The Daily Campus: September 15, 2011

Volume CXVIII No. 12

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USG funding board denied spending cap

By Liz Crowley Senior Staff Writer

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In an effort to prevent the organization from running out of money again, the USG funding board announced at the senate meeting Wednesday night in Monteith that there will be no cap on how much money they can give per funding session.

Syed Naqvi, funding board chair, said the board went into the semester in a hole, unable to fund on- and off-campus events because it ran out of money last spring. Those funds would normally roll into the beginning of fall semester. In response,

he said the board unanimously decided against a cap on the amount of money USG can give to student organizations for each of the four sessions.

“We will run out of money between second and third session,” Naqvi said regarding the likely event that organizations apply for $250,000 for session two. “Clearly USG is not an unlimited source of funding.”

USG President Sam Tracy said he does not want to make any predictions yet because the situation is fluid.

“It’s so hard to predict what will be applied for and what will be approved,” Tracy

said. “I hope we do run out of money, but at the very end [of the semester]. My philosophy is that we should use all of our funds every semester.”

Naqvi added that the board is not allowed to deny groups funding because they are low on money. He said they must review all applications without bias and grant them funding as long as the groups follow procedure.

“We have no personal opinion on any application,” he said. “If we receive [$250,000] in applications this Monday…which is

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Speaker of the USG Senate Joseph Mingrone addresses the group during their meeting in Monteith 303 on Wednesday night.

Library sells books to fund leisure collection

‘Make the invisible city visible’

By Amanda Farley Campus Correspondent Tables and tables of books awaited the flocks of students and faculty at the South Plaza entrance of the Homer Babbidge Library on Wednesday. From 9 to 3 p.m., people were able to buy books at inexpensive prices.

Even before 9 a.m., 30 to 40 people showed up ready to search the tables of approximately 12,000 to 15,000 books to find ones they were interested in.

“The prices are awesome,” said Minerva Ranjeet, a 7thsemester art and painting double major. Hardbacks, DVDs, and CDs were priced at $1 apiece.

Paperbacks, VHSs, and maps were 50 cents each, while journals were 25 cents.

“The money that we do make from the book sale is going to the leisure reading collection and

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On Wednesday, students and staff entering the Art Building were met with several large installations created by the students in Communication Design 1&2. The purpose of the assignment was to “make the invisible city visible” and used imagery collected during a field trip to Providence during the first week of class.

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Wesleyan Professor discusses BDSM

By Colin Neary Campus Correspondent

BDSM is taboo, and that is part of the reason it becomes more popular each year. Bondage began as a radical subculture of private bars and secret knocks, but has since become a commercial phenomenon that has spawned an industry of “How To” videos, costumes and sex toys.

Dr. Margo Weiss, an American studies and anthropology professor from Wesleyan University, Dr. Margo Weiss visited the Rainbow Center Wednesday afternoon as a part of the Out to Lunch Lecture Series to discuss her new book “Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality.”

The lecture began with an overview of queer theory’s history and a discussion of the Oxford English dictionary’s definition of the word “queer.” Weiss asked us to revive the phrase: “Queer as a

coot.”

“Queer theory seeks to challenge or deconstruct traditional ideas of sexuality and gender,” Weiss told the intimate audience, “especially the perception of heterosexuality as normative.” She then read a passage on normative heterosexuality written by late English professor Eve Sedgewick, which addresses how, during the Christmas season, all institutions speak with one voice and expect people to accord themselves in the holiday’s image of “the family.”

In contrast, queer represents overlaps and lapses in sexuality.

Pushy femmes, radical faeries, fantasists, drags, masturbators, and feminist men and women are but a few of the people who comprise the rainbow soup.

“Queer theory is about challenging the distribution of power and privilege in a hetero-normative social structure and thinking

past social hierarchies of sexuality,” Weiss explained. The be-all end-all argument of heterosexuality is that it is natural. “Queer theory is not against heterosexuality,” she emphasized.

Weiss also cited French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault, who claimed homosexuality is a modern identity that was applied around the time of the Industrial Revolution in 1870.

“In fact, heterosexuality was initially deviant,” she disclosed to a stunned crowd. “It was considered an overwhelming appetite for the opposite sex.” The droves that wander campus on Friday nights tell a similar story.

She challenged: “If gays and lesbians do not exist in history, do they exist throughout the world? There was a focus on savages,” Weiss stated in reference to early 20th century anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski.

“Sexuality dominates every

aspect of culture,” she continued.

“There are sexualities beyond the racist and colonial categories created by sexologists.” She also referenced pop anthropologist Margaret Mead and said, “Samoan sexuality is different than sexuality in New Jersey.”

A lot of the attendees laughed when Weiss discussed rituals of “semen transaction” as she transitioned into discussing how the division of sexual categories in America does not apply to other cultures. Examples included Brazilian transgendered prostitutes and American Indian Third Gender categories. Native people are said to celebrate and respect people with non-normative sexualities, though there is argument that this is a vast oversimplification and a romanticization of indigenous peoples as “noble savages.”

“Queer politics in the contemporary United States are built on

a history of land theft and cultural assimilation,” she firmly stated.

“We must think more critically about colonialism, post-colonialism and what it means to define sexuality.”

In a question-and-answer session, she discussed BDSM as reinforcing a neo-liberal white perspective. “Is it transgressive or hegemonic?” she queried.

“Some claim that BDSM is de faco satire, but for whom is it political?” She also pointed out that 90 percent of people involved with BDSM are white.

One African-American woman she spoke to wanted to do a real slave auction to challenge the status quo. She concluded the lectture by explaining that, though BDSM is not heterosexual in practice, it is practiced predominantly by heterosexual people.

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Teens do well in SAT writing; lag in math

HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut’s recent college-bound graduates exceeded national SAT average scores in reading and writing, but fell short in math in a trend that’s reached its 15th year, according to a new report.

Members of the Class of 2011 who took the college entrance exam did slightly worse on average in each subject than their counterparts a year ago, reflecting a nationwide trend in which average scores in reading, writing and math dipped.

But while Connecticut public high school students’ reading and writing scores were better than the U.S. averages, Connecticut hasn’t reached the national average in math since 1996. This year, the average score was 505, compared with a national average of 514.

The College Board, which owns and administers the SAT, released the results Wednesday with an analysis of scores from the approximately 29,800 test-takers in Connecticut’s public schools.

Despite the difficulties in meeting national averages in math, the news was brighter in reading and writing.

The average Connecticut reading score was 502, compared with a national average of 497. The results were even stronger in writing, in which the state average was 506 compared with the U.S. average of 489.

Candidate: speaker must step down from panel

HARTFORD (AP) — A Republican candidate for Connecticut’s 5th congressional district wants Democratic Speaker of the House Christopher Donovan to step down from a legislative panel redrawing the state’s congressional and legislative districts.

Donovan is a Democratic candidate for the seat. GOP candidate Mark Greenberg said Wednesday that it’s “a blatant conflict of interest” for Donovan to sit on a committee that is recommending new boundaries for the district.

Greenberg accused Donovan of seeking an unfair political advantage by not stepping down from the committee.

Donovan, however, says Connecticut’s constitution requires his participation in the redistricting process. He says every member of the panel is an elected official and “therefore naturally political.” He says their positions are “entirely appropriate” and that he’s fulfilling his leadership role on the bipartisan panel.

Judge dismisses charges against state treasurer

HARTFORD (AP) — A Hartford superior court judge has dismissed motor vehicle charges filed against Connecticut State Treasurer Denise Nappier.

Hartford State’s Attorney Gail Hardy had not planned to prosecute the Democratic official. Hardy said there was no basis for the Sept. 1 motor vehicle stop in Hartford, which led to her state car being towed and Nappier walking home.

A court clerk confirmed that the case was dismissed on Wednesday. Nappier did not appear in court. Messages were left seeking comment with the treasurer and her attorney.

Nappier was charged with misusing license plates and operating an unregistered vehicle that lacked insurance. But it was later determined the information was erroneous because the Department of Motor Vehicles failed to properly enter information for Nappier’s car into the computerized database used by police.

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UConn breaks into public top 20

Shaking the previous year’s ranking, the University of Connecticut broke into the top 20 with a rank of 19 for public research universities, according to rankings released by U.S. News & World Report.

Coming in at 27 last year, UConn jumped eight spots to take number 19 out of the 172 public universities in the list and 118 “tier one” schools ranked, according to the release.

“UConn knows it’s a great university and we’re of course thrilled to be recognized for it; breaking the top 20 is important for us as an institution and puts us in some very good company,” said UConn President Susan Herbst in a statement.

“There are different schools of thought on the value of college rankings, and institutions can rise and fall for different reasons, but the U.S. News list is important and people do pay attention to it. We have a great reputation, our efforts to ensure our students are staying in school and graduating on time are really paying off, and it’s gratifying to see the University rise so dramatically in the rankings because of it.”

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UConn partners with UTC Power

By Kim Wilson Staff Writer UConn has taken a major leap in going green by partnering with UTC Power to create a fuel cell power plant (PureCell) that will supply energy, heat and cooling to the buildings on the Depot campus beginning in the Spring of 2012.

The fuel cell technology soon to be employed at the depot campus will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by providing clean, efficient and reliable energy, of which the only byproducts are heat and water. It is estimated that the fuel cell will result in a net reduction of about 600,000 pounds of carbon dioxide each year.

The depot campus hosts buildings such as the research laboratories and offices at UConn’s Center for Clean Energy and Engineering, the Longley Building, the Connecticut Advanced Pavement (CAP) Lab, and the UConn Human Resources Department.

The trailer-sized, modular

UTC fuel cell is a combined heat and power device that can operate independently or in conjunction with the commercial power grid. A fuel cell converts natural gas into electricity and heat through a combustionfree, electromechanical process, resulting in clean byproducts.

The PureCell plant boasts a 10-year cell stack life and overall system efficiency of up to 90 percent, nearly three times that of typical central generation.

The UConn fuel cell installation was made possible by the funding of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund.

“When this opportunity came up we ran the economics of it and determined that economically the project was feasible,” Ronald Gaudet, utilities manager of UConn Energy Services, said.

The fuel cell installation is one part of UConn’s 2010 Climate Action Plan, which outlines more than 200 strate-

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to see if there are gaps. The gaps are then filled with the accrued books and because space is limited upstairs, the duplicates are put in a collection for the upcoming book sale.”

Richard Bleiler, the humanities librarian in charge of the book sale, said, “Usually we wait until we have approximately 150 boxes of donated books. This year we had 500 boxes. We also received some books from the Dodd Center. So we are splitting the funds with them this year.”

“Donations come from different sources,” Bleiler said. “Faculty donates old research books, wid-

ows donate books from their spouses that have passed on, and readers pass on books that they are done with. One of the key donators of the music books at our sale was donated by a major writer for the New Yorker.” When people are done reading and researching books, they donate them to the library so others can enjoy them as well.

At about 1:30 p.m., the price of filling a bag was reduced to $1. Then, at around 2:30 p.m., the books were free. In the past, whatever books were left over have been donated to non-profit organizations, which then donated them to third world countries,

“When this opportunity came up we ran the economics of it and determined that economically the project was feasible,”

Ronald Gaudet Utilities Manager of Uconn Energy Services UConn has been steadily implementing more green technology over the past several years. In 2006, the UConn Main Campus switched from oil-fired utility boilers to a co-generation power plant that reduces greenhouse gas emissions by an estimated 30,000 tons each year.

The unit will also be used as a demonstration of fuel cell

energy for students in the engineering department.

“The unit will help us in teaching and training our students,” said Prabhakar Singh, director of the Center for Clean Energy Engineering at UConn.

“The unit will have a dashboard that will show the performance of the unit in real time, and students will have access to observe that.”

This year, UConn ranked number 16 in the Sierra Club’s “Coolest Schools” list, which rates the sustainability and environmental efforts of universities across the nation.

UConn officials expect that the implementation of the PureCell plant will launch UConn into the Sierra Club’s top 10 coolest schools.

“We are going to be doing a lot of green energy research at UConn,” Singh said. “This unit will be a building block to making UConn a truly unique and green school.”

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500 boxes of donated books

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to buy e-books and to fill gaps in our collections,” said David Avery, the emerging technologies, facilities and collections management librarian. This is Avery’s fourth or fifth book sale over the last seven years.

According to Avery, the library hosts a book sale “every year to a year and a half, depending on the books that we accumulate from donations.” People donate books and audio to the library during the year, and after they collect a good amount, they “go through collections in various areas of the library

according to Bleiler and Avery.

“I thought it was a really good turnout, I was not expecting to see this many books,” said Kayla Everson, a 7th semester English Education major. Since she wants to be a middle school English teacher, Everson was looking for books to start a collection for her classroom.

“I was looking for books from when I was younger and that are also appropriate for both boys and girls. There is a good selection of young adult literature here,” Everson said.

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Executive Board: cap a dangerous idea

from USG, page 1 possible…the funding board has to fund it [as long as they meet the policy requirements].”

Naqvi and Tracy said they informed student groups that the board had assumed their caps were in place – until they found out it had to officially be put into policy first. At the first funding board meeting, however, the executive board would not allow the caps.

“I realized that we hadn’t put that in the policies anywhere,” Tracy said. “I thought we clearly couldn’t do that administratively. It’d have to be passed by senate.”

According to Tracy, the executive board met Tuesday night and decided as a whole that the cap was a dangerous idea. He said they would have to deny funding to groups that went by the book. If he were still a Tier II leader, Tracy said he would argue that USG did have the money and should give it to organizations.

“Our main goal was to make sure we had some money in [fourth session] so what happened last semester [didn’t happen again],” he said.

Tracy noted that last semester was the first time in many years that USG ran out of money, and therefore he felt it was too quick to start making a lot of changes.

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USG Vice President Lindsay Chiappa speaking during the USG Senate meeting on Wednesday night.

He said USG already reduced the amount of money per group to $12,000 per semester, down from $20,000.

“We will see how it goes this semester, and if need be we will make other adjustments,” Tracy said.

The funding board is given $451,000 per semester to divide among student groups.

After session one, it is down to $300,000. The senate put aside $50,000 for session four in case the board runs out of money.

Naqvi said this was important to them because session four is the first month of spring semester.

“We will definitely have a fourth session. We want events to happen in the first month of spring semester,” Naqvi said.

In its original plan, the funding board had allocated $127,000 for session one, $153,000 for session two, between $50,000 and $60,000 for session three and $127,000 for session four, Naqvi said. He also suggested that organizations should start fundraising for themselves and planning ahead in the event that USG cannot fund them.

“If student groups are in dire need of money, they should apply now, rather than waiting till third session, if we run out,” he said.

At the meeting, Tracy also announced that Dave Newell will be the new chief information officer in charge of technology for USG. Vice President Lindsay

Chiappa said that the water supply, which UConn and the Town of Mansfield share, has been deemed below safe levels because there is not enough water reserved. Currently, the area goes through 500,000 gallons of water every day, which will increase as campus construction increases.

Chiappa also said that UConn police officers, who have always had the right to give citations to students in off-campus housing such as Carriage and Celeron Apartments, will now be using a ticket book to give such warnings. The director of off-campus housing will be informed when students reach a certain number of tickets, and students will have to attend an interview or be referred to the board of standards.

“Even if you live off campus, you have to follow the rules,” Chiappa said.

Comptroller Daniel Hanley, 7th-semester business management major, said USG signed a contract with The Daily Campus for $5,027 worth of advertising space. Additionally, he and Tracy officially signed a contract with Idea Scale, an online survey company, which will allow them to collect campus data online in a few weeks.

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Ex-biker gang boss gets 14 years

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge sentenced the former leader of the Mongols motorcycle gang to a 14-year prison sentence in a case accusing members of murder, drug trafficking and violent attacks, The Associated Press learned after inquiring about last week’s closed hearing.

The AP learned of the sentence Tuesday when U.S. District Judge Otis Wright relayed the information through federal prosecutors after the news organization asked about Ruben “Doc” Cavazos’ sentencing. The hearing was closed to the public and it appears, according to the court docket, that the public and media weren’t notified in advance.

When federal agents arrested dozens of members of the notorious motorcycle gang, they proudly displayed seized rifles, handguns, chrome-covered Harley-Davidson choppers and leather vests adorned with the club’s insignia.

Nearly three years later, it’s been difficult to find out what happened to guys with nicknames like “Reaper,” ‘’Risky” and “Peligroso” in the legal system.

Nine of those charged with racketeering conspiracy had their plea agreements and sentencing records sealed and Cavazos, the gang’s former national president, was sentenced last Thursday. Only after repeated prodding by The Associated Press to reveal the sentence did U.S. District Judge Otis Wright relay Tuesday via federal prosecutors that he sent Cavazos to prison for 14 years.

No other details were given.

An AP reporter made repeated attempts over the past couple of

months to find out when Cavazos was scheduled to be sentenced but was unsuccessful. Wright’s Sept. 8 calendar mentioned two matters that were under seal and neither listed the defendant’s name nor the case number.

While sealed plea agreements are the norm — often to protect those who have cooperated with authorities — keeping the sentence and the hearing confidential is highly unusual, several legal experts told AP. “I don’t know of any authority that would allow the court to keep that information from being part of the public record,” said Michael Brennan, a law professor at the University of Southern California. “What the guy was sentenced to doesn’t involve issues of confidentiality. I think the public is entitled to a number.”

Email messages left for Wright’s court clerk were forwarded to a court spokesman who didn’t immediately respond to inquiries made by AP. U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins, the chief judge for the Central District of California, said it’s not common practice to close a sentencing hearing but she would defer to Wright’s determination.

“What I think is that whatever a judge decides is necessary for the safety of the litigants in his or her courtroom,” Collins said.

“I know this case involved some dangerous people.”

Calls to Cavazos’ deputy federal public defender, John Littrell, were not returned.

Littrell requested the judge to seal documents regarding his client, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Brunwin.

The reason for sealing was due to underlying issues that Brunwin couldn’t talk about.

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In this Oct.21, 2008 file photo showing a poster released by the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms featuring members of the Mongols motorcycle gang is seen during a news conference in Los Angeles.

Seventy-nine Mongols were charged in federal court with various crimes, ranging from conspiracy to weapons possession, in October 2008. Prosecutors said the gang, which is mostly Latino, was involved in murder, torture and drug trafficking, and funded itself in part by stealing credit card account information.

Most notable was Cavazos, a former CAT scan technician at a Los Angeles hospital, who handed out the orders and brokered a deal with the Mexican Mafia over the collection of drug payments in areas controlled by that gang, according to a 177-page indictment.

Many of those charged have pleaded guilty, but their agreements were sealed, including the one for Cavazos, who pleaded guilty in January 2009 to one count of racketeering con-

spiracy that carried a maximum life sentence. AP asked another federal judge to unseal the plea deals, but its motion was rejected seven months later because of safety concerns for the defendants and their families. Federal prosecutors initially sought to keep the agreements sealed.

New York-based defense attorney Marc Mukasey, a former federal prosecutor who has handled drug cartel cases, said he’s been involved in a couple of closed sentencing hearings in which the public was notified of when it would happen. However, he believes the public’s right to know must be weighed against any security concerns a judge might have.

“The court has a duty to impose punishment and to take into account the general deterrence it will have on other people who

Maine court hears Nader appeal

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Seven years after his failed presidential bid, Ralph Nader’s legal team went before Maine’s highest court Wednesday in what could be his final bid to sue Democrats and others he claims conspired to keep him off the 2004 ballot in Maine and more than a dozen other states.

An attorney for the consumer advocate asked the Maine Supreme Judicial Court to reinstate his client’s lawsuit accusing Democratic leaders of scheming to use the courts to sabotage Nader and his 2004 running mate, the late Peter Camejo.

Attorney Oliver Hall told the

supreme court that the judge who threw out the lawsuit in November shouldn’t have allowed defendants to invoke a Maine statute that targets meritless lawsuits aimed at silencing activists. Hall said the First Amendment doesn’t protect Democrats from filing “false petitions.”

Attorney Stephen Langsdorf, representing the Democratic Party, said the so-called AntiSLAPP law was properly applied and that his clients did nothing wrong.

Ultimately, Nader and Camejo appeared on the ballot as independents in 34 states but collected only three-tenths of

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Nader, who didn’t attend the hearing, said he just wants to present his evidence to a jury.

“This is a case that is easily blocked on procedure, which of course allows the judges in Washington, D.C., and in Pennsylvania to exercise their political discretion.

They never had to discuss the merits, which is where we think we have a strong case,”

Nader said from his office in Washington, D.C. The lawsuit ended up in Maine after the three-year statute of limitations expired on Nader’s 2007 lawsuit in the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Nader then brought his case to Washington County Superior Court in Maine, which has a more generous statute of limitations.

Maine presents a different challenge for Nader because the anti-Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation statute was intended to prevent lawsuits from stifling activists from speaking out.

think about committing similar crimes,” Mukasey said. “The world should know about that.”

Judges have kept sentencing hearings open for the most dangerous and notorious of defendants, including 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, mob boss John Gotti and Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

In the same district where Cavazos was sentenced, even the suspected leaders of the violent Aryan Brotherhood prison gang were sentenced in open court five years ago.

A federal appellate court in May sided with media organizations arguing they are entitled to attend sentencing hearings. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled a federal judge could not close the sentencing hearing of drug cartel kingpin Oziel Cardenas-Guillen without first giving news outlets

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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Casey Anthony’s parents offered differing views in a television interview with “Dr. Phil” host Phil McGraw about how they think their 2-yearold granddaughter died in 2008.

Cindy Anthony said she believes that Caylee Anthony drowned, while her husband George Anthony was adamant that the toddler died by other means and that his daughter Casey Anthony had more intricate knowledge about how it happened.

Anthony’s parents shared their opinions during the second part of an interview with McGraw that aired Wednesday. They spoke with McGraw for a lengthy, taped interview over a two-day period recently. A portion of the interview devoted to Casey Anthony’s murder trial will also be shown later this month.

A message left by The Associated Press with one of Casey Anthony’s attorneys, Jose Baez, was not immediately returned.

George Anthony said he thinks Casey may have accidently drugged his granddaughter and she tried to cover it up. Cindy Anthony said she does think Casey did know where her toddler was buried and may have had help placing her body there.

“If Casey is watching this someday — Yes, I think she’s responsible for Caylee not being here,” George Anthony said.

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State must learn to meet its own deadlines

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onnecticut’s redistricting committee, composed of eight lawmakers from both major parties, will not meet the Sept. 15 deadline to redraw the state’s congressional and General Assembly district lines.

In Tuesday’s letter to Gov. Dan Malloy, the panel formally requested an extension. Failing to meet the redistricting deadline has become a tradition in Connecticut given that the previous two panels in 2000 and 1990 required a similar extension. The solution is simple: form a new panel with the same members, and thereby extend the deadline to Nov. 30.

Repeated missed deadlines reveal a structural problem that the state government is not resolving, which frustrates first-time voters who want to know that their votes matter.

Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, said that the requested extension is not the result of partisan divisions.

“It’s just an enormous task and a very important task,” McKinney said.

This excuse suggests that the task is too unbearable to finish on time and that an extension is inevitable. Both Democrat and Republican committee members say that they have worked well together. So if political discord is not the problem, then what is? According to Mr. McKinney, the task is just too big.

Asking politicians to do their job, which in regards to redistricting occurs only once every 10 years, seems like a reasonable demand.

Changing the deadline in the first place may require legislators to pass a new redistricting bill, which often stirs controversy. However, creating a long-term solution to this persistent time problem is the next logical step.

Also, failing to redraw district lines in a timely manner hurts voters. Disillusionment with voting remains high. Not knowing where your vote will count may frustrate voters, especially firsttime voters at UConn. The 2nd Congressional District, where UConn is located, faces an estimated 15,000 vote decrease. In response, the committee is working to shift votes to the west and south. Considering that Malloy won last year’s election by just over 5,600 votes, 15,000 votes have the potential to decide future elections. Voters, especially those in the 2nd District, deserve to know further details sooner rather than later.

Legislators should not treat the deadline extension lightly.

They should actively search to figure out the reason why requesting an extension was necessary. If voters expect their politicians to solve the state-level problems, politicians should be expected to solve committee-level problems. Redrawing district maps is a serious issue. State politicians, specifically the 2nd Congressional District committee, should therefore treat it as a serious matter.

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When did the Republican Party get so cruel?

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’m not trying to be the least bit facetious, and I’m not trying to imply that the Democratic Party is wrought with saintly idols. Rather, I’m thrown off by the Republican base’s mindless embrace of brutality and discrimination.

Last week, during the MSNBC/Politico presidential debate, the invitation-only crowd broke out into cheers when it was cited that Texas Gov. Rick Perry has proudly presided over 200 executions­.

Seconds later, NBC Nightly News anchor and debate moderaBy Ryan Gilbert tor Brian Williams Associate Commentary Editor asked Perry about the audience’s ovation.

“I think Americans understand justice,” Perry said. “I think Americans are clearly, in the vast majority of cases, supportive of capital punishment.”

Williams then asked Perry whether he “struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any of [the executed] might have been innocent.”

“No, sir,” Perry said. “I’ve never struggled with that at all.”

Really?! Never? Not once? The majority of Americans “struggle” with this uncertainty. According to a recent Gallup poll, 59 percent of Americans agree that within the last five years, “a person has been executed under the death penalty who was, in fact, innocent of the crime he or she was charged with.”

It gets worse.

Last night’s CNN-Tea Party Express debate was like the cherry on top of this

cold, sick, death-layered sundae. Debating the uncertainty of whether Americans can and should be required to buy health insurance, CNN lead anchor and debate moderator Wolf Blitzer proposed a hypothetical to Texas congressman Ron Paul. “A healthy

“The audience was gleefully cheering on to ‘let them die.’ Let. Them. Die.” 30-year-old young man has a good job, makes a good living, but decides, ‘You know what? I’m not going to spend $200 or $300 a month for health insurance because I’m healthy. I don’t need it.’ But something terrible happens, and all of a sudden he needs it. Who’s going to pay if he goes into a coma, for example? Who pays for that?” In response, Paul said, “That’s what freedom is all about – taking your own risks.” Blitzer then asked Paul if he was “saying that society should just let him die?”

This is where things get disturbing.

The audience responded, before Paul even had a chance to, by crying out, “Yes!” That’s right. The audience was gleefully cheering on to “let them die.” Let. Them. Die. Four days ago, we were honoring those lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001. Four days ago, we were yearning for a time when we all put aside petty differences and came together.

Four days ago, we were “United We Stand.”

Today, we are “Let Them Die.” How did we go from honoring those we’ve lost to repulsively reveling in the deaths of those who might have been innocent or uninsured? This is not the American ideology our forefather­s fought and gave their lives for.

This is not the American originality that took

us out of the Great Depression­ and through two World Wars. And this is certainly not the American benevolence that bonded us 10 years ago after the tragic events of 9/11 and encouraged us to think not only of ourselves.

Perry and Paul have sordidly managed to turn “justice” and “freedom,” hallmarks of what are supposed to make America great, into slogan words laced with ignorance and discrimination.

These nationally televised debates are just the tip of the bigotry iceberg. There’s already a law banning same-sex marriage in North Carolina, but state Republican leaders are bothered that a court could find the law unconstitutional. Therefore, they’re pushing to amend the state’s constitution to define marriage as only between one man and one woman. Mississippi’s Republicancontrolled state legislature is pushing a “personhood” law that could ban abortions and birth control. The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives won’t even consider bringing the Employment NonDiscrimination Act up for a vote.

These debates have done nothing more than show just how toxic the Republican Party’s “Me! Me! Me!” ideology has become. I pray that the prediction­s of another economic collapse in this country greater than the Great Depression over the next year never happens because many of us seem to lack the compassion­ and selflessne­ss required to rebuild a nation. Republican­ candidates and politicians say, on the one hand, that they have the superior moral foundation because of their Christian beliefs, yet they’re the first to decide which lives they do or don’t like, and which ones to put a price tag on.

Associate Commentary Editor Ryan Gilbert is a 7thsemester journalism major. He can be reached at Ryan.Gilbert@UConn.edu.

Meaningful progress requires constructive discourse

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hen my roommate told me that at the Involvement Fair, the UConn College Democrats were placed next to the College Republicans, and that Students for Reproductive Justice were placed next to a pro-life group, I couldn’t believe it. “That’s just a recipe for

By Grace Malloy disaster,” I thought.

Staff Columnist In fact, according to a student who tabled for the pro-life group, one of the coordinators of the Involvement Fair apologized for the setup.

Imagine the conversations that must have taken place. They should have separated the opposing groups.

But the more I thought about it, I realized that perhaps that’s the way it should be. In general, people with differing opinions on political issues should have contact. As long as they remain civil, it can lead to a beneficial outcome. For one, those on “opposite sides of the fence” about an issue can learn to work together through constructive discourse.

There is too much bickering, too much hate, too much rigidity in our country right now. We must break through

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the walls that divide those with opposing views. We should not refuse to have civil conversations with people we disagree with on political topics such as the economy, abortion, gay marriage, foreign affairs, etc.

What will be accomplished if we constantly fight? What progress will be made?

Consider the fact that our country nearly went into default in early August because our government struggled to agree on the debt plan. That was incredibly frustrating for me. Is it truly so difficult for Democrats and Republicans to work together and compromise on an issue that it takes the threat of default for them to finally get something done?

Obama expressed aggravation over this as well in a recent speech to Congress. He stated that while we do glorify the individual, a common thread that has run throughout our history is “a belief that we are all connected.”

Obama stressed that we have responsibilities to ourselves, but that we also have responsibilities to one another. He asks where we would be without highways, bridges and airports, without public schools, research universities and community colleges. These are all things that came about as a result of col-

laboration. Whether you support Obama politically or not, this is a sentiment that anyone can agree with. To make any progress in pulling our country out of the hole into which we’ve sunk, we must all communicate in a respectful, open-minded manner, compromise and negotiate. We cannot focus on “winning” the argument. We must instead work together.

“There is too much bickering, too much hate, too much rigidity in our country right now.”

But who is going to foster this?

Our politicians likely won’t. It seems like they are already too entrenched in their own views, too driven by their desires to get re-elected and to push their own agendas. So perhaps the task lies with us. When we find ourselves in situations like the one at the Involvement Fair – where we come into contact with those who have starkly different views on political issues than us – then we must make an

effort to cooperate.

What exactly does cooperation mean? First, we need to be fully informed about an issue so that we know that our own beliefs about it are reasonable and legitimate. Then, we need to take the time to listen to others, and to do so with an open mind.

We need to look at a particular issue from all standpoints and do our best to understand all reasoning. Finally, we need to try to find common ground with those that have a different point of view. There is no guarantee that common ground will be found, but we don’t know until we take the time to have conversation and respectful debate.

I would like to stress that we don’t need to abandon our fervent beliefs in order to achieve common ground. There’s nothing wrong with fighting relentlessly for what you strongly believe in. But as long as we do only that and neglect to try to negotiate, then there is no chance for progress. The moment we take the step toward long-term communication with those whom we disagree with, then progress is all the more possible.

Staff Columnist Grace Malloy is a 7th-semester political science and journalism major. She can be reached at Grace.Malloy@UConn.edu

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

by Brian Ingmanson

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 9 -- Venus enters Libra for the next 225 days.

In general, love, beauty and art will flower.

Simple appreciation of quality satisfies.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- The finer things in life call to you, but you should resist spending impulsively. Create a plan to attain your desire permanently.

You’ve got the power.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 7 -- You may want to talk about beauty and romance, but consider your words carefully. Be respectful as you stand up for a passionate cause. Make a strategic plan.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Words of justice stir you to action. Some chaos at work and on the roads makes staying close to home a good idea. Share a meal with someone interesting.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- There’s a test or a challenge ahead. Try doing something you’ve never done before, if the answer’s not obvious. Don’t try to pay everyone’s way. They want to contribute.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -Find a way to make your personal anxieties productive. Use nervous energy to get the dishes washed. There’s always something to learn. Express yourself through art or science.

Irregardless

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Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- You may want to win every argument today, but choose your battles well and save energy for those worth fighting. It’s a balancing act, especially where love is concerned.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- You can’t be in two places at the same time, no matter how hard you try. The closest approximation is to teach someone the job you love less, and hand it over to them.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- You’re very attractive now (in spite of yourself). Focus on a passion. You appreciate loveliness. Write some poetry, especially if you don’t know how.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 9 -- Use creative energy to make your home work for you. Small changes in decoration go a long way for your self-esteem. A new low-energy light bulb saves money, which adds up quickly.

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Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is an 8 -Focus on fine-tuning your place for the next couple of days. Make sure your nest is in order and that you’re comfortable with where everything is. This provides peace.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Get in communication with the people that need to hear from you (you know who they are). They’ll be glad, and you benefit from the conversation. It lightens your spirit.

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US ‘hopeful’ Iran sets course to free 2 Americans TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The proposed bail-for-freedom deal for two Americans jailed as spies looked increasingly Wednesday like a repeat of last year’s release of their companion: Quarrels between Iran’s judiciary and president, and then a private jet dispatched by the sultan of Oman for the captives’ first leg home.

But even as Washington expressed hope that Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal could be nearing the end of more than two years in custody, the details of when — or even if — they will be freed remained clouded amid the complexities of internal Iranian politics and third-party diplomacy between Washington and Tehran, two longtime foes.

The first twist came from Iran’s powerful judiciary, which said it was still reviewing the bail provisions — and handing a potentially embarrassing rebuke to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after his prediction that the Americans could be released in a matter of days.

The statement by the hardline judiciary appeared to be a message that only its officials — and not the president — can set the terms of any possible release. Ahmadinejad is locked in a bitter power struggle with Iran’s ruling clerics who control the courts.

It also could be a swipe at his hopes of timing the release of Bauer and Fattal with his expected arrival in New York next week for the U.N. General Assembly session.

Just hours after the judiciary’s declaration, however, the Gulf state of Oman dispatched a private plane to Tehran, according to an official of Oman’s Foreign Ministry.

The Omani official gave no further details on any possible timetable for the release of the Americans, who were detained along the Iran-Iraq border in July 2009 along with friend

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Former rebel fighters relax at a checkpoint in Wadi Dinar, near the frontline of Bani Walid, Libya, Wednesday. Libyan fighters are signing up for a final assault on one of the last remaining bastions of Moammar Gadhafi.

Gadhafi heartland digs in

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In this Sunday, Feb. 6 file photo, US hikers Shane Bauer, left, and Josh Fattal, attend their trail in Iran.

Sarah Shourd. The Omani official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivities of the negotiations.

But the Omani intervention suggested movement on the complicated dealings over the total $1 million bail.

It all was a near mirror image of the prelude to Shourd’s release last year. First, Iran’s courts bigfooted Ahmadinejad after his announcement of a $500,000 bail deal and then set the ground rules for her to eventually fly out on an Omani royal jet just as Ahmadinejad was heading for New York.

Oman has close ties with both Tehran and the Washington and plays a strategic role in the region by sharing control with Iran of the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf, which is the route for 40 percent of the world’s oil tanker traffic.

The Americans’ defense attorney, Masoud Shafiei, told The Associated Press he is moving ahead with the

bail arrangements with Swiss Embassy officials, who represent U.S. interests in Iran because there are no diplomatic relations between the two countries. There were no details given on the source of the money.

On Tuesday, Shafiei said the court handling the case had set bail of $500,000 each for the Americans.

“I have informed both the hikers’ families and the Swiss Embassy, which represents the U.S. interests, and as soon as the bail is prepared, we will deposit and, God willing, they will be released,” he said.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the U.S. was trying to glean more information on the status of the Americans through Swiss diplomatic channels.

“We’re encouraged by what we’ve heard out of Tehran,” Toner said. “We’re hopeful that we’ll see a positive outcome.”

WADI AL-HAMMAR, Libya (AP) — The revolution’s quest to unite Libya under its control has a formidable challenge standing in the way: A swath of territory where disciplined loyalists fighters stage precision attacks and withering shelling barrages to defend land that includes Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown.

It’s far too early to predict whether the pro-Gadhafi heartland — wedged between the former rebel hub of Benghazi and the capital Tripoli — could turn into a seat of resistance such as insurgent zones in Iraq or Afghanistan. But, for the moment, it carries the same interplay of firepower and zealotry, fueling attacks that have killed at least 80 anti-Gadhafi forces in recent days.

“Its cities are packed with weapons, missiles and ammunition depots,” said Fadl-Allah

Haroun, a commander of revolutionary units near Benghazi.

“It is an unbelievable force.”

Currently, former rebel fighters are assembling for an expected push into the welldefended loyalist stronghold of Bani Walid, on the western end of the 240-mile (400-kilometer) band of pro-Gadhafi territory.

It includes the hunted leader’s Mediterranean birthplace Sirte and stretches to near the oil port of Ras Lanouf — which came under back-to-back attacks by loyalist forces on Monday that killed 15 guards.

The stiff resistance in Bani Walid, including by highly trained snipers, offers a glimpse of possibly much bigger fights ahead to try to dislodge Sirte and other places from loyalist hands.

Cities and towns throughout the Gadhafi belt are apparently awash with arms —

with larger weapons such as 152mm Howitzer canons now well hidden against NATO airstrikes that continue in the area, revolutionary commanders told The Associated Press.

The pro-Gadhafi commandos also stage hit-and-run strikes from the desert to the south, suggesting that Libya’s vast hinterlands and distant loyalist hubs such as Sabha could become rallying points for resistance fighters.

Outside Wadi Al-Hammar, a village on the coastal road about 55 miles (90 kilometers) east of Sirte, anti-Gadhafi forces have found armored vehicles hidden under tents and other weapons stashed in encampments of nomadic Bedouin tribesmen.

Al-Tayab Said, a revolutionary commander from Sabha, said loyalist fighters are trying to regroup and are using desert supply lines from Algeria.

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The Sushi Test: Asian Bistro or Oriental Café?

By Becky Radolf

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One of Spotify’s best features is how accessible it is. As shown above, the service is available on Android, iOS, Windows Mobile, Mac OS, Windows, and Linux (beta). The freemium service provides a mobilemusic library of almost any song imaginable.

By Aaron Burrick Campus Correspondent As of July 2011, Spotify, a UK-based digital music-streaming service, has been available to listeners across the United States.

The service boasts an online library of over 15 million tracks, radio stations organized by both artist and genre and a system of creating and exchanging playlists with other users.

CEO Daniel Ek created the service as an accessible “alternative against piracy.”

Spotify is completely legal and based on the consent of thousands of artists.

Users are given the option to register for free, subjecting themselves to numerous visual and audio advertisements, or to upgrade to a premium membership for only 10 dollars a month. Premium users can also sync their playlists and song libraries to mobile devices anywhere, while non-paying users are limited to syncing across a shared Wi-Fi network.

Spotify at first seems to be an excellent blend of other popular music services like iTunes and Pandora. But with so many competitors, what unique and outstanding features does it contribute to the world of digital music?

One of Spotify’s best features, and also a key contributor to its quick spread across the web, is its ability to integrate users’ existing digital services into a single platform. Spotify playlists can be posted to social networks like Facebook and Twitter for other users to listen to and download to their accounts. The Spotify library combines its playlists and streamed tracks with users’ existing iTunes collections, creating a single location for both programs’ music.

Artist biographies, weekly charts, and news on upcoming releases are also included in the download client, eliminating the need for users to make quick, informational Wikipedia searches or refer to popular sites like Last.fm and the all-dominating iTunes Store. Even the internet radio giant

Pandora is put in check by Spotify’s radio, which features unlimited skips and a preview of upcoming artists and titles. Daniel Nadhazi, a 3rd-semester ACES major, sees these features as an “amazing way to access…music with the consent of the artists. [It’s] easy, user friendly, and a music lover’s dream.”

Despite the convenience of the comprehensive and integrated Spotify interface, the service doesn’t really seem to add anything new to digital music. Music enthusiasts may question if it’s worth the download, let alone purchasing the Premium version.

Tomas Massari, a 3rd-semester Physics major, called the program “just another icon on [his] screen” when “easier, faster ways to download music” are available. Compared to listening on his iTunes library, Massari describes streaming on Spotify as a “memory drain.” Therefore, he rarely uses the program. The program’s interface is also criticized as being jam-packed with

features and poorly organized, which is not a surprise given the extent of its capabilities. Spotify is an ambitious program that tries to do a lot at once, but this could be more of an Achilles heel than a strength.

Despite these criticisms, all is not lost with Spotify. As a service centered on sharing playlists, the program will improve as it gains popularity and widens in scope. In time, the overly busy user interface will improve as Spotify expands as a company and competes with other digital music services for popularity and revenue. As for now, prospective users have to trust that this once small European service will catch on in the States. Sign up for a free account, discover some new music, and help decide if Spotify will rise above its online music competitors or become lost in the digital music revolution.

Aaron.Burrick@UConn.edu

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RACHEL WEISS/The Daily Campus Students participate in live action role-play, otherwise known as LARPing, on the quad behind the ITE building. The game is intended to simulate a medieval battle.

Sushi is a hot commodity, and the UConn campus is not excluded from its magical spell. After spending a summer in New York City, I’ve tried everything from delicious, top-of-the-line sushi to sushi so awful my innards were curling just from the smell of old fish.

I’m no sushi expert, but I definitely learned a thing or two about sushi this summer that gave me a new perspective on the two options near campus: Oriental Café and Asian Bistro. Obviously, Oriental Café has the location going for it, but it’s still worth pitting the two against each other. And trust me, I’ve had my share of both.

Let’s get to the brass tax: prices. For the money, Oriental Café wins hands down. The lunch special is $7.25 for any two rolls and $9.25 for any three, and it comes with soup and salad as well. Asian Bistro, meanwhile, makes you choose a soup or salad for either $9 or $13, depending on if you want two or three rolls.

But here’s the truth: Asian Bistro is completely worth the money. The dressing on the Ginger salad is infinitely better than the stuff at Oriental Café, and the miso soup is pretty damn good too.

Asian Bistro also has the better selection of specialty rolls. The Waterfront Roll was pretty much a party in my mouth, and well worth the $13. They’re simply more creative than Oriental Café’s, and while the Café’s rolls aren’t bad – and in fact, quite tasty – Asian Bistro’s innovativeness just makes their specialty roll section higher quality.

And when it comes down to it, Asian Bistro simply has higher quality and fresher fish.

I’ve eaten at Oriental Café several times where the fish tasted slightly old (you know by the smell). However, during the lunch special hours at Asian Bistro, the fish always tastes fresh. The spicy tuna roll is a staple in my sushi diet, and the spicy mayo at Asian Bistro has a little more bite than Oriental Café’s.

This isn’t to say Oriental Café should be counted out completely. For being located in the middle of nowhere and in walking distance of campus, it’s more than worth the trek if you’re bored at the library and want to nom on some Japanese food. However, if you have access to a car or access to a friend you want to shamelessly exploit for their car, then Asian Bistro is the way to go. Plus, if you gather enough friends you can do Hibachi, and it’s always a good day when Sake Bombs are involved.

Becky.Radolf@UConn.edu

Thrash metal legends fail to return to prominence

By Aaron Burstein Campus Correspondent Ever since the initial surge of thrash metal in the 1980’s, Anthrax had been considered a part of the “Big Four” of thrash metal. Alongside Metallica, Megadeth and Slayer, Anthrax was a fundamental band when it came to popularizing the genre.

But when placed alongside the aforementioned groups, Anthrax actually seems like the odd man out. They never quite achieved the iconic status of the other three bands, despite the high quality of their output.

But Anthrax seems to have seized the opportunity to get a

leg up on their fellow thrashers, Megadeth, who is also releasing a hotly anticipated album later this year. Naturally, there’s a lot of buzz surrounding Anthrax’s latest, Worship Music. It is a long-awaited return for the band, marked by many delays and line-up changes. So here’s the big question: Is it the return-to-form that the old school thrash fans are hoping for? For the most part, no.

It’s not as washed up as some might have predicted, but it has its fair share of flaws, some too glaring to forgive.

The number one issue has to do with breakdowns. No, that is not a misprint. There are breakdowns in this album. The last

thing old thrash metal bands need to be doing is taking cues from deathcore. Worship Music is not the worst thrash album ever put out, but the inclusion of breakdowns is one of the stupidest musical decisions they could possibly make. Thrash is about energy. Thrash is about riffs. Breakdowns sap both of those things. Otherwise inoffensive tracks are all but ruined.

Fortunately, it only occurs on a couple of songs, so the majority of the tracks are untarnished.

But this issue shouldn’t even exist. Anthrax are seasoned pros. They should know better.

If each breakdown was simply excised entirely, the album would be so much better for it.

Additionally, it’s important to note that Worship Music was recorded with Joey Belladonna, Anthrax’s original vocalist, despite some internal tensions within the band throughout the recording of the album. Both Dan Nelson and John Bush performed as vocalists in prior sessions for the album, but they were eventually scrapped and redone. Most would probably consider having Belladonna on vocals to be the best route for the band, and they’d probably be right. His style, however, isn’t quite what it used to be.

The vocal delivery on Worship Music seems more appropriate for heavy metal than thrash metal, and straddling the line

doesn’t always work (Just ask Metallica). The wild, manic inflection typical of older Anthrax releases is gone, and it is sorely missed.

But the album is not a total loss. Tracks like “The Giant” and “The Revolution Screams” (which also includes a tasty hidden track) bring the album some much-needed bite. “Judas Priest” is also a solid nod to the classic heavy metal band, and sits comfortably as the album’s main epic (many of the tracks are on the longer side, but are less rewarding). Unfortunately, much of the album is marred by Anthrax’s groove metal tendencies (a disturbing trend among thrash bands who survived the

90’s), so a number of the tracks seem flaccid by comparison. To make matters worse, the main single “Fight ‘Em Til You Can’t” essentially sounds like “Master of the Puppets” after a vasectomy. Nonetheless, the good tracks are worth checking out.

At the end of the day, Worship Music has its shining moments, but for the most part, it’s not doing the band any favors. Anthrax fans, hold tightly to your copies of Among the Living and Spreading the Disease. The band isn’t out of creative juices, but they’re definitely running low.

Rating: 5/10

Aaron.Burstein@UConn.edu

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Fortunately, St. Andrew possesses some aspects of performance art to bolster his music.

He is known for incorporating body contortion and neoclassical piano playing in his performances, which I imagine would make the experience of his music more stimulating.

Finally, the album art is hardly evocative – a man in a tuxedo with mascara tears running down his face is a bit melodramatic considering the “deep” subject matter St. Andrew aspires to.

“No Man’s Land” was mixed

by Brian Paturalski (Britney Spears, OutKast) and mastered

by Reuben Cohen (B.O.B., Bruno Mars). My final judgment: 5/10.

Every great tribute needs a song as a champion emblem.

Paul Simon sang his beloved song “Sound of Silence” at Sunday’s 9/11-commemoration event at Ground Zero. His rendition only maintained a distant resemblance to the original Simon and Garfunkel song, as he simply used an acoustic guitar for accompaniment and had no harmonies for support. But the starkness of the performance matched the agonized, solemn atmosphere at Sunday’s memorial. The lyrics to “Sound of Silence” may not be an exact eulogy for the terror attacks from 2001, but they give off a haunting, reproachful message that puts into words the significance that the anniversary bore for the victims’ families, friends and all other Americans.

In a similar situation, Elton John performed his famed rewrite of “Candle in the Wind” at Princess Diana’s funeral in 1997. More than 2 billion people watched as John took to the piano in Westminster Abbey to play the song that he re-titled “Goodbye England’s Rose.”

“Candles burned out long before your legend ever will,” he sang to a 15-year-old Prince William and a 12-year-old Prince Harry. The song went on to become the world’s bestselling single, according to the 2009 Guinness Book of World Records.

When Michael Jackson was memorialized in 2009, 12 days after his death, many famous musicians offered to immortalize him by performing his songs on stage. Mariah Carey, John Mayer, Jennifer Hudson and Lionel Richie were just a few of the artists who performed for the crowd at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. But the most prominent act of the night was Stevie Wonder, who sang his own piece, “Never Dreamed You’d Live in Summer.” While the song is originally about a breakup, Wonder used it to glorify his friend, and almost broke into tears during the last verse.

One of the biggest tributes in recent history came in the form of the “Concert for George” in 2002.

The multifaceted event was held in honor of the former Beatle, George Harrison. All of the proceeds went to Harrison’s charity, which helps fund projects in third-world countries. Star musicians, including Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Tom Petty and Eric Clapton, sang originals and covers. McCartney and Clapton even united for a version of “Something” that started off with McCartney on the ukelele, and then developed into electric jam between the two rock legends.

The concert also highlighted Harrison’s diverse musical pursuits. Prominent Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar and his daughter, Anoushka, led a massive orchestra of Eastern and Western instruments in a series of classical Indian pieces. Shankar was a friend and colleague of Harrison, as the two learned and collaborated with the sitar after Harrison started his post-Beatles solo career. Additionally, the show was a debut for Harrison’s son, Drashti. The budding guitarist recreated his father’s part in “While My Guitar, Gently Weeps” to prove to the world that Harrison’s music would go on living for many more generations.

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Lady Antebellum performs during the CMA Fan Festival Friday, June 10, 2011 in Nashville, TN. The group’s latest album, “Own the Night,” was released last Tuesday.

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This Day in Music 1961 A group called The Pendletones attend their first real recording session. The band recorded ‘Surfin’, a song that would help shape their career as The Beach Boys.

1978 Bob Dylan kicked off his longest and most continuous US tour of his career in Augusta, Maine, playing the first of sixtyfive gigs in sixty-two cities.

1990 New Kids On The Block’s business manager had his briefcase containing $100,000 stolen from a hotel in Hollywood.

Lady Antebellum stays true to character in their new album “Own the Night”, releasing Tuesday, Sept. 13. It’s another irresistible collection of hits that have already begun to creep onto the charts.

The 12-track album consists mainly of love songs. The longing and pain that comes with past loves is evident in many of the songs, giving the album an overall solemn and yet very powerful feel.

“I felt the world was ours for the taking”, a lyric from “When You Were Mine”, adequately reflects this longing for past times when life was inherently better or easier with the missing significant other. And the very first track, “We Owned the Night,” which has already become vastly popular also embodies the overall theme of the album. This song was previously released as a single in August and is already one of the best selling Lady Antebellum songs.

Another previously released single, “Just A Kiss”, comes next, a sweet song about starting off a relationship slow and right.

“Dancing Away With My Heart”, tells the story of a missed connection from years ago. It remembers a night and a time when they were young, and how to her “[he]’ll always be eighteen, and beautiful”. A softer song, it’s sweet but still lamenting.

A classic Lady Antebellum beat comes in “Friday Night.” From the first listen, it’s hard to not try and sing along with the whimsical lyrics about the freeing

naturally also about leaving and the pain of looking back, but the dramatic crescendos add a new element compared with the earlier songs. “As You Turn Away” has a more simplistic background but the strings and piano have a powerful effect.

Finally, another uplifting song comes in “Love I’ve Found In You” because the artists are actually excited about the relationship they have, and the quality of the song reflects that.

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away from their relationship is nearly too much to bear. However, the melancholy tone leaves something to be desired.

Thankfully, the group picks the tempo back up in “Singing Me Home,” a song that transports you to their sunny drive home. A truly feel-good song, not only is it relatable, but you’ll sing it in the car too.

The next two songs are deeply moving in an instrumental way. “Wanted You More” and “As You Turn Away” are

The album wraps up with “Somewhere Love Remains,” which is promising and “Heart of World.” This is a story about a family and the love that keeps them and the world together is a serious song, but still hopeful of love.

Overall, the album is generously accepted and worth your time as a country music fan.

Kimberly.Halpin@UConn.edu

St. Andrew’s EP is a let down

By Jason Wong Staff Writer Sometimes it’s the obscure, out of the mainstream musical groups that produce the best music. Unfortunately, St. Andrew is not one of them.

by Lady Gaga, Linkin Park and Liberace.

St. Andrew’s new EP entitled “No Man’s Land,” is slated for a Sept. 27 digital release. It is advertised as being “smart, socially conscious music…[an] intersection between religion

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Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone (John Cummings) died in Los Angeles after a five-year battle with prostate cancer. Founding member of The Ramones, major influence on many punk bands.

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Friday night feeling of being with the one you love.

The next track, “When You Were Mine”, has many relatable qualities to a Taylor Swift song. Past promises and expectations that have gone unfulfilled leave the artist looking back wondering what really happened.

“Cold As Stone” is seemingly the least interesting song on the album, though the most emotionally charged. The pain of trying to be strong in the face of walking

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For those who don’t know, St. Andrew is a Los Angelesbased pop/rock artist influenced

with sexuality, war, and today’s party culture.”

At best, that description is a

stretch. While the lyrics have some socially-conscious value, the form and presentation sound adolescent in the sense that the language is relatively simple, while seeming to strive too hard for a sense of depth or darkness.

For example, the first single, “Dark Room,” which was chosen as one of eight pop songs for the 2011 ASCAP Expo Conference, employs questionably novel lyrics, and the cliché metaphor about the titular dark room. It evokes the much mocked “hipster photos.”

St. Andrew’s melodies are average, but with a derivative sound, and as stated before, the lyrics don’t help compensate. The primary problem with the whole ensemble is that St. Andrew’s music is too reminiscent of his influences, and does not possess the novelty that would merit a

Thursday, September 15, 2011

No sophomore slump for Neon Indians

By Julie Bartoli Staff Writer It’s been nearly two years since Neon Indian’s debut album “Psychic Chasms” was released and subsequently beloved by critics and fans alike. The adoration made sense. “Psychic Chasms” was fun. It made you want to run through sprinklers and drink lemonade and have wild, midday, heat-induced summer flings in the middle of your cul-de-sac.

Alan Palomo’s sophomore album, “Era Extraña,” released Sept. 13 on Static Tongues tells a different kind of story. The beloved “Deadbeat Summer” is long gone and now we’re faced with the aftermath.

“Era Extraña” is the space between summer love and moving on. It’s a nostalgia-fueled synth-circus framed with the loose concept of healing.

It picks up where “Psychic Chasms” left off, opening with a minute of lyric-less pops, hisses and loops, then launching into “Polish Girl.”

Here, Palomo reminisces in a previous relationship. He asks the questions that keep him awake at night, “Do you remember/Do I ever cross your mind?”

Though the piece is revealing, his detached delivery keeps the feel light and the listener at an arms length. It’s telling without over-sharing, vulnerable without being pathetic.

The following song “Blindside Kiss” is Cure-esque, with an 80’s new romantic vibe. Never once does Palomo settle for simple harmony, he creates layers and soundscapes that Robert Smith would have fawned over.

“Arcade Blues” is cataclysmically charismatic. The sonic warps and video game samples are eccentric but endearing. “Halogen (I Could Be a Shadow)” is new wave pop with a thick drum line. “Hex

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Girlfriend” is a mix of 8-bit samples, intricately weaved chaos, and an “I’m moving past this” mentality. It’s the album’s turning point, with every song after focused on regaining youth by moving past lost young love.

“Era Extraña” is a crossover from psyched-out synth to electric, glo-fi pop. The sound is sharper, cleaner and more consistent. The hooks are looser but the message is tight. Palomo exchanged his wide-eyed experimental beginnings for well placed, genre-crossing songs that appear to come second nature.

And, most importantly, this is the most honest the artist has been with himself and his lis-

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Annie Clark seen performing with her band St. Vincent at ICA London in July 2009. The band’s latest album, “Strange Mercy,“ drew several good reviews from top critics.

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teners. “Era Extraña” tells the stories “Psychic Chasms” lacked.

It isn’t loose drug references and go-lucky romance, it’s an honest reflection of loss and repair.

Neon Indian is moving forward. And based on the album’s reoccurring galactic pops and spaceship sighs, it’s at light speed.

Julie.Bartoli@UConn.edu

Through her short career, Annie Clark and her band St. Vincent have tread a fine line between sensational beauty and animalistic brutality. In 2007’s “Marry Me” and 2009’s “Actor,” beautiful stringed instruments and Clark’s inhumanly beautiful voice have sparred with dark, fuzzy attacking guitars, surprising, jumpy drumbeats, and modern electronic influences, sometimes in the same song. The band’s emphasis on melting musical styles together brings to mind a clash of two opposites; light and darkness, or good and evil. The music they create brings to mind one of life’s universal fights; who wins: nature or humanity?

It’s no surprise that in “Strange Mercy,” the group’s third album, the line has thinned even more between restraint and fury. The second track, “Cruel,” rides a rolling beat and sharply rising guitars through its synth-laden verses, but the song really shines in its chorus, where Clark belts out the title over guitars so distorted, they sound like revving dirtbikes. The beauty of Clark’s voice combined with the din of guitars and striking disco-beats resembles the band’s tendencies well.

A noticeable addition to the group’s repertoire this go-around would be its noticeably greater use of synth. Maybe it adds to the more distant, ambient feeling the album carries through most of its tracks, or maybe it’s cheaper for the band to have a keyboardist than two violinists.

Whatever the reason, the synth adds a more alien feeling to almost every song. The most ambient, quiet song, “Champagne Year,” creeps through its playtime, almost stealthy in its near-silence, but the album really shines when the light aspects of the music clash with the dark.

“Cheerleader” and “Surgeon,” two backto-back tracks, shine from the not-completely-cohesive mesh of electronic and natural music. In the former, Clark sings over a dreamy chord progression until the first chorus, where hard-hitting guitars and synth lines drag Clark’s vocals into a cacophonously glorious crescendo. “Cheerleader” leads into “Surgeon,” which follows a similar pattern and reaches similar success. Clark sings and murmurs over a synth line rising and falling like a tide, leading to another collision in the chorus; the slowly-building drums keep time as hyper guitars dash up and

down the recording. By the end, the guitars have taken control, shredding out an uneven but spectacular solo.

Some tracks manage to combine the two styles seamlessly. While “Northern Lights” does have an occasional explosion of sound, not only are the explosions short and entertaining, but the rest of the song combines all

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of the band’s favorite instruments and effects together to form a fast-paced musical romp.

And “Strange Mercy,” which peaks over Clark woefully singing of a “dirty policeman,” sums up the album as a whole; its tricks and ploys are odd, yet despite its loud breakdowns and vengeful tones, feels almost peaceful.

Joseph.O’Leary@UConn.edu

Calle 13 gets record Latin Grammy nominations (AP) ­­­­– Irreverent hip-hop music duo Calle 13 got a record 10 Latin Grammy nominations Wednesday, including album, record and song of the year.

The duo were on hand when the nominations for the 12th annual awards were read in Los Angeles. The Puerto Ricanbased group smiled when their names were announced several times, including for album of the year for their politically and socially charged “Entren Los Que Quieran.”

The album included an anthem for Latinos, “LatinoAmerica.” It also got top honors, nominated for both record and song of the year.

“I had no idea they were going to give us so many nominations. I can’t believe it, forget it!” Rene Perez, half of the duo, said in an interview afterward.

“To me it’s big that people have connected with the message (of the album). When I put it out I didn’t know if they were going to like it. ... I think people connected with the honesty I did this with, and for me, that was enough.”

Other multiple nominees included Shakira, who received three nominations, including

best album for “Sale el Sol.” Other nominees for best album included Enrique Iglesias for “Euphoria”; Franco De Vita for “En Primera Fila”; and Alex, Jorge and Lena for their selftitled album.

Besides Calle 13’s “LatinoAmerica,” nominees for record of the year included “Gritar” by Luis Fonsi; “Golpes en el Corazon” with Los Tigres del Nortre featuring Paulina Rubio; “Lo Mejor de Mi Vida Eres Tu” by Ricky Martin and Natalia Jimenez; and “Tan Solo Tu” by De Vita and Alejandra Guzman.

De Vita was one of the top nominees with five; record producer and engineer Rafa Arcaute was the second-most nominated artist with six.

Other key nominees included Marco Antonio Solis, who had five; alternative rockers Zoe, who had three; and Ricky Martin and Mana, who also had three.

Pitbull, Don Omar, Los Tigres Del Norte and Wisin and Yandel were among the acts that got two nominations each.

The Latin Grammys will be held Nov. 10 in Las Vegas and will air live on Univision.

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Country music pioneer Wade Mainer dies at 104

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In this June 9, 2003 photo, country music pioneer Wade Mainer sits with his wife Julia in Mocksville, NC Wade Mainer, a country music pioneer who is credited with inventing the twofinger banjo picking style that paved the way for the Bluegrass era, has died. He was 104.

DETROIT (AP) – Wade Mainer, a country music pioneer who is credited with inventing the two-finger banjo picking style that paved the way for the Bluegrass era, has died. He was 104.

Mainer died Monday at his home in Flint Township, about 60 miles northwest of Detroit, according to the funeral home where his service was to be held.

He was a member of late brother J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers, one of the most popular sibling duos of the 1930s. He made recordings for all the major labels of the day, including RCA in 1935, and invented a two-finger banjo picking style that paved the way for the bluegrass era.

"Wade Mainer is the last of the old guard from the '20s and '30s to pass on.

Mainer's Mountaineers was a huge group during that time.

They influenced the Monroe

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Brothers, The Delmore Brothers, The Stanley Brothers, Flatt and Scruggs, Reno and Smiley and countless other music groups from the South," country and bluegrass artist Ricky Skaggs said in an email Wednesday to The Associated Press. "My dad loved them as well so I heard lots of Mainer's Mountaineers in my house, too."

John Ramble, senior historian of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tenn., said Mainer's two-finger style helped make the banjo more prominent in old-time, or early country music. Using two fingers, as opposed to the downward strumming motion of the "claw hammer" style, allowed him to be more melodic.

Born near Asheville, N.C., Mainer got his musical start in North Carolina's mountains and later rediscovered it in an industrial Michigan city.

Concerned that country music was dying, he left the stage and the South in the early 1950s and moved to Flint, Mich., to work for General Motors.

He played only in church but eventually stopped altogether, putting the banjo under his bed for four years.

Mainer returned to music after another musician convinced the born-again Christian he could use his talents to honor God. He told The Associated Press in 1991 that he got back on the circuit in 1970s after country-western star Tex Ritter bumped into one of Mainer's sons.

"Ritter said, 'He's been dead for 15 years, ain't he?" Mainer said. "A lot of people thought I was dead."

Mainer said at the time many of his friends gave up the traditional mountain music for the faster-paced, more profitable bluegrass style.

"This is the only kind of music there is that's good listening and

tells a story," he said.

Rumble said by the early 1950s, Mainer's style was "becoming increasingly dated," and nobody but the biggest stars made much money. But by the time he restarted in the early 1970s, there was a renewed interest in music like his because of the folk revival.

"It's just remarkable that at his advanced age he stayed accessible," Rumble said. "He was literally a living link to pre-war country music and the first generation of professional country musicians who worked on radio and recorded."

Mainer is survived by his wife, Julia, whom he married in 1937 and often performed with him. They had four sons and one daughter as well as two grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. One son died in 1985.

A funeral service is set for Friday at Swartz Funeral Home in Mundy Township near Flint.

This Jan. 28, 2009 file photo shows Charlie Sheen in Los Angeles. Sheen, the former star of CBS' "Two and a Half Men" told NBC's Matt Lauer that he didn't really know what happened this spring when he was fired from the show.

NEW YORK (AP) – Charlie Sheen says his life's a lot calmer now.

The actor and former star of CBS' "Two and a Half Men" told NBC's Matt Lauer that he didn't really know what happened this spring when he was fired from the show and began a manic round of media appearances talking about his "tiger blood" and "winning." Lauer's interview will air on the "Today" show on Friday, and NBC released excerpts on Wednesday.

"It was one of those things where the planets were aligned, perfectly or imperfectly. I said some stuff and then it caught such traction globally and instantly that I couldn't really put out the fire," Sheen said. "I had to keep fueling it."

Sheen said the experience "was like being shot out of a cannon into another cannon and then being just shot out of that one. It was like from one moment to the next I didn't know what was going to happen. It was pretty exciting."

The actor said he was sober

but couldn't tell Lauer the last time he took drugs or drank. He said he didn't believe in keeping track of the sober time because "if you're walking around hanging on to your time, it's only a matter of time before it goes."

Now he says he's reconnecting with his children – Cassandra with former girlfriend Paula Profit, Sam and Lola with actress Denise Richards, and twins, Bob and Max, with ex-wife Brooke Mueller – and appreciating the quiet things in life.

"That's where the life is, you know, it's in those quiet moments," he said. "It's not the giant TV deal or the big party or the award or whatever; it's the memory of your child's smile at the end of the day that sort of brings that one lonesome tear."

Sheen is also appearing Thursday on the "Tonight" show. His re-emergence coincides with the airing of a Comedy Central roast of him Monday, the same day that Ashton Kutcher debuts as Sheen's replacement on "Two and a Half Men."

Michelle Obama honors top fashion designers at White House ceremony

WASHINGTON (AP) – For 16-year-old Princess Lawrence, it was dizzying to be one of 15 high school students invited to the White House as Michelle Obama honored the winners of the National Design Awards.

In a few heady hours Tuesday, Lawrence got to meet the director behind Kanye West's music videos, fashion designer Gilles Mendel and other top innovators in the worlds of architecture, graphics and computing.

Those hours spent rubbing elbows with the first lady and leading U.S. designers had Lawrence giddy amid the White House whirl, asking herself repeatedly: "Is this real?"

For a day, Lawrence and fellow teens tasted Washington's fast-paced networking as artists, film directors and designers converged for an East Room luncheon. There, Lawrence was in the midst of the VIPs, introducing herself to Obama as "Princess Lawrence, fashion designer." Never mind that a few hours earlier she wanted to be a museum curator.

She had other ideas after meeting Mendel.

"You'll probably see me next year" with the fashion winners, she jokingly told the first lady, who smiled at the junior from Washington's Duke Ellington School of the Arts.

Obama teamed up Tuesday with TV's Tim Gunn and the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City to honor the designers for innovations ranging from fashion and architecture to the realm of new computer fonts and even floor-cleaning products.

The awards are in their 12th year,

but this was the first time the first lady invited students to lunch with those being honored. It's the kind of connection Obama was likely hoping for: She has made a point of inviting students into the halls of power to learn and be inspired.

"There are a lot of people out there who think you guys can do whatever you want to," Obama told the 15 teens who attended an East Room luncheon with the design winners. "They're willing to take the time, on one of the days that we're here to honor them, to give something back to you all."

After the pep talk, it was on to the awards.

"Good design is good citizenship," Obama said, quoting the graphic designer Milton Glaser. She said that's because good design makes life "glorious for the rest of us."

This year's design award winners include Matthew Carter, 73, of Boston for his lifetime achievements in typeface design that included creating the fonts Verdana and Georgia for Microsoft and others for major newspapers and magazines. He shared secrets of his work, telling the students he starts with the letters "h," ''o" and "p'' when designing a new font.

One personal secret he confided: his handwriting is "terrible," and he doesn't like to draw on paper. He only uses a computer for his work now.

"I can see in my mind's eye what I want a letter to look like," he told them.

Meanwhile, the Boston-based design consultancy Continuum won for product designs that include Reebok's popular Pump shoes from the 1990s and the Swiffer floor sweepers, showing

not every product of design is high and mighty.

The museum honored J. Mendel for exceptional work in fashion. The Mendel brand has spanned five generations, first as a luxury fur company and more recently becoming a full fashion house with a ready-towear collection in 2002 under Gilles Mendel. He was seated at Obama's table for lunch, along with Carter.

Mendel is preparing for his Fashion Week show Wednesday in New York – Lawrence is invited to join him – and he offered a preview.

"Look at my prints tomorrow.

They're going to be killer," he promised.

Designers Jason Wu and Prabal Gurung were finalists in the fashion category. Both have designed dresses for the first lady. Wu designed her inaugural gown.

Gunn, a familiar face from "Project Runway" fame, hosted a design fair for teens earlier Tuesday to introduce about 200 students to career options in design. Winners and finalists for the design awards shared their work with students in small groups.

On "Project Runway," Gunn is famous for his rallying cry: "Make it work, people." He told the students that design is all about problem solving and urged them to get down to work designing their future.

Eugene Yarbrough, a 17-year-old senior at Washington Metropolitan High School, prepared questions for the designers he met and said he was surprised by the interest they expressed in the students. Yarbrough is interested in photography but wants

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First lady Michelle Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 13, during the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards luncheon.

to pursue a career in fashion design.

"They're so eager to talk to us. I was

nervous earlier," he said. "But I see they're all down-to-earth people."

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Callahan: Momentum in sports doesn't exist

from HANGIN', page 14 was still a 50-50 proposition.

And at the same time- it wasn’t. Confusing, isn’t it?

Allow me introduce you to my good friend, Uncle Mo, otherwise known as momentum. Last Saturday, the small box in the corner of your television screen told you that the score favored no one but the gnawing pit in your stomachseemed to be screaming “Oh @#$% we’re gonna lose!” So why was this the case?

Well, because you knew that UConn held zero momentum, while Vanderbilt had just hit the lottery and then bought every last share of Uncle Mo stock there was. The Commodores had scored in one of the most exciting, demonstrative ways possible as the Husky offense chased its tail over three-anda-half quarters, producing just two field goals and a quartet of turnovers. McEntee was a mess, and the entire offense looked like it might as well have been trudging through quick sand.

Scoring again to win the game? Fat chance.

Sure enough, that sickening, cynical feeling turned out to be spot on. Following the pick, the UConn offense lined up eight more times and amassed an unspectacular total of negative-five yards, before eventually falling 24 to 21.

But what if I told you that good ole Uncle Mo actually had nothing to do with this? That what UConn appeared to possess none of, what Vanderbilt had seemingly owned a lifetime supply of, was quite literally nothing. Let me explain.

First, momentum as we know it in the real world is of course a measure of motion combining mass and velocity. Yet in the sports world, momentum

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exists as a pendulum, constantly being swung between teams or players. Herein lies the first problem.

This is allowed because“sports momentum” is all about perception. In fact, it’s the perception of an individual’s or a team’s altered chance of achieving victory, based on and following recent events.

We’ve all known this feeling before- just think back to last year. The men’s basketball team is down. Kemba hits a ridiculous shot. They get a stop defensively and the future Final Four MVP beats everyone down the floor for an easy lay-in as the crowd goes nuts.

Boom—the “momentum” changed.

Now, the score did change slightly but did the chance of the Huskies winning really alter that drastically? No, it did not. What changed was our own uneducated understanding of the chance UConn had at victory at that time.

You see, this win-expectation we have is ever changing and founded on the belief that Kemba hitting consecutive shots or Heyward picking off that pass makes it more likely that they or their team will soon enjoy the same fortune again. In fact, 91 percent of fans at one time agreed that a basketball player has a better chance of making a shot after having just made his last two or three shots than he does after having just missed the same number of shots.

However, this is not the case. It’s far from it.

Now, I am not denying that streaks don't happen in sports—that would be ludicrous. At every level, athletes and teams perform exceedingly well and poorly for significant stretches of time. You can probably even remember a time when you hit numerous shots in a row or scored a heap of points.

You might’ve even felt lucky at the time and truth be told, that’s exactly what you were. Not the beneficiary of a little of help from Uncle Mo. Less than two decades ago psychology professors and behavioral economists Thomas Golivich, Robert Vallone and the late Amos Tersky studied momentum in the sport it is most prevalent- basketball. Following every field goal attempt made by the 1980-81 Philadelphia 76ers, the trio of researchers concluded there was simply no evidence for the idea.

Through a careful statistical analysis, they found that players are not more likely to make a shot after hitting on consecutive attempts in a game.

There was no indication of streaks having predictive value one, since they were virtually random.

Even in such circumstances as free throw shooting, where hardly any outside forces are at play, this still held true.

Since the researchers’ findings were staunchly at odds with perceptions of the sports world, they and other sports enthusiasts refined the study further.

They replicated their findings using more data from more players over many other seasons. But, the results didn’t change. In each of the four major sports and European soccer, players who were considered to have momentum on their side, were not more likely to be successful in their next at-bat, pass or shot than they normally would be.

So, what about momentum on a team level?

How can we know Vanderbilt didn’t ride a wave of momentum to victory five days ago?

Well, just recently Tobias J. Moskowitz and L. Jon Wertheim, authors of Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences behind how Sports are Played and Games are Won, found that NBA teams who go

on scoring runs (six unanswered points in less than a minute) will on average be outscored in each of the next one, two, five and ten minutes afterward.

Not only is there an absence of momentum, but a complete reversal!

How about comebacks? Is a team that’s down by ten or more points late in a game and then makes a charging comeback more likely to win in overtime?

Nope.

Now, tell me this- how often do you hear about the importance of teams getting hot or sustaining momentum heading into the playoffs? Too many times to count- right? Well, ignore it. When a team’s overall regular season record is controlled as it enters the playoffs on a winning streak in any sport, the team does no better than a competitor entering the postseason on a losing streak.

Simply put, people tend to attribute patterns to events even when they don’t exist because rarely do they enjoy mystery. We all want answers and the ability to explain what we see, yet randomness or luck just doesn’t satisfy us. Combine this with a lack of understanding on how prevalent and regular random events are in life, and there you have it.

Remember my friend Uncle Mo? Well suffice to say I think we’ve laid him to rest. But before we go, one more question: Say you flip a coin twice and it lands on heads each time or Johnny McEntee throws a couple of picks tomorrow against Iowa State. Does that mean it's more likely the coin will land on tails the next try and McEntee is going to toss another INT? Neither—there’s no trick this time except that the odds will always be even.

Andrew.J.Callahan@UConn.edu

Women's Tennis takes on Quinnipiac

Mets fall 2-0 to Nationals

By James Huang Campus Correspondent

playing are Army, Seton Hall, Hartford, Quinnipiac, UConn, Sacred Heart and Fairfield.”

The Huskies are looking to The UConn women’s tennis improve on their performance team is ready to compete in the at Sunday’s Fairfield Doubles Quinnipiac Invitational, which Festival, where they sent three will take place this weekend doubles teams to the semifiin Hamden, Conn. nals – including The event will begin sophomore Jennifer on Friday and end Learmonth and Sunday.

Quinnipiac freshman Mexene This weekend’s Weinberg in Pool invitational will be Invitational 1. Marshall expects set up differently than the duo to play the Fairfield Doubles a key role again Hamden, Festival in two ways: at the Quinnipiac the playing format Connecticut Invitational. and who will be par“The players I think ticipating in the competition. will perform well will be Alexa “This event is a flighted sin- Gregory, Maxie Weinberg and gles and doubles event,” said Jen Learmonth.” coach Glenn Marshall. “[There will be] eight singles players and four doubles teams. The schools James.Huang@UConn.edu

TENNIS

New York Mets' David Wright, right, steals second base ahead of the tag of Washington Nationals' Danny Espinosa in the sixth inning of a baseball game at Citi Field, Wednesday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Mike Pelfrey's pitching line looked pretty good — seven innings, no earned runs. Which made the bottom line even more disappointing.

Pelfrey absorbed a tough-luck loss Wednesday night and the New York Mets dropped their fifth in a row, 2-0 to the Washington Nationals.

"It's unfortunate that it didn't work out," he said.

Third baseman David Wright's fifth error in seven games set up RBI singles by Michael Morse and Jayson Werth in the third inning, and that was enough to beat the Mets.

Pelfrey has won only one of his last 10 starts.

"There were some real positives" in Pelfrey's performance, manager Terry Collins said. "But like I just told him, right now you've got to be perfect. And when you're not, the way we're struggling offensively, we can't give them any support."

Brad Peacock pitched five impressive innings, blanking the Mets on a mere two singles and earning his first big league win.

Center fielder Rick Ankiel preserved this victory, making a diving catch in left-center on Jose Reyes' liner with runners at the corners for the final out.

The Mets have been lacking key hits all season. They left 10 runners on base and have stranded the most in the majors. New

York has scored a total of four runs in losing the first three games of this series.

"We're taking pitches we can hit. We are getting ourselves in counts and getting pitches we're having trouble hitting," Collins said.

Earlier in the day, Atlanta's win officially eliminated New York from playoff contention.

The Nationals won their fourth in a row and improved to 70-77, topping last year's win total. They also pulled into a virtual tie with the Mets for third place in the NL East — the franchise has not finished third or higher since 2002, when it played in Montreal.

Pelfrey (7-12) gave up six hits and tied a season high with six strikeouts.

"I thought I was good, especially after that third inning. I think I threw something like 36 pitches in the last four innings," he said.

"I got into a groove and I thought I was able to put the ball wherever I wanted. The frustrating part of coming out of a game like this is I thought I could throw a complete game, so that's frustrating on my end."

Reyes went 1 for 5 and never needed to test his bothersome left hamstring. The speedy star noticeably did not steal in a key spot Tuesday night, and Collins acknowledged before this game: "At times, it may not be the same guy we know."

Peacock (1-0) was in command from

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the start during his second game in the majors, having made a brief relief appearance last week. The 23-year-old righty gave a performance certainly worthy of Stephen Strasburg, the former overall No. 1 pick by Washington.

"I'm impressed," Nationals manager Davey Johnson said.

A 41st-round draft choice in 2006, Peacock set down the first eight New York batters before walking Pelfrey on a full count in the third.

Peacock faced his lone jam in the fourth when a walk to Jason Bay loaded the bases with two outs. Pitching coach Steve McCatty strolled to the mound and did most of the talking, with Peacock nodding yes several times during the visit.

Peacock then demonstrated plenty of poise, mixing fastballs and curves before tossing a changeup that got fellow rookie Josh Satin to pop up.

"It was awesome," Peacock said.

After 94 pitches, three walks and two strikeouts, Peacock was pulled. He went a combined 15-3 in Double-A and Triple-A this year.

Tom Gorzelanny, Tyler Clippard and Drew Storen finished with shutout relief.

Storen got his 37th save in 42 chances, working around a pair of leadoff walks when Justin Turner popped up a bunt back to the mound.

Can the Red Sox stave off the Rays and win the AL Wild Card? from WHO WILL, page 14 carry the momentum into the series. Their record is 23-10 since Aug. 8th. Also the Rays are 9-5 when playing the Sox this season.

Tyler: The Rays may have some momentum going but that is about to end with a treacherous schedule in their remaining games. A 3.5 game deficit will be impossible to make up when the Rays have to face the AL East-leading New York Yankees seven times in a span of 8 days. This must all be accomplished with a shaky bullpen and with their closer Kyle Farnsworth shut down with a tender elbow.

Brendon: You also have to take into consideration the Yankees have almost solidified

their spot atop the AL East.

Knowing this Joe Girardi will probably be less likely to risk injury and sit a few more of the Yanks normal starters. Rays starting pitching and offense seems to be making up for their weaker bullpen. Price and Shields continue to deliver victories. Price is 12-12 on the season while Shields leads the team at 15-7 with an ERA of 2.70, very close to Beckett.

Tyler: If the Yankees start resting players it could open the door wide open for the Sox to overtake them for the AL East, since the Red Sox are only four games out of first place. The Yankees will continue to play the same game that got them to this lead. Meanwhile, look for top slugger Adrian Gonzalez to draw on his past experience of being in a tight playoff race

in the final few regular season games.

Brendon: The Red Sox overall morale seems to be low in the clubhouse and no doubt Francona’s panic meter must be pretty high. Gonzalez alone cannot lead the Sox to a Wild Card victory. The Red Sox have a little history of collapsing under pressure and blowing pretty decent leads (see 1978, 2003). Longoria and Upton lead the Rays in RBIs and Zobrist is on a tear.

Wakefield is living in the shadows of obtaining his 200th win, Kevin Youkilis will need offseason surgery for a sports hernia and Clay Buchholz is on the 60-day DL. Tyler: The year 1978 makes most Red Sox fans cringe, but this is not 1978. The Red Sox go into this final push for the

playoffs leading the American league in both slugging percentage and on base percentage. They are also in second place in the AL in batting average and runs scored. Youkilis will return to the lineup taking the pressure off Dustin Pedoria, who will help lead the Sox into the playoffs Brendon: Tampa Bay is fourth in team pitching with an average ERA of 3.56.

Boston is ranked 20th out of 30. Tampa also ranks second in fielding. While their batting is 14th to the Red Sox second, their pitching arguably balances out their weaker areas in hitting. The Sox are in the same situation. Therefore it is probable to agree that regardless of the outcome, by the end of the season this race will be very close.

Zielinski: Verlander is your AL MVP from WHY, page 14 MVP race guarantees to be no different, and has potential to be one of the most historic and closest races in years for one major reason: Justin Verlander.

Why so historic you ask?

Consider the last time a pitcher was awarded the most valuable player award. One would need look back nearly 19 years when Dennis Eckersley took home the hardware for AL MVP as a member of the Oakland Athletics during the 1992 season. With that in mind, Verlander’s MVP candidacy in itself is noteworthy, but with his recent tally of win number 23, he has vaulted himself to the top of the MVP race. Without question, several deserving candidates are in the running for the AL MVP, but in light of his recent win, let us consider the reasons why this year’s award belongs to Verlander.

To begin, Verlander’s complete dominance on the mound this year is readily apparent through analysis of the basic pitching metrics. Verlander leads the American League in not one, not two, but six statistical columns. Verlander carries an earned run average of 2.36, as well as a WHIP (walks and hits per inning pitched) of 0.92. These premier measures of pitching should be support enough to make Verlander a deserving MVP candidate, but as is with Verlander this season, good is not good enough.

Continuing his legendary statline, Verlander boasts a league-leading 23 wins with only 5 losses, which is good for a winning percentage of 82.1 percent. To squash any remaining doubt voters may have, Verlander finds himself in possession of the league lead in innings pitched and strikeouts, with 236 and 238, respectively.

Furthermore, the performance of the Detroit Tigers speaks volumes to Verlander’s appeal as AL MVP. The Tigers, who currently stand at 87 wins and 62 losses, lead the AL Central division by 13 games, spurred by their recent 12-game winning streak. Verlander himself has been an integral part of the streak, winning 11 straight decisions himself. Verlander’s influence is also seen in the Tigers’

bullpen, as Jose Valverde leads the league with 44 saves. Overall, the Tigers stand in second place overall in the entire American League, and look primed to make a serious run in the playoffs.

Admittedly, opponents may make the argument for New York Yankees’ ace C.C. Sabathia, who has pushed his record to 19 wins and 8 losses, Jose Bautista, or any of the trio of Boston hitters. But recognizing the Boston players will inevitably cancel one another out, we focus solely on Sabathia and Bautista. After quick comparison, the difference in the two pitchers could not be clearer.

Verlander has more wins, more quality starts, more innings pitched and more strikeouts than Sabathia.

In addition, Verlander has received roughly 5.61 runs of support per game, while Sabathia has received over seven runs of support per game. Oh, and Verlander also is one of three pitchers to throw a no-hitter this year. Turning to Bautista, no one can say his season hasn’t been impressive, but his second half performance has decreased steadily from his torrid start to the season. And did I mention, the Blue Jays will also not be in the playoffs. Case Closed.

Altogether, the MVP race is a race that often lacks a clear winner and promises to be full of heated debate. Add to the mix that a pitcher has not won an MVP award since 1992, and the deck starts to look extremely stacked against any pitcher, let alone Verlander. Yet, with his win total increasing to 23, and potentially reaching 25 by season’s end, voters can no longer overlook Verlander’s historic season. Simply put, the essence of the Most Valuable Player award is made clear by the name of the award: it is the most valuable player to his team across a season.

Unquestionably, Verlander will face competition in this year’s MVP race, but in the end, only one choice exists.

Start writing your congratulations now, your AL MVP is none other than Justin Verlander.

Christopher.Zielinski@UConn.edu

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Home game

The Daily Question you skip class to see Ray Allen play pickup with the men’s basketQ : “Did ball team?”

A : “You bet I did. Even worse, I skipped lunch with my girlfriend.”

–Chris Jones, 5th-semester dental science major

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Oct. 1 Western Michigan 3:30 p.m.

Oct. 8 West Virginia Noon

Oct. 15 South Florida TBA

Men’s Soccer (5-0-0) Tomorrow Boston U. 7 p.m.

Sept. 20 Boston College 7 p.m.

Sept. 24 St. John’s 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 27 Yale 7 p.m.

-Patriots quarterback Tom Brady advising fans in their preparations for New England’s home opener this Sunday against San Diego, beginning at 4:15.

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Tom Brady.

Sept. 18 St. John’s 7 p.m.

Sept. 23 Louisville 7 p.m.

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Oct. 1 Louisville 7 p.m.

Sept. 25 Sept. 30 Cincinnati Notre Dame 1 p.m. 7:30 p.m.

Field Hockey (5-0) Sept. 17 Villanova Noon

Sept. 18 Boston College 2 p.m.

Sept. 24 Providence 1 p.m.

Sept. 28 UMass 7 p.m.

Oct. 1 Louisville Noon

Tomorrow Sept. 17 Sept. 17 Sept. 23 Chattanooga Virginia Virginia Tech Cincinnati 4 p.m.

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7 p.m. 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 25 Louisville 2 p.m.

Volleyball (6-4)

Men’s Tennis Tomorrow Brown Invitational All Day

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Sept. 21 Sept. 23 Siena UConn Invite All day 3 p.m.

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Real Madrid’s Pepe, left, is tackled by Dinamo Zagreb’s Ante Rukavina during their Champions League Group D soccer match at Maksimir stadium in Zagreb, Croatia, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011.

Sept. 24 Sept. 23 Army Army Invite Invitational All Day All Day

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UConn Students to appear on NESN’s “Schooled”

Men’s Cross Country

By Mac Cerullo Managing Editor

Sept. 24 Oct. 8 Oct. 15 Oct. 21 Sept. 17 Ted Owens New England Conn. College CCSU Mini UMass Invite Invite Champ.

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Three UConn students will face off against students from Providence College tonight on NESN’s “Schooled,” a quiz show pitting New England college students against each other for regional bragging rights. The show will air tonight at 11 p.m. on NESN. “Schooled” is a tournament style quiz show that tests the contestants’ intelligence in pressurized, time-sensitive situations. Tryouts for the show were held back in March, and senior Genna Sperling and sophomores Jesse Rifkin and Marc Perlman were selected to represent UConn.

“They actually came to school to try out. They came to UConn in like March and they had open tryouts in the Union, and I literally walked by it, tried out and I got a call a week later,” Sperling said. “We filmed at Providence College in April and it’s airing [tonight].”

The show is hosted by comedian Michael Showalter and features three rounds of trivia challenges.

Since the contestants all signed a contract agreeing that they wouldn’t say anything about the show, they couldn’t

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indicate much about how they did or what happened in particular, but Sperling did say that the challenges were fun and that they involved pressing a buzzer to earn points.

Rifkin, who is a columnist at Daily Campus, said that the taping of the show took all day, so they had a lot of time to hang out with the Providence College contestants during the downtime.

“They were very nice, they were just like us,” Rifkin said.

“The show is a half an hour when it airs…but the whole thing took about 12 hours, so in other words about a half and hour’s worth of taping on a 12 hour days, so that’s like 11 and a half hours where it was pretty much us hanging out with them.”

Interestingly enough, the trivia was not sports based, even though the show was being done

by NESN. “It’s funny, I thought it was a sports based show. I call games for 91.7, so I was like ‘Oh cool, sports! It’d be cool if a girl tried out, maybe I’ll get on?’”

Sperling said. “But I found out it’s not sports based at all.”

NESN can be watched on Channel 40 on campus.

Michael.Cerullo@UConn.edu

Men’s Soccer moves up to No. 2

By Mac Cerullo Managing Editor

Women’s Soccer (3-3-0) Today Syracuse 7 p.m.

“Who will be tomorrow’s starting quarterback against Iowa State?”

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After shutting out both Tulsa and Southern Methodist University this past weekend at the Hurricane Classic, the undefeated UConn men’s soccer team jumped up to No. 2 in both the Soccer America and the NSCAA polls.

The Huskies are a perfect 5-0 on the year, and trail only Maryland in both polls. In the NSCAA poll, Maryland received 20 first-place votes and 569 points, while UConn had two first place votes and 551 points. Maryland is 6-0 on the year with wins over No. 11 Boston College and No. 14 St. John’s.

Sophomore defenseman Andrew Jean-Baptiste was also named to the Soccer America National Team of the Week on Wednesday. Jean-Baptiste was also named the Big East Defensive Player of the Week and the Hurricane Classic MVP after he helped lead the Huskies to two consecutive shutout victories. In those games, the UConn defense only allowed a combined four shots on net.

In other news.

Rayell Heistand of the field hockey team was named the Big East Defensive Player of the Week on Monday. Heistand was picked as the Big East Preseason Defensive Player of the Year, and so far has been a major piece of a defense that has only allowed four goals all season.

This is the fifth time that Heistand has been named Defensive Player of the Week. She had previously earned the honor twice in each of the past two seasons.

Like the men’s soccer team, the field hockey team is undefeated with a record of 5-0. The team is currently ranked No. 4 in the country.

Former UConn cornerback Darius Butler, who was cut by the New England Patriots last Tuesday, has been picked up off waivers by the Carolina Panthers. He did not see any action during last week’s 28-21 loss to the Arizona Cardinals, but he could see time as a backup as the season goes on.

Unfortunately, the same can’t be said of current Buffalo Bills and former UConn wide receiver Marcus Easley, who was placed on injured reserve Tuesday after being diagnosed with a heart ailment.

Easley already missed his entire rookie season with a knee injury. It is not known whether or not his heart condition will allow him to continue playing at all.

As for the current UConn football players, the team is gearing up for a nationally televised game against Iowa State this Friday night at Rentschler Field. The game will be on ESPN2, and the athletic department has urged everyone in attendance to wear blue.

Michael.Cerullo@UConn.edu

» MLB

Reeling Red Sox lose for sixth time in seven games

BOSTON (AP) — Now comes the really hard part for the Boston Red Sox: four more games against the Tampa Bay Rays.

The Red Sox lost for the sixth time in seven games, wasting an eighthinning lead when Adam Loewen’s two-run single off hard-throwing Daniel Bard lifted the Toronto Blue Jays to a 5-4 win Wednesday.

“It’s just another loss. I don’t think it’s any tougher than any other loss,” first baseman Adrian Gonzalez said.

“We’ve got to find a way in the next series to play better baseball.”

Just 3-10 in September, the Red Sox maintained a four-game lead in the AL wild-card race over Tampa Bay, which lost its second straight in Baltimore. Boston led the AL East at the start of the month and was nine games ahead of the third-place Rays.

After getting swept in a threegame series at Tampa Bay last weekend, Boston hosts the Rays in a four-game series starting Thursday night.

“Very frustrating,” said Bard, 0-3 with a 30.86 ERA in his last three appearances. “I’ve been through it before. “Sometimes the effects are magnified by how big the games are.”

Boston led 4-2 in the eighth before Toronto came back against the hardthrowing Bard (2-8), who entered and walked Edwin Encarnacion and Kelly Johnson.

Mark Teahen bunted, and Bard’s

throw to first pulled Lars Anderson off the bag for a throwing error that loaded the bases.

J.P. Arencibia’s RBI groundout cut the lead to 4-3, with third baseman Kevin Youkilis bobbling the ball and throwing to first. Loewen followed with a single to center.

Loewen, converted to outfielder from pitcher, was 0-1 with a 6.63 ERA in four starts against the Red Sox for Baltimore in 2006 and ‘07.

“I’m very aware of that. They got me,” he said, dressed in a ballerina costume as spoke to the media, part of late-season rookie hazing. “I think the best chance I had was against (Josh) Beckett in our place. I came out of the game (ahead) 2-1 in the sixth, and they ended up winning it in the top of the ninth.”

Loewen has taken advantage for openings created by injuries.

“September is about taking a look at all of our personnel and he’s capitalized on every opportunity, so there’s no reason to think that’s not going to still be in the rotation and in the mix,” Toronto manager John Farrell said.

Ricky Romero (15-10) allowed four runs — three earned — and six hits in eight innings. He improved to 8-1 in his last 10 starts.

Frank Francisco pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his 15th save in 19 chances as the Blue Jays won for just the third time in nine games at Fenway Park this season.

» INSIDE SPORTS TODAY

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SQUEEZE THE ORANGE

Hangin’ with Uncle Mo

Women’s Soccer opens Big East play against Syracuse

By Ryan Tepperman Staff Writer

Andrew Callahan

After concluding the non-conference portion of its schedule Sunday, the UConn women’s soccer team will begin conference play tonight with a 7 p.m. showdown against Syracuse.

The Huskies finished their out-of-conference slate at 3-3-0, despite winning two of their three games against ranked opponents.

This past weekend was a good indicator of how UConn’s season has played out thus far, as the Huskies won 3-0 Friday in a home game against No. 20 Boston University before falling 2-1 on the road Sunday against unranked Harvard.

Syracuse, meanwhile, enters the contest with a 1-2-3 record, including a 1-1-2 mark in road games. Tonight’s game will be the Orange’s third consecutive in the state of Connecticut. Last weekend, they competed in the Fairfield University 20th Anniversary Invite, where they tied host-team Fairfield and Central Connecticut with scores of 0-0 and 2-2, respectively.

While Syracuse’s offense has struggled to put points on the board – the Orange have managed just four goals in their six games – goalkeeper Brittany Anghel has been just as stingy on the other end. The sophomore has posted a 0.67 goals against average and already has three shutouts on the year.

Conversely, UConn’s attack has scored 10 goals, led by sophomore midfielder Devin Predergrast’s three. Senior Danielle Shulmann and freshman Riley Houle both have two goals on the season, while Jessica Shufelt and Julie Hubbard have a goal and assist apiece.

The Huskies own a 14-0-0 all-time record against the Orange, including a 3-0 win at Syracuse last year.

With 6:45 left in last Saturday’s football game that featured as much rust as it did gridiron, Johnny McEntee dropped back to pass facing a key third-andnine play. Standing across from a stingy Vanderbilt defense, McEntee looked left and fired a throw in the direction of his intended receiver. What happened next, however, was something that, for McEntee, could be described as anything but intentional.

As all Husky fans know by now, that pass never hit a player dressed in blue and white.

Rather, the ball was snatched

by Casey Heyward, a Vanderbilt defensive back, who raced 50 yards the other way for a touchdown – a touchdown that seemed to have almost closed the book on that game.

But why did things appear so bleak? There was still plenty of time left and in reality, that touchdown had only tied the game at twenty-one. Then again, let’s be honest— who truly thought at that moment that the odds of winning still favored our beloved Huskies? Well, no one did. Yet, logically that game

» CALLAHAN, page 11

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Junior Julie Hubbard heads the ball away in the Huskies’ last home game, six days ago against Boston University. UConn came out victorious 3-0.

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» MEN’S TENNIS

By Chris Zielinski MLB Columnist

Huskies head to Brown Invitational

As the Major League Baseball regular season is approaching the homestretch, the playoff picture in both leagues has become clearer and countless amounts of World Series predictions are soon to come. Likewise, the wild card race, especially that of the American League between AL rivals Boston and Tampa Bay, are in full force, although the Rays surely took a recent step back with their loss to the Orioles. However, there is another race which has snatched the season end spotlight: the AL Most Valuable Player race.

During any given year, the MVP award is rarely given without ambiguity; instead, much discussion often occurs to which player is the most deserving. Arguably, opposing opinions are more prevalent following the MVP announcements as voters rarely agree upon one major candidate. The 2011 AL

By Mike Corasaniti Campus Correspondent

The UConn men’s tennis team will have some well deserved confidence heading into a tournament in Rhode Island this weekend, the Brown Invitational, coming off strong doubles performances at the Fairfield Doubles Invitational this past Saturday.

The three UConn duos in competition this past weekend, Jacob Spreyer and Scott Warden, Peter Surovic and Jai Yoon, and Wei Lin and Teddy Margules, all boasted at least a .500 record at the tournament’s end.

“We did very well,” said Assistant Coach Daniel Gal. “It was our first tournament of the season and we came out and had some really good wins.

So early in the season it’s good to see that we fought well and that we’re starting to really click.”

Prior to the Fairfield Invitational, Coach Glenn Marshall commented

» ZIELINSKI, page 11

on the influence the three freshmen feated showed some real smart and on the roster will have on the team tactical play. They really communithis season. One of the freshmen, cated well as a team,” Gal said. “They Spreyer, who was alongside captain really helped to get the rest of our Warden finished at 2-2 with wins over guys motivated out there.”

Quinnipiac and Fairfield University.

This weekend, the Huskies will “Spreyer did real well be taking eight guys (includespecially with Scott,” ing senior Matt Burns and Gal said. “Warden really freshman Joshua Palmer) to stepped up in leading our Rhode Island for the Brown Brown team to a couple of those The coaching Invitational Invitational. wins.” staff is looking forward to The coaching staff getting some more experireceived more positive Providence, ence from tougher competifreshman feedback when tion as they face the hosting RI later on in the day freshman Brown University squad as Surovic, alongside veteran well as teams from Bryant Yoon, went on to make it to the Flight University, Colgate University and B Final with a 3-1 record before fall- others. ing to the team from Queen’s College.

“We’ve got tough competition, UConn’s highlight performance including a couple Ivy League teams however came with the junior-soph- and some ACC teams. We’re looking omore combo of Lin and Margules for a couple tough matches that will as they went undefeated on the day help us to get ready for the spring,” in round robin play with wins over Gal said.

Quinnipiac, Fairifield and Hartford.

Four of the five east coast teams “[Lin and Margules] going unde- in the AP Men’s Tennis Top 25 rank-

TENNIS

ings come from either the ACC or Ivy League, making them two of the strongest conferences in the area. The Brown Invitational will be the first time this fall season the Huskies can see how their singles play will hold up against some of the better competing schools such as these.

“This weekend we’re just really looking to see how we are when we get out there against the singles for the first time,” Gal said.

The Brown Invitational begins this Friday and will go all weekend for the Huskies as they move deeper into the fall tournament season.

The team’s first action at home will be in six days beginning at 3:00 PM on Wednesday versus Siena. The meet with the Saints figures to be a tune-up before the Huskies host the UConn Invitational two weekends from now.

Then, the Huskies will wrap up September play with at meet at the University of Hartford.

Michael.Corasaniti@UConn.edu

Who will win the American League wild card?

Boston Red Sox

By Tyler Morrissey Campus Correspondent At the beginning of this season, some baseball experts were calling for the Boston Red Sox to win 100 games.

While that goal may be just a bit out of reach, you can count on it that the Sox will be in the playoffs this fall. The Rays simply do not have the time to catch the Sox, between a tough schedule and a shaky bullpen. Boston on the other hand has a favorable schedule that includes a 10-game home stand and key injured players returning, look for the Red Sox to be a major contender come October.

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Will the Red Sox keep their wild card lead...

Tyler.Morrissey@UConn.edu

» POINT/COUNTERPOINT Tyler: A favorable schedule will be one of the keys to the Red Sox making the playoffs this season. Right now the Sox are back at Fenway for a 10-game home stand, which includes a four-game series with the last place Baltimore Orioles. So far this year the Red Sox have not lost more than three games in a row at home. It was at friendly Fenway that the Sox recovered from a dreadful 2-10 start.

Brendon: With unreliable starters Tim Wakefield and John Lackey expected to carry the injury-stricken Sox to victory, it seems unlikely that even while playing Baltimore and Toronto, their offense can make up for the lack of good pitching. The Red Sox team ERA in past two weeks stands at 5.92, the worst in the majors.

Tyler: It’s true the Sox have

been bitten by the injury bug this season, but Boston’s pitching rotation will get one arm back with the return of Josh Beckett.

He threw off the mound this past Monday and is expected to return against the Rays this weekend.

Beckett is 12-5 in his last 27 starts and boasts a 2.49 ERA, which is third-lowest in the AL. Brendon: Beckett’s ankle still remains a question and it is statistically very difficult to come back from an injury in a must-win situation. So far there is no confirmation on Beckett’s return to the rotation and it may be too late for the Sox going into a four-game home stand against none other than the Rays. While 3.5 games back with 17 games remaining seems like a tough hill to climb, it is without question the Rays will

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Tampa Bay Rays

By Brendon Prescott Campus Correspondent

The Boston Red Sox have a long and painful history of choking when the going got tough. With infamous occurrences of shear, unbearable awe, Boston has become synonymous to “blowing it” (remember Bill Buckner, Bucky Dent, and Aaron Boone?). Once again, after battling with serious injuries and poor team morale, the Sox will become victim to yet another historic upset to none other than the Tampa Bay Rays.

When it boils down to it history is taking its course: the Sox are playing poorly and the Rays are playing phenomenal baseball.

It is only a matter of time.

Brendon.Prescott@UConn.edu

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... or will the Rays supplant them in the playoffs?