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Due to a lack of funding, school districts around the U.S. are having a difficult time keeping up with the ever-changing technologies that could better help their students. This is where the federal government is looking to step in.

A White House press release dated Sept. 16, announced the launch of Digital Promise,

a national center aimed at advancing technologies for the improvement of teaching and learning. Digital Promise will receive funding from sources like the U.S. Department of Education and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Digital Promise is a unique partnership that will bring everyone together – educators, entrepreneurs and researchers – to use technology to help students learn and teachers teach. “There’s no silver bullet when it comes to educa-

tion, but technology can be a powerful tool,” said President Barack Obama.

Digital Promise will be run by a board composed of prominent leaders in education and technology who will be appointed by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan based on recommendations from Congress.

Championed by a coalition of educators and business leaders, Digital Promise is an independent nonprofit that will encourage breakthroughs

in learning technologies.

“By harnessing the extraordinary work being done by educators, innovators, and citizens across this country, Digital Promise can help prepare Americans – and America – to succeed in the 21st Century,” Duncan said.

“When it takes years for schools to catch up to the newest technology, we may be educating children with outof-date information. We could be misleading students with the given information because

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Tate George, who hit one of the most memorable shots in UConn basketball history and then went on to a brief NBA career, surrendered to federal authorities in New Jersey on Friday to face charges stemming from what prosecutors say was a Ponzi scheme.

George used his company, which he purported to be a real estate investment firm, to run a more than $2 million scam, prosecutors said.

George’s attorney, Thomas Ashley, said his client was innocent of the charges and planned to plead not guilty.

Prosecutors claim that between 2005 and March 2011, George persuaded people — including former professional athletes — to invest in what he promised would be high-return real estate development projects in Florida, Illinois, Connecticut and New Jersey. He claimed to be managing a real estate portfolio of more than $500 million in assets as CEO of The George Group and personally guaranteed people returns on their investments, plus interest, according to prosecutors.

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some current changes in the world could be so drastic within a short amount of time,” said Christina Marrone, a 5th-semester nursing major at Naugatuck Valley Community College in Waterbury.

According to the promise, school districts across the country will receive better technology to ensure students are given more opportunities to learn.

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UConn Engineers Without Borders hosted an annual 5K race to raise awareness and support for their projects on Saturday. UConn EWB partners with developing communities worldwide in order to improve their quality of life through sustainable engineering projects.

Teaching in Tanzania, student discusses experience

By Naila Razzaq Campus Correspondent Brianna Hennessy, a 7thsemester Neag student, spoke Friday about teaching curious children a world away in rural Tanzania.

“Your students don’t have books. How are you supposed to assign homework? You don’t speak the same language. How are you supposed to communicate? Your student asks you about Osama Bin Laden, female circumcision or what the bride price is in America. How do you respond?” Hennessy said.

In spring, Hennessy enrolled in a program with Purdue University to teach in Tanzania with other university students.

Hennessy talked about cultural frustrations she felt on her trip in Arusha, a city in North Eastern Tanzania. She also addressed the economic, social and political aspects that affect Tanzania’s education system and the negative affects of British imperialism and a western outlook on the developing nation.

In Tanzania, a large country tucked between Kenya and

Mozambique on the Eastern coast of Africa, 36 percent of its population is below the poverty line and getting a good education can be extremely difficult.

The average student undergoes nine years of education compared to an average of 16 years in the United States. Although the official language of the country is Kiswahili, Hennessey said many students spoke a myriad of different tribal tongues.

“It’s easier to learn another African language,” Hennessy said, but high school is taught in English. Even though Tanzania declared its independence from Britain in the early ‘60s, the western belief that the English language is essential for a country’s economic and social evolution remains. The English that students learn in school is a mix of native African languages and British English, since, as Hennessy explained, most teachers and professors aren’t completely fluent in English.

The lack of communication and understanding due to language barriers hinder each student’s education.

Despite these hardships,

Hennessy was impressed at the depth of some of their curriculum. Geography, for example, is not just a study of where all the countries in the world are, but a study of the international economy and social and political climates. Hennessy said geography there is more intense than high school geography classes in the U.S. “They learn why different countries are more or less successful, why dairy farms thrive in one place and not the other, why economic problems are more prevalent in some countries and not others,” Hennessy said.

Students and teachers in Tanzania work hard and want to learn because they want a better future for themselves and their families, but there are many factors weighing them down and hampering students’ success.

School fees and supplies are two large examples. If a student doesn’t pay the weekly school fee, they cannot attend class, and sometimes it takes several weeks to save the money. On top of the regular fees, books, notebooks and writing tools are rarely found

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Briana Hennessy went to Tanzania this summer on a Purdue program to teach math and presented to a group of students on her experiences.

with many students because students cannot afford them.

“We’re facing some of the same things here-like poverty, gender disparity, and financial problems with higher education. We can learn a lot from Tanzania and give a lot to back,” Hennessy said.

She also said even though Tanzania seems far away and insignificant, we should care and learn about the social, economic and political frustrations of Tanzania and nations like it.

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UConn Police say armed robbery report was false

UConn police investigated a report of an armed robbery in the Torrey Life Science Building at 10:15 p.m. on Wednesday, only to find the alleged victim had made the robbery up, according to Captain Hans Rhynhart.

Rhynhart said in a statement Friday morning that there were discrepancies apparent to the investigators on the case after speaking with the alleged victim.

“In an attempt to generate a composite image of the robber, the alleged victim was not able to provide information to investigators to create the composite. The alleged victim then admitted to investigators the robbery did not occur and the incident was fabricated for personal reasons,”said Rhynhart in the statement.

Rhynhart said the police are still investigating the fabrication of the story and they will work consult with the Tolland County State’s Attorney’s Office to see if criminal charges will be filed.

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Man charged with setting blaze; 13 displaced

HARTFORD (AP) — Hartford police say a man who ignited his apartment and tried to stop firefighters from extinguishing the blaze faces several criminal charges.

Authorities say at least one person had to jump from a window of the three-family house during Sunday morning’s fire, which displaced 13 residents on Martin Street in the city’s North End. Police say 18-year-old Bradon Jones might have been trying to commit suicide when he barricaded himself in his apartment, set it on fire, and grabbed firefighters’ equipment so he could try to fight them off.

Officers used a Taser to subdue Jones. He is charged with first-degree arson, reckless endangerment and six counts of assaulting a public safety official.

High waters recede from Appalachian Trail

KENT (AP) — Officials say parts of the Appalachian Trail that were flooded in northwestern Connecticut after Tropical Storm Irene are finally passable again.

Jim Liptack, the trails overseer for the Appalachian Mountain Club in Connecticut, said portions were blocked for weeks after the August storm because of flooding in sections near the Housatonic River in Kent and other areas where it crosses brooks.

Liptack tells the News-Times of Danbury that volunteers who have checked the trail found some washouts and areas that may need repairs, but that reports have largely been positive.

The worst damage appeared to be in Sages Ravine in Salisbury, where floodwaters tore out a footbridge.

The Connecticut portion of the 2,175-mile trail runs almost 53 miles between the state’s borders with New York and Massachusetts.

Trooper hit, suffers minor injuries on I-95

EAST HAVEN (AP) — Connecticut State Police say one of their troopers suffered minor injuries when his cruiser was struck by another vehicle and was pushed into him.

The New Haven Register reports the incident occurred shortly after Trooper Kevin Duggan stepped out of his cruiser for a routine traffic stop early Sunday on Interstate 95 near the East Haven and Branford line.

State police Sgt. Paul Hufcut said a driver struck the back of the cruiser, pushing it into Duggan and the vehicle he had pulled over.

Duggan was treated at Yale-New Haven Hospital and released.

No charges had been filed later Sunday, and the woman whose vehicle struck Duggan’s cruiser was not immediately identified.

She was also injured in the collision, but the extent of her injuries was not disclosed.

Larson, fed officials speak at state autism forum

WEST HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut Congressman John Larson, two Obama administration officials, parents and others are gathering for a community forum in West Hartford about autism spectrum disorders.

Larson and members of Connecticut’s Autism Speaks chapter are hosting Monday’s forum. It will include discussions about proposals to help with diagnosis and therapies for people with the developmental disorder, and support for their families.

Speakers will include high-ranking officials from the U.S. Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The public forum starts at 5:30 p.m. Monday in Mercy Hall at St. Joseph’s College in West Hartford.

The federal Centers for Disease Control says about 1 of every 110 children born in the U.S. is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.

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Southbury families worry training school may close

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Loved ones of profoundly developmentally disabled residents of the Southbury Training School say they fear the sprawling residential facility will be closed in coming years to help balance Connecticut’s budget and satisfy those who believe the state’s last institution of its kind should be shuttered.

State officials, including Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, have said there are no immediate plans to shut down Southbury. The aging parents and guardians, however, are worried that after they die, their relatives will be placed in less expensive, nonprofit programs such as community group homes, and won’t get the same level of care.

Many of the families and guardians are elderly, said David Kassel, spokesman for The Southbury Training School Home and School Association. “The last thing they want is the kind of uncertainty the administration is placing them under as far as the future of their loved ones at STS (Southbury Training School).”

The association plans to make its members’ concerns known at a legislative public hearing scheduled for Tuesday. The General Assembly’s Program Review and Investigations Committee is studying residential and day services for the 15,488 DDS clients, including a comparison of the costs of state services and those available from private agencies.

Southbury, built in the 1930s, has long been at the center of a debate over the appropriate care of people with mental retardation. Beginning Nov. 1, trained teams will begin evaluating each resident — 425 as of Sept. 1 — to see if they can live successfully in the community, such as in a group home. That information will be given the residents, their parents and guardians so they can decide whether to leave. It is the crux of a settlement agreement ending a 16-year-old class-action lawsuit over the state’s failure to adequately evaluate residents for community placement.

New admissions to Southbury were halted in 1986 following a federal court order. The Department of Justice sued the state in

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In this Sept. 22, photo, supervisor Cindy Mahan grabs the door for a resident at Southbury Training School in Southbury.

1985, alleging poor conditions violated the residents’ civil rights. By 1994, DOJ still considered Southbury to be a “very dangerous place” and said the residents were not getting necessary medical attention, staff were poorly trained, conditions were not therapeutic and physical therapy services were inadequate.

A special court-appointed master oversaw the facility until 2006, when the judge ruled that Connecticut had improved conditions and care at the facility.

Dr. Philip Bondy, 93, whose son Stevie, 56, has lived in Southbury since the 1970s, said there’s a belief among many state officials that the residents would be better off in the community. But given the changes in the wake of the court action, he said Southbury is not an ordinary institution. There’s been a push to integrate the residents with the community. Stevie, he said, has outside jobs and goes to the movies, restaurants and the grocery store. He and other residents live in cottages and apartments on the campus.

“It’s a strong belief (among state officials) there’s something magic about changing their address and going out in the community,” said Bondy,

a retired physician who has taught at Yale Medical School.

He called that way of thinking “imaginary.”

Talk of closure comes as the Malloy administration looks at ways to downsize state government. According to the DDS website, more than 1,333 fulltime, part-time and consulting staff are employed at the school.

Rep. T.R. Rowe, R-Trumbull, co-chairman of the Program and Review Committee, said Southbury is a small part of a larger legislative study of services for the developmentally disabled. While he said he doesn’t foresee Southbury closing “before its usefulness is exhausted,” he said it appears that Connecticut could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year by shifting more DDS clients into community nonprofit settings.

“There is more than anecdotal evidence that the nonprofits can deliver the services, the same services or even better services, frankly, at a considerably lower cost,” Rowe said. “And they’ve been doing it for years now.

But for a variety of reasons, the state hasn’t made the decision to begin a real switch-over from the public to the nonprofit sector in providing the services.”

The Southbury associa-

tion of parents and guardians questions whether that will be true for Southbury residents.

Last week, it released results of a Freedom of Information request it recently filed with DDS. It found that a 2002 study commissioned by a legislative committee determined closing Southbury would produce “no significant savings” and would stress “an already over-burdened system.” A 2010 update determined that closing the facility “would not produce any short-term savings” and that “there are substantial cost implications associated with developing an infrastructure to accommodate a parallel service system in the community.”

If there’s a policy decision to close Southbury, the report said it would “take a number of years to develop that infrastructure.”

Malloy spokeswoman Colleen Flanagan said the governor’s primary concern is for the Southbury residents and the staff, many of whom have worked a substantial part of their careers at the facility.

“He has said before and continues to believe that the Southbury Training School is closing, albeit over a sustained period of time,” Flanagan said.

“STS is not the kind of facility that can be closed overnight.”

Merger may impact nation’s first offshore wind farm

BOSTON (AP) — The nation’s first offshore wind farm enjoys high-profile federal and state backing, but it hasn’t been able to win over one important party: the second-largest utility in Massachusetts.

Cape Wind sorely needs to attract big power customers to obtain the financing to fully build out its 130-turbine project in Nantucket Sound. But the utility NStar has taken a tepid public stance on Cape Wind — chief executive Tom May once proclaimed his company “agnostic” about it.

It may be about to get religion.

A pending merger between NStar and Northeast Utilities has become a possible pressure point to get NStar to buy Cape Wind power.

Since the merger was announced last year, regulators added a requirement that such deals must advance the state’s clean energy goals, which include developing offshore wind. The state also made a request, still pending, to stay proceedings for a review of the merger’s effect on rates — a lengthy process that could lead to a merger-killing delay.

The moves are obvious attempts to pressure NStar to buy power from a favored private developer, said Republican state Rep. Brad Jones, minority leader in the Massachusetts House. “(It’s) the great administration shakedown of NStar,” he said.

In The Wall Street Journal, environmental attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accused Gov.

Deval Patrick’s administration of “trying to hold hostage the proposed NStar-Northeast Utilities merger unless the two electric companies agree to buy Cape Wind’s power.”

But the state says it’s just upholding the law and protecting the public interest. Asked if the filings were related to Cape Wind, Department of Energy Resources commissioner Mark Sylvia said, “No.” The state is now in discussions with NStar about the utility buying Cape Wind’s power, Sylvia said. He said a purchase would be “a welcome step,” because Cape Wind helps meet various state clean energy goals, including installing 2,000 megawatts of wind energy by 2020, Sylvia said.

Asked if a purchase would

affect the state’s decision to pursue the merger stay, he said: “We’d drop our motion to stay, ultimately, if NStar could demonstrate how the proposed merger would result in a net benefit to ratepayers and the commonwealth’s clean energy goals.”

NStar declined comment on whether it was in talks about buying Cape Wind power or felt pressure to buy it to preserve the merger, which would create New England’s largest utility.

Cape Wind represents the nation’s first major step in turning its offshore breezes into energy. Last year, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved the project after nine years of grinding federal review, hailing it as “a new direction in our nation’s energy future.”

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NY Sen. Schumer accuses OnStar of invading privacy

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The OnStar automobile communication service used by 6 million Americans maintains its twoway connection with a customer even after the service is discontinued, while reserving the right to sell data from that connection.

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York says that’s a blatant invasion of privacy and is calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate. But OnStar says former customers can stop the two-way transmission, and no driving data of customers has been shared or sold.

“OnStar is attempting one of the most brazen invasions of privacy in recent memory,” said Schumer, a Democrat. “I urge OnStar to abandon this policy.”

But the General Motors Corp.

OnStar service says customers are thoroughly informed of the new practice. If a customer says he or she doesn’t want to have data collected after service is ended, OnStar disconnects the tracking.

And although OnStar reserves the right to share or sell data on customers’ speed, location, use of seat belts and other practices, a spokesman says it hasn’t done so and doesn’t plan to.

“We apologize for creating any confusion about our terms and conditions,” said Joanne Finnor, vice president of subscriber services. “We want to make sure we are as clear with our customers as possible, but it’s apparent that we have failed to do this. ... We will continue to be open to their suggestions and concerns.”

A week ago, OnStar changed its policy and began continuing the connection for ex-customers unless they asked for it to be discontinued.

Finnor noted keeping the twocommunication active for former customers could someday allow for emergency messages to be sent even to ex-customers about severe weather or evacuations. The open line could also allow OnStar to alert drivers about warranty information or recalls, she said.

SEATTLE (AP) — President Barack Obama charged Sunday that the GOP vision of government would “fundamentally cripple America,” as he tried out his newly combative message on the liberal West Coast.

Aiming to renew the ardor of Democratic loyalists who have grown increasingly disenchanted with him, the president mixed frontal attacks on Republicans with words of encouragement intended to buck up the faithful as the 2012 campaign revs up.

“From the moment I took office what we’ve seen is a constant ideological pushback against any kind of sensible reforms that would make our economy work better and give people more opportunity,” the president said at an intimate brunch fundraiser at the Medina, Wash., home of former Microsoft executive Jon Shirley.

About 65 guests were paying $35,800 per couple to listen to Obama at the first of seven fundraisers he was holding from Seattle to Hollywood to San Diego on Sunday and Monday. The three-day West Coast swing, ending Tuesday in Denver, offered him the chance to re-engage with some of his most liberal and deep-pocketed supporters.

The trip comes as Obama has shifted from focusing on compromise with Republicans on Capitol Hill to calling out House Speaker John Boehner and others by name. The president has criticized them as obstructionists while demanding their help in passing his $447 billion jobs bill.

The revamped approach is a relief to Democratic activists fed up by what they viewed as the president’s ceding of ground to the GOP on tax cuts and other issues while the economy has stalled and unemployment is stuck above 9 percent.

Obama said 2012 would be an especially tough election because people are discouraged and disillusioned with government, but he also said he was determined because so much is at stake.

The GOP alternative, Obama said, is “an approach to government that will fundamentally cripple America in meeting the

Boeing delivers its first 787 jet on Sunday. It’s been a long time coming.

The new jet, which was supposed to be flying passengers three years ago, has been delayed by production and design problems. But now it’s here, and airlines expect it to offer travelers much more comfort, open up new routes and provide significant fuel savings.

The first one goes to Japan’s All Nippon Airways, which has been printing the 787 logo and “We Fly 1st” on its business cards for years.

Airlines love the jet, which Boeing calls the Dreamliner.

They’ve ordered more than 800,

well above levels for previous new jets.

“A lot of carriers are betting that this is going to be a winner,” says George Hamlin, president of Hamlin Transportation Consulting in Fairfax, Va. Instead of the usual aluminum skin, most of the 787 is covered in carbon fiber, basically a high-tech plastic that is strong but lightweight. Military planes and portions of other jetliners have used that material for years, but this is the first time so much has been used on an airliner.

The new material brings improvements that passengers should notice.

Its strength allows windows to

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President Barack Obama, right, greets guests on the tarmac during his arrival at King County International Airport/Boeing Field, Sunday, in Seattle, Wash.

cent among Californians in a Field Poll this month. Among Democrats it was 69 percent, but that was down 10 percentage points from June.

“Californians voted for him by 24 points in 2008 and the Democrats and nonpartisans were the backbone of his support and he’s losing some of that now,” DiCamillo said. “They’re looking for Obama to do something.”

The summer’s nasty debate over raising the government’s borrowing limit turned off voters. Many liberals bemoaned the deal that cleared the way for a higher debt ceiling, with Obama agreeing to Republican demands for steep budget cuts without new taxes.

But Democratic supporters are heartened by the jobs plan and Obama’s insistence that Congress must raise taxes to pay for it. Now they’re hoping that the confrontational Obama they’re seeing now is the same one they’ll see through the 2012 campaign.

challenges of the 21st century.

And that’s not the kind of society that I want to leave to Malia and Sasha.”

Obama got a friendly welcome from invited guests at his first stop. But later, liberal activists greeted the president with a demonstration.

“We want to see Obama stand up as strongly as he can to fight for the people of this country who are working out there to make ends meet,” said Kathy Cummings, communications director for the Washington State Labor Council. The council helped organize a demonstration outside Seattle’s Paramount Theater, the site of an Obama fundraiser with about 1,800 guests. Activists held signs promoting environmental and other causes and urging Obama, “Tax the rich.”

Obama and the Republican presidential candidates are working overtime to raise campaign cash ahead of an important Sept. 30 reporting deadline

that will give a snapshot of their financial strength. Obama’s West Coast visit was heavy on fundraisers: two each in Seattle and the San Francisco area Sunday, followed by one in San Diego on Monday and two in Los Angeles.

He’s meeting with the Silicon Valley and Hollywood elite, including an event Sunday night in Atherton, Calif., at the home of Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.

The expected haul from all seven events: $4 million or more.

In addition to the fundraising, Obama scheduled a town hallstyle event Monday in Silicon Valley, hosted by social networking company LinkedIn. The trip ends Tuesday with a speech to supporters in Denver, where he accepted the Democratic nomination three years ago.

Obama was pushing throughout for his job proposal, which combines tax cuts, unemployment benefits and public works

spending. The bill faces a hostile reception on Capitol Hill, particularly because Obama wants to pay for it with tax increases opposed by Republicans.

A top aide, David Plouffe, said the White House expects a vote in the Democratic-controlled Senate in October. Despite deep reservations even from some in the president’s own party, “I think it’s got a very good chance” of passing, he told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday.

If he can’t persuade Congress to pass the bill, Obama has said he wants to make sure the public knows who’s standing in the way.

Jobs are a major concern in California, where unemployment stands at 12.1 percent, highest of any state except Nevada.

Mark DiCamillo, director of California’s Field Poll, said that’s contributed to a softening of support for Obama among Democratic and independent voters. Obama’s job approval rating dropped to 46 per-

be bigger and higher, so passengers don’t have to hunch over to see the horizon. Electronic dimming replaces pull-down shades.

That should mean you’ll no longer be blinded when the guy next to you falls asleep with the shade up.

Finally, the cabin is pressurized to the equivalent of 6,000 feet, instead of the usual 8,000 feet. That means air pressure will be closer to what passengers are used to on the ground. And without corrosion-prone aluminum skin, the humidity can be kept higher. Those two changes should reduce dry noses and throats.

All Nippon plans to begin flying the 787 from Tokyo to

Okayama-Hiroshima on Nov. 11.

The first international route will be Tokyo to Frankfurt starting in January.

The first U.S. customer is United Continental Holdings Inc., which will get its first 787s next year and plans to fly them between Houston and Auckland, New Zealand, and Houston and Lagos, Nigeria.

Those are good examples of “thin routes” that airlines say the 787 will be good for — routes for which there is regular demand that won’t fill a larger plane. The 787’s size, fuel efficiency and long range should allow airlines to turn a profit on those routes.

In this Aug. 6 file photo, All Nippon Airways (ANA) pilot Yoshio Taneda does a walk-around during the reveal of the first Boeing 787 destined for use by launch customer ANA.

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‘Four-year degree guarantee’ too restrictive

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growing number of colleges are embracing the idea of a “four-year degree guarantee” for incoming students.

These written guarantees – signed by the student, a parent and a university official - ensure that if a student does everything within his or her power to complete a degree in four years but is unable to do so because of course availability, poor advising or other factors that are the fault of the school, the school will waive the tuition for the additional courses necessary to graduate.

More than 15 schools offer this guarantee program, which is designed to ease parents’ concerns about school costs, encourage students to complete their degrees in a timely manner and motivate the school to provide the resources necessary for timely degree completion. But the program has the potential to harm students more than it helps them.

Each program has its own requirements and expectations of students, but many of those requirements are limiting the students’ experience and adding further stress to the already difficult process of earning a degree.

Minimum requirements for GPAs and course numbers are unforgiving. Students who sign up for this program for the financial security are also likely to need to work in order to pay for their education, something that a heavy minimum course load won’t allow. And, as any student who has a minimum GPA for a scholarship will tell you, the added stress of being unable to allow personal problems or health problems to impact your work creates a vicious cycle of stress.

Deadlines for declaring a major and restrictions on changing programs or adding additional majors and minors limit students’ potential. Studies by Penn State and other universities have shown that 50 percent of students change majors at least once, and as many as 80 percent are unsure if they have chosen the right major. The ability to explore, change your mind and narrow in on your niche is part of the college experience.

Getting a less than ideal degree in four years is arguably less beneficial than earning a five-year degree in a field you enjoy.

Other program requirements, like mandates that you “follow the recommendations” of your adviser or pick courses “in a timely fashion,” are vague enough that adherence is difficult to document. Some programs do not allow for participation in athletics or make study abroad and internship programs a near impossibility without summer courses.

These types of programs put the length of degree completion at a higher priority than the quality of the degree and the experience of earning it. The restrictions and requirements mean added stress for students, who must monitor, limit and adjust every aspect of their college experiences to avoid the threat of having their safety net pulled out from under them.

It is also worth noting that the schools that offer these programs are essentially using the resources that students should already be entitled to – course availability, skilled advisers and academic and emotional support systems – as a bargaining chip. Perhaps the universities shouldn’t need to be incentivized to provide more diverse courses, more skilled advising and a better support system for students. Maybe they should.

By offering four-year degree guarantees, these schools are placing higher value on timeliness than on quality education and experience. Offering the means to graduate in four years should happen automatically, and students shouldn’t be contractually bound to a timeline in order to receive those resources. Every student’s experience is unique, and he or she should be free to choose the program, or programs, and timetable that works best.

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Party affiliation does not dictate all views

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eptember 20, 2011 marked a great day for the civil rights of gays and lesbians. The repeal of the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT) policy, as discussed by my colleague Ryan Gilbert on Thursday, is a major step forward for the LGBT community. No longer will soldiers who’ve committed themselves to our country’s safety and protection have to worry about being shamed out of service over something as trivial as sexual orientation. Personally, I’ve been against DADT for a while.

By Tyler McCarthy I’ve never been able Weekly Columnist to sign off on the idea that someone’s service to our nation can be affected by being gay or serving with someone who is. It’s all about admirable service so that people like me can feel safe and protected within our own borders.

As a result, I was excited to hear about this tremendous step forward for the American military. However, when the topic came up amongst a group of friends, one person was surprised how pleased I was with the news.

He was aware that I am a Republican; therefore he inferred that I was not a fan of gays in the military. I was offended by the idea that I fly under the blanket flag of how people perceive the Republican Party as opposed to forming views of my own on every issue. As far as he was concerned, my opinion on all political and social issues is simply a programmatic response to how mainstream Republicans feel.

I was about to get angry with my friend, but then I realized this misconception isn’t

his fault. It’s an opinion held by many on both sides about the opposite party. As Americans, we’re conditioned to look at political opinions like politicians do, as demographics. When running a campaign, the person running can’t take time to get to know everyone’s personal views on each issue. As a result, they have to go by the assumed collective opinion of demographics. I’m not looked at as a complicated human being with differing sensibilities, I’m simply a white male ages 18-24 and that’s all that they really need to know.

While this isn’t ideal, I suppose that I’m okay with it.

“Personally, I will ride my red, white and blue elephant alongside any man championing for the civil rights of those serving in our military...

The problem, however, is that this mentality has found a way to bleed over into Americans’ interpersonal relationships with one another. When it comes to politics, everyone falls into their own rank and file and we can infer opinions based off of what party people identify with. However, assuming that I’m not a fan of gay rights because I vote Republican is the same as me assuming that a Democrat is in favor of abortion rights just because he is a Democrat. This isn’t necessarily true and it’s important that Americans abandon this kind of thinking – at least when dealing with one another.

Of course, there are certain things that can be assumed about a Republican or

Democrat. At heart, the two parties differ in views over the size and duties of the government. You may assume that a Republican is in favor of a small limited government whose duties fall under protecting citizens and providing for the common well being of the people. Democrats differ in that they feel that the government needs to have broader duties and take a more hands on approach to things like the economy and taxation.

Those are both parties’ principles and key differences, which permit certain assumptions about a Republican or Democrat.

However, other topics, specifically social issues, require an individual knowledge of the person in question. I am a Republican; I am also in favor of gay rights and marriage.

That’s just one of many issue that I part ways with from the general perception of “republican views” held by mainstream media. I challenge anyone to tell me that this makes me a bad Republican. By contrast, I know people who are Democrats yet are pro-life, I’ll never accuse them of not knowing their party’s values. Where would we be if, as a country, we reduced every opinion we had to either Democrat or Republican?

As the 2012 election draws near, odds are good that we’ll all be placed into demographics more than we already are. It is important to remember that each individual is complicated with views and opinions that cannot be predicted and need to be shared instead. Personally, I will ride my red, white and blue elephant alongside any man championing for the civil rights of those serving in our military, and I’m not the only one.

Weekly Columnist Tyler McCarthy is a 5th-semester journalism major. He can be reached at Tyler.McCarthy@UConn.edu.

Obama’s jobs act demonstrates clear political savvy

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ranklin Delano Roosevelt once said, “A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.” The statement seems to hold some truth, especially when a reasonable person looks at the way the today’s Republican Party has been acting.

By Michael Holler The main Staff Columnist squabble that comes to mind is the debt ceiling debate that occurred in August.

Driven by a small but vocal faction of their party, Republican leaders seemed perfectly willing to let the country’s economic standing slip further into oblivion for the sake of getting what they wanted: entitlement cuts. It seems that President Obama learned this lesson a little too late, as his compromise was… well not so much a compromise as a total concession. All of that aside, it seems we’ve witnessed a rebirth of President Obama. Gone is the man who tried so hard to stay above the fray, the man who looked to make a grand bargain with John Boehner. Say hello to the bold warrior his supporters have been waiting for.

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out swinging with the American Jobs Act. The package consists of classically bipartisan ideas, and because of this the president insists on the package’s immediate passage. Ideas proposed include $240 billion in tax cuts and around $200 billion in spending. The spending is designated to projects we desperately need like transportation networks, infrastructure repairs and money to avoid teacher layoffs. Furthermore, many experts agree that the Obama plan would spur growth, with some arguing for a stronger, more robust package. Early estimates claim that, if enacted, Obama’s plan would lift growth by between 2 percent and 3 percent. Some experts even believe that the legislation will add over 4 million jobs.

With all of this taken into consideration, President Obama has put Republicans in Congress in a difficult position to say the least. If it passes, Obama gets a win in his column. If it fails to pass, he can effectively paint Republicans as obstructionists. If just an incremental part passes, the conversation continues. Either way, President Obama has positioned himself in such a way that he wins no matter the outcome.

Critics have said that this proposal is simply a way to energize

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his liberal base and that he has abandoned all hopes of bipartisanship in this hyperpolarized version of Washington. These critics point to tax increases on the richest Americans that Obama has proposed as a part of his plan to pay for the American Jobs Act. These tax increases have even had a difficult time passing in a Democratcontrolled Congress, let alone a Republican Congress. But I don’t see these requests as unreasonable at all.

“...it seems we’ve witnessed a rebirth of President Obama.”

When a comparison is made to other countries and even our country in the past, one can see that the top percentage of earners pay quite little in taxes. This is especially striking when you take into consideration that as of 2007 the top 20 percent of households held 85 percent of the wealth in this country. This striking gap in economic inequality is the result of decades of policies favoring the top earners of our countries based on theories of trickle-down economics. With that said, I don’t

think these increases can pass, especially with a Republican-controlled House, and I don’t think the president believes they can either. I see this initial proposal as an example of the president’s inner compromiser still at work. The president seems to be thinking ahead. Republicans may have gotten what they wanted out of the debt ceiling debate, but they also made the President rethink his position. Now he knows to plan ahead. He now knows to ask for more so that he has something to concede in compromise rather than going into talks looking to please everyone and expecting Republicans to simply work with him on some sort of grand bargain.

I feel that the president is showing the country that he does in fact know the game of politics better than many think. Furthermore, I think Obama is showing all of us how willing he is to fight for the interests of the lower and middle class in a way that his opponents will not. And that is exactly the conversation Obama wants to have, a conversation I believe he controls completely at this point.

Staff Columnist Michael Holler is a 3rdsemester history major. He can be reached at Michael.Holler@UConn.edu

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

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Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Mercury enters Libra, empowering diplomacy for the next 88 days. Innovation and experimentation may seem stifled, so stick to practical tasks and diversions.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Work action heats up, even as an authority blocks a rebellion. A wide view and compromise produce results. Listen to all sides. Limitations ease later.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 7 -- The ideal of equilibrium inspires, but the practice to maintain it requires energy. An intention may seem thwarted by circumstance. Sit quietly to consider all options.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Make household decisions and handle repairs for the next two days. Even if you yearn to fly free, home provides the greatest rewards. Plan a trip for later.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 9 -There’s more fortune, but don’t forget that love is what’s important. Fair and balanced interactions seem easier now. Study the facts and people are grateful when you share.

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Discrete discussions behind the scenes make all the difference. A new assignment’s bringing in cash, but beware of a potential spending spree. Only buy it if you love it.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 5 -- Give yourself the freedom to be alone if that’s what you want, or to be gregarious. A quiet day to get into work might suit just fine.

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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- You get extra support from your friends right when you need it. The squeaky wheel may get the grease, but it could also be annoying. Ask without being needy.

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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- You have the power to make big changes. Focus on what’s possible instead of limitations, and choose reality over fantasy. Enlist support from loved ones.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Send your messages far and wide: You’re extra tactful now. You may feel stuck behind an obligation, but your words have delirious freedom.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 5 -- As in the Cherokee tale, your inner good wolf and bad wolf are battling today. It’s love and generosity versus hate and selfishness.

Which one will you feed?

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Partnership is especially important now.

Learn from experience, and trust each other and yourself. Avoid getting attached to the results. This provides power.

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Pakistani commanders meet after US criticism ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s army chief convened a special meeting of senior commanders Sunday following U.S. allegations that the military’s spy agency helped militants attack American targets in Afghanistan, the army said.

The government also summoned home the country’s foreign minister early from a trip to the United States to attend a meeting of all major political parties to discuss the American allegations of support for the militant Haqqani network.

Senior Pakistani officials have lashed out against the allegations, accusing the U.S. of trying to make Pakistan a scapegoat for its troubled war in Afghanistan. The public confrontation has plunged the already troubled U.S.-Pakistan alliance to new lows.

Pakistan’s leaders have shown no indication they plan to act on renewed American demands to attack the Haqqani network in its main base in Pakistan, even at the risk of further conflict with Washington, which has given the country billions in aid.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Sunday that the U.S. should consider military action to defend U.S. troops if Pakistan’s spy agency continues supporting militants who are attacking American forces.

Unilateral U.S. raids into Pakistan could have explosive implications in a country where anti-American sentiment is widespread.

Pakistanis were outraged by the covert U.S. commando raid that killed al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden in a garrison town not far from Islamabad in May. The U.S. did not tell the Pakistani government about the operation beforehand for fear bin Laden would be tipped off.

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Security forces stand guard at the scene of a bomb attack in Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday.

Explosions kill 10 people in Iraqi city

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A Pakistani protester shout slogans at an anti-American rally to condemn the U.S. for accusing the country’s most powerful intelligence agency of supporting extremist attacks against American targets in Afghanistan, in Multan, Pakistan, Friday.

Rehman Malik warned the U.S. on Sunday against sending troops into Pakistan.

“Any aggression will not be tolerated,” Malik told reporters in Islamabad. “The nation is standing united behind the armed forces, which is the front line of Pakistan’s defense.”

The top U.S. military officer, Adm. Mike Mullen, last week accused Pakistan’s InterServices Intelligence agency of supporting Haqqani insurgents in planning and executing a 22-hour assault on the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan on Sept. 13 as well as a truck bomb that wounded 77 American soldiers days earlier.

Pakistan’s army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, widely considered the most powerful man in Pakistan, has dismissed the allegations, saying they were baseless and part of a public “blame game” detrimental to peace in Afghanistan.

Pakistan army spokesman Maj.

Gen. Athar Abbas said Kayani presided over Sunday’s commanders meeting but would not provide detail on the discussions.

Later in the day, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s office issued a statement saying Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar was summoned back to attend a meeting of all major political parties on “threats emanating from outside the country.”

Pakistan claimed to have severed its ties with Afghan militants after the 9/11 attacks and supported America’s campaign in Afghanistan, but U.S. officials have long suspected it maintained links. The comments by Mullen, who is chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were the most serious yet accusing Pakistan of militant ties, although he didn’t cite any specific evidence.

Despite the seriousness of the U.S. claims, which appear to accuse Pakistan of state-

sponsored terrorism, Mullen and other U.S. officials have said Washington needs to keep engaging with Islamabad, a reflection of its limited options in dealing with the country.

Around half of the U.S. war supplies to Afghanistan are trucked over Pakistani soil, and even as it accuses Islamabad of complicity with Afghan insurgents, Washington knows that it will likely need Islamabad’s cooperation in bringing them to the negotiating table. Washington is also concerned about the danger of further instability in the nuclear-armed state.

The head of U.S. Central Command, Gen. James Mattis, called for continued cooperation after a meeting with Kayani in Islamabad. In a statement issued Sunday by the U.S. Embassy, Mattis emphasized “the need for persistent engagement among the militaries of the U.S., Pakistan and other states in the region.”

BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of blasts killed at least 10 people and wounded scores more Sunday in what a local Iraqi official called a sectarian strike on a holy Shiite city whose residents are still reeling from being targeted in a deadly bus hijacking in a Sunni region earlier this month.

Government officials said a total of four explosions struck the city of Karbala around 10 a.m. in a steady drumbeat over a five-minute period, meaning they likely were coordinated.

Black smoke rose over an Interior Ministry office in Karbala that issues ID cards and that was targeted by two bombs.

Another blast hit near a house, cratering its walls and ceiling.

And at least one explosion detonated about a half-mile from the city’s gold-domed shrine to Imam Abbas.

Three government officials from Karbala — provincial councilmen Mohammed alMoussawi and Hussein Shadhan al-Aboudi, and parliamentarian Jawad Kadim al-Hassnawi — said 10 people died in the blasts.

The number of wounded people ranged from 40 to as high as 90. Conflicting casualty tolls are common in the confusion that immediately follows large attacks in Iraq.

“The aim of these explosions is to ignite the sectarian sedition after the killing 22 of Karbala residents in the Anbar desert two weeks ago,” al-Aboudi said.

“They also aim to destabilize the security situation in Karbala.”

He was referring to a Sept. 12 strike on a bus of Shiite pilgrims from Karbala that was hijacked in Iraq’s Sunni-dominated Anbar province as it headed to a shrine in Damascus, Syria. Gunmen dressed in military-style uniforms ordered 22 men off the bus and executed them in a remote desert area near the highway.

Prime Minister Nouri alMaliki has been trying to tamp down tensions between officials in Karbala and Anbar since the hijacking. Four suspects are being held in the case, and alMaliki’s military advisers say at least some foreigners were among the plotters.

Jamaica’s PM announces French left marks historic Senate vote he will step down KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica’s governing party announced Sunday that Prime Minister Bruce Golding will step down as leader in the coming weeks, possibly averting a rebellion from ruling party members that could have led to his ouster.

Golding will resign once a new leader of the Jamaica Labor Party is elected. The party’s leader automatically becomes the prime minister.

The announcement was made in a brief statement from the party, which said Golding informed its central executive committee of his decision at a quarterly meeting in the capital of Kingston. The 63-year-old Golding is a veteran lawmaker who was expected to lead his party into the 2012 general elections. “(Golding) said the challenges of the last four years have taken their toll and it was appropriate now to make way for new leadership to continue the programmes of economic recovery and transformation while mobilizing the party for victory in the next general elections,” the party statement said.

Dennis Meadows, a senator and member of the Jamaica Labor Party’s executive committee, said there has been an “overwhelming response” for Golding to stay on as party leader.

“He feels the chances of the party winning the next elections are at a disadvantage with him at the head, but there’s no questioning of his competence,” Meadows said.

Education Minister Andrew Holness, also from the Labor Party, dominated a poll conducted earlier this year asking islanders who should lead the Caribbean country if Golding were to step down.

PARIS (AP) — France’s left wrested the Senate from the right in indirect elections Sunday, taking the majority of seats in the upper house of parliament for the first time in more than 50 years — a blow to conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Seven months before presidential elections, Sarkozy’s party downplayed what it said was a narrow win — up to three seats, according to various officials of the president’s party.

The minister for parliamentary relations, Patrick Ollier, said the results have “no national political significance.” Final results of the voting to fill half the seats in the 348-seat house were not in, but the Socialist’s leader in the Senate announced

the victory.

“This is a day that will mark history,” Jean-Pierre Bel, head of the Senate’s Socialist group, announced in the gilded hall of the 17th-century palace.

The Senate president has a consequential role under the French Constitution — as interim leader should the nation’s president become incapacitated.

The upper house of parliament, a sumptuous 17th century palace at the foot of the Luxembourg Gardens, is sometimes derided as an institution that specializes in handing out rubber stamps.

Nevertheless, it is an axis of power that can initiate bills and, above all, slow down their passage.

The right had controlled the

Senate since the start of the Fifth Republic in 1958.

“For the first time, change is in motion ... This is a real affront to the right,” Bel said.

He estimated the left won 24 to 26 new seats. It needed 23 seats to gain a majority. Final results were not immediately expected.

The result further chisels down the profile of the already unpopular Sarkozy.

It also provides the Socialist Party with prestige and political capital.

Senate President Gerard Larcher, of Sarkozy’s party, conceded the left “made a real push ... larger than I thought” — but said he would seek to renew his mandate as Senate president.

Leading members of

Sarkozy’s Union for a Popular Movement party, known as UMP, made a bid to save face, and power, putting the accent on the Oct. 1 vote for the president of the chamber because of the left’s thin victory margin.

Socialists attributed their success to discontent in France’s towns and rural heartland, the home bases of the 71,890 delegates, regionally and locally elected officials, who cast ballots to fill the 170 seats. Senators elected Sunday have six-year mandates.

Jean-Francois Cope, head of Sarkozy’s UMP, said the election results were “a disappointment but not a surprise.”

“In no way is it a disavowal of the politics of the government,” he said.

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Festival paints town ‘green’ Stretched too far

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The Uconn Cheerleaders walking in lower Mansfield during the Celebratae Mansfield Parade that accompanied the 8th annual Festival on the Green, sponsored by the Mansfield Downtown Partnership.

Students enjoy food, music, activities

By Ariel Brand Campus Correspondent The eighth annual Festival on the Green, organized by the Mansfield Downtown Partnership, attracted hundreds of Mansfield residents Sunday from 12 to 5 p.m. Paid for with donations from local businesses and community members, the event took place in front of E.O. Smith High School. In previous years, the festival was held behind the plaza across from E.O. Smith.

Each year this celebration of Mansfield attracts more than 3,000 visitors of all age groups to take part in a variety of activities and entertainment. The highlights included a pie eating contest, food booths by local restaurants like Wings Express and Jack Rabbits, spirited musical entertainment and a juried art show that showcased the work of many local artists.

“It’s fun to be outside with other residents and being a part

of this community. We rely on the help of a lot of people…This year we had a lot of support from UConn dining services, School of Fine Arts, Off Campus Community Services, Athletics and Community Outreach. It’s a town and university endeavor.

It’s one of the only events you can get that combination,” said Kathleen Paterson, special projects coordinator for Mansfield Downtown Partnership.

Festivities kicked off with the Celebrate Mansfield Parade at noon. The procession started at the Storrs Post Office, snaking its way from north on Storrs Road (Route 195), left onto Bolton Road and continuing toward the festival. The convoy comprised of the E.O. Smith High School Band, local sports teams, businesses, clubs, puppets from the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, the UConn Marching Band and many more organizations.

More than 550 people joined in the march, rendering it the larg-

est parade yet in the festival’s history.

At 3:30 p.m. several of the festival-goers congregated around the stage to listen to the Slavic Soul Party perform their dynamic brassy grooves seeped in Balkan and Gypsy sounds with North American music influences.

The festival catered to an array of people’s interests. Each activity booth was hosted by a Mansfield business and community organization. Among the activities were pottery demos by the Community School of Arts, street hockey by the Northeast Youth Hockey League, face painting by the Jorgensen Center for Performing Arts, a demonstration and lesson on how to hula hoop by the UConn Hula Hoop Society, registering voters by the Mansfield Registrar of voters and plenty more.

In addition to the activity booths, the public could go on pony rides, be carried in a wooden chariot, visit the pet-

ting zoo, participate in sidewalk chalk drawings and enjoy cooking demonstrations conducted by chefs from UConn Dining Services.

The festival promoted an environmentally-friendly atmosphere, encouraging participants to “Keep it Green” by organizing activities that create low- or no-waste activity, using recyclable or compostable materials and properly sorting trash.

Organizers set a goal to divert 90 percent of the waste generated at the festival. Waste stations, which were sprinkled throughout the festival, had separate containers for cans and bottles, compost, other trash and returnable bottles. Volunteers assisted participants in separating their garbage into the correct bin.

Residents and visitors expressed both negative and positive aspects of the festival.

“I liked it better when it was behind the businesses. It felt more spread out and felt like there was more to do,” said

makes its own money, as it doesn’t get any resources from the Undergraduate Student Government. He also said however, that the Cornucopia fundraiser wasn’t very productive this year. Gaffney said that because Mansfield was holding the Festival on the Green on the same day and at the same time, there was a competition for attendees between the two events.

UConn Block and Bridle also had a table at Cornucopia Fest.

Block and Bridle is an organization for students interested in dairy farming and caring for cows. Members attend calf sales, 4-H programs and livestock shows during the semester, and also fundraise at many events. Erika Enkler, a 9thsemester animal science major, said that she recently went to a convention with the group that was “informative, interesting and a great opportunity for networking.” She also said Block and Bridle works very closely with the Dairy Club.

Cornucopia Fest also highlighted the academics and the research that makes UConn one of the best agriculture schools in the nation. The pharmacy, pre-veterinary, allied health and animal science programs all disseminated information about their curricula via pamphlets and fliers.

Multiple professors were on hand to talk to visitors about their work at the university.

Bruce Watkins, a new professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, said that his newly formed diet and health initiative is based on the consumption of Omega-3s. He had a display of various foods that are loaded with beneficial fats that included everything from sports drinks to tuna. He also said that nutritional staples, such as apples and onions, could provide the body with anti-inflammatory agents and reduce any risk of heart disease.

Non-UConn organizations also contributed to the event by imparting vital information about nature and the environment to all those in attendance.

Presentations about testing soil pH and invasive pests like the Asian Longhorn Beetle were available at various tents. Turf grass science had a poster that promoted the use of fescue, which is a grass that requires less water, pesticides and fertilizer than most of the other ornamental lawn species in Connecticut.

Additionally, museums and zoos brought in artifacts and animals to share with the public. Children milled around a bearded dragon from the Lutz Children’s Museum, while the Beardsley Zoo sold paintings

Visitors admire a calf at the annual Cornucopia Fest, where members of the UConn College of Agriculture and Natural Resources had a chance to share their work.

Thomas Chadwick, a junior from E.O Smith High School.

Laura Cisneros, an ecology graduate student who helped out at one of the waste stations, suggested that the festival should have used water receptacles instead of dolling out water bottles, even though they would be recycled, given the warm weather.

“I think it came out better than previous years. I like that it overlaps with parent’s weekend…I think the university should be integrated in the community and also promote it,” said Mansfield resident Blanche Serban.

“It’s always nice. The food is great. I like Slavic Soul. They’re rhythmic and loud …and we always run into friends….overall, they did a nice job,” said Anupam Kumar an Ashford resident.

Horns of plenty and plenty of fun

By Purbita Saha Focus Editor The UConn College of Agriculture and Natural Resources strutted its stuff at the Cornucopia Fest Sunday afternoon as an array of organizations and academic departments joined together to educate and entertain the public.

Student groups, such as the Poultry Association, Equine Club, Pre Veterinary Club and Wildife Society set up shop under the white tents and tepid sun to advertise their interests to the community. The Timber Team encouraged its visitors to try a hand at woodland recreation by setting up a thick tree trunk and having volunteers saw pieces off with a double hand saw. Onlookers cheered the amateur lumberjacks on with chants like, “get low and bend your knees.” The UConn Forestry and Wildlife Club also took a hands-on approach with their presentation. Its members helped guests to crank the juice out of apples for homemade cider.

The UConn Horticulture Club sold apples, cider and flowers in hollowed-out pumpkin vases to help raise funds for future activities. President Oliver Gaffney, a 7th-semester landscape architecture major, said that the group always

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that were made by its resident bear, porcupine and otter.

But the activities were not just limited to the Young quad.

Complimentary zumba classes were held in the Ratcliffe Hicks Arena, and ice cream tours took place in the Dairy Bar and it’s minus-15 degree freezer. The UConn Land Use program led hikers on a two-hour ramble through the UConn forest, while hayrides made trips back and forth from Horse Barn Hill throughout the afternoon.

Overall, Cornucopia Fest shed light on the various programs and activities that are associated

with CANR and Connecticut’s agricultural sector. A fast-paced plant auction and barbecuechicken sale helped to raise money for CANR scholarships.

All those in attendance were eligible to enter a drawing to win a kayak, or win prizes by playing the Cornucopia challenge. If players filled out 20 of the 30 boxes on the scavenger hunt sheet, they received a random gift. Options ranged from a reusable water bottle to four tickets to the UConn-Louisville football game on Nov. 19.

Purbita.Saha@UConn.edu

It’s no secret that the craft beer scene has been exploding over the last decade. More breweries are in business now than before Prohibition, and it’s certainly an exciting time for beer drinkers around the country.

With the booming business, many craft brewers have invested in expanding capacity and new equipment to allow for wider distribution for their products. But in some cases, just months after beginning distribution in new regions, some craft brewers have had to pull back to concentrate on their home markets, leaving the new territories’ shelves dry. Is this a simple business misstep or a case of brewers biting off more than they can brew?

Even Dogfish Head, once the “fastest growing craft brewer in the U.S.,” announced last year that it would be withdrawing from markets in several states (Tennessee, Indiana, Rhode Island and Wisconsin), Canada and the United Kingdom in order to concentrate on production to meet demands closer to their home markets on the east coast.

This theme has unfortunately been all too common among some craft brewers in the past year. One of the problems with expanding distribution comes when the buzz of a product spreads and the demand in the home market increases beyond the brewers’ production ability.

The brewers then find themselves spread thinly across their distribution region and are left with the decision to rapidly expand output or pull back distribution.

This phenomenon is quite drastic in comparison to a brewery like New Glarus in Wisconsin, which has kept its distribution solely inside of Wisconsin state borders since opening in 1993, despite being the 21st largest craft brewer and the 32nd larger brewer in the entire country. Its flagship beer, Spotted Cow, is the second-best-selling beer in the state (behind Miller Lite, but ahead of all Bud and Coors varieties). All of this success (without any advertising!) indicates an incredibly strong home market with long-term loyal customers. Building this type of home market allows for doubledigit growth over the last decade and the buzz has spread organically – encouraging out-of-staters to travel hundreds of miles throughout the Midwest to get their New Glarus beers.

But a brewer’s distribution isn’t always based on a mission statement or organic growth—sometimes a unique opportunity or market will present itself. Many customers wonder why a brewery on the east coast will distribute to its home territory in the tri-state area, and then ‘skip over’ the middle states to distribute in California.

Some big metro markets such as Philadelphia, Boston and New York City have thriving beer scenes with the type of customers that can support this type of distribution. One can look no further than Russian River Brewing Co. and its regions of distribution in California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado and the cross-country Philadelphia metro area. In other cases, a brewer may find a distributor that is easy to do business with – this is what enables New England Brewing Co. of Woodbridge, Conn. to have a distribution that reaches all the way to Florida.

Ultimately, a brewer’s decision to expand distribution is not one to be taken lightly. A thorough analysis of production capacities and market demand is necessary before an informed decision can be made. In the growing microbrewing industry, the market competition will only become tougher – and it will be incredibly important for breweries to solidify their home markets before expanding to new regions.

So until then, we drinkers will have to be patient. Cheers!

Joseph.Pentecost@UConn.edu

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By Brian Zahn Associate Managing Editor

1. NBC Sunday Night Football (NBC) - 14.3 2. Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick (NBC) - 11.2 3. America’s Got TalentWednesday (NBC) - 8.5 4. America’s Got TalentTuesday (NBC) - 8.1 5. Football NT America PT 3 (NBC) - 8.3 6. 60 Minutes (CBS) - 7.8 7.Emmy Awards (FOX) - 7.7 8. Up All Night (NBC) - 6.7 9. Survivor: South Pacific (CBS) - 6.4 10. NCIS (CBS) - 6.7 Ratings from TVbytheNumbers.com Week ending September 20

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1. Patriots/Dolphins (ESPN) 14,568 2. Raiders/Broncos (ESPN) 11,109 3. Jersey Shore (MTV) - 6,967 4. LSU/Mississippi State (ESPN) 6,250 5. The Closer (TNT) - 6,154 6. Rizzoli & Isles (TNT) - 5,626 7. iCarly (NICK) - 4,753 8. VIctorious (NICK) - 4,673 9. Pawn Stars (HIST) - 4,604 10. Spongebob (NICK) - 4,569 Numbers from TVbytheNumbers.com Week ending September 20 (Numbers of viewers x 1000)

What I’m watching “Arrested Development” availible on Netflix

Arrested Development is one of the greatest television shows ever made.

Period. In the three seasons it was on air, the show’s writers never pulled any punches. The jokes were always funny.

With most modern comedies extracting humor from schadenfreude, Arrested Development relied on good old-fashioned jokes to keep viewers entertained.

The title has a humorous double meaning. As Michael Bluth tries to save his family’s embattled real estate and development company after his father is arrested on charges of fraud and treason, it becomes evident that he and most of his family members harbor a slew of negative character traits. The ironic plot twists embarrass Michael by showing the audience that although he feels he is above his family’s pettiness, he can also be foolish, untrustworthy and self absorbed.

The show’s creator, Mitchell Hurwitz, assembled a brilliant ensemble cast, that includes Jason Bateman as Michael and a teenage Michael Cera as his son George Michael Bluth, a terminally awkward high schooler with a crush on his adopted cousin Maeby. Comedian David Cross portrays Michael’s brother-in-law the psychiatrist-turned-actor Tobias Funke. This show is a must see and, for a limited time, is available in it’s entirety in Netflix’s instantly-viewable section.

-Joe Adinolfi

In the opening segment for the latest cycle of America’s Next Top Model, host Tyra Banks acts out a scene in which she tosses and turns in her bed as memorable model-contestants from previous seasons beg from dream clouds to her for a chance to return – all performed

by Banks. It seems like a nice introduction, but knowing Tyra, she really just wanted to see her face on the same television screen five times.

I have to say, I’m frankly amazed at the all-star cast that Tyra assembled, as I expected a bunch of personality-less, mildtempered girls that the fans seem to love, but she instead managed to put some of the weirdest, loudest, craziest, greatest girls ever into a house – and Kayla from Cycle 15, the season no one watched (with good reason), as well.

The show clearly lacks a sense of stake, as the episodes are mostly tear-free and many girls repeat that they’ve given up on modeling, but want to

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The judging panel of “America’s Next Top Model: All Stars,” the 17th installment of the reality competition. The panel includes, from left, Andre Leon Talley, Tyra Banks, Nigel Barker, and guest judge Ashlee Simpson.

pursue careers in entertainment. As Shannon Stewart, the 18-year-old virginal Christian girl-next-door from Cycle 1, said, “I’m no longer trying to be a model. I’m still trying to be a role model.” Cycle 1 aired in 2003, only eight years ago.

Tyra has also brought the show back down-to-earth where it belongs with this cycle’s guest judges, with Nicki Minaj and Ashlee Simpson, both clear beacons of inspiration in the fashion community.

Overall, the show is worth-

while for diehard fans and a nice watch for those that want to watch women who are pushing 30 (and in Camille’s case, she’s pushing 35 years old), try to recreate a tender, exhibitionist moment from their early 20s.

Brian.M.Zahn@UConn.edu

By Brian Zahn Associate Managing Editor

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The cast of “Survivor: South Pacific.” This is the 23rd installment of the series, and marks the return of Coach and Ozzy.

ers ever have been before, although I feel as though it was telling when the first episode featured a reward challenge in which the two previous castaways, and the two

castaways only, competed head-to-head.

On the whole, the show is not going to remind old Survivor fans of the magic that has been lost, but it sure

comes a lot closer than anything after Russell Hantz appeared on television for the first time.

Brian.M.Zahn@UConn.edu

Definitely not ‘Bored to Death’

By Joe Adinolfi Senior Staff Writer Jonathon Ames (Jason Schwartzmann), a writer struggling to write his second novel, posts an ad on Craigslist advertising himself as an unlicensed private detective. So begins the plot of “Bored to Death,” arguably the most creative show on HBO’s roster. The show’s first episode begins with a team of Israeli movers loading the bed Jonathon and his girlfriend once shared into a truck. She left Jonathon because he drinks and smokes pot too much, an accusation Ames repeatedly denies.

Ames’s best friend, Ray (Zach Galifianakis), is the perfect foil: a self-centered glutton and freelance comic artist clinging to his relationship with Leah (Heather Burns), a divorced mother of two.

George Christopher (Ted

Fall TV hits and misses

By Hima Mamillapalli Staff Writer

Survival of the fittest Survivor returned for its 23rd season two weeks ago, and it seems to show more promise than recent installments of the aging series. The show is still pulling out the regular stops for viewer attention – not-so-hidden immunity idols, returning players (with no pre-existing connection, by the way) and even over-hyped cartoon villain Russell Hantz’s nephew Brandon, whose brand of unintentional comedy is much more enjoyable than Russell’s own brand of misguided, Napoleon Complexdriven bravado.

The show has been distributing editing more fairly among the contestants, providing the viewers with backstories of several players early on, something that had been missing from Survivor lately.

The return of Coach and Ozzy has been handled more tastefully than returning play-

» STAY TUNED

A week into fall television, there are some shows that are a hit and some that sound better than they are.

Fox brings us a hilarious new comedy this fall that centers on four dynamic roommates. “New Girl” stars Zooey Deschanel, who plays the character of Jessica “Jess” Day. On a bright sunny day, Jess decides to spice up her relationship with her boyfriend by showing up naked at their apartment.

This trite scene is common in a lot of shows and movies: girlfriend shows up naked at boyfriend’s place for some spontaneous sex only to find that boyfriend is already doing it with somebody else. So Jess ends up getting her heart broken and soon realizes that she no longer wants to live with her cheating ex-boyfriend.

Thus begins the adventure of Jess and her three male roommates who all happen to be single. At first, Jess’s roommates are hesitant to have her as a suitemate, but upon hearing that some of her friends are models, the boys become more than eager to welcome Jess into their humble abode.

Jess’s loftmates include Nick Miller (Jake Johnson), Schmidt (Max Greenfield) and Coach (Damon Wayans Jr.), who are probably the three sweetest guys any girl can ask to room with. The boys are more like Jess’s brothers; after watching Jess bawl her eyes out to chick flicks for two straight weeks, they decide to help Jess find new love.

Created by Liz Meriwether, the producer of the popular film “No Strings Attached,” “New Girl” promises to be hilarious with its focus on male and female relationships. It is definitely worth watching with friends or a significant other.

This past week, a highly anticipated show premiered that was painful to watch. I had high hopes for “Charlie’s Angels,” but the pilot was disappointing. The show was action-packed as expected and the Angels were pretty, but there was something about the show that rubbed me the wrong way. I literally kept on checking how much time was left in the episode every five minutes.

“Charlie’s Angels” is a reboot of the original television series starring Farrah Fawcett. The show focuses on three crime-fighting ladies who were all offered a second chance in life by the mysterious Charlie. Aiding the girls is Bosley (Ramon Rodriguez), a hacker who is a lot hotter than the Bosley from the original TV series.

The show has some pretty faces to look at (such as Minka Kelly from “Friday Night Lights”), but if the rest of the episodes are like the premiere, than this show is not worth watching.

Hima.Mamillapalli@UConn.edu

‘SNL’ opens with record

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A promotional image from “Bored to Death,” the HBO series starring Zach Galifianakis (left), Jason Schwartzmann (middle) and Ted Danson (right).

Danson) is Jonathan’s boss and mentor, the pot-smoking editor of “Edition,” a popular New York culture magazine

similar to Esquire steals the show. Even if the plot was garbage, the show would be worth it for Danson’s master-

ful performance. The title is a misnomer. The show is anything but boring.

Joseph.Adinolfi@UConn.edu

NEW YORK (AP) — “Saturday Night Live” opened its 37th season with a disputed hosting record and a defense of the new controversial Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor.

Alec Baldwin, hosting for the 16th time, staked his claim to the hosting record Saturday night. His friend Steve Martin, who formerly tied for the record with Baldwin, made sure Baldwin’s accomplishment was legitimate by conducting a drug test, overseen by alleged expert Seth Rogen.

Baldwin also responded to protests of the new Ben & Jerry’s flavor, Schweddy Balls, named after a late ‘90s sketch featuring Baldwin. In his monologue, Baldwin said there was a new flavor being released for the flavor’s critics: “Go Fudge Yourself.” A group of mothers, One Million Moms, has threatened to boycott the ice cream maker.

Gardell inspires laughs Family Weekend

Monday, September 26, 2011

By Joe O’Leary Senior Staff Writer

Jorgensen was filled with laughter from students and parents Saturday night when comedian and actor Billy Gardell brought his “Halftime” comedy show to UConn’s Family Weekend.

Gardell, famous for his leading role in the hit CBS sitcom “Mike and Molly,” slayed with a pile of jokes almost tailormade for a Family Weekend

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crowd. His set consisted of jokes about his life, and he riffed on such topics as marriage, parenthood and getting older.

More than 1,000 people attended the show. Almost every joke was met with laughter, and some were met with applause. “I thought he was a really down-to-earth comedian; he wasn’t too vulgar, but he was really funny,” said Liz Crowley, a 5th-semester

biology and journalism double major and Daily Campus writer.

The Pittsburgh comedian made jokes about everything from his blue-collar upbringing, for which he credited his strength to succeed, to modern medicine, which he summed up by saying, while our grandparents fought wars without complaining, “We need some pills because someone hurt our feelings.”

Much of Gardell’s set was about staying happy in the modern world. He made jokes about fighting in marriages (“We don’t fight enough, so let’s build something!”), loving his son no matter what (“If my son is gay, I don’t change; I just go to ballet instead of football.”) or religion (“There are 80,000 religions in the world; that means someone’s gonna be wrong.”), his punchlines were

never mean-spirited, and he frequently gave inspirational advice to the crowd.

At one point, the CBS sitcom star lightheartedly made reference to recent problems his network neighbor, “Two and a Half Men,” experienced with Charlie Sheen. In contrast, Gardell said, on the set of Mike and Molly, the attitude is “no one screw around, we have jobs.”

“He was a great delight, and

he made not only me but my mom laugh. We love his show and he was even better in person,” said Kevin Mastro, a 7th-semester biology and psychology double major.

Opening for Gardell was Boston-born comic Jack Lynch, who started the night with jokes about his experiences with alcohol and, later, experiences with Alcoholics Anonymous, as well as a group of jokes about things like music. Lynch was humble and opened the show saying “I don’t like to brag, but me and Jay Leno have the same… initials.”

Gardell’s show “Mike and Molly” recently won an Emmy for Best Actress in a Comedy Series, which went to his costar Melissa McCarthy. He has also appeared in movies including “Bad Santa” and released a Comedy Central television special named “Halftime” at the beginning of this year.

Joseph.O’Leary@UConn.edu

» PREVIEW

Kronos Quartet to debut new ‘Awakening’

By John Tyczkowski Associate Focus Editor

The Grammy Awardwinning Kronos Quartet will perform premiere their new work “Awakening,” a tribute program of music for the 10th anniversary of 9/11 at the Jorgensen Center for Performing Arts at 7:30 Tuesday evening.

Their performance will feature music from more than 10 different countries, including Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Argentina and Finland.

The quartet is composed of first violinist David Harrington, John Sherba on violin, Hank Dutt on viola, and Jeffrey Zeigler on cello.

Harrington organized the Quartet in 1973 after hearing George Crumb’s Vietnam War-inspired piece “Black Angels.”

“We hope to create equilibrium in the midst of imbalance, a special covering on an open wound,” said Harrington about “Awakening” in a Jorgensen press release.

Tickets are on sale from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily at the Jorgensen Box Office, for either $28 or $30, with some discounts available. Tickets and more information on discounts are also available online at jorgensen.uconn. edu.

John.Tyczkowski@UConn.edu

» BOOKS

Powell book due 2012

NEW YORK (AP) — Colin Powell’s new book is a story of success.

The retired four-star general and former Secretary of State has a deal with HarperCollins for “It Worked for Me: Lessons in Leadership and Life.”

According to HarperCollins, the book will include his 13 rules of leadership and “revealing personal stories.”

Financial terms were not disclosed.

HarperCollins announced Sunday that the book was scheduled for May 2012.

One of Powell’s rules, “Get mad, then get over it,” will be tested in his book.

HarperCollins spokeswoman Tina Andreadis declined to comment on whether Powell would respond to criticisms in recent memoirs by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld or former Vice President Dick Cheney, both of whom Powell often clashed with while in the George W. Bush administration.

Cheney’s “In My Time” noted their differences about the Iraq War and alleged that Powell was reluctant to express himself in Cabinet meetings. Powell has since said that Cheney’s book included “cheap shots.”

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Michael Jackson saw salvation in dangerous drug LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson was physically exhausted from a day of grueling rehearsals for his marathon 50-night comeback tour. But his nightly battle with insomnia had just begun. After showering and getting into bed, he called for his "milk," a powerful drug he had been using to escape into unconsciousness.

Jackson saw the anesthetic known as propofol as his salvation. On June 25, 2009, it became the King of Pop's death potion.

How he overdosed in his mansion on a drug intended for hospital use is at the center of the manslaughter trial this week of the doctor he hired to be his highly paid personal physician for the "This is It" tour.

Testimony about the drug is expected to dominate the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, a Houston cardiologist who has pleaded not guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter in Los Angeles Superior Court.

The prosecution claims Murray was grossly negligent in giving Jackson propofol at home without proper lifesaving equipment available and then left the room long enough to find his patient not breathing when he returned.

His defense team claims the singer, desperate for sleep, swallowed an additional dose of the drug when his doctor was out of the room.

Getting to the truth of it will come down to sometimes technical testimony from an array of medical experts, pathologists and even the police officers and paramedics who inspected Murray's equipment in the bedroom where Jackson went into cardiac arrest.

The defense theory, based on evidence that a trace amount of propofol — .13 milligrams — was found in Jackson's stomach, may be a hard sell.

The drug is administered intravenously, usually during surgery. Scientific witnesses may be asked to explain how

it could have gotten into his stomach. Some doctors say ingesting it orally is almost unheard of.

"It's an odd, on-the-edge defense theory," said Dr. Gil Tepper, chief of staff at Miracle Mile Medical Center in Los Angeles. "It would not put you to sleep and it would move through the system very rapidly, causing awful diarrhea."

There are few authoritative studies and few statistics on deaths caused by the drug. It remains uncertain if the judge will allow a Chilean doctor's study of students who voluntarily drank the drug or a study of pigs who received it rectally.

The prosecution has a key expert witness, as well as forensic experts from the Los Angeles County coroner's office who are considered at the top of the field.

The defense boasts an advantage in one of its lawyers, J. Michael Flanagan, who says he is the only California attorney ever to try a propofol death case.

Flanagan represented one of a pair of nurses charged with killing a cancer patient who died after propofol was allegedly given without proper authorization by an anesthesiologist. Flanagan's client was acquitted and the other nurse pleaded no contest to a lesser charge.

Abuse of the drug is said to occur among medical professionals but rarely among patients.

In anesthesia, propofol is known as something of a wonder drug. Tepper said it's ideal for short term procedures such as colonoscopies or cataract surgery. Patients report feeling energized when they come out of it and there is no grogginess.

"But it's absolutely not recommended as a sleep aid," said Tepper. "You would never reach restful sleep and you would have to have constant monitoring."

In a hospital setting, Tepper said the doctor would have heart

and blood oxygenation monitors as well as surgical equipment to do intubation if the patient stops breathing. Witnesses have said no such equipment was in Jackson's bedroom.

"It's a very dangerous drug," said Dr. Mark Schlesinger, head of anesthesiology at Hackensack University Medical Hospital in New Jersey, who said he has administered it thousands of times in his 25-year career. "The difference between unconsciousness and no longer breathing is a very slim margin of safety."

In the hands of a trained anesthesiologist, he added: "It's a wonderful drug and a very safe drug. It's not the drug that kills somebody. It's the way it is used."

Murray was not the first doctor to give Jackson the drug as a sleep aid, although others have not been publicly named.

Jackson's reliance on propofol was first disclosed to The Associated Press days after Jackson's death. Cherilyn Lee, a nurse nutritionist who treated Jackson with vitamins, said he pleaded unsuccessfully with her to get the drug he knew as Diprivan. He said his doctor told him it was safe and he described falling asleep as soon as the drug dripped from an IV into his vein.

"I said, 'Michael, the only problem with you taking this medication,' and I had a chill in my body and tears in my eyes ... , "'You're going to take it and you're not going to wake up.'"

Lee, who said she treated him from January to April 2009, is on the trial witness list. She said she never saw Jackson use other drugs.

"He wasn't looking to get high or feel good and sedated from drugs," she said. "This was a person who was not on drugs.

This was a person who was seeking help, desperately, to get some sleep, to get some rest."

Murray, who had been consulted by Jackson in his Las Vegas office, was promised $150,000 a month when he signed on as Jackson's person-

AP

Dr. Conrad Murray, singer Michael Jackson’s personal physician, appears in Los Angeles Superior Court where Murray pleaded not guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the pop star’s 2009 death.

al physician six weeks before he died. He closed the doors of his offices there and in Houston to devote himself to the singer.

An autopsy report showed that Jackson was generally healthy, indicating his key problem was insomnia. Murray has told police he administered other drugs known as benzodiazepines, which are also used as sleep aids. But when they did not work, Jackson demanded propofol.

Murray told police he was trying to wean him from the drug and gave him a minimal dosage, then left the room for five minutes to use the bathroom. However, cell phone records suggest he was making phone calls for a longer time. His actions after he found Jackson not breathing are also central to the case.

In the two years since Jackson died, doctors have been known to refer to propofol as "The Michael Jackson

drug." Some fear a backlash for its use.

Dr. Lawrence Koblinksy, head of forensic science at John Jay College in New York, said the situation of a famous man demanding propofol is an anomaly and should not cast doubt on its effectiveness in hospitals.

"If you have a drug that is wonderful, just because a celebrity dies doesn't mean you take it off the market," he said.

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Women's hockey skates to tie in exhibition

By Eric Scatamacchia Campus Correspondent On Friday, the UConn women’s hockey team opened up their season with a 2-2 tie in an exhibition game against McGill University from Canada.

UConn faced pressure early and often from the McGill offense in the first period and fell behind within five minutes from a goal by McGill’s Chelsey Saunders, assisted by Stacie Tardif.

Despite a cascade of shots, 15, on the UConn goal the defense remained tough and UConn trailed by only one goal at the end of the first period.

“It was a little disappointing.

We were back on our heels but it could have been uglier,” said coach Heather Lindstad “We need to be more focused. There was definitely some confusion. We have implemented a whole new offense to generate more goals and it is a lot things to learn.”

Midway through the second period, both teams substituted their goalies. UConn starter Alexandra Garcia exited the game with 21 saves and one goal allowed. She was replaced by Nicole Paniccia, who ended the game with 20 saves and one goal allowed.

Linstad was happy with the performance of both her keepers but also saw some need for improvement.

“This was a good test for

them. They both played well.

But sometimes they need to control the game more and slow it down,” she said.

UConn improved their performance in the second period turning around the momentum with a goal by forward Jocelyn Slattery, assisted by forward Emily Snodgrass. But with just 1:37 left in the second period, McGill retook the lead courtesy of a Kim Ton-That goal with the assists going to Gillian Ferrari and Chelsey Saunders.

UConn continued to improve into the third period, which was back and forth action with each team putting pressure on the opponent’s goal. McGill had 15 shots on UConn in the third period

highlighted by a short-handed shot off the pipe with about 10 minutes left in the game.

“We did a fairly good job. We looked confident and I saw some good things out there.”

Heather Linstad

Women's hockey coach UConn had multiple power play opportunities in the final

period but was unable to convert any into goals. But, the Huskies remained resilient and finally broke through with a goal by forward Sarah MacDonnell with just 17.9 seconds left in the game.

“I was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time and I was able to put the puck in the goal,” MacDonnell said.

With the game tied at two, the teams faced off in a fiveminute overtime period. UConn had the majority of the chances in overtime, including a minibreakaway that was shot wide, but the Huskies were unable to take the lead. Without either team scoring in overtime the game ended in a tie.

After the game, Linstad was pleased with the overall perfor-

mance of the team.

“We did a fairly good job.

We looked confident and I saw some good things out there,” Linstad said.

She also noted the contributions made by the younger players and was proud of the way they played despite limited practice.

“At times they looked very confident. They had great energy and competed throughout the game,” she said.

MacDonnell also had a positive outlook on the game.

“I thought we did well. As the game went on we got better.

Period by period we were able to improve,” MacDonnell said.

Eric.Scatamacchia@UConn.edu

» NFL

McFadden leads Raiders past the Jets, 34-24

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Whether it was Darren McFadden sprinting around the corner, a couple of trick plays or pure will, the Oakland Raiders overpowered the Jets like no other team has since coach Rex Ryan brought his brash style to New York two years ago.

McFadden ran for 171 yards and two touchdowns and the Raiders added two more touchdowns on the ground as part of the most productive rushing day against the Jets since Ryan took over as the Raiders won 34-24 Sunday.

"Coach Hue (Jackson) always tells us we're building a bully," McFadden said. "It doesn't matter who we're playing against.

That's what we're trying to do, to bully them. That's what we did today."

Denarius Moore scored on a 23-yard reverse and Michael Bush added a 1-yard TD run 42 seconds later as the Raiders (2-1) took control in a dizzying

span beginning late in the third quarter to hand the Jets (2-1) their first loss.

Mark Sanchez had a much rougher second trip to Oakland in his career, getting bloodied on one of Oakland's four secondhalf sacks and needing a visor to protect a cut on his face. He also said after the game that he would have an X-ray to check to see if his nose was broken.

It was a far different end than his game here two years ago, when he memorably was eating a hot dog on the sideline in the closing minutes of a 38-0 victory that was the most lopsided home loss in Raiders history.

Sanchez completed 27 of 43 passes for a career-high 369 yards, but threw a costly interception in the end zone in the first half. He later cut Oakland's lead to 31-24 with a 16-yard pass to Plaxico Burress with 5:33 remaining. He also ran for one touchdown and had a sec-

ond overturned by replay in the final minute, ending New York's last gasp.

"I just feel like they're a revamped Raiders group," Sanchez said. "We had momentum on our side, we let them hang around at halftime then they came and knocked us around a little in the third quarter."

A week after blowing a game defensively in the second half in Buffalo, the Raiders finished against New York. Campbell scrambled 10 yards and found Bush for a 28-yard gain after buying time with his feet to set up Sebastian Janikowski's 49-yard field goal with 2:32 left to ice it.

Campbell was 18 for 27 for 156 yards, but the Raiders won this game on the ground, putting up the most yards rushing (234), most rushing touchdowns and the third-most points in a game against the Ryan-led Jets.

"It was humiliating for us to have something like that happen to us," Jets defensive lineman Sione Pouha said.

"All we can do is make the corrections that we need to do and bounce back."

After Chimdi Chekwa broke up a fourth-down pass to Burress, Oakland used some trickery to go 63 yards in four plays to take a 24-17 lead in the final minute of the third quarter.

The first deception came on a halfback option to McFadden.

He wanted to throw back to Campbell, but that was covered so he ran 27 yards instead, faking a pass about 8 yards down the field.

On the next play, Moore took a reverse that the Jets appeared to have stopped. But Moore cut upfield to elude David Harris and Samson Satele flattened Jim Leonhard with a block, springing Moore for the touchdown that made it 24-17.

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Darren McFadden ran for 171 yards and two touchdowns in Oakland's win against the Jets.

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Yankees take first game of doubleheader, 6-2 NEW YORK (AP) — Terry Francona is taking the blame for Boston's pitiful play. His players disagree.

One thing everyone can agree on. The Red Sox are running out of time to stop a September slide that could leave them out of the playoffs.

Bumbling Boston lost yet again, with A.J. Burnett making his most impressive start in nearly three months and Jorge Posada hitting a two-run homer that led the New York Yankees to a 6-2 victory in the opener of Sunday's day-night doubleheader.

Boston's AL wild-card lead was cut to a half-game over Tampa Bay, which beat Toronto 5-2. What was a runaway nine-game advantage heading into play on Sept 4 would be completely gone by the end of Sunday if the

Yankees swept.

"When it doesn't go right it's my responsibility," Francona said after his team lost its fourth straight and seventh in eight games.

Not so, said David Ortiz.

"It's all of us, we're all to blame," Ortiz said.

Boston was counting on John Lackey in the nightcap.

He was 0-3 with a 9.12 ERA in previous five starts.

The Red Sox at 5-18 (.217) are on track for their worst September since going 4-18 (.182) in 1926, according to STATS LLC. Tim Wakefield (7-8) dropped to 1-5 in his last 10 starts.

Derek Jeter had three hits to lift his average to .300 at the end of the game for the first time since April 2.

Starting with July 9, the day he reached 3,000 hits, he is

batting .346 following a .257 start.

"I'm not playing for a batting average," Jeter said. I'm playing to try to stay sharp for the playoffs."

New York improved to 6-1 on its final regularseason homestand. Having secured home-field advantage throughout the AL playoffs, the Yankees will open the division series at Yankee Stadium on Friday night.

Sloppy in the field again, the Red Sox fell behind early for the second straight day.

Catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia had an error and a passed ball in a two-run first inning.

In the fifth, he had the ball kicked out of his mitt by Jeter, who was trying to score from second base on Alex Rodriguez's single. Jeter reached second on left field-

er's Carl Crawford's fielding error.

Boston has committed 16 errors in the last 11 games.

The Yankees are 6-11 against Red Sox this season but have won four of last five.

Wakefield pitched four-plus innings, giving up five runs — three earned — five hits and five walks. The 45-yearold was making his 627th and possibly last appearance for the Red Sox. Burnett (11-11) allowed five hits — three to Jacoby Ellsbury — and two runs in 7 2-3 innings, his first outing of more than six innings since he went eight on July 29. He was 0-4 in his 10 previous starts against Boston but was in control throughout this one.

David Robertson got four outs to finish, twice stranding a runner on second. Hitters

are 0 for their last 22 against him with runners on base, according to STATS. Two of Ellsbury's hits were homers, giving him 30 for the season and making him the first player in Red Sox history to have at least 30 homers and 30 stolen bases in a season.

The two RBIs gave the leadoff batter 100.

"It's not the best time, but I should brag about it," Francona said. "That's an amazing feat."

Batting fourth for the first time since 2009 because of his experience against Wakefield, Posada connected in the third inning for his fifth homer against the knuckleballer. The 40-year-old with a diminished role this year, hit cleanup for the first time in two years and was given a curtain call on the last day of New York's regu-

lar-season home schedule.

Brett Gardner opened the Yankees' first with a bunt single and stole a base, drawing a wild throw from Saltalamacchia. Jeter bunted safely and Gardner moved up.

Gardner scored when Saltalamacchia fumbled the ball for an error as he tried pull it out of his oversized mitt and make a quick throw with Jeter stealing second.

After Rodriguez grounded out, Jeter advanced to third on a passed ball. Saltamacchia had a shot at nailing Jeter at third but his throw was wide of the base. Jeter scored on a wild pitch from Wakefield.

"It's frustrating," Wakefield said in a nearly silent clubhouse. "We can't seem to catch a break. Certain things happen in an inning and it snowballs from there."

Sox stop bleeding in nightcap NEW YORK (AP) — The Red Sox salvaged their AL wildcard lead Sunday when Jacoby Ellsbury hit a two-out, three-run homer in the 14th inning of the nightcap of a day-night doubleheader, lifting Boston over the New York Yankees 7-4.

The Red Sox rallied from a 3-0 deficit to snap a four-game skid and head into their final series with a one-game lead over Tampa Bay. Boston held a nine-game lead over the Rays entering play Sept.

4 but has gone 5-16 since then.

Up by 1 1-2 games to start the day, the Red Sox nearly wasted that entire lead after losing the opener 6-2 despite Ellsbury's two homers. Combined with the Rays' 5-2 win over Toronto, the Red Sox went into the second game with a half-game lead.

Boston finishes in Baltimore, while Tampa Bay hosts the Yankees, who already have clinched the AL's best record and homefield advantage through the AL championship series.

"I hope we were breathing before — every other breath. It was a BIG win, but we've got to go down tomorrow and play

well," Red Sox manager Terry Francona said.

Ellsbury homered off Scott Proctor (0-2) after Darnell McDonald singled and Marco Scutaro walked.

Franklin Morales (1-1) pitched two innings for the win. Felix Doubront, recalled on Sept. 1, finished the 5-hour, 11-minute game for his first save since August 2010.

In the opener, A.J. Burnett made his most impressive start in nearly three months and Jorge Posada hit a two-run homer for the Yankees.

Ellsbury connected twice to become the first player in Red Sox history to reach 30 homers and 30 stolen bases in a season.

Desperate for a win in the second game, Terry Francona used Jonathan Papelbon for a seasonhigh 2 1-3 innings, bringing the closer in with the score tied on the road.

Typical of the bumbling baseball they've played while going 6-18 in September, the Red Sox made three more errors Sunday, several miscues on the basepaths and blew an opportunity to advance the runner in the 10th inning with a sacrifice. They had

the leadoff runner reach in each inning from the sixth through the 10th in the nightcap.

Yet they still won.

Yankees manager Joe Girardi was ejected for the third time this season when he raced onto the field in the 13th to protect first baseman Nick Swisher and dispute a call after Tim McClelland called Dustin Perdroia safe. Replays show the diving Pedroia was out.

The Red Sox fell behind in the first inning for the third straight game in New York, but rallied to take a 4-3 lead in the seventh.

The Yankees tied it, though, in the bottom half on a sacrifice fly

by Chris Dickerson, the only New York player to start both games.

The Red Sox fell behind in the first, making their third error of the doubleheader and 17th in 12 games.

With two on against John Lackey, Mark Teixeira hit a drive off the top of the fence in right-center. Teixeira went for third on the throw home and was able to score when catcher Jason Varitek threw the ball into left field.

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Dustin Pedroia ist tagged at the plate by Austin Romine in Boston's 7-4 win over the Yankees in the second half of the doubleheader.

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Monday, September 26, 2011

Sports

Schullman sets pace for Huskies in ties

By Danielle Ennis Staff Writer

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Danielle Dakin fights off a defender during UConn's 2-2 tie against Cincinnati yesterday. The Huskies record is now 4-4-2 after two draws in Big East play.

Both games this weekend were nearly identical, each ending in 2-2 ties after double overtime. The unanimous reason for the inability to win is all in the head.

Jessica Shufelt said it before the weekend’s play began.

“Hands down, the one thing our team needs to work on is mentality. The only thing that will put us above everyone else is the will and desire,” she said.

It doesn’t happen overnight, and its absence was apparent this weekend.

“Everything is there. We’re dominating games, creating opportunities. . .we don’t have the desire and we don’t have that winning mentality yet. That’s what’s missing and it’s the reason for the ties this weekend,” said Coach Len Tsantiris.

On Sunday, UConn outshot

Cincinnati 21-6. In the first half alone, the Huskies took 10 shots on goal, while the Bearcats took one. That lone shot gave the Bearcats the 1-0 lead. UConn seemed to be in the opponents’ penalty box the entirety of the game, but just couldn’t find the back of the net.

“We’re soft. We’re too soft in front of the goals on either side. We gave away easy goals and we didn’t finish on easy chances,” Tsantiris said.

Danielle Schullman

“She works hard, she scores, and she fights. We can always count on her for that,” said Tsantiris of senior forward Danielle Schullman.

Schullman leads the Huskies in scoring with 5 goals. She scored in both of the weekend’s games. On Friday it was the goal to take the 2-1 lead, and on Sunday it grabbed the 2-2 tie. With less than five minutes left in the second period, Schullman

sailed one into the upperleft corner. Friday’s goal looked almost as pretty, as she shot from 25 yards out.

But Schullman isn’t content with either games result.

“We outplay them, we possess, we dominate. But I’m not happy in a tie,” Schullman said. “I’m not happy with anything other than a win.”

Hitting the Road The next opponent for the Huskies will be Notre Dame – a favorite to win the Big East divisional title.

In the coming two weeks, the Huskies will see four conference teams before returning to Joseph J. Morrone stadium.

With three consecutive overtime games that haven produced a win, the now 4-4-2 Huskies need to find that missing mentality as they hit the road.

Danielle.Ennis@UConn.edu

UConn invite. shortened by rain Agabiti: Sports needs large market teams for fans to love and hate

By Michael Corasaniti Campus Correspondent

Due to the ominous weather conditions that presented themselves this weekend, the annual UConn Invitational was forced to cancel day two of the weekend long tournament setting up a more round robin feel for the tournament.

“We had no idea what was going on with the radars,” said Head Coach Glenn Marshall.

“We played it safe by playing the doubles indoors on Friday and cancelling play for Saturday. Our goal turned to just getting in as much play as possible. Each school got two doubles matches in Friday night and eight singles players from each team were able to get two matches in [Sunday].”

Despite the format and schedule change, the invitational remained competitive as the Huskies hosted teams from the University of Hartford, Boston University, Sacred Heart, Quinnipiac, and Bryant. The Huskies, who were coming off their dominant win over Siena College in their first

dual match of the season, were still able to show some very promising signs in their two days of competition, as has been routine this fall season.

“It’s turned less into a tournament and more into an opportunity for just practice and some good competitive matches, but we’re definitely still seeing some good things out there,” Marshall said.

The Huskies started off the weekend when six out of the eight doubles teams posted victories on Friday night. After the day off, the team’s singles came out firing with fourteen victories in eighteen matches. Led

by Scott Warden who defeated Hartford’s Marco Neves (6-2, 7-5) and Boston University’s Josh Friedman in a barnburner (7-6, 7-6). Also posting multiple victories for the Huskies in singles play were junior Wei Lin and freshmen Peter Surovic and Jacob Spreyer. By the end of play on Sunday the Huskies were able to boast a dominant 20-6 record, easily their best finish of the fall season.

UConn’s impressive record this weekend was enough to make any coaching staff happy, but

Marshall was just satisfied that his team is out and playing.

“Our goal for the fall is just to keep playing and get as many matches in as possible. We’re getting ready for the spring,” Marshall said. “With the weather and all the problems that’s been causing we haven’t really had a lot of day where we’ve been able to get out there and play, so in terms of that this weekend was good.”

This Wednesday the Huskies will travel to play the University of Hartford for their second dual match of the season. Last week, Hartford opened their dual match season with a 7-0 victory against Springfield College. This will be the third time the Huskies have seen the Hawks this season.

“This weekend’s been a good tune-up for Wednesday’s matchup against Hartford,” Marshall said. “They’re always just a good non-conference team to play.”

Wednesday’s match-up for will be at 3 p.m. in Hartford, their last match until October 7 when UConn travels to Hamden for the Quinnipiac Invitational.

from PARADOX, page 14 go down. Well guess what? Darth Vader is not a very imposing villain if he’s 4’ 8’’ and talks with a lisp.

When the Yankees are irrelevant, chants of ‘Yankees suck’ become truths and not expressions of loathing, contempt and distaste for all things New York. The excitement of hating the enemy gets watered down significantly when giants have faded into obscurity.

That being said, will there be years or small stretches where the giants are bad? Absolutely, and the fact that they are usually on the top of the food chain makes those stretches all the sweeter. But if they always stunk, the sport would be dreadfully boring.

Without big bad wolves in the

world of sports, your teams’ heroes would have nothing to fight against, no forces of evil to bring down and that seething ire you harbor for a sworn enemy would fade.

The 1980 “Miracle on Ice” is called that because there was an imposing, dangerous and seemingly unbeatable beast in the form of the former Soviet Union’s hockey team, and they were de-throned by a bunch of college kids. There would have been no miracle had the Soviets been equally as good as the Americans that year.

This is my third year at UConn and in just over two years of being here, the best regular season UConn sporting event I’ve ever gone to was a men’s basketball game against Texas my freshman year. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t give a rip about Texas, so what made this

game so special? The Longhorns were No. 1, we weren’t that good that year and when we played them, we beat them. The game was made amazing by the fact that we took down the best team in the nation at the time.

Am I saying that fans of lowmarket teams should jump ship and support the juggernaut? No way, keep bringing the passion and keep cheering your favorite team on, but I am advising you to quit your incessant whining about not having the money and resources to compete. You know deep down that you like it that way. There’s no point in trying to topple the nobility if there is no nobility to begin with.

Daniel.Agabiti@UConn.edu

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Matheson, Diouf score in 2-0 win from UCONN, page 14

Moments later in the 13th minute, junior midfielder Carlos Alvarez had a clear look at the goal about 15 yards out, but took one step too many and lost control. The ball trickled to senior forward Tony Cascio, but he shot the ball wide left.

This would continue throughout the half. UConn’s defenders thwarted any St. John’s attempts at gaining their own scoring chances. Senior Nickardo Blake and sophomore Andrew JeanBaptiste played particularly well. Freshman goalkeeper Andre Blake faced only two shots in the first half, also catching a couple of highball crosses out of the air.

Another missed opportunity for the possession-dominant UConn offense would end the half. In the 44th minute, freshman forward Allando Matheson headed a lobbed free kick from Alvarez from about 40 yards out of bounds. The half would end with no score and UConn leading in shots, 4-2.

“Sometimes it takes these guys a half to get going,” said Coach Ray Reid.

The second half was a different story. St. John’s came out with much more energy. In the 57th minute, St. John’s junior forward Andres Vargas blasted a shot on the left side of the box. Blake dove full extension and just clipped the ball out of bounds. It was a spectacular display of athleticism, but Blake was less impressed.

“Saves like those are easy because I work hard in training.

My philosophy is work hard in training and then the game is easy,” Blake said.

Diaz got banged up on a corner kick in the 65th minute. A scuffle broke out in front of the net with Matheson and Baptiste in the middle of it.

“I was just trying to get Baptiste out,” Matheson said.

By then, St. John’s had evened the shots at 5-5.

In the 73rd minute, Diouf was fouled from about 40 yards out.

Alvarez took the free kick and lobbed a cross into the box.

Matheson went up and headed the ball into the left inside post and into the net to put UConn up 1-0.

Upon scoring, he promptly did a front handspring into a

back flip, saying after the game that he “had to keep [himself] busy” before play resumed.

With a minute left, junior midfielder Stephane Diop lobbed a ball into the box, which Diaz came out to catch. Diouf got to the ball first and tapped it in from a nearly impossible angle on the side of the goal.

“We played in space because they’re so physical, Diouf said.”

Before the ball reached the net, Diouf had ripped off his jersey in celebration. “I knew it was going in,” he said.

The game ended 2-0 with a 16-6 shot advantage for UConn.

There were four cards issued, with Alvarez, Baptiste, Diouf and St John’s junior midfielder Jack Bennett each receiving yellows.

“It was a really physical battle,” Matheson said. “We did what we had to do.”

The sold-out crows of 5,100 fans played a factor in the game, the players said.

“Fans show us so much support. They make us feel like we can do anything when they’re around,” Blake said.

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UConn plays Notre Dame next in Big East play from HUSKIES, page 14 Despite the come-frombehind victory and a dominant, 21-6 shots advantage, Tsantiris wasn’t happy about UConn tying its second home game of the weekend.

“We just don’t have the desire or winning mentality yet,” Tsantiris said. “I hope we get it. That’s why we tied those two games. I think we’re just too soft in front of goal on both sides.”

Friday’s game concluded with more frustration for the Huskies.

Although it was far more even statistically: UConn outshot the Cardinals 22-19 and just 9-8 in shots on goal, blowing two onegoal leads.

Louisville’s final goal, a blast by Christine Exeter from 25 years out, came with just 2:15 remaining on the clock.

Senior goalkeeper Jessica Dulski made eight saves in the contest, while Louisville goalie Chloe Kiefer stopped nine.

Defender Georgina Giddings, a

London native, scored her first goal in her first start of the 2011 season.

The Huskies are 1-1-2 in Big East play, as they get set to travel to Notre Dame and DePaul next Friday and Sunday. The No. 20/24 Fighting Irish fell to 4-5-1 after dropping a 3-2 decision to Marquette Sunday, while the Blue Demons sits at 2-7-1 (0-2-1 in the Big East) on the season.

Ryan.Tepperman@UConn.edu

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Jossimar Sanchez plays the ball in open space during UConn's 2-0 win over St. John's on Saturday night. Sanchez and the Huskies will try to stay unbeaten against Yale on Tuesday.

Reid focused on Yale, not rankings from HUSKIES, page 14 to the left side of the stadium and performed a back flip, to the delight of the sold out crowd.

“I just felt it,” Matheson said. “There was no practice to it, it was a great goal for me and the team and I just felt it.”

Goalkeeper and fellow freshman Andre Blake had yet another clean sheet added to his total, making six on the season and five in as many games. At one point, Blake made a diving save to his right to prevent a St. John’s shot from going in.

“To be frank, saves like that come easy for me in the games because we work so hard during the week,” Blake said. “All week, we work hard, we prac-

tice hard so that when the time comes in a game, I’m ready to make that save.”

To say that the freshmen have been making a big impact on this year’s team would be an understatement: they have been put in big situations and have come through when the team needed them.

“They’re a great group of kids,” Reid said of the freshmen. “They’re all level-headed and they have a few more years to become even better. They’re more mature than a lot of the older guys on the team and are hard workers.”

Still just a win While the home win gave the Huskies a boost of confidence moving forward, they’re keeping their sights set on the

next task at hand: Yale at home Tuesday night.

“I’m not worried about the games after Yale, I’m just worried about Yale,” Diouf said.

“We’ve got a very close schedule with a lot of games and right now, I’m going to go back and get some sleep and worry about our next game.”

For coach Reid, the rest conference schedule doesn’t matter.

Nor do NCAA rankings.

“Right now, we’ve got Yale on our belt and that’s who we’re worried about,” Reid said. “I saw that Maryland tied and honestly that doesn’t do anything for us...As far as we’re concerned, I don’t give a damn about those types of things.”

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What's Next

Home game

Away game

Home: Rentschler Field, East Hartford Oct. 8 West Virginia Noon

Oct. 15 South Florida TBA

Oct. 1 Louisville 7 p.m.

Alyssa Suhr, 7th-semester biochemical major.

Oct. 2 DePaul 2 p.m.

Oct. 26 Pittsburgh 8 p.m.

Nov. 5 Syracuse TBA

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Tom Brady

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GO HUSKIES!

Oct. 4 Oct. 8 Oct. 12 Manhattan Notre Dame Providence 7:30 p.m.

Noon 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 7 Oct. 9 South Marquette Florida 2 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

Oct. 14 Pittsburgh 7 p.m.

Field Hockey (7-1) Sept. 28 UMass 7 p.m.

Oct. 1 Louisville Noon

Oct. 2 Yale 2 p.m.

Oct. 7 Georgetown 3 p.m.

Oct. 9 Virginia 11 a.m.

Oct. 4 Hartford 7 p.m.

Oct. 7 South Florida 7 p.m.

Oct. 11 Fordham 7 p.m.

Oct. 8 Quinnipiac All Day

Oct. 9 Quinnipiac All Day

Oct. 12 Bryant 2 p.m.

Oct. 15 New England’s All Day

Oct. 16 New England’s All Day

Volleyball (8-7) Oct. 1 Marquette 2 p.m.

Oct. 2 Syracuse 2 p.m.

Men’s Tennis Sept. 28 Hartford 3 p.m.

Oct. 7 Quinnipiac All Day

Women’s Tennis Oct. 2 UMass 2 p.m.

Oct. 7 Bowdoin College 2:30 p.m.

Oct. 12 Bryant 2 p.m.

Men’s Cross Country Oct. 8 Oct. 15 Oct. 21 New England Conn. College CCSU Mini Champ.

Champ.

Meet TBA TBA TBA

Oct. 29 Big East Champ.

TBA

Nov. 12 NCAA Northeast TBA

Women’s Cross Country Sept. 24 Ted Owen Invite.

TBA

Oct. 8 New England’s TBA

Oct. 15 Conn.

College TBA

Oct. 21 CCSU Mini Meet TBA

Nov. 12 NCAA Northeast TBA

Golf Today, Tomorrow Hawks Invitational

Oct. 10-11 Oct. 15-16 Oct. 30 Nov. 1 Connecticut Shelter Kiwah Island Kiwah Island Cup Harbor All Day All Day All Day All Day

Rowing Oct. 2 Oct. 22 Head of the Head of the Riverfront Charles All Day All Day

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Email your answers, along with your name, semester standing and major, to sports@dailycampus.com. The best answer will appear in the next paper.

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Women’s Soccer (4-4-2) Sept. 30 Notre Dame 7:30 p.m.

Next Paper’s Question:

» That’s what he said -Tom Brady after the Patriots’ 34-31 loss at the Bills.

Men’s Soccer (8-0-0) Tomorrow Yale 7 p.m.

The Daily Question Q : “What was the best UConn sporting event this weekend?” lucky enough to watch the football win and not be forced A : “Ito was watch the terrible Mets.”

“It’s one loss and it’s a long season.”

Football (2-2) Oct. 1 Western Michigan 3:30 p.m.

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Oct. 29 Head of the Fish All Day

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Fans at Morrone Stadium cheer on the UConn men’s soccer game during the Huskies’ 2-0 win over St. John’s Saturday night in Storrs.

THE Storrs Side

Football and men’s soccer teams come up with big wins

By Aaron Kasmanoff-Dick Campus Correspondent Wish We Were There Football vs. Buffalo A more accurate title might have been “Wish we could see” this game, since SNY, to the disappointment of many Husky faithful, carried first “Classic Broadway Boxing” and The Mets’s pre-game show to most Connecticut residents, the UConn campus included. It was an especially disappointing time for UConn students because they couldn’t see the resurgent Huskies post 17 points in a win against the admittedly weak Buffalo Bull’s team. Red shirt junior Johnny MacEntee threw for 213 yards and 2 touchdown passes – the first two of his career – in the 17-3 win.

Number of the week 8-0 Soccer vs St. John’s The men’s soccer team reigned supreme again Saturday night, shutting out Big East rival St. John’s 2-0 on their way to a perfect 8-0-0 record. The game-win-

ning goal came from freshman Allando Matheson, who now has two on the season.

Mamadou Doudou Diouf, a sophomore, hit the second goal to seal the deal for UConn, which is now ranked No. 2 in the country.

Game of the Week Ice Hockey vs. McGill The UConn women’s ice hockey team kicked off exhibition play with a dramatic back and forth game against Canadian rivals McGill on Friday. McGill junior Maggie Walsh, a transfer from Vermont who sat out last season, scored the dramatic tying goal with 18 seconds left in regulation in a scrum in front of the goal. Walsh’s effort gave the Huskies a second chance to win the game in overtime. Unfortunately the win was not to be. The game ended in a tie. Look for the team in regular season play against RPI Friday.

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» NFL

Pats blow lead, lose 34-31 to Bills

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Time to Bill-ieve?

Ryan Fitzpatrick and the new-look, resilient, win-in-the-clutch Buffalo Bills are showing they’re for real after producing their second consecutive stunning comeback victory — this time against their AFC East nemesis, the New England Patriots.

Rian Lindell hit a 28-yard field goal as time expired to cap a 34-31 win over the Patriots in which the Bills overcame a 21-0 second-quarter deficit and snapped a 15-game losing streak against New England.

It was a win for the new generation of Bills, who don’t know any better. And the victory was particularly cherished by senior members such as linebacker Chris Kelsay, one of four Buffalo players still on hand since the team’s last victory over New England, in the 2003 season opener.

“It’s the biggest win of my career. I can’t think of any bigger,” Kelsay said. “To beat these guys at home, in front of our fans, with the way they’re behind us despite being down early, it’s huge. I’ll never forget it.”

Former Bills lineman Ruben Brown hugged Buffalo players as they ran up the tunnel. Running back Fred Jackson ran around the field carrying a Bills flag. And stadium workers took no chances, first guarding the goal posts before lowering them on their own before fans got any ideas.

It was that kind of euphoric win for a team attempting to turn around a dreadful past in which it has gone 11 seasons without making the playoffs.

The Bills (3-0) won courtesy of yet another Fitzpatrick-led rally. And it was reminiscent of what the Bills did in a 38-35 win over Oakland a week earlier, when they scored touchdowns on their final five possession to overcome a 21-3 deficit.

Fitzpatrick went 27 of 40 for 369 yards and two touchdowns. Jackson once again provided a spark with 72 yards rushing and a touchdown, and 87 yards receiving, including a 38-yard catch that set up Lindell’s decisive kick.

The Patriots (2-1) had a 10-game regularseason winning streak snapped and suddenly find themselves looking up in the standings at Buffalo. Aside from their 15-game win streak, third longest in NFL history for one franchise against another, the Pats had won 20 of the past 21 over the Bills.

“Obviously, it was a disappointing loss for us today,” Patriots coach Bill Belichick said. “We’ve just got to do a better job.”

Wes Welker had 16 catches for a franchise record 217 yards and two scores, and Rob Gronkowski also scored twice. Tom Brady went 30 of 45 for 386 yards and four scores for New England, but uncharacteristically unraveled.

THE Pro Side Red Sox slide and Pats first loss is tough on Boston

By Darryl Blain Campus Correspondent Game of the Week: Detroit Lions at Minnesota Vikings The Lions opening this thrilling OT turnout down by 20 points at halftime before Matthew Stafford took over the game. The young QB finished the game with 378 yards and two touchdowns, while the Vikings only scored three points in the entire second half.

In overtime, the Lions won the game on a 32-yard Jason Hanson field goal. The Lions left the Metrodome 3-0 for the first time since 1980, and the Vikings left the Metrodome, well, shocked.

Final score: Lions 26 Vikings 23.

Big Letdown: The Boston Red Sox A lot of different teams fit the category this week for big letdown - especially in football.

But it would be really difficult to pick any other team in any other sport than the Boston Red Sox, considering the team’s unbelievable wild card lead that was allowed to slowly dissipate. The Sox have an atrocious September record of 6-18 (5-19

if they drop the second game of the double-header with New York in progress right now) and are well on their way to having the most embarrassing finish to a season in MLB history. As it stands, Boston is only up a half game on Tampa. If things continue the way they have been, you can bet Yankee fans will never let them hear the end of it.

Wish We Were There: Bills rally from being down 21 The Buffalo Bills have proven that their recent two-game winning streak wasn’t a fluke after coming from behind in a stunning victory over the Patriots in Buffalo to move to 3-0. The Bills are alone in first place after the Jets lost to the Raiders. That’s something no sane person would have predicted going into the season. Ryan Fitzpatrick is looking like a stud and the offense as a whole is leading the NFL in points per game. You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried.

Anything can happen in the NFL, and this proves it.

Darryl.Blain@UConn.edu

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P.13: Patriots lose at Bills. / P.12: UConn invite. shortened due to rain. / P.11: Women’s hockey ties McGill in exhibition game.

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Monday, September 26, 2011

Paradox of parity

Dan Agabiti This weekend, another sports movie was released. Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt, hit the theaters. The film gives the story of Oakland Athletics’ general manager, Billy Beane.

The story: the Athletics’ have always had a notoriously low payroll and can not afford to spend big money on free agents.

A line from Pitt in the film’s preview best describes the Athletics’ financial situation: “there are rich teams and there are poor teams.

Then there’s fifty feet of crap, and then there’s us.”

So Beane decided to get creative, he applied advanced statistics to baseball, trying to acquire players who fell through the cracks of the system. Then something cool started happening; the Athletics start winning games. In 2006, the squad won their first playoff series, sweeping the Minnesota Twins.

This film got me thinking about the reality of baseball and the idea that there are rich teams and poor teams.

As a Yankees fan, I take a lot of heat for cheering on a highmarket team that can just buy free agents and never needs to worry about resource scarcity. I’m often told something to the effect of, “the Yankees and other teams are ruining baseball by spending so much money. Doesn’t it bother you that you guys are always at least relevant while other teams slave away year after year, rarely having any success?”

To answer in a word, “no.”

Not only do I not feel any remorse whatsoever, but I think baseball is better for it. Jack Nicholson as Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men described it pretty well when he said, “You want me on that wall. You need me on that wall.”

Baseball fans, if they are willing to be straight with themselves, want big market and polarizing teams like the Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs and Mets to be good. I’m not saying there should only be four or five clubs that win year after year, I’m saying that those types of teams need to be relevant for baseball to thrive.

Fans claim to want parity in the world of baseball, and would like to see the gap between the “have’s” and the “have-nots” reduced as much as possible. If you did that, I promise that the sport of baseball would not just be a droll product to watch but a financial disaster. The passion would die out, and the sport we watch would be a pitiful shadow of what it used to be. Baseball needs juggernauts in order to succeed as a sport and as a business.

Big market teams bring in big revenue. When ESPN airs their marquee “Sunday Night Baseball” games each week, you know which teams are featured? Teams that are going to make the station money. Like it or not, a National League East matchup between the Marlins and the Nationals is not going to be a prime time matchup.

Big market teams draw you to the ballpark or the television if it’s just to root against them. But you can’t deny for a second that they make the league money, and a lot of it. If you don’t like it, stop going to games and stop watching.

The passion of baseball fans comes in two ways, loving your team and hating other guys.

A lot of you probably own or have at least seen the shirt that says, “I support two teams. The Red Sox and whoever beats the Yankees.” You call the Yankees the ‘evil empire’ and want nothing more than to see the Yankees

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No Bull: UConn evens record at UB

AMHERST, N.Y. (AP) — Paul Pasqualoni could happily relate in watching receiver Nick Williams’ speed and shifty ability elude one Buffalo tackler after another in sparking Connecticut’s 17-3 win on Saturday night.

Earlier in the evening, the UConn coach proved to be quite the escape artist as well.

Just three hours before kickoff, Pasqualoni spent an hour stuck in a hotel elevator before workers dropped a ladder through the roof to let him climb out.

“It just stopped cold, and it wasn’t a good feeling,” Pasqualoni said, with a relieved

smile following the victory that snapped Connecticut’s two-game skid. “I thought it was interesting when the engineer said, ‘When you get to the top, don’t step to the left because it’s a long drop.’”

The Big East Conference’s Huskies (2-2) are suddenly riding a little higher thanks to Williams, who had two catches for a careerbest 113 yards. His first catch, a 64-yarder, led to Mark Hinkley’s 4-yard touchdown catch that put UConn up 10-3 with 15 seconds left in the first half.

Williams then sealed the win by catching Johnny McEntee’s short pass over the middle, before

breaking Najja Johnson’s tackle, and running it in for a 49-yard touchdown with 4:52 remaining.

“I couldn’t tell you what his 40-yard dash is, but boy, it looked fast when he had that ball,” Pasqualoni said.

For Williams, the nation’s kickoff return leader last year, it was a chance to finally show he could contribute on offense.

“I had high hopes coming into the season that I’d be able to help out the team a little more than I have recently,” Williams said. “So it was a good feeling to finally make a catch and have a little bit more of an impact.”

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Nick Williams and D.J. Shoemate celebrate Williams’ touchdown in the fourth quarter.

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No. 2 UConn stays unbeaten with win over No. 12 St. John’s

By Greg Keiser Staff Writer

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Big East play opened with a 2-0 win Saturday night for the No. 2 UConn men’s soccer team against No. 12 St. John’s, in front of 5,100 fans at Joseph J. Morrone Stadium.

The match was a homecoming of sorts for the Huskies, who have played four games on the road since their last home game, the Sept. 4 win over California.

Scoring opportunities were aplenty in the first half for the Huskies, but they were unable to beat redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Rafael Diaz, who single-handedly kept the Red Storm in the game and was named Big East Goalkeeper of the Week last week. Missed chances were the theme of the first half, and they started early. In the 10th minute, sophomore forward Mamadou Doudou-Diouf controlled the ball all the way down the sideline and tried crossing it before St. John’s senior defender Chris Lebo deflected the ball out of bounds. Red Storm defenders cleared the ensuing corner kick.

Tony Cascio kicks the ball during No. 2 UConn’s 2-0 win over St. John’s Saturday night at Morrone Stadium. The win pushed the Huskies’ record to 8-0 on the season.

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UConn returns to friendly confines of Morrone

By Dan Agabiti Senior Staff Writer

The Huskies returned to Morrone Stadium for the first time in nearly three weeks Saturday night. The result was a 2-0 victory in their Big East opener against St. John’s before a sold out crowd of 5,100 people.

The fans not only came, but brought their full support. Almost everybody in the sold-out stadium

showed up wearing white for the promotional “white out.”

For the players and coaches, it was a great feeling to come back home to a sea of white.

“It was a great feeling for us,” freshman goalkeeper Andre Blake said. “It makes us feel like we can do anything when we’re at our best and in front of our fans, it’s a good thing for us and definitely keeps us going.”

“It definitely gives us a lot of confidence to come home and

get an important three points out a lot. Now our next step is to in the conference,” win here again on coach Ray Reid said.

Tuesday.”

In such a hardBut not everyfought and physical thing about the game like that one, home opener was every bit of support a celebration. helped.

Before the start “The fans know of the game, there how to give us motiwas a moment of vation,” sophomore silence to honor Notebook forward Mamadou former UConn Diouf said. “It’s a lot soccer player easier to play here and it helps us Bobby Rhine, who recently

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died at 35. Players also wore black armbands that read “BR No. 7” to honor Rhine.

Freshmen making a splash in a big way The game had been a 0-0 draw for more than 70 minutes until freshman Allando Matheson knocked in a header from junior Jossimar Sanchez. Immediately after the goal, Matheson ran

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Huskies fit to be tied twice this weekend

in the 75th minute against Louisville gave the Huskies the temporary 2-1 lead.

“Danielle [Schulmann] The UConn women’s soccer always works hard,” said coach team (4-4-2) outshot Big East Len Tasntiris. “She scores the foes Louisville (3-4-3) and goals and always fights.”

Schulmann’s goal Cincinnati (5-4-3) by a Sunday, a left-footed combined total of 43-25, strike from outside ending both games in a the 18-yard box that 2-2 tie this past weekend. bounced off the post “I’m not happy with 2 and then in, capped off the tie,” said forward UConn a two-goal comeback Danielle Schulmann Cincinnati 2 for UConn in the last after Sunday’s match 12:30 of regulation. again Cincinnati.

Despite outshooting the “We’re never happy with anyBearcats 10-1 in the first half, the thing but a win.”

Schulmann picked up her Huskies still found themselves team-leading fourth and fifth heading into halftime down a goals of the season over the goal. Then at just over 10 minweekend – both of which came utes into the second, Cincinnati in dramatic fashion. Her goal took a 2-0 lead after Kate

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Schmidt notched her first goal of the season off a corner kick.

“It was just an unfortunate game,” Schulmann said. “It’s unfortunate that they had two shots, and both went in. I think we outplayed that team. We outshot them by a lot.”

“They had defenders clear the ball off the line twice, we had two shots go off the post. It was just one of those days,” Schulman added.

The Huskies would respond late in regulation. In the 78th minute, forward Jessica Shufelt tiptoed the end line before delivering a pass to midfielder to Linda Ruutu, who buried her first goal of the season into the left-side netting. Just over eight minutes later came Schulmann’s equalizer.

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Riley Houle tries to find a teammate up the field during the women’s soccer team’s 2-2 tie against Louisville on Friday night.