The Daily Campus: September 13, 2012

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Jim Calhoun set to retire

TALENTED AUTHOR RIGHTS ABOUT CONNECTICUT HISTORY

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GOLDEN GONERS Notre Dame to leave Big East in 2014.

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ONGOING CONSTRUCTION HAS PRODUCED GREAT RESULTS ON CAMPUS Waiting for new buildings has paid off.

COMMENTARY/page 4 UCONN FREETHINKERS SPONSOR LECTURE BY DAVID NIOSE A talk about the secular movement and the rise in religious rights.

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Jim Calhoun, the longtime coach of the UConn men’s basketball team, is expected to announce his retirement at a press conference that will be held today at 2 p.m. in Gampel Pavilion. Kevin Ollie, an assistant coach, is slated to take over as head coach.

After coaching UConn men’s basketball for over 26 years, collecting 3 national championships on the way

By Matt Stypulkoski Staff Writer According to media reports, Jim Calhoun is set to retire at a press conference on Thursday after coaching UConn men’s basketball to three national championships over 26 years.

Speculation about Calhoun’s potential retirement had increased over the past several days, including stories from Sports Illustrated that indicated he might be leaning toward stepping down. But as of yesterday afternoon, Calhoun told Dom Amore of the Hartford Courant that nothing in his status had changed.

Shortly thereafter, Kevin Nathan of NBC Connecticut broke news that the coach would be retiring.

“Coach Calhoun told me that ‘nothing is finalized,’” Nathan said in a tweet. “But a source close to Calhoun tells me his retirement is ‘imminent.’”

Various reports that followed indicate that current assistant coach Kevin Ollie will be named as Calhoun’s replacement. Though the length or terms of a potential contract are not yet certain, it is believed that he will receive a one-year deal and will not be considered an interim head coach, according to reports by the Waterbury Republican–American’s

UConn takes a hit in U.S. News ranking

By Michael Sin Campus Correspondent Connecticut’s pride and joy, the University of Connecticut, has fallen out of the top 20 in the U.S. News Top Public Schools rankings.

Surging to its peak last year at 19th, UConn has slid to 21st place.

UConn President Susan Herbst was not concerned about the drop.

“We will rise quickly when we have the full complement of teacher - researchers we need.”

Susan Herbst UConn President “When UConn was first listed in the top 20 a year ago, I said that a school’s place in the rankings can rise and fall a little for any number of reasons, but no matter what, we know we are an outstanding institution — and that remains true today,” she wrote in an email to the Hartford Courant.

“While we can’t make any precise predictions about what next year’s rankings will look like, our excellent average SAT score among this year’s incoming freshmen — the highest ever at UConn - puts us in very good position to move up,” she wrote.

While university rankings play a significant role in the selection of UConn for incoming freshman, the University is doing all it can to bolster its reputation.

The methodology of U.S. News may be the culprit of the lower ranking for 2013. UConn has been a rapidly rising star in past few years, but at 68%, its 4-year graduation rate still has room for improvement.

“Our four-year plan to hire 300 new faculty, a plan announced well after the data was in, will add a great deal of strength to our research and teaching capacity. That will undoubtedly play a significant role in future rankings, so Huskies should be patient. We will rise quickly when we have the full complement of teacher-researchers we need,” Herbst said.

UConn placed 63rd overall in Best National Universities, down from 58th in the previous year.

The University was also ranked best public university in New England for the 14th consecutive year.

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Ed Daigneault. It is also believed that Karl Hobbs, George Blaney and Glen Miller will remain on the staff.

The 70-year-old coach has battled health problems throughout his career at UConn, battling cancer twice and dealing with several other injuries.

Last season, Calhoun missed games due to a back problem that required him to have surgery. Most recently, he fractured his left hip after falling off his bike in early August.

Calhoun, who has two years left on his current contract, will leave the program he helped build in a bit of turmoil, as it enters a season in which the team cannot play in the postseason due to NCAA sanctions. The

team’s Academic Progress Rate fell below the allowable minimum standard, and has been banned from the NCAA tournament this coming season. The Big East has also said they will not allow the Huskies to compete in the conference tournament.

Campus was abuzz with reporters Wednesday night, and students were talking about the news of their coach retiring.

“It’s kind of sad I guess, he’s been here a while and won three national championships, but I’m excited about a new coach coming,” said 5th semester student Luke Scinto.

“With everything the program’s been through recently, I think a new coach

and a new start might be a good thing.”

While the change in the product on the court may not be significant, as Kevin Ollie is an in-house hire, Scinto says it will not be the same without the coach who helped build a basketball powerhouse in Storrs on the sideline.

“I’m from Connecticut – I’ve been a UConn basketball fan since I was like six,” Scinto added. “So definitely all I’ve known is Jim Calhoun.”

A press conference is expected to be held at 2 p.m. today to make the official announcement.

Matt.Stypulkoski@UConn.edu

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USG President Steve Petkis addresses senators at an informal USG meeting on Wednesday afternoon.

USG debates budget for senate

By Katherine Tibedo Staff Writer A proposed $1,000 to be allocated specifically for the Undergraduate Student Government Senate use was the focus of debate at Wednesday’s USG informal senate meeting.

Until now, all money in USG was assigned to specific committees and the executive branch leaving the Senate itself with no independent budget. Modifications in the Funding Board and Tier II Funding Policies document of USG could change that if approved.

The creation of independent senate budget comes from

a desire within USG to allow the Senate to organize its own events or programs without relying on committees. The debate at Wednesday’s meeting centered on what guidelines, if any, should be applied to the newly allocated money. While some senators argued that having little regulation on the use of the money would allow maximum flexibility in its use, others worried a lack of guidelines could lead to misuse.

CLAS Senator Ian Schofield, a 7th-semester political science major said, “I think there needs to be a clause in [the document] that [the money] needs to be used for the good of the student body.”

Kailee Himes, a CLAS senator and 3rd-semester actuarial sciences major, went further, arguing for strict guidelines that specifically outline what the money can and cannot be used for.

In response to a suggested application process that involves submitting a proposed budget use to the Comptroller, who operates as the Chief Financial Officer of USG, Engineering Senator Daniel Violette, a 7th-semester engineering and physics major expressed the need for the proposed money to remain entirely in the senate’s control. He said, “I understand the need for checks and balances, but if its going

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The exhibition features a variety of media including painting, sculpture, illustration, graphic design, printmaking, photography and installation art.

Study Abroad Fair 4 to 7 p.m.

Rome Ballroom Learn about the over 300 programs UConn Study Abroad offers. Past participants, international exchange students, and UConn faculty and staff will be there to help find the program for you.

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2 horses in Conn. found with West Nile virus

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut agriculture officials have reported the year’s first domestic animal cases of West Nile virus.

The Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that a 4-year-old horse from Southbury showed symptoms of lethargy and stumbling on its front feet in late August. The horse developed a fever and became progressively more depressed and uncoordinated.

A blood sample was found positive for the virus. The horse was treated and is recovering.

A 31-year-old horse from South Windsor was observed, also in late August, unable to stand, and unresponsive. The horse’s condition continued to deteriorate and it was euthanized.

Mary Jane Lis, state veterinarian for the Connecticut Department of Agriculture, says horse owners should make sure vaccinations are current and that their horses are protected in the mosquito season.

State: Law helps cut fatal crashes among teens

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut motor vehicles officials say the number of fatal crashes involving teen drivers statewide fell from nine in 2010 to four in 2011, continuing a downward trend since tougher laws for 16- and 17-year-old drivers were enacted four years ago.

The Connecticut Post reports that a study released Tuesday shows that convictions for traffic infractions and breaking the graduated driver’s licensing laws dropped slightly in 2012 over 2011. Driver’s licensing laws include passenger restrictions, a curfew, mandatory license suspension and a ban on handheld and hands-free cellphone use.

Two teen drivers were killed in crashes in 2010. In 2007, a year before the laws took effect, seven teen drivers were killed and 11 died in 2004.

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Angry mob kills man suspected in 2 child slayings

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan authorities say a mob has lynched a man inside a school for allegedly killing two children there.

Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla says Julio Saquil was drunk when he entered an elementary school in the northern province of Alta Verapaz on Wednesday and slit the throats of two children with a machete.

Bonilla says a mob then set the 35-year-old man on fire in the school’s patio and he burned to death.

The official says the bodies of the children had defensive wounds.

Lynch mobs are not uncommon in areas of Guatemala where police are scarce. The Central American country’s human rights agency says 234 attempted lynchings took place in 2011 and at least 40 people were killed.

Methanol kills 19, injures 24 in central Europe

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) At least 19 people are dead and 24 others hospitalized. Some of them have been blinded, while others have been induced into comas in the hope that doctors can save them.

All had drunk cheap vodka and rum laced with methanol, a toxic substance used to stretch alcohol on the black market and guarantee high profits for manufacturers.

The Czech Republic announced emergency measures Wednesday as the death toll from the methanol poisoning mounted, including two women aged 28 and 21. Kiosks and markets were banned from selling spirits with more than 30 percent alcohol content and police raided outlets nationwide. At 410 sites, they found 70 cases of illegal alcohol.

Prime Minister Petr Necas called on all Czechs to refrain from drinking “any alcohol whose origin is uncertain” but authorities still feared the death toll will rise further.

Little is officially known about the culprits other than that they work in the country’s depressed northeast, a former heartland of industry under communism. The Moravian-Silesian region near the border with Poland has unemployment about 50 percent higher than the national average of 8.3 percent.

Of the 16 confirmed dead in the Czech Republic, eight lived in the region; two others died in neighboring Poland and one more in Slovakia.

Senior police official Vaclav Kucera said all the poisoning cases so far are likely connected and two suspects have been arrested — one in the eastern city of Zlin and another in the northeastern city of Havirov. The first two fatalities were announced Sept. 6 in Havirov.

Methanol is mainly used for industrial purposes but unscrupulous criminal networks sometimes misuse it to illegally produce cheap liquor because it’s cheap and impossible to distinguish from real drinking alcohol.

Igor Dvoracek, a doctor in the eastern city of Ostrava, said autop-

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UConn Freethinkers sponsor lecture on politics and religion

By Stephen Underwood Staff Writer David Niose, president of the American Humanist Association, lawyer and author of “Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans,” lectured on the secular movement and the rise in the religious right yesterday.

The lecture was sponsored by the UConn Freethinkers, a student group that aims at open discourse for skeptics, humanists, agnostics, atheists, and like-minded individuals. The goal of the event was to discuss the influence religion has in American politics and secularisms role in the United States.

Niose began his lecture by asking, “Do you realize how dysfunctional America has become?”

Niose would point to the religious right, which started under Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority in the 1970s and 1980s, as having a large impact on political discussion in American politics. He also argued that this has led to a climate of anti-intellectualism and the pushing out of secular groups in American public policy debates.

“We should be critical of our situation; there is something a little bit juvenile about constantly having to reaffirm our own American exceptionalism… If a child in high school acted this way we would probably tell them to have some humility… One reason for this dysfunction is the religious right that began in the late 1970s and 1980s under such evangelicals as Jerry Falwell and since then fundamentalism has increased in American political discussion. A general climate of anti-intellectualism has followed the religious right wherever they have

gone and there is no major public policy area that has not been tainted by the religious right.”

He would then discuss how American political discourse has been radically altered within the last thirty years by the religious right. Niose argued that America itself is not inherently religious and that politics has become the last realm of American debate where religion has been a major influence.

“Young earth creationism was something out of debate even 100 years ago. Political debate was less religious back then. When Woodrow Wilson was running for President he said ‘Of course I believe in evolution, at this late date, who wouldn’t.’

The fact is that we have regressed historically not progressed…There is an assumption today that America is a very religious country. That is an absolutely false assumption. Politics is the only realm where we exalt this attitude of religion, however, look at pop-culture or the most successful comedians like Bill Maher or George Carlin and even going back to Thomas Jefferson, America is not an inherently religious country.”

Niose would end his lecture by explaining how the internet and student groups have contributed to a secular movement. He pointed to the changing attitudes in American culture regarding atheism and skepticism and how younger generations are more openly embracing new ideas that encourage different viewpoints and open thinking.

“The older generations have this concept that even if you are atheist you don’t say it…There is something hap-

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David Niose, president of the American Humanist Association gives a lecture on the secular movement and the rise in religious rights yesterday. pening in your generation…back in my day being secular was not primary but nowadays your generation realizes that secular identity is more natural…

Also, with the internet there is a real sense of connectivity . Secularism has moved from local clubs to an actual organized movement that is gaining traction. Secular discussion in Washington is beginning to gain traction. ” Niose explained that the main message students should take away from the secular movement is their freedom of expression in religious skepticism or atheism and that political discourse can be non-religious.

“The secular movement’s message should be that ‘I’m an atheist and I’m an American too.’ When American’s stop seeing the word ‘atheist’ as a toxic connotation that is progress alone.”

Christian Ayala, president of UConn Freethinkers, said, “ The lecture was very captivating, the point about secular Americans coming out of the closet was key in being able to better understand the secular movement…The UConn Freethinkers are a safe space for agnostics, skeptics, atheists, and even religious members who want to engage in rational and intellectual discourse.”

Mauricio Gordillo, Vice President and Treasurer of UConn Freethinkers, said, “It was a good lecture in the fact that it represented a demographic that is underrepresented compared to other groups. The UConn Freethinkers serve multiple purposes to represent the secular demographic by trying to build a community and support group.”

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New human rights major requires second discipline

By Olivia Balsinger Staff Writer There is a new major available to students at the University of Connecticut—the human rights major.

Announced publicly as a new major possibility last spring and officially opened for students to register about two weeks ago, 75 students have already declared the minor and 25 have declared the major. Ten students declared it a major on the first Friday of the semester alone, when it was officially launched.

According to its website, humanrights. uconn.edu, the human right major’s mission statement is, “…first, to coordinate human rights initiatives at the university of Connecticut and support faculty and students who study human rights; and second to promote a unique approach to international human rights scholarship based upon contextual and multidisciplinary research in the social sciences, humanities and law.”

The new human rights major is a standard major in terms of requirements, said Richard P. Hiskes, a professor and the Director of Undergraduate Programs for the Human Rights Institute. Hiskes said that it has several courses that crossed into a variety of other departments. It also requires 12 additional related credits, similar to many other majors.

One unique feature about the program, is that in order to graduate with a minor or major in human rights, a student must either complete an internship in the field or do work on a senior thesis.

Additionally, all students are required to have a second major in order to qualify and be accepted into the program, Hiskes said.

“There are several reasons for the required second major,” said Hiskes. “Modeled after the program setup at Columbia University, we feel as though the human rights major is a very interdisciplinary program, and therefore

many disciplines feed in to it. When students are required to have a second major, a crossfertilization of sorts occurs. This helps the student in identifying and zeroing in on some areas of human rights from other disciplines.”

Hiskes said a benefit to the requirement for an additional major is that many students pursuing a human rights degree would like to go onto graduate school, but currently there are no schools in the United States with a specific graduate program in human rights. However, it is still very possible to attend a graduate institution for a degree in the second major, such as a graduate political science program, and still concentrate on human rights issues.

“I am very excited and I think that it’s something very special for UConn.”

Richard P. Hiskes

Director of Undergraduate Programs

for the Human Rights Institute Hiskes believes that human rights is such an overarching field that the second major requirement will help students to foster their growth.

“Just about everything involving the concept of life is related to human rights,” he said. “It can be economics, policy and politics, or even film. It is a very broad set of subjects.”

Besides having the opportunity to grow through many different classes, there are also many study abroad options for human rights majors. The internship program in Cape Town, South Africa will allow students to pursue nine credits for an internship, according to Hiskes. He also mentioned that there

is a program through Bard College that goes to Johannesburg, South Africa. There will also be a specific Human Rights program through the UConn in London study abroad program that will allow students to focus on internships. Students may also simply pursue their internship requirements wherever they are going to study abroad, as there is a great emphasis on studying elsewhere in the major.

Hiskes said he believes that there are many opportunities for students pursuing a major in human rights. He does, however, know that there will be minor road bumps along the way, as the major is so new.

“Whenever you are starting a program, there are all kinds of things you can’t anticipate before it actually begins,” he said. “For example, because it requires a double major, the advising has to be done carefully to make sure students graduate on time.”

Nevertheless, Hiskes said that he is very excited that it is finally a possibility for students to declare human rights a major, after about three years and many meetings with the human rights committee. He said that he is very thankful for the faculty and administration for being so supportive of the major. The new major had been one of the focus areas for the administration for the last five years and they are very excited about it. Even before officially becoming president of the university, Susan Herbst was in communication with Hiskes about the prospect of the new major.

“I am very excited and I think that its something very special for UConn,” said Hiskes.

“This major is attached to a very active Human Rights Institute, lots of programs, speakers, travel support for undergrads, and enthusiasm from faculty, administration and students. UConn has been building one of the premiere human rights programs in the world, and the major is certainly the undergraduate accumulation of it.”

Olivia.Balsinger@UConn.edu

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to the comptroller than we’ve already gone to the executive [branch].”

Neel Rana, a CLAS senator and 5th-semester political science major, continued that idea by suggesting a system involving voting to approve each individual use of the money based on its value. However, disagreement arose over what was a proper use for the money. Some senators, including Himes, believed that the money should be used for creating a more cohesive Senate.

“I feel like this money may be best for getting the senators to come together as a unit,”

Himes said. She added, “This money should be allocated for the strengthening of senate.”

However, others saw the money as an opportunity to help close the gap between USG and the rest of the student body.

“I tell people I’m a senator and they’re like, ‘oh, what do you do,’” said Schofield.

It also cites that the Recruitment and Retention Committee already has a budget and the responsibility for creating a positive environment within USG. Shiv Gandhi, Speaker of the Senate, pointed out that the senators currently approve all budget matters. In a brief speech

he stated that in refraining from assigning specific guidelines or defining exactly what proper use of the Senate’s personal $1000, the Senators were exercising their constitution rights as USG Senators and placing their trust in each other hands.

He said, “You trust that each person will do their job.”

Also discussed were policy changes in the Financial Operating Policies and Procedures document involving payment for internal events, travel expenses ,and how area councils can applied for money. In addition, excess money is proposed to go straight to the Comptroller, rather than

into the executive branches general budget to be distributed into savings programs. Two saving programs are saving for software development to ease the funding system and aiding Guard Dogs in purchases its own van.

The two documents discussed at this informal meeting are rough drafts to be discussed, voted and finalized at the next formal senate meeting.

USG elections began this Wednesday and will finish Friday at noon. There are 28 confirmed candidates running for 44 open seats.

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SD salon manager dies trying to protect employee

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Worried about an escalating conflict, Amanda Connors drove up to the door of the hair salon she managed and confronted her employee’s boyfriend, who had just kidnapped his two kids after being hit with a protection order and domestic violence arrest.

The heroic decision cost Connors her life, but the mother’s was spared.

Police said Connors was leaving the Sioux Falls salon Tuesday afternoon when she saw Tyrone Leeon Smith, 38, with the kids in the parking lot. She phoned the store from her car to warn her employees, including Smith’s girlfriend, then pulled her car up. Smith exchanged words with Connors as he stood in the Cost Cutters doorway before fatally shooting Connors in the head.

As her red sedan accelerated into a parked SUV, Smith ducked inside, fired another shot and then zip-tied his girlfriend and her three co-workers.

A half hour later, Smith let the employees go and put a bullet in his head, police said.

“I personally don’t think his intent was to go to that scene and to kill Amanda,” said Sioux Falls police Chief Doug Barthels. “It was unfortunate that it happened the way it did.

“Frankly, I kind of see her as a hero.”

The escalation between Smith and his live-in girlfriend began Sunday evening when Smith was arrested on a domestic assault charge. He walked out of jail Monday after pleading not guilty. Heidi Weber was granted a temporary protection order barring Smith from coming within 500 feet of her, their 7-week-old son, their 17-month daughter, her 9-year-old daughter and their home.

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BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — The U.S. dispatched an elite group of Marines to Tripoli on Wednesday after the mob attack that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. Officials were investigating whether the rampage was a backlash to an anti-Islamic video with ties to Coptic Christians or a plot to coincide with the anniversary of 9/11.

Tuesday’s stunning attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi poses a daunting task for U.S. and Libyan investigators: searching for the culprits in a city rife with heavy weapons, multiple militias, armed Islamist groups and little police control.

The one-story villa that serves as the consulate was a burned-out wreck after the crowd armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades rampaged through it. Slogans of “God is great” and “Muhammad is God’s Prophet” were scrawled across its scorched walls. Libyan civilians strolled freely in charred rooms with furniture and papers strewn everywhere.

President Barack Obama vowed in a Rose Garden address that the U.S. would “work with the Libyan government to bring to justice” those who killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, information manager Sean Smith and two other Americans who were not identified. Three other Americans were wounded.

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Officers attend to the hostage situation at Cost Cutters in Sioux Falls, S.D. Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. A man took his two young children from a babysitter’s home at gunpoint then holed up inside a hair salon after officers found a woman shot to death in a car he was believed to have been driving, police said.

Smith’s third ex-wife, Delana Austin of Madison, said Wednesday that she had tried to warn Smith’s girlfriend, police, prosecutors and judges about him.

“There’s no reason she needed to die,” Austin said of Connors. “I’ve been warning them. I’ve been trying to tell people. I’ve been doing it since I’ve been blue in the face and no one would listen.”

Weber in her petition said Smith became angry when he found out she had gone through the phone bill. She said he pushed her onto the bed and

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Glass, debris and overturned furniture are strewn inside a room in the gutted U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. The American ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed when a mob of protesters and gunmen overwhelmed the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, setting fire to it in outrage over a film that ridicules Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. Ambassador Chris Stevens, 52, died as he and a group of embassy employees went to the consulate to try to evacuate staff as a crowd of hundreds attacked the consulate Tuesday evening, many of them firing machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades.

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put his hands around her neck. Smith’s 17-year-old son and the teen’s mother, Smith’s first wife, filed a second petition saying the teen tried to grab his dad during the confrontation and was threatened.

The incident at Cost Cutters was the first contact between Smith and Weber since the altercation, said Sioux Falls police Capt. Greg VandeKamp.

Everything that could have been legally done to protect Weber and the kids was done, he said, noting a protection order simply orders no contact.

“It is a piece of paper,” VandeKamp

said. “It is an order, and just like a posted speed limit, not everyone is going to obey it.”

Just before 1 p.m. Tuesday, Smith barged into the baby sitter’s house, grabbed the kids, zip-tied the woman to a chair and removed her cellphone’s battery. Four minutes later, police received a call about an accident in the salon parking lot. When officers arrived, they found the crashed car and bystanders attending to the bleeding woman. Smith went back inside, locked the doors and fired a shot that went through a wall and grazed an

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Ongoing construction has produced great results on campus

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Conn has nearly completed a monumental construction project which has, over the course of the past 20 years, enhanced the appearance and the appeal of the Storrs campus immeasurably. A few of us were even in kindergarten when the UConn 2000 project broke ground in 1995 – but if we were somehow able to remember what the campus looked like back then, we would see the changes everywhere.

Google Earth’s historical imagery can give us a sense of this uncanny feeling: satellite images from 1991 show a grass-covered square lot between Gampel Pavilion and the library where the business and engineering buildings now stand. A forest takes the place of Hilltop Apartments. The site of the Chemistry Building is occupied by an edifice far smaller than the one that stands today. Even Husky Village is nowhere to be found. These buildings have only existed for a dozen, perhaps a dozen and a half years – yet they feel as if they’ve always been here and always will.

The abundance of construction and renovation over the past years, culminating in the opening of Oak Hall and the renovation of the McMahon dining hall, has brought UConn’s academic and social life into the 21st century and spared many an undergraduate from the tyranny of a class in Monteith or Arjona. The infrastructure is far more functional now than it was even two or three years ago.

It has also made Storrs a much more aesthetically pleasing and beautiful place. In place of the dilapidated strip malls and buildings that once clung to Route 195, we now have impressive towers of copper and brick and countless elegant facades to call our own.

Construction isn’t pretty, though, and it sometimes gets in the way. Studying for finals in spite of the noise produced by construction equipment across the street or next door is a thoroughly unpleasant experience that no student should have to endure. The much beloved Paperback Trader – forced out of Storrs by high rent – has now moved so far away it is inaccessible to most. At any given moment, some building or place on campus is under construction – it can’t all get done in the summer while we’re on vacation. But when we see the results of foresight and diligent care of the many buildings on campus manifest themselves, we can’t help but feel thankful and proud to be attending such a modern, innovative and beautiful university.

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What being a Republican should mean

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believe in marriage equality. I believe in a clear and manageable path to citizenship for immigrants coming into the United States. I believe in a sensible drug policy that allows for the legalization of marijuana. I believe in a woman’s right to choose what happens to her body.

I believe in equality for all races and ethnicities to be a part of the fabric of this country. I believe in freedom of religion as long as it is kept separate from the making of legislation. I am a Republican.

I make no attempt to hide the

By Tyler McCarthy fact that I am a regCommentary Editor istered Republican, as made evident by the fact that I’m writing it in my column. I don’t believe that this aspect of my personality is something to keep a secret for fear that everyone there will judge me as a bigot, sexist and religious zealot - because I’m not. I believe in the values listed above because they, in a world governed by logic and thought, have no bearing on my party affiliation.

When people question my politics and find that I stand with liberals on most social issues, I am often told to just switch my party because there’s no honor in going down with the particular sinking ship that is the GOP. To them I say that the ship will do just fine once we throw some of the unnecessary cargo overboard. That cargo includes those who stand behind a podium with my party’s backing spouting off nonsense like

that of Todd Akin or Rick Santorum who think that an “informed electorate” means an inherently Christian one. That cargo also includes those who stand quietly next to them too cowardly to speak from a place of sanity for fear that they will lose conservative votes. The issues are simply too important for this nonsense to be entertained. A ship without that cargo is, and always has been, worth staying aboard.

I am a Republican because I believe in a free market economy and Reagan-era principles (otherwise known as Alexander Hamilton style principles for establishing a nation). I hold to the idea that it is a government’s job to provide protection for its citizens and that it requires a highly equipped and well-trained military to do so. I feel strongly that there are social programs enacted by the U.S. government that work but many more that do not, at great expense to the American taxpayer. While I believe in a woman’s right to choose, I also believe that life begins at conception and refuse to let a check box on a registration form dictate how I’ll come to terms with this argument.

These are the values that make me a Republican, and these are the unwavering beliefs that my party once held dear.

Today, the political discourse of the GOP has taken a strange turn toward a heavily Christian moral code. I understand the idea of people not wanting to indirectly fund programs and values that they don’t personally believe in. Our country guarantees them that freedom. However, our country guarantees everyone freedom, so there is no absolute right answer. Take “marriage equality,” the new buzz term that both Democrats and Republicans alike seem to

be using because it sounds better than “gay rights.” On one side, you have people who believe that marriage is between a man and a woman and that the government has no place to force that on them. However, the government apparently does have a right to restrict the freedoms of gays and lesbians.

Everyone is not going to be happy with the end result of this debate. The question then becomes this: whose freedoms are worth protecting? The people who don’t want to tolerate something, or the people whose rights are being sacrificed? I’m not a bad Republican for siding with the latter.

However, that is exactly what mainstream Republicans would call me. Democrats are no better because they simply lump me in with them saying that I’m “close enough” – I’m not. I’m also not special or unique, and I speak on behalf of a great number of registered Republicans who are also sane, hardworking and compassionate Americans.

I would like my party back. Right now it is in the hands of a group of cowards who feel that the only way to keep a political backing is to cater to the limited thinkers of the world, those who feel like no one else is listening to them. The once great old party has to stop entertaining the ideas of these backwards thinking “Republicans” and give the two-party system a viable second party once again. Don’t call these people “Republicans,” that name is reserved for people with a set of values worth fighting for. I don’t know what these people are but their time in the spotlight is through.

Commentary Editor Tyler McCarthy is a 7thsemester journalism and English double major. He can be reached at Tyler.McCarthy@UConn.edu.

A lack of civility poisons the American political landscape

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ast week at the Democratic National Convention, former President of the United States Bill Clinton gave a stirring nomination speech for the current president, Barack Obama.

In it, he attacked the current partisan climate of American politics. Clinton stated, “… though I often disagree with

By Anthony Naples Republicans, I Staff Columnist never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate our president and a lot of other Democrats.”

From there, he cited several instances in which he cooperated with Republicans throughout his political career to reach an end otherwise impossible by means of staunch opposition.

Though he may be overstating the bipartisanship of his political history as well as neglecting to mention the reciprocity of that hatred by liberals, Clinton makes a valid point. Today, politics are lacking a degree of civility and decorum that would lead to an atmosphere beneficial to cooperation.

“When times are tough,” Clinton continued “and people

are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.” Despite a call by many for politicians in Washington to be more willing to cooperate, the real world is exactly where this lack of cordiality is occurring.

Gone are the days of disagreement with respect and altercations ending with reconciliation.

With the high stakes election season, the masses now share the same arrogance and partisanship as the politicians.

A shocking and recent example of this mindset occurred Sunday when Obama stopped at the Big Apple Pizza and Fine Italian Restaurant, a local pizzeria In Fort Pierce, Fla. owned by registered Republican Scott Van Duzer. Van Duzer, visibly excited about the fact the President stopped at his pizza shop on his Florida campaign trail, lifted Obama off of his feet into a bear hug. For the casual observer this was act of exuberance by a patron who was just excited to meet the President. However, it turned out the conservative base wasn’t too happy with one of

its own was mingling with the enemy.

On Yelp.com, a website where users can review restaurants they’ve eaten at across the country, a reactionary mob of Republicans, feeling betrayed and outraged, attacked Van Duzen. The comments (which total over 1,500 at the time of this writing) are inflammatory and offensive, with one reading, “I can’t trust someone so ignorant to be jubilant as to pick up a socialist dictator to make my pizza let alone take out my trash.”

I concede that it is unlikely anyone would say this kind of thing outside of the protection of the anonymity provided by the Internet. However, that does not make their comments any less inappropriate or childish.

These comments are affecting the real world business of an individual who meant no harm and did no wrong. It is scary to imagine what some of these individuals would have done or said if it was their pizza shop Obama visited.

People who are angry enough to make those kinds of demeaning comments on the web are part of a fringe group that is making political etiquette rarer

by the day. How many times in the last few years have you heard Republicans or Democrats sharing responsibility for a success, or accepting blame for a failure?

Few politicians dare to concede such political realities.

This was what Bill Clinton was so adamantly fighting against last Thursday night. People who are politically active, whether it be through a party, other organization or and independent venture, have a civic responsibility to be respectful and tolerant of other political views. Often the liberties given to us by the Bill of Rights are overlooked by the responsibility we have to tolerate others’ first amendment rights. People should be able to support whatever candidate they please without fear of recourse.

In this era of gridlock, Clinton and others are accurate in stating the importance of returning to a more dignified political scene free of the scorn and arrogance some have become so accustomed to in their fight to embellish their ideology.

Staff Columnist Anthony Naples is a 5th- semester political science major. He can be reached at Anthony.Naples@UConn.edu.

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Talented author writes about Connecticut history Christopher Pagliuco spoke about his New England based novel at the UConn Coop

By Jamie Dinar Campus Correspondent Christopher Pagliuco visited the UConn Coop on Wednesday night to discuss his new book, The Great

Escape of Edward Whalley and William Goffee: Smuggled Through Connecticut. As the

title hints, it surely does have a connection to the small state of Connecticut.

The book accounts the lives of William Goffee and Edward Whalley—if you live near New Haven these names may be familiar, as they are prominent streets—after they inadvertently killed the tyrannical King Charles I of England.

“How could I synthesize such a complicated history down to something readable without sacrificing historical accuracy?” Pagliuco pondered as he took the podium. Perhaps it was the way he would profoundly pause, thinking, before continuing on with his speech, or the way his hands would wildly gesture with a matching tone of voice that suggested he was passionate about what he was talking about.

“The last book written about these men was in 1929, since

then it was maybe the topic of the occasional journal article.

That was part of my motivation,” he said. “I wanted to revitalize the story, rejuvenate it, to document and update the story to 2012.”

His story starts in the 17th century, a period of history Pagliuco specializes in, when England found itself in the midst of its third civil war.

Religious fanatics interpreted it as God’s will to “trounce” the enemy, or in their case, the king. Whalley, Goffee and military genius Oliver Cromwell eventually were able to put King Charles I on trial, albeit illegally, and were able to sentence him to murder. Cromwell was the newly elected leader, who dubbed England a newly Puritan state.

Ten years of violence ensued, and after Cromwell’s death, King Charles’ son was put to power, who forgave all of England except for the men who signed his father’s death warrant. And two of those men were Edward Whalley and Wililam Goffee.

Whally and Goffee traveled to New England, arriving in Boston, then making their way to New Haven, then to Milford and then eventually traveled inland to Hadley. The

The heat was tangible last night at The Hummus Experience, where scores of students tried their hand at creating their own unique versions of one of the most-loved spreads known to humanity.

The competition, which seemed close to implosion even in the spacious Rome Commons Ballroom, required participating teams to create their vaunted recipes on location before dozens of student palates eager to sample the fare.

Despite the eclectic backgrounds of the chefs at work, the winning team would see their hummus reproduced in dining halls across campus (along with an awe-inspiring year’s supply of hummus).

Talk about fame.

The tables all had their own aesthetic, which reflected the uniqueness of their culinary work. Most teams had amusingly clever names and all

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Along with writing “The Great Escape of Edward Whalley and William Goffe,” Pagliuco works as the town historian for Essex, CT and on the editorial team of Connecticut Explored Magazine.

English monarchy was hot on their trail, but they were never caught. The pair died in isolated safety.

The act of murdering a monarch is called regicide.

“Regis” meaning king and “cide” meaning killer.

Pagliuco admitted that there were two major lessons he learned from his research, which he did not include in his book for fear it would distract his readers. One, that who you start a war with may not be who you end a war with. King Charles I did not realize that these moderate men he was

battling with would one day turn radical enough to execute him. And second, “out of fear, a lack of precedent and a lack of experience with republicanism,” England could not take the step to institute a republic or democracy after Cromwell died.

“It’s really hard to support democracy when there is not a long history of democratic institutions to fall back on. Interesting to see that in England then, and in institutions today around the world.”

Pagliuco then added. “You got to be careful with your word-

ing there, so I’ll leave it at that.”

“Mr. Pagliuco was my teacher in high school so I was really looking forward to see him speak at the Coop tonight,” said Marykate McNulty, a third-semester Nutrition major. “He really is a great speaker. It was the only class in high school where I actually learned something!”

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of them had sparse remnants of sacrificed vegetables and peppers which had the desired effect of immediate salivation. Better yet, the contestants were not afraid to go bold.

One table, for example known to the event as “the chick peas”, utilized guacamole as their core ingredient.

“It’s a fiesta in your mouth,” said Ali Giarratano, a 5thsemester communications major. Another team, participating under the banner “Hummy We’re Home,” derived their punny title from their inherent status as housemates. Lying suspiciously dormant on their table was the head of an alligator, and their jalapeno-based recipe reflected the no-holds-barred ferocity of the Bayou.

“We’ve been living and breathing hummus,” said Devon Thatcher, a 7th-semester actuarial science major, wearing a self-made “860” t-shirt that matched the rest of her troupe.

As the night winded down, five finalists were chosen via the power of the vote, where contestants then faced an experienced panel of tasters who would deliberate on which hummus was best.

Gary Wolff, director of Hillel House and one of the chosen panelists, cited “authenticity, taste [and] texture” as the three cardinal virtues he was looking for in

hummus, or more succinctly, “something I’d put on a sandwich.”

Dennis Pierce, the head of Dining Services, stressed the importance that “every ingredient put something on the table.” His intent, he said, was “looking for a balance,” a flavor of hummus which gives hints of several flavors throughout the tasting experience, without one overshad-

of the tribe.

Pruden began by addressing the issue of misrepresentation and the suppression of Native Americans. He told students that questions like “What is an Indian? Who is an Indian?

What is a native? Who is a native?” still have no definitive answers. Some tribes are federally recognized, while others are only recognized at the state level. Some tribes who have lived on their ancestor’s soil for centuries are not recognized at all, while those with native lineages are only partially identified. To this date, there are over 4.5 million Native Americans in the United States and not all of them have identities recognized by society.

By pointing out the vast differences in Native American

cultures and traditions, Pruden demonstrated how Two-Spirit is not the same for each people. Native Americans differ from each other in many ways, including language, values, customs and traditions. Language itself divides Native Americans from north to south, but unites tribes from the same regions east to west. Because of so many differences, there is hardly ever a 100% consensus between peoples. Differences in protocol and procedure make it difficult for Native Americans to share common approaches to a variety of subject matters.

After a brief introduction addressing the misunderstandings about Native American peoples by society and the disunity between Native Americans themselves,

Pruden began explaining Two-Spirit. He first defined gender and sexuality. Gender is a social role or norm, while sexuality is a personal, emotional and physical preference. He then explained the history of Two-Spirit and how there was a French term “berdache” used to describe Native peoples who wore male and female clothing at the same time. After natives spoke out against this term in 1989, the term Two-Spirit was adopted instead.

Pruden gave examples of how gender and sexuality were dealt with in native customs.

In the Mojave tradition, a girl or boy who didn’t seem to fit into their traditional roles went through what’s called a basket and bow gathering.

The child would sleep in a

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owing any other.

After careful deliberation, “Humm City”, friendly group of campus tour guides that sculpted a hummus Pierce were lauded as “a classic recipe.”

Upon their victory, teammates Anthony Sacco, Daniel Armendariz, Erica Lieb, Lauren Bent and Taylor Fitzpatrick were understandably ecstatic.

“We committed hummicide,” exclaimed Sacco, a 5thsemester economics major and business minor, in arguably the best hummus pun of the night.

“I can now rest happy,” said Leib, a 7th-semester communications major basking in the glory of her historic accomplishment.

But perhaps the best line, uttered by 3rd-semester athletic training major Armendariz, will eternally remind us all that anything is possible, “I’ve never had hummus before today!”

Native American perspective on LGBTQ community

By Zarrin Ahmed Staff Writer

On Wednesday, Harlan Pruden of the Cree Nation enlightened students about the Native and Two-Spirit approaches to gender and sexuality at the Rainbow Center.

“Two-Spirit,” Pruden said, “contemporarily is LGBTQ identified Native Americans.”

Two-Spirits, in traditional Native American culture, are individuals who are neither just male nor just female.

Rather, they are celebrated men and women who encompass both genders, wearing clothing associated with both.

Two-Spirits were permitted to marry and have relations with either sex and were among the most respected members

» The Downbeat

The art of the cover song

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wigwam with a bow on one side and a basket on the other.

As the wigwam was lit on fire, adults would shout out to the child to run. In this heightened fearful state, the child would be forced to face his or her truth, choosing either the bow or the basket. Depending on the choice, the child would be raised as a man or woman and learn what is traditionally either masculine or feminine.

“I really enjoyed the examples Pruden used to explain Two-Spirit,” said Bless Gomes, a 3rd semester physiology and neurobiology major. “You can tell he knows a lot of all different Native American tribes and respects their cultures and traditions.”

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Covering another band’s work is no easy task. There comes a certain responsibility with recreating someone else’s music, and there’s a wrong way and a right way to do it.

Ideally, an artist making a cover is supposed to introduce something fresh and original to the piece they’re working with. It isn’t about duplicating the song with a different voice: the idea is to restructure the song without eliminating its original framework. That means the lyrics should predominantly be the same, and there should be some essence of the core melody.

The other crucial aspect of making a cover is to keep in mind why you chose a certain song. It shouldn’t just be a generalized affinity for the original piece or band—it has to apply to the new artist’s life in some way as well.

It has to sound genuine, not replicated. After all, there’s a difference between paying homage and copying.

With all this in mind, here are a few tracks that should go down in cover version history.

“Motel Blues” - Big Star (Originally by Loudon Wainwright III) – Alex Chilton stated in a 1974 WLIR interview, “Well, it was a hard life out on the road and all, driving around in station wagons. It just wasn’t any fun.” Based on that, it’s safe to assume the Big Star lead singer wasn’t accustomed to life on the road, and he was able to translate that through Wainwright’s 1972 single.

“Last Nite” Jumbonics (Originally by the Strokes) – Sweeter, more soulful and less urgent than the original.

The Strokes’ signature petulance is replaced with contended maturity.

“Wild Thing” The Troggs (Originally by Chip Taylor) – Larry Page originally had The Troggs reworking pieces like The Lovin’ Spoonful’s “Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind.” Reg Presley had a different idea in mind. The band, taking any extra studio time they could afford, managed to grab a quick 15-minute session. In that time, they recorded “Wild Thing” and “With a Girl Like You” in two takes—hence the genuine exasperation in Presley’s voice.

“I Want To Hold Your Hand” - Al Green (Originally

by The Beatles) – A soulful, heartfelt take on the worldfamous original, and the intro is absolutely charismatic.

“All Along the Watchtower”

by Jimi Hendrix (Originally

by Bob Dylan) – An interpretation that’s become better-known than the original. Dylan himself performs Hendrix’s version in concerts.

“Hurt” - Johnny Cash (Originally by Nine Inch Nails) – Originally a rather miserable number, Cash’s rich baritone and sense of redirection turned the song into his own personal anthem about aging. It’s also considered his epitaph—Cash died seven months after the music video was released.

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By Jamie Dinar Campus Correspondent Bob Dylan’s newest album brings us down a sad, long journey through the deepest depths of his realist soul.

In what critics are saying may just be his last album,

After they discard his helpless body to the ground, Bob Dylan and his entourage walk by, simply stepping over his unconscious form.

And this is the lightest song in the album.

The title track, “Tempest,” is a 14-minute, 45 verse long

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Bob Dylan released his 35th studio album, “Tempest,” on Tuesday. The generationspanning musical icon is 71 years old.

“Tempest,” proves to Dylan’s fans that he hasn’t lost his wit and social concern despite his growing age.

The album starts of with a slightly jolly (though perhaps out of place) track titled “Duquesne Whistle.” It has a catchy ragtime beat accompanied with a disguised voice that could almost be mistaken for Louis Armstrong. The music video is where this song finds its place in “Tempest.” It shows a young man, bloodied, standing in the city with a girl until a group of masked men beat him and take him away.

song accounting the story of the Titanic. He even grants Leonardo Dicaprio with a short mention. Dylan admits that this story-like tune isn’t factual. He doesn’t know the real events that took place during the historic sinking, the story of passengers sinking deep into the icy sea, of men turned homicidal or altruistic, or of women and children screaming and drowning.

“A songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve happened, what could’ve happened,” he told Rolling Stone

‘Love This Giant’ a regression for Clark

By Brian Richman Campus Correspondent One of the truly remarkable things about the collaboration between Annie Clark (St. Vincent) and David Byrne (previously of the new-wave band, the Talking Heads) is the symmetry that is played with the album “Love This Giant.” The first three songs of the album are well-constructed examples of the unified sound that the two have created. Once we get to the song “Ice Age,” we start to see just how well in the middle the two musicians met on the first three tracks. On “Ice Age,” the

deformity and David Byrne has a prominent cleft in his chin. It also blurs the distinction as to who is the beauty and who is the beast because if you listen to “I Am an Ape,” it is both David Byrne and Annie Clark who confess they are a “hairy beast.” This is not the first time that Annie Clark has explored Disney-inspired whimsical themes, as she did in her debut LP “Actor.”

There, she had the same dynamic in her music as there is on this record. The elements on “Actor” were fanciful and evoked memories of watching Cinderella as a child. That album’s schizo-driven guitar riffs and solos and insecure

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1. “Eye On It,” tobyMac 2. “Welcome To: Our House,” Slaughterhouse 3. “Chapter V” Trey Songz 4. “Now 43” 5. “Havoc And Bright Lights,” Alanis Morrissette 6. “Overexposed” Maroon 5 7. “Based On A T.R.U. Story” 2 Chainz 8. “Blown Away” Carrie Underwood 9. “Some Nights,” fun.

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instrumentation is very much in the style of David Byrne while Annie Clark’s voice elegantly moves through the heavy-but-not-overwhelming experimental instrumentation. The following song, “I Am an Ape,” is a trade-off from the previous track with the voice of David Byrne and the instruments of Annie Clark. However, on this track we get a glimpse of another layer of the relationship displayed on this album. The “hairy beast” mentioned in the chorus seems to evoke ties to the story of “The Beauty and the Beast.”

The line “you should not trespass in this garden” is another allusion to the tale. These references also shed light onto the album cover in which Annie Clark has some bone

worrisome lyrics were revisited on the opening track of “Love This Giant.”

It is for reasons like this that I feel this album is a regression in sound for St. Vincent and makes the evolved elegance of “Strange Mercy” a moot point. However, hope is regained on the track “Lightning.” In this piece there are elements that are native to “Strange Mercy” such as a sultry and paced percussion. It is a nod to the listener that she is aware of her regression in sound for the sake of the album, as the Disney aesthetic applies more cohesively to both the subject matter and David Byrne’s own part in the collaboration.

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Magazine. Another classic Dylan irony is embedded in the depths of this tragic song is the uselessness of economic might amidst disaster. Dylan is a preacher of equality.

Despite the powerful force behind his lyrics, which are richly poetic and certainly a prize of sorts, its repetitiveness and absence of a chorus loses touch from its splendor.

This title track is an example of dragged on excellence.

“Roll On, John,” was written with his close acquaintance, John Lennon, in mind.

“I heard the news today, oh boy,” he starts off with a blatant Beatles reference, then escalates into telling the story of a man’s struggle with fame, only to have it end with “He turned around and he slowly walked away/ They shot him in the back and down he went.” Although the track is explicitly about Lennon, some can parallel it to Dylan’s own life, his own struggles with fame and his own metaphorical “death.”

Critics have been repeatedly pointing out the irony behind this album to Shakespeare’s final work, “The Tempest.”

Could this be Dylan’s “Tempest,” this sad and overtly depressive reality check?

Although it is certainly an impressive lyrical masterpiece, let’s hope he continues on and leaves the music world on a more blissful note.

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Avett Brothers strike gold

By Kathleen McWilliams Campus Correspondent I’ll be the first to admit that I really don’t like country music.

Every facet of country music frustrates me, from the generic acoustic guitar parts to the vocals and the content of the songs.

Maybe it’s because I have no “American Soul,” or maybe it’s because I was raised on classic rock and roll and country just feels too soft on my ears.

However, things considered, I’ve actually discovered that I love country inspired music such as the Avett Brothers or the Decemberists.

Most people find this hard to

The song bounces between tragic and jaunty, leaving the listener intrigued and fixated on its complexities. While “Live and Die” uses diversity within the song, many of tracks stick to a general scheme unique to the track, such as “February Seven.” This track is a good example of one of the consistently melodic and dulcet ballads that the album offers.

The song uses a delicate xylophone pattern and the vocals and content are reminiscent of an old cowboy song that relaxes the listener, while still being excellent and engaging.

The song writing on the album is phenomenal with themes including, love, brotherhood, vio-

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believe, but just hear me out; country-inspired music is experimental and exciting. It transcends regular country music by adding an unexpected twist where a listener least expects it. This September’s “The Carpenter”, released by indie folk gods The Avett Brothers, is a perfect example of country flavored indie rock to satisfy any appetite.

The album, like the six preceding it, uses traditional country and folk style as its backbone, but adds a dash of jaunty alternative rock into the mix. The result is a 12-song album that keeps the listener interested throughout. Each song has a unique flair to its vocals, instrumentals, and beat. The track “Live and Die,” for example, draws upon a childlike rhyme scheme, banjos, and minor key changes to produce a startling poignant song about love and moving on.

lence and death. The lyrics are relatable, with lines such as “live and die we’re the same, live and die you’re the same.” The poetry included in many of the songs, solidifies the Avett Brothers’ station in the highest echelon of masterful independent songwriters and musicians. While lyrics are always the most attractive part of a song to me, the instrumentals are also superb on the album. The band incorporates xylophones, cellos, violin, as well as the traditional banjo, guitar, and drums.

As usual the vocal performances are superb, with backing vocals lending a hand wherever necessary. “The Carpenter” is an excellent soundtrack for autumn. It has the tried and true American folk style but infuses exciting diversions to keep the album contemporary and relatable.

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No Sophomore Slump for the XX albums of the album.

The album, best listened to at a moderately loud volume with a fair amount of bass, does not contain a single track to define the others. It isn’t

By Cole von Richthofen Campus Correspondent

If the low-key, indie pop band XX’s namesake debut album, “xx” was the “basic space” between lovers, their sophomore release, “Coexist,” shatters said connection in a way that is both highly minimalistic and yet beautifully composed; that is to say, the release is the musical manifestation of pillow talk. Not only do the aforementioned couple (voiced by guitarist/keyboardist Romy Madley Croft and bass/synthesizer player Oliver Sim) face the loneliness and regret following their break-up, but the record is the first since the trio often that poetic music is found lost its fourth member, guitarist outside of rap in contemporary music, making songs like Baria Quereshi, in 2009.

Fans of the XX will be happy “Fiction” all the more special. to hear a sound similar to While “Angels” is Croft’s “Islands” and “Intro” in the new own, Sim takes full owneralbum, released September 10, ship of “Fiction” with lines 2012. In the single and opening like “Fiction when we’re not together; mistaken track “Angels,” for a vision, someCroft sings thing of my own alone (having Coexist creation.” sole authorship XX The album, best of the lyrics), 9/10/12 in order of track in what is per11 tracks listing, is a wonhaps the most derful conversabeautiful song tion between Sim of the entire and Croft; the pair album. Despite /10 alternate between being airy and addresses to each subdued, her lyrics – such as the repetition other and chorusing, musing of “they would be as in love about the heartbreak and lonewith you as I am...” – are someness they both feel in turn. brimming with passionate rec- The voices weave throughout ollection, creating a surpris- most of the album in beautiingly deep connection with the ful composition; “Chained,” in listener within the first few addition to featuring some of

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the sound of 2009’s “xx,” is an intricate yet mellow tune perfect for those euphoric days or meditative moments in between hours of schoolwork.

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record, wherein both beg the other to “stay with me; why would you want to leave?” In perfect fashion of a couple in regret, the tragedy of recent events between them is apparent in this song above all others. The volume of the melody follows a pattern of tides, rising and dropping like the bumps in a relationship or the waves in the ocean.

Other tracks, like “Reunion,” will be perfect introductory tracks for those unfamiliar with the XX; it has the greatest variety of instruments, featuring steel pans in a way not often explored outside of island music. As someone who fell in love with the XX in 2009, this reviewer is happy to report that the XX is as good as ever.

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over two hours and twenty minutes) and both rely heavily on soundscaping and atmosphere, eschewing more traditional songwriting in favor of dark and violent mood pieces.

This is where we return to the subject of baggage. In 1996,

Michael Gira claims that his entire legacy with the band Swans has culminated into their latest release, “The Seer.”

Naturally, these sorts of things need to be taken with a grain of salt (The Red Hot Chili Peppers apparently thought that “Stadium Arcadium” was their best work,) but if I’m going to trust anybody, it’s going to the post-punk legend M. Gira.

So after giving “The Seer” a few listens, I’ve decided that Gira knows best. “The Seer” is a culmination. The assumption that typically follows is that “The Seer” is Swans’ best, or it is at least quintessential. But although it’s a solid release from what might “Soundtracks” was a truly revobe my all-time favorite band, lutionary album, one without there is one key element that the precedent. In 2012, “The Seer” fans and critics are neglecting to not only has “Soundtracks” as its precedent, it also has the entire take into account: the baggage.

In order to understand the exact post-rock/dark ambient movecontent of their baggage, we ment that “Soundtracks” helped require a minor retrospective. In spur. “The Seer” simply does not 2010, Swans came off a 14-year have the same weight to its sound.

“The Seer” is a difficult album hiatus to put out an album called “My Father Will Guide Me Up to grapple with as a result. a Rope to the Sky.” It was clear Although it pains me to say it, at that point they were trying to in many instances, it seems that recapture their pre-hiatus sound, Swans are trying too hard to oscillating between various eras sound like Swans. It’s not quite of Swans and their off-season side so natural anymore. There was a time in which project, “The Angels Swans didn’t of Light.” In the case The Seer have to try to of “The Seer,” the be anything, band forces a new Swans they just were. sense of cohesion by 9/10/12 Their music directly referencing 11 tracks tapped into elements of earlier something Swans. indescribable The clear equivaand entirely lent to “The Seer” /10 their own. is their most modern Swans are one masterpiece and their of the most last studio release before the hiatus, “Soundtracks evil-sounding bands out there, for the Blind” (1996.) Both are but there are parts of “The Seer” very long double albums (“The in which they seem like they’re Seer” is a little under two hours, trying a little too hard to come and “Soundtracks” is a little off as dark. (“Lunacy” and “The

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which remain superb, but I think Swans may have laid it on a bit too thick in places.

However, “The Seer” still strikes a few pretty convincing chords. As much as the album struggles with the band’s own sense of authenticity, this feels much more like a Swans album than their previous release, in which they were still coming off of “The Angels of Light” and ended up sounding a little too close for comfort at times.

“The Seer,” though it is a weaker recapitulation in some regards, shows the band finding themselves once more. Even Jarboe, a long-time Swans member who was tragically absent on “My Father,” makes a few contributions.

Overall, “The Seer” is not quite the ultimate Swans experience everyone wants it to be. But at the end of the day, it’s still a powerful and uncompromising release from a band that, even 30+ years after their initial formation, still know how to really hammer it home.

Aaron.Burrick@UConn.edu

By Jason Wong Staff Writer

If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably fantasized about what life will be like after you write that New York Times bestselling book that you’ve been meaning to get around to. Now, I’m not a published author. Heck, I haven’t even finished a single manuscript. However, I am roughly halfway through one, and in the next few columns, I’ll address some issues that I have had during my writing process. Today’s article will focus on characters, the most important part of any novel.

Characters are what separate good and great books from mediocre and bad books.

Main characters don’t need names or appearances; all a good character needs is to be relatable and memorable.

These requirements for a good character are deceptively simple. See, things like a weirdly shaped toenail, yellow irises, a strange name or some other oddly unique quality does not make for a memorable character (or, at least, not in a good way). Creating charac-

ters that are entirely based on people you know in real life is also a bad idea. The writing process eventually reaches a point where you let the characters make the story themselves, and what you want or expect has little to do with the outcome. Trust me on this; it saves you the trouble of getting hung up on how the character you based on your significant other isn’t falling for the character you based on yourself.

Instead, it should be the character’s motivations, or his or her personality, that is special in some way. Harry Potter is a great example; except for the drive that he has due to his parents’ murder, Harry is extraordinarily ordinary as a wizard. In essence, there should be a reason that your protagonist is the hero. What drives him or her ought to be interesting. At the same time, keep in mind that your “good guys” don’t have to be good all the time. They can be unlikable, and they can do things you find abhorrent. The same applies to “bad guys.” Bad guys that perform evil acts

solely for the purpose of evil are seldom the most-loved villains. Remember that villains are human too, and likely to have similar motivations and experiences as the heroes.

This makes them particularly good as foils. For example, the Joker’s philosophical approach is similar enough to Batman’s so that he is a seriously compelling enemy for the Dark Knight.

So, there’s a bit of a primer on character creation.

But creating a blueprint for a character isn’t always (it actually never is) simple. Try these prompts to get a character fully fleshed-out in your head.

• If your character is in a fantasy/sci-fi setting, drop them into our universe. How do they react?

• Realistic fictional characters? How do they eat their school lunches? With resignation? With gusto?

• Always ask what is driving your character to do something. If it doesn’t make sense to you, it won’t make sense to your audience.

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Holmes’ fashion line looks like her closet NEW YORK (AP) — Katie Holmes might have just tipped off the paparazzi on how to find her: They should look for a woman a camel-colored suede capelet with red shorts, or, if it’s later in the day, maybe a strapless jumpsuit with beaded fringe running down the side.

Holmes gave a peek at her likely wardrobe on Wednesday morning to a select — and small — group of fashion insiders at New York Fashion Week, but the number of photographers hunting around outside the Lincoln Center tents probably indicates that not only Elle and InStyle are interested in her clothes.

Holmes presented with her

design partner and longtime stylist, Jeanne Yang, a capsule collection of what their label Holmes & Yang will offer next spring.

Showing at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week seems a major commitment to the brand and Holmes’ future in fashion.

She also recently signed on as the face of cosmetics brand Bobbi Brown.

Both designers attended the preview wearing black leather blazers and black stretch pants. Holmes greeted wellwishers and chatted politely but granted no interviews or photographs.

There wasn’t a runway, just 14 models on pedestals. One wore a black leather lingerie-

style camisole with an olive silk button-front maxi skirt, and another had on a black lace slouchy blazer with black lace short — an outfit right on trend with what tastemakers have been seeing this round of previews.

Many of the outfits hit on the menswear silhouettes and luxury fabrics Holmes favors.

The designers, in a statement, pledged timelessness, top quality and garments produced in the U.S.: “Meant to surpass a single season, each piece becomes modern day armor that allows the wearer to feel beautiful and confident not only in her clothes, but in who she is as a woman.”

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by Brian Ingmanson Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Creative juices flow to an ocean of possibilities. Images from distant realms add just the right touch. All turns out quite well.

Your efforts greatly benefit your home and/ or family.

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Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Listen to the voice of experience and to your intuition. Do the extra work and grasp a golden opportunity. Use locally sourced materials. Optimism wins out.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 7 -- A short hike replenishes your reserves.

Discover something you didn’t know you were capable of. Patience is a virtue to be practiced now, especially around finances.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Keep searching and you’ll make more than you really need. Actions speak louder than words. Respect the experienced ones.

Improve working conditions.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -The world is your oyster; take good care of it, so that it keeps providing you with ideas and oxygen. Think long term. This is where your dedication and passion pay off.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 5 -- Consult with your partner before addressing an important concern. Scout the territory before committing. Don’t worry about it once the decision is made. Just make it happen.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- You’re gaining status, even if it doesn’t always seem so. Focus on the positive, and earn a nice bonus. Your friends are there for you. They provide motivation. Discipline gives you more time to play.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Your past deeds speak well of you, and the skills you learned now lead to new income.

You’re very popular now. Friends look to you for guidance. Emotions run high concerning a partner.

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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Enjoy today’s roller coaster, which could be very fun. Include the possibility of outside funding. Read the fine print before signing.

Consult with somebody you trust.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 5 -- While you’re there, keep an eye out for beneficial developments. Let a wise friend help you with the structure of what you’re building. Make promises you can keep.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- Your actions behind the scenes create great connections. The circumstances require extra effort, and it’s worth it. Get farther together than you could alone.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Expand your business territory with imagination. Expect delays or disagreements.

Even a theory you can’t explain is charming.

Someone falls in love.

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Ridley sparks Pats' run game Bears, Packers kick off Week 2

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New England running back Stevan Ridley carries the ball against Tennessee Titans defenders Kamerion Wimbley (95) and Karl Klug (97).

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Stevan Ridley learned the hard way as a rookie. Hold on to the ball or grab a seat on the bench.

His fumble in the third quarter of the New England Patriots' divisional playoff win over the Denver Broncos was the final time he got the ball last season.

He didn't suit up for the AFC title game and was in uniform for the Super Bowl, but didn't play.

"Being sat down (for) the AFC championship's pretty much a lesson learned for me," Ridley said.

"Yeah, I learned my lesson from that. I'm trying not to repeat the same mistakes."

With a renewed focus on holding the ball high and tight with two hands, he's off to a good start this season as the Patriots' new top running back.

In the first game of his second season, he rushed 21 times for 125 yards and a touchdown and caught two passes for 27 yards.

That's a total of 23 touches, 152 yards, one touchdown — and no fumbles.

Ridley actually fumbled in consecutive games as a rookie. In the season finale against the Buffalo Bills, he gained 13 yards on a

run before the ball was knocked loose and rolled out of bounds.

The Patriots kept possession then, but the playoff bobble was recovered by the Broncos, although the Patriots led 42-7 at the time.

"That wasn't the first fumble I had. I hope it was the last one I'll have, but what are the chances of that?" he said Wednesday before practice for the home opener against the Arizona Cardinals. "So for me, I can't sulk on the bad and I can't sit on the good. It's just to continue working and keep your nose down and you grind it out."

The Patriots drafted Ridley in the third round from LSU. He learned for a year while contributing 441 yards on 87 carries as the backup to BenJarvus Green-Ellis.

Then Green-Ellis, who didn't fumble a single time in four seasons with the Patriots, signed as a free agent with the Cincinnati Bengals.

So far Ridley is making the most of his second chance.

He's shiftier and quicker than Green-Ellis. But he still has the strength to take on large defenders. He bounced off potential tacklers several times to pick up extra yardage in last Sunday's 34-13 win over the Tennessee Titans.

"You can't play the position being scared and you're going to take a lot of contact," he said, "but, as a runner, you can try to deliver the blow instead of taking the hit.

I think that your career might last a little bit longer. So that's kind of my philosophy of running the ball.

I'm trying to get downhill, man.

Just deliver the punch instead of taking all the beatings."

The Patriots showed good offensive balance against the Titans with 35 runs and 32 pass plays. Last season they averaged 40 pass plays and 27 runs.

Their comfortable lead over Tennessee allowed them to keep the attack balanced.

"Depending on the game situation, it becomes maybe a bit out of balance if you get a substantial lead or vice versa, where the second half, you may be forced to throw it a lot more than you would like to," quarterback Tom Brady said. "But when it's a competitive game and it's still the first quarter, second quarter and you play some of these games that are going to be four-quarter games, you really have to be able to (be balanced) over the course of the entire game."

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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — With two words, Jay Cutler dismissed the notion that the Green Bay Packers would be able to disrupt the Chicago Bears' newlook wide receiver corps with physical play: Good luck.

Emboldened by a makeover that featured the arrival of Brandon Marshall, Cutler believes the Bears are better prepared to handle any sort of clutching, grabbing or jamming by the Packers.

"Our speed guys are going to get around them and our big guys are going to throw and go," Cutler said. "We invite press coverage. We invite man. And if we get in that type of game, our guys outside have to make some plays for us."

And if the Bears (1-0) somehow find a way to outscore Aaron Rodgers and the Packers (0-1) at Lambeau Field on Thursday night, the result will be something that seemed unlikely going into the season: The Bears could send the NFC North heavyweights to an unlikely 0-2 start at home.

Four days after their defense got pushed around in a seasonopening loss to the San Francisco 49ers, the Packers must find a way to stop a Bears offense that put up 41 points on Indianapolis in a Week 1 victory.

Renewing the productive partnership he had with Cutler in Denver, Marshall caught nine passes for 119 yards with a touchdown.

"They definitely have better personnel, especially on the perimeter," Packers cornerback Tramon Williams said. "Jay has confidence in those guys and is definitely going to give those guys a chance to go get the ball."

Williams said Marshall's size and skill present a tough challenge but added, "I'm up for the task."

Marshall had a big game the last time he faced the Packers, catching 10 passes for 127 yards with the Miami Dolphins in 2010. He welcomes the physical brand of coverage the Packers have used to neutralize Bears receivers in the past.

"It's all about matchups," Marshall said. "I'm 6-5, 230.

There aren't too many DBs walking around that big. If they want to get physical, I do welcome that.

But again, you look at Williams and (Sam) Shields over there and even (Charles) Woodson when he's down there, they like to mix it up a lot. They give you different looks and that's what gives them big-play potential."

Besides changes on offense, which also included drafting another big wide receiver in Alshon Jeffery and signing free agent running back Michael Bush to team with Matt Forte — the Bears also have a new look led by Mike Tice.

"I think there is a big difference to what we are doing offensively," Cutler said. "This is a totally different scheme, a mentality and direction that we are going offensively. So, there would be no advantage for (the Packers) watching tape from last year of what we did. It's totally different. I think they understand that."

One thing the Bears didn't appear to fix in the offseason was their offensive line.

Cutler was sacked 23 times in 10 games last season before breaking his right thumb. He was sacked twice in Sunday's victory over Indianapolis — and the Colts played most of the game without Dwight Freeney, who left with a sprained left ankle.

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New era brings new uniforms

By Scott Carroll NCAA Football Columnist There are some things about college football that I will always be able to identify with. The plain blue and white of Penn State, the golden domes of Notre Dame and the cardinal and yellow uniforms of USC are staples of the sport that have been around for decades.

These uniforms have become part of the culture of these programs and have been able to transcend the eras of the game from the “three yards and a cloud of dust” offensive years to the new spread, high powered offense days of football. Even the mere thought of putting names on the back of Penn State’s solid blue uniforms caused uproar in the community, as some people thought that it would tarnish the tradition built by the players who had come before.

Today, teams are churning out new uniforms that test the limits of my television definition and my stomach nausea. The age of simplicity and tradition has passed as teams are now using their uniforms as a recruitment tool rather than to honor tradition. Schools are now looking to catch the sight of

top recruits with flashy uniforms as recruiting becomes more competitive. Schools such as Rutgers and Boise State have adopted new uniforms. Even some of the most traditional programs have become more lenient in their use of new uniforms. Florida, Georgia and Ohio State have allowed Nike to alter their jersey for single games, but who's to say that the trend won’t continue towards permanent change?

Of course, you can’t argue with results. Oregon has gone from obscurity to National Championship runner up in a little over a decade. The Oregon Ducks began their jersey journey in 1996 when they changed their uniforms for the first time. Before 1996, they had only won 1 conference championship since 1957. Since 1996, they have won the Pacific Conference championship outright 6 different times and have been to 4 BCS bowls, most recently beating Wisconsin in the 2012 Rose Bowl and losing to the Auburn Tigers in the BCS National Championship in 2011. The Ducks new uniforms have a direct correlation with their success. The school has gained immense notoriety and press for their interesting uniforms over the

years. In 2006 it was reported that the Oregon Ducks had 384 different uniform sets that they could wear at any time. The Ducks haven’t worn the same uniform in two games since then. They're also always top-25 in recruiting.

So with the recent success of the Oregon Ducks, I believe that we will see more teams throw traditional uniforms to the wind and seek flashier, attention-grabbing color schemes in order to attract more attention and recruits. Texas A&M and Missouri entered into the tough SEC conference this year. It’s no coincidence that both schools unveiled new uniforms for this season as both schools are looking to get an advantage in recruiting as well as open up a new era in their program. The changes for other programs aren’t always well received however, as many Rutgers fans were unable to read their favorite teams numbers due to the uniforms reflective properties. Even so, more and more schools are trying to see if the Oregon Duck system can work for them as the state of college football continues to change.

Scott.Carroll@UConn.edu

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50 games. The Orioles on the other hand are 32-18 in their last 50 games. The Yankees may have more household names, but the Orioles are the ones who have been producing. The O’s have hit 21 home runs in 10 games this month, tied for best in the AL with the Texas Rangers. The Yankees have hit only 10 home runs this month. The Orioles have all the momentum and will keep it going to the playoffs for the first time since Bill Clinton’s presidency.

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MLB Callahan: Root for recovery, root for Penn State »Yanks top Sox 5-4

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from WHY, page 14 be any easier, regardless of 2012 wins and losses. Thanks to sanctions applied by the NCAA, the bloodlines of maintaining a quality football program will be severely constricted. 40 fewer scholarships over five seasons; probation for the same duration; No post-season for four years; A $60 million fine and the vacating of over a decade’s worth of wins.

Thus, not only will players and coaches currently apart of the program suffer, but also an entire future class will come and go with not a sniff of bowl eligibility and for some individuals, a well-deserved scholarship.

Yet, not one Penn State player, coach or employee will be at fault for the punishment they endure. Not to mention, the NCAA carried out these penalties without a single citation of rule violation.

So, for these reasons and more, you should root for recovery. You should root for healing.

You should root for Nittany Lion football because it will

bring both of those things about for a deserving community.

A community that is now rooting for a new group of coaches, in charge of a resilient bunch of players. As detailed in a remarkable, all-access piece by ESPN’s Ivan Meisel, first-year head coach Bill O’Brien has opened up his doors to the outside world.

When you read about Meisel’s peek inside, you see the typical lockerroom messages of hard work, perseverance, determination and togetherness scribbled on walls, but also embodied by the daily actions that take place within them.

Teammates picking one another up, fighting for the school of over 50,000 they belong to and the single man whose locker is next to his. Preparedness, accountability and competition exhibited by all people, from the back-ups to the starters. And a man at the helm in Bill O’Brien who is intent on making sure that every, single person knows and embraces their role to the furthest reaches of his ability.

Now, there is nothing in this world that comes even remotely

close to excusable for what was done and failed to do in the past. The victims deserve every form of healing they can receive.

But, rooting against this team or claiming they shouldn’t be playing because of deeds done by those now behind bars or let go, is wrong.

Let’s get this straight: Penn State is not Jerry Sandusky. Penn State was not Joe Paterno. Penn State will never, ever be just football.

Looking solely at the program itself, the organization is more than the players and coaches detailed above. It is the fans, students, alumni and residents of State College who pay and beckon for the game they love. Get within a couple hundred miles of the university and you’re likely to hear “We are! Penn State!” echoing off the nearby hills of central Pennsylvania.

And, they're right.

Thus, the games being played by that football team now are more than just games. They’re still the same joys and distractions from daily life any sports fans enjoy. But more important-

ly, they're healing and hope for anyone connected to that program and affected by scandal.

And they’re a symbol of all the good things coming from inside and out of the football field.

Students are pouring money into foundations for victims of disease, abuse and adversity.

People are turning out in record numbers for other sporting events to support other Nittany Lions. They’re returning to the normalcy they deserve after all the undeserved stigma and prejudice.

So, don’t fall for the trap of applying guilt by association, particularly when the evildoers are gone. It’s wrong.

Think about this: Are the current members of the UConn men’s basketball team academic loafers just because those in the past who incurred this year's post-season ban were? Do those players from five, six years ago make you or I any less successful in the classroom? No. Now, some time ago coach O’Brien invited a former Penn State player to come speak to his club about loyalty. Mike “Red Hawk” Slater, also now a former Navy SEAL, spoke purposefully to the group with a singular message now painted on the walls of the team’s facility. It readsLOYALTY -- A BOND FORGED BETWEEN A GROUP OF MEN AT THE HARDEST TIMES WHEN THE WEAKEST CHOOSE TO RUN. YOU STAY AND MOVE FORWARD BECAUSE YOU KNOW THE MAN TO THE RIGHT AND TO THE LEFT WILL MOVE FORWARD AND ATTACK. This program has gone through its hardest of times, perhaps the hardest ever in college football history. Bonds have been forged with those who bear the Nittany Lion flag. So for this season, for this Saturday, move forward with them.

Move forward, and root for Penn State.

Andrew.J.Callahan@UConn.edu

Notre Dame to join ACC in 2014

AP

Notre Dame president Rev. John I. Jenkins, right, is congratulated by Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner John Swofford during a press conference yesterday.

from GOLDEN, page 14 Big East bylaws require Notre Dame pay a $5 million withdrawal fee and give the conference 27 months’ notice before leaving,

though the conference did agree to let Syracuse, Pittsburgh and West Virginia exit early for a price.

Notre Dame’s move to the ACC only affects Big East football tangentially. The Fighting Irish have

regularly played Big East members in recent years, but those games are unlikely to continue with Notre Dame locked into five games against ACC opponents.

Still, the conference’s identity and signature sport — men’s basketball — have been damaged by the recent departures, and losing Notre Dame doesn’t help.

In Syracuse, West Virginia, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame, the Big East has lost four tournament regulars. Even with them, the Big 12 had the best conference RPI last season. The Big East was second and the ACC was not far behind in third.

The Big East is hoping the additions of Memphis and Temple offset those basketball losses.

“Our basketball means a lot in any television negotiations,” Aresco said.

Notre Dame joined the Big East in 1995 and since has reached the men’s NCAA basketball tournament eight times.

Football, however, has driven the value of the recent conference media deals. Last week, the Big

12 completed a contract worth $2.6 billion over 13 years. The ACC’s latest deal will pay each of its members about $17 million per year through 2027. That will be reworked with the addition of Notre Dame.

The Big East is hoping to land a deal at least in the ballpark of those, and it’s hard to quantify exactly what not having Notre Dame will cost the conference.

But for a conference that is working hard to maintain national relevance and create stability, having Notre Dame leave is far from ideal.

The Big East is currently in an exclusive 60-day negotiating period with ESPN. If the Big East can’t reach a deal with ESPN, the conference will hit the open market, where it hopes to find more suitors, such as NBC and Fox. “We’ve had some preliminary conversations (with ESPN) and we’re going to have much more substantive discussions very soon,” Aresco said. “It is early but we’re gearing up and getting ready.”

AP

Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter was escorted off the field in the eigth inning due to a leg injury.

BOSTON (AP) — Derek Jeter doesn't even want to miss one inning of the New York Yankees' playoff push.

The shortstop pulled up lame after lunging for first base on his double-play groundout to end the eighth inning of New York's 5-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday night. Manager Joe Girardi had to talk him into coming out of the game, but Jeter said he would be back in the lineup when they try to hold onto first place in the AL East again Thursday.

"It's really not a thing," Jeter told reporters, refusing to confirm any details about the injury. "They just said, 'Put ice on it (and) come back tomorrow.'"

A day after Jacoby Ellsbury's game-ending single dropped New York into a tie with Baltimore atop the division, the Yankees got all their runs on homers to remain there. Curtis Granderson hit two home runs and Robinson Cano also homered for the Yankees.

The Orioles beat Tampa Bay 3-2 on Wednesday night, preserving the tie and dropping the Rays three games back in

the division.

"It's playoff baseball," Girardi said. "You're playing in the playoffs right now. That's the way it is for us."

Jeter had two hits to raise his batting average to .325, which is third in the AL. With one out and runners on first and third in the eighth, he hit a grounder to second base and ran down the first-base line to try to beat the relay throw from the shortstop.

Stretching for the base — too late to beat the throw — Jeter began limping on his left leg as he continued down the first-base line into right field. Girardi and trainer Steve Donohue rushed out to help him and Jeter tried to wave them off, but the manager overruled him.

"I said, 'We're going to sit you out," Girardi told reporters, adding that Jeter had aggravated a previous injury. "It's not that serious. It's something we have to be aware of. But hopefully he's OK." Girardi described the injury as a bone bruise, but Jeter called it a sprained ankle before becoming even more vague.

"Lower leg," he said.

TWO Thursday, September 13, 2012

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What's Next Home game

Sept. 22 Western Michigan 1 p.m.

Sept. 18 Boston College 7 p.m.

Sept. 22 St. John’s 7 p.m.

“What will you remember most about Jim Calhoun’s illustrious career?”

–Shane McCarthy, 7th-semester history major

» That’s what he said

Oct. 6 Rutgers TBA

Oct. 13 Temple TBA

» NHL

AP

NHL, NHLPA exchange offers

Kolb

» Pic of the day

Forever a champion.

Sept. 29 Notre Dame 7 p.m.

Sept. 25 Yale 7 p.m.

Women’s Soccer (4-2-1) Tonight Syracuse 7 p.m.

Sept. 16 St. John’s 1 p.m.

Sept. 21 Georgetown 3 p.m.

Sept. 23 Villanova 1 p.m.

Sept 28 DePaul 5:30 p.m.

Sept. 23 Villanova Noon

Sept. 28 Providence 7 p.m.

Sept. 19 Sacred Heart 7 p.m.

Sept. 21 Villanova 7 p.m.

Field Hockey (5-0) Sept. 15 Rutgers Noon

Volleyball Tomorrow Harvard 7 p.m.

Sept. 21 New Hampshire 7 p.m.

Sept. 16 Yale 2 p.m.

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Sept. 15 Boston College 1 p.m.

Sept. 15 Northeastern 7 p.m.

Men’s Cross Country Sept. 15 UMass Invite TBA

Sept. 22 CCSU Invite 11 a.m.

Oct. 6 N.E. Champ.

Noon

Oct. 13 Conn. College Invite TBA

Oct. 19 CCSU Mini-Meet 3:30 p.m.

Women’s Cross Country Sept. 22 Sept. 29 CCSU Griak Invite Invite 11:00 a.m. 1:10 p.m.

Oct. 7 New England Championships Noon

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Oct. 12 Wisconsin Invitational 11 a.m.

Men’s Swimming and Diving Oct. 13 Oct. 20 Homecoming- Fordham And Alumni Meet Bucknell Noon TBA

Oct. 26 Army TBA

Nov. 3 Rutgers, Villanova and Georgetown 4 p.m.

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– Cardinals safety Adrian Wilson to reporters after Kevin Kolb relieved the injured John Skelton last week against Seattle.

Sept. 29 Buffalo Noon

Next Paper’s Question:

“Let’s talk about how poetic that was.”

Men’s Soccer (4-0-1) Tomorrow Harvard 4 p.m.

The Daily Question Q : “Which college football team will be upset this weekend?” sure, it’s a tough week. But I’m definitely feeling that my A : “Not fantasy football team will. I’m really not that good at it.”

Away game

Football (1-1) Sept. 15 Maryland 12:30 p.m.

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Sports

NEW YORK (AP) — While the NHL and its players now agree on what qualifies as hockey-related revenue, the two sides still haven’t figured out how to split up the money the sport generates.

With only three days remaining to work out a new deal before NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman follows through on a vow to lock out the players for the second time in eight years, league executives returned to the bargaining table with the union on Wednesday and traded new proposals.

The owners weren’t particularly pleased with the new offer they received — with Bettman saying it wasn’t much different from earlier proposals — and they ended up countering with one the commissioner said was drafted on the fly Wednesday.

NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr, speaking for the second time Wednesday before a meeting with several hundred players, wasn’t overly impressed with what he was given, either.

“We did not make a proposal which mirrored the owners’ proposal,” Fehr said. “We did not say let’s go back to when we didn’t have a salary cap. We said, ‘Look, there is a meaningful disparity in revenue between the teams, and in recognition of that, there is a way we think we can fix the system so we don’t end up in the same problem all over again.

“If you look at what happened in all the cap sports ... it doesn’t matter what the sport is, and it doesn’t matter what the claimed economics are, the proposal is always the same: it is always players will take a lot less money, and if not we will lock you out. It’s regrettable, but that is the world we seem to live in.”

After the players made their offer Wednesday morning, Bettman met with Boston Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs, and Murray Edwards of the Calgary Flames to craft a new NHL offer that was handed back to the players’ association with a shelf life on it.

“We made clear in presenting the proposal that this proposal was intended to lead to a deal before the weekend,” Bettman said after the nearly three-hour meeting, “and that if in fact a deal was not achievable, what we had proposed would be off the table. We were quite clear on that.”

After not meeting face to face since last Friday, the sides gathered at the league office before the NHLPA held player meetings later at a New York hotel. The NHL board of governors will convene Thursday with Bettman, while the union holds a second day of discussions with more than 250 players.

» MLB

Lee, Rollins help surging Phillies sweep Marlins

Richard, Padres hand slumping Cards 3-2 loss

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Astros. Then it’s three games Jimmy Rollins swigged cham- in New York against the goingpagne after winning a division nowhere Mets. title, went wild when the Phillies Philadelphia pulled within won the National League pen- three games of St. Louis for nant, and took a ride on that the second wild card after the unforgettable parade down the Cardinals lost 3-2 in San Diego. heart of Philadelphia after a The Phillies (72-71) are on World Series championship. a season-best winning streak The Phillies have done it all and have won 15 of 19 to move the last five years. over .500 for the Well, except win first time since a wild card berth. they were 28-27 on Rollins con- Philadelphia 3 June 3. nected on a two“If we can con1 tinue run homer and Miami to play the Cliff Lee pitched way we have since seven strong innings to lead the the All-Star break, we have a streaking Phillies to their sev- pretty good chance,” Lee said. enth straight win, 3-1 over the The clubhouse TVs had on Miami Marlins on Wednesday. a pair of games that will shape The second NL wild-card the NL wild-card race: St. Louis spot is firmly in sight for the at San Diego and Pittsburgh at Phillies with 19 games remain- Cincinnati. ing.

The Phillies will have to at “We’re in it,” manager least get past the Cardinals and Charlie Manuel said. “We’re Pirates, two fading teams, to dead in it pretty good.” snag a postseason spot.

Oh yes, they are. And they This September has a familshow no signs of slowing down. iar feel from 2007 when the The Phillies continued their Phillies trailed the Mets by late push with a three-game seven games with 17 to play. sweep of the Marlins. Up next The Mets collapsed and the for the Phillies, four games in Phillies would win their first Houston against the NL-worst division title since 1993.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Clayton Kyle Lohse and gave up only Richard pitched seven strong three hits, including a two-run innings and rookie Yasmani homer by Matt Carpenter that tied Grandal singled home the go- the game at 2 in the sixth. The leftahead run to lift the San Diego hander struck out five, walked one Padres over the St. Louis Cardinals and hit a batter with a pitch.

3-2 on Wednesday, handing the Luke Gregerson pitched the slumping World Series champions ninth for his seventh save, worktheir 11th loss in 15 games. ing around a leadoff double by The Cardinals began the day Allen Craig. After pinch-runner with a one-game Adron Chambers was lead over Los sacrificed to third, Angeles for the secGregerson got Freese ond NL wild-card a grounder to third San Diego 3 on berth. The Dodgers, before walking pinch2 hitter Carlos Beltran. who played later St. Louis at Arizona, host Gregerson then St. Louis in a cruretired Schumaker on cial four-game series starting an easy grounder to first base to Thursday night. end the game.

St. Louis put a runner on third Lohse (14-3) had his eightwith one out in the ninth but game winning streak snapped was unable to score. World Series as he allowed three runs — two MVP David Freese and pinch-hit- earned — on five hits over six ter Skip Schumaker both ground- innings. He struck out eight. ed out.

Lohse’s streak spanned 13 starts Logan Forsythe hit a solo home back to June 26. run for the Padres, who completed Forsythe connected with two a three-game sweep of St. Louis outs in the second to give San for the first time since August Diego a 1-0 lead. In his last 13 1995. games, Forsythe has 11 RBIs and San Diego has an NL-best 17-5 11 runs while raising his batting record since Aug. 19 and has taken average 29 points to .289.

Carpenter’s error in right field 21 of its last 27 games at home.

Richard (13-12) outpitched cost the Cardinals a run in the fifth.

MLB

MLB

» INSIDE SPORTS TODAY

P.11: NHL, NHLPA exchange offers in NYC. / P.10: Yankees top Red Sox, lose Jeter. / P.9: Pats’ Ridley provides spark to running game.

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GOLDEN GONERS

Why you root for Penn State

Notre Dame to leave Big East in 2014

Andrew Callahan Wide left.

Two words that resonate like a shrieking baby aboard a screeching train to any and every kicker in football.

1998: They trip up Gary Anderson trying to send the Vikings to the Super Bowl, after he had made good on 67 straight kicks that season. 2002: ‘Wide left’ resurfaces in Tallahassee to pull the rug out from under Florida State’s Xavier Beitia attempting to upset No. 1 Miami. Last January: The phrase haunts Billy Cundiff from just 32 yards away and awards the AFC championship to the Patriots.

Then just four days ago, the words victimized Sam Ficken, the kicker who tried to give Penn State its first win since being victimized itself by a much graver expression: child sex abuse; longstanding, disgusting, concealed, and simply unimaginable, child abuse.

Now, this subject is not one easily broached. Yet thankfully, it’s also not a story whose hard facts that need much re-telling. Nearly a year has come and gone since the scandal broke and induced investigations that revealed actions and failures to act that made any moral person horrified. For a while afterward, fans and uninvolved members of the football program seemed to be living in a new circle of Hell.

The media (doing its due diligence) pulled and dragged out every devilish detail of the Sandusky saga. As a result, the spectating American public cast the entire community and program in bed with the monster and the leaders who deliberately covered up his crimes. They were more or less for a long time, helpless against the prejudice and stigma.

So, you should root for Penn State.

Then, after the long-awaited start of a season finally came to pass nearly three weeks ago, the new team struggled. The season opener turned out to be an eventual bereavement at Beaver Stadium when little known Ohio left town with a win. The disappointment at home was then quickly coupled with a gut-wrenching road loss to Virginia. At this present day, the Nittany Lions have two games in the books, both filed under the heading ‘shoulda, coulda, woulda’.

So, you should root for Penn State.

In the future, things will not

» CALLAHAN, page 10

AP

Notre Dame’s Scott Daly, left, reacts after the final whistle following their win against the Navy. Notre Dame will jump to the Atlantic Coast conference in 2014 for all sports with the exception of football. The announcement was made yesterday in a press conference at the University of North Carolina.

NEW YORK (AP) — Just when it seemed the Big East had plugged all its holes, Notre Dame has created another.

The Fighting Irish will move to the Atlantic Coast Conference with a similar arrangement to the one they had with the Big East: all sports except football.

“This is a resilient conference,” Big East Commissioner Mike Aresco told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

“Our football conference is stronger than ever.

We lose Notre Dame in basketball but we remain top to bottom the strongest basketball conference in the country.”

Notre Dame becomes the fourth school to leave the Big East in the last year. Pittsburgh and Syracuse are set to depart for the ACC in 2013 and West Virginia jumped to the Big 12 this year.

The latest defection comes less than a month after the Big East made a big splash by hiring Aresco, the former CBS executive, as its new commissioner, and with the conference in the early stages of negotiating a vital new television contract.

Aresco said the loss of Notre Dame does not change the Big East’s plans.

“Our television reach remains the same,” he said. “Our television situation remains the same.

We valued Notre Dame as a member in basketball and Olympic sports.

“But we’re not looking backward, we’re looking forward.”

The Big East is set to become a 12-team, fourtime zone football conference, starting next season with the addition of six schools, including Boise State and San Diego State as football-only members.

Memphis, Houston, Central Florida and SMU are set to join for all sports. Temple joined this year on short notice to replace West Virginia.

St. John’s, Georgetown, Villanova, Marquette, DePaul, Seton Hall and Providence compete in the Big East but not in football.

» WOMEN’S SOCCER

Huskies head to Syracuse to start Big East play

By TJ Souhlaris Staff Writer The UConn women’s soccer team will travel to New York on Thursday to take on their rivals, the Syracuse Orange, at 7 p.m.. The contest will be the first game of Big East conference play for both squads.

The game will also be UConn’s (4-2-1) first “true” road game, as their first seven games have been either at home or at a neutral site.

UConn has been hot lately, winning their last two matches, one at home against Marist and the other away against Central Connecticut State. The Huskies beat the CCSU Blue Devils, 4-1, behind Danielle Schulmann’s three goals and one assist in the first game of their five-game road trip.

Schulmann was named and dropped the other two.

Soccer News Net Player of the The Huskies blanked the Week for her efforts in the two Orange 1-0 at home in the victories, to go along with cap- 2011 edition of the matchup, turing Big East Player which also hapof the Week honors pened to be the Big as well. The senior East opener for both striker started the teams. Schulmann season on the bench scored the lone goal because she didn’t of the game in the pass the team’s fit12th minute off a ness requirements, but cross. UConn and with seven goals and Syracuse both played six assists on the year, 10-man soccer for a » Preview large chunk of the that hasn’t seemed to slow down her torrid game after red cards offensive pace. were issued to players on both As for the Orange (3-3-1), teams. this will only be their third The game, like all other home game of the season, albe- UConn soccer contests, can be it only one of their seven games heard on 91.7 FM WHUS and has been played outside of New online at whus.org.

York thus far. The Orange are coming off of a four-game road trip where they won two games Thomas.Souhlaris@UConn.edu

» WOMEN’S SOCCER

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UConn begins a five-game roadtrip tonight in Syracuse. Their next game will be Sunday at St. John’s.

Who will win the American League East?

Yankees

By Joe Crisalli Campus Correspondent The Yankees are the more experienced team in September from hitting, pitching to even backup position players. The pitching staff, led by C.C. Sabathia, who has only given up 30 runs in September since 2009, have largely pitched well this season. Kuroda has been a work horse, pitching in seven innings or more in 17 starts. Kuroda also posted 13 wins thus far, including many against the AL East.

Phil Hughes and Freddy Garcia have both been here before. As for the O’s, their top starters have struggled mightily as of late and all year against the Yankees.

They’re in trouble.

Will the Yankees win another division title...

Joseph.Crisalli@UConn.edu

» POINT/COUNTERPOINT Joe: Although the Orioles are vying to be the franchise’s first playoff team since 1997, they shouldn’t be as respected as the rest of the field fighting in the playoff push.

The Orioles have been outscored by 57 runs this season, which is the worst in the AL East. You could say, ‘so what’ to the run differential, but when a team knows how to score runs like the Yankees do, second in the MLB with 682 this season, it doesn’t matter how they fare in one run games. Out of a 162-game season, only about 19 percent of the games the Orioles have played have been one run games. That’s about one game in a four game series; and if they are being outscored by runs the rest of the games, they will lose three out of four times at best. So in their last 21 games, if they don’t even get close to the other team, they don’t stand a chance, especially with

their team batting average being towards the bottom at .242, 21st in the MLB. The Yankees have a batting average of no. 11 in the league at .262. With the likes of Derek Jeter, A-Rod, Curtis Granderson, Mark Teixiera (who will be back) and Robinson Cano, compared the Orioles with Mark Reynolds, Nick Markakis and Adam Jones, there is no comparison.

Nick: Whether you beat a team by one-run or 10, it still counts as a win. While the Yankees roster has many big names, baseball often comes down to who’s playing the best at the end of the season, instead of who has more talent. Right now, the Orioles are the team that is playing better. The Yankees had the best record in baseball at the All-Star break but are just 22-28 in their last

» YANKEES, page 9

By Nick Danforth Campus Correspondent

Orioles

While the Yankees have more postseason experience than the Orioles, it won’t be a factor in AL East title race. The Orioles have proven they are capable of winning under pressure with their 25-7 record in one-run games.

The team hasn’t tasted the postseason since ‘97, but I think the chance to make it this year will give them a psychological boost.

The Yankees will feel more pressure as failing to win the division would be a failure. The O’s are just happy to be there and if they do not make it, people will just say they had a great run. That lack of expectations will allow them to play loose and well.

Nicholas.Danforth@UConn.edu

...or will the Orioles come out on top?