling to say something
on that day,” he said. “My colleagues — cartoonists — are an astonishingly varied and talented group of people. I fully expect we’ll see a broad range of approaches that day.” It’s not the first time that cartoonists have banded together. Previous efforts have included topics like Earth Day or breast cancer awareness. But the scope of this endeavor is unprecedented, with five syndicates and the newspapers they serve participating: King Features, Creators Syndicate, Tribune Media Services, Universal Press Syndicate and Washington Post Writers Group — and the strips they provide to newspapers participating. The artists produce the strips independently. The comics, each produced independently by the artists, will be featured in a separate, full-color pullout section and online the same day at www. c a r t o o n i s t s r e m e m b e r 9 11 . com. Afterward, exhibits on the strips are planned for the Newseum in Washington, San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum, the Toonseum in Pittsburgh and the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in New York. The tone of the strips are varied, said Brendan Burford, comics editor at King Features Syndicate, with some taking a sentimental tack, while others may try to make a reader laugh. “After 9/11, the cartoonists organized and did a series of message strips around Thanksgiving Weekend ... but it was also reflective and sympathetic to everyone who suffered,” he said. “So 10 years later, a good number of those cartoon-
ists already understood what the message needed to be,” Burford said. “Some are taking the ‘it’s OK to laugh,’ and others are taking the “it’s OK to heal” path. And it being Sunday, that gives the 93 cartoonists ample space to write, draw and be read. Borgman and Scott said their strip will look at the anniversary through teenager Jeremy’s eyes. “Jerry Scott and I tried to think about what Sept. 11, 2001, would mean to a person who is now 16 years old — put aside the fact that Jeremy has been 15 or 16 for 13 years now,” he said. Tony Rubino, who writes “Daddy’s Home,” was living in Washington on Sept. 11 and has been involved with Jeremy’s Heroes, a charity founded on behalf of Jeremy Glick, one of the passengers killed aboard Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa. His strip for Sept. 11, which is drawn by Gary Markstein, drew inspiration from the passengers of Flight 93, whose actions helped bring the United Airlines flight down in a Pennsylvania field instead of its likely target, the White House or the U.S. Capitol. “I went by their example and rather than reflect on something that was negative in the past, I thought ‘What is the future? What I’ve done, my particular strip for 9/11 this year, is a look forward rather than a look back,” he said. Rubino said that the cartoonists’ efforts are bound to be noticed, even among the din of anniversary coverage and programming.
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Michele Bachmann memoir to be released in October
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Bachmann's untitled memoir is completed and will arrive in November 2011.
Murdoch scandal spurs standards review of News International LONDON (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rupert Murdoch's scandal-hit News International confirmed Tuesday it is reviewing journalistic standards across the company, a U.K. media empire that includes The Times of London newspaper. The British newspaper arm of Murdoch's global empire has been shaken by widespread allegations of illegal behavior at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid, once Britain's most popular Sunday paper. More than a dozen News of the World journalists and executives have been arrested over claims that they systematically intercepted mobile phone messages and illegally paid police for tips. Allegations of wrongdoing at other U.K. newspapers have since spread a cloud of suspicion over the entire U.K. media industry. The publishers of the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail, which both compete with Murdoch's papers, have announced their own, separate reviews of editorial procedure in the wake of the scandal. In a statement, News International said its internal review was launched "a number of weeks ago" and was being carried out with the assistance of London law firm, Linklaters. It said the review was under the control of News Corp. independent director Viet Dinh and Murdoch advisor Joel Klein, both of whom have served as U.S. assistant attorneys general, as well as the company's management and standards committee. News International is a wholly-owned subsidiary of News Corp. The statement gave few further details, but a person familiar with the matter confirmed that the review would examine News International publications including the 226-year-old Times, its sisterpublication the Sunday Times, and The Sun, Britain's biggest-selling daily. The person, who requested anonymity because she wasn't authorized to speak publicly on the matter, said the news had been widely circulated internally in the last month. Meanwhile an independent inquiry led by British judge Brian Leveson is preparing to put the country's press under the microscope. A spokesman for the inquiry said he couldn't confirm a report in The Daily Telegraph that Rupert and James Murdoch will be called to testify, but noted that Leveson has wide powers to call witnesses. He also said Leveson was hoping to televise the inquiry's proceedings in the interests of transparency. He spoke on condition of anonymity, in line with government policy.
NEW YORK (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Michele Bachmann has a book deal. Sentinel, a conservative imprint of Penguin Group (USA), announced Monday that the Republican presidential candidate's memoir will arrive in November and already has been completed. The book, reports of which first circulated in June, is currently untitled. Sentinel declined comment on whether Bachmann had assistance on the book. Former Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund said reports that he worked on it were wrong. He said that he had no involvement with the book. As a member of the House of
Representatives, Bachmann is not permitted to receive an advance against royalties. According to Sentinel, Bachmann will "share previously untold stories" about her private life, "including her roles as a tax attorney, a wife, a mother of five and a foster mother of 23." Virtually all of the Republicans candidates have published books, a standard for modern presidential campaigns. "People are the most important ingredient in life," Bachmann said in a statement issued Monday through Sentinel. "I love people, and I care deeply that our nation's economy turns around so they can
realize their American dream. This book will help to share my enthusiasm for an energized, progrowth economy, and the life experiences that inform my optimism for the American people and for American greatness." Bachmann formally entered the race to seek the GOP nomination to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012 in June. By August, she was celebrating a win in the closely watched Iowa Republican straw poll, a test of strength in the leadoff caucus state. But Texas Gov. Rick Perry's decision to join the field has weakened Bachmann's standing in the polls. She trails Perry and former
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, with Texas Rep. Ron Paul also in the race. Doug Sachtleben, a Bachmann spokesman, said the book rollout shouldn't detract from her campaign. "Throughout Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida, the congresswoman has kept a full schedule of meeting and talking with thousands of people, and she will continue with that full campaign schedule all through the days up to and beyond the release of her memoir," Sachtleben said. Bachmann's climb comes barely five years after her arrival in Washington. The outspoken congresswoman tapped into
anger about taxes and government spending that gave rise to the tea party and paired it with a social conservative following she honed in Minnesota. She also has a history of controversial remarks, most recently when she said that Hurricane Irene and last week's earthquake near Washington were signs that God was unhappy about government spending. Bachmann later explained that she was joking. Now 55, Bachmann didn't get her political start until her mid-40s when she won a state Senate seat the year after losing a local school board race.
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Shoemate, McEntee cross country to fulfill dream
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Quarterback Johnny McEntee throws during the first football practice of the season at UConn.
Pendergast takes over for Hathaway from JEFF, page 14 as much is what happens behind the scenes, particularly when it comes to the academic success of student athletes, strict compliance with NCAA rules and fundraising.” Hathaway was going to be the chairman of the men’s
basketball selection committee for the 2011-2012 season. “In the near future, our staff will work with Mr. Hathaway to determine the best approach regarding the balance of his term, including the status of his service as chair the committee during the 2011-12 academic year,” the NCAA
said in a statement. Hathaway who worked under athletic director Lew Perkins from 1990-2001 at UConn, was the AD at Colorado State for two years.
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STORRS (AP) — D.J. Shoemate and Johnny McEntee have crossed the United States to fulfill the football dream they shared with each other when they were children in southern California. The two will get a chance to play in college together this season as teammates at Connecticut, eight years after meeting on an eighth-grade visit to check out the football program at Servite High School in Anaheim. "I came there and I had about a 13-inch Afro," said Shoemate, rubbing his now-shaved head. "I was playing around kicking... and I kicked a 50-yard punt or PAT or something and caught the eye of Johnny and his father. "And ever since then, we've become really, really close." Shoemate became a wide receiver and running back at Servite and McEntee became his quarterback. By their senior year, they were starters, dreaming of one day playing together in a bowl game. But Shoemate was an AllAmerican, and McEntee didn't get much attention from bigtime college football programs. "He went to USC and I was like, OK I could never go there, I'll be lucky if I play in college," McEntee said this week. "And then, how we ended up here is just kind of a little miracle." McEntee arrived first, accepting Randy Edsall's offer in 2008 to become a walk-on. Shoemate, meanwhile, spent two years at Southern California as a backup
fullback and receiver. But he never got the chance to compete for the job he really wanted — tailback. When the NCAA leveled sanctions against the Trojans and allowed players to transfer without sitting out a year, McEntee gave his friend a call and convinced him to come east. Shoemate had already seen UConn play. He had traveled with McEntee's family during a USC bye week in 2009 and watched the Huskies beat Notre Dame, perhaps the biggest win in the program's history. Edsall sealed the deal by promising to give Shoemate a chance to play tailback in 2010. But in the season opener at Michigan, Shoemate turned the ball over near the goal line and landed in the coach's doghouse. He spent the rest of the season behind Jordan Todman and Robby Frey, carrying the ball just 28 times for 115 yards. McEntee, meanwhile, became more famous for posting a trickshot video on YouTube then for throwing passes on the field. He was well down on the depth chart, and played in just one game, getting some mop-up duty against Temple. Their opportunity came after Edsall bolted for Maryland in January. Paul Pasqualoni took over as UConn's coach and opened up the competition at both positions. Shoemate was quick to impress. "My first impression when I saw him was that he passed
the look test," Pasqualoni said. "We had some discussions in the spring and I thought that D.J. went through the spring and had a very focused spring on the details that are required to play the position. And the number-one detail is taking care of the football." He slid into the tailback void left when Todman entered the NFL draft after his junior year, and will start when the Huskies open the season. "I've been waiting for this moment for a while. I've sacrificed a lot to get to where I am at this point," Shoemate said, "and I'm giving it my all." McEntee also made the most of the competition at quarterback. He's one of three players being considered for a starting role and the coaches have said they are impressed with his poise and accuracy. "He's never really got a chance to prove that he can play or not," said George DeLeone, UConn's new offensive coordinator. "In our situation, he's been given a tremendous amount of opportunity to play, and he's done some good things." McEntee said an opportunity is all or Shoemate ever wanted, they just never expected it to come in Connecticut. Now, the talk of playing together in a bowl game doesn't seem so farfetched. "It's a big possibility," he said. "I've just got to really establish myself as a person who can play on this team and stay in the running."
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Andre Drummond commits to UConn
By Matt McDonough Sports Editor Andre Drummond, a 6-foot11 center rated the No. 2 recruit in the country, has committed to play basketball at UConn. Drummond posted on his Twitter account, "It's official I'm heading to the university of connecticut to be a husky this year!" He followed that tweet with, "Husky fam welcome me cause I'm coming this year!!" The Middletown product who attended St. Thomas More last season had said he would be attending Wilbraham and Monson Academy this fall. Drummond has changed his mind. When asked for comment, members of the team expressed their excitement at the news, and indicated that Drummond's commitment would go a long way towards helping the team reach their
goal of back-to-back national championships. "I think it's good," said sophomore forward Tyler Olander. "I want another ring, everyone has been working real hard to accomplish that, and Andre's commitment makes it easier for us all, but motivates us that much more as well." Olander added that the team has been working hard on and off the court in preparation for the upcoming season, and that they are ready to defend their national title. With the arrival of Drummond, coach Jim Calhoun will be forced to shuffle his team's scholarship situation. UConn is out of scholarships as a result of the Nate Miles and APR sanctions, so one player will need to willingly give up his scholarship to make room for Drummond. School sources told the Hartford Courant that Michael Bradley, who redshirted last
season, may give up his scholarship to make room for Drummond and apply for financial aid. Dom Amore of The Courant also reported that other possibilities include sophomores Enosch Wolf or Niels Giffey would possibly return to Germany to play. Despite that fact, Drummond will join a roster that returns starting forwards Alex Oriakhi and Roscoe Smith, along with guards Jeremy Lamb and Shabazz Napier, from last year's national championship winning team. Drummond is already thinking of possible back-to-back NCAA championships for the Huskies. Drummond added in his tweet, "Do I hear repeat?" The Courant was the first to report the news. Mac Cerullo contributed to this report.
off of it. Moore, who displayed perfect balance in his one-handed touchdown catch in the 2010 Papajohn’s.com Bowl, has been able to find a consistent balance in his schedule as well. “In winter I had to go to all of the football workouts, attend meetings on time and do everything as far as football in order to compete in track,” Moore said. “It was pretty tough. We had winter workouts going on.” “I found a little bit of time in the mornings to go to class,” Moore joked. On a typical winter morning, Moore would wake up around 5:30 a.m. and rush to the Shenkman Training Center for a 6 a.m. offseason football workout. The early-morning workout comprised of sled pulls, medicine ball runs and many types of conditioning drills. After a quick breakfast, Moore would attend his one to two classes and then make his way to the Greer Fieldhouse for track practice. Sometimes afterward, he’d go back to the football facility for meetings and film study. The spring was surprisingly easier on Moore because he was excused from a lot of the track workouts
and even missed a couple track meets because of Saturday spring football scrimmages. “I feel like it was more busier in the indoor track season,” Moore said. “With spring ball, whenever I had practices or anything, I wouldn’t go to track practice.” The Storrs version of the threering circus will look for a fourth conference championship this fall. Moore will begin his fifth year and final semester at UConn. The senior wideout finished his last class this summer, receiving a degree in economics. Moore will take a one-credit course involving weightlifting to remain eligible. The light autumn workload is good news for Husky fans who are hoping to see UConn make a fifth consecutive bowl game. “It’s good because I’ll be able to focus on football,” Moore said. “I can go in there and watch films and things like that.” Moore calmly said that following the season, he’ll go on to “pursue his dreams.” It seems as though most of his collegiate dreams on the field have already come true.
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Highly-touted recruit Andre Drummond changed his mind and committed to UConn this weekend. Drummond will play this season, causing coach Jim Calhoun to shuffle his roster in the near future.
After busy winter and spring, Moore's McDonough: Solomon's death a tragic loss for Connecticut sports community finally focused solely on football from THE, page 14 track squad. Moore has only received his football championship ring so far, which he wears only for special occasions. Although more jewelry is on the way, there isn’t a question as to which championship Moore treasures the most. “It has definitely got to be the football one,” Moore said, adding that the track and football titles were won in a different manner. “It seems a lot more different,” Moore said. “With football it’s different because it takes a whole lot more time to get everything on the same page... whereas with track, it’s basically you want to do everything you can and the best you can in your individual race to get your team points.” The stress level at the start of a football game differs from that of a track meet as well. “I get more nervous for the football kickoff,” Moore said. “With track, once the gun goes off there’s not much more to think about than running.” Moore’s successes on the field of competition is a testament to his work ethic and preparation
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Huskies fall to Gamecocks in Super Regional following dramatic series win over Clemson from BASEBALL'S, page 14 That good karma was quickly dashed, however, after the Huskies were blown out 13-1 in their first regional game against Coastal Carolina. It would take four straight wins, including two in a row against the heavily favored Clemson team, to get the Huskies through to the Super Regional. Despite the long odds, the Huskies overcame thanks to the efforts of the pitching staff, and particularly the clutch hitting of Ryan Fuller, whose walkoff single in the first game against Clemson gave the Huskies the 7-6 win, along with a major confidence boost going into the winner-takeall showdown. “The next night we came back and I’d never felt the way that I felt walking into that park that night,” Penders said. “It was going to be a big crowd and a loud crowd, and our guys were just totally confident, and it was one of those nights that we would’ve beaten the Yankees or the Red Sox that night if we’d played them. We just were not going to be beaten by anybody, and we played like that, we played like wild dogs on a mission, and it wound up working out.” Once in the Super Regionals, however, UConn’s luck ran out. The Huskies were matched up against South Carolina, the reigning national champions and a favorite to repeat, and were swept, losing 5-1 and 8-2. The Huskies finished the season with a 45-20-1 record. “We just couldn’t quite keep that momentum going into Columbia,” Penders said. “But I was proud of the way we compet-
ed and represented our program and the university as a whole.” South Carolina would go on to win their second straight national championship, and UConn’s experienced core would mostly depart to new challenges. A total of nine Huskies signed with major league organizations, with only pitcher David Fischer and incoming freshman Jared Dettmann declining their contract offers. “They were rewarded for their development, and the assistant coaches did a great job of getting them better every step of the way,” Penders said. Between those nine players, the combined total of signing bonus money added up to about $5 million, a fact which prompted Penders to joke that he should ask some of them for loans. But looking ahead to the future, Penders noted that although the team’s losses were great, there will still be plenty of returning talent coming back to the team next spring. Among the returning prospects are pitcher Brian Ward, infielders LJ Mazzilli and Ryan Fuller, catcher Joe Pavone, and outfielder Billy Ferriter. “We still have some prospects on our roster, the cupboard isn’t bare,” Penders said. “We have to figure out a way to get past what we’ve done in the past and build on it, and I think we’ve done that pretty successfully on the recruiting trail this summer. We’ve used our national profile to attract more and more talented kids, kids with the best attitude, concentration and effort we could find, and now we’ve got to continue to build on the backs of guys that have come before all of us.
And that’s going to be a tall order for all of us going into the 2012 season, but I’m looking forward to getting back out on the field.” The team takes the practice field for the first time as a complete unit this week, so while the accomplishments of last year’s squad were great, the page has already been turned. Now, the focus is on next spring, when the Huskies hope to break over the last barrier and finally reach the College World Series again.
Michael.Cerullo@UConn.edu
from I WAS, page 14 If there was a question, we’d ask Dave. If Dave wanted to know something about the habits of the current student body, he’d ask me or Colin. There is something special about working side by side with one of your idols. We got to experience it. And now we’ll always have the memory of what that felt like. My brother and I built stronger relationships than the one with Dave with just about everyone at the Register sports department during our summer there. But Dave was the voice of Greater New Haven. He always will be. Sadly, his career was cut short.
He was on his way home from the UConn football team’s first practice when he died on a Saturday. He had already filed the “I Was Thinking” Sunday column. It was published posthumously in the Register that Sunday. The final words he wrote were: “How many zeros at the end of a blank check will it take for Tiger Woods to quash the proposed new tell-all book by his former caddie Steve Williams? Here’s hoping we get to read the juicy details.” Dave will never get to read “the juicy details.” Like most people, Dave didn’t leave his profession or life on his own terms. It’s a harsh reality to come to terms with, but it is
life. Rick Reilly, my second favorite writer behind Dave, wrote about UCLA coach John Wooden shortly after his death in June of 2010. He ended his column saying, “And here’s to all of us striving to be half the person he was.” Here’s to all journalists striving to be half the writer and person Dave Solomon was. “Here’s hoping we get to read the juicy details.” Those were Dave’s last written words. And Colin and I were thinking, from here on out, every word we write is dedicated to Dave.
Matthew.McDonough@UConn.edu
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Home game
The Daily Question Q : “What game this year are you the most looking forward to?” 2012 men’s basketball national championship game. A : “The #repeat.”
Next Paper’s Question:
“Who will win the NCAA football national championship?”
–Tyler Walters, 5th-semester applied mathematics major.
The Daily Roundup
“I’ve got a spot open for him.”
» NFL
– Davey Johnson, Nationals’ manager, on Stephen Strasburg’s possible return to the pitching rotation.
Home: Rentschler Field, East Hartford
AP
Sept. 3 Fordham TBA
Sept. 10 Sept. 16 Vanderbilt Iowa State 7:30 p.m. 8 p.m.
Oct. 1 Western Michigan 3:30 p.m.
Oct. 8 West Virginia Noon
Sept. 11 Southern Methodist 12:30 p.m.
Sept. 16 BU 7 p.m.
Men’s Soccer (1-0-0) Tomorrow Sept. 4 Michigan California State 7:30 p.m 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 9 Tulsa 8:35 p.m.
» Pic of the day
Hello Kitty?
Women’s Soccer (0-1-0) Sept. 2 Sept. 4 Wake Virginia Tech Forest 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 9 BU 7 p.m.
Sept. 11 Harvard 1 p.m.
Sept. 15 Syracuse 7 p.m.
Sept. 17 Villanova Noon
Sept. 18 Boston College 2 p.m.
Sept. 6 Sacred Heart 7 p.m.
Sept. 9 Fairfield 4:30 p.m.
Sept. 18 Brown Invitational All Day
Sept. 21 Siena 3 p.m.
Field Hockey (2-0) Sept. 4 Penn State Noon
Sept. 10 Albany NY Noon
Sept. 11 Drexel 2 p.m.
Volleyball (1-2) Sept. 3 Sept. 2 Sept. 3 Holy Cross Howard Binghamton 7:30 p.m. 12:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m.
Men’s Tennis Sept. 11 Sept. 16 Fairfield Dbls. Brown Invitational Invitational All Day All Day
Sept. 17 Brown Invitational All Day
Women’s Tennis Sept. 11 Sept. 16 Fairfield Dbls. Quinnipiac Invitational Invite All Day All Day
Sept. 17 Quinnipiac Invite All Day
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Sept. 18 Sept. 23 Quinnipiac Army Invite Invitational All Day All Day
Men’s Cross Country Sept. 24 Oct. 8 Oct. 15 Oct. 21 Sept. 17 Ted Owens New England Conn. College CCSU Mini UMass Invite Invite Champ. Champ. Meet TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA
Women’s Cross Country Sept. 2 Sept. 10 Blue Devil Bryant Invite. Invite. TBA TBA
Sept. 24 Roy Griak Invite. TBA
Sept. 24 Ted Owen Invite. TBA
Oct. 8 New Englands TBA
Sept. 19-20 Sept. 26-27 Oct. 10-11 Adams Cup Hawks Connecticut of Newport Invitational Cup All Day All Day All Day
Oct. 15-16 Shelter Harbor All Day
Golf Sept. 4-5 Turning Stone All Day
Rowing Oct. 2 Oct. 22 Head of the Head of the Riverfront Charles All Day All Day
Oct. 29 Head of the Fish All Day
Email your answers, along with your name, semester standing and major, to sports@dailycampus.com. The best answer will appear in the next paper.
» That’s what he said
Away game
Football (0-0)
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Sports
Philadelphia Phillies relief pitcher Michael Schwimer wears a Hello Kitty backpack to the bullpen before the Phillies’ baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds.
THE Storrs Side
Recharged and rich, QB Vick ready for pressure
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Michael Vick shared some laughs, and offered up an occasional smile. But for the most part, his Tuesday press conference announcing his new contract was handled the same way he’s handled everything since he landed in Philadelphia two years ago. All business. “The common goal is to bring that ring back to the city of Philadelphia. That’s why we play,” Vick said. “That’s what we’re all working for. As a competitor, I don’t feel my career will be complete without that.” And so begins the next phase in one of the league’s more remarkable comeback stories. With the business of his new, six-year, $100 million contract out of the way, it’s time for Vick and the rest of the star-laden Eagles to shoot for that elusive Super Bowl title. The Eagles won the 1960 NFL championship, but have been to just two Super Bowls since, losing both. Not that there’s any pressure or anything. “It’s a lot of money, how ever you look at it,” Vick said. “Obviously, it’s going to create a lot of demands. I know what comes along with it, and I know how to handle it.” Vick, 31, became the Eagles’ backup quarterback when they traded Donovan McNabb to the Washington Redskins after the 2009 season, and he became the starter last September after replacing an injured Kevin Kolb. He was named NFL Comeback Player of the Year in 2010 after winning eight of 11 starts, throwing a career-high 21 touchdown passes and rushing for nine more. But despite engineering a memorable 38-31 comeback win over the New York Giants that ultimately led to the NFC East title in December, Vick and the Eagles were dumped at home a month later in the playoffs by the Green Bay Packers, 21-16, in the wild-card round. But this year, knowing he’ll open the season as the starter, and knowing he has perhaps the most name-heavy roster in the league on his side, it appears like it’s Super Bowl or bust. Which is why coach Andy Reid and Co. are more than happy to see the quarterback happy. “This is a great story all the way through,” Reid said. “This is really what America’s all about. Second chance and Mike took full advantage of that. And then when he was given a second chance to start in the National Football League, he took full advantage of that and turned it into this.” And the next stop — after a detour vs. the New York Jets in the preseason finale on Thursday — will be a week from Sunday in St. Louis, where Vick will make his first openingday start in five years vs. the Rams.
THE Pro Side
Rule changes, Lions and Tim UConn football returns with changes on both sides of ball Tebow highlight NFL preseason By Andrew Callahan Senior Staff Writer A new coach, new quarterback, new running back: a brand new season. Over the past year, UConn football has taken the concept of ‘extreme makeover’ to an unseen level and soon we will finally see if Husky Nation is primed for a happy ending. Now, most know the names of those who have left: Edsall, Todman, Wilson, Lutrus, Sherman and Frazer. Some know those who have since entered the picture: Pasqualoni, Nebrich/McEntee/ McCummings, Shoemate and coaches DeLeone and Brown. But, no one is yet entirely familiar with the revamped version of True Blue that will take to the gridiron on Saturday. Gone are the days of a tall, sturdy Coach Edsall pacing the sidelines, making use of his patented conservative approach. No longer are the times of Todman making like a pack mule and single-handedly carrying the team to a winning record. At long last, we’ve bid farewell to the afternoons in which Zach Frazer overthrows a wide-
open Kashif Moore downfield for the sixth consecutive time. In their place are the founding pieces of the recently dawned Paul Pasqualoni era. A man well-versed in the makeup of Big East sidelines, Pasqualoni brings plenty of experience and will keep UConn’s strong running game and a ballcontrol approach. Though from various training camp reports, we know this season the duties will fall to a pair of backs, not just a single star. Returning tailback DJ Shoemate is expected to split carries with the quicker and more compact redshirt freshman Lyle McCombs. The quarterback handing the ball off to these two is anyone’s guess at the moment. But, when you steal a quick glance toward the other side of the ball, that is where you’ll find things have changed most. Don Brown will call more blitzes and early reviews from players practicing in his new schemes have been stellar. The plan is to wreak havoc with multiple fronts and although they return nine starters, you may not recognize these Huskies against Fordham.
Andrew.J.Callahan@UConn.edu
By Jimmy Onofrio Campus Correspondent With the NFL lockout a distant memory and the preseason well under way, we can start looking forward to a new football season. Rule Changes With the new agreement came a number of rule changes, mostly designed to better protect players from injury. One change that will make a major impact is the move of kickoffs from the 30 up to the 35 yard line. Coupled with restrictions on running starts, this move should limit injuries on kickoff returns. However, it also means there will be more touchbacks and fewer returns. Players like the Eagles’ DeSean Jackson and the Bears’ Devin Hester, who have graced the highlight reels with a number of kickoff returns for touchdowns, will likely be making less of an impact on special teams. The Detroit Lions Propelled by powerful DT Ndamukong Suh and QB Matthew Stafford, the Lions are 3-0 this post season with an impressive win over New England this past weekend. While it is still preseason, which is not typically a great indicator of
where teams will fall in the standings come playoff time, the Lions seem to have improved greatly upon the 2010 team that went 6-10. After being drafted at the top of his class out of Nebraska last year, Suh appears ready to step up and make a major impact on the defensive line a year after posting 10 sacks and 66 tackles for Detroit in 2010. Tim Tebow From a media perspective, it is rare for a third-string quarterback to get so much attention. By all accounts, he is far from ready to start in the NFL. Many were skeptical of his passing ability after his championship career at Florida, and they were onto something. The reason the Tebow saga is intriguing because of the media’s treatment of him. In recent weeks, some Tebow supporters have called out his critics for being too harsh. The amount of attention devoted to a player hoping to be named second string is indicative of the media storm surrounding Tebow. The Broncos will likely start Kyle Orton at QB to begin the season, and have not officially picked a backup between Tebow and Brady Quinn.
James.Onofrio@UConn.edu
» INSIDE SPORTS TODAY
P.13: Vick signs second $100 million contract. / P.12: Drummond commits to UConn. / P.11: Shoemate and McEntee fulfill dream.
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I was thinking
Matt McDonough I was thinking. I was thinking this whole summer. I took down notes, wrote a draft and everything. It was supposed to be a living tribute to my all-time favorite writer, Dave Solomon of the New Haven Register. I had my ideas written out, offering commentary on events in sports that spanned from the end of May to the beginning of August. You see, I was drafting an “I Was Thinking: Daily Campus edition.” It was a carbon copy of the same “I Was Thinking” column written by Solomon that had appeared in my hometown paper for over a decade on Sundays. But then he died. Dave Solomon was killed in a car accident on I-91 on Aug. 6 in Cromwell. I haven’t stopped thinking about him since. When my brother Colin and I began a summer internship at the New Haven Register in 2010, we called him Mr. Solomon. Why wouldn’t we? The man was what we strived to be. But Solomon, along with Register sports editor Sean Barker, quickly made sure that we called him “Dave.” We told Dave that we had been reading his articles since we knew how to read. Dave said it made him realize how old he was. When he’d talk about his days at UConn, and his time on the staff at The Daily Campus, every anecdote began with, “When I went to college, 100 years ago...” But Dave wasn’t old. He was only 59 when he died. My dad said Dave could’ve written for any publication. I say the same thing. But it must’ve been Dave’s heart that said he belonged in New Haven. He wrote for the Register for over 35 years, and in our time reading the Register, we cherished him. One of our childhood friends, who wasn’t a reader of the Register, spotted the sports section on our kitchen table with Dave’s mugshot above his column and innocently asked, “Why is his picture in the newspaper everyday?” The short answer we gave him was that he was the paper’s sports columnist. The long answer was that Dave was important enough to the New Haven area to earn his column’s picture. Dave helped put Elm City boxer “Bad” Chad Dawson on the map with coverage and columns on the local boxing scene, along with tireless reporting on anything a New Haven sports fan needed to know. Ryan Gomes told my brother and I that Dave was one of the reasons why the Providence standout was drafted in the second round by the Celtics. Hamden mayor Scott Jackson told us that Dave Solomon was the person who could best put a pen to paper at the Register. We agreed. I didn’t always agree with Dave’s thoughts in “I Was Thinking,” but that is what sports writing is about. It’s about inciting arguments, starting debates and evoking a feeling of emotion for the readers. Dave did that. Every article I read of his evoked some sort of feeling. I learned from his style and tried to mimick his way of writing. During that summer at the Register, I probably only interacted with Dave a handful of times. It wasn’t until Colin covered football and women’s basketball, and I covered men’s basketball, that we got to see Dave in action.
» MCDONOUGH, page 12
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By Mac Cerullo Managing Editor
FOOTBALL
chart, particularly the starting quarterback, will remain unanswered for a few days longer. The depth chart released Sunday once again listed the starting quarterback as “Scott McCummings OR Johnny McEntee OR Mike Nebrich.” Interestingly enough, the Sunday’s depth chart also said the same about running backs D.J. Shoemate and Lyle McCombs, although it is likely that both will see action during the Fordham game. ASHLEY POSPISIL/The Daily Campus
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Center Moe Petrus and the Huskies will have to wait to take on the Rams in their opener.
THE MOORE THE MERRIER Senior wideout captains Huskies following three Big East championships
By Matt McDonough Sports Editor
ASHLEY POSPISIL/The Daily Campus
When the UConn football team’s co-captain Kashif Moore was asked to describe the eventful offseason in one word, the senior wide receiver simply said, “Grind.” It’s a fitting answer to a poorly-worded question because Moore hasn’t really had an offseason. From the time he stepped off the University of Phoenix Stadium’s grass after a 28-point loss to Oklahoma in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl last January, Moore hasn’t had time off. “I feel like I’ve been grinding since the Fiesta Bowl ended, working hard in the classroom, on the football field and on the track,” Moore said. Since the defeat at the hands of the Sooners, Moore has helped capture two Big East championships as a member of the indoor and outdoor track team. That gives him three conference crowns since December of 2010. It’s an intercollegiate feat of Bill Russell proportions. Russell, the NBA great, won a NCAA national championship, Olympic gold medal and an NBA title in a calendar year. Moore took home three Big East titles in six months. Moore is the only UConn football player to also participate in track. He caught 36 passes for 452 yards and led the receiving corps with four touchdowns in 2010. The Huskies clinched the Big East title on Dec. 4, defeating South Florida 19-16. On Feb. 20, the UConn indoor track team took home the conference in Akron, Ohio. Moore finished seventh in the 60-meter dash. On May 8, the third time was once again a charm. Moore was a cog on the 4x100-meter relay team that finished first and participated in the 100-yard dash for the two-time conference champion
Kashif Moore, seen here on Oct. 29 2010 against West Virginia, won three Big East championships in football and indoor and outdoor track a year ago. Moore has since switched to the number six for football, in honor of his fallen teammate Jasper Howard. He will captain the Huskies in his senior year.
» AFTER, page 12
Jeff Hathaway retires
By Matt McDonough Sports Editor
Jeff Hathaway’s tenure as athletic director at UConn ended Aug. 19. After eight years leading UConn athletics, Hathaway retired and signed a separation agreement with UConn. Senior associate director of athletics Paul McCarthy assumed Hathaway’s responsibilities until UConn President Susan Herbst named Paul Pendergast interim athletic director on Aug. 21. “I have been proud to serve the University of Connecticut for nearly two decades, including the last eight years as Director of Athletics,” Hathaway said in a statement. “It is an honor and privilege to have led this outstanding Division of Athletics and to have worked with so many remarkable student-athletes, coaches, staff members and colleagues at the university, the Big East Conference and NCAA. It has been incredibly rewarding to have collaborated with so many exceptional individuals during this proud period of academic and athletic excellence.” Hathaway added that he felt the time was right to pursue new challenges and that he wished UConn luck. Hathaway will be employed at UConn until Sept. 15 and help the transition, according to a press
release by UConn. Hathaway will be paid his salary of $351,717 for one year in the agreement. “I want to thank Jeff for his long service to UConn and our Division of Athletics,” Herbst said in a statement. “The university has had unprecedented success on the field, on the court and in the classroom for more than a decade and he has a great deal to be proud of during his tenure. I join so many others at the university in thanking him for his service and in wishing him well.” Hathaway’s job came under criticism this summer after Herbst had an evaluation of Hathaway’s performance with academics, fundraising and NCAA compliance conducted by an outside firm. Negotiations of a buyout had reportedly been ongoing for weeks before Hathaway retired this month. Hathaway’s teams always had success on the field, as he was at the helm during men’s and women’s NCAA basketball championships and a BCS bowl berth by the football team. But it was off-field issues that were the bulk of the evaluation. NCAA infractions and a poor Academic Performance Rating against the men’s basketball program resulted in loss of scholarships. The Hartford Courant reported coach Jim Calhoun was not pleased with the way Hathaway backed him in the NCAA investigation involving
the recruitment of Nate Miles. In January, the football program’s biggest donor, Robert Burton demanded his name be taken off the football complex on campus and his donation be returned after Hathaway didn’t consult him during the hiring of Paul Pasqualoni. Burton criticized Hathaway in a letter, saying “he was fed up with [Hathaway] as a manager.” Burton added that Randy Edsall left for Maryland because the coach could not work with Hathaway. Hathaway failed to replace Pendergast’s fundraising position. Pendergast, who started at UConn in 1998, served as senior associate athletic director of development for four years until he left Storrs in 2006. Now, Pendergast will serve in Hathaway’s position for the near future. “I’m thrilled to be able to return to the University of Connecticut and its Athletic Division,” Pendergast said in a statement. “UConn athletics is something very special and I’m happy to do anything I can to help ensure its success. It’s no secret that the Huskies have seen incredible achievements on the field of play for many years. Winning teams are of course the most visible part of collegiate athletics, but what counts just
» PENDERGAST, page 11
Baseball’s magical run ends in Super Regional By Mac Cerullo Managing Editor Following the UConn baseball team’s 14-1 win over Clemson in the Regional Final, George Springer, who had just learned during the game that he’d been drafted No. 11 overall by the Houston Astros in the 2011 MLB Draft, sought out his mother and embraced her. “Mom, can you believe it? Can you believe it? We won!” Springer said. Coach Jim Penders recalls the moment as the perfect summation of his team’s mindset and attitude. “I think George summed it up best,” Penders said. “Knowing that he was going to make a couple million dollars and was going to be getting his dream of playing professional baseball, he was more concerned about ‘Hey, we won, we get to go on to the next step now.’ Which, when you have a guy that talented thinking that way, that’s contagious. That’s the kind of flavor that we had going the last couple weeks of the season.” A year after winning the program’s first NCAA Tournament game since 1979, expectations were high for a team that returned nearly an entire roster’s worth of future MLB prospects. But despite the Huskies strong play, culminating in the Big East regu-
lar season crown, the season nearly slipped away after the Huskies were upset twice in the Big East Tournament by Seton Hall. For many anxious moments during the NCAA Tournament selection show, it seemed possible that the Huskies might be left out altogether. “We didn’t play up to our capabilities in the Big East Tournament, and we actually had some anxious moments during the selection show, ‘cause St. John’s was taken ahead of us and they finished behind us in the conference but were runners up in the tournament. So we were thinking, ‘Man, could we get left out?’ for a second,” Penders said. “Then we come up as a No. 2 seed and headed to Clemson.” Penders immediately drew the historical connection between UConn and Clemson as a good omen for the team. “It was kind of neat to see Clemson flash up there too because as a university we’ve had some luck against them,” Penders said. “Thinking back to 1990 with Tate George hitting that shot in order to go to the Elite Eight. And then also Coach Reid and the soccer team, when they won the national championship they had to go through Clemson at Clemson.”
» HUSKIES, page 12