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USplash draws hundreds to Fairfield Way

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Monday, September 9, 2013

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UConn Empower gathers students at Homer Babbidge, says ‘all of Fairfield Way is your party’

By Domenica Ghanem Campus Correspondent

A CAPELLA RUSH CONCERT EXPANDS VENUES Eight student a cappella groups show off their talents.

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BEANTOWN BEATDOWN DaGraca’s first career goal lifts UConn over BU.

Sunday afternoon hundreds of students gathered at Fairfield Way for an enormous water balloon fight.

The atmosphere was more like a party than a fundraiser as DJs Manni and Shmallen blasted dance music in the circle.

Students came from every part of campus wearing shirts sold by hosts UConn Empower that said, “get wet” on the front and “got splashed” on the back.

Two teams gathered to compete as the green team made their way in front of Rowe while the orange team took their position in front of Homer Babbidge.

Empower members got the crowd pumped, chanting “Huskies” and “UConn” into megaphones.

“I’m so proud of UConn Empower,” said Isha Raval, a 5th-semester physiology and neurobiology and allied health major, “I had a random idea in the middle of the night and they

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In this Sept. 8, 2013, photo, UConn students participated in the foam event following the USplash’s water balloon fight on Fairfield Way, where several hundred students participated in the event.

made it happen.”

Empower members worked from 8:30 a.m. filling balloons with 29 spigots.

The event, planned for 2:30, took off a few minutes prematurely. Students started throwing water balloons before the sched-

uled time and were out of balloons about three minutes later.

“I thought it was a lot of fun, but they could’ve prepped better; it was over real quick,” said Carl Costa, a 1st-semester biology major.

Logan Horbal, a 1st-semes-

time students have lived in the inn. For several years now, Nathan Hale has offered a student plan, which resembles an extended stay hotel reservation.

The plan is quite attractive to students, especially those who will only be on campus for one semester. For an extended stay reduced rate, students receive a comfortably furnished hotel room with electricity, water, heat, Internet, cable, room service, biweekly cleaning, and access to a pool and fitness center as well as freedom from a yearlong lease.

This year, the 17 rooms rented by UConn house 40 freshmen in triples as well as one R.A. The other nine rooms, located on the same floor as the freshmen, are a combination of singles and doubles occupied by students renting the room directly through the Nathan Hale.

Although the student plan seems like a generous and gracious offer from the hotel, it is actually a necessity to provide

economic security for Nathan Hale. Brian Wells, the general manager of the Nathan Hale Inn, said, “the market is not consistent enough to allow us [the hotel] to not house students.”

Therefore, although some students who live in Nathan Hale are thrilled with the situation, Andres Palfi, a freshman student in the ACES program who was randomly placed in the inn reports it to be “way better than the dorms,” Wells would prefer to reduce the number of student rooms in the future.

For now though, the Nathan Hale Inn will continue to offer rooms at a reduced rate through the Student Plan both to individual students seeking an alternative to off -campus apartments and to the University’s Residential Life program while they continue to struggle with the problem of too many freshman students.

Nathan Hale home to incoming freshman

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By Julia Werth Campus Correspondent

EDITORIAL: USING RESERVE FUND FOR UCONN BUDGET HOPEFULLY A SHORTTERM MEASURE The university’s budget deficit cannot become an excuse for fiscal irresponsibility.

This school year, The Nathan Hale Inn, UConn’s on-campus hotel, has dedicated 26 of its rooms to housing students in order to accommodate the university’s overflow of freshmen.

Now in its 12th year of operation, the Nathan Hale Inn has sought to support the university since the beginning. By providing a place for visiting professors, sports teams, and performers to stay, both the University and the hotel have been able to thrive. However, in recent years, both parties have been stressed, the University due to high enrollment and the hotel due to poor economic conditions. Last year, because of the culmination of these two stresses, the University and Nathan Hale entered into a new partnership; one floor of the Nathan Hale Inn became part of the South Campus Residence Area.

However, this is not the first

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ter undecided honors student, echoed that sentiment, saying it didn’t last as long as he expected but he did enjoy dumping two buckets of soapy water on the crowd.

“I’d definitely do it again,” said Horbal.

After students ran out of water balloons to throw, foam cannons shot out soapy water and some participants began to crowd surf. Everyone was encouraged to stay, dance and have fun.

Sonny Caplash, the international community liaison for UConn Empower told the crowd, “All of Fairfield Way is your party.”

He was not disappointed that the event did not go exactly as planned.

“Things happen and you adjust,” said Caplash, a 5thsemester biology major, “As long as everyone had a great time, then it went as expected.”

The club made over $5,000, all of which will go to their projects overseas, including improvements in a Cameroon orphanage and an Indian school.

“It’s awesome that everyone could come out and have a great time and the money is going to an amazing cause,” said Raval.

UConn’s Engineers Without Borders (EWB) hosted their fourth annual 5K event on Saturday.

The event was the largest the group has ever hosted, surpassing their fundraising goal.

The group revered the run as a great success because of the unexpectedly large amount of last minute sign-ups.

EWB President Andrew Silva praised the event’s success. He said that the support for the club has increased every year and that this past run is one of the largest they’ve had.

“This is awesome,” said Silva, a 7th-semester engi-

neering major. “Every year more and more people come out and support us and it was a great day for [the run].”

International Community Service trips are funded by events such as Saturday’s run.

In passed years, EWB has been able to go to countries, such as India and Nicaragua, using their education to improve the life quality of these country’s citizens.

Jake Lampron, a third semester engineering major, and one of the students who helped to organize the event, put great stress on the positive impact supporting the run would cause.

“The registration fee is going towards [our work],” said Lampron. “All of our

money goes towards our projects, which help people all over the world.”

The support for the 5K was heavy. Even at 9 a.m., a crowd had already begun to gather in front of the EWB’s sign in table. The weather was crisp and clear, and as the start time neared the runner’s began to prepare for their 3.1-mile excursion.

Jackson Haigis was at the starting line bright and early.

“We’re here to support the club,” said Haigis. “They did a presentation in my engineering class and it’s [definitely] a good cause.”

Prizes were given to the top three runners.

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What’s going on at UConn today...

Add/Drop Closes Monday, All Day Storrs Campus After this date, students must come in person to the Office of the Registrar, Room 104, Wilbur Cross Building.

Courses dropped after this date will have a “W” for withdrawal recorded on the academic record. Last date to add courses or drop courses without additional signatures.

Basics of Law School Application 12 - 12:30 p.m.

ROWE, 131

Special Lecture 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Dodd Center, Konover Auditorium

Study Abroad in China Info Session 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

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Juniors and seniors interested in applying to law school should come to this workshop with Edward Kammerer from the Pre-Law Center. Get the information you need to begin your application process!

“Anti-Judaism: Why the History of Idea Matters” by Dr. David Nirenberg, Director of the Neubauer Family Collegium for Culture and Society, Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor of Social Thought, History, and Romance Languages and Literatures, The University of Chicago.

Come find out more about studying in this fascinating country! Studying abroad is a window to the world and opens up your future to amazing opportunities.

Come learn more about our programs in China and about study abroad in general.

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DAILY BRIEFING » STATE

Kids plunge to ground on Conn. fair ride; 13 hurt

NORWALK (AP) — A dozen children were injured when an amusement ride at a Connecticut fair broke down on Sunday, sending the swinging riders careening into each when the ride came to a sudden halt, authorities said.

One adult was also among the 13 people transported to hospitals after the mishap at Norwalk’s Oyster Festival.

Norwalk police Lt. Paul Resnick said an 8-year-old boy was admitted to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The rest were treated and released.

Five other people refused treatment at the scene, police said.

The rotating, swing-type “Zumur” ride lifts riders up and away as it spins, authorities said. State police said a mechanical failure caused the ride to suddenly stop and those on board collided with each other.

No end in sight for decadelong Conn. divorce case

STAMFORD (AP) — It’s a divorce and child visitation case that already has produced nearly 600 motions and rulings and evidence of insider trading that brought down a multibillion-dollar hedge fund.

And as it passes the 10-year mark, the case of former Connecticut investment adviser David Zilkha and his ex-wife, Karen Kaiser, shows no signs of nearing a final resolution. They remain embroiled in disputes over child visitation and fees for hired experts, with more court hearings set for the next two months.

The acrimony has included mudslinging by both sides and prompted a show of frustration from the judge.

“There are some cases that for whatever reason ... sort of spin out of control,” Judge Michal Shay said during a hearing in Stamford Superior Court last year. “It seems impossible, it seems intractable, sometimes to pull them back and try to get them on the right track, and that’s what I’m trying to do here.”

Brookfield expands languages to kindergarten

BROOKFIELD (AP) — In the first week of school, Schools Superintendent Anthony Bivona went back to kindergarten and first grade.

And he learned a couple new words — in Spanish.

For the first year, Center Elementary’s 500 or so kindergarten and first-graders are learning a foreign language.

Brookfield hired Mikki Durkin as its first early language teacher, and her schedule is to teach each class three times a week for a 15-minute period. Bivona said he was impressed with Durkin’s enthusiasm and ability to grasp the children’s attention right away.

“What I witnessed was an introductory lesson of greetings to students -- “hola” and “buenos dias” -- and I saw how excited they were. Just the excitement in the classes and the expressions on their faces was amazing to watch,” Bivona said.

Brookfield is one of the few traditional public school districts in the Western Connecticut region to expand world languages to the kindergarten level. It is one of 10 in the state.

News

Monday, September 9, 2013

Backup Power Expands To Depot Campus Funding for the expansion of UConn’s backup power generation facilities is arriving in Storrs as the university plans to expand the campus’ self-sufficient power generation capabilities to the Depot Campus by 2014.

The $2.14 million in funding from the state for an eco-friendly microgrid was approved last year by the state legislature and signed into law by the governor in July 2012. The legislation provides for the creation of a new fuel cell and accompanying solar array – expected to be operational by June 2014, providing power to the Depot Campus in emergency situations.

“This project will enhance UConn’s preparedness and ability to serve the community in storm-related emergencies,” UConn President Susan Herbst said in a July press release. “It will also help UConn serve as a resource for others on how to create resilient, reliable and environmentally sustainable microgrids.”

UConn’s Storrs campus already completed a new fuel cell in 2012 before the state decided to allocate the funds.

The first fuel cell was just one step in UConn’s push to become carbon-neutral by 2050, according to the university’s climate action plan presented in August 2009.

In addition, the university also provides power to the Storrs campus using the co-generation plant, which began operating in 2006. It currently supplies enough energy for UConn to “meet its own energy needs at the main campus,” according to the UConn Office of Environmental Policy’s website.

The microgrid in Storrs is one of nine new systems being launched across the state as part of a first-in-the-nation pilot program to test the efficacy of localized power in emergency situations.

“Microgrids play a major role in our efforts to modernize and harden our infrastructure to withstand severe weather,” said Gov. Dannel Malloy in the same July press release.

“These projects will help protect residents and vital public

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House asserted Sunday that a “common-sense test” dictates the Syrian government is responsible for a chemical weapons attack that President Barack Obama says demands a U.S. military response. But Obama’s top aide says the administration lacks “irrefutable, beyond-areasonable-doubt evidence” that skeptical Americans, including lawmakers who will start voting

on military action this week, are seeking.

“This is not a court of law.

And intelligence does not work that way,” White House chief of staff Denis McDonough said during his five-network public relations blitz Sunday to build support for limited strikes against Syrian President Bashar Assad.

“The common-sense test says he is responsible for this. He

By Kyle Constable Staff Writer

Conn. home invasion killer: ‘I just snapped’

SOMERS (AP) — One of two men sentenced to death for a 2007 triple murder home invasion in Connecticut says no one was supposed to get hurt and he “just snapped.”

Steven Hayes recently gave an hour-long interview to the New Haven Register. The newspaper published his comments in Sunday’s editions.

Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky have been sentenced to lethal injection for the killings of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, Hayley and Michaela, at their home in suburban Cheshire.

Hayes tells the Register he started to “lose it” when Komisarjevsky told him he sexually assaulted 11-year-old Michaela. Hayes says he then looked out the window, saw an unmarked police car and “snapped.” Prosecutors say Hayes strangled and sexually assaulted Hawke-Petit.

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vide “essential” services during these situations, adding that it was an “important” project for the town.

Other sites for the microgrids in the pilot program include Bridgeport, Fairfield, Windham, Woodbridge, the naval base in Groton, the University of Hartford and Wesleyan University in Middletown.

services even when the power goes out, and in doing so allow us to provide critical services during times of emergency.”

Mansfield Town Manager Matthew Hart said in the July press release that he believed the microgrid would be a “reliable” source of power, benefiting both the students on campus and the residents of Mansfield during power outages and other emergency situations. He also said the grid will help to pro-

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should be held to account,” McDonough said of the Syrian leader who for two years has resisted calls from inside and outside his country to step down.

Asked in another interview about doubt, McDonough was direct: “No question in my mind.”

The U.S., citing intelligence reports, says the lethal nerve agent sarin was used in an Aug. 21 attack outside Damascus, and

that 1,429 people died, including 426 children.

The number is higher than that, said Khalid Saleh, head of the press office at the anti-Assad Syrian Coalition, who was in Washington to lobby lawmakers to authorize the strikes. Some of those involved in the attacks later died in their homes and opposition leaders were weighing releasing a full list of names of the dead.

US: Proven link of Assad to gas attack lacking

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More parents opting kids out of standardized tests

Feds offer $150K for Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

HARTFORD (AP) — The federal government has awarded a $150,000 grant to preserve the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center collections in Hartford.

The center features a National Historic Landmark that was once the home of the “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” author. She lived in the house for the last 23 years of her life.

The center’s collections contain about 6,000 objects and more than 200,000 manuscripts, pamphlets, books and images.

The federal funding matches the center’s investment of more than $400,000 to buy and install a new mechanical system, make climate and environmental control improvements and install fire detection and protection at the center.

U.S. Rep. John Larson says the funding will help the center protect her works and collections.

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In this photo, the new fuel cell at UConn’s Depot Campus is displayed. The cell will be powered by a solar array to be paid for by state funds, providing power in emergency situations.

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In this April 18, 2013, file photo, Burgess-Peterson Elementary School principal Robin Robbins, center, meets with students during an after-school study program in Atlanta, in preparation for state standardized testing, soon to begin.

DELAWARE TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — While his eighthgrade classmates took state standardized tests this spring, Tucker Richardson woke up late and played basketball in his Delaware Township driveway.

Tucker's parents, Wendy and Will, are part of a small but growing number of parents nationwide who are ensuring their children do not participate in standardized testing. They are opposed to the practice for

myriad reasons, including the stress they believe it brings on young students, discomfort with tests being used to gauge teacher performance, fear that corporate influence is overriding education and concern that test prep is narrowing curricula down to the minimum needed to pass an exam.

"I'm just opposed to the way high-stakes testing is being used to evaluate teachers, the way it's being used to define what's happening in class-

rooms," said Will Richardson, an educational consultant and former teacher. "These tests are not meant to evaluate teachers.

They're meant to find out what kids know."

The opt-out movement, as it is called, is small but growing.

It has been brewing for several years via word of mouth and social media, especially through Facebook. The "Long Island opt-out info" Facebook page has more than 9,200 members, many of them rallying at a Port Jefferson Station, N.Y., high school last month after a group of principals called this year's state tests — and their low scores — a "debacle."

In Washington, D.C., a group of parents and students protested outside the Department of Education. Students and teachers at a Seattle high school boycotted a standardized test, leading the district superintendent to declare that city high schools have the choice to deem it optional. In Oregon, students organized a campaign persuading their peers to opt out of tests, and a group of students in Providence, R.I., dressed like zombies and marched in front of the State House to protest a requirement that students must achieve a minimum score on a state test in order to graduate.

"I'm opposed to these tests because they narrow what education is supposed to be about and they lower kids' horizons," said Jesse Hagopian, a teacher at the Seattle school. "I think

collaboration, imagination, critical thinking skills are all left off these tests and can't be assessed by circling in A, B, C or D." For many parents and students, there have been few to no consequences to opting out of testing. Most parents are choosing to take their younger children out of testing, not older students for whom it is a graduation requirement. It's unclear if things will change when the Common Core Curriculum and the standardized tests that will accompany it are implemented in the 201415 school year.

Some states were granted waivers for No Child Left Behind, which requires districts to have at least 95 percent of students participate in standardized testing or be at risk of losing funding.

Kristen Jaudon, a spokeswoman for the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, said the test Seattle deemed optional is not required by the state. Ninetyfive percent of students in a given school must take standardized tests that are required by state law. She said parents who pull their children out of testing wouldn't be able to identify if a student was having problems in a particular subject and the move would deny educators the chance to see if the curriculum is working.

"We are bound by state law to test kids in our state. It's not optional," she said.

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Report: NSA can access most smartphone data

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BERLIN (AP) — The U.S. National Security Agency is able to crack protective measures on iPhones, BlackBerry and Android devices, giving it access to users' data on all major smartphones, according to a report Sunday in German news weekly Der Spiegel.

The magazine cited internal documents from the NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ in which the agencies describe setting up dedicated teams for each type of phone as part of their effort to gather intelligence on potential threats such as terrorists.

The data obtained this way includes contacts, call lists, SMS traffic, notes and location information, Der Spiegel reported.

The documents don't indicate that the NSA is conducting mass surveillance of phone users but rather that these techniques are used to eavesdrop on specific individuals, the magazine said.

The article doesn't explain how the magazine obtained the documents, which are described

as "secret." But one of its authors is Laura Poitras, an American filmmaker with close contacts to NSA leaker Edward Snowden who has published several articles about the NSA in Der Spiegel in recent weeks.

The documents outline how, starting in May 2009, intelligence agents were unable to access some information on BlackBerry phones for about a year after the Canadian manufacturer began using a new method to compress the data.

After GCHQ cracked that problem, too, analysts celebrated their achievement with the word "Champagne," Der Spiegel reported.

The magazine printed several slides alleged to have come from an NSA presentation referencing the film "1984," based on George Orwell's book set in a totalitarian surveillance state.

The slides — which show stills from the film, former Apple Inc. chairman Steve Jobs holding an iPhone, and iPhone buyers celebrating their purchase —

are captioned: "Who knew in 1984...that this would be big brother...and the zombies would be paying customers?"

Snowden's revelations have sparked a heated debate in Germany about the country's cooperation with the United States in intelligence matters.

On Saturday, thousands of people in Berlin protested the NSA's alleged mass surveillance of Internet users. Many held placards with slogans such as "Stop watching us."

Separately, an incident in which a German police helicopter was used to photograph the roof of the American consulate in Frankfurt has caused a minor diplomatic incident between the two countries.

German magazine Focus reported Sunday that U.S. Ambassador John B. Emerson complained about the overflight, which German media reported was ordered by top officials after reports that the consulate housed a secret espionage site.

A U.S. embassy spokesman

downplayed the story, saying "the helicopter incident was, naturally enough, the subject of

SACRAMENTO, Calif.

(AP) — Scientists are assessing the damage from a massive wildfire burning around Yosemite National Park, laying plans to protect habitat and waterways as the fall rainy season approaches.

Members of the federal Burned Area Emergency Response team were hiking the rugged Sierra Nevada terrain Saturday even as thousands of firefighters still were battling the four-week-old blaze, now the third-largest wildfire in modern California history.

Federal officials have amassed a team of 50 scientists, more than twice what is usually deployed to assess wildfire damage. With so many people assigned to the job, they hope to have a preliminary report ready in two weeks so remediation can start before the first storms, Alex Janicki,

the Stanislaus National Forest BAER response coordinator, said.

Team members are working to identify areas at the highest risk for erosion into streams, the Tuolumne River and the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, San Francisco’s famously pure water supply.

The wildfire started in the Stanislaus National Forest on Aug. 17 when a hunter’s illegal fire swept out of control and has burned 394 square miles of timber, meadows and sensitive wildlife habitat.

It has cost more than $89 million to fight, and officials say it will cost tens of millions of dollars more to repair the environmental damage alone.

About 5 square miles of the burned area is in the watershed of the municipal reservoir serving 2.8 million people - the only one in a national park.

“That’s 5 square miles of watershed with very steep slopes,” Janicki said “We are going to need some engineering to protect them.”

So far the water remains clear despite falling ash, and the city water utility has a six month supply in reservoirs closer to the Bay Area.

The BAER team will be made up of hydrologists, botanists, archeologists, biologists, geologists and soil scientists from the U.S. Forest Service, Yosemite National Park, the Natural Resource Conservation and the U.S. Geological Survey.

The team also will look at potential for erosion and mudslides across the burn area, assess what’s in the path and determine what most needs protecting.

“We’re looking to evaluate what the potential is for flood-

ing across the burned area,” said Alan Gallegos, a team member and geologist with the Sierra National Forest.

“We evaluate the potential for hazard and look at what’s at risk -- life, property, cultural resources, species habitat.

Then we come up with a list of treatments.”

In key areas with a high potential for erosion ecologists can dig ditches to divert water, plant native trees and grasses, and spray costly hydro-mulch across steep canyon walls in the most critical places.

Fire officials still have not released the name of the hunter responsible for starting the blaze. On Friday Kent Delbon, the lead investigator, would not characterize what kind of fire the hunter had set or how they had identified the suspect.

“I can say some really good

detective work out there made this thing happen,” he told the Associated Press.

Delbon said the Forest Service announced the cause of the fire before being able to

release details in order to end rumors started by a local fire chief that the blaze ignited in an illegal marijuana garden.

GROVELAND, Fla. (AP) — A small but growing group of Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives are supporting an eventual path to citizenship for millions of people who are living in the U.S. illegally. But these Republicans are facing the daunting challenge of trying to persuade colleagues to follow them.

The Democratic-controlled Senate has already passed on a bipartisan basis a comprehensive immigration reform bill that provides a path to citizenship for people living in the U.S. illegally while tightening border security. But it has stalled in the Republican-controlled House.

Rep. Daniel Webster is among about two dozen Republican lawmakers who support a comprehensive immigration overhaul but he has gotten an earful from constituents in his Florida district.

One constituent told the second-term Republican that immigrants carry disease. Another said immigrants would steal jobs away from Americans.

“You cannot stop illegal

immigration by rewarding it,” another man said at a recent town hall-style meeting in Groveland, a rural community west of Orlando. “Amnesty is a reward.”

As Congress returns to work this week after its summer break, Webster faces perhaps an even tougher crowd: fellow Republicans.

Most Republicans oppose this approach on citizenship, and there is little political incentive for them to change their minds.

Only 24 of 233 Republicans represent districts where more than one-quarter of their constituents are Hispanic.

Even so, some in the Republican Party argue that its future hinges on whether the House finds a way to embrace an immigration overhaul, which is a crucial issue for the country’s fast-growing bloc of Hispanic voters.

Supporters of a path to citizenship point to demographic changes and business backing that have helped sway Webster, who for years opposed immigrant-rights legislation, as

potential motives for wavering lawmakers to sign on.

“I think as a country we need to do something,” Webster said in an interview, echoing the rhetoric of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and other prominent Republicans. “Doing nothing is amnesty.”

The small but growing band of Republicans is trying to strike a balance between conservative activists who want border security and immigration advocates who want a path to citizenship.

Many come from swing districts with sizable Hispanic populations that could make a difference in next year’s elections, tipping the balance of power in the Republican-controlled House. The lawmakers also feel the pressure from business interests that rely on immigrant labor.

At the same time, conservative taxpayer groups who typically fund Republican primary challenges have remained largely silent on immigration.

Anti-immigration activists have failed to organize large-scale demonstrations or generate the

kind of public backlash that killed Congress’ last attempt to remake immigration policy, in 2007.

Immigrant advocates, on the other hand, have waged a wellfunded, aggressive campaign to push for the legislation.

“Congresspeople who may have been on the fence are realizing it’s safe to get in the water,” said Ana Navarro, a Republican strategist who led Hispanic outreach for Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign in 2008. “There is safety in numbers.”

Some Republicans seem to have little choice.

U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman of Colorado won election in 2008 in a conservative district by campaigning against an immigration overhaul. But an unfavorable redrawing of his district after the 2010 census left him in Democratic-leaning territory that President Barack Obama won last year and where Hispanics make up nearly 20 percent of the population. He is now pushing for a “compassionate” approach to immigration.

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In this picture (left) taken Sept. 7, 2013, activists protest with posters during the demonstration in Berlin. German news weekly Der Spiegel reports Sept. 8, 2013 that the U.S. National Security Agency can access users’ data on all major smartphones. In the photo right, German Chancellery’s Chief of Staff Ronald Pofalla speaks during a press conference in Berlin, Aug. 12, 2013. He says Germany and the U.S. will begin talks this month on an agreement not to spy on one another in wake of the revelations about electronic surveillance.

Scientists assess Yosemite fire damage

embassy conversation with the Foreign Ministry, but no demarche or letter of complaint

about the incident was sent to the German government."

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Using reserve fund for UConn budget hopefully a short-term measure

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he university’s budget is typically not one of the more interesting or exciting news items, but this year it is perhaps unusual. Projected expenditures are far outpacing expected revenue, by $28.5 million to be exact, or around three percent of the total budget. As a result, UConn has to dip into our emergency reserve fund.

The emergency reserve fund will likely be at its lowest level in many years. Last year the university had $71.8 million in reserves. Assuming no more is withdrawn that the aforementioned $28.5 million – and that is of course only an assumption – the fund this year would be left with around $43 million, a level not seen in at least a decade.

And back then, the university’s operating budget was much smaller than now.

It is less than ideal that we find ourselves in a position of coming so close to depleting the emergency fund. At the same time, this shows the prudence of keeping such money on standby. How else would we be able to cover the gap?

Increasing tuition is hardly the most popular option. And it hardly seems likely that the state legislature would pitch in, given the budget deficits they are facing themselves.

Actually, some of the university’s financial troubles may be unforeseen consequences to what is largely a positive development. UConn’s rising national stature in combination with increased investments has made the university a much more attractive option for high school seniors.

Freshman enrollment this year has surged 21 percent higher than last year alone. There are other reasons for the university’s expenditures, but that is certainly one.

There are other factors as well, not all of which were known long in advance. As detailed by the Connecticut Mirror, the budget was already $18.7 million in the red before June when the state began requiring UConn (as well as other public state agencies) to contribute more to employee’s pensions and health benefits.

It is a simple matter of common knowledge that surpluses are better to have than deficits. While UConn tries to get its financial house in the best condition, the emergency fund is an appropriate place to draw money from to cover an unprecedented budget gap. Let us hope that we learn from this situation and never have to use that much from the reserves again.

‘McDonaldization’ of UConn puts too much focus on standards, favors quantity over quality

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hen you think of a Big Mac, the University of Connecticut may not come to mind. It may seem that they have no similar characteristics, but in fact there’s a resemblance between the fast food chain McDonalds and the public university.

S o c i e t y advances on a key characterisBy Omar Allam tic of rationalWeekly Columnist ity, with the end goal of being rational. A rational society is one that is 100% efficient, predictable, calculable and has complete control over uncertainty. This process of rationality, or rationalization, is occurring globally, specifically in American societies. A microcosm of this process of rationality can be seen in the McDonalds business model, also known as McDonaldization.

We go to McDonalds because its of rationality. It is predictable, efficient and calculable. No matter which McDonalds we go to, whether it’s in Storrs or San Francisco, the Big Mac will taste, look and cost the same. The same principle can be applied to the process of learning

these scores are combined and then used at a higher educational facility.

McDonaldization favors quantity over to compare and rank UConn to other quality. The quality of the hamburger national universities.

Another aspect of McDonaldization is difficult to assess, thus McDonalds creates a number of values that can be is predictability. When you go to quantified to act as surrogate for quali- McDonalds and order a Big Mac, you ty. Likewise, UConn has done the same. expect a beef hamburger and not a Students are now numbers, judged by chicken sandwich. The same applies to statistics and grades; their educational the higher education system. The uniexperience reduced to numbers rang- versity structure has turned into more or ing from grade point averages to SAT less a “cookie-cutter” system. Student can expect to find the same courses scores.

“With less and less contact between being taught, the same teaching methods professor and student, there is a little being used, the same type of textbooks real effort to assess the quality of what and the same examination systems. This students know, let alone the quality prevents students from having a unique of their overall abilities,” statesGeorge college experience.

Through rationalization there are enorRitzer, author of “The McDonaldization mous gains such as growth and advanceof Society.”

In addition, at UConn, the importance ments. However, there are consequences of grades is well emphasized. However, to this process, such dire consequences little is known on this quantifiable factor are noted as the “irrationality of ratiothat is used to evaluate college profes- nality” by Ritzer. These consequences sors and the university. Like the Big are the dehumanization of society, such Mac, teaching ability is very hard to that students are numbers put through a evaluate. Administrators have trouble uniform educational system where they evaluating the teaching quality and thus are fed facts and theories. Rationality substitute quantitative scores. Although may seem healthy to society, but in fact each score has a qualitative portion, it it has serious side effects. is conveniently ignored. Student opinion polls are taken and the scores are summed, averaged, and compared. The teachers who score well are thus deemed Weekly Columnist Omar Allam is a 3rd-semester good teachers and the teachers who chemistry major. He can be reached at Omar.Allam@ score poorly are known to be bad. All UConn.edu

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f you were watching the news this summer, you might have noticed the popularity of the new Roman pontiff, Francis. In a stark contrast to his predecessor Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Francis has made noises that, to many, have indicated a change in direction for the church with regards to social issues like abortion and gay rights. He famously said “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will,

By Nate Herter who am I Staff Columnist to judge?” to a cascade of liberal and progressive fanfare leading many, like The Week magazine and The Huffington Post, to question whether Francis might be, in the words of a piece in the former, “The Most Progressive Pope Ever”.

I’ve had several long talks with some Catholic friends of mine about this supposed new direction and I have to say, I’m not convinced. The fact is the notion of a progressive Pope is (or maybe I should say “would be”) a paradox.

The implication that we’re at the dawning of a new age

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of Church tolerance and official approval of homosexuality and female liberation is, gently-put, nonsense.

Take a closer look at what Francis actually said and you’ll see both what has stoked these hopes and why they are unfounded. Francis mentions in the same breath “someone who is gay” and someone who “searches for the Lord” as being acceptable which, actually, has been the official Vatican stance for many years. Indeed, the Church holds that homosexuals can lead perfectly moral lives so long as they don’t act on their inclinations.

But the Church also considers homosexual desires to be “of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered,’” and because of this, it underlines, “Under no circumstances can they [homosexual acts] be approved.” Remember, that’s not my interpretation; that is the Church’s official teaching. They read it to children in Sunday school.

Francis’s statements are not in any way different from the position of his predecessor. Benedict, after all, is the one that said in his 1986

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letter to the Church’s bishops that intolerance and discrimination against homosexuals was wrong and should be confronted by Church leaders at all times. Of course, in the same letter, Benedict noted that “[homosexuality] is a more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.” But who’s counting?

That is really the thrust of Francis’s comment and I’m afraid that we, in our desire to see the moral leader of over a billion Catholics come into line with modern morality, have given a pass to the hateful undertones of the Church’s message. Yes, Francis thinks it is okay to be gay, but can we really call a man progressive when he thinks that homosexual sex is itself an expression of a moral evil? I should think not.

In a way it’s not surprising.

It is worth noting that Francis was elected to lead one of the most conservative institutions in world history by members at the highest level of the institution. A radical might not make it out of the conclave with the backing of the cardinals. Yet, we have even

more fundamental reasons to know that Francis could never set the Church on the path towards true acceptance of homosexuality, even if he wanted to.

The sacrament of marriage is one of the Church’s bedrock principles and good Catholics believe it was authored by God himself. The teaching of what is and is not marriage is thereby one of the Church’s infallible teachings and according to the Church, it is impossible for them to err when teaching it. So can we really expect the bishops of the Church to stop campaigning against marriage equality and the evils of homosexuality? To stop ruining countless young lives by forcing people of all ages to choose between their own sexuality or their faith and family? Probably not. After all, to do that, they’d have to admit they were wrong when they said they were infallible and wouldn’t that make them look a bit ridiculous?

Staff Columnist Nate Herter is a 7th-semester classics major. He can be reached at Nathaniel.

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A Cappella Rush Concert expands venues

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Eight different university a cappella groups performed in the Student Union to showcase their abilities on Friday night. Extreme Measures, one of the co-ed groups, kicked off the performances at the event.

By Alicia Gilbride Campus Correspondent The University of Connecticut showed off its love of the musical arts Friday evening, putting on an A Cappella Rush concert in the Student Union Theater to showcase the eight individualistically talented acts.

The event, organized as far back as April, was planned for the Student Union Theater at 6:30 p.m.

Friday evening. This year, the groups opened up a second venue in the Student Union Ballroom.

The first group to take the stage was Extreme Measures, a co-ed group. They performed a total of 3 songs from various genres. The male soloist featured in their final song “You’re a Rich Girl” had the audience cheering and clapping by the end.

The next group was an all-female ensemble, The Chordials. With a total of five members as well as a guest alumnus to round out the sound, their ability to blend with so few members was impressive.

The third group to perform, A Minor was another

co-ed group. They performed two songs, including Coldplay’s “Fix You” with yet another strong male soloist, whose smooth and mellow vocals were very similar to Coldplay’s front man, Chris Martin.

The fourth group to perform was the first all male group on campus as well as to perform that evening, a Completely Different Note (CDN). This quirky group of young men came out in matching blazers paired with an array of colored shirts. There first performance was Trey Songz’ “I don’t love you anymore,” and they engaged the audience by having the soloist sing directly to a young lady in the front.

In their final song, “Midnight Train to Georgia” they added a cute choreography that had the audience laughing.

The Rolling Tones followed CDN, as the third co-ed group of the evening. They took the room by storm with their power vocals and a cappella adaptation of Smashmouth’s “I’m A Believer”.

Ruby Fruit, the sixth group of the night was also all-female. They performed two songs, both with rhythmic gusto and pop influence. People from

the audience began cheering for the soloists Emily Beaulieu, Merilee Sader and Abby Garneau, who sang their parts wonderfully.

The final two groups of the evening were Notes Over Storrs, a co-ed ensemble, and finally the highly anticipated, Conn Men. Notes Over Storrs’ rendition of “The Scientist” by Coldplay featuring Michael Mei as the soloist, was a revelation that competed with the original.

Conn Men, unlike the other groups, took a more traditional route with their repertoire for the evening. Choosing the song “Freedom” from Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 film “Django Unchained” the folk inspired song featured two soloists, Will Leet and Thomas Jordan. Despite not choosing a pop song to showcase their talents, Conn Men received a standing ovation from some members of the audience.

Auditions are being held for membership to all eight groups, Monday at 6 p.m. in the Music Building.

Alicia.Gilbride@UConn.edu

Fall Out Boy rocks Mohegan ‘Luther’ season three

By Alicia Gilbride Campus Correspondent The lights go off in the arena. 10,000 people begin screaming, yelling, clapping and cheering with excitement and anticipation while they await the award winning band revered by millions, Fall Out Boy, to take the stage.

Having worked in the Mohegan Sun Arena for over year, I knew exactly what to expect from the venue. Decently comfortable seats with a great view regardless of location completely overpriced everything and surprisingly hygienic bathrooms for a concert venue of its size. Having been a long-time Fall Out Boy fan; since I heard their hit album “Take This to Your Gave” back in 2003, I was sure this would be a great show. What I was Photo courtesy of blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com not expecting, however, was that it would be one Fall Out Boy and Panic! At the Disco played at the Mohegan Sun arena I’ll probably never forget.

First to take the stage was an artist I’d never recently to a packed crowd. listened to prior to their performance, , TwentyOne Pilots. They are a duet that I would classify front man and rhythm guitarist thanked the crowd as having a sound somewhere between new-age dub for coming out to the first date of the band’s nearly step, with a pop twist, and a bit of hip-hop thrown sold out “Save Rock & Roll” tour, their first tour and into the mix. The lead singer and pianist, despite performance since 2009. being rather small, had large stage presence, doing The band played new hits as well as classics back flips off the piano and crowd surfing in the pit. such as “Sugar, We’re Going Down” “A Little Their set was loud and up-beat, engaging with the Less Sixteen candles”, A Little More Touch Me,” audience to get us all pumped up for the next opener “Dance, Dance,” “This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An and later, the main act. To conclude their perfor- Arms Race,” as well as many many more, appealmance, the drummer and lead vocalist set up four ing to both the older fans (such as myself) and the snares and each using two drumsticks, showed off newer ones with more recent radio hits like “Young their skills with a choreographed percussion duet.

Volcanoes” and “Alone Together.” The band had Twenty-One Pilots left the stage and the crew an incredibly strong stage presence, incorporating a began setting up for the next act, Panic! At The mind-blowingly crisp sound.

Disco. Having changed a great deal over the last Being the first date on the tour, the band included decade, including losing two band members, Ryan impromptu acts, such as Stump performing a cover Ross and Jon Walker, as well as reinstating the trade of popular Daft Punk song, “Get Lucky”, a duet with mark “!” in their band name, Panic! Still has it. Brendon Urie of Panic! at The Disco, as well as a Their set was a mixture of new and old, perform- little acoustic performance featuring throwback hits ing recent hits including “Miss Jackson” and “Ms. like “Grand Theft Autumn, Where Is Your Boy?” off Gatsby” off of their new album entitled “Too Weird the “Take This To Your Grave” album. to Live, Too Rare to Die!” set to be released Oct. The show concluded with an encore performance 8 of this year. They played classics like “Time to of “Thnks fr Th Mmrs” off of “Infinity On High” Dance” and “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” from their and one of my personal favorites, “Saturday” also debut hit “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out”. from their 2003 album “Take This To Your Grave.”

Following Panic! At the Disco, the lights dimmed Having been a fan of Fall Out Boy for many years and the 10,000 plus currently in the arena begin and getting to see them live after all this time, it the scream with excitement. Fall Out Boy took the was all I ever hoped it would be and so much more. stage.

Whether you’re a new fan or you’ve been around They opened up with their new hit single “The since 2003, I highly recommend attending a Fall Out Pheonix” which recently won an award for Best Boy show the next time they’re in town.

Single at the Kerrang! Awards. The floor went wild, moving and jumping and dancing to the music.

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By Darragh McNicholl Campus Correspondent Season 3 of BBC’s psychological, crime drama miniseries aired last week on BBC America. No, not “Sherlock,” but a series that deserves just as much attention, “Luther.”

This powerful series follows London’s Detective Chief Inspector Luther, Idris Elba, who is as dark and gritty as the series’ portrayal of London, and as intelligent as the brilliantly written series itself. He uses a profound understanding of human psychology to catch psychopathic serial killers as he deals with his own personal issues.

The latest season starts off a little differently than expected, after two seasons of watching Luther struggle with his own life we get to see how other characters see him. The first scene depicts Luther as a war hero as he walks out of a burning building, criminal in hand, making jokes about the injuries his partner sustained. Rare are the moments where Luther is alone to express his brooding.

Instead this episode dives into a plot making Luther out to be a crooked cop. Characters defend him, characters insult him. Characters see Luther as they want to see him; a hero, a criminal, even a love interest but none depict him as the struggling human he is and has been for the last two seasons. This isn’t an issue; in fact it gives room for other characters to grow around him. After two seasons the audience knows Luther and how he thinks, for the most part, but the other characters

don’t and it has set a path for great conflict to arise this season.

Of course this isn’t the only conflict present as another serial killer is on the loose, and this plot doesn’t take a back seat. “Luther” never reveals just how dark it is till the latest psychopath commits a murder, and this episode offers some of the darkest and most terrifying scenes of the entire series. At certain moments it is easy to forget that “Luther” is a detective show and not a horror film.

There is a difference between tension and suspense and “Luther” knows it. The tension caused by dilemmas surrounding Luther and the suspense from waiting for a psychopath’s next move are vastly different feelings. From this episode alone “Luther” may be more accurately defined as a thriller, but once Luther’s trademarked detective skills appear you’ll be hard pressed to deny its crime drama brilliance.

“Luther” has already proven itself as one of the best crime dramas in the last ten years from its last two seasons. With this start to season 3 there’s no reason for “Luther” not to continue the trend of excellence it has held since its creation. It would be best to watch “Luther” from the beginning as some old cases and characters come up, but it is completely worth it and highly recommended.

BBC America aired all the episodes of season 3 last week so keep an eye out for reruns!

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Welcome to the year’s first installment of Nostalgia 101, which I now realize is silly because UConn uses a four-digit numbering system for classes, but moving on.

This is a column that talks about the things we love about the 90’s, where things have slipped, and what things have maintained well.

One of my favorite topics is “old” video games.

I thought this week I would start off with, probably my favorite game of all time, ‘The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.’

Released in 1998, the game was a huge step in the right direction for RPG’s. Being one of the first games released in a 3D world for the N64, along with Super Mario 64, which was released two years earlier, the game is massive in respect to other games of its time and before.

Earlier Zelda games, even the original, had enormous maps but almost everything was twodimensional. This three-dimensional world was massive, largely interactive, and gave the game a whole new element to play with.

Rooms and dungeons were no longer just an arrangement of square rooms but had organic shaped rooms with multiple levels, under water swimming, flying enemies, multiple camera positions.

Some of the other major developments were first-person item use, horseback riding, more creative boss fights and dungeon puzzles.

Since the release of the game, popularity and fandom have sky rocketed and the franchise has since released 11 games.

The most recent, Skyward Sword, was a beacon of light amongst the hoard of disappointing games for the Wii. Now, when I said Ocarina of Time was my favorite of the games, I meant it, because it holds a certain amount of nostalgia. But Skyward Sword, is also close.

The developers did a great job of utilizing the Wii controls to make new elements for the game.

Swinging the sword, swimming, free falling, item use, mini games, harp playing, flying on your giant bird all make use of the Wii’s motion sensor controls.

I think my favorite use, besides the sword, which mimics the players hand movement, was the bow and arrow. The player can point with the Wiimote at the target and press the C button on the Nunchuck and draw it back like it was on a string, then release the button to shoot.

The Zelda franchise, in short, doing it right. But what really makes Ocarina of Time so special is how far it was ahead of its time.

Not only were the maps huge and complicated, but there was so much to do.

Zelda games have always incorporated side-quests. Most of them were always just “go here and talk to this person,” which there is plenty of in the game, but the collecting sides quest was much more interesting with the 3D map because things could be hidden much better than in 2D maps.

I could probably go on about this game for hours, so if you enjoyed this, or hated it because you think I have it all wrong, feel free to tweet at me @GiGantos because we should probably be friends.

Matthew.Gantos@UConn.edu

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Marty Meierotto, a bush pilot and fur trapper in Alaska’s Great Northern Rang, battles the harsh environment on a daily basis while trying to recover losses from a previously poor season.

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Rich Lewis was recently introduced this season and chronicals his mountain lion hunting.

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Dee hits personal low, comedic high

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Dee Reynolds, played by Kaitlin Olson, is the focus of ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s’ season nine opener.

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Dennis tries to find her a below average man suitable for her to spend her life with so they no longer have to deal with her.

After eight seasons it finally happened: Beginning around season eight, the cast “The Gang Broke Dee.” In the season began inserting long monologue sequences nine premiere of “It’s Always Sunny in into the show, demonstrating that they are Philadelphia” Dee is finally to the lowest of quality actors beyond their low-brow sense the low, and the gang tries to help out. of humor.

As always, the title all too well describes The comedy club setting allowed Dee the plot the episode of “Sunny.” to have an opportunity for a solo This is no exception. The epiperformance. The relevance of the sode starts out with Dee smok- It’s Always Sunny in comedy show was a jest at standPhiladelphia ing in the bar, eating an entire up comics and different opinions cake by herself while the rest of of them.

Wednesday 10:00 p.m. Put simply by Charlie, “You’re the cast just sits watching.

Dee, who is clearly on the right in that sweet spot between verge of suicide, no longer like suicidal and dead, where most fights back at “bird jokes” and comedians, they thrive there.” the usual abuse from the boys One of the best examples of as she leaves Paddy’s Pub solthis comedic style is Louis C.K. emnly, leaving a bad taste in everyone’s who genuinely just hates himself, or so he mouths. conveys through each performance.

Concerned, the boys devise plans. Not Anyway, Dee gets her shot in the comedy even five minutes into the episode, the gang club, doing a similar routine, joking about already has multiple plans. And so as usual how much she has let herself go. people express their ideas to see who has the She also frequently uses the word “vagibest plan to put into action. na” to get laughs, stereotyping many female Mac, Charlie and Frank think it would comics who use it for laughs because it’s be a good idea to set up Dee at an open funny when women say vagina. mic night for a Comedy Club. Meanwhile Aside from the “bird jokes” there were

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not too many references to previous seasons, but the way the gang treats Dee in general was conveyed simply yet strongly so that someone who has never seen the show would get the point.

Netflix has seriously propelled the show, increasing its audience even further. It is difficult to think ofanyone who has never seen the show who would go out of their way to watch it on FXX. Yes, the show has been moved to FXX, unfortunate for UConn students, most of whom do not get the channel with the basic Charter package.

FXX does not have the full episodes posted to their website, nor is it on Netflix yet. But the show can be somewhere in the vast depths of the Internet.

New episodes are on Wednesday at 10 p.m. for those who do actually subscribe to FXX. The season is off to a strong start. The episode had classic jokes, impressive “acting,” plans, group division, out of control egos and secondary motives, as well as all of the jaw-dropping hysterical “did that just happen?” moments that fans love about “Sunny.”

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‘Arrested Development’ season four split

By Alex Sferrazza Staff Writer Few sitcoms have ever reached a level of pure comedy nirvana, as accomplished by the widely acclaimed series “Arrested Development” during its abbreviated three season run on FOX from 20032006.

Despite featuring some of the absolute sharpest and wittiest writing television has ever seen, complimented by one of the most well cast and talented comedic ensembles ever assembled, the show was a notorious ratings failure.

However its critical success garnered a cult fan base and following the series’ widespread availability of instant streaming services such as Netflix, a revival was considered a strong possibility. In one of show business’ most unlikely turn of events, a fourth season of Arrested Development was produced and released on Netflix this past summer.

The million dollar question remained: would the program return and still deliver comedy genius?

The short answer: Yes While the show’s new season gets off to a slower start than one would hope, Lindsay Bluth’s (Portia de Rossi’s) appearance seems a bit “off” during the first half of the season, and every now and then a punchline falls flat, on the whole the program nails a solid half hour of comedy with every episode and can still be called nothing less than comedy genius.

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The original cast of ‘Arrested Development’ reassembled to create a unique season four of the series. With each episode told from a different point of view, but covering the same events, fans’ reactions are split.

opment community, blissfully unaware that the houses have been populated entirely by sex offenders?

Hilarious.

Seeing Gob’s ridiculous faux magic show (complete with an imitation of a crucified Jesus) as a ploy to get out of a wedding to Ann Veal?

Hilarious.

Watching a still in high school 23 yr. old Maybe get arrested for sleeping with a 17 year old boy, thus making her a sex offender?

Hilarious.

Seeing Tobias’s attempt at an unlicensed Fantastic Four musical performed by addicts?

The best idea ever.

Arrested Development’s fourth season is filled with more hilarious moments like these, and when coupled with the return of some of the show’s best guest stars, Henry Winker as Barry Zuckerkorn, Scott Baio as Bob Loblaw,

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ByZach Lederman Staff Writer Arrested Development is one of my favorite shows.

I know this isn’t exactly a brave statement, considering the widespread critical acclaim the show has received since it first aired in 2003, but it needs to be stated outright. Even the episodes that weren’t so highly rated (read: most of the third season) I firmly believe they are representative of the highest level of comedy ever made. Mitch Hurwitz, the show’s creator and producer, is undoubtedly genius, and worthy of whatever awards we can possibly give him. But at the same time, perhaps we need to ask Mr. Hurwitz to put down the bottle of booze, because I am of the firm opinion that were he sober, he would absolutely never have given season four his approval.

To put it bluntly, the fourth season isn’t good. It’s not

bad either, by normal television standards, but compared to the rest of the series, I’m not even sure it should be allowed to call itself Arrested Development. The new season has two main gimmicks.

The first is that it mostly serves as a catch up, showing us what the Bluth family has been up to since the show was cancelled in 2006, which means that a large part of what you’ll be watching will be no more than glorified flashbacks. The second gimmick is that each episode is focused around one character, with the other characters occasionally crossing over into each other’s episodes.

I’m not sure who thought that these were good things, but they certainly have a lot to answer for. First of all, the bizarre timeline that the show provides just makes the whole thing borderline unwatchable.

I practically needed a white-

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Although over 50 percent of marriages in the United States end in divorce, television sitcoms have given us a strange insight into what the typical marriage looks like nowadays. The wife is always gorgeous and shows no signs of aging despite being in her mid40s. The husband has done all the aging for her. The man married to this beautiful woman is always shorter and chubby. Personality may trump looks, but the man is always a complete idiot.

The son is always an even bigger idiot than the father and does not know how to talk to girls his age because there has to be an episode where he gets bad advice on how to do so from the men in his life. Hilarity ensues.

The daughter is always rude and screaming that she hates everyone when she doesn’t get her way. They either get grades that will admit them into ivy league schools or they’re failing every subject.

There’s no in between.

These marriages never end in divorce. I’m not saying people should divorce each other left and right over every fight, but can we really say that Lois Griffin should stay married to Peter? Does anybody really see a happy marriage there? Although every guy in town is chasing after Lois and every week we see Peter do something absurd like drink oil because he ran out of Red Bull or waste time and money that the family cannot afford for some sort of unnecessary crude and expensive reference to the pop culture of the 80’s. In one episode where Peter takes out another mortgage on the house to buy hundreds of thousands of lottery tickets, Lois says, “if we lose I want a divorce.”

Peter replies simply by saying, “understood.”

Let’s go back to the kids.

Why don’t we ever get a realistic depiction of teenagers?

They’re always obsessed with sex, boys, girls, cars or clothes. They always are yelling and being rude. They tell their parents they don’t understand or know what they’re talking about or yell at their parents for invading their privacy (as if they have rights at such a young age.)

They’re always don’t want to go to college or stressing about that their parents can’t affording tuition to Yale. Teenagers on T.V. want to run away or bring over friends who their parents don’t approve of. Even the people they date are those who their parents don’t think are right for them. The worst is that they always have such an angry attitude. Name one time a teenager has done any of this.

Maurilio.Amorim@UConn.edu

‘Mad Men’ nearing the end, Good and bad of season four Weiner debuts a movie Monday, September 9, 2013

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TORONTO (AP) — Matthew Weiner is accustomed to anxiously guarding the secrecy of “Mad Men.” Talking candidly about his feature film directing debut, “You Are Here,” goes against his practiced paranoia.

“It’s weird,” he says, laughing. “I guess in this case, you really kind of want to tell people what it’s about.”

Then, after a pause, he’s himself again. “But I do think, like all entertainment, on some level: the less you know, the better.”

At the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, Weiner premiered “You Are Here,” a contemporary comedy about a Maryland weatherman (Owen Wilson) whose best friend from childhood (Zach Galifianakis) is bequeathed a lucrative country estate by his AP deceased father. It forces both Matthew Weiner, writer/director of “You Are Here,” poses for a portrait on day 3 of the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on friends to grow up and face Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013 in Toronto. some things in their life.

“Male friendship is so complicated and you sort of wonder: What is the purpose of it?” storytelling, and pushed out by the recent movie industry pull Weiner said in a recent interview. “That’s kind of what I was back on medium-sized films for adults. writing about, these two characters who are bound together by “I’ve never really understood the hierarchy,” says Weiner. not growing up, and what happens if somebody starts to move “They’re very different forms to me. I had been encouraged on?” during the many years to get ‘Mad Men’ made to turn that into The film, a mix of comedy and drama, doesn’t bear any of a feature, and I knew that was a television show.” the stylish severity of “Mad Men,” his AMC cable TV drama For his transition to moviemaking, Weiner, as he says, about a Madison Avenue advertising agency in the ‘60s. But its “cheated a little bit.” On the North Carolina shoot, he brought characters do have some of ad exec Don Draper’s melancholy. almost his entire “Mad Men” crew, from his cinematographer However, “You Are Here” is a much more earnest story, one to his prop master. that Weiner first wrote (with Wilson in mind) in between his “You Are Here” is seeking distribution, but meanwhile, first two seasons as a writer on the mob drama “The Sopranos.” Weiner is writing the seventh and final season of “Mad Men.” He spent years trying to get it made, then had to shelve it For him, the difference between TV and movies is ultimately when “Mad Men” became an Emmy-winning sensation. But about their end points. his new status also enabled him to finally get financing for the “It’s really about how much resolution it has,” he says. “Lots film. of movies end with a here-we-go-again or a sequel, but a lot of “This is not a graduation for me,” he says. “It’s hopefully the movies I love — especially some of the movies I was sort of just a continuation of my work in a different form. Getting your trying to emulate here, like ‘Five Easy Pieces,’ or some of the own TV show, that is really, really hard to do. I’m greedy for Billy Wilder movies I love, or a lot of movies about friendship, even asking to make a movie.”

‘The Last Detail’ — when you try to look at these movies, they But, like David Chase did after “The Sopranos” with the 2012 drop you off at a very different place than where they started. film “Not Fade Away,” Weiner is in some ways going against TV shows can do that, but you really don’t want to close any the currents of pop culture. Because of shows like “Mad Men” of the knots.” and “The Sopranos,” television is where a lot of movie talent “As I’m saying this,” Weiner adds, “I’m like, ‘Oh, man. I is flocking, drawn by its potential for longer, more in depth need to end my TV show.’ Oh, God, I really have to.”

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and Andy Richter, among others, the show is a recipe for success.

Despite this, many would claim that they believe the new season has lost much of its previous greatness.

Perhaps some are disenchanted with the series’ new style of focusing each episode on individual characters rather than the entire ensemble (a style adopted to accommodate the busy schedules of the cast).

And while it is a rough transition at first, I wouldn’t say that the new style is “worse” than the old, it is simply different.

Not to mention the new style lent itself to numerous hilarious moments only possible through its use. For example it would be hilarious to see a character in one episode perform an action, only to see in a later episode that said action was responsible for the misfortune of another character (i.e. seeing Lindsay kick the seat in front of her on an airplane, only to find out a few episodes later that unbeknownst to her, Tobias was the unfortunate passenger sitting in front of her).

While I cannot respectably serve my position as a critic and tell you that the new season of Arrested Development is as pitch perfect as the prior three had been, I can honestly say that despite a few shortcomings, Arrested Development’s fourth season is insanely great, hilariously funny, and remains far more entertaining than any other sitcom currently airing on network television. Rest assured the Bluths have most definitely returned with a bang.

board and charts just to keep track of who was doing what and when. During the original series, everything took place along the same timeline, and it was easy to keep track of where you were. Now, half the time when I’m watching the series, I couldn’t tell you if I’m watching something happening currently, or whether I’m watching a flashback.

The horribly confusing aspects are made no better by the fact that the show just isn’t really funny anymore. The humor in the original series really came from the way that the idiot Bluths interacted not only with others, but mainly with each other. By dividing each episode to focus only on a single character, you lose what made the show great in the first place, especially since not every character is equally funny. I’m sorry, but George Sr. is not a terribly remarkable character when you don’t have Michael there to be frustrated by him. The fact that not every character is even equally represented just aggravates the problem.

We have some characters with multiple appearances, as well as multiple episodes, but then we have characters like Buster, arguably one of the few characters who can be funny standing alone, who get one episode, and basically zero visibility.

Look, if you’re a die-hard Arrested Development fan, then by all means, go ahead and watch season 4, but don’t expect to come out of it feeling like you’ve gained anything.

Alex.Sferrazza@UConn.edu

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Charlie Hunnam talks about ‘50 Shades’ role

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Actor Charlie Hunnam of “Sons of Anarchy” was recently announced as the lead role in the upcoming movie version of “50 Shades of Gray.”

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charlie Hunnam will likely have to bare all and engage in some very graphic sex scenes as the leading man in “50 Shades of Grey,” but he says it’s not a new dimension for him.

“You know what, I had such a baptism of fire with regards to sexuality on camera at the beginning of my career,” explained Huunam. “I starred in the British channel Four miniseries ‘Queer As Folk’ where I played a young, gay character and there were some incredible, explicit sex scenes on that show.

So I feel, and now I am 16 years older and more mature so I don’t anticipate them being too much of a problem. It’s like anything else, just an exciting challenge.”

After months of speculation, the 33-year-old Hunnam was chosen to play Christian Grey and Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele, the main characters in the erotic, best-selling novel “50 Shades of Grey,” by E. L. James. Hunnam talked about his hotly anticipated role on Saturday night as he attended the pre-

miere of the sixth season of “Sons of Anarchy,” on which he plays the character Jax. One of the directors for the FX show revealed that Hunnam initially turned down the role of Grey.

“One week ago or two weeks ago, he was on my set when they came back to him and they wanted him to do it because he passed on it once, you know,” Peter Weller said. “They came back to him and I said, ‘Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, what do you think, this is too pulpy or something?’ He said, ‘Ah.’ ‘Well, let me give you the list of actors who did matinee idol style stuff, beginning with Cary Grant let’s go there. If you don’t do this, I’ll burn your house down.’”

However, Hunnam, who also starred in in this summer’s robot-monster battle “Pacific Rim,” said he wasn’t hesitant to accept the role — rather, he just wasn’t sure the timing was right.

“I just, there was a bit of a timing issue where I just wanted to insure that I was going to have enough time to really do the preparation so I can bring this guy

to life and do him justice and when they decided to push the schedule to accommodate that then I was a no-brainer and I was in,” he said.

While Hunnam is excited to play Grey, his girlfriend, Morgana McNelis, isn’t particularly excited about him filming explicit love scenes with Johnson, the daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith.

“Of course, it’s difficult being with an actor, you know?” said Hunnam. “She is required to share certain parts of me with the world that she wouldn’t necessarily choose to do, but we have a great relationship and she loves me and wants to be with me and we’ve been together a long time now, and I think she understands and has come to terms with the fact that there are certain elements of me that she is going to have to share. This is an extreme example of that, but thankfully we do have seven and a half years of history together, so it won’t be a big problem.”

Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, the film is to be released next August.

Jason Bateman: First time-director, Toronto hit

TORONTO (AP) — Actors making their first stab at directing are mainstays at festivals, often never heard from again. That is not the case for Jason Bateman.

Over the weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival, Bateman premiered his spelling bee comedy “Bad Words,” a foul-mouthed R-rated riot. Just hours after it had festivalgoers roaring with laughter, it was picked up for distribution by Focus Features, with Universal Pictures distributing internationally.

“It was exactly what I would have scripted,” says Bateman.

“It was pretty surreal to see such a long dream come true.”

Bateman’s career has already undergone several evolutions, from child star to an “Arrested Development”powered comeback. His next chapter, he hopes, will be as a director.

“I want to be able not to act,” Bateman said in an interview. “My ambition is true.”

The film, from a script

by first-time screenwriter Andrew Dodge, is about a 40-year-old man (Bateman) who enters a national spelling bee with uncertain motives for sabotaging the children’s contest. For Bateman, so often the mild-mannered straight man in the middle of chaotic stories, it’s a cathartic shift into a darker comic personality.

He plays a man on a questionable and mysterious mission, with no patience to explain himself or coddle his younger competitors. He calls one 10-year-old Indian boy (Rohan Chand) “Shawarma” and “Slumdog.” And that’s just what’s printable. In the quaint spelling bee environs, Bateman is a cruel but hilarious villain.

“Its humor is similar to mine, I somewhat cautiously reveal to you,” says Bateman.

“We’ve all got different parts, and I’m fortunate that I’m friends with a lot of the different parts in me. I know each of those parts really well and I can ask them to come to the

party whenever I want.”

But the part of the 44-yearold “Identity Thief” actor that most comes across is the seriousness of his directing plans.

His models, he says, are filmmakers that mix drama and comedy with an edge, like David O. Russell, Spike Jonze and Paul Thomas Anderson.

Of becoming an actor-director, he speaks with careerist clarity of taking “a Ben Stiller route or a Clooney route or an Affleck route.” It’s a goal he’s harbored since he first was exposed to Hollywood by his directing and producing father, Kent Bateman.

“I never wanted to be obnoxious about jamming myself into the director chair any more than the community would truly embrace me,” says Bateman.

He and his team, he says, are “reading furiously,” pursuing his next script. He hopes to be in pre-production by February on his next directing effort.

His aim is certain: “I want to do this a lot more.”

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Jason Bateman, director and star of the film “Bad Words,” poses for a portrait on day 3 of the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013 in Toronto.

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PHOTO OF THE DAY

Classic Kevin and Dean

by Adam Penrod

UCONN CLASSICS: TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE, AND IT WON’T WAIT FOR ME.

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Students throw water balloons at each other on Fairfield Way during USplash.

Classic I Hate Everything

by Carin Powell

HOROSCOPES Today's Birthday (09/09/13). Love is the fundamental basic this year. Romantic, brotherly or creative passions provide delectable flavors and unforgettable color. Time with young people rejuvenates. Shift focus from personal to team ambitions, and take charge where needed. Judiciously save money. Practice passions by sharing them. Get the word out about what you love.

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

Aries (March 21-April 19) - Today is a 5 - Mercury enters Libra, and for almost a month, expert assistance provides ease. Build your partnerships. Set long-term goals, scheduling with discipline. Explore a long-distance opportunity.

Payment is not always in cash.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) - Today is a 6 - Prepare to compromise and streamline your routine. Show that you know what you're doing. You're in line for a bonus, despite an awkward moment. Fall back on tradition.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Get practical work done. Your intelligence is attractive. You're gaining valuable experience. Reducing power works better. Move carefully to avoid injury. Keep track of the money you're considering spending.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Romance grows. It's getting easier to communicate at home.

Don't ask for favors. Slow down to avoid accidents. If controversy arises, get the family to help.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- For about three weeks, you learn with ease. Review the basics.

Choose what's best for all. It's not a good time to travel or make a big purchase. Plan a luxurious evening at home.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 5 -- A solution to an old problem is becoming obvious. Creative work profits for the next month. Your team takes the prize.

Keep your tone respectful. Mistakes may occur.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Figure out finances. This coming month, you're extra-intellectual.

Excite your partner with a challenge. Check the rules.

Do the research. Cut entertainment spending, even as you win a new assignment.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- You're immensely confident, with the Moon in your sign.

Organization gets easier, and projects move forward.

Keep your word. Stand for yourself and others.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 5 -- Traveling isn't as easy. Look at a breakdown as a challenge, and stick to your budget. For the next month, let the group decide. They're laughing with you, not at you. Relax.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 5 -- Pass along what you've learned. For the next month, talk about what works (with Mercury in Libra). Do your part as well. It takes patience with breakdowns, especially today. Take it easy.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 5 -- Assume more responsibility. For the next month, keep legal issues in mind. Distant goals are attainable. Fine-tune and edit your work. Provide facts. A new technique doesn't work. Take care.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Venture farther. For the next month, develop logical plans for sharing resources. Consider traditions. Imagine perfection, and forgive mistakes. Be methodical in the face of frustration. A partner opts in.

W O U L D YOU LIKE TO DRAW OR MAKE G A M E S FOR THE D A I L Y CAMPUS!?

Classic Side of Rice

by Laura Rice

Classic Toast

by Tom Dilling

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Michigan offense makes Notre Dame look ordinary SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Michigan quarterback Devin Gardner did what Denard Robinson and just about every opponent outside of Alabama failed to do last season: make the Notre Dame defense look ordinary.

Gardner was 21-of-33 passing for 294 yards and four touchdowns and ran for another 82 yards and a rushing touchdown in a 41-30 victory Saturday in the final scheduled game in Ann Arbor. The 11th-ranked Wolverines (2-0) scored the second-most points they've had in the 41-game rivalry that will end, at least for the foreseeable future, next season in South Bend.

No. 21 Notre Dame (1-1) give up 460 yards to Michigan, which is more

than the Irish defense gave up in any game on its way to a 12-0 regular season last year. Only the Crimson Tide with 529 yards in a 42-14 win in the national championship game had more.

Michigan coach Brady Hoke said Gardner, who was the team's leading receiver in a 13-6 loss to Notre Dame last season ago when Robinson threw four interceptions and lost a fumble, allows the Wolverines to run the pro-style offense they want.

"We're going to be multiple enough personnel-wise and also multiple enough from a formation standpoint, with two backs, three backs, whatever it takes, another offensive tackle in, a lot of different things that we like

to do," Hoke said. "This was more like what we want to do."

Gardner said it was great to display what the Michigan offense can do in front of a record crowd of 115,109, saying he believes the offense can be as good as he allows it to be.

"I feel like if I limit my mistakes we can go as far as we want," he said.

For the Irish, who repeatedly failed to tackle Gardner in the backfield when it had opportunities, the defense is left looking for answers.

After allowing an average of just 305.4 yards and 12.8 points a game last season, the Irish have allowed an average of 411 yards and 23.5 points against Temple (0-2) and Michigan.

Huskies move to 3-0 with win at Penn State

By Erica Brancato Staff Writer

The UConn field hockey team defeated Penn State in a close game that ended in overtime. Marie Elena Bolles helped the Huskies keep their undefeated title as she scored the game-winning goal.

The first half seemed to be evenly matched between the two teams.

With 11 minutes into the game, Chloe Hunnable helped the Huskies gain the upper hand as she scored the first goal of the contest off of a penalty corner. Penn State answered back as Whitney Reddig scored a goal against Mansfield off of a deflection to tie the game at one.

Less than four minutes later, UConn responded with another goal to break the tie and bring the Huskies back up to a 2-1 lead. Chloe Hunnable passed to midfielder Rosin

Upton who shot the ball past the Penn State goalie. The remainder of the first half was quiet as each team fought hard to defeat their opponent.

Early on in the second half, Penn State capitalized on corners against the Huskies. The Nittany Lions tied the game 2-2 as Taylor Herold scored off of a penalty corner play.

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Redding shot and missed, but Taylor Herald redirected the deflection of Reddigs missed shot past goalie Mansifield to tie the game with less than two minutes left in the second half.

Penn State’s last minute goal forced the second overtime game of the season for the Huskies. UConn remained determined and composed as the team capitalized when they needed to the most. Anne Jeute crossed the ball to Marie Elena Bolles who finished the game within a mere 1:37 into overtime to help the Huskies win 4-3. The Huskies will hope to continue their winning streak as they play their home opener at the George J. Sherman Family Sports Complex against Fairfield University on Friday, Sept. 13 at 6 p.m.

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However, Rosin Upton helped UConn break the tie yet again as she scored a goal off of a penalty corner 57 minutes into the match. This one goal advantage late in the half gave UConn reassurance, yet there was plenty of time and opportunity for the Nittany Lions to fight back.

UConn managed to hold off Penn State as Whitney

Erica.Brancato@UConn.edu

Cross country takes first place at memorial race

By Eddie Leonard Campus Correspondent

team with a lot of potential and coach Begley has already brought so much to UConn.”

The young team won the 5K The UConn Women’s Memorial Race with only six Cross Country team kicked of their runners competing, off their season at the four of which Shawn M. Nassaney are mid-disMemorial Race at tance runners.

Bryant University this UConn had past Saturday. UConn five girls finish took first place in in the top 20 the meet due to an out of 100 comimpressive perforpeting runners. mance from UConn Brigitte Mania, Recap sophomore, Emily who finished Durgin, who came in fourth with a second place overall with a time of 18:10.0, said, “We are time of 17:53.5. stronger than people think. I “The race was a great open- am really excited to see how er individually and as a team,” the season unfolds.”

Durgin said. “We are a young Abby Mace and Laura

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Williamson grabbed 10th and 11th place, crossing the line with times of 18:32.4 and 18:36.0 respectively.

Emily Howard and Katherine Vodopia followed them with times of 19:01.1 and 19:32.1.

The Huskies’ next meet will be the UMass Invite held on September 14th. The full team should be running in the second meet, so expect a competitive race from a young and motivated team. As Coach Amy Begley said, "More good things are yet to come this year and in the future as they gain experience."

Edward.Leonard_iii@UConn.edu

Morrissey: No pay for college athletes from TIME, page 12 College football is in full swing, but before the first kickoff the entire country was talking about the actions of Texas A&M quarterback, Johnny Manziel. The Texas native was suspended for the first half of the Aggies’ opening game against Rice, after it was learned that Manziel had sold his autograph for money.

I’m not arguing against the NCAA’s decision to suspend Manziel, he broke a rule.

However that rule is stupid and needs to be changed.

A college athlete should be allowed to sell their autograph. It is after all their name; they own it, not the

NCAA. While I don’t think college athletes should start their own sports memorabilia enterprise while they’re in school, it’s a double standard that professional athletics can sell their namesake, but college athletes can’t.

As far as athletes like Shabazz Napier becoming part of the state of Connecticut’s payroll, I don’t think athletes should be paid to play sports in college. It brings a whole new element to recruiting that basically eliminates athletic programs with a small bankroll, thus stifling competition across the board.

Money changes things.

Look at professional sports today, it’s all about the money and it always will be.

Collegiate athletics is the chance for athletes to enjoy the game for its simplicity before they turn pro. For students who are not going to be professional athletes after college, it’s a chance to compete for one final time with a team on large stage.

The NCAA has enough problems already; don’t add more money to that equation and keep the love of the game and the thrills of competition alive for future generations of athletes.

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Michigan quarterback Devin Gardner (98) rushes on a break away run during the Wolverines' 41-30 victory over the Irish on Saturday.

UConn Classic a success yet again

By Ryan Tolmich Campus Correspondent

of quality opponents, as Gampel Pavilion welcomed the Albany Great Danes, Pittsburgh Panthers, and UConn has many great Northeastern Huskies. traditions. From singing the UConn finished the tourfight song, to yelling the nament with a 1-2 record, UConn chant, or even the which included losses in five event formerly known as set thrillers against both Pitt Spring Weekend, Storrs is and NU, which sandwiched a home to many customs that sweep of Albany. make it unique from every However, Coach Holly other university in the nation Strauss-O’Brien reinforced This weekend featured that, despite the pair of lossanother UConn tradies, the tournament tion, as the UConn is a great indicator Volleyball team hostof what conference ed the 2013 edition play will feel like of their non-conferfor the inaugural ence tournament, the American Athletic UConn Classic.

Conference seaThe tournament, son. which has been “This (tournaNotebook ment) played annually totally presince 1989 (with the pares us,” said exception of the 1998 sea- Strauss-O’Brien. “Everyone son), has been a wildly suc- we played this weekend is cessful one for the Huskies, like an opponent we’ll face in who entered this year’s edi- the American Conference.” tion with a 48-13 as tourna“It was a strong tournament hosts. ment, competitive wise,” The Huskies hosted a trio added Strauss-O’Brien, who

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has led the Huskies for eight seasons. “We just didn’t finish when we needed to. But we’re right there. We’re a few kills short of winning any match, we just need to stay the course and hopefully we’ll figure it out before conference plays starts.”

As for individual players, juniors Devon Maugle and Brianna Datti were recognized as members of the AllTournament team.

Maugle, an outside hitter from Plymouth Meeting, Pa., finished the tournament with 32 kills, while Datti, the libero from Durham, N.H., led the way for UConn with 53 digs.

UConn will be back in action this weekend, as they take on Troy, St. John’s and Georgia Tech in Atlanta for the Courtyard Classic.

Ryan.Tolmich@UConn.edu

Armstrong's stellar freshman season continues

By Scott Carroll Campus Correspondent

The UConn Huskies took on the Syracuse Orange and the Maine Black Bears this weekend, winning both games by a score of 1-0.

Junior Riley Houle scored the deciding goal against the Maine Black Bears from 10 yards out on the right side of the box a mere 9 minutes and 39 seconds into the game as the Huskies reigned supreme.

Freshman Rachel Hill would be the difference make in the second game of the weekend, scoring an unassisted goal at the 42:28 mark of the first half. Hill beat the Orange goalie, making a move towards the left side of the goal and firing on

the empty net. since the Huskies played the UConn’s defense and goal- Stanford Cardinal two weeks tending has been on fire ago in a 1-0 loss. this season. In fact, they Armstrong will look haven’t given up a goal in to continue this stretch of 4 games. Freshman goalie shut outs, while the rest of Emily Armstrong had anoth- the defense should keep up er strong perfortheir recent sucmance against cess. It looks like the Syracuse the defensively led yesterday as Huskies will be a she blanked major threat come the Orange on conference schedthe way to her ule time. fourth consecuThe weekend’s tive shutout. games, puts the “I’m super Huskies record at Notebook excited right 4-2. The Huskies now,” said next game is on Armstrong. “It definitely Friday at 7:30 p.m. as they shows how our defense is take on Boston University. getting more comfortable with each other. We’re coming together really well”.

The young UConn goal- Scott.Carroll@UConn.edu ie hasn’t given up a goal

MEXICO CITY (AP) — After an embarrassing home loss against Honduras at Estadio Azteca, Jose Manuel De la Torre has been fired as the manager of Mexico and will be replaced by Luis Fernando Tena, the coach who led Mexico to an Olympic gold medal.

Mexico, which has been struggling in World Cup qualification with Chepo as coach, lost 2-1 against Honduras on Friday night. It was only their second loss at home in the history in World Cup qualifying matches played at Azteca and

the first since June of 2001 when Costa Rica beat El Tri in a game remembered as the "Aztecazo."

Mexico earlier tied 0-0 at Azteca with the United States.

The Mexican Soccer Federation sent out a press release around 3 on Saturday morning saying: "We made the decision to make a change and Luis Fernando Tena will be appointed as the new head coach."

One of De la Torre' s top assistants, Tena is a two-time Mexican league champ but he's most remembered because

he guided the Mexican Under23 squad to a historic gold medal in London.

It was Mexico's first Olympic medal in team sports since a bronze in basketball in Berlin 1936. Tena will be introduced later on Saturday.

With just eight points after seven rounds, Mexico is fourth among the six-nation final qualifying group. Only the top three qualify for Brazil 2014 while the fourth will go into a playoff series against Oceania winner, New Zealand. Mexico has not missed a World Cup since Italy 1990.

After Cody Kessler and Max Wittek shared playing time in the first two games, Kiffin said he'll name one starting quarterback Monday.

But those two quarterbacks combined for just 54 yards passing against Washington State, and it's clear USC's offensive problems extend well beyond one position after an embarrassing defeat in the Coliseum.

USC hadn't even finished the first half before the crowd erupted in boos, particularly incensed

by Kiffin's curious play-calling on failed third downs. By the end of the Trojans' first home-

opening defeat since 1997, fullthroated chants of "Fire Kiffin!" echoed through the historic stadium.

And while the embattled fourth-year coach isn't about to agree with the instructions, he couldn't argue with the sentiment.

"That's not a performance that anybody should have to pay to see," Kiffin said.

"You've got to find some positives in things," he added Sunday night. "Just see how passionate the USC fans are about wanting great success on the field. I feel the same way. That was not a

product that anyone should have been happy to see. I feel the same way. I've got to do a better job on what product is out there."

USC (1-1, 0-1 Pac-12) was knocked out of the AP Top 25 by the Cougars, who held the Trojans to their fewest total yards (193) and single-game yards passing since 1998.

While USC's defense was dominant, Kiffin's offense was shockingly poor. The coach seemed to have little confidence in Kessler and Wittek, who both struggled mightily to execute simple passes while each playing a half.

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Mexico fires Chepo ahead of US clash

Kiffin's job in serious doubt as USC opens the season 1-1

AP

After a 7-6 season in 2012, the USC Trojans are 1-1 to start 2013.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — With Saturday night's boos still ringing in his ears, Lane Kiffin came away with some strong feelings after watching the film of Southern California's 10-7 loss to Washington State.

"I'm completely shocked at what's going on in our passing game," the USC coach said Sunday night. "Last night was just inexcusable. ... There's one glaring area that we've been a disaster, which is the passing game."

The loss was even enough to spur Kiffin to choose a firststring quarterback.

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Volleyball goes 1-2 during UConn Classic

By Scott Carroll Campus Correspondent

The UConn Huskies finished third in the UConn Classic this weekend, finishing behind Northeastern and the Pittsburgh Panthers.

UConn opened up the tournament with a loss against the Northeastern Huskies.

UConn was able to grab the first two sets, taking a commanding 2-0 lead in the opening game. However, Northeastern would scream back, bringing the score even at 2-2 leading to a one-sided overtime set that would be taken by Northeastern.

UConn had some solid performances in the first round.

Four UConn players would

Dempsey reaches 100 caps

Clint Dempsey made his 100th appearance for the U.S. national team in Friday night's World Cup qualifier at Costa Rica, and Landon Donovan started his first qualifier in 15 months.

Midfielder Michael Bradley, originally in the starting lineup, limped off the field during warmups because of a sprained left ankle in San Jose, and he was replaced by Geoff Cameron.

U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann made eight changes from his lineup for last month's 4-3 exhibition win at Bosnia-Herzegovina, keeping only goalkeeper Tim Howard, defensive midfielder Jermaine Jones, and Fabian Johnson, who moved to attacking midfield from left back.

Michael Orozco started at right back, with Omar Gonzalez and Matt Besler in central defense, and DaMarcus Beasley at left back.

Graham Zusi joined Donovan and Johnson in the advanced midfield, with Dempsey the lone forward.

Orozco made his first qualifying appearance since Oct. 15, 2008, against Trinidad and Tobago 2.

After Brad Evans strained a calf muscle while playing for Seattle last weekend, Cameron and Michael Parkhurst had been the leading contenders to take over at right back.

Dempsey, who become the 14th American men's player to reach the century mark for appearances, started up front in the absence of Jozy Altidore, who injured a hamstring while playing for Sunderland. Altidore, the first American to score in five straight international matches, was on the bench.

reach double digit kills as Immanuella Anuga led the team with 14, Karson Ratliff added 13, and Erika Thomas and Devon Maugle each reached 10. Maugle would also add 17 digs to reach a double-double.

Brianna Datti gained 22 digs while Jade Strawberry added 18. Sage Esposito reached double figure digs for the first time this season with 12 digs. Marissa Prinzbach dished out 45 assists and reached 14 digs.

After Friday’s close game, the Huskies would go on to play the Albany Great Danes and win in straight sets 3-0, completely obliterating their opponents.

Maugle led the balanced UConn attack with 9 kills.

Freshmen Camille Evans had a career day as she posted 8 kills. Prinzbach led the team with 16 assits while freshmen Sophia Mahr added 10 assists.

Datti continued her great season with 11 digs.

After a great team showing against the Great Danes, it was time for the Huskies to take on former Big East opponent Pittsburgh.

Unfortunately it would be another heart breaker for the Huskies.

After taking the first set 25-20, the Huskies would drop the next two sets by a combined 17 points. The Huskies were not to be held down, however, as they stormed back in an exciting fourth set 25-23 winning on Prinzbach’s third kill of the set.

The fifth set was all Pittsburgh as the Panthers scored the last 4 points, taking the set 9-15.

Maugle once again led the team in kills with 13 and was named to the all-tournament team.

“Devon is a rock for us,” said Coach Holly StraussO’Brien. “She’s a steady player. She passes and plays defense. She helps us out a lot offensively”.

Datti joined her co-captain on the all-tournament team and had 20 digs against the Panthers.

“Bri is the kid who is starting every single play for us from the backline,” said Coach Strauss O’Brien.

“We’ve been looking forward to her stepping up into this

role, and she’s doing a great job”.

This weekend’s games bring UConn’s record to 3-4 on the year. The Huskies will contin-

ue their season Friday against Troy in Atlanta, Georgia.

is batting .299 with eight homers and 52 RBIs. "Obviously, it's big. He's a big part of this team," pitcher Jon Lester said. "Hopefully, he's a quick healer and he'll be back soon for us."

There was some good news for Boston, which began the day with the best record in the majors and an 8½-game lead in the AL East: Clay Buchholz is ready to rejoin the rotation after missing three months with a strained neck.

The right-hander said he threw about 30 pitches in a routine bullpen session at Yankee Stadium, his final hurdle before starting Tuesday night at Tampa Bay. Struggling left-hander Felix Doubront will be skipped this time through the rotation.

"Just to give him some recovery time, a little added rest, just as we've done with a couple of other guys," Farrell said.

Buchholz will be followed by Ryan Dempster and Jake Peavy against the second-place Rays.

Farrell said he probably would prefer not to use Doubront out of the bullpen right now.

"I think for this time through we'll stay away from him for now

just to give him, we feel, the rest needed," Farrell said.

Buchholz opened 9-0 with a 1.71 ERA in 12 starts this season and was selected to the AllStar team. He hasn't pitched in the majors since beating the Los Angeles Angels on June 8.

He made three rehab starts in the minors, the final one on Thursday in a playoff game for Triple-A Pawtucket. Farrell said Buchholz should be able to throw 75-80 pitches Tuesday.

"We're hopeful we get a guy that's close to what he was prior to the injury, and it would be an additional lift to this rotation," Farrell said.

Buchholz said he wants to get in peak form in time for a potential trip to the postseason.

"I want to make sure that I'm ready for that," he said, adding that his body should feel fresher than most other pitchers because of all the time off.

Buchholz acknowledged there was a point this summer when he doubted whether he would make it back this season.

"Mentally, I'm ready. I think that's what everybody was questioning — mental toughness. But

I know my body better than anybody else," he said.

Ellsbury fouled a pitch off his foot Aug. 28 against Baltimore and aggravated the injury when he stole second base in the 10th inning Thursday night at Yankee Stadium. He scored the decisive run, but hasn't played since.

Rookie center fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. was recalled Saturday from Pawtucket and has started the past two games. This is his fourth stint with the Red Sox this year, and he's batting .172 with two homers and seven RBIs. "I definitely want to be able help out any way I can, and I'll be ready whenever they want to play me," Bradley said.

Ichiro Suzuki scored on wild pitch by Brandon Workman (5-3) with two outs in the ninth Sunday, ending Boston's five-game winning streak.

Moments earlier, Mariano Rivera (5-2) gave up a windaided homer to streaking Will Middlebrooks that tied the score at 3. With the desperate Yankees depleted in the bullpen, Rivera was summoned to start the eighth inning for the first time since June 20, 2006.

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UConn junior Karson Ratliff plays the ball over the net during the UConn Classic.

Scott.Carroll@UConn.edu

Jacoby Ellsbury sidelined with broken foot

AP

Red Sox outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury is out after breaking his foot but may be back in 2013.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jacoby Ellsbury is a big reason the Boston Red Sox are closing in on a playoff trip. Now, they can only hope he'll be back in time to join them.

The center fielder has a broken right foot, leaving the AL East leaders without a key offensive catalyst as they try to wrap up the division title.

Red Sox manager John Farrell said the team believes Ellsbury will be back this year, and hopes it will be during the regular season.

But there is no specific timetable for his return, and the speedy leadoff hitter will keep wearing a protective boot on his injured foot for

five days.

"After that, we'll see how he responds to treatment and how he's feeling," Farrell said after Sunday's 4-3 loss to the New York Yankees.

Ellsbury had an MRI on Saturday and returned to Boston for further examination. Then he went to Colorado to get a second opinion from foot specialist Dr. Thomas Clanton at The Steadman Clinic. Farrell said tests confirmed the diagnosis of a compression fracture, which means it's nondisplaced.

Ellsbury leads the majors with 52 stolen bases in 56 attempts. He has scored a team-high 89 runs and

Huskies down nine-man Terriers for second win from BEANTOWN, page 12 doubt for the Huskies largely in part to several late BU mental mistakes.

BU goalkeeper Matt Gilbert earned a red card in the 64th minute after taking out freshman midfielder Cyle Larin at the top of the penalty box.

And the Terrier’s play really fell apart when BU junior Kelvin Madzongwe was also ejected less than 15 minutes later after a hard tackle on a Diouf breakaway.

Following the postponement of their second scheduled home game against William & Mary on Monday, the Huskies had no problem with getting some extra rest. The Huskies also jumped two spots in the national rankings in that time to No. 3 in the nation.

Junior goalkeeper Andre Blake recorded his second shutout of the season for the Huskies. Blake was the conference Goalkeeper of the Week this past week for his shutout performance against St. Francis in UConn’s season opening win.

UConn’s next match will be Tuesday night at 7 p.m. at home against the No. 19 University of Washington Huskies at Joseph J. Morrone Stadium.

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Lane Kiffin

» Pic of the day

I waited all day for this?

Sept. 17 Syracuse 7 p.m.

Sept. 14 Bradley 7 p.m.

7

The number of matches in a row for UConn men’s soccer that were decided by one goal (regular season and postseason).

- USC football coach Lane Kiffin after the Trojans lost to Washington State 10-7 on Saturday.

Men’s Soccer (2-0-0) Tomorrow Washington 7 p.m.

Stat of the day

“That’s not a performance that anybody should have to pay to see.”

Away game

Football (0-1) Sept. 14 Maryland 7:30 p.m.

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Sept. 21 St. Louis 7 p.m.

Sept. 27 Central Florida 7:30 p.m.

Women’s Soccer (4-2-0) Sept. 13 Boston University 7 p.m.

Sept. 15 Dartmouth 1 p.m.

Sept. 19 La Salle 7 p.m.

Sept. 22

Sept. 26 Georgetown SMU 1 p.m.

7 p.m.

Field Hockey (3-0-0) Sept. 13 Fairfield 6 p.m.

Sept. 15 Lafayette Noon

Volleyball Sept. 13 Troy 4:30 p.m.

Sept. 18 UMass Noon

Sept. 22 Rutgers Noon

Sept. 28 Villanova Noon

Sept. 20 New Hampshite 12:30 p.m.

Sept. 20 Dartmouth 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 18 Hartford 3 p.m.

Sept. 22 Boston Univeristy 1:30 p.m.

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Sept. 14 St. John’s Noon

Sept. 14 Georgia Tech 7 p.m.

Men’s Tennis Sept. 13 Brown Invite All day

Sept. 14 Brown Invite All day

Sept. 15 Brown Invite All day

Sept. 14 Quinnipiac Invite All day

Sept. 15 Quinnipiac Invite All day

Sept. 27 Army Invite All day

Sept. 28 Army Invite All day

Women’s Cross Country Tomorrow Nassaney Memorial 10:30 a.m.

Sept. 14 UMass Invite Noon

» NFL OPENING WEEKEND

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NEW YORK (AP) — After losing three straight slugfests, the New York Yankees scratched out a crucial win thanks to a stolen base and a wild pitch.

Ichiro Suzuki scored on Brandon Workman’s wild pitch with two outs in the ninth inning Sunday, and New York overcame Mariano Rivera’s blown save for a 4-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox that prevented a four-game sweep.

“Just really big,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. “We needed it, because we’ve had some pretty tough games the last couple days.”

Robinson Cano hit a two-run double and the Yankees, fighting for a wild-card berth, finally quieted Boston’s booming bats behind starter Hiroki Kuroda. They took a one-run lead into the ninth inning before Rivera, called on to start the eighth, gave up a wind-aided homer to streaking Will Middlebrooks.

Suzuki hit a one-out single off Workman (5-3) in the bottom half, stole second and advanced to third on Vernon Wells’ fly to right.

Workman then fired a high pitch that deflected off the mitt of catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia and caromed away off the backstop, allowing Suzuki to score easily.

“It just kind of got away from me,” Workman said. “We were trying to work a little bit up on him.”

Boston, which began the day with the best record in the majors and an 8½-game cushion in the AL East, had its five-game winning streak snapped. The Red Sox simply outslugged New York in the first three games of the series, giving them a whopping 54 runs, 17 homers and 64 hits during a four-game span that ended Saturday.

Finally on Sunday, some pitching.

After getting big hits from Cano and Mark Reynolds off Boston starter Jon Lester, the Yankees clung to a 3-2 lead through seven innings.

With setup man David Robertson and left-hander Boone Logan sidelined by sore arms, the 43-yearold Rivera (5-2) was brought in to start the eighth for the first time since June 20, 2006, at Philadelphia.

“He’s not saving anything for 2014,” Girardi said about Rivera, who plans to retire after this season.

“He told us that he could give us two, so it wasn’t really too harsh.”

Baseball’s career saves leader got through his first inning with little difficulty, but Middlebrooks led off the ninth and lofted high fly to right field.

Suzuki initially broke in on the ball, then scurried back as the wind caught hold of it and dropped it a few rows deep beyond the famous short porch at Yankee Stadium.

Late drive from Brady lifts Patriots over Bills in opener

Women’s Tennis Sept. 13 Quinnipiac Invite All day

New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning leaves the field after throwing an interception to Dallas Cowboys defensive end DeMarcus Ware during NBC’s first Sunday Night Football game of the season.

Rivera blows save, but Yankees avoid Sox sweep

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Oct. 19 Wisc.

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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — New season, new receivers, familiar finish for Tom Brady, who looked like his old self in the clutch.

Whatever chemistry Brady still lacks within the Patriots new-look offense, the quarterback overcame by rallying New England to a 23-21 season-opening win over the Buffalo Bills on Sunday.

Brady marched New England 49 yards in 12 plays to set up Stephen Gostkowski’s 35-yard field goal with 5 seconds left.

“I didn’t have a lot of doubt,” Brady said, referring to the final drive, which began at the Patriots 34 with 4:31 remaining. “We’ve got a team full of fighters. There’s going to be some ugly wins, but we’re always going to fight until the end.”

Shaking off a sloppy start, Brady completed all six attempts for 34 yards on a final drive during which he twice completed passes to convert third downs.

That included threading a throw to Danny Amendola in traffic for a 10-yard gain on third-and-8 at the Bills 39.

Shane Vereen ran 15 yards on the next play, and the Patriots settled on running time off the clock before Gostkowski won it.

Amendola, an offseason freeagent addition, showed grit by returning to the game despite a nagging groin injury he aggravated late in the first half.

“He really toughed it out, which was impressive,” Brady said of Amendola, who led the Patriots with 10 catches for 104 yards — similar numbers to what Wes

Welker used to provide for Brady.

And Brady leaned heavily on his most experienced returning receiver, Julian Edelman, who caught both touchdown passes.

“I was proud of our team today,” coach Bill Belichick said.

“Obviously, it wasn’t perfect. And there’s a lot of things we can do better. But they played the last few minutes of the game the way we needed to play it.”

Brady finished 29 of 52 for 288 yards and two touchdowns in helping the Patriots win their 10th straight season opener. That ties Portsmouth/Detroit (1930-39) for the NFL’s third-longest streak.

It also marked the 36th time of Brady’s career that he’s led the Patriots to victory while tied or trailing in the fourth quarter.

Belichick won his 206th career game to move one ahead of Marty Schottenheimer for sixth place on the NFL list.

The new-look Bills nearly pulled off a stunning upset in their first game under coach Doug Marrone and rookie quarterback EJ Manuel.

It instead turned into an alltoo-familiar outcome for the Bills against their AFC East rivals.

They dropped to 1-19 in their past 20 meetings. They are 3-24 in 27 games since Bill Belichick took over as Patriots coach in 2000.

“You talk about sense of disappointment: It is devastating,” Marrone said. “When we go out there and we have opportunities, and you can’t win that game, I’m letting them down.”

The Bills squandered an encouraging debut by Manuel, the

AP

Tom Brady completed his 38th game-winning drive in the fourth quarter or later on Sunday.

rookie first-round draft pick out of Florida State.

Manuel was inconsistent, but looked poised in the pocket in completing 18 of 27 passes for 150 yards with two touchdowns.

After trailing the entire first half, Manuel put the Bills ahead 21-17 on the first possession of the third quarter by capping an 11-play, 80-yard march with an 18-yard pass to Stevie Johnson.

The Bills had difficulty mustering any further offense, managing just three first downs and 73 yards on their final five possessions.

“Overall, at the end of the day, we lost. So I can’t really say we did this great, we did that great,” Manuel said. “At the end of the day you want to win.”

The Bills also squandered a sturdy effort by a revamped defense that forced three turnovers, including safety Da’Norris Searcy returning Stevan Ridley’s fumble 74 yards for a touchdown.

The Bills also limited the Patriots

to 6 points on three drives inside Buffalo’s 20 in the second half.

Discipline was an also an issue for Buffalo, which was penalized 10 times for 75 yards.

The Patriots’ defense was opportunistic, too. Cornerback Kyle Arrington forced two fumbles, both of which set up touchdowns.

“It’s a game of opportunity.

You’ve got to capitalize as much as possible,” Arrington said. “We were just very fortunate to come away with enough plays to win the game. It wasn’t perfect.”

Patriots rookie receiver Kenbrell Thompkins with four catches for 42 yards despite being targeted 14 times.

And then there was Ridley.

After fumbling by slipping at the line of scrimmage without being touched, Ridley spent the rest of the game on the sideline with his helmet perched on his head.

Vereen took over finished with 14 carries for career-high 101 yards.

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Is it time to pay college athletes?

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BEANTOWN BEATDOWN DaGraca’s first career goal lifts UConn over BU

By Mike Corasaniti Senior Staff Writer

Tyler Morrissey The other day a friend of mine asked me if I had seen the cover of the latest Time magazine. Like most people of today’s generation I did not go to a newsstand, but rather online and there I saw it.

The headline of the cover story read, “It’s Time To Pay College Athletes.” This is not a new debate by any stretch of the imagination; however it has been gaining more attention in the media these days and this cover will only ignite the debate further.

Should we pay college athletes? A very polarizing question, it seems. If colleges and universities were to start paying athletes tomorrow, the ramifications would be felt across the nation. Budgets for universities small and large would need to be increased in an already harsh economic climate.

For schools with powerhouse athletic programs like Michigan and Southern California, this might not be an issue. However for the Florida Gulf Coast’s and Southern Connecticut State University’s of the world, paying athletes could spell disaster.

You also can’t ignore the biggest issue of compensating athletes. How much does each team receive and which teams get paid? Due to Title IX both the men’s and women’s athletic programs would need to be paid. It’s the fair thing to do. One might argue it’s not logical to pay the golf team the same amount as the football team, due to the physical wear and tear a football player goes through during a season. No offense to golf, but in a physical sense, football is a much more demanding sport.

There is also a strong argument supporting payments to college athletes. The NCAA and the schools the athletes compete for have been profiting off their students’ names for years. Walk into the Co-op here at UConn and you will see a variety of different UConn jerseys with a player’s number on the back. The apparel might not have their last names on them, but we all know a No. 15 UConn men’s basketball jersey belongs to Kemba Walker. How much of the $75 price tag do you think Walker sees? Zero.

» MORRISSEY, page 9

The UConn men’s soccer team survived their second close game of the season Friday night with a 1-0 victory over the Boston University Terriers.

The No. 3 Huskies (2-0-0) started the game off slowly with only a few shots coming in the first several offensive series of the game.

The BU defense flexed its muscles as it broke apart several promising UConn offensive opportunities for the majority of the first half.

But a first half substitution putting junior transfer midfielder Edir DaGraca in the match proved to be crucial for the UConn offense.

With just under five minutes to play in the first half, senior forward Mamadou Doudou Diouf passed to DaGraca who crossed over a BU defender and sent a shot into the lower left corner of the net.

The goal was DaGraca’s first as a Husky and turned out to be the deciding goal of the game.

The Terriers (0-2-0) came into Storrs Friday following a 2-1 overtime home loss to intracity rival Boston College to start their season.

Though they were able to keep the game competitive until the end, the victory was rarely in

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UConn junior midfielder Edir DaGraca takes on three defenders in Friday’s 1-0 win against Boston University at Morrone Stadium. DaGraca, a transfer from Monroe College, scored his first career goal for the Huskies in the win, beating the keeper off a pass from senior forward Mamadou Doudou Diouf.

» HUSKIES, page 9

» MEN’S SOCCER

Defense keeps Terriers off the board in win With a 1-0 win over the Boston University Terriers on Friday night at Joseph J. Morrone Stadium, the thirdranked UConn men’s soccer team is off to a 2-0-0 start in its season, thanks to a firsthalf goal by junior midfielder Edir DaGraca.

DaGraca scored off an assist by senior forward Mamadou Doudou Diouf in the 41st minute after Diouf worked around several BU defenders at the right side of the penalty box to set up the pass for the goal. DaGraca fired the shot past the BU goalkeeper Matt Gilbert into the bottom left corner to put the Huskies on the board.

“I was running from a ball I played with Mamadou and I thought he was going to play it right back to me,” DaGraca said. “So I stopped because I

didn’t want to be offside, and Blake only needed to make immediately he was like ‘go,’ one save as the Huskies’ then I just ran and defense were able saw the guy comto thwart most ing so I just faked of the Terriers’ a shot and put it threats. back in.”

“Obviously we With the lead, have Andre and UConn took advanthe team is good tage of two red defensively, but cards to BU playwe are still workers in the second ing on things,” Notebook half along with an Coach Ray Reid unrelenting pressaid. “This is only sure to preserve the team’s our second game of the year second victory and shutout. and I think we are a little betStingy defense fends off ter than we were a week ago.” the Terriers DaGraca scores his first BU possessed the ball for goal as a Husky the better part in the first half, After spending two years at using long crosses and attacks Monroe College and helping from the wings to set up scor- the team reach the National ing opportunities but only Junior College Athletic managed to get two shots on Association’s national chamgoal in the first 45 minutes. pionship in 2011, DaGraca Although the Terriers ended transferred to UConn this up with a total of eight shots year and scored his first goal for the entire match, UConn as a member of the Huskies. junior goalkeeper Andre “It’s an unbelievable feel-

on Maine, all the while UConn’s defense did not give up a single shot to the Black Bears in the first half.

“They had everybody in their back, everybody was dropping back,” Coach Len Tsantiris said.

“It’s tough to break that down, especially if you only have one goal.”

Holding a 1-0 lead heading into the second half, the Huskies continued their strong offensive pressure, though they could not add to their goal total.

At the 77th minute, Maine had one of its two major scoring opportunities, trying to capitalize on rare defensive miscommunication, but could not get a shot off before redshirt freshman Gabriella Cuevas contained the situation.

UConn finished the game with 23 shots to Maine’s two.

“I think the most important thing is ‘zero,’” Tsantiris said. “We didn’t

give anything up. We had the possession. … We could’ve had two or three more goals, but their keeper played really well.”

In Sunday afternoon’s game against Syracuse, the Huskies maintained their unshakable defense in the first half, holding the Orange to just two shots.

Hill broke through to score first in the 42nd minute, giving UConn its only goal of the game.

“We fought hard, which is what we needed to do,” Hill said. “(My teammates) are finding me really well, so I think if we just keep it up we’ll be fine.”

Shots by redshirt junior forward Julie Hubbard in the 19th minute and Hill in the 20th and 34th minutes also highlighted UConn’s offense in the half. The Huskies mustered a total of eight shots in the first 45 minutes.

In the second half, Syracuse ramped up their offensive pressure,

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ing,” DaGraca said. “My first goal in the best team of the country is just unbelievable.

Best feeling in the world.”

DaGraca mentioned how he always wanted to play for a team like UConn and how he thought the “best thing” was to come to Storrs.

“Here is the place where you see the best goalkeeper in the country, the best forward in the country and the best coach in the country,” DaGraca said.

Diouf’s performance from the left wing With Diouf switching to play the left wing more often this season, the senior forward has displayed some great passing from the position to set up scoring opportunities for the Huskies and it was evident in the assist he had on DaGraca’s goal.

“When I had the ball, there was a lot of movement,” Diouf said. “But the fact that

the ball came from (Adria) Beso and I saw Edir was running before the ball, I know he’s there. I saw No. 3 (on BU) inside a little deep so I know Edir was not offside, so I slipped it to him and it was a great finish by him.”

Both Diouf and Reid stated, however, that just because Diouf is playing more at the left wing, his job has not changed at all.

“Maybe my position changed, but my job is always to score goals,” Diouf said.

“Now that I’m playing wing, I need to help the freshman (Cyle Larin) in front of me and set him up sometimes. I need to back him up and help him to feel more comfortable.

I’m just trying to do my best at the position because the most important thing is the team.”

Michael.Peng@UConn.edu

Women’s soccer extends winning streak to four

By Kyle Constable Staff Writer

The UConn women’s soccer team defeated Maine and Syracuse in 1-0 victories this weekend to complete the sweep of their threegame home stand.

In Friday night’s game against the Black Bears, the Huskies dominated the offensive end early, taking 12 shots in the first half.

Sophomore forward Samantha McGuire at the 5th minute and freshman forward Rachel Hill at the 8th minute took shots that just missed, but junior midfielder Riley Houle was able to cut in from the right and connect for UConn’s first and only goal in the 9th minute.

Several more shots from the Huskies – including one from sophomore forward Stephanie Ribeiro in the 41st minute that broke just right – kept the pressure

getting off six shots that kept the ball in UConn territory for much of the second 45 minutes.

“It was a very hard-fought game,” Tsantiris said. “I thought we held on very well, especially towards the end. We slowed things down and got the ball out of our danger zones. It was a good effort.”

The best shot opportunity for the Orange came at the 49th minute, but a save by redshirt freshman goalkeeper Emily Armstrong kept Syracuse scoreless. Shots at the 58th and 60th minutes also kept the Huskies on their toes.

The game marked the fourth straight contest in which Armstrong did not give up a goal, having only given up one goal since the team’s 3-2 loss to Wisconsin to open the season.

“It definitely shows how our defense is getting a lot more comfortable with each other,” Armstrong said. “We’re working

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Freshman forward Rachel Hill added to her goal tally for the season with a goal on Sunday.

together really well. We cover for each other.”

UConn will look to continue its win streak as they face Boston

University Friday night in Boston at 7 p.m.

Kyle.Constable@UConn.edu