The Daily Campus: Oct. 8

Volume CXV No. 32

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NICHD grants $427K for study

By Matt Nanci Campus Correspondent

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Associate Director of Psychology Stephanie Milan received a grant from the National Institute on Child Health and Development for her study on the cultural context of health disparities in young girls.

The grant is worth $427,000 for a period of two years. The study Milan is conducting will focus on the reproductive health and being overweight or obese. African American and

Latina girls are documented as the greatest risk for either health issue.

“These two health outcomes are not typically studied together, but behaviors impacting them are both heavily influenced by cultural factors,” said Milan, the grant’s principal investigator and a principal investigator at Uconn’s Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention. “Many areas where health disparities exist, such as cancer and HIV, are universally perceived as undesirable outcomes; in contrast,

perceptions of early childbearing and weight are individually and culturally defined.”

African American and Latina girls are about two-to-three times more likely to become pregnant and one-and-a-half times more likely to be obese than their white, non-Hispanic peers.

Milan believes that ideas significant to understanding families of color may not show up in the studies of non-Hispanic whites.

The Institute funds Milan’s study through The Exploratory/ Developmental Grant (R21)

mechanism. This study is looking to discover how a parent’s culturally established ideas affect everyday family life and how they may indirectly influence the risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STD’s), accidental pregnancy, and being overweight or obese in young girls.

The research team will perform 200 interviews with girls in 9th and 10th grade at New Britain High School. Fifty percent of the girls will be Latina,

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STUDY HIGHLIGHTS

*Scope: 200 interviews with 9th and 10th graders and their moms or female guardians *Methods: Self-report surveys, daily calendars, “four rules” task, a q-sort and interviews.

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GOING TO WAR WITH KNIGHTS Huskies open Big East play with battle at Rutgers.

SPORTS/ page 14 EVEN TOURED O’DONNEL, CRUDE JOKES ARE NOT OK Mockery of politician shouldn’t be sexist.

COMMENTARY/page 4 AACC screens “Call and response” Film raises awareness of modern-day human trafficking.

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Students listen to a speaker on Fairfield Way during the annual Student Health and Wellness Fair.

‘Healthy’ turnout at wellness fair

By Monica Mula Campus Correspondent The Student Health and Wellness Fair made its annual appearance on Fairfield Way Thursday, with both returning and first-time exhibits, free giveaways and presentations.

The event included both UConn organizations and outside health education groups, all with the common goal to offer healthy college lifestyle tips to students.

Lisa Hardnett, office coordinator for Wellness and Prevention Services, said the primary objective of the office is to provide students with as many resources as possible for discovering healthy habits.

“There are 35 vendors here today that were chosen based on their pertinence to students’ lives,”

Hardnett said. “We also wanted to advertise student-run UConn groups and show just how motivated they are in their specific causes.”

Graduate assistant, Liberty Pandey, played a role in coordinating the fair. She said they choose groups that present information on a range of health categories, including social, physical, mental, emotional, environmental and multicultural wellbeing.

“There are so many different aspects that contribute to overall healthiness, and the booths that are here cover just about all of them,” Pandey said.

Pandey said the staff has been gathering student feedback, evaluating prior fairs, and booking vendors for the fair since last spring.

“We encourage students to come forth about what they’d like to learn

about,” Pandey said. “Though we don’t expect to change behavior with just a four-hour long fair once a year, we strive to raise awareness as much as we can. It all starts with knowledge.”

For the 25 years the fair has occurred, students have reacted positively to the vivacious exhibits and abundance of health information.

Gustavo Oliver, a 1st- semester management engineering for manufacturing major, especially appreciated the UConn Recreation booth.

“They discussed the programs that will be available throughout the year, which I found helpful because I never knew just how much they had to offer,” said Oliver.

UConn Recreation offered information about its outdoor pro-

grams, BodyWise fitness classes, intramurals, nutrition services and fitness facilities. Students ate free Cliff Bars while learning about the programs and events coming up this fall.

Michael D’Alfonso, coordinator of Fitness and Wellness, said the upcoming events all focus on “promoting a healthy, active lifestyle.”

Alex Samalot, 1st- semester environmental engineering major, also gained useful information at various booths.

“I’m glad I visited the fair today,” Samalot said. “I am about to try out that free massage station now.”

The interactive exhibits attracted an enthusiastic crowd, despite the unexpected rain.

Advocates from SHAPE, Students Helping to Achieve Positive Esteem, involved passersby in a self-esteem-

ate – mainly the recently filibustered DREAM Act. Hegel, who had been without a strong stance on the DREAM Act when the student government first voted on the issue, held the meeting so that he could accurately represent the voice of MacMahon Residence Hall.

“I didn’t have my opinion fully formed [during the first voting session], I didn’t know how my constituents felt,” Hegel said. This meet-

ing, Hegel admitted, was mostly for him to “guage how constituents felt about the DREAM Act.” Students asked questions about the specifics of the DREAM Act, which they said they didn’t know much about. Hegel and fellow senator Nisha Wali, a 5th-semester nursing major, answered the questions to the best of their ability, allowing the attending students to develop a unanimous support for the DREAM

Act by the end of the meeting.

Once the meeting concluded, Hegel seemed to have solidified his stance on the issue.

“I’m going to support this act,” he said without a hint of the indecision he exhibited the first time the DREAM Act was brought to USG’s attention. “I think the majority of UConn students are going to get behind this, I am behind this,” Hegel said.

Hegel took a fair amount of time during the meeting

boosting activity.

“We are in the process of creating a quilt, with each square made by a different student explaining why they appreciate their bodies,” said Rebecca Bonetti, a 3rd- semester nutrition major. “Each will read ‘I love my body because…’ and give a brief explanation.”

With eating disorders becoming an overwhelming issue across the country, the group draws awareness to them and holds ‘Love Your Body Day’ to encourage students to appreciate their bodies the way the are— healthy and functioning.

Vendors are asked to track how many students visit their booths— in years past the total number has reached 500 students.

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USG senator meets with constituents

By John Sherman Campus Correspondent Jordan Hegel, a 3rd-semester political science major and undergraduate student government senator, held a McMahon constituency meeting Thursday in the residence’s study lounge. Hegel invited students to the open meeting to explain the functions of USG, promote involvement in area council and discuss issues facing the student sen-

to ask the students to get involved, personally attesting to the benefits of involvement in student government and area council. Hegl said the student senator cited that students are paying for USG, and his suggestion to the student body was to “take advantage of us”.

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Late night festivities include airbrush tattoos, face painting, carnival games and circus performers.

Come cheer on the Huskies who are 7-1-2.

Students and community members can take a hayride, take a guided hike, tour the UConn compost facility and visit the farms.

Students will be participating in the second annual fun run put on by the EWB. -AMY SCHELLENBAUM

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News

AACC screens ‘Call and Response’

Conn. regulators approve power plant opening delay

NEW BRITAIN (AP) — Connecticut regulators have approved a power plant owner’s request to extend its deadline for opening while contractors repair damage from a deadly gas explosion The Connecticut Siting Council approved Kleen Energy Systems’ request during its meeting Thursday, agreeing to extend the Middletown plant’s opening date to June 30, 2011. But the company still hopes to open in April.

Construction was almost finished on the plant when it exploded Feb. 7, killing six workers and injuring 50. It was slated to open in November, but is being rebuilt.

US Supreme Court won’t hear Conn. tribe’s case KENT (AP) — The leader of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation in Connecticut says the tribe isn’t giving up its efforts to win federal recognition, even after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by the tribe this week.

Chief Richard Velky says the Kent-based Schaghticokes have 25 days to request a rehearing before the nation’s highest court.

He also says going to Congress could be a last resort.

The federal Bureau of Indian Affairs granted the tribe recognition in 2004. But that decision was later reversed after state officials argued the tribe had gaps in evidence related to its social continuity and political governance.

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Rutgers president defends response in suicide case

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — The president of Rutgers University says the university responded appropriately to a complaint by a student whose gay sexual encounter was broadcast online that his roommate was spying on him with a webcam.

Richard McCormick told The Star-Ledger of Newark on Thursday that he personally reviewed Tyler Clementi’s student records after the 18-year-old freshman committed suicide.

McCormick says, “I believe we did all we could and we did the right thing.”

He declined to be more specific, citing student privacy laws.

The Star-Ledger earlier reported that prosecutors had subpoenaed Rutgers for e-mails concerning its handling of Clementi’s complaint.

Clementi’s roommate and another freshman have been charged with invasion of privacy. Authorities are considering bias crime charges.

Foes of health care law lose key court ruling

DETROIT (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday upheld the authority of the federal government to require everyone to have health insurance, dealing a setback to groups seeking to block the new national health care plan.

The ruling came in a lawsuit filed in Michigan by a Christian legal group and four people who claimed lawmakers exceeded their power under the Constitution’s commerce clause, which authorizes Congress to regulate trade.

But Judge George Caram Steeh in Detroit said the mandate to get insurance by 2014 and the financial penalty for skipping coverage are legal. He said Congress was trying to lower the overall cost of insurance by requiring participation.

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Rocket with US-Russian crew blasts off

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — A Russian rocket with a U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts onboard blasted off successfully early Friday for the International Space Station, with flame-haired Russian spy Anna Chapman making an unexpected appearance at the cosmodrome to wave them goodbye.

The Soyuz TMA-01M was launched at the scheduled time of 5:10 a.m. (2310 GMT) from the Baikonur cosmodrome in the vast steppe of southern Kazakhstan.

Scott Kelly and Russia’s Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka are due to reach the orbiting laboratory in two days to begin their five-month mission. They will join two U.S. astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut who have been at the station since June.

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Justin Dillon, Director of “Call and Response” answers questions after the screening of his film by the African American Cultural Center.

By Russell O’Brien Campus Correspondent On Thursday, SUBOG and several of the cultural centers showed the movie “Call and Response” to raise awareness of modern-day slavery.

After the movie, the director, who attended the showing, held a talk about, among other things, about the creation of the movie and his experience with human trafficking.

“Call and Response” presents the viewers with facts about slavery and tells the stories of people who have been either victimized by traffickers or are fighting against trafficking. In the movie, a journalist spoke of interviewing two girls chained up in a brothel, realizing they would spend the rest of their lives there. One girl was 14 and one was 15. The movie also featured several songs inspired by human trafficking and talked about the power of music to solve problems.

Human trafficking is an issue for millions around the globe.

It is estimated that 27 million people around the world are currently enslaved. The profits of the slave trade are more than the profits of Starbucks, Google and Nike combined. It is also estimated that half of the people trafficked in the world are 18 years old or younger. Some can be as young as three.

In the Q and A session after the movie, the director, Justin Dillon, talked about his reasons for making the movie. He told the audience that he desired to find a solution to a seemingly impossible problem. “For me, it was about finding your own response,” he said. Dillon is also head of the non-profit organization, Call and Response, which came out of the creation of this movie.

When asked about how students can help right now to end modern day slavery, he responded by telling the audience to find out how slavery affects your life.

For most of us, Dillon explained, this comes down to the goods

we buy. Slavery is used in many industries, from the cotton industry to the mining industry. The materials used to create products such as sweatshirts, coffee or cell phones are sometimes supplied to companies by suppliers who use slave labor.

Ultimately, it is often people in first world countries such as us who buy materials from slave labor. But we can make an impact by using our buying power as consumers to pressure companies not to use materials from slave labor, Dillon said.

“What I would really like to see is world wide transparency in supply chains,” Dillon said.

He urged the audience to pay attention to this issue because, as consumers and voters, we can make a difference. “Americans need to start making it a priority with their representatives.”

The movie showing was organized by Dr. Willena Kimpson Price, the director the African American Cultural Center.

So what did UConn students have to say about the movie?

AsACC shows war love story film

By Kimberly Wilson Campus Correspondent Yesterday, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., the film “Japanese War Bride” was shown at the Asian Cultural Center. Edward Tang, a professor of American studies at the University of Alabama, presented the film.

Tang was a guest lecturer for the Guest Lecture Series for Asian Studies Institute.

“Japanese War Bride” was produced in 1952 by King Vidor. It portrays the story of a Korean War veteran, Jim Sterling (Don Taylor), and his Japanese wife Tae Shimizu (Shirley Yamaguchi). Sterling returns to his California home from Korea with his new Japanese wife, who was a nurse at a hospital where Sterling was a patient. Bigotry and racism prove to be challenges for the couple in America.

Tang describes how this film can be interpreted as being more than a simple love story.

“I see the marriage between the Japanese woman and the American man as a metaphor for the international relations

between Japan and the United States,” Tang said.

Tang also commented on the historical significance of the film.

“I see the marriage between the Japanese woman and the American man as a metaphor for the international relations between Japan and the United States.”

Edward Tang U Ala. Professor “The film was produced shortly after the Japanese internment camps were shut down, at a time when the Japanese were heavily discrim-

inated against,” Tang said.

“An important observation about the film is that the Japanese woman who married the American family did not necessarily look at the American family as her personal role models of ‘American.’ Rather, she looked at the Japanese Americans as her role models – they had experienced the same prejudice as she had.”

Tang followed up the film with a question and answer session.

“The students seemed particularly interested in how critics perceived the film,” Tang said. “The critics perceived this movie to have a rather conventional storyline, but it is the deeper metaphor that gives the film meaning.”

Christine Choi, a 1st-semester exploratory major who is involved in the Asian Cultural Center, promoted the use of the center to all students.

“The events bring a more casual environment, and they are a great way to meet other people, Choi said.

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“I thought it was very eye opening,” said Jeff Marcelus, a 7th-semester biomedical engineering major. “I was somewhat aware of trafficking but I didn’t expect it to have been to that extent.”

“I thought it was very inspiring,” said Emily Selzer, a 1stsemester undecided major. “It got me angry at what’s going on and how unjust it is.” She said that she was surprised that the slave trade was still going on and that it definitely changed her views.

“I think it should be one of our top priorities,” said Shaquanna Chochram, a 1st-semester undecided major. She said that seeing children in brothels touched her the most. “Kids don’t know a lot and they’re forced to do this stuff,” she said.

“It’s a crime that shames us all,” Dillon said when asked why we should care about the issue.

“We’re all complicit and we don’t know it.”

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Moms, female guardians to be included in study from NICHD page 1

25 percent will be African American, and 25 percent will be non-Hispanic white.

The girls’ mothers or female guardian will be interviewed as well.

Research methods used in this study include self-report surveys, daily calendars, a “four rules” task, a q-sort and interviews. In the daily calendars, each girl must record their activities and who was there with them. In the “four rules” task, each mother will sit down with their daughter and discuss four household rules and how these rules may or may not apply differently for a son or daughter.

In the q-sort, mothers and daughters will have a group of words that they will sort into the categories of what describes the mothers, daughters, or qualities they feel women need to succeed. The interview portion will ask each girl’s mother to describe how she envisions her daughter in five years. There will also be two follow-up sessions within six months of the conclusion

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Gay community sends video message: It gets better

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In this Oct. 3, 2010 file photo, people participate in a candlelight vigil for Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi at Brower Commons on the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick, N.J. Clementi jumped to his death off a bridge a day after two classmates surreptitiously recorded him having sex with a man in his dorm room and broadcast it over the Internet.

NEW YORK (AP) — David Valdes Greenwood was 15 when he climbed to the highest arch of a bridge in his small Maine town and got ready to jump.

It was 1982. He was distraught over a pastor’s Sodom and Gomorrah sermon that his homosexuality would bring God’s wrath down on everyone around him. He didn’t think his friends, family and fellow churchgoers deserved to suffer because he was gay.

“It had never occurred to me that I would wound people by my simply existing,” Greenwood said. “And it seemed kind of true.”

So he became that boy on the Sophie May Lane Bridge in Norridgewock. Thankfully, a neighbor walked by and shouted for him to stop fooling around up there - and he listened, then he fled town the first chance he got.

All grown up, married to a man he loves with a 5-yearold daughter they adore, the 43-year-old Greenwood hopes gay young people in pain will now listen to him. So do hundreds of others who, like Greenwood, have taken to

YouTube to make a promise: If you hang on through the selfdoubt, the coming out years, through the slurs, the isolation at school and being slammed up against the lockers, through the rejection and anger of parents and grandparents, it gets better.

A whole lot better.

Moved by a recent spate of suicides by teens who were believed to be victims of anti-gay bullying, syndicated relationship and sex advice columnist Dan Savage began the YouTube project Sept.

21, hoping it would turn into exactly what it is: A destination for gay young people to receive comfort from a variety of perspectives on their Internet home turf.

There’s a gay cop and an exMormon, a young Muslim from a conservative Pakistani home, gay parents showing off photos of their kids and an openly gay Baptist minister.

Mixed in with somber stories of suicide attempts are a sassy lesbian cartoon, a video with gay men surrounded by shirtless male hotties, and a sprinkling of celebrities: Ellen DeGeneres, Tim Gunn from

“Project Runway,” Chris Colfer from “Glee” and blogger Perez Hilton, who went to a Jesuit high school in Miami and said in his contribution, “I would have loved to have had me around when I was a teenager.”

There are gay people who confess THEY were the bullies and people with guitars singing. Cities and campuses (San Francisco, Smith College) are represented. There’s also a lot of anger and frustration that the middle and high school years for so many gay youth haven’t changed all that much since Greenwood was a kid.

“I really, really believed that kids killing themselves over being gay was a relic of another time,” Greenwood, a writer and English instructor at Tufts University near Boston, said in an interview. “I mean, it was nearly 30 years ago when I climbed my bridge. I thought that even kids who were bullied now had online communities or other ways of feeling hope about their identities.”

Savage, a gay rights activist who also writes books, travels the country speaking, but he knows many towns and

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That’s one reason he set up the “It Gets Better” channel on YouTube and asked for video stories, starting with himself and his partner, Terry.

In two weeks, the channel has racked up more than a million views, the number of videos has exploded from a handful to 1,000 submitted, comment threads are growing and e-mails are pouring in from bullied and closeted teens.

“We’re totally overwhelmed by the response,” Savage said.

“The most gratifying are parents sitting down at the computer and watching with their kids. So many kids, they’re bullied at school by their peers, they go home to homophobic parents who bully them, and then they’re dragged to church on Sunday for more bullying from the pulpit.”

Sitting in an airport reading about the deaths of Minnesota 15-year-old Justin Aaberg and 15-year-old Billy Lucas, who killed himself in his family’s barn in Greenburg, Ind., Savage knew the power of his own story, his years in Catholic boys schools as the son of a church

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“High school was bad,” Savage said. “I was picked on because I liked musicals. I was obviously gay.”

But his parents came around.

So did his partner’s family in Spokane, Wash., where Terry was stuffed into bathroom stalls and school officials dismissed his parents’ complaints about bullying as a natural consequence of being gay. They’ve been together 16 years and adopted their 12-year-old son, D.J., at birth.

“I didn’t think when I came out to my parents in the very early 1980s when AIDS was slamming into the gay community that I would ever be a dad,” Savage said in their video.

It’s been 40 years since Stephen Sprinkle was in high school. At 58, he rocks gently in an office chair, his trim gray beard and gentle smile offering a touch of Santa Claus in his video. He describes his Christian upbringing in rural North Carolina and his decision to deny himself an “affectional life” as a gay man when he received his call to the ministry in his 20s.

NEW HAVEN (AP) — About 30 Yale University students filed complaints Thursday with the city of New Haven over the conduct of police during a nightclub raid that led to the arrest of five students.

The students met with city and police officials who promised they would thoroughly investigate.

“We take these investigations very, very seriously,” said Robert Smuts, the city’s chief administrative officer.

The students complain that police used unnecessary force to clear Club Alchemy/ Elevate early Saturday, and that one student was shocked with a stun gun. Police were conducting liquor and safety compliance checks at several downtown clubs.

“Elevate presented such a risk that it was necessary to respond with a strong police presence that involved members of the SWAT team as support to the limited bar detail that was already in place,” police said in a statement Saturday after the arrests.

The department said it was aware of inquiries into the officers’ use of a stun gun and would be investigating. Any illegal or improper actions “will be met with appropriate corrective action and discipline,” the statement said.

The stun gun was used during the arrest because the student had struck officers and needed to be brought under control, police said.

Police say more than 250 people were in the club, which has a legal capacity of 150, and that a large police presence was required because several fights erupted outside.

Jaya Wen, one of the student organizers who said she planned to file a complaint with police, said she saw a student shoved roughly and struck on the face and three officers drag another student into the hallway.

Wen said she was told by the club owner that at least 350 people could fit in the club comfortably.

Several students said officers used profane language and threatened to arrest them if they didn’t shut up.

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Even toward O’Donnell, crude jokes are not OK

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t is not very difficult to mock Christine O’Donnell, Delaware’s Republican nominee for Senate. From the lies about her education history on her resume, to her strict, no-exceptions anti-masturbation and anti-choice stance, she seems almost to be a caricature of a politician.

But she has received strong endorsements from the Tea Party and is quite serious about running for Senate.

She’s been the talk of many political pundits, with the majority of them being torn over whether to take her seriously or ridicule her. On “The Tonight Show” last Friday, host Jay Leno opted for disdain, making a severely sexist remark about O’Donnell and oral sex in an interview with “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane. When asked whether he would enjoy having sexual relations with O’Donnell, MacFarlane responded, “I think the second she opened her mouth, it would probably ruin everything.” Leno then interrupted with, “Really? Or make it really good. No matter how much Leno, or anyone else, wants to prevent people from voting for O’Donnell, there is no excuse for this type of comment. Presenting facts about her campaign should suffice in showing people the ineffectuality of her candidacy. Dehumanizing her is over the top.

On the one hand, O’Donnell has made it abundantly clear that she does not support equal rights for women. She does not believe in abortion, even in the cases of rape or incest. She once stated her support for women submitting to their husbands. This doesn’t mean she deserves sexism, though. She’s a human being, not an object. She may be a completely unviable candidate, but misogynistic attacks on her are wrong. They only serve to justify the Tea Party’s claims of persecution, endearing her more to the populace she courts.

It is possible to undermine the credibility of a person without undermining his or her humanity. Other attacks on O’Donnell have been merited. She does lack credentials and her positions are extreme. Criticism can and should be delivered, but not in a sexist manner. It’s quite easy to portray her weaknesses without having to suggest that all she’s good for is oral sex. To do so is only to play into the trap set by the Tea Party to triumphantly declare O’Donnell as a victim instead of a political candidate who requires strict scrutiny regardless of her gender.

If public figures really want Christine O’Donnell to lose the election and the support of Tea Partiers, they need to truly point out her flawed reasoning and her flawed campaign without resorting to snide remarks and inappropriate jokes.

The Daily Campus editorial is the official opinion of the newspaper and its editorial board. Commentary columns express opinions held solely by the author and do not in any way reflect the official opinion of The Daily Campus.

Someone suggested that I join World Peace on Facebook. It’s been months and I still can’t get myself to click the ignore button.

My roommate keeps singing Andre Dixon’s name to the tune of the UConn fight song. I think he’s crossed the line between nostalgia and obsession.

Drunken epiphany: Sex is like pizza. When its good, it’s reeeeeeally good. And when it’s bad ... I mean it’s still pretty f@#%ing good.

Maybe I was just tired, but I’m pretty sure the theater professor kept saying something about a “dramaturkey” in class today.

Today, a fly dropped dead on my copy of Othello. Professors take note: even insects hate Shakespeare.

I think there are more color choices for condoms than party balloons.

In class today I sat behind a girl who was weeding out her Facebook friends. I watched her delete me.

Today I witnessed a man fall off his motorcycle. I would say that I was concerned except the motorcycle wasn’t even moving.

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‘I like it’ statuses aren’t informative

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like it on the floor.

Chances are you have seen some variation of this statement over the past few days on Facebook. Your roommate likes it on the couch. Your little sister likes it on her desk. Your mother likes it on the kitchen counter.

If you’re like me, upon first seeing these “I like it” Facebook statuses that have now gone viral, you automatically associate them with sex. If

By Taylor Trudon you’re like me, you Commentary Editor were very surprised to find that this “I like it” business is supposed to refer to where women put their purses. Still confused, I then learn that this is a backwards way of not only paying homage to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but that it is intended to band women together with this “secret” message and consequently, leave our male counterparts oblivious and wondering why they never knew their girlfriend liked it up against the closet door.

I am left scratching my head.

Remember back in January, when thousands of women used their Facebook statuses to tell the world what color their bra was? The effort was meant to raise breast cancer awareness, but something tells me that posting “pink lace” induced more giggles and “that’s hot” comments than actual conversation about a disease that will be responsible for taking the

lives of nearly 40,000 women this year.

Because having breast cancer is fun and sexy and meant to be condensed into a bra color for your cyber entertainment, right? If anything, it gave girls an excuse to leave a scandalous Facebook status, seek attention and, once again, leave men out of the loop.

“Making breast cancer sexual is demeaning its significance...”

I guess I could understand why girls may think informing the world of their bra color might help the breast cancer cause. Obviously bras are connected to breasts, and by making it a flirty, funny, sexual (codeword: appealing) concept, guys are more likely to pay attention and get on board with breast cancer. I don’t know how many guys thought, “Gee, I think I’ll educate myself on breast cancer today because I was so inspired by those Facebook statuses,” but if they did, kudos to them. The “I like it” statements? Sorry, but there’s really no correlation and therefore you’re not making a statement at all.

The problem here is that 10 months later, we’re doing the same trick, but with different words. We’ve upped the ante with our sexual references. Yet again, we have managed to leave people confused because we’re not going to explain why our “FB” status is what it is.

But we’re also going to leave guys in the dark.

There are two main problems with this: mak-

ing breast cancer sexual is demeaning to its significance and by intentionally neglecting to inform people why we’re doing what we’re doing, we’re not making any progress. We’re making it into a game of “guess how long it takes until you figure out my status” instead of exerting our time and energy elsewhere.

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a column about breast cancer merchandise, like the “I love boobies” bracelets and “Save second base” T-shirts. People were going ballistic about how “offensive” these accessories are. Heck, high schools are banning bracelets because they’re apparently inappropriate. I disagreed. But why when breast cancer awareness is deliberately and blatantly being made into a sexual reference is no one upset? Why are “I love boobies” bracelets taboo, but these sex-riddled statuses perfectly acceptable? I’m sorry, but I would rather see my 11-year-old cousin wearing an “I love boobies” bracelet than seeing “I like it on the floor” as her Facebook status.

Posting bra colors and “I like it” statuses aren’t doing any harm, but when you think about it, are they really doing any good? If anything, it limits participation to only women and tells men that breast cancer doesn’t affect them. Well, if they’re being told it doesn’t affect them, why should they bother caring?

What’s the point? For those arguing that these silly statuses are sparking conversation and getting the message “out there,” will someone please tell me where it is? Because I’m not seeing it.

Commentary Editor Taylor Trudon is a 7th-semester journalism major. She can be reached at Taylor.

Trudon@UConn.edu.

Warning should not stop students going abroad

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ast week, the State Department issued a travel alert to Americans traveling overseas. They were cautioned to be vigilant and aware of their surroundin

By Robert Fullam ings response to Staff Columnist European i n t e l ligence reports warning of a possible terrorist attack across European capitols.

The State Department warning is a level below a travel warning but could have colleges and universities rethinking where people might study abroad and give students second thoughts about going overseas. Even under these circumstances, students should not be deterred from planning to study abroad.

Prospective students should not see this alert and drop their plans to study abroad. I’m not advocating that you study in a country torn by civil war or massive upheaval. That said, people seem to think that when you are advised to watch out for suspicious activity or be aware of your surroundings, something must be wrong; but this is not the right attitude. Vigilance

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should be routine wherever you are – we have a false sense of security otherwise.

American universities experience the same problems schools abroad do: drugs, alcohol, violence and sexual assault. It seems like we only become aware of these issues when we are out of our comfort zone. With or without the threat of a terrorist attack, studying abroad seems like a daunting task. The possibility of homesickness, a possible language or cultural barrier, a dislike of the food or maybe just making new friends might turn you off from studying in another country.

It is just another dose of reality: you are not going to like everything you encounter or everyone you meet, but along the way there are some things you will grow to enjoy. A lot of us came to college with the same fears of not making friends and not liking our classes and missing our friends and family.

But as each semester passes, we have learned how to cope with these anxieties. Studying abroad is the same type of situation.

Everyone starts on a clean slate and everyone is looking for the same experience.

When you attend college, you aren’t merely paying tuition, room and board, meal plans or any other fees. You’re paying for an experience. The spirit of education – succeeding, failing and expanding your horizons – comes with its dangers. There is nothing in life that does not come without its consequences.

“Schools in the United States can be just as dangerous as those abroad.”

Even though it might not feel like it sometimes, schools in the United States can be just as dangerous as those abroad.

Some of us may pick a university that is close to home, giving family and friends the comforting thought that if you ever need help, you are only a short drive away. Even within this short physical distance, we still find ourselves in different mental state, we are on our own, in a space where we forge

our own path.

College introduces us to real-life scenarios that we will encounter once we enter the workplace, where our actions have consequences. Studying abroad can give you an entirely new perspective on things by exposing you to new ideas, cultures and new friends. It can also be a cure for the somewhat insular and sheltered nature of college life.

You can ask almost anyone who has gone abroad to reflect on his or her experiences, and they will light up with smile and tell you how they would like to go back and how unforgettable it was.

Studying abroad is an opportunity that many people never get to experience. It’s not just an educational stepping stone, but a life-changing journey as well. There are options for everyone, so if you have the opportunity to study abroad, I suggest you take it, despite the government warning.

Staff Columnist Robert Fullam is a 5th-semester political science major. He can be reached at Robert.

Fullam@UConn.edu.

“Christine O’Donnell released a commercial in which she says, ‘I’m not a witch.’ That’s pretty good, though not as effective as her opponent’s slogan, ‘I’m not Christine O’Donnell.’” – Jimmy Fallon

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Commentary

Mining valuable metals funds warfare abroad

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ell phones and laptops are virtually everywhere. They are balanced next to books in cafes and flipped out to text all our friends.

But these technologies, while beneficial to us, contain gold, tungsten, tantalum, and tin, elements that are very dangerous to millions of people in the Republic of Congo.

Because the Congo is rich with these metals, they are the main source for them.

But the profit from mining and selling these metals is

By Deepti Boddapati funding a bloody civil war Staff Columnist between tribes. According to Enoughproject.org, these metals, called conflict metals, are strictly regulated and taxed illegally by the mafia like militias that control the Congo.

These militias control the mines that produce the conflict metals and the lives of the workers who live there. The wages they give to the workers are often minimal, and do not adequately compensate the worker for taking the immense risk of mining. Many of the miners are children who are forced into service by the militias. After taxing the mines, these militias also control smuggling routes and usually ask for very

high prices to allow the metals out of the country.

Enoughproject.org estimates that the militias make 183 million dollars each year off of conflict metals.

Where does this money go? Short answer: weapons. All of the money gained by exploiting the miners is used to purchase weapons needed to fuel the deadliest conflict since World War II. This war has claimed the lives of three million people since it started.

“The profit from mining and selling these metals is funding a bloody civil war between tribes.”

And killing isn’t the only crime these militias commit. Their preferred psychological weapon of choice against enemy tribes is rape. According to John Prendergast, a founder of Enoughproject.org, the Congo contains the worst rates of sexual violence in the world. “This is the most dangerous place to be a

woman,” Prendergast said.

An interview posted on YouTube with some former militiamen reveals the extent to which these men have been brainwashed. They fidget on camera as they justify why they raped, all the while vowing to destroy any man who did the same to their wives and sisters.

But perhaps the most chilling testimony was from a man who looked straight at the camera and insisted that being raped was a patriotic sacrifice necessary for the success of the cause.

The process by which these conflict metals end up in your cell phones starts in the mines of Congo. With little profit to the miners, the ore is then sent to trading houses in big cities where it is sorted. Next, the ore is smuggled out to neighboring countries. Here it is shipped to factories in India, China, Thailand and other countries to be mixed with other metals. Finally, the metal is processed into components which are put into our technology.

The companies who use these metals, such as Microsoft and Apple, claim that tracing the origin of the ore is very difficult. But conversations with some of the traders in the Congo show that each mine creates a different look in the ore, thus making it easy to trace back.

The good news is that this is a problem that can be solved. It starts with every user of these blood-soaked technologies. It starts with you.

You, the consumer, need to speak up and show interest in these conflict-free products. Show that there is a demand for conflict-free products, and that companies could profit by converting to them. In addition, there is a bill in Congress the S-891, which intends “to monitor and stop commercial activities involving the natural resources of the Democratic Republic of Congo that contribute to illegal armed groups and human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of Congo.” Show interest in this bill by sending our senator an e-mail expressing your support for it.

This wouldn’t the first time a conflict-causing product was banned. In 2005, the Clean Diamond Trade Act banned the purchase of diamonds that fueled wars in Africa. The same needs to happen with these conflict metals. The change starts with us, one consumer at a time. The change starts with you.

Staff Columnist Deepti Boddapati is a 1st-semester mechanical engineering major. She can be contacted at DeeBoddapati13@gmail.com.

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Watch out for that tree!

I am writing in hopes to provide an alternative perspective to the one offered in the article “For some, wedding is dream come true” in the Commentary section on Thursday, Oct. 7.

As a female, I found the author’s sweeping generalizations of women, relationships and marriage to be offensive and downright embarrassing. As an individual who acknowledges the vast spectrum of sexual identities in our culture, I found her heteronormativity to be staggeringly ignorant.

First of all, responding immediately to a friend’s announced engagement with the question “What does the ring look like?” sounds materialistic because it IS materialistic. Our culture’s obsession with material possessions and heavily weighted status symbols permeates every social institution of which we are a part. The value of relationships, happiness and success has been grossly tied to the objects used to represent it.

In light of all the backlash to the uproar surrounding the offensive comics published in recent weeks, I’d like to point out that women and their bodies are not sex objects to be purchased by sparkly rings and the promise of commitment.

It is important to note that many people decide to marry because of mutual trust, love and the desire to be committed to one another. Sure, many who marry thoroughly enjoy the romantic details of the ceremony and celebration; the cake, the dress, the floral arrangements, etc. We do all know that the wedding is just the beginning, right?

Marriage is about more than the ring and the wedding party. Isn’t the “key to making our dreams come true” (that’s assuming that

“How to Train Your Dragon”

every woman’s dream is to get married. it’s not.) finding the right person? The ring really is a small piece of the puzzle. How about the foundation for a healthy future?

Does that just “fall together” at the sight of a sparkly stone?

The comics published served to satirically perpetuate the stereotype that vocalized non-consent can be disregarded; that sex with women is easily attained through expensive objects. That stereotype that you identify with is one of the many reasons why women are discriminated against as shallow, easily bought, and objects of sex.

Good for you, thanks for the solidarity, sister. I don’t know how you feel qualified to say that the “average woman” can be bought like that, but I can assure you that there are plenty of women who cannot.

Many of us have more self respect than that.

One last thing, in a state where marriage has become legally attainable for non-heterosexual couples, don’t you think it’s a little close-minded to assume that a) every woman who marries will marry a man and b) every marriage ceremony includes a gown and a diamond ring?

– Barbara Boutot

Sexism in the Daily Campus

I am writing in response to the article in Thursday’s Daily Campus titled, “For Some, Wedding is a Dream Come True” (October 7th).

This article conveyed overtly sexist ideas. In particular, the author Cassie Schmidt suggested that getting married is a lifelong dream for most women and that a woman’s life “starts” when she gets married.

Furthermore, she attributed this sexist way of thinking to “dreamers” and asserts that they are most likely the majority of women.

Schmidt says that the stereotype of a woman dreaming about marriage must come from somewhere

because she and her friends fit it.

The stereotype does indeed have an origin but it is an unnatural one. This stereotype arises from the patriarchal society that we live in and the norms that govern our behavior. If it were natural for a woman to want to get married, then why would it not be natural for a man to want to get married? Where is the “natural” divide between the desires of men and women? Such a disparity in the expectations of men and women leads to these stereotypes and allows one gender, male, to be valued above another, female. So when Schmidt and her friends play into this ideology, they are only contributing to their own oppression.

Furthermore, when the Daily Campus publishes Schmidt’s writings and the comics that she defends, it is contributing to the systematic oppression of women in our patriarchal society. When Schmidt defends the comic depicting a woman being coerced into sex with a diamond ring, she reinforces the idea that a woman’s goal in life should be to trade her body and sexual services for a piece of metal.

Because this article and the past comic reinforce structural sexism, they are hate speech. The fact that such messages are written and drawn is scary, but the fact that the Daily Campus reviews and publishes them is frightening. I am asking that the Daily Campus please try to consider the implications of what it prints. Rather than normalizing sexism, I would hope that the student newspaper would strive toward equality on campus.

It baffles my mind and enrages me to see the opposite occurring.

– Leah Christiani

In Response to “For Some...”

I am writing to express my deep disdain for Cassie Schmidt’s article, “For Some, Wedding is a Dream

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Come True” (10/7/10). This article is offensive, as well as sexist and heteronormative. As a woman who also looks forward to being married one day, I can understand the excitement around the idea that you get to spend the rest of your life with someone you are in love with. I cannot understand the idea, however, that what is most thrilling is the diamond engagement ring.

I was thoroughly distressed when I read “flashing that sparkly ring in from of your average woman would probably get you what you wanted.” Obviously, the outpouring of rage from women across this campus after the two recent misogynistic comics is indicative of the fact that we are not comfortable with the idea of being bought by tangible, shiny objects. While posing the question of how someone would not have been able to see the humor in the sexist comic, Schmidt neglected to point out that coercion into sexual activity is a form of rape. When someone says no to sex, as the woman character initially did in the comic, compelling her to say yes through means of a shiny object is not consensual. Perhaps that is the reason why the author of that comic was the recipient of angry emails from the entire Violence Against Women Prevention Program class, as well as an overwhelming amount of negative feedback from other students whose letters to the editor were published following the comic’s debut.

It seems as though the things Schmidt is most excited about for her own wedding are materialistic and ostentatious in nature. The point of being married is not the material objects you possess, but your love for one another. It is not a shiny diamond ring that is going to get you through the hardest times in marriage or through the changes in life that comes with age. Moreover, if Schmidt was to actually do some research and learn about the diamond trade, she might realize just how far from glamorous diamonds

are and how defining marital happiness by them is preposterous – Jackie Martone

Response to Op-Ed

This letter is in response to the op-ed piece, “For Some, Wedding is Dream Come True” by Cassie Schmidt, printed October 7th.

I am deeply disturbed, as a woman, by the assertions made by this writer, and the conclusions she draws concerning women’s desires, dreams, and worth as a whole.

I am also enraged that Schmidt would defend the recent cartoon in which women were compared to dogs who fetch treats (i.e.: diamond rings) in exchange for sex. Schmidt paints a picture of women that is degrading and demoralizing. I demand that Daily Campus writers start to take accountability for the sexist material they write instead of continuing to make excuses for overtly sexist behavior.

Schmidt also clearly had trouble interpreting last month’s comic.

The man was not proposing. He was using a material object to coerce a woman into sex, as well as painting women as fickle, stupid beings.

The author of that comic thinks so little of women that he not only believes we will clearly abandon all self-determination of our sexuality for a diamond ring, but that this is funny.

As a Women’s Center staff member, we fight every day for women to be seen as the intelligent, creative, and contributing members of society that we are.

This article states that women are solely obsessed with their weddings, so much so that a material object given to them by a man is the final “piece of a puzzle after which one’s whole life “falls into place.”

What about a woman’s ability, intelligence, and worth? What about her education? Her leadership? Her career experiences?

These are the things that enable women to live fulfilling lives that they may choose to share with a partner, not a trinket that the author says women will exchange for sex. The media and society as a whole has a vested interest in making women believe the lie that Schmidt so effortlessly regurgitated. If a woman’s status is solely determined by her decision to have cupcakes instead of a traditional cake she doesn’t have time to fight the real battles. What if women like Schmidt put down their bouquets and picked up protest signs? What if all the energy spent planning and dreaming of a wedding was transmitted to fighting the wage gap?

Women are worth more than a diamond ring, and we should demand to be treated as such.

Lipsync

The handling of Lipsync last Thursday was absolutely horrendous. Myself and hundreds of others got blocked out of being able to go.

SUBOG and the event organizers had some similar problems last year, and yet they didn’t plan for enough capacity this year. Gampel has 10,167 seats, plus floor seating, so they need to figure out how to use as many of them as is needed for everyone to be able to go to the show. It is student funded and should actually be open to everyone, not just those who waited in line 45 minutes early.

The handling of the doors was also horrendous. They had two doors open, when Gampel has many, many doors. Considering that they didn’t have to check tickets, they should have been able to get people in much more quickly.

I, and thousands of other students who had problems with this event, expect that it will be properly planned and set up next year, so that everyone get a seat and enjoy the show.

– Alexander Wood

How do you stay healthy this time of year?

“A high intake of liquid calories.”

Erik Edeen, 7th-semester real estate finance major.

“I get my annual flu shot and use my netty pot once a week.”

Lauren Amaio, 5th-semester communications major.

“Doing a million 12-ounce sit ups.”

“I sleep.”

John DesRochers, 7th-semester real estate finance major.

Kate Wargo, 3rd-semester political science major.

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Campaign season heats up for Dems, GOP

WASHINGTON (AP) — “That’s a lie. You know that’s a lie. I never said it.”

That was Republican Linda McMahon going after Democrat Richard Blumenthal this week as the Connecticut Senate rivals shared a debate stage.

Afterward, he insisted she was the one playing “fast and loose with the facts.”

Across the country, in California, GOP gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman pointedly blamed Democrat Jerry Brown for the disclosure that she had employed an illegal immigrant housekeeper.

“You put it out there and you should be ashamed for sacrificing Nicky Diaz on the altar of your political ambitions,” Whitman told Brown, who was standing a few feet away. He shot back: “You have blamed her, blamed me, blamed the left, blamed the unions. But you don’t take accountability.”

Candidates have been slinging mud from afar for months, their insults filling TV ads and peppering speeches. Now, in the campaign’s final weeks, they’re meeting up close in debate — in many cases for the only time — and getting right in each other’s faces.

In the run-up to Nov. 2, dozens of House, Senate and gubernatorial debates are scheduled in hotly contested races in places like Colorado, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Florida, Wisconsin and Illinois.

The face-offs can offer some of the only unscripted moments in the campaign. Though much planning goes on behind the scenes to ensure that candidates can satisfactorily answer questions, a debate is the rare time when candidates directly interact with each other and show the voters how they behave under pressure.

This close to Election Day, the in-person confrontations can change the trajectory of a race — or lock it in place. Republicans and Democrats alike say that

dramatically altering the course is difficult after a final debate.

Those in tight races — like Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and GOP challenger Sharron Angle — seek game-changing performances to sway the sliver of still-undecided voters in Nevada. Those with comfortable leads in polling, like Republican Rob Portman in Ohio’s Senate race against Democrat Lee Fisher, go into debates hoping to simply avoid stumbling and blowing their advantage.

The debates give candidates a forum to explain their positions or backgrounds directly to voters, circumventing the media filter. They get to rebut their foes’ claims and level their own criticisms.

Images matter just as much as words. How these politicians perform on stage — from posture to facial expression — can tell voters much about their character and their poise, and play into campaign narratives.

In the 2008 presidential race, Republican John McCain’s grimaces sometimes made him look like a grouchy old man next to the younger, polished Democrat Barack Obama. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush’s glance at his watch during one debate played into the notion that he was haughty.

Both McCain and Bush lost their races.

At a debate in the 2000 New York Senate race, Republican Rick Lazio strode across the stage and demanded Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton sign a pledge banning unregulated financial contributions known as “soft money” from her campaign. The confrontation generated sympathy for Clinton while making Lazio look like a menacing bully.

Rewards can be sweet for candidates who exceed expectations or who benefit from opponents’ poor performances. But risks are enormous, too, particularly in the Internet age. Make a major gaffe, and it can go viral

or become fodder for attack ads in the final days.

In this year’s Alabama gubernatorial race, Democrat Ron Sparks just rolled out an ad showing Republican opponent Robert Bentley during a recent candidate forum saying: “Not every child is going to college and not every child is supposed to go to college.” The two had been debating a plan to use state lottery revenue to pay for scholarships.

Said Bentley later: “Sometimes in a forum as you are speaking, sometimes things may come out different than the way you want them to come out.”

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, in her only debate against Democratic Attorney General Terry Goddard last month, lost her train of thought while discussing her accomplishments and endured about 15 seconds of painful silence. She also was put on the defensive when Goddard challenged her on an incorrect comment that headless bodies were turning up in the Arizona desert.

But, even though it was splashed over the Internet, the episode didn’t seem to damage her. She has, however, refused to debate Goddard again, content to sit on her double-digit lead in a state that gives her high marks for supporting an illegal immigration crackdown.

Florida’s trio of Senate candidates lambasted each other Wednesday.

“You haven’t been drinking the Kool-Aid, my friend, you’ve been drinking too much tea and it’s just wrong,” Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running as an independent, told Republican Marco Rubio, painting him as a radical conservative beholden to the tea party.

Rubio shot back at the Republican-turned-Independent Crist: “I think it’s always funny to listen to the governor attack me for the positions he himself held just six months ago.”

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In this Oct. 4, 2010 file photo, Connecticut Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon, right, looks over to opponent Democratic candidat Richard Blumenthal, during their debate in Hartford.

And Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek piled on: “Charlie Crist stands on a wet paper box. ...

You don’t know where he is.”

In Kentucky, tea partybacked Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul and Democrat Jack Conway traded

verbal punches and repeatedly interrupted each other on the nationally televised “Fox News Sunday” last weekend.

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By Amy Schellenbaum Associate Managing Editor

The convergence of UConn’s suicide prevention week, midterms and the recent disturbing string of college suicides made the arduous task of what to write about this week atypically easy.

As UConn students we are very lucky to have such a comprehensive and accessible system for mental health counseling. Counseling and Mental Health Services provides group, individual and couples counseling. They host workshops and seminars. CMHS even has consultations for administrators, faculty and RAs who are interested in learning how to approach students who they think need help.

“UConn has tons of support…and they only don’t work because students won’t seek them out,” said director of CMHS Barry Schreier.

Besides CMHS, Schreier mentioned the Office of Student Services and Advocacy and the Center for Students with Disabilities as places students could go for support.

If you feel overwhelmed or helpless, go. If you feel like you’re reaching a breaking point, go. If you feel lost or confused or burdened with something going on with a loved one, go. If you just need somebody to talk to, go. That’s why they’re there. Let them help.

“It is best for students to seek help from any student support office preventively, rather than seeking help long after things have gotten bad,” Schreier said.

Personal feelings are, well, personal. Not everybody has somebody they feel comfortable opening up to. I know. A lot of times I feel like my problems are too trivial to complain about, stress about school and money and needing to sleep seem petty compared to the stuff I’m learning about in my indigenous human rights class.

Sometimes I feel like laying down my burdens in front of other people just makes me more vulnerable and scared. I’m afraid that people I open up to will be suffocatingly sympathetic. Or even worse, I sometimes feel like every problem I unpack at their feet they take upon themselves.

The point of this column isn’t for me to gush the profound woes of my black and emotionally-charred soul. I just want people to understand that having those reservations about telling somebody how you’re affected by either the day-to-day anxieties or a life-altering and anguishing event doesn’t make you abnormal and it certainly doesn’t make that need to tell somebody unjustified.

If you have swells of stress that feel like they’re going to make everything in your life explode from within your chest, between your eyebrows or at the back of your head, then you should probably talk to somebody. If you’re lonely or confused about who you are or how you fit into the world, you should probably talk to somebody.

And my plea: if you think you need help, get help. Please.

Almost everyone I’ve ever known to go to therapy has said it was worth getting the help. So few people in the world get the opportunity to see a therapist, which we have as affluent college students. It’s just silly not to take advantage of it.

Seventy-six percent of students who went to CMHS said that counseling significantly helped them with their concerns and helped them stay in school, according to Schreier.

CMHS’s website, at www. cmhs.uconn.edu, has downloads for self-help pamphlets and

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General Othello (Brooks Brantly) rallies his troops in Connecticut Repertory Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s classic, Othello, being presented in the Nafe Katter Theatre Oct. 7 – 17, 2010. For tickets and information call 860-486-4226 or visit www.crt.uconn.edu.

By Loumarie Rodrigues Campus Correspondent The Connecticut Repertory Theatre has started off the year with Shakespeare’s tragic play “Othello,” a tale about intense jealousy, mayhem and worse – murder.

With a combination of simple scenery and detailed costumes, the play takes off when Iago (played by Kevin Coubal) conspires against Othello (played

by Brooks Brantly), a Moorish general who is representing the Venetians who are fighting against the Turks. As the play continues, there isn’t a dull moment, as Iago persistently seeks vengeance for being passed up for a promotion to Lieutenant

by Cassio (played by Brian Patrick Williams). The mayhem began from the moment the play started, and lasted right up to the end when there were multiple miscommunications that led to Othello’s downfall. With lies and rumors of the infidelity of Othello’s innocent wife (played

by Alexandra Perlwitz), the ending is tragic for all characters.

This also includes the ignorant Rodrigo (played by Ryan Guess), who is easily tricked by Iago’s deceptions because he is head-over-heels for.

No one knew what foul deed Iago would think of next however. However, it’s how the play ends that makes Iago one of the best villains in all of Shakespeare’s plays. With

quotes such as “I hate that Moor” or “I am not what I am,” there was always a sense of wonder and horror in what Iago‘s next plan may be, and poor, gullible Othello had fallen prey of his treacherous plans.

The production itself was unique with a double cast of the main roles of Iago and Othello, which they plan to switch out of every other night. Altogether, the play production was set a year in advance in order to bring the show together. Many audience members were impressed with how accurate it followed the book without changes in lines from Shakespeare’s original scripts.

Gerald Maignan, a 5th-semester communications major, said,

“I felt it followed the book literally part by part and it was very well done.”

Piano merformance major and 7th-semester Arijit Chakrabonty added, “I really liked it. I thought it was very powerful.”

Another audience member, 7th-semester and human development major Nicole O’Connor, said, “It was very intense and very well done. I was kind of freaking out at the end.”

The Connecticut Repertary Theatre will continue its showings of the Shakespeare classic from Oct. 8 through Oct. 17.

» TICKETS ON SALE

Comedy show tomorrow

By Sahar Kashi Campus Correspondent

If you’ve ever watched Comedy Central and you wished you could meet its stars, your dream may have just come true. Triple Addie Awardwinning Tammy Pescatelli from “Comedy Central Presents: Tammy Pescatelli”, is scheduled to come to Jorgensen next Saturday at 9:30 p.m. Pescatelli has been a finalist on NBC’s reality show: “The Last Comic Standing 2”, a favored guest on The Bob & Tom Show, and Comedy Central’s “The World Stands Up.” Comedy has always been huge in Pescatelli’s life. She did her first stand up on a dare. A radio station happened to be there, and offered her a morning show. With her degree in fashion design from Kent State University, she decided to go on the road full time with comedy instead.

Although she is recently married and with a baby boy, Pescatelli considers herself to have been single basically her

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Rush tickets for UConn students

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Brooks Brantly as Othello in CRT’s production of Shakespeare’s classic tale of love and revenge.

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» UCONN MARCHING BAND

Long hours for long-standing tradition

By Focus Staff

Current students can just show their student ID at the Connecticut Repertory Theater’s (CRT) box office and purchase rush tickets to all CRT productions that day for only $6.

Student rush tickets are sold on as-available basis. The rush price is valid on the day of the performance only, and only one rush ticket is will be sold per student ID. Advance tickets are regular prices. The box office at the Jorgensen Center is open Monday – Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and one hour prior to start time for performances in the Nafe Katter, Studio and Harriet S. Jorgensen Theaters. For more information, call 860-486-4226.

Rock for a Cure tickets on sale soon

By Focus Staff

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The UConn drumline plays along with the rest of the UConn Marching Band at the Sept. 11 home football game against Texas Southern, which ended in a victory.

By Keelan Freitag Campus Correspondent The UConn Marching Band kicked off the new season in front of 113,000 Michigan fans with a rocking Irish medley called “Celtic Beat” and an Irish dance suite.

“The level of performance is the highest it’s ever been,” said drum major Brendon Foley. “With all the choreography, it’s much more pleasant and audience engaging; its more of an interactive event than a performance.”

The UCMB practices for two hours every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. There are performances almost every weekend during the semester, and the students receive

only a single credit for all this work. “The sacrifice of not having my weekend is fine because I go to the football games for free, I get to go to the bowl game; there are definite perks,” said Tom Nagle, a 7th-semester math major and trombone player.

Sophomore Callie White, a pre-education major and UCMB trumpet player, said, “It’s a lot of work but it’s totally worth it.”

She then jokingly added, “Just not credit-wise.”

Students of the UCMB arrived on campus for ‘preseason’ a week before summer break ends to start rehearsing.

“Going straight from preseason to Michigan is a lot of work to ask from someone in the first two weeks of school, but we pulled it off,” Nagle said.

“It was the most intense preseason the band has ever had,” Foley said.

Recently, the UCMB was nominated for the Sudler Trophy in honor of growth, impact and history. Walking through the crowd of around 300 students after band practice, it was easy to see the traditions and history that have been passed down. Asking for quotes, I received several “never, EVER, wear pants,” or other such odd inside jokes. “There is a definite camaraderie and brotherhood in the band,” said 7th-semester engineering major and UCMB trumpet player Greg Carmichael.

This year marks a special 20th anniversary for band director David Mills. Maria Soshea, a freshman UCMB trumpet player,

explained, “Like any band director, you need to have a little insanity to keep people going.”

The band is performing on Saturday for Family Weekend, led by drum majors Andy Laundry, Tony Pandolfe and Brendon Fole. Students are encouraged to bring their parents to see the band rock out on Memorial Field. They will perform the Irish medley and an arrangement of Jai Ho, a far eastern piece adapted from the movie Slumdog Millionaire.

“It’s going really well and it’s only getting better,” said Bryan Dunn, a 5th-semester bio major and UCMB trombone player. “It’s gonna be a great season.”

Keelan.Freitag@UConn.edu

Tickets for Alpha Epsiolon Phi’s benefit concert, Rock for a Cure, will go on sale Monday, Oct. 11 through Friday, Oct. 15 in the Student Union. Tickets are $5 and will benefit one of the sorority’s philanthropies, Sharsheret.

Sharsheret is a national organization of cancer survivors devoted to addressing the concerns of Jewish women facing breast cancer. Sharsheret, Hebrew for “chain,” was founded in 2001 by Rochelle Shoretz, a former law clerk to United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Rock for a Cure will take place in the Student Union Theatre at 8 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 18. The concert will feature the rap group 1-2 Kidz, who will be opened by The Blend.

For more information about Rock for a Cure, contact Melissa Wynne, AEPhi’s vice president of philanthropy at Melissa.Wynne@UConn.edu

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» TELEVISION

Carrie Ann Inaba adds game show to TV dance card

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Carrie Ann Inaba is adding a game show to her TV dance card.

The “Dancing With the Stars” judge will host a new version of “1 vs. 100,” scheduled to debut next month on the GSN channel.

“I never would have thought of myself as a game show host, but when I saw the show I fell in love with it,” Inaba said Thursday, the first day of production.

The show has gone high-tech with such elements as web cams, which Inaba said appeals to the “tech savvy” side of her.

“1 vs. 100” pits one player against a group of 100 people tagged “the Mob.” The player’s task is to correctly answer a series of multiple-choice trivia question, while mob members do the same thing. At stake is a top prize of $50,000.

“1 vs. 100,” which originally aired on NBC with host Bob Saget, is a change of pace for Inaba. The dancer-choreographer was a Fly Girl on “In Living Color,” toured with Madonna and hosts red-carpet coverage for ceremonies that have included the Golden Globes and Academy Awards.

She’ll continue to work on ABC’s “Dancing With Stars” on Monday and Tuesday and then tape the game show on the other three weekdays. It’s an “incredibly intense” schedule but one she can manage by relaxing at home with her boyfriend and his daughter, and through yoga, Inaba said.

» BROADWAY

‘Tigers Be Still’ treats depression with wry humor

NEW YORK (AP) — Sometimes it helps to tackle uncomfortable subjects with humor, and so emerging playwright Kim Rosenstock has written "Tigers Be Still," a wry, dark comedy that looks at two families coping with grief, anger and paralyzing depression.

Perfectly cast and thoughtfully directed by Sam Gold, the sweetly funny play is performing at the Roundabout Theatre Company's small Black Box space as part of its Underground series that brings the work of new writers to the stage.

While the offbeat humor about people trying to deal with "moving on" sometimes threatens to veer into television sitcom territory, expert direction and acting help maintain a certain level of dignity. Even when some stolen pug dogs may have to be rescued from the basement.

"This is the story of how I stopped being a total disaster and got my life on track and did NOT let overwhelming feelings of anxiousness and loneliness and uselessness just like totally eat my brain." Those are the introductory words of Sherry, an emotionally fragile but newly optimistic art therapist.

She's played by Halley Feiffer with a quirky, likeably neurotic stage presence perfectly suited to this fragile but determined young woman. Sherry is gamely trying to cope with her own life and also get her dysfunctional family household back to normal.

All the women in Sherry's

family became housebound during the past year, which has caused her father to simply disappear. Sherry fell into a monthslong despair over not getting a job, while her older sister Grace was recently unceremoniously dumped by her longtime fiance.

Their unseen mother, Wanda, started it all by taking to her bed a year ago, after a medically caused weight gain, and currently communicates with her daughters only by telephone — from her upstairs bedroom.

Wanda did bestir herself to call in a favor from an old highschool sweetheart, though, to help get Sherry her new job.

Sherry tells the story of her family's emotional progress in a series of humor-tinged vignettes, as she begins her part-time job as an art teacher at the local middle school. She also meets at home with her first private client, Zack, the angry teenage son of her new boss, middle-school principal Joseph Moore.

Natasha Lyonne is absolutely hilarious as Grace, an unkempt, weeping, self-pitying figure rolling around on the family sofa that's covered with her used tissues and junk-food wrappers. Wearing a sweat suit and her wedding veil, Grace mostly sucks on a bottle of bourbon or sleeps. When awake, she compulsively watches "Top Gun" over and over, when she's not out stealing her exboyfriend's possessions from their former apartment, or locking his two beloved pugs

» MEMOIRS

Writing by himself: Billy Use available Idol has a book deal resources

from GET, page 7 relaxation exercises. They also have a link to a list of books about mental health issues.

To make an appointment with CMHS, you should call 860486-4705 to schedule a phone interview with a therapist to determine what service would be most beneficial. A therapist will call you to set up an appointment. After the initial meeting, you and the therapist will figure out how to go about any follow-up appointments.

Walk-ins are treated as crisis interventions and are considered an emergency.

Amy.Schellenbaum@UConn.edu

Comedian likes college crowds

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whole life. She says: “I went to college, I’ve lived the single life…Chelsea Handler’s not the only one who has.”

She believes that her comedy reaches out to all different kinds of people and she does not need to tailor it for specific audiences. She’s not the stereotypical “wife” or “mother” comedian. She said the best part about performing at a college is that they are open to just about everything. She also adds that college guys will laugh, to laugh with the girl next to them in hopes of getting lucky.

Pescatelli is excited to be working again with her opening act, Katz who has been in both the Montreal Comedy Festival and Atlanta’s Lafapalooza Comedy Festival. She said Katz, is edgy, fun and gets funnier every time she has seen him. Pescatelli’s specialty and timeless act is, “What the hell is wrong with you?”, basically putting light on the Kanye and Lindsey Lohan acts of everyday people.

“I don’t understand why people complain about the economy but then the number one selling item is the Snuggie.” Pescatelli said. “Get a blanket, and cut a hole through it. Or instead of working at Farmville for free, how about getting a real job.”

Sahar.Kashi@UConn.edu

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NEW YORK (AP) – Billy Idol is writing a memoir – by himself.

The bleached-blond punk rocker is promising a story of sex and drugs and 24-hour madness.

He’s calling his book “Dancing with Myself,” in honor of his 1980s smash hit single.

The 54-year-old singer says in a statement he’s “going out on a limb here – so watch my back.”

Simon & Schuster division Touchstone announced Thursday that Idol’s memoir will come out in late 2011 or early 2012.

Idol first found fame in England with the punk band Generation X. He became an international solo star in the early days of MTV with hits including “Rebel Yell” and “Flesh for Fantasy.”

Bush’s memoir to have print run of 1.5M copies

NEW YORK (AP) – Former President George W. Bush’s memoir will arrive next month with a huge first printing and an e-book with multimedia extras, Crown Publishers said in a statement Thursday.

“Decision Points” will have a print run of 1.5 million copies, the same number given six years ago for Bill Clinton’s “My Life,” which went on to sell more than 2 million copies, far greater than for most presidential memoirs.

Crown, an imprint of Random House Inc., also announced that an enhanced e-book edition will be available, featuring video highlights of Bush’s presidency, photographs not included in the hardcover book and personal correspondence.

“Decision Points,” which comes out Nov. 9, a week after Election Day, will not be a conventional narrative, but a reflection of important decisions and moments in Bush’s life, including the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the war in Iraq.

Bush left office two years ago with low approval ratings and skepticism among publishers about the appeal of a mem-

In this publicity photo released by Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Halley Feiffer, left, and Natasha Lyonne are shown in a scene from “Tigers Be Still,” a Roundabout Theatre Underground comedy now running off-Broadway in New York.

in her family's basement.

In a typical exchange that highlights Rosenstock's humor, Grace blearily tells the newly energized Sherry that she was more fun and "mellow" when she was unemployed. When Sherry snaps back, "I was paralyzed with depression," Grace calmly replies, "You were a great listener."

The zaniness is somewhat grounded by down-to-earth principal Moore, played with poignancy, restraint and comedic undertones by the talented Reed Birney. Moore is also

grieving, for his deceased wife, and worried about his uncommunicative son, while trying to protect his school from a prowling tiger that recently escaped from the local zoo. He also has a past with Wanda, who was prom queen to his king in high school, and has daffy reminiscences of their youthful hi-jinks.

John Magaro's subtle portrayal of Zack renders him immensely appealing, despite Zack's volatile personality, rudeness and skepticism. Using teenage irony to convey his despair, he says things like, "Sometimes I can

feel my brain trying to flee my skull. It's nothing. Continue."

But he gradually warms to Sherry's insistently upbeat, earnest and perky approach to helping him.

In fact, Sherry's determination to help others beat off threats from their mental "tigers" is at the heart of this play. Despite the often sharp jibes of the dialogue, genuine affection is displayed among the characters.

In turn, the audience roots for them to all to get up their nerve to confront their various issues and defeat the tigers.

» POETRY

Ted Hughes poem on Sylvia Plath published

LONDON (AP) – The late British poet laureate Ted Hughes repeatedly tried to perfect a poem describing the night his wife Sylvia Plath killed herself, drafts of a work published for the first time Thursday show.

The draft poem, called “Last Letter,” describes Hughes’ anguish in the days leading up to Plath’s death in her London home on February 11, 1963.

Beginning with “What happened that night? Your final night,” it ends with the moment Hughes is informed of his wife’s death.

Hughes had never so directly written about Plath’s suicide.

The New Statesman magazine, which published the drafts Thursday, called the abandoned poem an important missing piece in Hughes’ collection “Birthday

Letters” – the only place readers have so far been able to find explicit references in Hughes’ work to the tragedy.

The doomed romance of Hughes and Plath, both celebrated poets, continues to fascinate the literary world. Plath, an American writer, married Hughes in 1956 then struggled with depression and the difficulties of balancing her literary ambitions with domestic life. She committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning at age 30.

Hughes, who had two later marriages, went on to become poet laureate from 1984 until his death. He didn’t speak out about Plath’s suicide until the anthology “Birthday Letters” was published in 1998, just months before he died.

“Last Letter” described

Hughes’ pained reaction when a phone call broke the news of Plath’s death.

“Then a voice like a selected weapon/ or a carefully measured injection/ coolly delivered its four words deep into my ear,” Hughes wrote in one version of the drafts.

“Your wife is dead.”

Hughes was separated but still married to Plath when she died, leaving behind their two young children.

Several drafts of the poem are held in the British Library’s archives, which bought it from Hughes’ third wife, Carol Hughes. The poem is believed to have been written in the early 1970s.

Carol Ann Duffy, Britain’s current poet laureate, called it the “darkest poem (Hughes) has ever written.”

» DEATHS

Authorities rule Gary Coleman’s death an accident

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The cover of George W. Bush’s memoir, showing a sharply dressed ex-President.

oir by him, but Republicans are looking to make substantial gains in next month’s elections.

A month before publication, “Decision Points” is already in the top five on Barnes & Noble’s website and the top 200 on Amazon.com.

“We believe there is a broad and large readership nationwide waiting to read President Bush’s book and that this readership will be fully engaged by what he has written,” said Crown publisher Tina Constable.

» CONTESTS

Michigan artist wins top ArtPrize award

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) – A Michigan artist has won the $250,000 grand prize for his work in the ArtPrize competition.

Organizers of the Grand Rapids, Mich., event announced Thursday night that Chris LaPorte was honored for his penciled drawing “Cavalry, American Officers, 1921.”

LaPorte has described the work as being “about the process of drawing, and also a portrait”

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of cavalry officers “who must have survived horrific events.”

The second-place award of $100,000 went to Mia Tavonatti from Santa Ana, Calif., for “Svelata” and the third-place award of $50,000 went to Beili Liu of Austin, Texas, for “Lure/ Wave, Grand Rapids.”

ArtPrize opened Sept. 22, with 1,713 artists displaying their works at 192 venues. The public decided the top 10 winners.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Police have confirmed that “Diff’rent Strokes” actor Gary Coleman’s death has been ruled an accident.

Santaquin Police Chief Dennis Howard said an autopsy found Coleman died of natural causes after an accidental fall. The finding matches the evidence police found at Coleman’s Santaquin home on May 26, Howard told The Associated Press.

The state medical examiner’s conclusions bring the police investigation into the death to a close, Howard said.

The 42-year-old actor died at a Provo hospital two days after his fall. He was taken off life support after suffering a brain hemorrhage.

An e-mail message sent to a spokeswoman for Coleman’s former wife, Shannon Price, who made the decision to

remove him from life support, was not immediately returned late Wednesday.

Coleman became a star after “Diff’rent Strokes” debuted in 1978. For eight seasons, Coleman played Arnold Jackson, the younger one of a pair of African-American brothers adopted by a wealthy white man. The tiny 10-yearold’s “Whachu talkin’ ‘bout?” became a popular catch phrase from the show.

Coleman’s adult life was plagued with heath and legal problems.

He moved to Utah in fall 2005, and according to a tally in early 2010, officers had been called to assist or intervene with Coleman more than 20 times. In one instance, Coleman called police for help after he claimed he had taken dozens of pain killers and “wanted to die.”

Some of the disputes

involved Price, whom he met on the set of the 2006 “Church Ball” and married in 2007. The couple divorced a year later but continued to live together and present themselves as married in public.

Price has petitioned the Utah courts to recognize her common law relationship with Coleman from the date of their divorce through his May 28 death. She is seeking the recognition as part of an ongoing legal battle over Coleman’s estate, which includes the house in Santaquin, about 65 miles south of Salt Lake City.

Coleman, who was cremated weeks after his death, left multiple wills, although a note handwritten by Coleman days after his 2007 marriage names Price his sole heir.

Coleman’s ex-girlfriend Anna Gray contends a 2005 document awards her the estate.

LONDON (AP) – Roy WardBaker, the British director best known for “A Night to Remember,” the 1958 movie about the Titanic disaster, has died. He was 93.

His son Nicholas Baker says the director died peacefully in his sleep at a London hospital on Tuesday.

Roy Ward-Baker started out as an assistant director on Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes” in London in 1938.

After serving in the army during World War II, he went to Hollywood where he directed Marilyn Monroe in the 1952 movie “Don’t Bother to

Knock.”

He later returned to England where he directed many television dramas, including adventure series “The Avengers.”

He remains best known for “A Night to Remember,” which recounted the final night aboard the Titanic.

‘Night to Remember’ director Roy Ward-Baker dies

Friday, October 8, 2010

» ENGLAND

Prince Harry film sparks tabloid reactions

LONDON (AP) – British tabloids expressed outrage Thursday over a new documentary-style film that imagines what would happen if Prince Harry was taken hostage by the Taliban.

“The Taking of Prince Harry” depicts the prince, played by actor Sebastian Reid, serving in the military in Afghanistan and being kidnapped by insurgents.

Twenty-six-year-old Harry served one term as a military officer in Afghanistan and has made public his desire to return for another tour. The prince, who is third in line to the throne, served as a forward air controller in 2007.

» BANKRUPTCY

The Sun tabloid featured the headline “Fury at Harry ‘traitor’ drama” on Thursday, while other newspapers condemned the film and suggested it could endanger the prince’s safety if he returns to Afghanistan.

A spokeswoman at Channel 4, which produced the mock documentary, says there is nothing in the program “that would compromise Harry or any other serving member of the armed forces’ safety.”

The film focuses on the negotiations that could take place if the prince were taken hostage and held behind enemy lines. In one scene, an unloaded gun is held to the prince’s head while in another

he is forced to appear in terrorist propaganda.

Harry “was informed of the documentary and its content and his reaction is private,” a spokesman at the prince’s residence Clarence House said. He spoke anonymously because of official policy.

The Ministry of Defense said it would be “inappropriate” to comment.

Hamish Mykura, head of documentaries at Channel 4, said the idea of taking the prince hostage is “clearly not an idea that would be new to the Taliban or al-Qaida or to their supporters.”

Channel 4 will show the 90-minute film on Oct. 21.

Toni Braxton files for second bankruptcy in LA

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Toni Braxton has filed for bankruptcy a second time, citing millions of dollars in debt and financial problems exacerbated by a heart condition that forced to cancel a series of Las Vegas shows.

The filing will likely result in the six-time Grammy Award winner having to sell some of her assets to pay off debts listed in court records as ranging between $10 million and $50 million.

Her attorney, Debra Grassgreen, said in a statement the filing will allow Braxton to pay off tax debts, sell heavily indebted property in Atlanta and still care for her children.

Braxton has had high-profile health issues in recent years. In 2008 she was forced to cancel a series of Las Vegas shows after experiencing chest pains that were later diagnosed as microvascular angina. Later that year, she performed on the ABC series “Dancing with the Stars” but missed the finale while recovering from removal of a benign breast tumor.

Grassgreen said the Vegas show cancellations left Braxton, 43, saddled with debts from which she could not recover.

The singer and her company Liberty Entertainment filed for bankruptcy Sept. 30, court records show. The filing was first reported Thursday by celebrity website TMZ. “This was a very difficult decision for Ms. Braxton,” Grassgreen said. “However, after months of trying to work out an acceptable arrangement with her principal creditors, she determined that the only

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» ART

Controversial artwork won’t be returned to display

LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) – A piece of artwork denounced as obscene by church members and allegedly ripped up by a Montana woman using a crowbar won’t be returned to display because of safety concerns, city officials said Thursday.

“The incident yesterday was very troubling and also very impactful on the city staff, volunteers and the public at the venue,” said Rod Wensing, acting city manager.

Kathleen Folden, 56, of Kalispell, Mont., was arrested Wednesday on a charge of criminal mischief. Witnesses told police that she used a crowbar to smash glass shielding the print at the Loveland Museum Gallery and then tore part of it up.

Folden, a truck driver, told police that she drove from Montana and bought a crowbar in Loveland before going to the museum to destroy the artwork, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by The Coloradoan in Fort Collins.

Police said the damaged part includes what critics say was a depiction of Jesus Christ engaged in a sex act.

Museum visitor Mark Michaels told the Loveland ReporterHerald that Folden screamed “How can you desecrate my Lord?” during the incident.

The artist, Stanford University professor Enrique Chagoya, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the work has been mischaracterized. He said while the part in question is sugges-

tive, it’s not graphic.

The panel includes figures cut out from a comic book, a head resembling Christ and a skeleton with a pope’s hat.

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Patrons of the Loveland Museum Gallery in Loveland, Colo. react after being denied access

“This is not Christ. It’s a collage,” Chagoya said. “What I’m trying to express is the corruption of the spiritual by the church.”

The print was taken by police as evidence.

Folden was released on a $350 cash bond during a court appearance Thursday. Another hearing is set for Oct. 15.

The work that was damaged, “The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals,” is a 12-panel lithograph that that includes comic book characters, Mexican pornography, Mayan symbols and ethnic stereotypes. It is part of an 82-print exhibit by 10 art-

ists that have worked with Colorado printer Bud Shark that opened in mid-September.

Members of a local church have been among those peacefully protesting outside the city-owned museum for most of the week. A city councilman and some residents had demanded that Chagoya’s work be removed, but the council decided Tuesday to leave it on display.

Some of the outspoken critics have condemned the attack on the artwork.

The museum has seen a significant increase in visitors since the controversy started, said Maureen Corey, the museum’s art curator. Visitors include supporters and opponents of the piece.

“In my opinion, it’s rather sad taking away people’s freedom to see the art,” Corey said.

Loveland police originally got reports of gunfire at the museum, but said it appears people mistook the banging of the crowbar against the glass for shots. No firearm was involved, police said.

Chagoya said he was sad and disappointed that the work, one of 30 limited prints, won’t be on display again in Loveland.

“It will be a loss for everybody, not just for me, but for everybody that believes in the First Amendment,” Chagoya said. Suppression of art and ideas is something that happens in totalitarian regimes, not this country, he added.

» TELEVISION

‘Modern Family’ to be saluted by tolerance group

AP

U.S. singer Toni Braxton performs during the Java Jazz concert festival in Jakarta, Indonesia.

way to assure that she could meet her tax obligations and provide for her two small children was to commence these bankruptcy cases.”

Braxton has assets worth up to $10 million, her filing states.

She previously filed for bankruptcy in 1998.

Grassgreen’s statement said Braxton is currently in good health.

Known for songs such as “Un-Break My Heart” and “Breathe Again,” Braxton sued Lloyd’s of London,

which had insured her for the Las Vegas performances in case they had to be canceled.

The insurer denied her claim, stating she had a pre-existing condition, and court records show the case was dismissed on Sept. 20.

Braxton’s spokeswoman Jennifer Mercer said the case was “settled to the satisfaction of all parties.”

Grassgreen said the bankruptcy will not prevent Braxton from future performances.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – “Modern Family” will be saluted by a tolerance group for the TV show’s openhearted view of families, with two gay partners and their adopted baby among its characters.

GLSEN – the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network – will hold its Respect Awards on Friday in Beverly Hills.

Members of the ABC show’s cast, which includes Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet as the gay couple, are expected to attend.

The nonprofit group helps create gay-straight student alliances at schools nationwide to foster understanding and a safer environment for gay, bisexual and transgender students.

An online auction is being

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Eric Stonestreet, left, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson are shown in a scene from “Modern Family.”

held through next Friday as a companion fundraiser to the awards. Among the items up for bid is a chance to audi-

tion for “Modern Family,” and walk-on roles for HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” and “True Blood.”

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Teen voice of ‘Dora The Melissa Gilbert a spokeswoman for anti-drug group Explorer’ sues Nickelodeon

WASHINGTON (AP) – Melissa Gilbert has ditched her “Little House” sun bonnet for a virtual megaphone, joining newly re-branded The Partnership at Drugfree.org as celebrity spokeswoman.

Formerly The Partnership for a Drug-Free America – and perhaps best known for the “this is your brain on drugs” ads of the 1980s and 1990s – the organization launched its new name and announced Gilbert’s role Thursday.

“I come at the issue of addiction from so many angles,” Gilbert, 46, said in an interview.

In addition to being a mother and stepmother of four with a parent’s interest in prevention, Gilbert has had her own struggles with alcohol and drugs.

“I myself am a recovering alcoholic, six years sober,” the former “Little House on the Prairie” star said, adding that “as a young teen in the 1980s, I more than dabbled in drugs and alcohol.”

Steve Pasierb, president of the New York-based partnership, said that although it has worked with celebrities on previous campaigns, the organization has never had a long-term celebrity spokesman before.

“We were trying to find these voices that don’t bring celebrity for the sake of celebrity, but bring along credibility,” he said. “Melissa is in recovery

herself and she’s got kids, it was a perfect combination of our wanting to have a real relationship and her wanting to have a real relationship.”

On the re-branding effort, Pasierb said the organization’s new name better reflects the role it can play in the lives of today’s parents.

“What we were hearing a lot from parents was that they appreciated the prevention stuff, but when it came to their kid coming home drunk for the first time, or getting high for the first time there was no one out there,” Pasierb said. “We want to be the first-aid kit of this issue.”

He said he hopes the Partnership at Drugfree.org name will avoid the misperception that the nonprofit group is a government organization or is primarily involved in advocating about drug policy, he added.

He said the organization’s website, drugfree.org, offers parents advice in several distinct areas: “my kid hasn’t used,” or prevention; “my kid is dabbling,” or intervention; “my kid has a problem,” or treatment; and “how life goes forward,” or recovery.

The organization also supports community-based drug prevention and education efforts.

As a parent, Gilbert said she appreciates the information on the partnership’s site, saying she “wanted to be able to be aware

of what’s out there” today, so she can talk to her 15-year-old son about drugs.

Gilbert added that parents her age and younger often face different challenges than earlier generations of parents faced when discussing drugs with their children, because “we can’t actually say to our children, you shouldn’t do it, because I never did,” she said. “It’s a whole different conversation.”

In spite of her personal experience with drugs, when a member of her family was having problems, she failed to notice the signs.

“I had no clue that he was having issues with cocaine, and that was my drug,” she said, adding “it can be so isolating,” to have a family member struggling with addiction.

Gilbert believes the ability to research online anonymously at drugfree.org will comfort parents who don’t know who to talk to when dealing with addiction in their families.

The “Little House” star said she hopes that hearing from someone like her, who grew up on their TV sets, will help today’s parents avoid this isolation.

“I’m hoping that they’ll come away with ... the thought that the stigma of being a parent with a child who is going through addiction issues is nonexistent,” Gilbert said, “because it can happen to anyone.”

NEW YORK (AP) – A teenager who gave voice to the spunky heroine of Nickelodeon’s “Dora The Explorer” says the network cheated her out of millions of dollars by underpaying her for work on the groundbreaking children’s cartoon series.

Caitlin Sanchez, 14, didn’t get the fees she was due for reruns, recordings for DVDs and other Dora products and hundreds of hours of promotional work, she and her family said in a lawsuit filed against Nickelodeon and its corporate parents.

“They took advantage of her,” her lawyer, John Balestriere, said Thursday.

Nickelodeon said Caitlin’s claims were baseless, and her contract was extensively negotiated.

“She was well-compensated for her work and for personal appearances,” network spokesman David Bittler said.

“Dora The Explorer,” now in its 10th year, has become a cartoon icon and a cultural force.

Its bilingual Latina protagonist is a first on U.S. children’s television, a giant balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, a household name for countless families, and even a figure in the nationwide debate over immigration after a doctored photo of her behind bars as a suspected illegal immigrant made the rounds online

this year.

And she’s also a brand that averages 1.9 million viewers for each episode and has generated more than $11 billion in sales of related toys, books and DVDs worldwide since 2002.

Caitlin has been the voice of 7-year-old Dora since 2007, leading its audiences on whimsical adventures that also help its young viewers learn English and Spanish. She replaced the character’s original voice, Kathleen Herles.

The Fairview, N.J., teen had done some acting work before “Dora,” including on episodes of NBC’s “Law and Order: SVU” and “Lipstick Jungle.”

But the cartoon series marked a big break for the then-12-yearold, who told The Associated Press this summer that she was thrilled to do the job.

“It’s really an honor to play an icon,” she said.

That honor has come at a price, her lawsuit says.

She and her family were pressured into signing an unfair contract quickly, without consulting a lawyer, and then were subject to “three and a half years of exploitation and lies,” according to her suit. Filed Wednesday, it seeks unspecified damages.

While she made $5,115 per episode, she wasn’t paid or was grossly undercompen-

sated for at least 160 extra hours of recording work, and at least 400 hours of promotions, marketing and interviews, her lawsuit said. While traveling the country to talk up the show, she got only $40 a day, it said.

She also wasn’t paid her due share of profits from Dora merchandise and her residuals, or rerun fees, for at least 325 airings of her “Dora” episodes – even as Nickelodeon executives told her she’d played a big role in the show’s success, according to her lawsuit. One said there had never been “a more high-profile face to a voice,” the lawsuit said.

While some new episodes featuring Caitlin’s voice haven’t aired yet, she’s not expected to voice anymore, her lawyer said.

Bittler said her “voice changed and she was no longer able to portray the Dora character,” but the network had offered her other work.

Balestriere said he’d told the network Thursday he didn’t foresee that, but she remained open to it if the dispute about her previous pay is resolved.

Meanwhile, she is going on with a typical teenage life, he said.

“This was an opportunity for her, but she’s doing well in school and could be just fine if she doesn’t do any acting anymore,” Balestriere said.

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Down 1 Apple variety 2 Jedi nemesis 3 Involved with 4 From that time 5 “She’s a Lady” songwriter 6 Radius neighbor 7 Helped come about 8 Grooms 9 Frozen dessert 10 Body of brewing rules?

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26 Blood __ 27 Therapy lead-in 29 Rocker Nugent 31 Comic unit 32 Jump on, as an opportunity 33 Beat by a bit 35 Ancient Germanic singer?

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58 Madrid miss: Abbr.

59 Club __ 60 Comet, to some 61 Tidy 62 “Cool!”

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18 Subordinate to 19 Give off 20 Milton Hershey, e.g.?

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Aries - Today feels like magic, with just the right atmosphere for romantic activities, social successes and personal growth.

Relax and enjoy.

Taurus - All systems are go at work and in social venues.

Your partner sees the way to transform a space into a party atmosphere. Get set to play.

Cancer - Everyone uses their talents in optimum ways today.

Plenty of good ideas surface, and each person runs with one of them. Expect great results.

Dismiss the Cynics

by Victor Preato

Gemini - You achieve your goals today, almost regardless of what you do. Everything falls into place as if by incredible coincidence. You get fantastic results.

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Leo - Everyone appears to be on the same page now. Take advantage of this agreement to move any important project forward. A little magic doesn’t hurt.

Nothing Extraordinary

by Thomas Feldtmose

Virgo - Make the most of today in every area of your life.

Questions give way to logical answers, so you have time for a joyous celebration with friends.

Libra - Take charge from the moment you get out of bed.

Dress appropriately for climbing the next rung of the success ladder. Others help along the way.

Bucephalus

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Scorpio - Obstacles dissolve as you get into action, diving in with your natural talents. Everyone agrees that you’re on the right track. This one’s easy.

Sagittarius - Keep lines of communication open, and listen for nuances in each person’s statements. Multiple ideas gain impressive results simultaneously.

Capricorn - The ball is definitely in your court, and you score big.

You haven’t been on your game like this for a long time. Bask in the success.

Aquarius - A lucky catch keeps you from spilling the beans. The secret will come out when it’s supposed to, so smile and hold it until then.

Pisces - Get everyone on the same page by breakfast, if possible. There’s a lot to get done today, but it’s all possible with cooperative effort.

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Sports

Women's XC hoping to make statement at New Englands

By Peter Logue Campus Correspondent

The UConn women’s cross country team has underperformed at the New England Championships during the past two seasons, finishing 26th in 2008 and 15th in 2009. But with a favorable schedule change and a new strategy for the meet, they will travel to Franklin Park in Boston for the 2010 New England Championship on Saturday, looking to establish themselves among the top teams in the region.

Contrary to the past few years, coach Andrea GroveMcDonough will not be sending her team to Penn State the weekend following the New England Championships – a strategic move that she hopes will pay large dividends on Saturday.

“I’ve limited our racing considerably this year so that we would come at this meet full strength, ready to go," Grove-McDonough said. "It’s our last opportunity for our top group to race before the Big East Championships.”

There is a three-week break between the New England and the Conference championships.

TheNewEnglandChampionship features 50 schools, featuring a mix of Division I, Division II and Division III teams. The disparity in talent amongst runners at the meet has had a negative impact on the

Huskies in the past.

“The first 500 meters is a freefor-all, especially when you bring together all these levels of teams,” explained Grove-McDonough, continuing to say that her past teams have gone out too slowly and found themselves stuck in the middle of the pack, unable to run at their desired pace. This year, she says, they will not make the same mistake.

“We’re getting to the front of the race," Grove-McDonough said.

"We’re going to get out hard, get to the front, and see what happens.”

A strong performance at the New England Championships on Saturday would be beneficial for both the current Huskies as they prepare for the rest of championship season, as well as for future squads, as it is an opportunity to potentially drawing in top recruits, according to Grove-McDonough.

“It is important that we have a good meet as a confidence booster as a team and just to make a statement about where we’re at and what we’re about," GroveMcDonough said. "Traditionally, we’ve done awful at this meet.

For recruiting, we need to be able to say that we are one of the dominant schools in New England. This is an opportunity to show that.”

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Men's XC looking to stay hot in Bean Town

By Mike McCurry Campus Correspondent The UConn men’s crosscountry team, whose first two meets of the year have resulted in second place finishes, look to continue their hot streak at the New England Championship this weekend. The race, which will be held on an 8K (5-mile) course in Boston, will begin around 1:30 p.m. on Saturday.

This will be the Huskies’ first event since the UMass Invitational on Sept. 18, as head coach Rich Miller decided to take a three-week break to focus on training. According to Miller, “the training period went very well. We wanted to build a

base and have the young guys improve without the distraction of competing.”

Star runner Nick Aguila, a sophomore from West Hartford who already has two top-10 finishes this season, also thought the time off was beneficial for the team.

“This week is a little down week for the team, so we can focus on the hard work we have put in the last couple of weeks,” Aguila said.

The New England Championship features schools from all over the region and, according to the UConn squad, it will provide a lot of feedback on where the team stands.

“September races were just a time for us to get out and teach

ourselves how to race hard again.

The real season starts this week with our first real test at the New England Championship. We are mentally and physically ready to roll,” Aguila said.

Aguila was quick to point out that UConn finished sixth at this same event last season, and that this squad is motivated to build and improve on that placement.

The results of the first two meets mark the best start that the men’s cross country program has had since 2006 when the squad, just like this year’s runners, also finished in the top two in the first two fall meets.

Miller said he thinks this group still has a lot to accomplish, however, and has high expectations for upcoming events. He

explained that recent teams have consisted of great individual runners mixed with fill-in guys.

“We have a core group of guys that do stuff together and run as a team,” Miller said.

The coach said he expects his players to perform better than they did at the UMass Invitational, and he wants to see the pack run with more confidence and maturity.

One of the Huskies’ goals, he said, is to have their first-place and fifth-place runners finish within 30 seconds of each other.

According to Miller, the youth of this cross country team is irrelevant, because the squad is filled with talented runners who know what it takes to get the job done.

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Field hockey to face Georgetown, No. 1 North Carolina from HUSKIES, page 14 which she says provide “the best opportunity to score” – in preparation for the UNC defense.

“Both goalkeepers are outstanding. Really, they’re two of the top goalkeepers in the country,” Stevens said of UConn’s Sarah Mansfield and North Carolina’s Jackie Kintzer.

“But tips and redirects are tough for any goalie to handle no matter how good they are.”

Carolina sophomores Kelsey Kolojejchick and Caitlin Van Sickle are assigned the bulk of the responsibility in trying to break through UConn’s defense.

The pair has combined for 20

goals and eight assists on the season, leading the way for a UNC attack that has outscored its opponents 47-5 in 12 games.

Even so, associate head coach Paul Caddy believes his team, which has won four of its five games so far against top-25 opponents, has the talent to matchup with the defending champs.

“I think we have the quality in our ranks to compete with them,” Caddy said. “But we have to play 70 minutes. If we do that and if we play our game, we’ll be there.”

UConn put that talent on display Wednesday evening in its 7-1 pounding of instate rival Yale. Junior midfielders Ali

Blankmeyer and Cara Silverman scored two goals apiece in the matchup, while freshman forward Anne Jeute contributed a goal and two assists. Senior back Rayell Heistand added a goal and an assist of her own while helping to limit the Yale offense to a mere two shots in the contest.

Coming off their most lopsided win of the season, the Huskies will look to carry that momentum into Saturday’s matchup with the Hoyas. Georgetown has split its first two Big East games – a 6-1 loss at Louisville and a 4-3 home victory in overtime against Rutgers. Sophomore forward Catherine Shugrue scored three of

her team-leading 11 goals against the Scarlet Knights, including the game winner.

With their fourth Big East game of the season on tap, UConn looks to move one step closer to a return trip to the Big East tournament.

The Huskies won the conference tourney in 2009 and have captured the title seven times in the last 11 seasons.

“A win Saturday would put us one win away from the Big East tourney,” Caddy said.

“Obviously winning the Big East tourney is the goal, but we have to get there first.”

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Volleyball needs conference wins against Syracuse, Marquette

By Jeremy Arki Campus Correspondent The UConn volleyball team will try to win its first Big East game this weekend against Syracuse or Marquette, trying to make up for the first three conference games they lost. It will be the first time this year that the team will be on the road for Big East play.

On offense, setter Angela Roidt will look to serve the likes of Rebecca Murray, Morgan Freeman and Jordan Kirk, the team’s three leaders in kills, while libero Kelsey Maving and the defense will try to shut down the opposition. Help may also come from potential starting-six players like Allison Nickel and Julia Hamer, who have already proven to be very valuable.

The two teams UConn will face this weekend are both 1-2 in Big East play and will try to improve to .500. But UConn assistant coach Tim O’Brien trusts his players’ ability to win at least one game and to catch up with the other teams.

“This weekend at Syracuse and Marquette is another opportunity for us to play with heart and intensity over the course of the entire week-

end in an attempt to try and get ourselves into the middle of the pack in the race for a berth into the Big East Tournament,” O’Brien said.

Players and staff are well aware of that situation and have worked hard this week to blot out last week’s losses against Cincinnati and Louisville.

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Men’s ice hockey takes on Black Bears in Maine

By Danielle Ennis Staff Writer UConn men’s hockey begins its season on the road this Saturday against No. 7 Maine. The game will be held in Alfond Arena in Orono, Maine at 7 p.m.

Senior captain and last year’s leading scorer Andrew Olson said, “We are working a lot on our systems right now so we have a base for what we need to do against Maine.

They are a very good team, but everyone worked hard in the summer and we are look-

ing good in practice. We just need to translate that into the game.”

This season, the Huskies will seek to improve their 2009-2010 record of 7-23-3.

Eight seniors return, as well as nine of the top 10 scorers.

On the defensive end, UConn returns sophomore Garrett Bartus in goal, as well as eight returning defenders. The back will also see transfer Grant Scott from the University of Minnesota.

Coach Bruce Marshall said, “We are working from the defensive end out. Instincts from that will lead to offense.

We have a challenge ahead of us, but I think we’re prepared on defense.”

Last season, the Huskies had an average of 1.59 goals per game and allowed 3.59 goals per game.

Senior Jeff Sapieha said, “The things we need to focus on to beat Maine are going to be all the little things.

Finishing our checks, chipping pucks out, blocking shots and working hard are keys to winning a road game. It is a small rink as well so any shot is a good shot.”

In taking on Maine, the Huskies will be facing the

nation’s 2009-10 leading scorer, Gustav Nyquist.

“It’s going to be a hardnosed game and the team that battles harder will win,” Sapieha said.

The Huskies open their season with four straight road games. Their first home game will take place on Nov. 7 in the Freitas Ice Forum against Canisius.

Looking ahead, both Olson and Sapieha are hoping to win the Atlantic League this season.

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Defenseman Alex Gerke reaches for the puck during a game against AIC last season.

it to his flight finals in the last two tournaments the team played in, winning the UConn Invite Flight A and finishing as runner up in the Bucknell Invite Flight A. “[This weekend] I need to get off to a quick start in my matches like I’ve been doing,” Warden said. “I need to win the key points.”

Warden has played doubles with senior captain Andrew Marcus for the past couple of years. “We have a lot of chemistry. My strengths pick up his weaknesses, and his strengths pick up my weaknesses,” Warden said.

“As long as we both perform well, we should be fine,” Marcus said.

Carr made the Flight B finals at the Bucknell Invite.

“I’m pretty confident with our skill level all around.

I know everyone wants this tournament,” said Carr.

“Everyone’s been working really, really hard.”

A major off-court difference in this weekend’s tournament, as opposed to last week’s Bucknell Invite, is that the team will not be staying in a hotel overnight. On Friday, the team will spend the night at Carr’s house. Saturday

Men’s tennis heads to Quinnipiac Invite

By Greg Keiser Staff Writer

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Junior Matt Burns backhands a ball during a UConn practice Sept. 24.

The men’s tennis team looks to continue its recent success this weekend as it goes to Hamden for the Quinnipiac Invite.

Head coach Glenn Marshall’s Huskies will take on their first Big East opponent of the fall season in Villanova, and while it’s not a head-to-head matchup, they will get a taste of what is to come in conference competition. Freshman Ryan Carr called Villanova a “strong” team.

Junior Scott Warden made

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Women’s hockey to host Clarkson, SLU this weekend

By Peter Logue Campus Correspondent The UConn women’s ice hockey team will look to bounce back from a disappointing season-opening loss to UNH when they play host to Clarkson on Saturday and Saint Lawrence University on Sunday. The Huskies dropped their debut to the No. 10 Wildcats at home last Saturday by a score of 1-0 in a game that Coach Heather Linstad said her team “simply didn’t bring it.”

Clarkson and SLU are two very different hockey teams with unique styles of play, requiring the Huskies to display their versatility. Clarkson, who thumped the Huskies last year by a score of 4-0, is a very physical team, which will require UConn to really control the puck. “We certainly have to win board battles, puck battles. Individually, every kid has to win their 50-50 battles and come away with the puck. If we don’t hold our own, Clarkson will blow us over,” said coach Linstad.

While Clarkson will look to rough up the Huskies, SLU will

try to outskate them.

“Sunday we will have to show that we can move the puck and get up and down the ice with them, as far as being more of a kind of finesse team,” Linstad said.

One specific area that Linstad will look for her team to improve in is the power play, something which plagued them in their season opener and hopefully will help spark the offense.

“Against UNH we went 0-6 on the power play, I think that shows you a lot,” Linstad said. “We didn’t even generate enough shots. So our power play shows that your passing skills are there and that we can handle the puck. So I would like to see more puck possession, more scoring opportunities which I didn’t think we did very well against UNH.” Both the Saturday game against Clarkson and Sunday contest against SLU will be played at the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Arena and begin at 1 p.m.

Senior defenseman Jody Sydor controls the pick in a 2-1 loss to New Hampshire Oct. 2.

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Todman leads Huskies into Piscataway to play Rutgers

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night they will commute back to campus before returning to Hamden Sunday morning.

“We’re looking for good weather, good matches and good competition,” Warden said. After Warden and Carr’s, as well as Warden and Marcus’s losses in singles Flight A, singles Flight B and doubles Flight A last weekend, the team is hoping to go the extra step and win some flights.

“We’re hoping to come out with a couple victories,” Marcus said.

“The good thing is we know what they’re going to do, when to go wildcat and we’ve seen them on film,” Edsall said. “They’re similar in what they’ve asked those guys to do.”

Some members of the media have made it out to be a rivalry game tonight, but Edsall and the Huskies are saying otherwise.

“Every game’s a rival,” Edsall said. “When you play in a conference, every conference game is a rival. Every team we play in the Big East, I want to beat. They all count the same.”

The players are echoing their coach’s sentiments about a possible rivalry.

“They’ve had us the last two years but we have to approach it like any other game and get a win,” said Scott Lutrus.

The last two years, Rutgers have won in last second contests. In 2008, Tony Ciaravino missed three field goals, and the Huskies lost 12-10. Last season, it was UConn’s first home game since the death

of starting cornerback Jasper Howard. The Huskies came back from a 21-10 deficit to take the lead on a Jordan Todman touchdown run on fourth down. After kicking off to the Scarlet Knights, winning 24-21, Rutgers needed to go 81 yards to beat UConn. On the first play of the drive, Savage found Tim Brown and he raced the rest of the way to give the Scarlet Knights a 28-24 win. Brown was Howard’s childhood best friend, and although it was a heartbreaking loss for the Huskies, Brown dedicated the play to his late friend. The emotional day at Rentschler Field is one of the more memorable contests in the series that dates back to 1940.

Rutgers leads it 20-9.

While Edsall does not want to talk rivalry, UConn’s goal of a Big East championship begins this week.

“The intensity and focus needs to go up,” Edsall said.

“It’s conference play now. It means a little bit more.”

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five teams: No. 3 Wake Forest, No. 4 UNC and No. 5 Monmouth. Seton Hall finished 0-2-1 in those games and was outscored by a total of four goals in the process.

UConn has not played at home since Sept. 28 when they blanked No. 9/15 Boston College 2-0.

Mamadou Doudou Diouf has yet to return to the field since injuring his ankle in the South Carolina tournament. Diouf was expected to play against Marquette and Maryland but did not see any game time.

Alan Ponce, Carlos Alvarez, Stephane Diop and Tony Cascio have all stepped up their offensive play with the loss of their striker. There is no word as to whether Diouf will play against Seton Hall.

The game against Seton

the win was certainly an improvement, he admits there are still some times when they seem a little bit disorganized.

In response to some of their offensive woes thus far, change is going to be the answer for the Huskies. Melissa Busque and Erin Clark are playing up top more, and in their new positions the two are starting to create more opportunities.

Expect to see more of these lineup changes and switches on the field. At this point in the season, that is all that Tsantiris can do to fire the team up, start making them want to create chances and instill an attacking mentality.

“We are shifting people and changing them around, so if they are not hungry, then, well there’s not going to be any room for them,” Tsantiris

“We need to recommit ourselves to defense and keeping a clean sheet for Josh.”

– Senior captain Robert Brickley Hall will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Morrone Stadium with a forecast for clear weather conditions.

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said. “Changing is all we have to do. We have the players we have and they need to work hard and earn their position.

No position is definite, so we need to start creating competition within the team to get them prepared.”

Tsantiris feels confident that if his team plays as well as they have during certain games this season and scores goals given the opportunity, then they can win both games.

Should they do that, they would give a Marquette team that is 4-0 in Big East play for the first time since 2005 its first conference loss.

The Huskies take on Marquette Friday night at 5 p.m. and South Florida at noon on Sunday with both games being played at Morrone Stadium.

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from GIVE, page 14 worst, but it had nothing to do with his conduct on the field.

I understand the NFL has a player conduct policy, and that these men should be held accountable for their actions, but I fail to see how punishing them on the football field does anything to remedy the wrongs.

Take Ben Roethlisberger for example. While his case is different because he was never convicted of anything, the league still suspended him for four games this season. Vick served 21 months in federal prison for his crimes. While I’m not defending either of these two, I think we walk a dangerous line when we start punishing individuals for their conduct off the field.

Vick is going to carry a stigma with him for the rest

of his career and the rest of his life. The same goes for Roethlisberger. Meanwhile, Alex Rodriguez and Barry Bonds are breaking records left and right and have a chance to be considered for the Hall of Fame. I made a similar point several weeks ago about Reggie Bush. What Bush did was wrong, but he shouldn’t have had to give back his Heisman. Likewise, Vick shouldn’t have to continue paying the price after he’s already fulfilled his debt to society.

Vick’s only 30 years old and has a bit of football ahead of him. Besides, if he can do the one thing Donovan McNabb never could, lead the Eagles to a Super Bowl victory, I don’t think us fans could stay mad at him.

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Away game

The Daily Question Q: Is Robinson Cano or Josh Hamilton the AL MVP? Or Miguel Cabrera?

A: “Josh Hamilton. He’s been exciting to watch.”

Hardik Vyas, 3rd-semester biology major

» That’s what he said

Oct. 29 Nov. 11 West Pittsburgh Virginia 7:30 p.m.

8:00 p.m.

Oct. 23 Louisville TBA

Nov. 20 Syracuse TBA

Men’s Soccer (7-1-2) Tomorrow Oct. 13 Seton Hall Providence 7:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m.

“To all the Vikings fans that are coming to the Metrodome, pull your 84 jerseys out, man.”

Oct. 16 St. John’s 7:00 p.m.

Oct. 19 Oct. 2 West Notre Dame Virginia 8:00 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

-Newly–acquired Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Randy Moss on his return to the team this Sunday.

» Pic of the day

MINNEAPOLIS (AP)—Andy Pettitte and the New York Yankees stumbled through September and landed in the AL wild-card spot.

As the Minnesota Twins can attest, the Yankees are hardly an underdog in October.

Pushing the home-field advantage back in Minnesota’s face, Pettitte turned in a vintage postseason performance with seven smooth innings and Lance Berkman had two big hits for New York in a 5-2 victory over the Twins on Thursday evening for a 2-0 lead in their best-offive division series.

Berkman hit a go-ahead home run in the fifth and a tiebreaking double in the seventh against Carl Pavano, sending the Twins to their 11th straight postseason loss. Eight of those have come against the Yankees, who trailed in each of those games.

Mariano Rivera got three outs for his second save of the series, extending his postseason record to 41.

The Twins haven’t won a postseason game since 2004, matching the Philadelphia Phillies (1915-1976) for the second-longest streak in history behind the Boston Red Sox (1986-1995) and their 13 in a row.

Berkman, yet another big-name veteran finding a place on a Yankees postseason roster, even on the downside of his career, made it 2-1 with his drive into the left-center bullpen in the fifth. His double in the seventh—one pitch after it appeared Pavano sneaked strike three past him—drove in Jorge Posada and gave New York a 3-2 lead.

Get in mah bellay!

Field Hockey (9-2) Oct. 13 Oct. 17 Northeastern Princeton Noon 2:00 p.m.

Oct. 20 Boston University 3:00 p.m.

Volleyball (2-12) Today Syracuse 7:00 p.m.

Oct. 10 Marquette 2:00 p.m.

» MLB

Young’s 3-run homer helps Rangers beat Rays again

Oct. 24 Oct. 16 Oct. 22 St. John’s Seton Hall Rutgers 2:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m.

Women’s Hockey (0-0-1) Oct. 10 Tomorrow Oct. 15 Clarkson St. Lawrence Colgate 1:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m.

Oct. 16 Syracuse 4:00 p.m.

Oct. 23 MinnesotaDuluth 3:05 p.m.

Men’s Tennis Today Quinnipiac Invitational 2:00 p.m.

Oct. 12 Oct. 14 Oct. 29 Oct. 20 Sacred Regional Conn. College Quinnipiac Heart Championship Championships 2:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m. New Haven TBA

Women’s Tennis Oct. 12 Oct. 20 Sacred Heart Quinnipiac 2:30 p.m. 2:00 p.m.

Oct. 21 Regional Championship

Men’s Cross Country Tomorrow Oct. 16 Nov. 13 Oct. 22 Oct. 30 N.E. Leopard Regional CCSU Meet Big East Championship Invite Championship 4:00 p.m. Championship Noon 10:00 a.m.

11:45 a.m.

Women’s Cross Country Tomorrow Oct. 15 Oct. 23 Oct. 30 Nov. 13 N.E. Rothenberg CCSU Mini Big East Regional Championships Race Meet Championships Championship All Day All Day All Day Syracuse, NY All Day

Golf Oct. 11-12 Oct. 16-17 Connecticut Northeast Cup Invite All Day All Day

Oct. 18 NEIGA Champ.

All Day

Rowing Oct. 23 Head of the Charles All Day

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Pettitte puts Twins in their place, Yanks win 5-2

Randy Moss

Oct. 22 Oct. 17 Oct. 15 Oct. 10 Today West Notre Dame Depaul USF Marquette Virginia 5:00 p.m. 12:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m.

Oct. 10 North Carolina Noon

Which MLB team is playing like they want it most?

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Women’s Soccer (6-4-2)

Tomorrow Georgetown Noon

Monday’s Question:

» MLB

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Oct. 31 Head of the Fish All Day

Oct. 19 NEIGA Champ.

All Day

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Lakers forward Pau Gasol drives against FC Barcelona’s Roger Grimau during the NBA Europe Live 2010 Tour in Barcelona, Spain.

THE Storrs Side Conference play in football, field hockey, soccer this weekend

By Matt McDonough Associate Sports Editor One to watch: Football at Rutgers, Fri. 7:30 p.m.

UConn opens its Big East slate in New Jersey on primetime television against the Scarlet Knights.

The Huskies enter the game at 3-2 while Rutgers sports a 2-2 record.

UConn has dropped the last two contests against the Scarlet Knights, losing in Piscataway 12-10 in 2008, thanks in large part to three missed field goals off Tony Ciaravino’s foot. Last season, on Halloween in the first home game following the death of cornerback Jasper Howard on Halloween, Rutgers won another close contest, 28-24.

Scarlet Knights’ wide receiver Tim Brown got an 81-yard touchdown pass from Tom Savage to sink the Huskies with 22 seconds remaining. The two Big East rivals open conference play against each other.

Although the Big East slate is just starting, with no conference championship game every contest from here on out has BCS implications.

Ones to attend: Field hockey vs. Georgetown, Sat. 12 p.m.

The Huskies take on the Hoyas

in a Saturday matinee. UConn enters the game with a 9-1 record and a No. 5 national ranking.

But, the Huskies are 2-1 in Big East play and will look to start a winning streak before heading to North Carolina on Sunday.

Men’s soccer vs. Seton Hall, Sat. 7:30 p.m.

The No. 2 Huskies return home after a winless two-game road trip. UConn tied at Marquette and dropped its first game of the season Tuesday night at Maryland by a score of 1-0. The Huskies, however, remain undefeated against Big East competition and the lowly Pirates (3-5-1) are a perfect opponent to start a new winning streak.

Women’s soccer vs.

Marquette, Fri. 5 p.m.

The Huskies, at 2-2-1 in the Big East, are right in the middle of the pack in the conference, but have an opportunity to knock down the top dog this evening. The Golden Eagles, 5-0 in Big East play, visit Storrs with a target on their back.

Matthew.McDonough@UConn.edu

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP)—Gratified to finally be in the playoffs, Michael Young and the Texas Rangers are making the most of their opportunity.

Young hit a three-run homer one pitch after keeping his at-bat alive with a disputed checkswing, helping C.J. Wilson and the AL West champions beat the Tampa Bay Rays 6-0 Thursday for a 2-0 lead in their division series.

“I just think that we’ve had a great mentality these first two games,” Young said. “We’re not really thinking about some huge, grand picture here. We empty the bank for the game we’re playing that day.”

Texas is the only current major league franchise that’s never won a playoff series. After winning consecutive games on the road, that can change with one victory when the best–of–five matchup shifts to Rangers Ballpark this weekend.

THE Pro Side MLB postseason, Sunday Night Football highlight weekend

By Mac Cerullo Sports Editor

ing only one run in the first two games off of Rangers pitching.

MLB: NLDS Game 2, Cincinnati Reds vs. Philadelphia Phillies, Fri. 6:07 p.m., TBS The Reds look to even the series at 1-1 against the Phillies, who took Game 1 after Roy Halladay threw the second postseason no-hitter in MLB history.

Bronson Arroyo, who has pitched in the postseason in the past for the Boston Red Sox, will start the game for the Reds.

The Phillies will counter with mid-season acquisition Roy Oswalt, who is 7-1 with a 1.74 ERA since joining the Phillies.

NFL: Philadelphia Eagles vs. San Francisco 49ers, Sun. 8:20, NBC Two quarterbacks will have something to prove on Sunday Night Football.

Kevin Kolb makes his first start since Week 1 for the Eagles, while Alex Smith looks to lead the 49ers to their first win of the season.

Kolb looked to have lost the starting job following the resurgence of Michael Vick, but after Vick suffered cartilage damage in his ribs last week against the Washington Redskins, Kolb will get another chance to prove that he should start for the Eagles.

Smith, on the other hand, has performed poorly through the first quarter of the season. He is tied for the league lead in interceptions with seven, and is ranked near the bottom of the league in passer rating (66.1) and yards per attempt (6.1).

MLB: ALDS Game 3, Tampa Bay Rays vs. Texas Rangers, Sat. 5:07 p.m., TBS The Rangers will have a chance to win their first ever playoff series at home as they look to close out the Rays in Game 3.

Matt Garza is set to start for the Rays, who hope to avoid a sweep, while the Rangers will send Colby Lewis to the mound.

So far, the Rays’ bats have gone silent in the series, scor-

Michael.Cerullo@UConn.edu

» INSIDE SPORTS TODAY

P.13: Yankees take Game 2, 2-0 series lead. / P.12: Men’s ice hockey kicks off season Saturday. / P.11: Women’s XC goes to New Englands.

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GOING TO WAR WITH KNIGHTS Huskies open Big East play with battle at Rutgers

By Colin McDonough Senior Staff Writer

Russell Blair

Philadelphia fans can be brutal.

On April 14, Matthew Clemmens was arrested after he vomited on an 11-year-old and her father in the stands of a Phillies game. On Oct. 11, 1999 Eagles fans cheered when then-Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin lay motionless with a spinal cord injury on the grass of Veterans Field. And perhaps most famously, on Dec. 15, 1968 fans pelted 20-year-old Frank Olivo, dressed in a Santa suit, with snowballs and booed him as he paraded around the field during halftime activities.

So yeah, we don’t have a particularly good track record.

I say “we” because somehow, inexplicably, I’m a Philadelphia Eagles fan. And I hope my fellow Eagles fans will join me in saying that Michael Vick is the best thing to happen to this franchise in some time.

When the Eagles picked up Vick last year, I was ecstatic.

Two years for $6.6 million was a steal. Vick’s previous contract? Ten years and $130 million. Sure, Vick had baggage, but the Eagles had already dealt with that. While Terrell Owens is best remembered for his offthe-field antics, his 1,200 yard, 14 touchdown season went a long way toward landing the Eagles in the Super Bowl. So it bothers me when my fellow Eagle fans, or anyone really criticize Vick.

Yes, this column could have been written anytime over the last several years, but I felt compelled after Vick’s incredible start to the season. I’ll be honest, I was never high on Kevin Kolb. Kolb had an impressive college career at Houston, but he never struck me as an NFL caliber passer. Perhaps most impressive about Vick this season is that he isn’t just using his legs to get the job done. Vick’s passer rating of 108.8 is third in the NFL and his passing looks as good as it ever has. While Vick, barring some miraculous healing, won’t be playing Sunday, you can bet I’ll be rooting for him from my couch.

Sure, it’s hard to call Vick the feel-good story of the year, but I for one can’t help but feel good for him. Vick made some mistakes, but he paid his dues.

Personally, I have less of a problem with Vick than I do with athletes caught using performanceenhancing drugs, point shaving or cheating. Vick’s connections to dog fighting were unsavory at best, and reprehensible at

» BLAIR, page 12

The UConn football team opens Big East play tonight when they travel to Rutgers to face the 2-2 Scarlet Knights on ESPN. “We’ve got a difficult challenge this week as we go down to Rutgers,” said coach Randy Edsall.

The Huskies enter at 3-2, coming off two straight home wins against Buffalo and Vanderbilt. UConn has yet to win on the road this season – and have lost to Rutgers in four of their last five meetings – but the Huskies are only focusing on the task at hand.

“I told the team we’ve lost the last two close 3-2, 0-0 and the last four out of five,” Edsall said.

“We’re just concerned about what we have to take care of this week.”

Although the Scarlet Knights are off to a disappointing start, UConn 2-2, 0-0 will have to be crisp on both sides of the ball.

7:30 p.m.

“On defense they have guys who run to Piscataway, N.J. the ball and try to create ESPN disruption,” Edsall said.

“We don’t know what we’re going to be facing quarterback wise.”

The Husky defense will face the injured Tom Savage, Chas Dodd or Mohamed Sanu in the wildcat formation. Savage was hurt during the Scarlet Knights’ loss to Tulane. Dodd is 14-for-32 passes in his freshman season, and Sanu has 225 rush yards and three touchdowns when Rutgers puts him behind center.

FOOTBALL

VS.

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» TODMAN, page 12

Saturday matchup with Seton Hall

Junior running back Jordan Todman rushes into the endzone for a touchdown during UConn’s 40-21 win over Vanderbilt on Saturday, Oct. 2.

we put forth as a team,” said senior captain Robert Brickley.

The Huskies were outshot in the game, allowing a season-high With the possibility of an 17 shots. undefeated season behind “We need to recommit ourthem, the men’s soccer team selves to defense and keeping a will host Big East clean sheet for Josh opponent Seton because we have let Hall in a Saturday up a goal in succesnight matchup. In sive games for the the 27 meetings first time this seabetween the teams, vs. Seton Hall son,” Brickley said. the Huskies have Josh Ford Tomorrow, Goalkeeper a 12-12-3 record has faced 31 shots 7:30 p.m. and made six saves in against Seton Hall.

UConn reached the the past two games.

Morrone .500 mark with a 3-1 “[Recommitting ourStadium win over the Pirates selves to defense] last season in the will be a challenge WHUS teams’ 27th meeting.

Saturday because of After climbing to their attacking qualthe No. 2 spot in the rank- ity but I am confident in the ings, the Huskies lost to No. 6 group,” Brickley said.

Maryland in a 1-0 game, their Seton Hall is also coming first defeat of the season. off of a one-goal loss. After “We’re obviously disappoint- being down two goals in the ed with the result, but more second half, the Pirates rallied so with the performance that and forced the game into over-

By John Shevchuk Staff Writer

MEN’S SOCCER

time against Princeton. But the Tigers capitalized first and won in the sudden death period.

Pirate senior forward Steven Rose leads the offense with 11 points off of five goals and one assist. His teammate and classmate Brayan Martinez has accumulated nine points so far this season.

The Huskies tied Marquette in their last conference matchup. “It goes without saying that a home conference win is paramount because we dropped points in our last conference matchup at Marquette on the road,” Brickley said. A win in that game would have put the Huskies in the No. 1 spot in the Blue Division of the Big East. Notre Dame currently leads the Blue Division with a 2-0-0 conference record.

Seton Hall has had a difficult schedule so far. In their nine games the 3-6-1 Pirates have played three top

» HUSKIES, page 12

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Freshman defender Andrew Jean-Baptiste clears the ball against Boston College Sept. 28.

Women’s soccer to take on Huskies with tough weekend schedule Marquette, South Florida

» FIELD HOCKEY

North Carolina, which head coach Nancy Stevens labeled as the team’s most important The No. 5 Huskies (9-2-0) game to date.

“Of course when you play the will look to carry No. 1 team in the country the momentum from that’s 12-0, it makes it on Wednesday’s 7-1 rout paper our biggest chalof Yale into this weeklenge so far,” Stevens end’s matchups with Georgetown and No. Georgetown said.

Sunday’s matchup 1 North Carolina.

Noon between the Huskies UConn, who is tied and Tar Heels will with No. 10 Louisville Tomorrow feature two of the for second place in the Big East at 2-1, will North Carolina top defenses in the country. According host 6-6 Georgetown on Noon to the NCAA’s webSaturday. The Hoyas sit site, UNC and UConn Sunday in fourth place in the rank first and second, seven-team conference respectively, in goals with a 1-1 record in league play.

The game is set to begin at noon against average.

Stevens said that UConn’s at the George J. Sherman Family emphasis in practice has been on Sports Complex.

On Sunday, the Huskies will tipping and redirecting shots – travel to Boston College for particularly off penalty corners, a neutral-site showdown with » FIELD, page 11 top-ranked and undefeated

By Ryan Tepperman Campus Correspondent

FIELD HOCKEY

LILIAN DUREY/The Daily Campus

Junior back Rayell Heistand runs with the ball during UConn’s 7-1 win over Yale Wednesday.

confused as to what exactly happened and why the team played like they did.

Tsantiris was quite blunt This weekend, the UConn womabout how poorly he thinks en’s soccer team takes the squad looked and the pitch against Big was very disappointed East foes Marquette in the outcome. and South Florida.

“Against Rutgers, I These two matches don’t know what hapbegin a four-game Marquette pened against them but home stretch for the 5:00 p.m. as a team it just looked Huskies and Friday like they didn’t show up,” night will mark the Friday Tsantiris said. “It was the first time in 15 days only game all year when South Florida the Huskies have they really didn’t play.” played at home. The Noon Two days later, they way they play this stayed in New Jersey to Sunday weekend will have a take on Seton Hall and big effect on the confinish up their four-game ference standings as the Big East road trip. The Huskies played to championship looms near. the level Tsantiris knows they are Early last week, the defense had capable of and came out with a a couple of major breakdowns that convincing 3-0 Big East win. While resulted in both of Rutgers’ goals in UConn’s 2-0 loss. The game left coach Len Tsantiris completely » BIG, page 12

By Dan Agabiti Staff Writer

WOMEN’S SOCCER