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Sept. 11 impacts university academics By Keri Kachmar Staff Writer
UCONN REMEMBERS Flags line the Student Union area in respect for the 10th anniversary. FOCUS/ page 7
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UConn’s human rights minor began in 1999 with about 15 students. Today there are roughly 80 students with the expectation of 100 by the end of the year. Dr. Richard Wilson, the director of UConn’s Human Rights Institute, attributes the increase in interest to a newfound awareness of human rights issues since 9/11. “There has been a huge interest, I think, in part, because Americans used to think human rights were for people in other countries,” said Wilson. “After 9/11, human rights were brought to America. [September 11th] was a crime against humanity. Those kinds of attacks were on American soil for the first time in living memory and it made Americans think.” To Wilson, students became interested in human rights for two reasons – their country was attacked and the United States
government responded, in part, by sanctioning the CIA and military to torture prisoners. When Wilson started teaching at UConn in 2003, he was teaching a human rights course on torture. Wilson used the ticking bomb scenario – if there was a ticking bomb in a highly populated public place, would torture be justified? – and asked students what they would do. Two-thirds thought that torture would be justified. Wilson asked the same question in 2010, but this time only one-third of the class thought that torture would be acceptable. “It’s interesting to see how students have changed – now that U.S. students have seen military soldiers torturing and detaining others,” said Wilson. “There has been a shift in student perception on these issues over the course of time. Student attitudes have changed; there is more interest; they are more informed; they feel that it relates to them a lot more than it did before 9/11.”
Ruth Glasser, a lecturer in the department of urban and community studies at the Waterbury campus, said that since 9/11, there have been more conversations revolving around disaster management and preparedness. The program has even brought in the Connecticut Department of Public Works to talk to students about this. “Students are also more conscious that we need to understand what’s going on internationally and what other cultures feel and what makes them tick; we saw that firsthand with 9/11,” said Glasser. Glasser, who teaches an ethnic history class, says that she teaches more about Muslim and Arab Americans and how they feel and what they think and how they are treated. Bandana Purkayastha, professor and acting department head of the sociology department, said that the sociology department has changed over the last ten years, in part because of 9/11.
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Flags placed in the ground outside the Student Union to honor those who lost their lives following the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
“In terms of research, I do know there is faculty research that has reoriented, especially how faculty is thinking about issues after 9/11,” said Purkayastha.
Presidents pay respects
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SPORTS/ page 14 EDITORIAL: STATE REVITALIZATION OF HEALTH CENTER IS WISE Project will lead to thousands of short and long-term jobs. COMMENTARY/page 4
Scores of residents visit Sherwood Island State Park Memorial. NEWS/ page 2
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One example of the scholarship being produced concerning the post-9/11 environment is a book called “Human Rights
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President Barack Obama, right, first lady Michelle Obama, second from right, former President George W. Bush, second from left, and former first lady Laura Bush observe a moment of silence at the National September 11 Memorial for a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the attacks at World Trade Center, Sunday.
Off-campus students left in dark By Abby Ferrucci Staff Writer Those of us whose electricity and running water were unaffected by Hurricane Irene have seemed to forget the storm and move on to other things. For some students and businesses at the UConn Storrs campus, the memories of power outages and closed signs are still fresh. Emily Cannon, a 7th-semester English major who lives in Clubhouse apartments in Storrs, laughs as she recalls the five days she and her roommates endured without power. “We joked that we were Amish for the week,” Cannon said. “We had to learn how to flush our toilets with buckets of water, and we could only shower occasionally.” Cannon, along with many other off-campus students, lost power for the majority of the first week of school. During that week, these students had to rely on the good will of others, as well as the services provided by UConn and the town of
Mansfield. “We were lucky our friends at Willington Oaks had power, so we could shower and cook meals,” Cannon said. “But we still couldn’t do much because our lives were based around daylight and when we could go shower.” Local businesses felt the impact a little harder than students. Ryan McDonald, the owner of Ted’s Restaurant, a popular campus bar and restaurant, said there is no way to determine how much business he lost because of the storm. “We had no power Sunday through Thursday of the first week of school, and that is usually a big week for students to go out,” McDonald said. Although McDonald has a backup generator to keep his freezer running, a lot of food was ruined. “We had no flooding and no water damage, but I won’t know how much money in inventory I lost until I talk to the insurance,” McDonald said. But McDonald expects that
the business lost during the first week of classes, typically a high-earning week, to be among the most severe financial losses. “Syllabus week, right?,” McDonald said jokingly, as many students don’t take the first week of classes too seriously and instead tend to frequent Ted’s and the other campus bars. Many students were just as upset by the bar being closed. “It’s my first semester as a senior, and my first semester being 21. I wanted to go out,” said Nicole Qualls, a 7thsemester communications disorders major who didn’t lose power at all during the storm. “The bars definitely lost a ton of business from my friends and I who were itching to leave our apartments.” Power outages and closed businesses were not a problem unique to Storrs. Businesses and homes across the state suffered damages that they are now learning probably will not be covered under their insur-
ance. On Wednesday, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced that FEMA will be opening several recovery centers across the state to help business and home owners learn what benefits they are entitled to. In the statement, Malloy asked those who suffered damage to be proactive in the recovery process. “I am urging any individual or business who has suffered losses or damages as a result of Tropical Storm Irene to visit a center and work with staff there to review what benefits to which they may be entitled,” Malloy said. While recovery all along the east coast will be a slow process, UConn students at least now have the option to go back to the bars and begin thinking about the year ahead. “We had to work hard to get the word out that we are back open,” McDonald said. “Now its back to business as usual.”
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The Dodd Center’s Konover Auditorium attracted a crowd Friday at noon for a panel entitled: “September 11: Ten Years Later.” The panel was led by assistant professor of political science Stephen Dyson and associate professor of political science and the Human Rights Institute, Shareen Hertel, moderated by honors professor of political science Jeremy Pressman. Dyson started the event with a lecture about the personalities in power at the time of 9/11, then-Prime Minister Tony Blair, then-President George W. Bush, and thenSecretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. First, he gave brief backgrounds of the three men; their political ideas and agendas prior to the events of 9/11 as well as their initial reactions to it. Dyson stated that upon hearing about the attack on American soil, President Bush immediately decided that war was the course of action to take, and then shortly after, bringing democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan. Dyson noted that curiously, Rumsfeld did not share Bush’s interest in bringing democracy to the Middle East, despite being of the same political affiliation. Blair, Dyson said, predicted that the U.S would react violently – a prediction that proved correct. Hertel approached the topic from a different angle, taking into account historical context as well as viewing the issue from an economic and human rights perspective. She asked the audience to consider “How do we memorialize the victims of 9/11 without manipulating or distorting their stories?” Hertel stated that the aftermath of the Cold War was a possible reason for the terrorist act, as it generated a deep resentment of the West in many areas, though dur-
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Psych exam on Wesleyan killing suspect complete
MIDDLETOWN (AP) — The results of a psychiatric exam on a man charged with killing a Wesleyan University student will soon be revealed. State’s Attorney Timothy Liston is expected to disclose the results Tuesday in Middletown Superior Court in the case of 31-year-old Stephen Morgan. The Marblehead, Mass., native is charged with murdering 21-year-old Johanna Justin-Jinich of Timnath, Colo., at a bookstore café near the Middletown campus in May 2009. The state-ordered exam has delayed the case for months because prosecutors had to order a second evaluation earlier this year after an expert became ill and couldn’t finish the first review. Morgan’s lawyer is expected to pursue a mental illness defense. Authorities say Justin-Jinich and Morgan met around 2007 at New York University, where she had filed a harassment complaint against him.
Jury selection to begin in state kidnapping-arson
HARTFORD (AP) — Jury selection is set to begin for a Connecticut man accused of kidnapping his ex-wife and holding her hostage for hours before burning down the house they once shared. The prosecution and defense in the case of 62-year-old Richard Shenkman are expected to begin picking a jury Tuesday in Hartford Superior Court. His trial on kidnapping, attempted murder and other charges is scheduled to start Oct. 3. Police say Shenkman kidnapped his ex-wife, Nancy Tyler, in Hartford in July 2009 and held her hostage during a more than 12-hour standoff with police at the South Windsor home. Tyler managed to escape, and Shenkman surrendered as flames engulfed the house. Shenkman is also awaiting trial on charges he burned down the couple’s East Lyme home in 2007 during their contentious divorce.
CL&P to work with towns on storm response BERLIN (AP) — Connecticut Light and Power says its top customer relations executive will work with municipal officials to improve emergency response after the remnants of Hurricane Irene knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers. The state’s biggest utility said Sunday that William Quinlan, vice president of customer solutions, will lead an effort that also is intended to make the best use of comments and criticism of its work restoring power. Jeff Butler, president and chief operating officer of CL&P, says Quinlan will meet with local officials to make sure the utility improves its work with communities. Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has ordered a review of the response to the Aug. 28 storm. Legislative leaders also are looking into how the state, utilities, telecommunications and other companies responded.
Yale creating online site of Depression-era pics
NEW HAVEN (AP) — Yale University is receiving $50,000 from the U.S. government to preserve more than 160,000 Depression-era images and make them available for online viewing. The National Endowment for the Humanities grant is among 32 nationwide recently awarded to help universities use modern technology to preserve old items that are important to the nation’s heritage. The photos date from 1935 to 1943 and were taken for a program to document federal aid programs in place during the Great Depression. Many images show the hardscrabble lives of southern sharecroppers and migrant farmers. Yale plans to create a database that lets teachers, genealogists and others search online for images based on maps of where the pictures were taken. It will also include Census data and other information to put the images in context.
State group examining workers without insurance
HARTFORD (AP) — A Connecticut children’s advocacy group says it’s calculating whether there’s a rising percentage of state residents working without health insurance. The Connecticut Voices for Children plans to release its analysis Tuesday. The analysis is based on information from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010 Current Population Survey. Earlier analyses found 13 percent of Connecticut workers lacked health insurance between 2008 and 2009. That was up from 11 percent during 2006-07.
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State marks Sept. 11 anniversary WESTPORT (AP) — They approached in groups and alone Sunday, holding hands in pairs or guiding their young children toward a memorial they wished had never become a part of their reality. Scores of Connecticut residents marked the 10th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks with a visit to Sherwood Island State Park in Westport. The names of Connecticut victims are etched in stones at a waterfront memorial there with views of Manhattan’s skyline. Ten years ago, those at the park saw smoke rising from the collapse of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers. The toll to Connecticut wouldn’t be evident for days. At least 152 people with state ties were killed, including many Fairfield County residents whose families waited at local train stations with fading hopes that their loved ones would emerge among the dustcovered, weary commuters who’d escaped the chaos. On that day, as the world changed, people visiting the memorial Sunday said they changed, too — in big and small ways — learning over the years to cope but never claiming they had reached closure. “I’m so much more defensive now. I’m sure I will be for the rest of my life,” said Todd Smith, 49, of Plainville, who led a group of motorcyclists from the Western Connecticut Harley Owners Group on a pilgrimage from Bristol to the Westport memorial. “I’ve become more assertive and I speak up. I didn’t before, but we got attacked — America got attacked on its own soil and we thought that would never happen again after Pearl Harbor.” Smith’s feelings of becoming more wary and watchful since Sept. 11, 2001, were echoed
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Eileen Lawrence of Weston, Conn., touches the name of her son Robert Lawrence at a new memorial dedication marking the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed 152 people with ties to Connecticut at Sherwood Island State Park in Westport.
by others at cities throughout Connecticut, where memorial services were held and religious leaders marked the anniversary in their weekly sermons. In addition to the 152 people with Connecticut ties who died on 9/11, more than 50 local soldiers have died in Iraq and Afghanistan since fighting began in 2002. Another Connecticut resident, 94-year-old Ottilie Lundgren of Oxford, also died in fall 2001 when she was exposed to anthrax-laced mail. Many who visited the Westport memorial site said they found it comforting, noting the bittersweet tributes of flowers, coins, seashells and other items on flat
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in our own Back Yard.” The book, edited by Purkayastha, UConn sociology professor and Associate Dean of CLAS Davita Glasberg and San Jose State University’s William T. Armaline, contains some chapters written by UConn graduate and undergraduate students, with some chapters devoted to issues specifically relating to post-9/11. “The work I do and what I teach, we will talk about issues that surround Muslims in the U.S. Not just the Middle East, but South East Asia,” said Purkayastha. “The orientation is there, even if there is not a specific area for middle eastern studies [in the department of sociology].” The Arabic language program has also grown in the last ten years. Arabic was offered as part of UConn’s Critical Language Program for many years. A fulltime instructor in-residence was then hired in 2007 to accommodate the growing program. In the fall of 2005, there were 22 students enrolled in Arabic language classes. In fall 2010,
there were 190 students. Maha Darawsha, the current Arabic instructor, has accounted some of the program’s growth to an increased interest in the Middle East, its language and culture. According to Darawsha, prior to 9/11, many students enrolled in Arabic courses because Arabic is part of their heritage and they wanted to learn more. “After 9/11, the case changed, there are more students who want to just explore the culture and language,” said Darawsha. Darawsha is also finding many business and political science students looking to learn Arabic as a way to make themselves more appealing in the job market. Many know that there are job opportunities with the state department and military and that learning Arabic would be an asset. “It’s the students willing to accept the language and learn it,” said Darawsha. “The more effort they put into learning the language, the more they accept it and the culture.”
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stones etched with the victims’ names. A bag of M&Ms was on one man’s stone; on another, a fresh rose. When the remnants of Hurricane Irene washed into Connecticut on Aug. 28, many coins and other items remained exactly where they had been placed, even as areas flooded around the memorial and high winds knocked out power, snapped tree limbs and eroded the nearby shore. “The memorial itself was eerily untouched,” said James Beschle, the park’s supervisor. “I could intellectualize it and say the waves probably broke over it, or that the items were flat enough that they were not affected by the wind. But it felt like something more than that, and it really affected me.” About 15 miles away in Stamford, the anniversary affected city firefighters so deeply that several of
them spent weeks working on an 8-foot replica of the Twin Towers. The steel towers in front of the department’s Woodside station on Washington Street were dedicated in a special ceremony Saturday night, and drew a steady stream of visitors Sunday. Among them were 7-yearold Cheyann Jordhamo of Stamford and her mother, Leah, 39, a city emergency dispatcher. Cheyann knows the basic facts of 9/11 — that “some bad people hurt a lot of good people” — but is only now starting to grasp the emotional side, her mother said. “She thinks it’s really sad. We watched a show this morning about some of it, but she wanted to turn it off,” Leah Jordhamo said. The emotional side is still raw for Jordhamo, though: “I can’t believe it’s been 10 years. It gives me chills.”
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ing that time the U.S. also strengthened human rights law.
“I found their differing approaches interesting, the human rights approach especially so.”
Eugenia Logie 5th-semester student She also made the point that the U.S.’s preemptive war on terror stood on ambiguous legal grounds, as did its
seeking to redefine the status of Guantanamo Bay prisoners to enemy combatants so that the Geneva Convention would not apply, in addition to its practice of extraordinary rendition. Domestically, the U.S made some dubious moral policies such as the PATRIOT Act, and other policies created by the new Department of Homeland Security. Eugenia Logie, 5th-semester political science and history major, said, “I found their differing approaches interesting, the human rights approach especially so. I would have liked to have asked how the U.S. could have approached dealing with non-traditional warfare differently.”
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In this Sept. 6, 2011 photo, Sen. Jason Crowell, R-Cape Girardeau, temporarily delays a motion to inform the House that the Senate had convened for a special legislative session in Jefferson City, Mo.
States rethinking tax credits as job creation tool
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Want to create jobs? Just create a tax credit for businesses. For decades, that’s how many governors and state lawmakers have approached economic development. But with budget deficits collectively in the billions of dollars and unemployment rates still uncomfortably high, some state officials have begun to rethink whether the jobs promised from tax credits are worth the drain on state funds that could go to public schools and services. Perhaps nowhere is the tax credit tension more evident than in Missouri, where lawmakers have convened a special session to consider scaling back several existing tax credits in order to finance new tax incentives targeting a variety of business interests — from Chinese cargo planes to computer data centers, high-tech companies and even the organizers of major sporting events. Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon and Republican legislative leaders tout it as one of the most farreaching job-creation packages being considered among states. But it faces opposition from some lawmakers who see it as the latest give-away of taxpayer dollars to big businesses at the expense of school children, the disabled and elderly. The battle in Missouri and
several other states mirrors that in Washington, where President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders are expected to clash in coming weeks over the right mixture of tax breaks and spending to stimulate the economy without plunging the nation deeper into long-term debt. The outcome figures to play prominently in the 2012 elections as incumbents seeks to assuage voter concerns about both the economy and government spending. “There is a tension between just about everybody,” said Sen. Chuck Purgason, a Republican who has wavered on whether to back the Missouri plan. “You’ve got core Republican principles that government doesn’t create jobs — the private sector creates meaningful jobs — and what you need is broad-based tax reform.” For others, he said, “their idea is for government to take money and incentivize aspects of trying to stimulate the economy.” Tax credits have been popular among many politicians because they directly reduce the taxes that a business must pay, unlike a tax deduction which only reduces the income that can be taxed. Some states also allow tax credit vouchers to be sold, which allows the recipient to generate upfront cash for a project.
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Some travelers were plainly jittery about flying Sunday. Others weren’t worried, confident that security would be tight on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11. And some figured, well, whatever happens, happens. In Los Angeles, Kim Pinney, who operates a daycare center in Virginia, booked the latest flight home possible from a friend’s wedding in the belief that that would minimize her chances of falling victim to a terrorist attack. “If something was going to happen, it would happen during the day and then it would be over,” she said in a telephone interview Saturday. Since her flight was at 11 p.m. Sunday, she added, “Technically, I’m flying for an hour on 9/11 because it will be 9/12” for most of the flight. Authorities and travelers were clearly on edge: — Two fighter planes escorted a New York-bound American Airlines jet after three passengers locked themselves in a bathroom during the flight from Los Angeles, officials said. A law enforcement official said the incident was not believed to be terrorism-related. The plane landed safely at Kennedy Airport. — A man was detained at the Kansas City, Mo., airport and a terminal shut down after authorities found suspicious items in his carry-on bag. Authorities
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he state’s recently-passed renovation and expansion package for the UConn Health Center is, generally, a sound investment. The plan passed the State Senate 24-11 on June 1 and 97-45 in the house on June 8, then was signed into law by Gov. Dannel P Malloy. A Connecticut Mirror article noted that this was “the fourth attempt in five years to revitalize the financially-troubled Farmington medical campus.” Previous attempts to improve the center with state funds were met with political opposition, but the project is a necessary one, and the urgent need to ensure that our health center remains competitive has finally been recognized by the state legislature. Among other benefits, this renovation plan has two chief benefits: the macroeconomic gains to the state, and the jobs this investment will create. The Connecticut Center of Economic Analysis has crunched the numbers and concluded that despite the proposal’s costs, considered exorbitant by some, the economic benefits far outweigh them. The CCEA projects $373 million netted for the state over the next 20 years once the initial $592 million state investment is paid off. The state’s unemployment rate is currently stuck at 9.1 percent, the same number from a year and a half ago. This plan, which will create construction jobs and create a need for new staff and faculty positions, will help reduce the state’s current unemployment rate. The CCEA projects the initiative will deliver a short-term boost of 3,100 “direct, indirect, and induced jobs” by 2014. In addition, their predictions include 16,400 net new permanent jobs within the next 25 years. While School of Medicine Dean and Vice President for Health Affairs Cato Laurencin stepped down this summer, its interim chief executive, Philip Austin, will likely prove to be a responsible steward. Austin’s competent handling of the university as interim president during the 2010-11 school year demonstrates that he is up to the task until a permanent replacement is hired, which university administrators have indicated will happen before the end of 2011. Ultimately, this package will benefit the state on economic, educational and healthcare levels. “This is about creating new jobs, sustained economic development, and staking out the ground that will again make Connecticut a leader in an emerging industry,” Malloy once said. “The state’s flagship public university and its health center must be looked at as more than just a school or just a hospital. We need to view them as economic drivers and ways in which we can leverage our education system into long-term, sustained economic growth.” Malloy has received criticism from proponents of higher education funding recently because of his decision to cut the state funding for UConn by more than $10 million. Still, this landmark renovation to one of UConn’s flagship institutions is crucial for both Connecticut’s economy and education. Malloy should be commended for having the political stamina to successfully push for the renovation’s passage, despite the state’s repeated inability to do so in the past.
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Hey Johnny McEntee, a pick six is not the kind of trick shot UConn fans want to see. While riding my bike through campus, I calmly called a group of kids to move. One of the girls turned, screamed and fell on her butt. These freshmen are going to make me invest in a bell, aren’t they? To the guy who said “I wanna be just like Johnny “ in the trick shot video: Not this weekend! Drunk kid from Germany on my floor is currently trying to sharpen his mechanical pencil in a huge window fan in the study lounge. Guess I’m not doing homework tonight. Do you want it straight...or broken? I put the screw in the tuna. Oh, the humanity! I wish they had a course where I could go sheep shearing in the undulating hills of New Zealand. This weekend I sent inappropriately astute texts to Gorbachev. I felt free.
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Women writers deserve fair chance in TV
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ccording to a recent and rather alarming study by San Diego State University’s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, the number of women television writers has more than halved during the past four years. In the 2006-‘07 season, 35 percent of the broadcast writers were women. By the current 2010-‘11 season, that number dropped to 15 percent. As a result of this study, we as viewers should ask ourselves, “Why aren’t women being given the chance to write By Tyler McCarthy anymore?” Weekly Columnist While it’s true that no one wishes to cut women out of writing entirely, it seems to be the current trend for writer’s rooms to lean toward a more male dominated staff. So are women just naturally not as talented as men? If you watch any episode of “30 Rock” or “Modern Family,” two shows boasting high numbers of female writers, you’ll quickly realize that this isn’t the case. The truth is that there are many reasons why this is happening. The 2007-08 writer’s strike, which took place at the beginning or America’s massive economic downturn, has caused many networks to tighten their belt. As a result, the writer’s rooms on most of our favorite shows have shrunk significantly. This wouldn’t necessarily result in a decline of female staff if it weren’t for the simple fact that at the moment, the television climate seems to be shifting into a place where shows for men are more watched and more valuable. Action shows with beauti-
ful women and explosions as well as dramas centered on men’s lives and troubles are in demand and, therefore, writers are hired specifically for these types of shows. Women are capable of writing these shows, however they have a lot more to prove going into such a job than men would.
“The lack of women television writers is a direct result of advertising companies not getting enough money from marketing to a female audience.” If the economy and the current male-oriented programming climate are causing women to lose their place in television writing, the question then becomes, “Why is male programming the current trend?” Everyone’s first thought seems to go right to sexism, however that’s not the case. Unfortunately, the real reason is equally obnoxious. The answer lies in advertising revenue. The best advertisements, the ones that generate the most money to networks, are geared toward men between the ages of 18 and 49. As a result, advertising companies sell to shows that reach that demographic. In short, shows for men sell more advertisements, which gains more money for networks – therefore, networks only buy shows for men. “We’re not making art out here, we’re making programming that allows networks to sell ad dollars,” said Jill Soloway (“Six Feet Under,” “United States of Tara,” “How to Make It in America”) in a recent interview. “The only ad dollars that appeal solely to women only are diapers and clean-
ing products. The expensive ad dollars, like cars and air travel, must appeal to both genders.” This means that, in most cases, the only real incentive for a network to hire a female writer is simply to fill a diversity quota. This way, their staff does not seem like a complete boy’s club. However, a writing staff of fifteen men and one woman does not really make for a diverse group. “Being the only woman in a writers’ room is like walking around with a target on your back,” said a female writer who chose to remain anonymous in an article written for AOLTV by Maureen Ryan. This demonstrates the difficulty women have in a writer’s room that reaches a high concentration of male voices, which, in turn, sets the tone of a series. The biggest complaint that this situation brings up is how those responsible for our entertainment see us. To them, we are like a big cash piñata. When did the viewer stop being seen as a viewer and start being seen as a consumer? The lack of women television writers is a direct result of advertising companies not getting enough money from marketing to a female audience. This means that when I turn on the television, I’m not getting a fully voiced story by people committed to entertainment and television. Instead, I’m getting a subconscious sales pitch from advertisers who have hijacked our once great story telling medium to make as much cash as possible. I’m aware that television cannot exist without advertising revenue, but if they’re not committed to the story, what’s the point in television at all? Without the full voice that women bring to a project, where are we as viewers?
Weekly Columnist Tyler McCarthy is a 5th-semester journalism major. He can be reached at Tyler.McCarthy@UConn.edu.
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he health of the United States is in crisis. The physical health of U.S. citizens is marked by an ever-increasing rise in obesity and other disease risk factors, contributing to the high rates of many cancers, diabetes, and heart disease. These chronic diseases cost hundreds of billions of dollars By John Giardina every year and Staff Columnist are, when considered together, are one of the driving factors in the skyrocketing health care costs that threaten to imperil the U.S. economy. One would hope that our society as a whole would have moved by now to prevent the progression of these diseases. Yet this is not the case. In response, the government should act to promote a healthy lifestyle of better diet and more exercise that has been proven to reduce the rates of these chronic diseases. One powerful way to do this would be through the enactment of taxes and subsidies that provide incentives to eat healthier foods. Every day, Americans are inundated with marketing for food. More often than not, the food that is most heavily marketed is actually the most detrimental to a person’s
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“Right now, the wellbeing of U.S. citizens is...harmed by the standard American diet of foods high in fat and sugar.” This problem is exacerbated by the fact that the U.S. government subsidizes many of the ingredients that go into high fat and high sugar foods, such as corn and soybeans, in an effort to help U.S. agriculture. This pushes down the price of products like soda, which is sweetened mainly by corn syrup, and drives up consumption. The combination of intense marketing and low prices produces an unnaturally high intake of unhealthy foods even in the face of the fact that it is detrimental to
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long-term health. In response to this harmful combination of factors, the government, in accordance with its mandate to act for the public good, should remove the subsidies on and even tax the sale of unhealthy foods. The revenue from those taxes could then be used to fund public education efforts, better health care, and the subsidizing of healthful foods such as whole grain products, fruits and vegetables, which many families, especially the poor, can find hard to afford. The results of such a program could have a profound effect on the health of this country. First, disease rates would fall, leading to longer lives and lower health care costs. Second, the revenue generated could go toward improving the healthcare system as whole. There are obvious arguments against a plan such as this. The most important to consider is the view that government encouragement of certain lifestyle choices, such as diet, is an infringement on personal liberty. To counter this argument, however, one needs to only look at the government efforts against smoking, a similar situation
where a lifestyle choice costs billions of dollars every year. The federal government and state governments heavily tax tobacco sales in order to raise revenue and decrease smoking. The outcome of this action, together with public education efforts, has been a precipitous decline in lung cancer rates over the past decades. It would be hard to argue that such government action, which dramatically improved the health of the U.S, should not have been enacted. The same case can be made for the taxation of unhealthy foods. The purpose of any government is to promote the well being of its citizens. Right now, the well-being of U.S. citizens is being grievously harmed by the standard American diet of foods high in fat and sugar. Presently, the incentives to eat such food are dramatically skewed by marketing and low prices. The federal government must now shift those incentives in order to promote the health of its citizens now and into the future.
Staff Columnist John Giardina is a 3rdsemester economics and molecular and cell biology double major. He can be reached at John.Giardina@UConn.edu
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Horoscopes To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
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Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- What seems doubtful and distressing this morning gets resolved by afternoon, and then there’s no stopping you. Plug a financial leak, and maintain momentum.
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Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- If you change your mind and direction, let everyone involved know. Follow intuition and a friend’s advice regarding a conflict between home and career. Your heart knows the way. Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Love and truth get you past any rough spots. Avoid needlessly antagonizing someone. More money’s coming in, so take swift action when needed. It’s a good time to ask for a raise. Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -Stick to the schedule, and profit arrives with new responsibilities. Harvest what you can. When in doubt, look for inspiration in the little things. Keep your word, and things get easy. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Pay special attention to the details now. The rumors might not match the facts. Avoid useless distractions and unnecessary expenditures. Stick to your priorities. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -Be prepared, so you can move quickly when necessary. Stay objective. Consider the circumstances from a different perspective. Friends are available.
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Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -Today could very well be busier than usual. Get straight about your priorities. Excessive focus on work could dampen personal relationships. Go for balance. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Break some barriers. Take a trip. Today may be the exception to the rule: You’re lucky in love and games, but not necessarily with money. Don’t gamble. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Today may be a good day to listen to Paul Simon: “Slow down, you move too fast. You gotta make the morning last.” Feel the love coming your way. Enjoy quiet time at home.
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Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Expect differences of opinion. Respectfully make your own choices. Competition has you pick up the pace. You have the skills required, so turn up the steam. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 9 -- Watch out for conflicts between your work and your personal life. Don’t think you’ve got more than you have. Profit comes from your imaginative creativity. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 9 -- Make changes with confidence. Take advantage of renewed energy. Your optimism helps you stay motivated and in action. Delegate and direct traffic. Others appreciate your leadership.
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Sept. 11 marked with new memorial NEW YORK (AP) — The names of the Sept. 11 dead, some recited by children barely old enough to remember their fallen mothers and fathers, echoed across ground zero Sunday in a haunting but hopeful tribute on the 10th anniversary of the terror attack. “Hope can grow from tragedy,” Vice President Joe Biden said at the Pentagon. Weeping relatives of the victims streamed into a newly opened memorial at the spot where the World Trade Center stood. They placed pictures and flowers beside names etched in bronze, and traced them with pencil and paper. President Barack Obama and his predecessor, George W. Bush, bowed their heads and touched the inscriptions. Obama, standing behind bulletproof glass and in front of the white oak trees of the memorial, read a Bible passage after a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., when the first jetliner slammed into the north tower 10 years ago. The president, quoting Psalm 46, invoked the presence of God as an inspiration to endure: “Therefore, we will not fear, even though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.” The New York ceremony was the centerpiece of a day of remembrance across the country. It was a chance to reflect on a decade that changed American life, including two wars and an overhaul of everyday security at airports and in big cities. In a commemoration at the Pentagon, Biden paid tribute to “the 9/11 generation of warriors.” “Never before in our history has America asked so much over such a sustained period of an all-volunteer force,” he said. “So I can say without fear of contradiction or being accused of exaggeration, the 9/11 generation ranks among the greatest our nation has ever produced,
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Roses lay on the north pool placed by Dawn Nelson in memory of her sister Ann N. Nelson and Aaron Horwitz at the National September 11 Memorial during a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the attacks at World Trade Center, Sunday.
and it was born — it was born — it was born right here on 9/11.” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta observed a moment of silence at 9:37 a.m., marking the time a jet struck the headquarters of the nation’s military. He paid tribute to 6,200 members of the U.S. military who have died in the Iraq and Afghan wars. In Shanksville, Pa., a choir sang at the Flight 93 National Memorial, and a crowd of 5,000 listened to a reading of the names of 40 passengers and crew killed aboard the fourth jetliner hijacked that day a decade ago. Obama and his wife traveled to the Pennsylvania town after their visit to New York and placed a wreath at the memorial. During the president’s visit,
members of the crowd chanted, “USA! USA!” One man called out: “Thanks for getting bin Laden!” This is the first anniversary observance since Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan. The day’s events took place under higher security than usual. In New York and Washington especially, authorities were on alert. Ahead of the anniversary, the federal government warned those cities of a tip about a possible car-bomb plot. Police searched trucks in New York, and streets near the trade center were blocked. To walk within blocks of the site, people had to go through checkpoints. In New York, family members read aloud the names of 2,983 victims — 2,977 killed in New York, Washington and
Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001, and six killed in the first terror attack on the trade center, a truck bomb in 1993. “You will always be my hero,” Patricia Smith, 12, said of her mother. Nicholas Gorki remembered his father, “who I never met because I was in my mother’s belly. I love you, Father. You gave me the gift of life, and I wish you could be here to enjoy it with me.” Alex Zangrilli said: “Dad, I wish you were here with me to give me advice, to be on the sidelines when I play sports like all the other dads. ... I wish we had more time together.” Peter Negron, 21, whose father worked on the 88th floor of the north tower, said that in the decade since the attack, he
had tried to teach his younger brother lessons he had learned from their father. “I decided to become a forensic scientist,” Negron said. “I hope that I can make my father proud of the young men my brother and I have become. I miss you so much, Dad.” Cellist Yo-Yo Ma played a mournful Bach composition. James Taylor sang the melancholy “Close Your Eyes,” and Paul Simon strummed a raw version of “The Sound of Silence.” Bush quoted a letter from Abraham Lincoln to a mother who was believed to have lost five sons in battle during the Civil War: “I pray that our heavenly father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement.” Obama and Bush were joined
by their wives as they walked up to one of the two reflecting pools built over the towers’ footprints, part of the Sept. 11 memorial that was opened to relatives of the victims. Some family members held children on their backs who were not yet born when the towers were attacked. As the sun rose, an American flag fluttered over six stories of the rising 1 World Trade Center. The sky was clear blue with scattered white clouds and a light breeze, not unlike that Tuesday morning 10 years ago. But by the time a moment of silence was observed at 9:59 a.m. to mark the moment when the first tower fell, thick clouds had moved over the sun, and it remained overcast well into the afternoon. The site looked utterly different than it had for any other Sept. 11 anniversary: Along with the names in bronze, there were two manmade waterfalls directly on the footprints of the towers, surrounded by dozens of white oak trees. Many of the victims’ loved ones left flowers at the memorial. Some stuck small flags in the recesses created by each letter. Some just stood and wept. Mary Dwyer, 36, of Brooklyn, said it was moving to finally be able to stand in the place where her sister, Lucy Fishman, died. “It’s the closest I’ll ever get to her again,” she said. Just seeing the names etched in stone was a powerful experience for many. “It breaks me up,” said David Martinez, who lost a cousin and a brother in the twin towers. In a taped interview, the president told NBC that the United States “came through this thing in a way that was consistent with our character.” “We’ve made mistakes. Some things haven’t happened as quickly as they needed to,” he said. “But overall, we took the fight to al-Qaida, we preserved our values, we preserved our character.”
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By Loumarie Rodriguez Campus Correspondent This week, the Rainbow Center’s Friday night coffee house featured a sports theme, which was open to all students to participate in and learn more about the center. The coffee hour provides a safe and comfortable atmosphere for students and serves as a tool to help people learn more about the center. There are staff members around to answer questions for students and to provide pamphlets on information about the LGBT community at UConn. “We view the social aspect of this event as a different facet of our programming, which tends to be academic,” said Administrative Assistant William Hickman. “We attack different problems to learn the adversities that we have.” The coffee house runs from 5 through 9 p.m. every Friday night and students are welcome to walk in any time. Typically, the event includes a variety of activities such as games and showing LGBTthemed movies. This week’s LGBT movie was “I Love You Phillip Morris” starring Jim Carey. “One of our consistent weekly community builders is the coffee house. The staff has a lot of fun coming up with new themes,” said Rainbow Center Director Fleurette King. “This community builder will be a tradition for a very long time.” During the coffee hour, the center provided information about the latest activities the center will be sponsoring in the near future. They will also be hosting their traditional “Out to Lunch” lecture series, where they bring in guest speakers to talk about LGBT-related issues, every week. More information on the center can be found on their website at www.rainbowcenter.uconn.edu. “The Rainbow Center is a good hang out place. The coffee house is great to meet new people and there is never a set gang of friends. Whoever shows up is welcome,” said Jon Donovan, 5th-semester philosophy major.
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The Fall Lager Conundrum
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Flags planted on Fairfield Way serve as a sign of campus remembrance for the Sept. 11, 2001 tragedy. Sunday marked the 10th anniversary of the attacks.
Dayglow lights up Hartford By Ronald Quiroga Campus Correspondent Over the past few years the sounds on the Storrs campus have changed progressively. Cars have a lower than low, rumbling bass emanating from there stereos. Dorms, on-campus apartments and off-campus homes are flooded with the sounds of electronic synthesizers and thumping drums from computerized music. This is not a simple campus trend that found a niche within the sound systems of students in Storrs, but an actual widespread phenomenon that has closed that gaps between several types of music nationwide. “It was colorful and loud,” said Jeremy Lichtman, a 7thsemester strength and conditioning major, as he reflected on Saturday night’s Dayglow, an event that celebrates the branch of music which champions fist-pumping and house beats. Pop, the overwhelming favorite genre of music on campus, has begun following
in the footsteps of techno, house, electro and dubstep, which less than five years ago were little known, if not a complete mystery to many students. Pop mainstays like Katy Perry, Britney Spears and Beyonce have all embraced the heavy basslines and steady rhythms of electro, explaining its boom and growing popularity. This might be one of the reasons why music festivals, DJ concerts and even raves have made such a strong resurgency in the last few years, similar to the rise that this music saw in the late 1980s until the mid-1990s. During the weekend, many UConn students were able to experience this fever first hand. Dayglow, held at the XL Center, catered to a soldout crowd with music, paint and chaos. During four solid hours of blaring music, beaming lights and constant volleys of paint, confetti and balloons, the crowd composed of more than just UConn students, remained strong and steady, dancing until the wee hours. “I was surprised by the
beautiful ladies on the dance floor,” said Lichtman whose face was encrusted with rainbow colored streaks of paint. UConn’s attendance at the event was overwhelming, with at least 800 students showing up for Friday’s show and 130 for Saturday’s show. “It was a night filled with a lot of energy, dancing and paint,” said Joshua Hyatt-Smith, a 7th-semester accounting major, when asked to describe the event’s vibe. “The enthusiasm on the bus was almost overwhelming but it got me ready to go,” said Hyatt-Smith about the 45-minute ride from Storrs to Hartford on the yellow school buses charted for the two night event Dayglow was not a UConn endorsed event, but it was so heavily supported by the student body that three students recognized the need for transportation to and from the events. Mike Parelli, Timka Kyrgyz, Adam Boyajian created a Facebook group to gauge the number of students attending and organize sober rides between campus and the XL Center. “Everything
ran smoothly on Friday, so Saturday should be a breeze,” said Parelli, Friday, about transporting students back and forth. Students were organized by the droves along North Eagleville Road on Friday evening, packing 12 buses, and along the entrance of Carriage House Saturday night to fill two buses. Concert-goers were clad in all white, in anticipation for the paint that was to be sprayed throughout the night. The camaraderie was equally unified with constant “Go Huskies” rally calls and chants for the entirety of the ride. As the concert came to a close, people staggered into the halls of the XL Center, rushing for bathrooms, water fountains and describing their own favorite moments throughout the night. With paint splattered as much on the floor of the arena as on the faces and bodies of those in attendance, Dayglow seemed to live up to its slogan, “The world’s largest paint party.”
sing his signature song for the next number, Aerosmith’s breakthrough hit “Dream On,” which included the full ensemble. The audience erupted into cheers as Barney expertly duplicated Steven Tyler’s classic vocal performance,
in rock history with “Fire,” the Jimi Hendrix Experience classic. “The rest of the University of Connecticut is going to regret leaving all these seats empty tonight, am I right?,” joked Barney to the cheers and clapping of the audience halfway through the set. The rest of the set included “The Impression that I Get,” the ska crossover hit by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, “Alive” and “Even Flow” by Pearl Jam, “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” by the Darkness, “Hard to Handle,” famously covered by the Black Crowes, Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline,” “Animal” by the Neon Trees, “25 or 6 to 4” by Chicago and “Livin’ on a Prayer” by Bon Jovi. The last two of which featured vocalist Connor Sullivan, also a member of the a cappella group A Minor. After taking time to introduce all the members of the Rock Ensemble to the audi-
ence, the group launched into Lynyrd Skynyrd’s classic rock ballad “Freebird” – their closing tune. The audience answered McGannon’s calls to wave their cell phones around in the air during the slow opening section. Once the group hit the fastpaced outro, two members of the band grabbed a cowbell and drum sticks and started to run around Jorgensen, playing in time with the song. The horn section and the rest of the musicians on stage also got into the mood of the song with their own stage antics, never once messing up their finale. “I think they’re all very proud of their performance tonight,” said Barney, a 5thsemester music performance major, after the show. “I know I’m very proud of them all and we did a great job. It was as fun as hell.”
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Rock ensemble ‘takes on’ Jorgensen By John Tyczkowski Associate Focus Editor The Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts was transformed into a rock arena on Saturday night, with rock music from every decade since the 60s echoing throughout the hall courtesy of the UConn Rock Ensemble. An audience of around 100, made up of both UConn students and family members of the performers, crowded the folding seat area close to the stage before the show started at 7:30. The 16-piece group consisted of a diverse field of instruments, including guitars, bass, drums, keyboards and synthesizers, trombones, trumpets, various types of saxophones and several vocalists, with many members playing several instruments. Drummer Jonathan Singngam shuffled onto stage to start off the first song with a threeminute drum solo. He was fol-
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lowed by the ensemble’s president, Robert Barney, on guitar and vocals and bassist Andrew Fredericksen, who launched into Twisted Sister’s 80s glam metal classic, “We’re Not Gonna Take It.” The rest of the ensemble then filed out onto stage for A-Ha’s “Take on Me,” with the horn section playing the synth part from the original recording. Vocalist Malcom McGannon, whose voice sounded remarkably similar to Robert Plant’s, took over for the next full ensemble song, “Howlin’ for You” by the Black Keys. The horn players’ chops got a brief break when the electric instruments took over for the next piece, Jimmy Eat World’s “The Middle,” featuring Singnam on lead vocals. During the solo section, the stage antics that would characterize the ensemble’s set that night began, this time with the horn section skanking across the stage behind the performers. Barney got a chance to
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including the vocally demanding falsetto screaming vocals considered to be Tyler’s trademark. The ensemble then continued their trek back in time
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It seems that they show up earlier and earlier each year. Who are ‘they’ you ask? Fall seasonal beers of course—the Oktoberfest and Pumpkin Beers that drinkers crave as the temperatures drop and the leaves begin to fall. Every time that the middle of August rolls around, I find myself amazed to see these brews on the shelf already. But should I be so surprised? The ultimate question is whether this is the best time for these beers or if it’s simply a case of brewers competing for the market and trying to be the first with their bottles on the shelves. While many are savoring the last few days of warm weather and finishing off their stash of pilsners, wheat beers and light lagers, autumn brews are beginning to populate the shelves. My dad always said that the early bird gets the worm – and perhaps that is the case with fall beers. Some of the biggest brewers like Sam Adams get their Oktoberfest (6pk/$7.99) on the shelf sooner than the competition. They do is because they believe that if you try one brewer’s seasonal beer first, you are likely to continue buying it throughout the season. The problem develops when these beers are debuting so early in the season that consumers do not want to drink them. Then, by the time that the weather cools down and drinkers are in the mood for a pumpkin ale, many favorites are in short supply and the winter brews will soon be filling the vacancies. History shows that Oktoberfests should not be drank during the summer months. In the days before refrigeration, beer needed to be lagered (German for “storage”), and nearby caverns or deeply dug stone cellars were used to house the beer during the summer months for consumption in the fall. Classically, this style was brewed to a higher alcoholic content, partly to help preserve it over the long summer. Today, Märzen style beers are about 6 percent ABV, a copperish-chestnut color and flavor dominated by rich, toasty, nutty malt characteristics. If you seek one of the true classics from the Deutschland, try Paulaner’s Oktoberfest-Märzen (500mL/$3.99). The other fall favorite, pumpkin ale, is generally thought to have American roots originating from the early days of the microbrewing explosion. A combination of pumpkin and aromatic spices is used to create a pumpkin pie-like beer experience—a great brew for a brisk fall night, but perhaps not so much when it’s still 90 degrees outside. Many brewers use artificial pumpkin flavoring and spices such as ginger, cinnamon or allspice (reminiscent of holiday time, not summer), while other use whole pumpkins and roast the gourd to caramelize sugars and provide more complex flavor. The always-popular Dogfish Head’s Punkin’ Ale (4pk/$8.99) is based off of a brown ale base beer, providing great depth of flavor and balance of spiciness, causing it to disappear from shelves early every year. Regardless of which fall seasonal is your favorite, be mindful of when you are purchasing it—there is plenty of time to enjoy Oktoberfests in October and Pumpkin Ales around Thanksgiving. Cheers!
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Favorite shows, old and new By Hima Mamillapalli Staff Writer
1. America’s Got Talent-Tuesday (NBC) - 6.8 2. America’s Got TalentWednesday (NBC) - 6.5 3. NCIS (CBS) - 5.9 4. NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS) - 5.7 5. Big Brother 13- Wednesday (CBS) - 4.9 6. Saturday Night Football (ABC) 4.6 7. NCIS 10 p.m. Special (CBS) - 5.0 8. Big Brother 13- Sunday (CBS) - 3.9 9. Bachelor Pad (ABC) - 4.5 10. Big Brother 13-Thursday (CBS) - 3.8
Welcome back for another exciting year of Stay Tuned, UConn. Not only do you have an awesome school year to look forward to, but there are also many TV shows, some new and some returning, that are a mustwatch this fall season. Let’s begin with some returning shows that you should tune into this fall.
Ratings from TVbytheNumbers.com Week ending September 4
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Alexandra Chando of ABC Family’s “The Lying Game” plays estranged twins Sutton and Emma, who reconnect amidst secrets and falseshoods.
‘The Lying Game’ gets viewers hooked 1. The Closer (TNT) - 6,831 2. Rizzoli & Isles (TNT) - 6,714 3. Royal Pains (USA) - 5,404 4. WWE Raw (USA) - 4,793 5. Storage Wars (AEN) - 4,762 6. WWE Raw (USA) - 4,516 7. Jersey Shore SSN 4 (MTV) 4,427 8. True Blood (HBOM) - 4,391 9. Burn Notice (USA) - 4,074 10. Necessary Roughness (USA) 4,001 Numbers from TVbytheNumbers.com Week ending September 4 (Numbers of viewers x 1000)
What I’m watching “Man, Woman, Wild” Discovery Channel Fridays, 8 p.m.
Taking off from how-to-survive series such as “Dual Survivor” and the everpopular “Man vs. Wild,” this show is lead by husband and wife co-stars Mykel Hawke and Ruth England. The two plunge themselves into situations that would dissolve even the strongest of relationships, including being stranded on a deserted island and floating lost at sea in the Bermuda Triangle. While the typical survivor formula is strung throughout the show, and the quick cuts make you question the show’s credibility, the couple’s chemistry and comedy almost makes it tolerable. This is not because they are a cute couple and you wish them well in their difficult endeavors, but because of the moments when the two want to kill each other. For example, in one of my favorite TV moments ever, Ruth is forced to give Mykel an enema at sea after he was suffering from conditions of heat stroke and severe dehydration. I’m not entirely sure why that helped, but it made for great entertainment. If you enjoy couples exchanging witty banter, survival shows or just like watching people be miserable, this is the show for you – just don’t take it too seriously. – Sam Marshall
By Loumarie Rodriguez Campus Correspondent The mystery continues to thicken on “The Lying Game,” starting right at the intro with Sutton’s adoptive father talking with his friend Alec on trying to keep secrets about what really happen to Sutton and Emma’s mother. They both have a fear that if the truth is revealed, they will lose everything they hold close to them. To make matters worse, someone planted Sutton’s stolen laptop in Ethan’s car. Although he is innocent, he is being forced to go to court in connection with the crime. While the real Sutton is in Los Angeles and Emma is at her home back in Arizona, the twins continue to communicate through the computer and discover a photo of their mother. Now there is the belief that their mother only wanted Emma, which puzzles Sutton.
Meanwhile, Sutton’s sister, Laurel, goes on a date with Justin, who used to be involved with Sutton’s friend, Shar. Shar is not too happy about this. However, there is something a little odd with Justin, but perhaps we’ll find out more about him in further episodes. Despite this, Emma begins to have nightmares in which Sutton’s mother reminds her how she used to have nightmares as a kid. Emma feels the only way she can figure out the nightmares is to talk to Ethan even though Sutton’s parents forbid her to see him. Emma soon finds out that Ethan has been suspended from school and fired from his job because of the stolen laptop. To make matters worse, he is being tried as an adult because of his past juvenile record. While Emma tries to figure out a way to help Ethan, Ted, Sutton’s father, is suspicious of fake Sutton, Emma in disguise, and begins to
keep a closer eye on her. Luckily, a break comes for Ethan as Laurel admits that she broke into Sutton’s room and stole the laptop in order to frame Ethan. Of course this is a lie, but it does clear Ethan’s good name. But there is still the thought that the real thief is somewhere out there trying to frame Ethan. Back in Los Angeles, the real Sutton figures out where to possibly find her and Emma’s mother. With a friend, she goes to the spot where Emma and their mother lived near a water tower. The house burned down a long time ago, which explains Emma’s nightmares, in which she relived the day when the house burned down. However, finding out this information just leads to more questions about what really happen that day. They also discover the mother’s name, Annie Hobbes. Back in Arizona, Sutton’s friends are heading to trouble
as a jealous Nisha tries hard to turn Sutton’s friends against her. Also she plans to blackmail Sutton’s other trusted friend, Mars, as she discovers that she is having a relationship with the ballet teacher which shortly ended after the photos were taken. At the end, Ted realizes that Laurel never stole the laptop, but was trying to help Sutton cover for Ethan and tells his thoughts to Alec. The episode ends with Ted telling him that Sutton discovered their mother’s real name, but Alec says he will take care of any dirty work. Who is this Annie Hobbes? Is she alive and, if so, why did she give up the twins? And why were they separated? These questions may be answered in tonight’s episode of “The Lying Game,” at 8 p.m. on ABC Family.
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‘Doctor’ returns to finish sixth season By Jason Wong Staff Writer After a two month hiatus, the mad man with a blue box has returned to television in the second half of the sixth season of “Doctor Who.” The Doctor has not disappointed, and in the past three episodes has met Adolf Hitler, battled monsters in a young boy’s closet and visited Apalapucia, the No. 2 planet for travelers in the universe. Beware: spoilers lie ahead. The season resumed with an episode entitled “Let’s Kill Hitler,” where the doctor and his companions accidentally crash the TARDIS (their time and space machine) through Hitler’s window, inadvertently saving him from a second group of time travelers who were attempting to punish him for his crimes. Shortly after, the doctor discovers that his companions’ (Amy and Rory) childhood friend Melody is actually their daughter and is known as River Song, a woman they have met several times in their previous travels. We learn that River is the person who kills the Doctor, but also saves his life. Finally, we discover that the Doctor’s death is time-locked, which means that it is a fixed event in time – or at least, that is
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Karen Gillan and Matt Smith of “Doctor Who” answer fan questions on the upcoming season at Comic-Con 2011 in San Diego, Calif., July 24
what a time-locked event has always meant in the past. Following that was the episode “Night Terrors,” in which the Doctor answers a distress call via his psychic paper from a small boy who is petrified of the monsters in his closet. Unfortunately, in this case the monsters are actually real. The Doctor, his companions and the boy’s father are transported into the world of the boy’s fears and
must discover the root cause of their existence to escape with their lives. Finally, in “The Girl Who Waited,” Amy is trapped in a separate time stream from the Doctor and Rory. The Doctor attempts to rescue her by using the TARDIS to smash through the time wall separating them, but misses by 36 years during which time Amy was completely alone and had to survive in the hostile world.
The doctor realizes that he can save the past Amy so that this future never happens, but is faced with a terrible choice in order to do so. “Doctor Who” continues to be one of the best science fiction series on television. It is easy to see why it boasts the title of being the longest running science fiction series ever.
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Big Bang Theory Last time on “The Big Bang Theory,” we left with perhaps one of the biggest shockers of the show: Penny and Raj ended up sleeping with each other after consuming a few too many drinks. Do you see a foreseeable future for these two? Or is it another one night stand that everybody would be better off forgetting? “The Big Bang Theory” returns to CBS on Thursday, September 22, at 8 p.m.
Bones Another chilling season of “Bones” is back and it promises to be better than ever. We left off last season with the death of Vincent Nigel-Murray, a promising intern at the Jefferson Institute lab. So how did Booth and Brennan grieve Vincent’s death? They had some hotsteamy sex that resulted in Brennan’s Eggo being totally preggo. “Bones” returns to FOX on November 3 at 9 p.m.
Gossip Girl It seems as if the show “Gossip Girl” has been going on for a while now and we would think that the producers are running out of ideas for each new season. Think about it, how many girls on the show has Nate Archibald NOT hooked up with? Seriously kid, keep it in your pants. Anyway, this new season of “Gossip Girl” promises to be different because Chuck and Blair are…no longer Chuck and Blair? Can such a world exist? “Gossip Girl” returns to the CW on Monday, September 26, at 8 p.m.
There are obviously a lot more shows returning to television this fall, and I will try my best to cover as many as possible. In the meantime, check out these new shows that may be worth watching this fall:
Charlie’s Angels I grew up watching the “Charlie’s Angels” movie and TV show all the time, which is why I am SO excited that they decided to make a new version of the show. “Charlie’s Angels” stars Minka Kelly, Annie Ilonzeh and Rachael Taylor as the crime-fighting trio also known as “Charlie’s Angels.” Together, under their boss, these ladies work hard to take down bad guys. To find out if the show is as good as its original, watch the premiere Thursday, September 22, on ABC at 8 p.m.
Heart of Dixie If you happen to be addicted to medical dramas such as “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Private Practice,” “Heart of Dixie” is a show that you might enjoy this fall. The show begins on the CW, Monday, September 26, at 9 p.m.
Homeland I love shows that are action packed and keep me on the edge of my seat. This is why I absolutely loved “24.” “Homeland” is a new TV show that premiers Sunday, October 2, at 10 p.m. on Showtime and has all of the things that I adored about “24.” The show is based on an Israeli series in which a CIA officer
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Monday, September 12, 2011
Focus
Louie and Wilfred
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FX aired season finales of its comedies “Louie” and “Wilfred” last Thursday, wrapping both shows before the return of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”
By Jason Bogdan Staff Writer For FX’s timeslot for primetime comedy, three is apparently a crowd. Both “Louie” and “Wilfred” had their season finale’s aired last Thursday before the return of the new season of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” The season closer for Louie, “New Jersey/Airport,” was a good example of this year’s collection of episodes that was a mix between usual relentless dark comedy and the recent attempts at emotional impact. The first half, “New Jersey,” was pure, uncomfortably hilarious gold. After trying to hook up with a female fan at one of his shows, Louie managed to find a lady that was up for keeping him company the whole night. From there, it just got weirder and weirder as the New Jersey dame took him to her place with disturbing results too hysterical to spoil. Long story short, he ends up trapped in Jersey with his beacon of hope being, of all people, Chris Rock. Putting Louie in his place after giving him a ride with some wise words, mixed with his trademark comedic shtick, was
sheer brilliance. The final segment, “Airport,” on the other hand was pure heartbreak. To be honest, I didn’t like the other episode this season focused around Louie and Pamela’s hopeless relationship, because the season one finale already put their true feelings in perspective. Louie loves her, but Pamela doesn’t find him attractive and clearly sees the lack of chemistry between the two of them; thus she has no desire to go any further than friends. The segment here was Pamela moving away nonchalantly, most likely for good, much to Louie’s chagrin. Unlike the show’s use of mixing despair with funny, it was pure bummer. But the comedy sketch that followed during the credits instantly brought the show back to the laughs. As for Wilfred, the season ended just as weird of a thought-provoking “comedy” that it all started with. The quality humor was at a lower rate than usual, but the amount of plot progression was worth it. Not only did it start with the claim by Wilfred that Ryan was possibly in a state of purgatory since his suicide attempt at the very beginning, but it also finally showed the
kind of life Ryan lived before meeting his imaginary manin-a-dog-suit friend. Feeling that helping Jenna get out of her current legal trouble will help make her fall for him, Ryan uses his attorney skills to get her job back with heavy amounts of deception and blackmail. Seeing how low Ryan went to get what he wants showed just why he did end up as a lonely, suicidal shut-in at the start of the series. After losing literally everything that he holds dear (including Wilfred) after failing in his dirty attempts at success, the episode ends in a shocking twist that showed the possibility that he really is in limbo. Whatever people would like to interpret that odd turn of development, all questions will be answered as Wilfred, like Louie, has been renewed for a new season. To be honest, I actually would have no problem if Wilfred actually did end this way for good since it is the kind of odd ending that the show was always veering towards. So here’s hoping the writers will make the second season worth finding out the truth behind what was with that closet.
Jason.Bogdan@UConn.edu
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Color, color everywhere at NY Fashion Week
NEW YORK (AP) — Pops of sunny, sultry citrine and sexy violet met up with muted sea tones on runways filled with flowers, both literal and reinvented, at New York Fashion Week’s spring previews as Day 3 kicked in Saturday. Color is everywhere this time around, combined with plenty of flounce and peekaboo sheers. “The violet color is very enticing and will be a must-have color for spring,” said Adam Glassman, creative director of O, The Oprah Magazine. Jill Stuart’s easy femininity came in soft, sherbet tones and resort-friendly silhouettes reminiscent of the early 1960s — with palm trees thrown in. The relaxed wear was inspired by a book on lingerie she found in Copenhagen. Prabal Gurung’s digitized flora was dominated by soft purples, full skirts and pants cut tight. Where there are flowers, there are birds. Look to Adam’s runway for the winged motif in light pinks, purples and whites. Happy color, color everywhere. Pantone had a beach party in mind when the color experts named the Top 10 shades for women next spring: tangerine tango, solar power, sodalite blue, bellflower, margarita, cabaret, driftwood, sweet lilac, cockatoo (think sea foamy) and starfish. Barely there is khaki and other moodish colors. Even the blacks were upbeat — though the music wasn’t — on Helmet Lang’s black-and-white dominated runway splashed with only yellow. There was nothing understated about Cynthia Rowley’s color muse. Her mirrored runway was about the “optical exuberance of gold” combined with “flash mobs of florals and animated shapes,” according to her notes. After eight days of spring previews in New York, the big show moves to London, then Milan and Paris. JILL STUART Key for Stuart: “I wanted this
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The Spring 2012 collection from Jill Stuart is modeled Saturday, Sept. 10, during Fashion Week in New York.
collection to be a dream, a fantasy.” It came against a backdrop of mint green, lipstick pink, tangerine and citrine yellow. Stuart has significantly softened her look in recent seasons, moving away from the Stevie Nicks rocker look that had been her hallmark. The clothes on this runway seemed more appropriate for the next-generation Doris Day. But there was something sweetly sexy in the drop-waist shifts, culottes and invertedpleat skirts, too. Even the romper, which looked more like a cute mini shift until you got close to it, worked here. While girlie, they weren’t prim or dowdy, which is surely important to Stuart’s typically young customer — someone like Emma Roberts, who sat in the front row. Stuart picked up on two print
motifs, the palm tree and flying birds, both of which reminded her of “happier times.”
PRABAL GURUNG Last year’s Council of Fashion Designers of America award winner for emerging talent has lived up to the hype. If Gurung is part of fashion’s future, his modern themes couldn’t have been more on target: A violet floral print dress with a dropped waist, plunging back and circle mini skirt seemed tailored for a space-age goddess. Sharp-shouldered jackets with skinny pants — some in a purple paint-dripped lame — also had that futuristic vibe. A white crepe dress with black side ties and an updated corset made appropriate for daylight offered a dominatrix look. And there’s a starlet out there who’d be lucky to wear the black halter gown with razor-sharp tulle pleats down the side. Laser-cut leather track shorts showed Gurung as a master of detail, although you have to wonder who is wearing those — and where she’s going. “Loved, loved, loved it,” gushed Adam Glassman, creative director of O, The Oprah Magazine. “Super fresh and chic. He obviously worked very hard on it. Polished and well made.”
CYNTHIA ROWLEY No recession runway for Rowley. She’s ready for flash — and flowers. The outfits certainly had spunk; no shrinking violet is going to wear an Asian-inspired “bouquet” tuxedo jacket with second-skin leggings in a zigzag print.
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» CELEBRITY
Sheen smiles through Comedy Central roast
Andy Whitfield dies at 39
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Andy Whitfield, who played the title role in the hit cable series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand," has died at age 39, according to representatives and family. Whitfield died Sunday in Sydney, Australia, 18 months after he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, manager Sam Maydew told the Associated Press. "On a beautiful sunny Sydney spring morning, surrounded by his family, in the arms of his loving wife, our beautiful young warrior Andy Whitfield lost his 18 month battle with lymphoma cancer," Whitfield's wife Vashti said in a statement. "He passed peacefully surrounded by love. Thank you to all his fans whose love and support have help carry him to this point. He will be remembered as the inspiring, courageous and gentle man, father and husband he was." Andy Whitfield — who was born in Wales and moved to Australia in 1999 — was a virtual unknown when he was cast as the legendary Thracian slave in "Spartacus," a role made famous by Kirk Douglas in the 1960 Stanley Kubrick film. The series proved a breakout hit for the Starz network and made waves with its graphic violence and sexuality. Whitfield appeared in all 13 episodes of the first season that aired in 2010, and was preparing to shoot the second when he was diagnosed with cancer. While waiting for Whitfield's treatment and expected recovery, the network produced a sixpart prequel, "Spartacus: Gods of the Arena," that aired earlier this year with only a brief voiceover from the actor. But in January after Whitfield's condition grew worse, the network announced that another Australian actor, Liam McIntyre, would take over the role. "We are deeply saddened by the loss of our dear friend and colleague, Andy Whitfield," Starz President and CEO Chris Albrecht said in a statement Sunday night. "We were fortunate to have worked with Andy in 'Spartacus' and came to know that the man who played a champion on-screen was also a champion in his own life." Whitfield's previous credits included appearances on the Australian TV shows "Packed to the Rafters" and "McLeod's Daughters."
CULVER CITY, Calif. (AP) — Charlie Sheen smiled through a Comedy Central roast as Mike Tyson, William Shatner, actress Kate Walsh and half a dozen comedians riffed on his high-profile year. Sheen was famously fired from his sitcom "Two and a Half Men" in March after a very public meltdown during which he claimed to be a "rock star from Mars" who has "tiger blood" and "Adonis DNA." The 46-year-old actor is the subject of the latest roast, which was taped Saturday night at Sony Studios and will air Sept. 19 on Comedy Central. Sheen took the stage in true rock-star fashion, as rock 'n' roll guitarist Slash heralded his introduction. The actor, dressed in a black suit, white shirt and red tie, smiled and laughed as roasters jabbed at his famous family, his notorious taste for drugs and prostitutes and his primetime firing. "Charlie's meltdown was so bad, Al Gore's making a documentary about it," quipped comedian Jeffrey Ross, who was dressed as Muammar Gaddafi in a military outfit with fringed epaulets and a sash. "The only time your kids get to see you is in re-runs," Ross said. Comedian Jon Lovitz also took a timely swipe at Sheen: "How much (cocaine) can Charlie
Sheen do?" he asked. "Enough to kill two and a half men." Priceline pitchman Shatner reminded Sheen to "book your next rehab stay through Priceline.com." Walsh, who is best known for her roles on "Grey's Anatomy" and "Private Practice," gave standup a shot at the roast. "It's amazing, despite all those years of abusing your lungs, your kidneys and your liver, the only thing you've had removed is your kids," she said to Sheen. The most bizarre performer was Tyson, who got plenty of laughs despite his almost unintelligible delivery. "I'm the greatest poet alive," he said as he concluded his time on stage. "I will eat your children!" Comedian Amy Schumer joked, "Is his interpreter here?" Steve-O of "Jackass" fame was also among the roasters. His big trick was running repeatedly into Tyson's fist, which he did until he reportedly broke his nose. The comics also took digs at Sheen's former live-in girlfriends, whom he referred to as "the goddesses," and exwife Brooke Mueller, who was sitting in the audience Saturday. After the comedians had their say, roast master Seth MacFarlane introduced the night's honoree as "a man with a big heart, because it's been dangerously enlarged by
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Charlie Sheen is seen at the "Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen" on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011 in Culver City, Calif.
cocaine use." Sheen jabbed back at his roasters and poked fun at his image. "It's true I've hung around with a lot of shady people over the years: Losers, drug addicts, dealers, desperate whores," he said. "But to have you all here on one night is really special." He sipped a drink as he addressed the crowd, who sat in bleachers and at bar tables inside Sony Studios' stage 27. At one point, he seemed to
he continued. "They've seen me in jail. They've seen me rushed to emergency rooms. They've seen me dragged into court. But seeing me on basic cable would kill them." He said he's done with his catchphrase — winning! — because he feels he's already won. "This roast may be over, but I'm Charlie Sheen, and in here burns an internal fire," he said, touching his chest. "I just have to remember to keep it away from a crack pipe."
reflect sincerely on his career, talking about how he had "the biggest salary on television" and publicly enjoyed drugs and porn stars before telling off his boss. "And then it was gone in one fiery public flameout," he said. "It was only when the smoke cleared I realized just how lucky I am, because even after all that, I still have a family that loves me. That's why they're not here tonight,"
» BOOKS
New book shows other side of Jackie Kennedy
NEW YORK (AP) — It's a side of Jacqueline Kennedy only friends and family knew. Funny and inquisitive, canny and cutting. In "Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy," the former first lady was not yet the jet setting celebrity of the late 1960s or the literary editor of the 1970s and '80s. But she was also nothing like the soft-spoken fashion icon of the three previous years. She was in her mid-30s, recently widowed, but dry-eyed and determined to set down her thoughts for history. Kennedy met with historian and former White House aide Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. in her 18th century Washington house in the spring and early summer of 1964. At home and at ease, as if receiving a guest for afternoon tea, she chatted about her husband and their time in the White House. The young Kennedy children, Caroline and John Jr., occasionally pop in. On the accompanying audio discs, you can hear the shake of ice inside a drinking glass. The tapes were to be sealed for decades and were among the last documents of her private thoughts. She never wrote a memoir and became a legend in part because
of what we didn't know. The book is coming out Wednesday as part of an ongoing celebration of the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's first year in office. Jacqueline Kennedy died in 1994, and Schlesinger in 2007. The world, and Jacqueline Kennedy, would change beyond imagination after 1964. But at the time of these conversations blacks were still "Negroes" and feminists were still suspect even in the view of a woman as sophisticated as Kennedy, who a decade later would grant an interview to Gloria Steinem's "Ms." magazine. In the book's foreword, Caroline Kennedy faults Schlesinger for asking so few questions about her mother. As historian Michael Beschloss notes in the introduction, Jacqueline Kennedy once accepted that wives were defined by their husbands' careers and worried about "emotional" women entering politics. She enjoyed having her husband "proud of her," saw no reason to have a policy opinion that wasn't the same as his and laughed at the thought of "violently liberal women" who disliked JFK and preferred the more effete Adlai Stevenson.
"Jack so obviously demanded from a woman — a relationship between a man and a woman where a man would be the leader and a woman be his wife and look up to him as a man," she said. "With Adlai you could have another relationship where — you know, he'd sort of be sweet and you could talk, but you wouldn't ever ... I always thought women who were scared of sex loved Adlai." There are no spectacular revelations in the Schlesinger discussions and virtually nothing about JFK's assassination. Kennedy's health problems and his extramarital affairs were still years from public knowledge and from the knowledge of aides such as Schlesinger, who would often say he saw no "bimbos" in the White House halls. Jacqueline Kennedy speaks warmly throughout of her husband, remembering him as dynamic and perceptive and free of grudges, an assignment his wife and others took on for him. Like any powerful family, the Kennedys had complicated relationships with those who shared their lives at the top. They valued loyalty, vision and ingenuity. They hated dullness, indecision and selfpromotion, even among their own. Jacqueline Kennedy dismissed the idea that the eldest Kennedy son, Joseph Jr., would have been
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In this Oct. 5, 1960 file photo, Jacqueline Kennedy poses at her typewriter where she writes her weekly "Candidate's Wife" column in her Georgetown home in Washington. President John F. Kennedy openly scorned the notion of Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson succeeding him in office, according to a book of newly released interviews with his widow, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy
president had he not been killed in World War II. "He would have been so unimaginative, compared to Jack," she said. She contrasted the integrity of Robert F. Kennedy, the president's brother and attorney general, with the designs of sister-in-law
Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Robert Kennedy had begged JFK not to appoint him, fearing charges of nepotism. Eunice Kennedy, meanwhile, was anxious to see her husband, Sargent Shriver, named head of the department of Health, Education and Welfare.
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Sports
» MLB
Red Sox lose 9-1 as Rays finish sweep
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Suddenly, the Red Sox are in a race. Jon Lester was unable to stop Boston's slide on Sunday and the Tampa Bay Rays cruised to a 9-1 rout, finishing a threegame sweep to move within 3½ games of the AL wild card leaders. Boston has lost five consecutive games, its longest skid since opening the season 0-6, and nine of 11 overall. "We're kind of in a fight right now, we know that," manager Terry Francona said. "It's not real pretty. We'll come out and fight, and hopefully play better. I always feel like we're going to play well and when we don't, we're going to fix it. I still feel that way." The teams play each other four more times, in a four-game
series beginning Thursday night at Fenway Park. The Red Sox also dropped 3½ games behind the first-place New York Yankees in the AL East. "They're frustrated," Francona said. "We all are. That's nothing that a good, nice, clean crisp game won't help." James Shields came within two outs of his 12th complete game this season and B.J. Upton hit his first grand slam for Tampa Bay, which improved to a season-high 17 games over .500 at 81-64. The Rays have won 21 games in a row when scoring five runs or more. "We needed to win these," manager Joe Maddon said. "There's no other way to look at it. Under the circumstances, you've got to do what we did or it's pretty much almost impossible to recover. Our guys believe
we can do this. It's truly not impossible." Tampa Bay was 10 games behind the Yankees in the wildcard standings on Aug. 7. Lester (15-7) gave up four runs and eight hits over four innings. Boston starting pitchers have gone five innings or less in nine of the last 11 games. Lester had allowed one earned run or less in his previous five starts, going 4-0 during that stretch. The left-hander threw 43 pitches in the first and 111 overall. "Too many pitches," Lester said. "I didn't have anything. It was one of those days. Just had no command of one pitch. Picked the wrong time to have one of these." The Red Sox did get some encouraging news: Francona said Josh Beckett, out with a
sprained right ankle, is scheduled to throw off a bullpen mound Monday and did not completely rule out the righthander from pitching Thursday. "We'll see how he does," Francona said. "I think that might be a little ambitious, but I think he wants to do it, which is a good sign." Shields (15-10), who has won four consecutive starts en route to his career-best 15th win, allowed seven hits over 8 1-3 innings. Coming off a 5-1 complete-game victory over Texas last Monday, the right-hander was replaced by Dane De La Rosa after issuing a one-out walk in the ninth on his 121st pitch. "We're back in the hunt," Shields said. "They know that we're right behind them."
Yankees avoid sweep at hands of Angels ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Peter Bourjos is generally considered the Los Angeles Angels' best fielder, and he only lost the fly ball in the sun for a moment. A team in a difficult playoff chase usually can't afford such mistakes — particularly when facing the New York Yankees. Robinson Cano and Curtis Granderson homered, and New York scored two key runs when Bourjos dropped Mark Teixeira's seventh-inning fly in a 6-5 victory over the Angels on Sunday, snapping a four-game skid. Howie Kendrick and Bourjos each hit a two-run homer for the Angels, who dropped 2½ games behind AL West-leading Texas with just their second loss in eight games. Erick Aybar had four hits for the Angels, who completed a 6-3 homestand by going 0 for 7 with runners in scoring position. "We shot ourselves in the foot all day on the offensive side," manager Mike Scioscia said. "We had chances to score runners with just some outs, and
we left a lot of guys on third base with less than two outs. You need to pick up those runs and keep pressure on them. We just didn't play the kind of allaround type of game that's going to lead to a win." A day after pulling within 1½ games of the division lead, Los Angeles was left lamenting a close loss and a blown three-run lead after the Rangers routed Oakland 8-1 earlier. New York had two runners on in the seventh when Bourjos allowed Teixeira's fly to deep center to pop out of his glove. Bourjos then missed the cutoff man with his throw, allowing Derek Jeter to score easily from first base on the error. "It kind of flashed into the sun for a second, but it's a play I've got to make," Bourjos said. "I think I needed to get in a little better position to catch it. It was a turning point in that game, and we lost it right there." Ervin Santana (11-11) couldn't match the shutdown efforts of Jered Weaver and Dan
Haren earlier in the series for the Angels. Santana had eight strikeouts, yielding eight hits and four walks before leaving with two runners on in the sixth. Jeter had two hits and scored the go-ahead run for the firstplace Yankees, who moved 3½ games ahead of slumping Boston in the AL East — their biggest lead of the season. The Yankees' four-game skid was their second-longest this season, but they still haven't lost four straight road games all year. New York also avoided getting swept by the Angels for the first time since July 2009. The Yankees might be stumbling a bit — but compared to the Red Sox, who were pounded again by Tampa Bay on Sunday, they're rolling. "We've lost a lot of tough games," Teixeira said. "We're beat up, very tired, but ... we needed a break like that. We've been through a lot lately, and for us to scratch this one out, we could smell it. Once we got that lead, we weren't going to give
it back." Mariano Rivera picked up his 599th career save, moving two behind career leader Trevor Hoffman. Rivera made his 1,036th appearance, with a catcher making his major league debut: Austin Romine, who grew up 10 minutes away in Lake Forest, Calif. "We got a little bit lucky today," Rivera said. "That's part of the game, but we won." Romine made an unlikely debut one day after getting a call from manager Joe Girardi, a week after his minor league season concluded. Romine, who replaced fellow catching prospect Jesus Montero in the seventh, played in front of more than 20 family members — including Angels infielder Andrew Romine, his older brother. "It's a tremendous honor to catch (Rivera)," said Romine, the fifth catcher used by New York in four days. "I've played in this ballpark before, so there's a comfort level."
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Jon Lester throws a pitch during Boston's 9-1 loss to Tampa Bay on Sunday.
Unbeaten Huskies continue win streak from HUSKIES, page 14 “We’re happy about the two shutouts,” said coach Nancy Stevens. “In our first three games we did concede goals but we are in a position now where we are playing better defensively and the result is the two shutouts. Everyone on the field contributes to the defensive effort. It was a total team effort.” The Huskies are off until next Saturday but will be in store for a challenging weekend. They play host to Big East rival Villanova on Saturday and a fellow top-ten team, No. 10 Boston College, on Saturday. Although pleased with her team’s performance on Sunday, Stevens is looking
for some improvement on the offensive end as the young season progresses. “We are getting better at moving the ball east to west in the midfield. Transferring the ball is coming along and that is what we need to do more and more of. Any team can go north to south, but a good team can go east to west before they penetrate. We are doing a better job at that but it will continue to be a focus.”
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Texans rout Manning-less Colts HOUSTON (AP) — Reggie Wayne gathered the Indianapolis offense on the sideline in the fourth quarter against the Houston Texans on Sunday and shared a simple message. "We're going to be all right," Wayne said he told his teammates. It was a pep talk the Colts needed on a day when they were dominated by the Texans in a 34-7 loss with Peyton Manning out with a neck injury. Matt Schaub threw for 220 yards and a touchdown, Ben Tate rushed for 116 yards and another score in relief of injured Arian Foster, and the Texans took advantage of the miscues of Manning's replacement, Kerry Collins, for the win. Manning, the four-time MVP, didn't travel with the team to Houston as he recovers from his third neck surgery in the 19 months. His streak of 227 consecutive starts, including playoffs, ended. Wayne remained optimistic despite the tough start and finished his fourth quarter speech, by telling the team "there's no reason to worry." "We were in the same position last year and we still accomplished our goal and that's taking care of our division," Wayne said. He kept referring to the Colts losing to the Texans 34-24 in Week 1 last season and still making the playoffs and insisted that this loss is no different. "We'll never know if this would have been different if 18 (Manning) was here," Wayne said. "But the guys we have here now, we've got to deal with this. So for us, it feels like last year. We came out and we lost. We've just got to build off of this, which I think we will." The 38-year-old Collins was lured out of retirement less than three weeks ago to take a crash course in the offense. Based on the opener, the Colts need to find another solution. Collins fumbled on consecutive snaps that set up Texans
touchdowns in the first quarter, and he was sacked three times. He didn't throw an interception, but the Colts mustered only 236 yards and 15 first downs against Houston's 3-4 defense guided by new coordinator Wade Phillips. "It's so hard after a loss like that to think about how you did personally," Collins said. "Everybody had a hand in it in one way or another, but as quarterback of the team, regardless of how long I've been here, I need to take care of the ball better." The Texans sprinted to a 34-0 halftime lead, even with 2010 NFL rushing leader Foster deactivated with a left hamstring injury. Foster ran for 231 yards in the opener against the Colts last year, but the Texans hardly missed him. Tate, a 2010 second-round draft pick who sat out last season with a broken ankle, carried 24 times and Ward scored a touchdown before leaving late in the game with an ankle injury. Indy, meanwhile, seemed overwhelmed on both sides from the start. Mario Williams hinted what was coming when he sacked Collins for a 9-yard loss on Indy's fourth snap. Williams, Houston's sacks leader in each of the past five seasons, made his first start at outside linebacker, one of the big changes introduced by Phillips. Indianapolis coach Jim Caldwell didn't blame Collins for the lopsided defeat. "It was tough out there," Caldwell said of Collins' first start for the Colts. "Obviously he had some pressure and some situations where protection broke down on him. He didn't perform as well as he is capable of because of that, but he made some nice throws. One guy or two guys can't do it all. It's a team game." The Colts' defense was just as vulnerable, allowing 259 yards and 19 first downs in the first half. Neil Rackers finished
Houston's second series with a 25-yard field goal before the romp started in earnest. Collins lost the ball when he was hit by defensive end Antonio Smith, and nose tackle Shaun Cody recovered at the Indy 12. Ward scored on a 1-yard run for a 10-0 lead. Collins dropped the next snap from center Jeff Saturday, rookie defensive end J.J. Watt pounced on the loose ball, then Tate ran into the end zone with 1:41 left in the opening quarter. "This wasn't the day obviously that we'd hoped for," Collins said. "We didn't help ourselves certainly by those two turnovers back to back and giving them a short field. I don't care what the situation is, we just can't do those things and expect to have a chance to be in the ball game." The Texans couldn't feel comfortable just yet, recalling they'd blown 17-point leads to the Colts in Houston in 2008 and '09. Manning wasn't here to bail out Indy, though, and Houston poured it on. Schaub found Andre Johnson open in the back of the end zone for a 24-0 lead. Johnson had seven catches for 95 yards in the game. Indy failed to get a first down on its next possession, and the Texans turned to their backup running backs to drive downfield again. Tate broke a 14-yard run and Ward had an 8-yarder before Rackers kicked a 29-yard field goal. Jacoby Jones fielded a punt with just over a minute left in the first half and outran the Colts down the sideline for a 79-yard touchdown. It was Jones' third punt return for a touchdown and his first since 2008. Tate fumbled with about 10 minutes left in the game, and the Colts averted the shutout when Wayne caught a 6-yard TD pass from Collins.
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Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton sits on the field during the second half of an NFL football game against the Arizona Cardinals, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, in Glendale, Ariz.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Ravens had just beaten their bitter rivals in recordbreaking fashion, and some of the players felt inclined to put some perspective on their 35-7 manhandling of the defending AFC champion Pittsburgh Steelers. Although their overwhelming victory Sunday provided a bit of payback for January's playoff loss — and don't think the Ravens did not remember that game — coach John Harbaugh and his players have turned their attention toward this season. And Baltimore could not have possibility started it any better. Joe Flacco threw three touchdown passes, Haloti Ngata led an inspired defense that forced a team-record seven turnovers, and the Ravens rolled to their most lopsided victory in a hotly contested series that began in 1996. "The whole thing about ghosts, demons, monkeys on your back — that's not real to us," Harbaugh said. "This is the 2011 Baltimore Ravens." Ray Rice ran for 107 yards and scored twice for the Ravens, who bolted to a 14-0 lead in the first quarter and never let up. It was a rematch of a secondround playoff game in which the Steelers rallied to beat Baltimore 31-24. That day, the Ravens let a 21-7 halftime lead evaporate with three turnovers in the third quarter. At halftime of this one, Baltimore linebacker Ray Lewis spoke loudly in the locker room after his teammates compared the two games. "They were saying, 'We've been here before,'" Lewis said. "No, we haven't been here before. This is a whole new year." This time, the Ravens got three takeaways in the third quarter to turn a 21-7 advantage into a rout.
Revenge? Not quite. Just a chance to move on. "That playoff taste? Now it's over," Rice said. "They beat us in the playoffs, all right. We got that burden off our shoulders, boom, we're one up on them. That's how we got to approach this." Ngata was the driving force Sunday, causing a fumble and deflecting a pass that produced an interception. Ed Reed also picked off two passes for the Ravens, who mercilessly harassed nemesis Ben Roethlisberger. Roethlisberger had won seven straight starts against the Ravens, but in this one he was 22 for 41 for 280 yards and three interceptions. "I guess they were waiting for this one," Roethlisberger said. "It's not the way you want to start it for us, obviously (but) I'd rather this be a Week 1 loss than a Week 13, 14, 15 loss." The defeat ended Pittsburgh's eight-game winning streak in season openers. The Steelers committed six turnovers after halftime and were dominated on both sides of the field. "We got beat into submission," linebacker James Farrior said. Flacco went 17 for 29 without an interception, getting the best of Roethlisberger and giving the Ravens an early advantage over their AFC North foes. "This was a huge win for us against Pittsburgh today, but without us playing great in these next 15 games, it's not going to mean anything," Flacco said. In the past 51 games, only twice has Pittsburgh allowed a runner to reach 100 yards. Rice did it both times. Rice had more yards at halftime on rushes (89) and catches (38) than Pittsburgh did on its 26 offensive plays (113). Before the game, both teams and the crowd of 71,434 marked
the 10-year anniversary of 9/11 by standing silent while "Taps" was played over the public address system. Then a giant American flag was unfurled, covering the entire field. Players on both sidelines held the flag in place while the national anthem was sung. The Steelers won the coin toss and deferred to the second half, giving the Ravens the chance to get the ball first. Baltimore made the most of the opportunity — and didn't take much time doing so. Rice ran for 36 yards on the first play, then carried for 3 yards to the 27 before Flacco lofted a touchdown pass to Anquan Boldin. Baltimore turned a Roethlisberger miscue into a touchdown to make it 14-0 late in the first quarter. Roethlisberger fumbled when sacked by Terrell Suggs and Ngata recovered the ball at the Pittsburgh 37. Flacco's 29-yard completion to tight end Dennis Pitta set up a 1-yard touchdown run by Rice. The Steelers then got their first score of the 2011 season, an 11-yard touchdown pass from Roethlisberger to Emmanuel Sanders. Baltimore went up 21-7 with an 84-yard march in which Flacco converted three thirdand-6 situations, the last with an 11-yard touchdown pass to Rice on third down. In the third quarter, Ngata forced a fumble on the first play from scrimmage by driving into Rashard Mendenhall immediately after the running back took a handoff. Ngata recovered the loose ball, and Flacco threw an 18-yard TD pass to Ed Dickson on the next play. To add insult, Baltimore added a 2-point conversion when holder Sam Koch ran the ball in on a fake kick.
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Cam Newton began his NFL career on the same field where he ended his collegiate one and was spectacular. His 422 yards passing are a record for any rookie in his NFL opener and tied Detroit's Matt Stafford for most for a rookie in any game. Yet Newton didn't leave a winner. A rookie on the other team made the game-winning play. Patrick Peterson brushed off a long afternoon at cornerback with an 89-yard punt return for the go-ahead touchdown and the Arizona Cardinals escaped with a 28-21 victory over Newton's Carolina Panthers on Sunday. The No. 1 pick in the draft who had struggled at times in the preseason, Newton completed 24 of 37 passes for 422 yards and two touchdowns with one interception. "He was everything everybody didn't expect him to be," said Steve Smith, who caught eight of those passes for 178 yards and both scores. "He was on point, he made some great runs, he made some great reads, made some fantastic throws. He
made some throws out there that honestly as a receiver it made it easy so catch them." The statistics seemed to mean little to the big, young quarterback, who was unbeaten in his BCS championship season at Auburn. "The last time I lost a game was Navarro Junior College," Newton said. "What do you want me to say, it feels great? It is not a comfortable feeling for me." The Panthers had first down at the Arizona 11 late in the game, and even got an extra down on an offside call, but failed to score. Steve Smith, who wore redwhite-and-blue gloves and cleats, had eight catches for 178 yards for Carolina, including touchdown catches of 77 and 26 yards. Kevin Kolb was 18 of 27 for 309 yards, including touchdown passes of 48 and 70 yards, in his first game for Arizona. Peterson, the fifth overall pick in the draft out of LSU, was not surprised by Newton's debut. "I can't wait to see what he's going to do throughout the season because there were so many critics coming into the draft," Peterson said. "I thought he had
a pretty good night tonight, so we'll definitely see what the season brings for Mr. Cam." The same could be said for Mr. Peterson. He hauled in the punt and broke a tackle and darted downfield on the long run, but almost paid dearly for a showboat move at the finish. Peterson began to strut, not realizing Carolina's Mike Goodson was gaining on him. Peterson glanced around, realized the error of his ways, and sprinted away, diving over the goal line to put Arizona ahead 28-21 with 7:15 to play. It was the second-longest punt return in franchise history. "Yeah, he was pretty close," Peterson said. Kolb said "anybody else fair catches that thing." "That just shows you the confidence that he has in himself and how tough of a kid he is," Kolb said. "He's going to be a major weapon for us." Peterson acknowledges he has a lot to learn about the intricacies of playing cornerback in the NFL. As a punt returner, though, he's a natural.
Agabiti: UFC is a sport that could continue to gain popularity from MY, page 14 I don’t know if I could go so far as to say that I’m interested in UFC, but I’m definitely not turned off by it. The simple, yet intense formula of one man’s strength pitted against another’s in an organized and thought out manner sounds like it could be awesome, awful or somewhere in between. UFC has emerged on the sports scene like that stereotypical new guy in high school that moves from Southern California to a small-town high school in Hickville. The kid plays acoustic guitar, claims to have met a few B-list celebrities and talks a big game about his athletic abilities. All the easy girls fawn
over him instantly, other girls aren’t so easily convinced and guys act like they don’t care, but they do. As hard as you try, you can’t ignore him. The only thing is, you can’t really know what to make of him just by observing from a distance. He could be making up the celebrity stuff, only know three chords and play the same five songs, depending on who’s around, and not know a basketball from a softball. But at the same time, he could be a classically trained musician, be on a first name basis with movie stars, read ancient greek and throw a football 55 yards from his butt. You have to hang out with him to find out. What I’m trying to express
is that I guess I have to give this UFC thing a try because I can’t ignore it any longer. It’s more then a national trend, it’s an up-and-coming sport. I might like it, I might hate it, or still yet, I might watch it and decide it’s kind of like my relationship with the NHL and I’ll only know enough about it to sort of be able to know what’s going on. Either way, I’ll be tuning in to ‘Spike’ September 17 at 9 p.m. eastern time to watch Jake Shields take on Jake Ellenberger a.k.a. the Juggernaut
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Huskies compete at Bryant By Krishna Scully Staff Writer The UConn women’s cross country team took part in the Bryant Invitational this past weekend with seven Huskies competing as head coach Andrea Grove-McDonough removed the top runners, giving the initiative to the less advanced athletes. The Huskies fell short as the nationally-ranked Providence women’s cross country team took first place with 19 points, 60 points better than Harvard, who placed second. The Friars proved that they deserved their No. 3 spot in the rankings as they earned the top three finishes and placed six within the top nine. Junior Jeanne Theleen finished as the Huskies' top runner in 22nd place out of 96 with a time of 19:18.89, while sophomore Cassandra Goutos was not far behind with a time of 19:25.80, coming in 24th.
A few seconds behind was Junior Kimberly Moran who took the 30th position with a time of 19:42.43. Sophomore Cassondra Hunter and graduate student Maureen Stringham took 37th and 46th place with times of 20:00.9 and 20:19.64 respectively. “The competition was better than last week with our biggest threat being providence,” said Moran. “I think our team ran really competitively and we had a lot of personal bests. Me on the other hand, I got pushed down in the first 200 meters of the race and was set back pretty far from the beginning. I still ran as hard as I could and if I could change one thing it would be to run the race over in order to get a more accurate result of what I can actually run. The only positive thing is that we still kept our composure even though one of our teammates went down.” Freshman Terra Briody and senior Christine Vogel rounded out the Husky competitors by placing 52nd 20:30.21 and 53rd
20:30.47, respectively. “The Bryant Invite was the most competitive meet we’ve been to so far which was exciting,” said Goutos. “As a team we all went out pretty quick for the first mile which got us into good positions but may have made us a bit tired later on in the race. I think if I were given the chance to do it again I would’ve gone out more conservatively, but overall I thought the team ran great and everyone worked really well together out on the course.” After countless miles and plenty of anticipation, the Huskies will travel to Minneapolis on Saturday, Sept. 24, to compete in the Roy Griak Invitational at the Les Bolstad Golf Course.
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Devin Prendergast fights off a Terrier defender during UConn's 3-0 win over Boston University on Friday night at Morrone Stadium in Storrs. The Huskies fell to Harvard on Sunday in Cambridge, Mass.
Women's soccer begins conference play Thursday versus rival Syracuse from UCONN, page 14 “It was a great team effort by everyone from start to finish and the result we have been working towards all week,” assistant coach Margaret Rodriguez told uconnhuskies.com. Included in that team effort was senior goalkeeper Jessica Dulski, whose play in the first half paved the way for Huskies’ second-half offensive explosion. The reigning Big East Goalkeeper of the Week, Dulski stopped five Terrier shots in the first 45 minutes, and six overall, en route to picking up her second shutout of the season.
On Sunday, however, Dulski and UConn’s defense would not fare quite as well,. The Huskies dropped a 2-1 decision to Harvard. UConn was fighting an uphill battle throughout much of the game. Just 1:25 in, Harvard midfielder Lauren Urke put the Crimson Tide in front with a goal. The Huskies would manage the equalizer, though, in the 16th minute after freshman Riley Houle blasted a shot from beyond the 18-yard box into the top left corner, and the teams went into halftime with the game knotted 1-1. But Harvard would retake the lead with another quick
goal, this time via a header by defender Alexandra Conigliaro less than 10 minutes into the second half. Urke ended up with the assist on the play, capping off a three-point afternoon for the freshman. UConn would dominate the shot total down the stretch – outshooting the Crimson Tide 6-3 after intermission – but could not manage to get another one past Harvard goalie Emba Cheta. The Huskies drop to 3-3 on the season, as they get set to begin conference play Thursday against Syracuse at 7 p.m.
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Oct. 8 West Virginia Noon
Oct. 15 South Florida TBA
Sept. 27 Yale 7 p.m.
Oct. 1 Louisville 7 p.m.
Men’s Soccer (5-0-0) Sept. 16 Boston U. 7 p.m.
Sept. 20 Boston College 7 p.m.
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Sept. 25 Sept. 30 Cincinnati Notre Dame 1 p.m. 7:30 p.m.
Field Hockey (5-0) Sept. 17 Villanova Noon
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Sept. 24 Providence 1 p.m.
Sept. 28 UMass 7 p.m.
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Sept. 17 Quinnipiac Invite All Day
Sept. 18 Quinnipiac Invite All Day
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THE Storrs Side Men’s soccer stays unbeaten while football takes first loss By Aaron Kasmanoff-Dick Staff Writer Number of the week: 5-0 The undefeated No. 3 UConn men’s soccer team extended their streak with a 1-0 shutout of SMU on Sunday. Junior Max Wasserman had his second goal of the season on a free kick. Both of his goals this season have come from free kicks. Freshman Goalkeeper Andre Blake only needed to make one save in the game, a hard kick in the 74th minute that he brought down with little effort. UConn had 2 shots on goal to SMU’s 1. The Huskies had shutout Tulsa 1-0 on Friday. Wish We Were There UConn Volleyball shut out New Hampshire 3-0 on Saturday, giving Head Coach Holly Strauss-O’Brien her 100th victory as the Huskies’ head coach. The win makes her only the 10th active Big East coach to reach that milestone. The team performed well at the tournament, ending the weekend with a 2-1 record. The lone loss came Saturday against
Indiana State. The Huskies are 6-4 on the season. Big Letdown of the week The UConn football team lost against Vanderbilt on Saturday 24 to 21. After a huge explosive victory at Fordham the week before, Coach Paul Pasqualoni must be disappointed with his team’s performance in the matchup. Connecticut’s offense only managed 193 yards on the game, 118 of which came from redshirt freshman Lyle McCombs, one of two bright spots for the Huskies on a tough day. McCombs’ effort made this his second collegiate 100plus rushing yards game in a row- an impressive feat considering it was also only his second collegiate football game. The second ray of sunshine was Senior Kicker Dave Teggart, who became UConn’s all-time scoring leader with a first quarter field goal.
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Grossman leads Redskins past Giants
LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Rex Grossman celebrated his first touchdown pass with a giddy backward trot toward the sideline, then turned around and kept running for another 20 yards or more along the Washington Redskins bench. He didn’t have to mope over any interceptions. There was more Good Rex than Bad Rex in his first Week 1 start since 2007. Grossman completed 21 of 34 passes for 305 yards Sunday with two touchdowns, no interceptions and one lost fumble — mostly avoiding the type of negative play that has so often defined his career — as the Redskins opened the season with a 28-14 win over the New York Giants. Grossman’s performance, at least for a week, justifies coach Mike Shanahan’s decision in a quarterback competition against John Beck that lasted the entire preseason. After an 0 for 4 start, Grossman started spreading the ball around against a shorthanded Giants defense. Anthony Armstrong had one touchdown reception and set up another with a diving catch at the 1-yard line. Fred Davis had a career-high 105 yards on five catches. A stadium of burgundy and gold became red, white and blue — in color and in spirit — during pregame ceremonies for the game featuring the cities hit by the terrorists attacks 10 years ago. Chants of “U-S-A! U-S-A!” greeted former Secretary of State Colin Powell as he walked onto the field to perform the coin toss, and the fans — most holding miniature American flags — chanted again after a national anthem during which players from both teams helped hold an enormous version of the Stars and Stripes that covered the entire field. The Redskins fans kept cheering as their team ended a six-game losing streak against the Giants, beating their NFC East nemesis at home for the first time since 2005. The score was tied at 14 at halftime, but Washington firstround pick Ryan Kerrigan swung the momentum early in the third quarter when he batted Eli Manning’s pass into the air, caught it, returned it 9 yards and found himself jumping up and down over a go-ahead touchdown in his NFL debut. Manning completed 18 of 32 passes for 268 yards and was sacked four times by a Redskins defense that ranked 31st in the league last year but has been retooled around former Giants defensive tackle Barry Cofield. Grossman’s solid day came against a Giants defense that can’t seem to go more than a few days without losing a player. Defensive end Justin Tuck was inactive with a lingering neck injury, adding to a lengthy list that already included defensive end Osi Umemyiora (knee), cornerback Prince Amukamara (foot), linebacker Jonathan Goff (knee) plus several others from training camp. Rookie sixth-round draft pick Greg Jones started at middle linebacker.
THE Pro Side NFL starts with a thriller, Giants and Big Ben disappoint By Dan Kagan Campus Correspondent Game of the Week: New Orleans vs. Green Bay: The Packers began their title defense campaign Thursday night versus the Saints in the offensive showdown of the weekend. Despite a 419 yard, three touchdown effort from gunslinger Drew Brees, the Packers managed to gain control of the game early after Aaron Rodgers connected with Florida State alum Greg Jennings for an eight-yard touchdown pass. Second year running back James Starks, despite running for a meager 57 yards, still averaged more than four yards per carry, and scored one of the Packers’ two rushing touchdowns, the only two of the game. The Saints were not to be put down easily, however, as Brees led his Saints to a score late in the game to make it 42-34. With under a minute left, Brees then led his team down the field in a textbook one-minute drill, only to have rookie Mark Ingram outrightly stuffed at the goal line as time expired. Rodgers capped off his season opener with 312 yards and three touchdowns.
The Big Letdown: New York vs. Washington Week one did not bode well for the visiting Giants at FedEx Field Sunday evening. Following a recovered fumble that could have turned the tide of the game, Eli Manning instead threw a costly ball that was deflected and picked off by Redskin defensive lineman Ryan Kerrigan, who promptly ran it back nine yards to the house. The normally explosive tandem of Bradshaw and Jacobs was only able to amass a sorry 73 yards as the Redskins, led by a surprisingly accurate, 305 yard, two touchdown (no interception) performance by Rex Grossman. The Giants will look to turn it around next week versus the Rams on Monday night. Number of the Week: 3 That is the amount of interceptions Ben Roethlisberger threw Sunday versus the Ravens. That is more than Rex Grossman, Matt Stafford, Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers and weathered veteran Matt Hasselbeck threw combined this weekend, and is just two short of Big Ben’s season total last year.
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My ‘Ultimate’ dilemma Dan Agabiti This past weekend, “Warrior,” a new sports movie starring Tom Hardy and Nick Nolte premiered and the sport around which the plot hinges is mixed martial arts, or MMA. This has got me thinking, not so much about the movie, but about MMA as a sport. In the past five or so years, MMA has exploded in popularity. The sport’s primary league and biggest moneymaking entity is UFC—Ultimate Fighting Championship—and right now, UFC is what boxing was 15 or 20 years ago. Guys are coming together to watch the title fights on payper-view and the main fights draw immense audiences, both on television and in arenas across the nation. This sport has become a very big deal. Call me soft, but honestly, I have no idea how I feel about UFC. I don’t hate it and yet, at the same time I’m not in love with, or even indifferent toward it. I don’t think, like some, that UFC is nothing more than barbaric, mindless violence. When the sport was in its early stages, it could certainly be said that the brutality was far too excessive and concern for contestants was nonexistent. In a 1999 article in Slate, John McCain is quoted as calling it “human cockfighting.” But in the past decade or so, the league has done a very good job of introducing reforms to make the action easier to stomach. During UFC 12, fish hooking (placing your hands into an opponent’s mouth and pulling outward) became illegal and weight classes were introduced to even out the fights. For UFC 14, gloves became mandatory and in UFC 15, the league banned headbutts, strikes to the back of the neck or head, groin shots, kicking an opponent while down and hair pulling. UFC is clearly a league that cares, at least in some capacity, for the well being of its athletes. The ‘mindless and idiotic’ argument crumbles even further, in my opinion, once I consider the demographic behind it and the type of people who are watching and even endorsing these events. The people watching it are, for the most part, 18 to 34-yearold middle class, financially savvy and well educated men. A lot of my friends and a lot of guys on Twitter who I really respect–Mark Cuban, Colin Cowherd and Mark Driscoll to name a few—have really embraced UFC as a legitimate sports league. When you look at who’s in the front row of these fights, the wealthy elite that used to sit front row of boxing matches in three piece suits has given way to the high-tech billionaires in blue jeans and a t-shirt. There are a lot of people into this thing who are really successful and well known, so it leaves me to assume there must be something about it that draws these types of guys. For those who say, “Well, the pornography industry makes more money than the MLB, NHL, NBA and NFL combined, has a lot of respectable guys behind it and solid demographics. Why don’t you just go get wrapped up in that then?” or “There are a lot of stars and decent people with serious drug problems, so why don’t you go shoot up some heroin?” Relax, I’m talking about a sports league. These things are apples and oranges.
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UConn splits games with New England rivals
By Ryan Tepperman Staff Writer
Fresh off the team’s fifth straight win, the Boston University women’s soccer team entered Friday night’s showdown with UConn undefeated and ranked No. 20/23 in the nation. On Saturday morning, the Terriers’ record stood at 5-1-1. The Huskies improved to 3-2 on the season with a 3-0 blowout victory over BU. It was the team’s third straight matchup against a ranked opponent, and
the Huskies are 2-1 in those games. The teams played a scoreless first half, although it wasn’t for a lack of opportunities. UConn and BU combined for 17 shots in the opening 45 minutes, nine by the Huskies and eight by BU, but neither team could break through for a goal. Immediately after intermission came the explosion, beginning with forward Danielle Schulmann’s goal from close range in the 54th minute. “When I finally put the ball in the net it felt amazing,” Schulmann told uconnhuskies.com. “I left
halftime knowing that if I continued to pressure the ball something good would happen.” The Huskies clung to their one-goal lead for the next 23 minutes until midfielder Devin Prendergast connected on a shot from the top of the 18-yard box to give UConn a 2-0 lead. The goal was Prendergast’s teamleading third of the season. Forward Jessica Shufelt capped off the scoring in the game’s 90th minute with a breakaway goal – the first of the senior’s 2011 campaign.
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Riley Houle kicks the ball during UConn’s 3-0 win against Boston Univeristy.
NOT SO DANDY AT VANDY
Defense keeps UConn in game, offense stalls in road loss to Commodores
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Paul Pasqualoni has an impressive running back in Lyle McCombs. The Connecticut coach needs a quarterback of his own to step up quickly. The Huskies’ first road trip with their new coach ended in a 24-21 loss to Vanderbilt on Saturday night despite McCombs rushing for 118 yards and the defense coming up with seven sacks. The problem for UConn was that the Huskies gave up five sacks of their own, and Johnny McEntee was intercepted three times and lost a fumble. Pasqualoni played three quarterbacks for a second straight week with McEntee getting most of the work. Mike Nebrich also got in, while Scott McCummings rushed five times for minus-5 yards for the Huskies (1-1). “As the game went, I stayed with Johnny just to have some continuity,” Pasqualoni said. “We put Mike in, and put him in at the start of the second quarter, which we did a week ago. But it’s just hard to get into the flow of the thing with what they were doing.” UConn led 21-14 when McEntee had his final turnover. Casey Hayward picked off his pass at midfield and ran it back 50 yards for a touchdown that tied up the game with 6:45 left. “I read it out wrong and threw a bad ball,” McEntee said. “That’s what happens sometimes.” Casey Spear kicked a 31-yard field goal with 2:56 left to lift Vanderbilt to the victory and its first 2-0 start since 2008.
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Vanderbilt running back Jerron Seymour breaks the tackle of Connecticut’s Sio Moore to score on a 40-yard touchdown run in the first quarter of the Huskies 24-21 loss on Saturday night.
Huskies post pair of shutout over weekend
minutes to play in regulation. It was a completely different story on Sunday as it took the Huskies only 1:20 to find the Fresh off the heels of a thrill- back of the net. After Drexel ing last minute 1-0 win over No. couldn’t capitalize on a penalty 16 Albany on Saturday, the No. corner, the Huskies used only three passes to trav4 UConn field hockey el the length of the team kept at their winfield, culminating ning ways on a beauin a brilliant cross tiful Sunday afternoon by Ali Blankmeyer in Storrs, rolling over UConn 2 to a wide open Cara Drexel by a score of Silverman who 2-0. With the pair of Drexel 0 poked the ball into home wins over the the net to give the weekend, the Huskies Huskies an early lead. improved their record this seaAlthough the Huskies had son to a perfect 5-0. On Saturday, the Huskies were several promising opportunities struggling to score until sopho- throughout the rest of the half, more Marie Elena Bolles scored the teams battled to a stalemate the third game-winning goal of and the score at halftime was her career with just over eight 1-0 in favor of UConn.
By Peter Logue Staff Writer
FIELD HOCKEY
The Huskies put the pressure on early and often in the second half, with several near-misses in the opening minutes. Their efforts finally paid off at the 24:08 mark when Bolles scored on an assist from Chloe Hunnable to double the Huskies’ lead. Drexel would not go down without a fight, keeping the pressure on the Huskies, including three penalty corners in less than a minute span in the late stages of the game. However, the Huskies defense was able to handle the storm and post their second shutout in as many games. UConn’s defense is anchored by reigning Big East Goalkeeper of the Year Sarah Mansfield, who had four saves in the shutout on Sunday.
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Alicia Angelini carries the ball during the Huskies’ 2-0 win over Drexel on Sunday. UConn improved to 5-0 on the season after slaying the Dragons.
Men’s soccer sweeps Hurricane Classic
By Dan Agabiti Senior Staff Writer
The UConn men’s soccer team stayed undefeated and improved their record to 5-0 this weekend thanks to a pair of victories on the road in the Hurricane Classic. Friday night, in Tulsa, Okla., the Huskies took on Tulsa and came away with a 1-0 victory and
their first away win of the season, their lone goal was scored by sophomore Mamadou Diouf. The Huskies came out pressing early and created a few good chances for themselves but were not able to convert them. Finally, in the 25th minute, junior Stephane Diop passed from the left side into the middle of the box to find Diouf, who netted his fifth goal of the season.
Tulsa had a very good chance late in the game, but were unable to convert and the score ended at 1-0. Freshman goalkeeper recorded three saves in the match to give him his second clean sheet of the season. Sunday, the Huskies played their second game of the Hurricane Classic against SMU and pulled through in a 1-0 win. Neither team did very much offensively, as only three shots
on goal were taken in the entire match. The match’s only goal was scored by junior Max Wasserman in the 76th minute. Wasserman, from 22 yards out, placed a free kick into the top right corner of the net. The Huskies had two more chances at free kicks, but were unable to convert them. The UConn defense played very well and the offense did a great job of maintaining posses-
sion. During the match, Blake only needed to make one save, giving him his third shutout of the year. According to uconnhuskies. com, UConn has won each of its first five games every year since 2007. UConn’s next game will be on the road against the Terriers of Boston University this Friday.
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