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After being owned by a company called Pro Park, Farmer Brown Parking Lot (formerly UConn’s X-Lot) was recently bought by LAZ Parking and is open for business.

According to Denita Elliott, executive assistant at LAZ Parking, the parking prices have not increased, but there are differences in way the parking lot will be managed.

Pro Park had two different parking places, premium and economy, along with different packages for the full year and single semester, residents and commuter students. Premium

parking was parking in the paved part of the lot while the cheaper option, economy, was a permit to park on the dirt portion.

LAZ Parking is not distinguishing between the dirt and the paved parking areas.

Instead, there is one price for either lot and permit holders can park where they please. They do offer commuter, full year and single semester options as well.

With these differences come differences in price. For example, according to its website, Pro Park charged $698 plus tax to park for the full scholastic year in the paved portion of the lot.

LAZ Parking charges $600 plus tax to park for the full scholastic

year with the option to park in the dirt or paved section.

There is also the option to stagger the prices depending on when the permit is bought. If a student wants to buy a parking permit in November, he or she will not have to pay for a full semester; the price will be adjusted accordingly.

Last year, there was a fulltime parking lot attendant at Farmer Brown. This is not the case under LAZ Parking’s management. Someone will monitor the lot daily, but there will not be an attendant there all day.

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Farmer Brown’s Parking Lot, located on King Road, was taken over by LAZ Parking over the summer, rates remained the same but the structure changed, according to the company.

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Global Network of Possibilities

By Jimmy Onofrio Campus Correspondent

group’s equipment is prepared for training.

“I think the main difference you will see is the development of leadership ability as an individual,” said Douglas Palmer, a senior mechanical engineering

In 2010, UConn joined Universitas 21, a group of 23 universities from 15 countries all around the world. Tuesday, at the Student Union Theatre, a number of prominent members of the university community spoke about the opportunities available to UConn students through U21.

Lynne Goodstein, director of the Honors Program, began the presentation by stressing the importance of becoming a “global citizen” in the 21st century. To help its students, UConn offers over 200 study abroad programs in dozens of countries around the world.

Dr. Goodstein said that global education is vital for today’s students because “knowledge about the culture of another part of the world will make you a much more effective member of the working world.” Studying abroad is also a resume booster when applying to graduate schools and jobs.

The huge growth and improvement in UConn’s foreign study offerings is in large part thanks to Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Peter Nicholls.

For Nicholls, Universitas 21 was a “pet project” that went hand-in-hand with the university globalizing its own curriculum and recruiting more international students.

Nicholls noted that the criteria for U21 universities include being “large, broad in scope, with many opportunities for undergraduates to study in any field.” This makes member institutions attractive to students of any major or field of interest.

Because U21 helps set up and maintain exchange agreements between the universities, foreign students are ensured a safe, accepting cultural and educational environment with instruction available in English at or below the cost of attending UConn.

Ross Lewin, the director of global programs and U21’s contact at UConn abroad, addressed some of the more specific aspects of study abroad. He started off by listing the reasons why he believes every student should spend at least a semester abroad: per-

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Despite rain, students shopped for plants and fish on Fairfield Way. The stand offered varieties of plants for students to liven up their homes.

ROTC provides students with path to future military career

By Russell O’Brien Staff Writer

UConn offers more than 100 majors to its students, who, when they graduate, can go on to any number of career paths. But there are only a few programs that can prepare students for a career in the military. UConn’s ROTC program is one of them.

ROTC has had a long history at this university.

“They’ve been here for quite some time,” said Major Glen A. Colby, the recruiting and operations officer for the ROTC while showing black and white photos of ROTC cadets training in 1919 and 1926. A framed letter officially establishing ROTC at UConn is dated 1916.

Although the program is almost a century old, in the past few years, it has undergone major changes. According to Major Colby, the number of ROTC graduates has jumped from 12 to 30 since he started at UConn. In particular, the

number of people joining ROTC steadily increased after 9/11.

There are now about 155 students participating in ROTC at UConn, including 40 freshmen.

Not all of those who start ROTC will finish.

“They can try the military without obligations,” Colby said, noting that students can take the classes for a few years to see if ROTC is right for them and leave if it is not. When a class of cadets does complete the program, the bulk enter active duty.

“A lot of them have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan,” Colby said.

ROTC graduates will be made second lieutenants after they graduate and will manage anywhere from 20 to 80 people under their command.

When freshman and sophomores start out on their path to second lieutenants, they learn basic skills on being a successful leader and soldier but by the time cadets are upperclass-

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The enterance to the basement of Hall Dorm building, students are given life experience in preparation for the military through the ROTC program.

men, they actually plan training exercises and lead their peers through them.

In the first leadership position cadets are put in, they lead groups of 4 to 6 cadets – about half a squad.

In this position, their job is to ensure that their cadets and their

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Man gets probation for fake orgy advertisement

HARTFORD (AP) — A Connecticut man has been sentenced to three years of probation for posting a bogus online ad about an orgy at a neighbor’s house during a feud with the homeowner.

Court records show 44-year-old Philip Conran pleaded guilty to risk of injury to a child last week in Hartford Superior Court and was sentenced to probation and 200 hours of community service. He was also ordered to pay for the West Hartford neighbor’s house alarm system. Conran’s court date was unexpectedly moved to last week from this week.

Police said Conran posted the Craigslist ad in April 2010 and several strangers knocked on his neighbor’s door. One man went to the wrong home, groped a teenage girl and was arrested.

Conran’s attorney, Michael Georgetti, says his client regrets the incident.

Test cheating review nearing conclusion

WATERBURY (AP) — Dozens of children in a Waterbury school will have to take the Connecticut Mastery Test again as officials investigate whether teachers or other adults corrected many of their wrong answers.

State Acting Education Commissioner George Coleman said Wednesday that a state-led review of the alleged cheating at Hopeville Elementary School is expected to be completed in the next few days.

Coleman told the state Board of Education that they are working with Waterbury officials to determine when to test the students again, probably sometime in the next few weeks.

The investigation was launched after preliminary reviews showed many students’ wrong answers had been erased and corrected, presumably by adults with access to the tests. Seventeen Hopeville teachers and other employees are on leave while the investigation is under way.

Trial scheduled for kidnapping-arson case

HARTFORD (AP) — A trial has been scheduled for next month for a Connecticut man accused of kidnapping his ex-wife and holding her hostage for hours before burning down the house they once shared.

A Hartford Superior Court judge on Wednesday set jury selection to begin next Tuesday and the trial to start Oct. 3 for 62-year-old Richard Shenkman. His lawyers are expected to pursue a mentalillness defense.

Police allege Shenkman kidnapped his ex-wife, Nancy Tyler, in Hartford in July 2009 and held her hostage during a more than 12-hour standoff with police at the South Windsor home. Tyler managed to escape and Shenkman surrendered as flames engulfed the house.

Shenkman is also awaiting trial on charges he burned down the couple’s East Lyme home in 2007 during their contentious divorce case.

Business group pushes education reforms

HARTFORD (AP) — A group of corporate leaders says Connecticut’s learning gap hurts not only its poorest children, but the entire state’s economic vitality.

Members of the new Connecticut Council for Education Reform introduced their work Wednesday to the state Board of Education, including their hope for better evaluation methods and professional development for teachers and administrators.

The council is pushing for policies to help close the achievement gap between wealthy and poor students. It was launched in July to advocate for the 65 recommendations made by the former Connecticut Commission on Educational Achievement.

Group member Ramani Ayer, the retired head of The Hartford Financial Services Group, said now is a pivotal time to revamp failing schools, and that ignoring the problems puts Connecticut’s economy and social fabric in peril.

Federal recovery centers to open in state HARTFORD (AP) — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says federal disaster recovery centers will open Thursday in each of Connecticut’s eight counties, with two in New Haven County.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency centers will help home owners and businesses affected by Tropical Storm Irene.

Malloy urged affected individuals and businesses Wednesday to visit a center and find out if they are eligible for benefits.

The disaster recovery centers will open at noon Thursday and will then be open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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major and the battalion commander who oversees the ROTC program the entire state as he explains how ROTC changes freshman and sophomores.

“It’s a completely different experience after you have managed people and are now responsible for training them,” he said, comparing ROTC to an ordinary college experience.

Junior year is a demanding one for cadets.

They will be responsible at some point during the year for anywhere from 12 to 100 people as they are rotated though several different command positions.

The main task of junior year, however, is to prepare for the Leader Development and Assessment Course (LDAC) at Fort Lewis. For 29 days, everything the cadets have learned up to this point will be tested. The pressure is enormous, as this course will not only determine their future career in the army but shows how well their instructors and peers have trained them.

Students from UConn have done very well in the past several LDACs. In particular, Douglas Palmer was ranked first among the 495 army cadets in his regiment for his performance at Fort Lewis. Only 14 regiments are in the program.

Finally, when cadets are seniors, they essentially run their ROTC chapter.

Instructors, besides teaching the classes, tell the senior cadets what they need to accomplish for a lesson. The cadets do everything else, from planning the lessons to finding resources for them, to ensuring that the lessons are safe.

A perfect illustration of the way ROTC operates is the physical training class, which is held at 6 a.m. three times a week.

Beforehand, a junior, plans the exercise

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regime, which is then approved by a senior cadet.

The junior then leads the class in exercise. Senior cadets exercise behind the rest of the class. If anyone is making an error in their exercises, any senior who sees will get up and correct the person on his or her own.

Although the leader’s instructions are followed with discipline, there are a variety of skill levels in the class, with some students more proficient than others.

The seniors and instructors were patient but had solidly consistent expectations.

“We’re going to keep going until everyone does all the push ups,” an instructor said to the class at one point. By the end, the student’s clothes were visibly sweat stained.

In addition to physical training, tactical training is held every other Friday. There, cadets learn things they will need in the field such as navigation. Also, during the week, they take a class in leadership.

“They are not as big on leadership training in basic training as they are in ROTC,” Colby said.

According to Palmer, cadets are also encouraged to do extracurricular activities. ROTC has several of it’s own extracurricular activities for cadets including the Army Ten-Miler, a race in Washington D.C. (out of fifty other ROTC teams, a team from UConn ROTC came in second place in 2009) and the Ranger Challenge, where a team of ROTC cadets are tested on a series of skills such as map reading and weapon assembling (recently, a team came in third place out of forty-two schools).

In addition, cadets must keep up with their schoolwork. All cadets must graduate in four years.

“A lot of people think that ROTC is like a club,” said Lieutenant Commander Scott

T. Fleeher, the professor of military science and head of ROTC. “A better parallel would be varsity sports.”

He said that many members of UConn ROTC have already sacrificed much time and effort to serve in the military. Several cadets even participated in hurricane relief efforts in the state after Hurricane Irene.

Balancing time in uniform, class and activities can be difficult. ROTC cadets listed the time commitment as the biggest downside to being in ROTC. In addition, more is expected of them than the average student, according to Nick Hurley, a 5th-semester history major. For example, they are not allowed to get written up or else they will attract the concern of their instructors.

“It makes you grow up fast,” said Scott Yaglowski, a 7th-semester sociology major who often spends ten hours a week in uniform and even more out of uniform exchanging emails and planning lessons for other cadets.

But neither Hurley nor Yaglowski regret their decision to join ROTC. “I like the responsibility,” said Hurley.

“In the end it pays off. It makes you a better person.”

There are also several tangible benefits to joining ROTC. The program will often pay the entire cost of tuition. In addition, former cadets are highly valued by employers for the leadership abilities that they have learned while in ROTC. “They usually come looking for us,” said Major Colby. “The door is open to come over and experience what is going on here,” said Lieutenant Fleeher on ROTC’s relationship with the rest of the university.

“We’re not some secret military base. We are part of UConn.”

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Northeast Utilities: Irene’s cost to exceed $100M

HARTFORD (AP) — Northeast Utilities says the cost for repairs and to restore power after remnants of Hurricane Irene hit New England will be more than $100 million.

The Hartford utility outlined the impact of the storm in a presentation to be made Thursday to investor analysts.

It was posted on its website Wednesday.

Vice President for Investor Relations Jeffrey Kotkin said Wednesday it could be a long time before regulators in

Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire decide how the costs will be paid and what the impact could be on ratepayers.

He said customers already pay for storm cleanup, but Irene’s destruction was more extensive than in previous storms.

About 800,000 customers of Northeast Utilities, mostly in Connecticut, lost service at the peak of the Aug. 28 storm — the most ever for the utility.

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In this Aug. 31, file photo, Connecticut Light and Power wires down guard Little Eagle Pementil monitors traffic and safety around down wires from Tropical Storm Irene.

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pus; it gives them an alternative parking space,” said Elliott.

The lot is not just for students though. Students, faculty, university employees or anyone else can buy a permit if they desire.

Currently, there are about 120 permit holders. The lot can hold up to 500 cars.

According to Martha Funderburk, manager of UConn’s Parking Services, Farmer Brown Parking Lot was just the dirt lot below X-Lot until August 2010. Last September, Farmer Brown’s Parking began to include X-Lot and the dirt lot.

“Prior to August 2010, the University had been leasing X Lot,” said Funderburk in an email.

“The lease ran out in August 2010 and was not renewed. The lot has been run privately since then.”

“Prior to August

2010, the University had been leasing X-Lot. The lease ran out in August 2010 and was not renewed.”

Martha Funderburk UConn Official While UConn does list Farmer Brown Parking Lot as an off-campus parking option, the lot is not affiliated with the University.

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sonal, political, professional and pedagogical.

In addition to the benefits the student gets from the experience, Lewin also noted how UConn benefits from students coming home and sharing their new and different perspectives with friends, classmates and faculty.

To conclude the presentation, students who have taken part in a program through U21 shared their experiences.

Craig Hanna, a 7th-semester biomedical engineering major, studied in Australia last year.

He talked about the “new independence and personal confidence” he gained while living and studying Down Under.

The cultural and social growth he experienced was incredible,

said Hanna.

Meaghan Roy-O’Reilly, an 8th-semester molecular and cell biology major, had the opportunity to attend a research conference sponsored

by U21 at Fudan University in Shanghai over 10 days this summer.

The most remarkable thing, according to her, was that students organized the entire event with only student speakers and presenters. “The caliber of the students was so fantastic, I was completely drawn in by what they had to say,” said Roy-O’Reilly.

With the Study Abroad Fair on Thursday, students will have the opportunity to explore many options for study in foreign countries.

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Kids with Bush on Sept. 11 saw change sweep over him

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — The 16 children who shared modern America’s darkest moment with President George W. Bush are high school seniors now — football players, ROTC members, track athletes, wrestlers and singers.

They remember going over an eight-paragraph story so it would be perfect when they read it to the president on Sept.

11, 2001. They remember how Bush’s face suddenly clouded as his chief of staff, Andrew Card, bent down and whispered to him that the U.S. had been attacked. They remember how Bush pressed on with the reading as best he could before sharing the devastating news with the nation.

“It was like a blank stare. Like he knew something was going on but he didn’t want to make it too bad for us to notice by looking different,” said Lenard Rivers, now a 17-year-old football player at Sarasota High.

What the students can’t say for sure is how that moment changed them. They were just second-graders. Their memories were only beginning.

“I think we all matured maybe a little bit,” said Chantal Guerrero, now a 17-year-old senior at Sarasota Military Academy. “... But since we were only 7, I’m not sure what kind of impact it had, because we didn’t know how things were before.”

Lazaro Dubrocq, now a 17-year-old senior and captain of the wrestling team at Sarasota’s Riverview High School, said it wouldn’t be until middle school when he started seriously pondering his place in the chaotic events of Sept. 11.

“I was too young and naive to fully understand the gravity of the situation,” said Dubrocq, who is headed to Columbia University to study chemical engineering next year. “As I began to age and mature, it helped me gain a new perspective of the world and it helped me mature faster as I began to understand that there are politics and wars and genocides that occur daily throughout the

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Kay Daniels looks around her former classroom at Emma E. Booker Elementary School, where she sat on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, with President George W. Bush as she waits to recall her experience from that day to a reporter on Wednesday.

world. It helped me come to a realization that the world is not a perfect place.”

Sept. 11, 2001, was a steamy Tuesday in southwest Florida.

The children were sitting in two neat rows in room 301 of Emma E. Booker Elementary School.

Bush planned to sit in the classroom with them before moving to the media center to talk about a national reading initiative.

Booker Elementary, in a low-income area of Sarasota, was chosen for the Bush visit because Principal Gwen Tose’Rigell had turned it into a highperforming school. As presidential trips go, it was routine, mundane even. The children were chosen because they were some of the best readers.

Tose’-Rigell, who died of cancer in 2007, told The Associated Press in 2002 that Bush knew when he arrived at the school that some kind of plane had hit one of the World Trade Center towers in New York. But the news was sketchy, and the decision was made to proceed with the program at Booker.

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WINDHAM, N.Y. (AP) — Northeastern residents still weary from the flooding wrought

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“Everybody’s on alert,” said Dennis Michalski, spokesman for the New York Emergency Management Office. “The good thing is, the counties are on alert, as they were for Irene, and people are more conscious.”

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As they began the story, some of the children sensed something was different about the president.

“One kid described his face as (like) he had to use the bathroom,” Guerrero said. “That’s how we saw it in second grade.

He just looked like he got the worst news in the world.”

Teacher Kay Daniels was sitting next to Bush and knew something was amiss when Card came out of the adjoining classroom and approached the president. Everything about the day was so choreographed, and that wasn’t supposed to happen.

“I had 16 little ones sitting in front of me, the media in the back of the classroom, and I had to keep going,” said Daniels, now a reading teacher at a Sarasota middle school.

“Emotionally, (Bush) left us, but he came back. He did come back into the lesson, and he picked up the book and for a moment he stayed with us.”

Bush dissected those moments recently in an interview with the National Geographic TV channel.

“At the back of the room, reporters were on their cell phones. They were getting the same message I got, which meant a lot of people would be watching my reaction to this crisis,” he said. “So I made a decision not to jump up immediately and leave the classroom.

I didn’t want to rattle the kids.

I wanted to project a sense of calm.”

After the story, Bush quickly shook hands with the children and left each with some M&Ms in a box bearing the presidential seal. Then he disappeared into the adjoining classroom, which had been set up as a command center for the visit.

Minutes later in the media center, he stepped up to the podium and told the country about the attacks.

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Trees were uprooted and roads were flooded. Winds fanned wildfires in Louisiana and Texas, and the storm even kicked up tar balls on the Gulf Coast. At least four people died.

Heavy rain fell Wednesday morning on the already-battered town of Prattsville, on the northern edge of New York’s Catskill Mountains, where residents were ready to evacuate as the Schoharie Creek escaped its banks and smaller streams showed significant flooding.

Flooding also led to voluntary evacuations in the Catskills town of Shandaken, and some schools in the Hudson Valley north of New York City closed or delayed start times.

In the rural Schoharie Valley west of Albany, officials were encouraging residents to find higher ground but hadn’t yet ordered evacuations.

Along the road in Windham were several soggy, cardboard signs from last week’s storm that said “Thank you for your help” and water turned red from the clay riverbed rushed over roads. As National Guard troops directed traffic, a crane dug into the upstream side of a culvert, trying to open it up to allow more water through.

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RAs and freshmen should not live together

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vercrowding at UConn’s Storrs campus is a perennial problem, but this year freshmen and resident assistants are living together as a result. To compensate for the inconvenience, the university is paying RAs up to $1,500. RAs received $1,200 to sign on with the possibility that the university could assign them a roommate, and an additional $300 if they actually got one.

Despite the financial benefits this situation may provide, there are non-monetary harms that also result. Placing RAs and freshmen in the same living space unfairly deprives freshmen of the first-year living experience they deserve while removing a major incentive for being an RA, which is having a single dorm room.

For freshmen, living with an RA is less than an ideal situation. Freshmen should be living with their peers, thus getting to know those who they will be spending the next four years alongside. The university encourages this idea, urging freshmen to branch out and meet new people in their respective class. The expectation is that the best friendships will be made among those graduating in the same year. RAs, however, are not supposed to be their friends. They are supposed to be instruments of authority, reminding freshmen that there are still rules to follow when Mom and Dad are not around.

Living with another freshman who is also seeing college through the same fresh eyes is not the same as living with a person whose sole presence is to make sure freshmen obey the rules.

RAs obviously have certain professional duties they must perform. Making RAs and freshmen live together makes enforcing these duties much more difficult. RAs live alone because their responsibility is to treat others fairly and equally. When someone on the floor violates the Student Code, the university expects the RA to respond the same way to everyone – with no exceptions. Living with a freshman places an RA in a difficult position. It is much easier to enforce policies with someone who is not living in the same room. Along this line of thinking, it is much harder to enforce policies with someone who lives in the same room. When an RA angers someone on the floor, peace of mind is one closed door away.

When an RA angers his roommate, there is nowhere to escape.

Therefore, the university should not be surprised if RAs start giving their freshmen roommates preferential treatment.

Furthermore, placing RAs and freshmen students together does nothing to solve the housing shortage. Instead, it merely sets a precedent that allows the university to over-enroll even more in the years to come. If the university is serious about tackling this housing problem, it should stop burdening its students with overpopulation, whose living experiences only stand to be hurt.

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This week has taught me that hot girls and hot weather have a positive correlation. Rain, rain go away!

Did anyone see Dumbledore’s army at the involvement fair or do their invisibility cloaks work that well?

Someone removed one of the wobbly tiles on the biophysics roof and alas it does not lead to Narnia . . . but I still have hope for the other wobbly tiles!

I found Jesus; he lives in McMahon.

I mixed I can’t believe its not butter with real butter. I don’t know what to believe!!

I get it. Lanyards are convenient. But so are diapers.

Got my first UConn parking ticket. I feel like I just passed some type of initiation for a frat that nobody likes.

My horoscope in the Daily Campus today said home is my palace and to relax by sweeping and washing dishes. Even college is telling me I’ll be a trophy wife.

Can someone please go find Kemba and tell him that there’s a lockout? Cause he won’t stop making it rain.

There is NO WAY we’re calling our go-kart the Mauve Avenger.

I CAN’T BELIEVE we called our go-kart the Mauve Avenger.

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Adult film industry must mandate safe sex

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he adult film industry hasn’t been able to get it up for a week, ever since a performer who has not been publicly identified tested positive for HIV during a voluntary visit at a health facility outside of California. The Free Speech Coalition, a Los Angeles-based adult film industry trade group, recommended the industry-wide shutdown last week, but has since lifted the moratorium after the performer was retested with negative results.

I’m sure the performer and those who make their livBy Ryan Gilbert ing in the adult film Associate Commentary Editor industry have had their “whew, close call” moments and are thankful to be going back to work. But their collective sigh of relief hasn’t hushed the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and others from urging health and safety officials to mandate condom use in adult films and force filmmakers to submit to periodic inspections.

I applaud the activists who are gathering signatures for a petition to put a measure on Los Angeles’ June 2012 ballot that would legislate this mandate and limit the city’s filming permits to companies whose performers use condoms.

It’s time to wrap it up.

I’m sure some will consider this proposal a meddling and offensive example of government overreach. I’m also convinced that some will indulge in their Orwellian-inspired paranoia, and think of this quarrel as one that will inevitably result in a “slippery slope” decision with more civil liberties and freedoms being snatched away from good, hardworking Americans. Apparitions of President Obama

and other government teat-sucking liberals celebrating in the streets might race through some minds. However, industry self-regulation hasn’t been handled effectively, so it’s time for government to be a proverbial cockblock.

Adult film performers and producers have adopted a mindset that accepts voluntary testing every 30 days as an appropriate method of HIV and STD prevention. This isn’t just nonsensical – it’s alarming and possibly unlawful.

“Judgment aside, we can agree that health class taught us one thing: you don’t screw around with semen and blood.”

According to the California Department of Industrial Relations, the California Occupational Safety and Health Act (Cal/OSHA) has jurisdiction over virtually all employers in California, including those in the adult film industry. Cal/ OSHA “requires employers to provide a safe and healthful workplace for employers” and has a “bloodborne pathogens standard” that “requires employers to use feasible…work practice controls to protect workers from coming into contact with blood or other potentially infectious material.” Judgment aside, we can agree that health classes taught us one thing: you don’t screw around with semen and blood.

Workplace precautions and obligations are not extraneous to us, even those of us who still passionately defend self-liberty and autonomy.

Medical professionals are required to wear gloves when handling blood and bodily fluids.

Construction workers are required to wear hard hats, face shields and safety-toed footwear. We expect those who cook our food to wear gloves.

We expect our firefighters and police officers

to wear protective gear. We’re all required to wear seatbelts when we’re driving. You can see where I’m headed with this. Most people who argue and complain about government overreach annoyingly do so at their convenience, as if they’re calling a customer feedback hotline.

That’s their prerogative. I’d prefer to address the issue with a bit more accountability.

According to CBS News, Americans spend around $10 billion a year on adult entertainment. That’s not pocket change, and it’s especially important to recognize the influence adult films have on young people. Whether you choose to acknowledge it or not, “WARNING! Adult Content! Must Be 18 Years Or Older To View” is saran wrap shredded by an adolescent’s hungry libido. Is it credible for them to be learning anything from watching pornography?

No. But it is reasonable to accept that impressionable young people are picking up certain social signals from these videos.

The National Health Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion has stated that rates of smoking among youth is “unacceptably high,” and it promotes that less young people will be inclined to smoke if there are less youth-friendly films depicting their lead characters with cigarettes. By the same token, there’s no harm in one of the social prompts coming from adult films being “use a condom when having sex.”

The adult film industry is a capitalist’s wet dream. The demand is there and the money is flowing in. Condoms are cheap, easy to supply and are effective at preventing HIV and reducing the risk of transmitting STDs. If the industry covets “professional” designation, then it must hold itself to true professional standards of health safety and decency.

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

Rebecca Black: Smarter than we think?

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he great iconoclasts of history knew that society would spurn them for throwing the idols of their days and ages into the fire of reasoned criticism. They knew that their careers, the comforts of their lives, even their existence would be threatened by the irate retribution of the ignorant masses.

By Chris Kempf But none of them comStaff Columnist mitted social treason for the fun of it; each hoped that their actions would start society down the path of reason and compassion. Indeed, the lessons of these great men and women of action did not go unheeded, but rather, they helped to shape the world with which we are so intimately familiar today.

That is why the total elimination of Rebecca Black from public discourse for her song “Friday” is so difficult to bear.

Why do we hate “Friday”? Could it be not that this new iconoclast is lacking in musicianship or songwriting prowess, but that her message is more incisive and revealing of the true nature of our own lives than we feel comfortable admitting?

Anyone willing to take an extra

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moment to analyze “Friday” for what it is – a work of art – will be profoundly affected by the nature of her message and the passion with which she conveys it. I regret that I might be the first to point out that there is an undeniable theme of human debasement in this work, although it is preferable to having this song not properly considered at all.

““Friday” reminds us that one has only so many weekends to look forward to, and that not one should be sacrificed to any social demand.”

The lyrics express a particularly poignant sentiment of imposed need – the strains of “gotta get my bowl/gotta have cereal” and “gotta get down/to the bus stop” lash out against authoritarian consumerism and the obligations thereof, which are not to be disobeyed or questioned. As the music video progresses, we see images of the tragic, premature adulthood conferred upon Miss Black, her friends and by her own extension

all of the teenagers and “tweens” of this country suffering through a directionless adolescence. Of course, the average watcher of “Friday” will think, “Kids that young shouldn’t be driving cars.”

However, it takes a critical mind on the level of Miss Black’s to think, instead, “The tyrannical forces of society that poison this nation’s youth shouldn’t be driving society.”

The theme of time is, however, the crucial weapon of Miss Black’s formidable rhetorical arsenal, as it permits us an almost unparalleled emotional connection with her work. Pages of the calendar (the word is derived from the Latin term for “account book” – the artist reveals herself to be a cunning etymologist as well!) tear by, and the images of Miss Black that writhe upon them have lost all sensory definition, appearing as the black lines that memory imposes upon our subconscious without filling them in with color. Permeated with an acute sense of time’s unalterable progression (tomorrow is Saturday/and Sunday comes afterwards), “Friday” reminds us that one has only so many weekends to look forward to, and that not one should be sacrificed to any social demand.

Finally, a word must be said

about the “rap scene,” in which the visage of Miss Black is temporarily replaced with that of a much older, male AfricanAmerican rapper. Some have called this needless deference to demands for cultural diversity; I call it genius, as that is clearly a more accurate, and more succinct, description. For those of us who are not adolescents, Caucasians, females or pop singers, Black’s magnum opus would seem somewhat inconsequential without this scene. Because there will inevitably come a time when Miss Black will no longer be able to inveigh against the moral corruption and regimentation that are poisoning our society, she will need to pass the torch of reason and artistry on to someone else – even to a man who has little in common with herself and can actually drive.

But to be certain, Rebecca Black is also passing “Friday’s” torch on to you. Now that she has been swallowed up by an unforgiving and indolent society, only you can carry on the fight in search of an impossible dream, a dream that should not be forced to end at 7 a.m.

Staff Columnist Christopher Kempf is a 3rdsemester political science major. He can be reached at Christopher.Kempf@UConn.edu

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I Hate Everything

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

by Brian Ingmanson

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Water provides useful symbolism today. Flow like a river, gently but with power. Take the course of least resistance. Spend time splashing around with people you love.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- An opportunity to earn greater status opens up. Stay attentive, and show your portfolio. Be prepared to provide references. Listen to a dream.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Adventure awaits, so get your chores done and go play! It doesn’t need to be expensive. Don’t make a big deal about it ... just go. Surprise people, even yourself.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Search for buried treasure, whether hiding in the budget as an unnecessary expense that can be cut, or a resource that you didn’t know you had. Seek and find.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Delegate to increase your effectiveness. Let a partner drive, so you can sit back and relax with friends.

Working with a great team shares the load. Listen to suggestions, and foster innovation.

Side of Rice

by Laura Rice

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- This train is about to take off, so hold on tightly. Work increases.

Sudden stops could happen, so brace yourself and hold on for the ride. It could be fun.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Abrupt changes occur at work, and you may have to call for reinforcements. Schedule time for romance. In the end, love prevails. A quiet night at home is a treat.

Monkey Business

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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- It’s time to clean up house and pass on those items you don’t really need. Your trash is someone else’s treasure. Give something a new purpose to double its lifespan.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- You have the power to solve any misunderstandings today. Celebrate failures, as they show specifically what’s missing for success to occur. Persistence pays.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -Today is an 8 -- Money is coming in (if you’re willing to accept it), but also going, like the tide. Share the profits and invest wisely. Keep it moving.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is an 8 -- Your glass is half-full now, and on its way to overflowing. Keep focusing on abundance, and don’t forget to share so your cup doesn’t run over. There’s plenty.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 5 -- You’re under a bit more pressure now. Look twice to see if it’s real or invented. Saying “no”

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Israel isolated ahead of UN vote on Palestinians

Bombing outside courthouse kills 11 in India’s capital

NEW DELHI (AP) — A powerful bomb hidden in a briefcase ripped through a crowd of people waiting to enter a New Delhi courthouse Wednesday, killing 11 people and wounding scores more in the deadliest attack in India’s capital in nearly three years.

An al-Qaida-linked group claimed responsibility, though government officials said it was too early to name a suspect. The attack outside the High Court came despite a high alert across the city and renewed doubts about India’s ability to protect even its most important institutions despite overhauling security after the 2008 Mumbai siege.

“Have we become so vulnerable that terrorist groups can almost strike at will?” opposition lawmaker Arun Jaitley asked in Parliament.

The bomb left a deep crater on the road and shook the courthouse, sending lawyers and judges fleeing outside.

“There was smoke everywhere. People were running.

People were shouting. There was blood everywhere. It was very, very scary,” said lawyer Sangeeta Sondhi, who was parking her car near the gate when the bomb exploded.

The government rallied Indians to remain strong in the face of such attacks.

“We will never succumb to the pressure of terrorists,” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said during a visit to neighboring Bangladesh. “This is a long war in which all political parties and all the people of India will have to stand united so that this scourge of terrorism

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Relatives of a bomb blast victims wail at the RML hospital in New Delhi, India, Wednesday. A bomb apparently hidden in a briefcase exploded outside a top court in New Delhi, the deadliest attack in the Indian capital in nearly three years.

is crushed.”

The bomb exploded about 10:14 a.m. near a line of more than 100 people waiting at a reception counter for passes to enter the court building to have their cases heard.

The blast killed 11 people and wounded 76 others. Their identities were not available, but no judges were among the victims.

People ran to assist the injured, piling them into three-

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wheeled taxis to take them to the hospital. Ambulances and forensic teams rushed to the scene, along with sniffer dogs and a bomb disposal unit, apparently checking for any further explosives.

Renu Sehgal, a 42-year-old housewife with a case before the court, had just received her pass and was standing nearby with her uncle and mother while her husband parked their car when she

heard the explosion.

“The sound was so huge and suddenly people started running,” she said. “We were all in such a big panic. ... I’m lucky I survived.”

The court building was evacuated after the attack.

The blast probe was quickly turned over to the National Investigation Agency, established after the Mumbai siege to investigate and prevent terror attacks.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Rising tensions with some of its closest and most important allies have left Israel increasingly isolated ahead of a momentous vote on Palestinian independence at the United Nations.

Troubles with Turkey, Egypt and even the U.S. are adding to Israel’s headaches ahead of the vote, which is shaping up to be a global expression of discontent against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Palestinians plan to ask the United Nations this month to recognize their independence in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem — areas captured

by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war — probably by embracing them as a “nonmember observer state.” The measure is expected to pass overwhelmingly in the U.N. General Assembly.

The assembly’s decisions are not legally binding, so the vote will be largely symbolic. But the Palestinians hope the measure will increase the already considerable pressure on Israel to withdraw from occupied territories, and add leverage should peace talks resume. The Palestinians refuse to negotiate while Israel continues to expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

Ghassan Khatib, a spokesman for the Palestinian government in the West Bank, said Israeli isolation is playing right into Palestinian hands. “We are seeing that result in increased support for us in the United Nations,” he said.

On Wednesday, China announced it would support the Palestinian bid. And a French Mideast envoy, Valerie Hoffenberg, said she had been fired after publicly arguing against the Palestinian initiative. France has not publicly said how it will vote, but her comments signaled that the government favors the Palestinians.

The vote is seen by many not only as a message of sympathy with the Palestinians, but also a barometer of discontent with Israel’s settlement policies. Some 500,000 Israelis now live in territories claimed by the Palestinians.

“There’s no question that had Israel been seen as a country doing its utmost to promote peace, no such vote would be taking place,” said Yossi Beilin, Israel’s former deputy foreign minister.

Beilin cited Netanyahu’s refusal to extend a freeze on new settlement construction a year ago as the “mother of all sins” that put him at odds with the international community. The decision, made over the very public objections of President Barack Obama, caused a brief round of peace talks to collapse.

Since then, relations with Obama have been further strained. In May, Netanyahu paid a tense visit to Washington, where he objected before cameras to Obama’s call that the 1967 boundaries be the basis of a future agreement with the Palestinians. American officials privately express deep frustration with Netanyahu.

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45th annual faculty art show debuts

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The annual faculty exhibition at the Benton Museum is featuring the work of printmaker Laurie Sloan and photographer Frank Noelker, who were both on sabbatical last semester. The exhibit is open to both students and the public and will be on display until Oct. 16.

UConn art and art history departments come together to share the art of 17 professors

By Steph Ratty Focus Editor The UConn art and art history departments kicked off its 45th annual faculty exhibition at the Benton Museum Tuesday, showcasing geometric inkjet prints and a photographic look into the life of sheep.

Seventeen professors have work displayed in the exhibit, in mediums ranging from charcoal drawings to oil works and lithographs. Two featured artists, printmaker Laurie Sloan and photographer Frank Noelker, domi-

nate the Benton’s white walls with work they created while on sabbatical last semester.

Noelker, an associate professor of art, focused on portraits of sheep held in captivity. The photos range in angle and size, but they are all meant to show how human intervention takes a toll on the lives of animals.

“He has also shown animals in their environments in zoos,” said Benton Education Coordinator Tracy Lawlor. “He has a concern for animal well-being.”

Lawlor has worked with Noelker in the past, and he said his work often

uses the same concepts, which send a message against animal captivity.

Sloan’s inkjet prints infused bright colors with unexpected shapes that come together in a cohesive set, an exhibit vastly different than Noelker’s.

Work submitted by other professors encompassed a wide range of styles. Judith Thorpe’s “Venus” series was inspired by her childhood home life in Colorado and included four separate shots of an aging woman draped in white cloth.

Kathryn Myers, an art professor, created multiple mediums to show her work. In addition to four oil-on-

wood paintings, Myers developed a video about how women in southern India turn rice flour into art. The women depicted in the video use the flour to create abstract images on the thresholds of their homes.

They believe that the images, called “kolams,” bring prosperity and good blessings into the household.

“My favorite part of the exhibit was the sheep,” said 1st-semester biomedical engineering major Kathryn Pearson. “It makes you think what humans do to nature.”

Pearson, a student docent at Benton, was also fond of Myers’ video. “[The rice flour artworks] can

be really pretty, and they’re so intricate,” she said.

Crista Anderson, a 7th-semester history and education major, was pleased with the exhibit.

“It is a great chance to see what the different professors can do,” she said. Anderson added that Noelker’s work was her favorite because it makes a farming community rethink its impact.

“It makes us stop to look twice at what people see on a daily basis,” she said.

The exhibit is open to students and the public until Oct. 16.

Stephanie.Ratty@UConn.edu

“Creole Bethoven” Film shown at Dodd Center raises passes away at 81 awareness about scarcity of water NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Composer, arranger, bandleader, producer and teacher Wardell Quezergue (kuh-ZEHR), who arranged “Chapel of Love” for the Dixie Cups and was dubbed the “Creole Beethoven” by Allen Toussaint, has died. He was 81.

He died Tuesday of congestive heart failure, said son Brian Quezergue.

“What a mark he made.

In fact what several marks he made,” Toussaint said Wednesday. “He was just a magnificent man in every way.

He was a superb musician and bandleader. He always inspired the best out of people who were playing with him.”

Hits arranged by Quezergue include “Iko Iko” for the Dixie Cups, “Big Chief” for Professor Longhair, “Mr. Big Stuff” for Jean Knight and “Groove Me” for King Floyd — the last two recorded the same day in 1961 at Quezergue’s Malaco Records in Jackson, Miss.

He also worked with artists as diverse as B.B. King, The Meters, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson, and the Dameans — a quintet of New

Orleans priests whose folky liturgical songs were popular after the Vatican decided the Mass should be in local languages rather than Latin.

He co-wrote “It Ain’t My Fault,” a New Orleans brass band standard, and had recently accepted a settlement from Tuff City Records, which reissued the song, which was sampled by pop star Mariah Carey in “Did I Do That” and by rapper Silkk the Shocker.

Quezergue lost his house and his collection of musical scores to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and his sight to diabetes in about 2003.

“The genius of Wardell was all the arrangements were always in his mind. Now he needed someone to transcribe it onto paper,” said Gary Ault, who was one of the Dameans and the narrator for Quezergue’s most recent composition, a musical setting of the Passion — Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection.

The transcriber was usually Brian Quezergue, one of Quezergue’s five sons and eight daughters. Quezergue’s wife of 60 years, Yoshi Tamaki Quezergue, died in May.

By Caroline Cacciola Campus Correspondent

If one were to count the number of Poland Spring bottles that get used by members of the UConn community in a given day, the final amount would most likely be shocking. Because it can be acquired in a packaged and purchased state, it’s easy to forget just how essential water is to our everyday existence.

The film “Flow,” directed by Irena Salina, was shown yesterday at the Thomas J. Dodd Center as part of UConn’s 2011-2012 Human Rights Film Series, which focuses on ethical consumption. An intimate group of about 50 students watched as the film explored the growing water crisis facing the world today, and experts compared to the ongoing oil crisis. “Flow” not only informs viewers of the struggles for many to find – and pay for – potable water, but it also explores the ethics of water’s privatization by large corporations. Ultimately, the film inspires students to take action locally about water conservation.

Associate Professor of political science Shareen Hertel, who oversaw the event, is excited about the new advancements in research and human rights activism at UConn. While the magnitude of the film’s message seems daunting, Hertel is happy to share the types of important work being done across campus regarding water research.

Hertel described an “incredible number of people at UConn conducting cross-disciplinary research on water,” from such varied departments as economics and engineering.

UConn’s strides in sustainability, Hertel said, are evidenced by its “jump to 16th place in the nation on sustainability from the Sierra Club.” Many clubs across campus, such as Idealists United and the EcoHouse, are also exploring this subject.

“The Dodd Center has a lot to offer, but people don’t know about it,” said sophomore Rachel Miller, vice president of Hillel for Social Justice.

The Human Rights Film Series will show films the first Wednesday of each month in the

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“Flow” examines many of the issues surounding water today, specifically the struggles that many people go through to find it.

Konover Auditorium. For more information about the film “Flow,” visit flowthefilm.com. For more information about human rights

at UConn, students are invited to visit humanrights.uconn.edu.

Caroline.Cacciola@UConn.edu

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1. “The R.E.D. Album,” Game 2. “Watch The Throne,” Kanye West, Jay-Z 3. “21,” Adele 4. “What Matters Most,” Barbra Streisand 5. “Hell On Heels,” Pistol Annies 6. “NOW 39,” Various Artists 7. “Tailgates & Tanlines,” Luke Bryan 8. “Muppets: The Green Album,” Various Artists 9. “My Kinda Party,” Jason Aldean 10. “Chief,” Eric Church

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“Seeds We Sow” lacks any real focus and results in an overproduced mess of an album. If you need a Lindsey Buckingham fix, the title track and “She Smiled Sweetly” are worth a listen, but the rest of the album is a tragic waste of talent.

We all love the token boy and girl bands from our youth: *NSYNC, Spice Girls, Hanson, Blink-182, TLC, Destiny’s Child. Yet sometimes it’s nice to have a little gender diversity in a group – especially when it comes to vocals.

Male-female harmonies are enthralling. They produce rich sounds that are ambient in terms of music theory and note blending. While chemistry between a lead female and male is necessary for visual performances, it can have an enhancing effect on audible compositions as well.

Various husband-and-wife collaborations have shown that it is achingly romantic and miraculous when two contrasting voices can be so perfectly compatible. Groups, such as The Wings and Plastic Ono Band, prove that duality works best when singers have a relationship that goes beyond their musical careers.

The Weepies is a modern example of a husband-and-wife team that has gained success within independent music. This soft-pop band includes Deb Talan and Steve Tannen, who are spouses, parents and cowriters of four albums. Most of the time, Talan takes the lead on the vocals. But on the springy duets “World Spins Madly On” and “How You Survived the War,” the two artists come together to combine their gentle and sunny voices for a pleasant surprise.

Mates of State may not be as mellow as The Weepies but still, Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner have released five albums and one mixtape together, and are also putting out a record called “Mountaintops” next week.

Mates of State does not focus so much on harmonies.

The singers’ voices often clash over alternative guitar riffs and chromatic keys, yet somehow they still manage to shove them together and make excellent music.

The New York City-based indie band Ida was formed 20 years ago by Daniel Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell. The band also includes three other members who contribute to the harmonies and instrumental arrangements. Ida works with relatively simple, muted accompaniments and balances them with complex, layered vocal parts. Each of the band’s songs is distinguished by three blended parts, which are so unified that they are almost impossible to separate by ear. Littleton and Mitchell usually stagger their parts by singing alternating lines.

On the choruses, however, they join up with the third melody for a truly artful concoction.

Although Jack White claimed that he and Meg White of the White Stripes were never married, and that in fact they are brother and sister, numerous sources have verified that they were once married and are now divorced. While the White Stripes were active, Meg mostly stuck to her drum set and let Jack do the vocals. But she did occasionally participate in harmonies with her former husband by lending her voice to songs like “Rag and Bone” and “Cold, Cold Night.” Surprisingly, the pair continued to work together, producing their most influential albums between their divorce in 2000 and the band’s breakup earlier this year.

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Despite a three-year advance on James Murphy and his onceupon-a-band, sometime around 2006 it became impossible for The Rapture to escape its stigma as the poor man’s LCD Soundsystem.

It was, after all, James Murphy who exhibited the irony and selfdeprecating humor that made him painfully endearing. It was Murphy who created dance-punk with unparalleled hooks, meticulous attention to detail and an intentionally raw edge that gave albums punk-esque credibility.

But The Rapture’s Luke Jenner didn’t have that naturalborn charisma and overly developed ear. His songs were enjoyable, yet often jerky, insincere

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Stevie Wonder had his first UK No.1 with ‘I Just Called To Say I Love You.’ Taken from the film ‘Lady In Red’, it was 18 years after Wonder’s chart debut.

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and haphazard. Everything post “Echoes” seemed a bit unfinished. The Rapture was basically LCD Soundsystem’s schizophrenic younger brother.

They’re changing that.

Released Sept. 2, “In the Grace of Your Love” is the band’s attempt at higher art. No longer a synth-circus, Jenner spends his time examining love, loss and growth.

“Miss You” is a scintillating number with an opening drumline so abrupt it shakes you to the spine, all the while with Jenner singing open and honestly about his mother’s death. “Roller Coaster” is Talking Heads reminiscent new wave with soft synth undertones and haunting backup vocals.

However, the heart of the album lies in its first single, “How Deep is Your Love?” The

tone is set through a mouthwatering piano hook James Murphy would have wholeheartedly approved of, but it goes even deeper. “Your Love” is nightclub drama with sensual warmth clinging below the surface that comes clawing out via a sax solo four minutes in. It’s the song you can listen to over Cognac or Coke; theatrical, yet vulnerable.

“In the Grace of Your Love” shows maturity, appreciation for melody and honesty unfound in any other Rapture album. The band has given up trying to recapture the magic behind “Echoes,” and instead they’re letting loose and playing like themselves. “Grace” sounds like home.

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cially cruel. The title-track opener, though not incredible, nonetheless reveals itself to be a thoroughly enjoyable song, and it introduces an early sense of optimism. However, the following tracks quickly indicate that, in actuality, the vast majority of the album lies somewhere between nauseating and extremely boring.

Perhaps the most unfortunate aspect of “Seeds We Sow” is its excessiveness. Lindsey Buckingham works best with intricate, but stripped-down acoustic guitar, a skill that the album continuously neglects. There are only two tracks (“Seeds We Sow” and “She Smiled Sweetly”) that are recorded in that particular vein, and, not surprisingly, they’re the only decent tracks on the entire album. The rest of the album is incredibly overproduced, combining out-of-place electronics with weak attempts at rock anthem choruses. To make matters worse, even the

acoustic guitar parts feel processed and fake throughout most of the tracks. Instead of the rich, elegant guitar parts that have come to be expected from Buckingham, it sounds

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Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist disappoints in latest album

By Aaron Burstein Campus Correspondent It’s been said that you shouldn’t judge a book (or in this particular instance, an album) by its cover. However, for the cover for “Seeds We Sow,” Lindsey Buckingham’s most recent solo effort, it seems surprisingly appropriate. For those of you who haven’t seen it, it consists of a photo of Buckingham at his most corpse-like, as if he just died and the producers figured they might as well finish what they started by propping up the body with a guitar. Suffice to say “Seeds We Sow” is a cold and feeblesounding album.

To be perfectly honest, when it comes to classic rock legends, it’s usually no surprise to hear the quality of their output diminish with age. But in the case of the former Fleetwood Mac guitar god, this album feels espe-

classic rock icon, Buckingham doesn’t necessarily have to appeal to a current audience, but he should at least attempt to recreate what originally made him great. Instead,

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as if there’s no actual guitar, just a synthesizer set to imitate an acoustic guitar.

In addition to sounding completely lost in the studio, the songwriting provides few redeeming qualities. The content of the tracks is, for the most part, saccharine adult contemporary that sounds 20 years behind the times. As a

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Diamond, Streep among Ruling clears way for honorees at Kennedy Center start of Jackson trial

WASHINGTON (AP) – The good times never seemed so good for Neil Diamond.

Known for his songs that have become anthems at ballparks and bars, Diamond was chosen Wednesday to receive the Kennedy Center Honors this year along with some of the biggest names from Broadway, jazz, classical music and Hollywood.

Diamond will be honored with Broadway singer Barbara Cook, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, saxophonist Sonny Rollins and actress Meryl Streep for their contributions to American culture through the arts. President Barack Obama will salute the artists and others will perform in their honor at a ceremony at the Kennedy Center on Dec. 4. CBS will broadcast the show Dec. 27.

Diamond said he was "flying way above sea level" when he heard about the honor.

"I've watched, and I've seen, and I've even dreamed that someday that would happen to me," he told The Associated Press. "But I never really believed that it would."

Diamond said he used to get distracted when people sang along with him to hits like "Sweet Caroline," which was written for presidential daughter Caroline Kennedy who hosts the show.

"But I realized pretty quickly that it was a compliment, and I had no choice in the matter anyway, so I got with the program and just learned to love it," said Diamond, who earlier this year was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He said he's planning another U.S. tour next summer after performing abroad recently.

The 70-year-old Diamond also tweeted Wednesday that he was engaged to a woman named Katie – but wouldn't tell AP who she was so that she wouldn't "change her mind."

Streep, 62, has made more than 45 movies and has won two

Oscars in a career that spans from Shakespeare to ABBA with the movie "Mamma Mia!" Some of her biggest hits have come in recent years with "The Devil Wears Prada," ''Julie & Julia" and "It's Complicated." In the upcoming biopic "The Iron Lady," Streep will play British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

The actress said she is deeply honored by the Kennedy Center's nod and wishes her parents were alive to see it.

"All that education, allowance, tuition, voice lessons, summer jobs, scholarship application deadlines and loving care and discipline – all that they gave me, bore fruit in a way they never dreamed," she said in a statement.

George Stevens Jr., who created the honors and produces the show with his son Michael Stevens, said each of this year's honorees is the best at what they do. The heart of the show, he said, is exploring their lives through filmed tributes.

Ma is one of the best-known classical musicians, playing the cello since he was 4. He played for six U.S. presidents, including President John F. Kennedy and President Dwight D. Eisenhower at age 7 at a fundraiser to build a national cultural center that would later become the Kennedy Center.

In 2009, he played at Obama's inauguration and last year was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

The 55-year-old said he feels too young to be receiving such an award for lifetime achievements.

The son of Chinese parents who lived in Paris and moved to New York said some of his musical heroes have won the Kennedy Center Honors, including Mstislav Rostropovich and Leon Fleisher, so he was stunned to be joining their ranks. He said the honors are an important moment to nurture the arts each year.

"The whole nation gets

together to celebrate essentially the accomplishments of the human spirit," he told AP, adding that society needs political, economic and cultural engines to succeed.

"The cultural part encompasses the arts and sciences," he said. "That's the seed for actual creativity."

Rollins, who turned 81 on Wednesday, has shared the stage with Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, among others. He is one of the last surviving giants of jazz from the golden era of the late 1940s to the early 1960s.

"I definitely feel that this award is not so much for me as it is for some of the great, great jazz artists that preceded me," he said. "I'm very happy that it's an honor for jazz because I think jazz is such an important spiritual force all over the world."

As a lifelong New Yorker, Rollins would practice for hours at night on the Williamsburg Bridge, which connects Manhattan and Brooklyn. He could "play as loud as I want" and avoid disturbing his neighbors.

Cook, 83, made her Broadway debut in 1951 and later was cast in Leonard Bernstein's musical version of Voltaire's "Candide," which she considers the most difficult thing she's ever sang, and Meredith Wilson's 1957 hit musical "The Music Man," for which she won a Tony.

The Beatles later recorded the song she made popular, "Till There Was You." She returned to Broadway last year for "Sondheim on Sondheim" after spending years on her own concerts and solo albums.

Cook said she cried when she received the letter informing her of the Kennedy Center Honors.

"It's a kind of validation for me, for my whole life," she said. "Because when I sing, I put my whole life, the good part, the bad part, I put that into my work."

LOS ANGELES (AP) – An appeals court refused Wednesday to order the jury sequestered in the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray, clearing the way for jury selection to begin Thursday.

The California 2nd District Court of Appeals also declined to delay the trial while the issue is argued. The court found that Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor did not abuse his discretion when he decided not to sequester.

Defense lawyers had argued that jurors would be "poisoned" by publicity unless they were kept in isolation during the trial. The defense predicted that jurors will be inundated with reports in supermarkets, bars, gyms and coffee shops, and on

the Internet.

Pastor has said he trusts jurors to obey his orders to ignore publicity in the highprofile involuntary manslaughter case and declined to have them sequestered.

"The court has read and considered the petition," the brief court decision said. "The petition is denied in the absence of a showing of abuse of discretion."

In a separate ruling, Pastor gave the go ahead for a prosecution expert's testimony about a study of the drug that killed the pop star. But he delayed ruling on the admissibility of another study from Chile because it is apparently unpublished.

Defense lawyers say Jackson overdosed by drinking propofol when his doctor wasn't watch-

ing. Prosecutors say that was impossible. The drug is normally given intravenously.

The permitted study, which was published in Scandinavia, compares methods of administering propofol to piglets.

The second study by a noted Chilean anesthesiologist used volunteer students who drank propofol. Deputy District Attorney David Walgren said the report supports the opinion of prosecution expert Dr. Steven Shafer that "the rapid hepatic metabolism of propofol makes it impossible for Michael Jackson to have received a fatal overdose by drinking propofol."

He said that Shafer has submitted a written opinion that "there is zero possibility that the propofol was orally ingested."

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Big East-Beast?

PROVIDENCE (AP) —Doug Marrone, Charlie Strong, Skip Holtz, Butch Jones, Greg Schiano, Dana Holgorsen, Paul Pasqualoni and Todd Graham have something in common, and it's music to the ears of Big East commissioner John Marinatto as he tries to chart the best future path for the much-maligned conference.

All eight Big East football coaches have their teams at 1-0 after a week that saw the conference outscore its opponents, 304-100. Since it was formed in 1991, the Big East never before had a week when it started a season 8-0.

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"That's right. That's the first time," said Marinatto, who remains confident his league will survive amid all the talk about its eventual demise. "It's a 12-weeklong season and there's certainly a lot of football to be played. But it's obviously nice to be off to such a positive start.

"I'm excited."

Not one Big East team finished 2010 ranked in the Top 25. Not a good thing for a conference that's forever fighting for national respect.

And it's all about perception in college football, right?

"Last year, we were second (to the SEC) among all conferences in nonconference winning percentage," Marinatto said. "Five of our schools have won at least a share of the title in the last five years. All eight of our teams have played in at least one bowl game over the last two years, and all eight have won a bowl game in the last four years. That's something no other conference has accomplished.

"We've always felt good. It's just that sometimes, I guess, it's our society that likes to view things from a negative perspective."

Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe isn't one of them.

"Anytime you're a BCS conference, you've got good football. You're getting some of the better players in the country," said Grobe, whose Demon Deacons lost their season-opener in overtime at Syracuse. "If you go to any of the BCS conferences, you're not going to find a bad football team; you're

going to find good talent that's well-coached and all those things. The Big East is a good conference."

One week certainly doesn't make a season. And wins such as Rutgers' 48-0 shellacking of North Carolina Central of the FCS, Connecticut's 35-3 rout of FCS foe Fordham, Louisville's 21-9 win over FCS stalwart Murray State, or Cincinnati's 72-10 victory over Austin Peay, another FCS team, aren't exactly grounds to begin thinking about postseason glory.

Nonetheless, 8-0 is 8-0, and two Big East teams are in the Top 25.

"I'm happy for the conference," said Schiano, in his 11th year at Rutgers. "It's great for the league to start out that way. But in sports, we always draw conclusions and judgments way too soon. I think we'll be judged, as a conference, on our body of work at the end of the season, as everyone will."

South Florida had the signature victory, beating No. 16 Notre Dame, 23-20, on the road, and moved into the national rankings at No. 22. Other wins were by: West Virginia, which humbled in-state rival Marshall, 34-13, and moved up five spots to No. 19; Syracuse, which staged a stirring 22-0 rally over the final 11 minutes of regulation and overtime to beat Wake Forest, 32-29; and Pittsburgh, which outlasted Buffalo, 35-16.

"I think, early, it speaks volumes to sit here 8-0 with some of the wins we have. But I think it's still too early to tell as we go forward," said Holtz, in his second year with the Bulls. "But I keep saying, when you look at the out-of-conference record and the bowl record of this conference, it speaks volumes for the quality of play in this league, and the quality of coaching in this league.

"I think this conference is only going to get better and better as we turn and continue to move forward."

There's still some daylight for all those hecklers, though. They'll likely be quick to point out that Austin Peay is coming off a 2-9 season, has lost nine straight, and has had only 18 winning seasons in its 74 years of football. Or that Marshall is 0-11 against the Mountaineers and their game was called with 14:36 left in the fourth quarter because of severe weather.

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Packers, Saints set to kickoff

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Look past the towering rock concert stage that engulfs part of the Lambeau Field parking lot and there's a pair of massive banners depicting Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees hanging off the arena across the street.

Hotels will be full. Schools will close early. Coolers will be stocked and grills will be sizzling as a presidential speech goes largely ignored.

As Kid Rock warms up for a pregame concert, there will be no doubt that a bigger-thanbig game is hitting the NFL's smallest market.

Rodgers and Brees are the last two Super Bowl MVPs, leading the last two Super Bowl winners into Thursday night's opener. For the league, it's a chance to finally put away any lingering resentment from an offseason filled with ugly and tense — and ultimately successful — labor negotiations.

For the Saints and Packers, it's a chance to send an early message that they intend to contend again.

Greg Jennings said it feels kind of like a "mini Super Bowl," but Rodgers wasn't quite willing to go that far.

"It's a similar feel to a big game, a playoff game," Rodgers said. "I don't want to say the Super Bowl. There's a big atmosphere outside the stadium. But the only thing that matters is taking care of busi-

ness on the field."

Brees knows no big-picture objectives will be won or lost in the first week of the season.

"I'm sure we're going to get questions about future playoff implications and all that stuff about this game," Brees said.

"We see ourselves as a great team and as a contender. They see themselves as a great team and as a contender. The fact of the matter is it's one game and it just happens to be the first game of the season on a Thursday night on national television. But you just try to cut through all that and understand it's just a game, and it's just one game."

After last year's stunning playoff loss to Seattle prevented New Orleans from repeating, Brees knows firsthand about the scrutiny that comes after winning the Super Bowl.

"You lose a game or something like that, it's like people are just waiting for something bad to happen to your team so they can say, 'I told you so,'" Brees said. "There's pressure with that, and obviously the expectation level after winning the Super Bowl, the thought being that, 'Hey, there's no reason why we can't go do it again.' You just have to be careful that there's not a sense of entitlement there. It almost becomes even harder the next year because everybody's gunning for you."

What Brees doesn't know is

how the lockout will affect the Packers — or any other team, for that matter. The Saints got together for informal, teamwide workouts during the lockout, organized by Brees. The Packers didn't, and Rodgers and other Packers players have publicly dismissed those workouts as not being worthwhile.

"We tried to simulate as best we could a normal offseason, albeit it wasn't at our team facility and we had to make other arrangements on our own and do everything on our own," Brees said. "The hope was that that would be able to put us into a situation where we felt like we still had an offseason. ... It would feel like we were just going to training camp, just like we were every year, but we were a little bit ahead of the game and maybe would give us an edge."

The Saints are recommitting to the running game and have some new faces to make it happen. Reggie Bush is gone, but Pierre Thomas returns after being slowed by an ankle injury last season. He'll be joined by free agent addition Darren Sproles and first-round rookie Mark Ingram.

"There'll be plenty of touches not only for Pierre, but for Mark and Darren," Saints coach Sean Payton said. "And it's our job to mix those up and also to let the running back get comfortable and get in a rhythm when he's in the game."

led in the end zone for a safety.

What’s the consolation prize for finishing as runner up? A Week 1 date against another vicious SEC defense, LSU. As previously mentioned, James only had 54 yards on 18 carries Saturday for a weak three yards-per-carry average.

And the Ducks got hosed 40-27.

If there is a silver lining for James, however, it’s that he didn’t go all LeGarrette Blount on LSU and whack somebody in the face out of pure frustration. Look for the struggles to end and the junior to go off against Nevada this week, as the Wolf Pack’s front seven is about half as strong and fast as that of the Tigers.

R.G III is R.E.A.L. R.G III? Baylor’s junior QB Robert Griffin (the third). R.E.A.L? Really exciting as lightning, duh. TCU’s defense has been one of the best in college football the last three years, however, it seems as if no one told that to the dual-threat and future pro

Griffin. He went off, throwing for 359 yards and five scores in a big upset over the previously ranked Horned Frogs. Baylor jumped up to No. 20 in the latest AP poll, and they have Griffin to thank for that.

I can say I knew him before a lot of fans and experts, as in my junior year of high school my family and I made the four-hour trip up to UConn to see their opener against, you guessed it, the Baylor Bears.

UConn won the game, but it was this Griffin kid who really caught my eye with his elusiveness, vision, and overall charisma. R.G III’s stats in his first ever-collegiate game?

He threw for 208 yards passing and three touchdowns; he added another touchdown on the ground. I give my Dad a lot of credit for being the first to say Griffin was going to be a special player. He is kind of like this year’s version of Denard Robinson.

Notre Dame is a bad football team. Year in and year out, Notre Dame is the most overrated foot-

ball program in the sport. Based on their legacy, the Fighting Irish are ranked practically every time in the preseason top 25. Based on their actual play, they are usually unranked in the polls at the end of the year. A fiery coach who can’t seem to get his squad to play sound football, a quarterback fiasco and players who don’t know how to win are reasons for their demise.

Yes, they have all-world wide receiver Michael Floyd, but in an embarrassing loss to South Florida over the weekend ND had zero first half points and five turnovers.

And with a date in Ann Arbor this Saturday, an 0-2 hole is breathing down Brian Kelly’s neck.

Maryland needs new uniforms.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you’re not a college football fan. And I’m not just saying this because they stole our coach.

McCurry: Lots of excitement and storylines to behold from week one of college football

from SEVEN, page 14 open. More open than the holes in Auburn’s defense, that is.

Stanford’s Andrew Luck and Boise State’s Kellen Moore figure to be the favorites right now, but there are legitimately 10 or so candidates that have a shot. Oklahoma’s Landry Jones is on the same tier as the two gunslingers above, and the Sooners are ranked No. 1 in the country. LaMichael James, who finished third in the voting last year, was held up by cramps Saturday against LSU and actually had more receiving yards (61) than rushing (54). My sleepers? Southern Cal’s Matt Barkley, Baylor’s Robert Griffin III, and South Carolina’s Marcus Lattimore.

So is the Big East… Wide open that is, not a sleeper. Why not a sleeper you may ask? Because Big East champions have lost by a combined 68 points in the last

three BCS bowls. With one more chance for these eight schools before TCU comes in next year and dominates for the next decade and beyond, someone has to step up and take advantage of everyone else’s mediocrity, as UConn did last year. Who’s it going to be?

Well everyone’s 1-0, although I would give the most impressive win so far to South Florida for going into South Bend and showing Notre Dame who’s boss. Pitt and West Virgina will always be near the top, but neither have the explosive athletes on offense like they used to. Cincinatti dropped 72 against Austin Peay, and I’m pretty sure Rutgers played a high-school team. UConn is going to surprise a lot of people again because of their front seven, and look out for Cincinnati with quarterback Zach Collaros and runningback Isaiah Pead (87 yards, 2 TDs in Week 1).

Mother Nature is scary. The legendary Notre Dame stadium was

built in 1930, and it was not until this Saturday’s contest between ND and South Florida that a game had to be suspended due to a rainstorm. And it happened twice, for a total delay time of around three hours. Heavy rain and severe lighting were the culprits, as one bolt that was caught on camera struck right near the broadcast booth. The Michigan-Western Michigan and WVU-Marshall games were rain shortened, and in Morgantown fans and players alike had to wait an excruciating four hours, 22 minutes before Marshall and the officials decided to just give WVU the win. You almost never see this in football, and for it to happen multiple times in the same week is frightening.

Oregon could do without seeing SEC teams for a while. In last year’s national championship game against Auburn, LaMichael James scrapped up a mere 49 yards on the ground and was also tack-

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Padres make it tough on Giants

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Last season, the San Diego Padres were battling for the NL West title before losing out on the last day of the regular season to the eventual World Series champion San Francisco Giants.

One year later, the last-place Padres have to be content with spoiling the Giants' fading playoff hopes.

Aaron Harang threw seven strong innings and Cameron Maybin had two Padres hits and an RBI as San Diego avoided Giants a three-game sweep with a 3-1 victory Wednesday night.

The Giants, who have 19 games left, trail NL West-leading Arizona by seven games after the Diamondbacks beat Colorado 5-3 on Wednesday night. San Diego (62-81) trails Arizona by 20 games.

"That's the kind of intensity we have to bring

day in and day out, no matter where we are in the standings," Maybin said. "We can make it tough on guys who come in here or if we are on the road, just not lay down."

The intensity certainly showed on Maybin's sensational face-first catch against the fence in left-center field on the first batter of the game.

"The guys made some good plays 3 from the first hitter of the game that of set the tone," Harang said. "It 1 kind showed the intensity and excitement level that was going to happen."

San Francisco rookie Brett Pill homered for a second straight game after he hit a home run Tuesday night in his first major league at-bat.

Will Venable had a solo homer and scored twice, while Maybin doubled and tripled in a run in the ninth.

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Callahan: Sports transcend escape and entertainment, draw parallels to life itself from BETTER THAN, page 14 occasionally blurt out ‘Wow’?

Professional and collegiate games are usually just what we need as top-notch entertainment that serves both as simple distraction and complex, exhilarating thrill.

In fact, some of those who are as embedded in sports as this ink is in this page would agree.

A wise, aged writer by the name of Joe Posnanski was asked this summer by his editor at Sports Illustrated to discover the ‘deep, mystifying, surreal meaning of baseball’.

In Posnanski’s travels, he paid a cordial visit to Los Angeles to see one Vin Scully, another wise and wonderful man, who in his 63rd year of broadcasting the game, answered him with this: “Dreams and escape,” Scully, who knows the diamond and all it’s intricacies as well as anyone, had succinctly pared down the game into two simple ideas; dreams for the children growing up and escape for the adults who suffer the troubles of day-to-day life. The voice of baseball had spoken and like many times before, spoken so damn eloquently.

There was only one problem – Scully was very, very wrong.

Sure, the Dodger legend was solely speaking about what he knows and surely knows better than almost anyone else – baseball. And, this discussion between the two of us has covered and will continue to cover the entire breadth of sport. But how, just how on God’s green earth could that ever be the case – no matter what the game?

Here’s what I mean: Think of every major newspaper in this country, in every state and every city- you name it. That paper prints anywhere from four to eight sections in an issue per day, trying to give readers a well-rounded update on the important events in the world around them. Every one of those includes a sports

section of some kind. That’s countless dollars, hours and loads of nonreturnable effort and resources spent just to tell millions of people about sports.

Here’s also what I mean: In these cities where the sports sections are printed, millions and millions of taxpayer dollars are routinely and willingly spent on stadiums to house the professional sport teams that make citizens proud. Or is the feeling only pride?

Here’s finally what I mean: At some point in your hometown, a little boy once became a sad casualty from either a nasty divorce, poverty or family tragedy. But thanks to structure of youth sport groups such as Little League, the guidance from his high school coaches and later college sports, he went on to enjoy full, healthy life sprung by an athletic scholarship.

How could all of that be even plausible if sports were purely entertainment and unattainable fantasies? Simply put, they’re not.

There’s more to them than escape, there’s more than dreams – there’s life and good.

For instance –competition is the absolute and bare essence of sports, correct? Well, take a second to think of what the foundation of a capitalist society, such as our own, is.

Next – What do you hear most often preached in team sport competitions? Trust, loyalty, passion, selflessness and brotherhood. These are ingredients for success whether you’re scoring in the classroom, business world or on the field.

Next – Sports give us identity. Who do you root for? Whose side are you on? Your ‘fanhood’ can be determined by any number of things, but regardless of the reason, you own it and you belong to something bigger than yourself. Sound familiar organization members?

Next – They’re real. There is no script and the emotion is raw. Every time two teams or competitors face off, a brand new story is written from

scratch, just like the course of a day.

Next – They bring out the best in us and give us glimpses of human greatness. Some people flock to be inspired by pieces in the Louvre, others to the sites of ancient monuments; Well, I head to the modern day ones that house some of the greatest athletes in the world who truly show me what giving 100 percent is all about.

Next – They give us something to share and unify over.

Complete strangers come together and go absolutely bonkers during the big game simply to cheer on their team.

In times of trouble, people look to constants in their life and things that bring them joy – sports satisfy both of those.

Last – The world of sports may even be better than the one you and I live in because its a fair one. Anyone, from any background, class or group has a fair shot. What he or she does with it is up to them.

Let me be clear about one thing – temporary escape and chasing dreams are a part of the ultimate meaning of sports and a very important part at that. But the two are not the entire package.

Indeed, pinning down exactly the meaning of sports is like pinning down a cloud, but there’s no doubting that sports are woven directly into the fabric of life and not just as an avenue out of it.

Now I can’t tell you why you watch sports. I can’t even tell you that you do. But what I can tell you is this: Sports are societies, billion-dollar businesses, hopes, dreams and suffering. They’re home to the underdog, instant joy to the masses, gigantic parades and bridges that repair relationships broken long ago.

They offer life lessons, ancient history, drama, courage and are a part of who we are. The reason we can’t escape is because there’s no way of escaping ourselves. And you know, looking back on all these things, I don’t think I’d ever want to.

Andrew.J.Callahan@UConn.edu

Football prepares for Vanderbilt on Saturday from QUARTERBACK, page 14 Miami Dolphins, he kept hearing that there hadn’t been a great quarterback there since Dan Marino. In Dallas with the Cowboys, he said it was the same old story, except with Troy Aikman.

QUICK HITS Pasqualoni expects it to be loud and hot in Nashville, come 7:30 PM on Saturday. The Commodores are 1-0 on the season after a 45-14 win over Elon at home under head coach James Frankin.

Like Pasqualoni, Franklin is in his first year with the program. Franklin left Maryland after 10 years as an assistant there to become head coach of Vanderbilt. Franklin was the head coach-in waiting with the Terrapins, but still accepted the

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SEC job with the Commodores. touchdowns and 141 yards in Pasqualoni has turned up the Shoemate’s absence, but the intensity in pracSouthern Cal transtice, saying each fer was quick to say week’s practices the starting running have an integral back is not his decipart in building a sion or his concern. team’s identity.

“Honestly, with “We try to make rehab, our main that tempo we focus right now practice with part is trying to get as of who we are,” close to 100 perPasqualoni said. cent as possible,” Senior tailback AP Shoemate said.

D.J. Shoemate, Senior tailback D.J. Shoemate.

Pasqualoni who missed the was asked about opener with a Maryland’s new sprained ankle, should be avail- uniforms, which were debuted able this weekend.

Monday night against Miami, FL. “D.J. was encouraging “I thought those uniforms [Monday],” Pasqualoni said. probably created a buzz on cam“I’m optimistic he’ll be able to pus,” he said. go Saturday.”

Lyle McCombs ran for four Matthew.McDonough@UConn.edu

Will this finally be the year the Jets win the AFC East? from WHO WILL, page 14 a 5-foot-8-inch guy with short arms and a slow 40 time is smoking NFL defenses for huge receptions). The Patriots have a young defense that would benefit from some more veteran leaders and both Ochocinco and Hanyesworth will excel in a system where the coach gets them to use their huge physical talents.

Darryl: Randy Moss is a moot point for you because the time he spent on the Vikings made him a clearly established elite receiver long before he got into Belichick’s hands. Ochocinco and Haynesworth may already be established as well in this case, but they are most assuredly on a major decline. Haynesworth was abysmal for the Redskins and Ochocinco is slowing down dramatically, only recording four touchdowns last year while only breaking 1,000 receiving yards once in the last three years.

He’s definitely no longer an elite receiver.

And when it comes to head-to-head competition, there’s too much advantage to the Jets secondary vs. Ochocinco and Welker. After all, Ochocinco has a history of being absolutely demolished by Revis (YouTube provides some pretty solid evidence of this) and Cromartie can do fine on Welker with some help from Leonhard in the safety spot. Revis can also guard Welker if need be. Pick your poison. This advantage comes when head-to-head could very well decide the division.

Aaron: Don’t forget the 45-3 whipping the

Pats gave the Jets last season. It’s still anyone’s game. You might shut down Ochocinco and Welker, but who’s going to cover Deion Branch or Brandon Tate, or any of the three tight ends who get big receiving yards routinely. This team is just too stacked on offense to fall to a defense that will blitz frequently enough to make the game essentially a oneon-one coverage challenge for the secondary.

If you’re wearing a Patriots Uniform, Tom Brady will get you the ball. And by the way, Ochocinco’s value is his speed over the top, something the Pats have been lacking, and opening up the field like that will give Tom Terrific acres of open space across the middle to toss the ball to all the receivers the Jets can’t man up on.

Darryl: It’s hard to not forget that game when it really didn’t matter because the Jets wouldn’t have won the division anyway and they won the game that actually did matter, the divisional round in the playoffs, to round off taking two of three from the all-mighty Patriots.

The Jets blitzing habits creating one-on-one coverage is hardly a weakness. It’s actually the entire basis of their consistently top five defense because their corners are talented enough to matchup in one-on-one scenarios.

Not just against the Patriots, but against every team they face. We’ll see how Tom Terrific does against them. You better hope he’s done having nightmares about the playoffs.

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Encarnacion’s 5 RBI lift Blue Jays over Red Sox

TORONTO (AP) — Edwin Encarnacion hit a tiebreaking double in the eighth inning and the Toronto Blue Jays rallied to deny Tim Wakefield his 200th career win, beating the Boston Red Sox 11-10 Wednesday night.

Toronto trailed 8-6 heading into the eighth against Daniel Bard (2-6), who opened the inning by hitting Brett Lawrie and giving up a single to Adam Loewen, the former pitcher’s first career hit. J.P. Arencibia walked before Bard struck out Dewayne Wise and caught Yunel Escobar looking. But the Blue Jays tied it when Bard issued back-to-back walks to Eric Thames and Jose Bautista.

Matt Albers came on and gave up a three-run double to Encarnacion.

Encarnacion went 2 for 4 with a Toronto sacrifice fly and matched a career- Boston high with five RBIs. Shawn Camp (4-3) pitched one inning for the win and Frank Francisco survived a two-run ninth to record his 13th save in 17 chances.

Adrian Gonzalez led off the ninth with his 24th home run and David Ortiz singled, took second on a grounder and scored on a two-out hit by Marco Scutaro before pinch runner Mike Aviles was thrown out trying to steal second Jacoby Ellsbury homered and finished with four hits and Ortiz also went deep, but the Red Sox couldn’t give Wakefield his first win since July 24 against Seattle.

Wakefield allowed five runs, four earned, and three hits in five innings. He walked three and struck out three.

The Red Sox gave Wakefield an early lead by scoring three times in the first against Brandon Morrow. Kevin Youkilis was hit by a

pitch with the bases loaded and Scutaro hit a two-run single to center.

Toronto answered with a run in the bottom half on Encarnacion’s sacrifice fly, then tied it on J.P. Arencibia’s two-run drive to center in the second.

The homer was Arencibia’s 21st of the season, the most in a single season by a Blue Jays catcher. John Buck hit 20 homers for Toronto in 2010.

The Blue Jays took a 5-3 lead by scoring twice in the third. Eric Thames was hit by a pitch, took second on a wild pitch and scored on Jose Bautista’s double. Two outs later, Brett Lawrie walked and Bautista stole third. Then, when Lawrie stole 11 second, Bautista broke for home on 10 catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia’s throw to second, sliding in ahead of a wide return throw from shortstop Scutaro.

Bautista is the first player to steal home and hit at least 40 homers in the same season since Adam Dunn did it with Cincinnati in 2004.

Boston reclaimed the lead with a four-run fourth. Josh Reddick hit an RBI double and Ellsbury drilled a three-run blast to right, his 25th.

Ortiz made it 8-5 with a solo shot to right in the fifth, his 29th.

Morrow (9-11) left after Youkilis followed with a single. The right-hander allowed eight runs and eight hits in 4 1-3 innings.

Toronto cut it to 8-6 against Dan Wheeler in the seventh when Escobar hit a leadoff double and scored on a two-out base hit by Encarnacion.

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» NFL

Browns counting on QB Colt McCoy

BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Colt McCoy wears No. 12. For the Cleveland Browns, he’s also No. 10.

It’s a number they’d like to stay stuck on.

On Sunday against Cincinnati, McCoy will become the 10th different quarterback to start a season opener for the Browns since 1999, an astonishing statistic and perhaps the single biggest reason the franchise has failed miserably during an expansion era of losses. McCoy follows Ty Detmer, Tim Couch, Kelly Holcomb, Jeff Garcia, Trent Dilfer, Charlie Frye, Derek Anderson, Brady Quinn and Jake Delhomme as quarterbacks to begin the year as Cleveland’s starter.

“I hope it stays like this for a while,” McCoy said Wednesday.

In the NFL, quarterback consistency is vital to success. With a revolving door at the game’s most important position, it’s no wonder the Browns have only made the playoffs once and lost at least 10 games nine times in 12 years. Cleveland has been searching for a leader to guide them from the dismal darkness and back to respectability.

McCoy, who showed grit and toughness in eight starts in 2010, just might be the one.

And this season, anyway, he’ll get the chance to succeed or fail.

McCoy’s rise from thirdround draft pick to starter happened quickly.

Rewind to last season’s opener. The former Texas star was a raw, out-of-sight, out-of-mind rookie running Cleveland’s scout team in practice. While Delhomme and backup Seneca Wallace took all the snaps, McCoy stood to the side waiting and wondering if his time would ever come.

Buried on the depth chart, McCoy was inactive when the Browns traveled to Tampa Bay in Week 1. But things changed in a hurry. Delhomme severely sprained his ankle against the Buccaneers, Wallace went down with same injury in Week 5, and suddenly McCoy was thrust into a starting role few believed he was ready to handle.

“He was kind of thrown into the fire,” Browns firstyear coach Pat Shurmur said.

His personal inferno began in Pittsburgh, where McCoy made his first career start against the Steelers and in front of their Terrible Towelwaving fans. The night before the game, McCoy stood up at a meeting and told his teammates not to worry, he was ready to handle the job.

Browns cornerback Sheldon

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McCoy enters his second year in the NFL, after being drafted in the 3rd round out of Texas.

Brown feared for McCoy. “I thought, this poor kid,” Brown said. “I hope he’s praying.”

But McCoy proved he belonged, completing 23 of 33 passes for 281 yards despite being sacked five times and pressured numerous others.

It was there, at the confluence of Pittsburgh’s three rivers that many of Cleveland’s players became convinced they had found their leader – at last.

“He wasn’t scared,” Brown said. “That’s one of the toughest defenses in the National Football League and he went in there and he held his own.

Then we put him in there against New Orleans, New England. Go back to some of the games he played and you look at his aura on the field and his demeanor, you just know that if you surround him with the players that can make plays for him — he’s not going to turn the ball over, he’s going to make the correct reads and the better part is, if he makes those mistakes, he’ll work his tail off to fix it.

“That’s when you know you have a guy.”

Shurmur thinks so, too.

Cleveland’s fifth coach since ‘99, Shurmur has been impressed with everything about McCoy. During the labor lockout, it was McCoy who organized practices in Austin, Texas. At those workouts, dubbed “Camp Colts” by his teammates, McCoy and the Browns took their first initial steps in learning Shurmur’s West Coast offense, a passer friendly system the team feels perfectly suits McCoy’s accurate – if not strong – right arm.

McCoy also took it upon himself to visit Brett Favre, hoping a few days in Mississippi picking the brain of the former league MVP would help him better understand the new offense. McCoy came to camp prepared and then played extremely well in Cleveland’s three exhibition games.

“He basically did what we wanted and now the next step is to do it for 60 minutes in a regular-season game,” Shurmur said. “He has been passing the tests as we’ve gone along, and Sunday will be the next test.”

McCoy has done his homework.

“Now is where it counts,” he said.

Composed whether he’s calling a play in the huddle, facing a blitz or surrounded by cameras at his locker, McCoy insists he’s not feeling any added pressure as he embarks on his second season as a pro. A coach’s son, this is what he’s been groomed to do since he was a kid.

Now is when the fun starts.

“I’ve come a long ways,” McCoy said. “But I’ve still got plenty of work to do, no question. This team is ready to start, ready for the regular season. This is where it starts counting. For us, we’ve put in a lot of hours, a lot of time.

We’ve worked hard together, now I think we kind of know some of the things we’re good at, some of the things we’re not as good at. Those things we’ll keep working on. But I think we’re ready to put a plan together and go see what happens.”

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Home: Rentschler Field, East Hartford Sept. 10 Vanderbilt 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 16 Iowa State 8 p.m.

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

Sept. 11 Southern Methodist 12:30 p.m.

Sept. 16 BU 7 p.m.

The Daily Question Q : “Will Randy Moss play in the NFL this season?”

A : “Only if Brett Favre does. Go Vikings!”

Oct. 8 West Virginia Noon

Oct. 15 South Florida TBA

Sept. 20 Boston College 7 p.m.

Sept. 24 St. John’s 7:30 p.m.

Next Paper’s Question:

“What is the best game in college football this weekend?”

» That’s what he said

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“We were kind of up and down for a while and are now starting to hit our stride.”

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Sept. 11 Harvard 1 p.m.

Sept. 15 Syracuse 7 p.m.

Sept. 18 St. John’s 7 p.m.

Sept. 23 Louisville 7 p.m.

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Streak Snapped

Sept. 18 Boston College 2 p.m.

Sept. 24 Providence 1 p.m.

Field Hockey (3-0) Sept. 10 Albany NY Noon

Sept. 11 Drexel 2 p.m.

Sept. 17 Villanova Noon

Volleyball (4-3) Tomorrow Fairfield 4:30 p.m.

Sept. 10 Indiana State 10 a.m.

Sept. 10 Sept. 16 Sept. 17 New Chattanooga Virginia Hampshire 4 p.m.

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Men’s Tennis Sept. 11 Sept. 16 Fairfield Dbls. Brown Invitational Invitational All Day All Day

Sept. 17 Brown Invitational All Day

Sept. 18 Brown Invitational All Day

Sept. 21 Siena 3 p.m.

Women’s Tennis Sept. 11 Sept. 16 Fairfield Dbls. Quinnipiac Invitational Invite All Day All Day

Sept. 17 Quinnipiac Invite All Day

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Sept. 18 Sept. 23 Quinnipiac Army Invite Invitational All Day All Day

Men’s Cross Country Sept. 24 Oct. 8 Oct. 15 Oct. 21 Sept. 17 Ted Owens New England Conn. College CCSU Mini UMass Invite Invite Champ.

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Meet TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA

Women’s Cross Country Sept. 10 Bryant Invite.

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Sept. 24 Roy Griak Invite.

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Sept. 24 Ted Owen Invite.

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Oct. 8 New Englands TBA

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Golf Sept. 19-20 Sept. 26-27 Oct. 10-11 Oct. 15-16 Oct. 30 Adams Cup Hawks Connecticut Shelter Kiwah Island of Newport Invitational Cup Harbor All Day 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

Oct. 29 Head of the Fish All Day

Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning looks on from the sideline during an NFL preseason game.

Manning will not play in the season opener at Houston, bringing an end to his streak of 227 consecutive starts.

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Gload’s hit lifts Phils over Braves 3-2

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Women’s Soccer (2-2-0) Tomorrow Boston University 7 p.m.

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

–Laz Pittman, 5th-semester civil engineering major

-Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander after picking up his 22nd win, the 81st overall for Detroit.

Men’s Soccer (3-0-0) Tomorrow Tulsa 8:35 p.m.

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pinch-hitter Ross Gload hit an RBI single with one out in the bottom of the ninth and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Atlanta Braves 3-2 Wednesday night to complete a three-game sweep and extend their lead to 10½ games in the NL East.

The major league-leading Phillies (91-48) reduced their magic number to 12 for clinching their fifth straight division title. They are 43 games above .500 for the first time in franchise history.

Second-place Atlanta still should reach the postseason barring a late collapse. The Braves entered 7½ games ahead of St. Louis and San Francisco in the wild-card race.

It may be a costly win for the Phillies because five-time All-Star Chase Utley left the game for precautionary reasons for a possible concussion, two innings after he was hit in the helmet by a pitch from Eric O’Flaherty.

Raul Ibanez drew a one-out walk off Peter Moylan (1-1) in the ninth. Carlos Ruiz followed with a single to left. Gload then ripped a hard grounder down the right-field line to score Ibanez.

Ryan Madson (4-2) pitched a scoreless ninth to earn the win after Roy Oswalt tossed seven strong innings.

The Phillies are cruising toward October in a season when only a World Series title would be considered a success. They need 11 wins in the last 23 games to set a single-season franchise record.

Down 2-1, the Phillies rallied against AllStar Jonny Venters in the eighth. Pinch-hitter John Mayberry Jr. led off with a single. He moved to second on a sacrifice and scored on Placido Polanco’s two-out single to right.

Oswalt took a no-hitter into the sixth. He gave up two runs and four hits. The righty had seven strikeouts and a season-high four walks.

Braves starter Brandon Beachy allowed one run and two hits, striking out seven in 5 2-3 innings.

The Braves took their first lead of the series on pinch-hitter Freddie Freeman’s bad-hop RBI single in the seventh. Jason Heyward led off with a single and advanced to second on a sacrifice. Freeman followed with a grounder up the middle that hit the grass cutout and took a high hop over second baseman Utley’s head.

Oswalt didn’t allow a hit until Michael Bourn led off the sixth with a double to left-center. One out later, Bourn scored on Chipper Jones’ single up the middle to tie it at 1.

Ibanez gave the Phillies a 1-0 lead when he ripped one out to deep right-center for his 18th homer and 250th in his career.

No timetable for Pens’ Crosby

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney Crosby remains confident he’ll play hockey again.

When remains a mystery.

The Pittsburgh Penguins star said Wednesday he’s continuing to recover from concussion-like symptoms that have sidelined him since last January, adding it’s “likely” he’ll return to play this season.

Yet the 24-year-old former MVP remains adamant he won’t don his familiar No. 87 jersey until he’s back at full strength.

“Maybe I can get by with 90 percent, maybe I couldn’t but I’m not going to roll the dice with that,” he said.

Flanked by Pittsburgh general manager Ray Shero and the two doctors who have carefully monitored his progress after sustaining blows to the head in consecutive games nine months ago, Crosby shot down speculation he’s considering retirement.

While acknowledging there’s a “slight chance” he may never play again, Crosby quickly added “I wouldn’t bet on that.”

Guessing when arguably the game’s greatest player will consider himself at full speed is an equally risky proposition.

Dr. Michael Collins likened Crosby to a Ferrari. Sure, Crosby can go out and skate.

He just can’t do the things he wants to do without experiencing a recurrence of the issues that have plagued him since January.

“Sid’s 100 percent is different than anybody else’s,” Collins said.

Crosby’s symptoms have included “fogginess” that at times made it difficult for him to drive or watch television. He’s also endured painful migraines and likened the recovery process to a roller coaster. The

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Crosby takes the ice on January 5th, 2011 in the first period of a game against the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning.

good days far outnumber the bad ones, but the bad ones aren’t gone completely.

“I’m lucky,” Crosby said. “I feel like I’m in pretty good shape and on the right end of this right now.”

Doctors don’t anticipate the symptoms having any long-term effect on his dayto-day life, with Dr. Ted Carrick calling it “Christmas for Sid Crosby and the people that care for him.”

The true test of his hockey future won’t be determined until he gets hit for the first time in a real game. That will likely be months considering it’s still uncertain when he can begin practicing with his teammates.

“We’re going to introduce contact with Sid very carefully,” Collins said, “and we’re not even close to that.”

Crosby has spent the summer working out in Canada and undergoing various tests to his vestibular system, which is directly tied to a human’s movement and sense of balance. Crosby struggled with those tests shortly after his diagnosis and Carrick said only recently has Crosby shown progress when contact of any kind is involved.

Contact is going to be unavoidable whenever he comes back, though Crosby is hoping the NHL will take steps to crack down on head shots like the two that put his career in jeopardy.

» INSIDE SPORTS TODAY

P.13: Penguins’ Crosby still without timetable / P.12: Blue Jays come back to knock off Red Sox. / P.11: A big week for the Big East.

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Better than dreams, more than escape

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QUARTERBACK QUANDRY

Pasqualoni details quarterback situation to press

By Matt McDonough Sports Editor

Andrew Callahan

With the quarterback competition still undecided, UConn football coach Paul Pasqualoni gave some insight as to whom he would call his perfect quarterback.

“Aaron Rodgers,” the first-year coach said, citing the Green Bay Packers’ quaterback’s ability to throw in the pocket, move within the pocket and throw, scramble outside the pocket, reset and throw along with his ability to run the football.

When told of his coach’s ideal quarterback, Scott McCummings was asked if he could play as well as Rodgers.

“Oh my god, I wish,” McCummings said.

After McCummings, Johnny McEntee and Mike Nerbrich saw time under center in the Huskies’ 35-3 win over Fordham, the quarterback trio is still in a competition for the starting job.

“It’s a friendly competition, everyone’s still out there laughing,” McCummings said.

It’s possible all three will see playing time again Saturday at Vanderbilt at 7:30 p.m. Although Pasqualoni said he liked what he saw from the field generals against the Rams, there was plenty of room for improvement, with footwork being one of the things to work on.

“The game wasn’t too big for any of the three of them,” Pasqualoni said. “They handled it well.”

The first-year coach said he was concerned with the constant changing of quarterbacks affecting the exchange with the center, referring to McCummings tripping over center Moe Petrus’s leg at the goal line against Fordham. He is still patient in naming the right quarterback to start.

“Great quarterbacks are hard to find,” Pasqualoni said.

Pasqualoni said after Donovan McNabb left Syracuse, the critics said each starting quarterback that followed wasn’t as good at McNabb.

When Pasqualoni became an assistant with the

Quick- don’t think about giraffes. Don’t you dare think about giraffes. Ok, got it? You set?

Well, I’m sorry, but you’ve actually been set up.

You see, what I just asked you to do has been scientifically proven to be humanly impossible. For during the split-second you read the printed word above, there was no chance of escaping your immediate thought of a giraffe.

Now of course, some things in life don’t need to be read in order to be proven inescapable, they just are— basic survival needs, turning on the radio only to hear incessantly about Katy Perry’s Friday activities and suffering morning ache after a Friday night well spent yourself.

In fact, I’d even venture to throw in one more— the idea that not a single one of us has a chance to get away from all that makes up the concept of sport.

Yet, interestingly enough, isn’t that what we’ve accepted sports for in the first place—a form of escape? You know, time to get away from our daily trials and tribulations, just to relax and

» CALLAHAN, page 12

Seven-up for College Football

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Coach Paul Pasqualoni paces the sidelines in the Huskies’ home opener, a 35-3 victory over Fordham. He later lauded the efforts of his three quarterbacks.

» FOOTBALL, page 12

» QUICK HITS

Former Husky reaches IAAF finals

By Mike McCurry NCAA Football Columnist Let’s face it: college football’s offseason was filled with more commotion and turmoil than an episode of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.” Ohio State’s players gave away Big 10 Championship memorabilia in exchange for tattoos, Oregon’s star corner Cliff Harris was caught driving 118 mph with a suspended license, and LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson kicked an innocent man in the head at a Baton Rouge bar called Shady’s last week. And I could write a book on the mess that is Miami.

Bottom line is, it was an offseason to forget. Luckily for us though, the opening weekend of college football was one for the ages, with questionable uniforms, stingy defenses and mother nature’s own meddling.

Here are seven things I’ve learned from Week 1: The Heisman race is wide-

By Mac Cerullo Managing Editor

Former UConn women’s track and field standout Phylicia George recently competed in the 13th IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, where she finished in seventh place overall in the 100m hurdles.

George reached the finals by upsetting the No. 2 ranked hurdler in the world, Kellie Wells, in the semifinals with a personal best time of 12.73. Once in the finals, however, George struggled and wound up Phylicia George. with a time of 17.97.

Women’s cross country sophomore Lauren Sara was named the Big East Female Athlete of the Week Tuesday after taking first

» MCCURRY, page 11

place at last Friday’s CCSU Blue Devil Invite.

Sara finished with a personal best of 17:10. She is only the second women’s cross country athlete in program history to earn the accolade.

The volleyball team’s Jordan Kirk was named to the Big East weekly honor roll after her performance in last weekend’s UConn Toyota Classic.

Kirk was named the tournament’s MVP after collecting 35 kills and 20 digs over the weekend. This Tuesday, Kirk tallied a career-high 17 kills in a losing effort against Sacred Heart.

On the pitch, men’s soccer forward Mamadou Doudou Diouf was named the Big East Offensive Player of the Week after leading the Huskies to a 2-1 win over

Michigan State and then a dominating 4-1 win over No. 7 California.

Diouf scored four goals in the two games, including a hat trick against Cal. It was the first hat trick by a UConn men’s soccer player since current senior Tony Cascio pulled the trick against South Florida last season on Sept. 24, 2010.

For the women, goalie Jessica Dulski was named to the Big East Honor Roll for the second week in a row. Dulski recorded 22 saves over the weekend against two nationally ranked teams. She made 11 saves against No. 15 Wake Forest in a 2-1 UConn win, and then made five more against No. 25 Virginia Tech in a 1-0 UConn loss.

Field hockey senior Kim Krzyk was named the Big East Defensive Player of the Week after she scored the gamewinning goal in Sunday’s 2-1 overtime win over No. 8 Penn State. In addition to her goal, which was the first of her career, she also tallied an assist in last week’s 4-2 win over No. 14 Stanford.

Redshirt junior defensive end Teddy Jennings made his first career start during last Saturday’s game against Fordham after usual starter Jesse Joseph could not play due to injury.

Jennings made the most of his opportunity, recording eight tackles, including 2.5 for a loss.

Former UConn football star Darius Butler was cut by the New England Patriots on Tuesday. Butler was a standout defensive back in college who graduated in 2009 and was drafted in the second round by the Patriots.

In two years with the Patriots, he played in 28 games. In his rookie year, he started five games, recording three interceptions, including one that he returned 91-yards for a touchdown.

“Its been real New England. I was blessed to have a chance to play and start my NFL career here,” Butler said in a tweet. “But its time to open a new chapter. Thx #patsnation.”

The more you know.

Michael.Cerullo@UConn.edu

Which team will win the AFC East this NFL season?

New England Patriots

By Aaron Dick Campus Correspondent The Patriots have always been the dominant force in the AFC East and talk by a bombastic coach will never change that. The Jets have a streaky, spotty team that wins games through a mixture of intimidation and infrequent flashes of brilliance. “The Patriot Way” is a consistent and focused winning strategy that will only be made stronger by the addition of Chad Ochocinco and a maturing defense.

Will Brady’s bunch take first place again...

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» POINT/COUNTERPOINT Aaron: Rex Ryan has made it clear this season that he intends to move away from the run-first strategy that has served the Jets well in the past two seasons in favor of a pass-heavy approach with the goal of using former pro bowlers Plaxico Burress and Santonio Holmes for a vertical, aerial attack. This won’t work. A run-first team can’t just decide to change their entire game plan just because they’ve added some veteran receivers.

Anyone who disagrees should check out some stats from last year filed under “Cincinnati Bengals, Entire last season of.”

Darryl: That doesn’t mean they are going to abandon the run altogether. In fact, knowing offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer, the Jets offense will still run more than 50 percent run plays. Rex Ryan

has stated that there will be more emphasis on passes than in years past, but that should be fine considering the leaps and bounds QB Mark Sanchez has grown by his more-than-solid receiving core. What should be more concerning to you is the fact that the Pats are investing in the has-been receiver Chad Ochocinco and “me first” guys like Albert Haynesworth to have success.

Aaron: Bill Belichick has a talent for taking “me first” and has-beens and making them great. Randy Moss was always a me-first kind of guy until he spent some time in New England. He’s a genius at using people for their talents (which, incidentally, is part of the reason why Wes Welker,

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New York Jets

By Darryl Blain Campus Correspondent

The Jets will win the AFC East this year. The main focus of the team, quarterback Mark Sanchez, has continued to mature throughout his time in the NFL and the defense is still as solid as it has ever been.

Cornerback Darrelle Revis has also shown through the end of last year and training camp that he is the best in the league.

Last year the Jets took two out of three from the Patriots and the tides are clearly shifting in the division. The days of New England dominating the AFC East year in and year out are seemingly over.

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... or will the Jets make a divisional stand?

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