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February 15 will be the first ever Love Yourself event, hosted and collaborated on by Active Minds and the Rainbow Center. Active Minds is an international organization created to change the conversations about mental health
issues on college campuses and the stigma surrounding them, and the Rainbow Center is the cultural center designed for LGBT youth and allies. As the name of the event would suggest, the intent is to spread a message about loving oneself. More specifically, the event will aims to raise awareness about both mental health and LGBT issues
in order to create a sense of self-acceptance in the UConn population. Love Yourself will consist of a panel of four speakers: two representing the Rainbow Center, and two representing Active Minds. Each Active Minds speaker will share his or her personal experience with mental illness. Specific mental illnesses discussed will
include depression, OCD and stress-related illness, like trichotillomania (compulsive pulling and/or twisting of hair). Each Rainbow Center speaker will share his or her personal experience with coming out, which, can be an extremely stressful and trying experience. Following the event, there will be a question-and-answer
BALANCING LIFE WITH HARDSHIP
Crohn’s disease doesn’t hold one student back from happiness
not an easy hike Visiting Huskies top mountaineers by six. SPORTS/ page 14 EDITORIAL: GRADE INFLATION STEMS FROM JOB COMPETITION Universities pressured to keep grades high to help grads get jobs.
COMMENTARY/page 4 INSIDE NEWS: PRES. HERBST PLANS TO OFFER FIRST ‘OPEN OFFICE HOURS’ UConn’s next president plans to be more accessible to students. NEWS/ page 2
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» SNOW CLEANUP
Students asked to relocate from resident lots
By Russell Blair Managing Editor
By Stephanie Okolo Campus Correspondent Sipping on her usual iced caramel latte at Bookworms café, Elizabeth Gottier skims over what is sure to be her biology book, absorbing as much information as she can in preparation for what will be her hardest final exam. Taking a moment to look up from her textbook, she shares a passing thought with her friend Ally, who is sitting next to her, before checking her cell phone. Realizing the time, she packs up her backpack and leaves for her philosophy class, one out of the three classes she must attend before her day is over. With many back-to-back classes as well as the consequential course work, Gottier tries to find time to take a nap before meeting up with her boyfriend of two years, John Grohs, for dinner and beginning a long night of homework and studying. She works well at balancing her social life, work and school. For the most part she spends time with Grohs in the dorms, in the Homer Babbidge library on campus, or on duty as a resident assistant for North Campus. Like all University of Connecticut students, Gottier is faced with the daily trials of college life and stress. As the semester comes to a close and finals approach, she must also work at getting caught up in her biology class after missing a previous exam. Earlier in the semester, the day before her second biology exam, Gottier was ill. In a difficult decision, she contacted her mother who quickly came to campus and brought her to Hartford Hospital
session at the end so the audience can gain more specific insight into these issues. Valentine’s Day coming up, the event will be a reminder that it’s just as important to love yourself as well as others. Love Yourself will take place at the Rainbow Center from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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Elizbeth Gottier and her boyfriend, John Grohs, attend a Boston Red Sox game in this undated photo. Gottier was diagnosed with Crohn’s diease at the age of 12.
at 4 a.m. Medical scares and emergency hospital visits are familiar to Gottier since she was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in 2003. Gottier was 12 years-old. Born and raised in South Windsor, Gottier has experienced the effects of Crohn’s ever since she was young. Toward the end of sixth grade she began to lose a lot of weight. Every day she had a fever and experienced extreme fatigue and dizziness. “I missed over a month of school,” said Gottier. “I was at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in the rheumatology, hematology, oncology and gastroenterology departments. No one knew what was wrong with me.” Amidst all the uncertainty doctors even believed at one point that she might have leukemia. “I was grateful,” said Gottier about her diagnosis. Being diagnosed
Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Gottier
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Elizabeth Gottier and her boyfriend, John Grohs, pose in this undated photo. Despite suffering from Crohn’s disease, Gottier has managed to live an active life at UConn.
With a break from snow in the forecast for the next few days, UConn Parking Services is asking for the cooperation of students in clearing resident parking lots. In an e-mail sent to the university Tuesday, Martha Funderburk, manager of parking services, said Facilities Operations plan to clear “as much snow as possible” from resident student lots on Saturday morning. Funderburk requested that all students currently parked in resident lots move their vehicles so the lots can be cleared out. “In order for this effort to be successful, we need everyone who parks in a resident lot to move their vehicle out of the lot by 7 a.m. on Saturday morning.” Students can move their cars to any employee lot, student commuter lot, except for W Lot, C Lot or the North Garage. Parking will be free and the gates will be up at the North Garage from 12:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Saturday. If students leave the garage after 4 p.m., they will be charged the regular daily rate. “Please move your vehicle and encourage everyone you know living on campus to move their vehicle so that snow can be plowed and removed,” Funderburk said in the e-mail. “Random cars left in a lot make it impossible to effectively clear the snow.” Mansfield Apartments and Northwood Apartments will not be included in the snow removal Saturday. Hilltop Apartments and Charter Oak Apartments and Busby Suites will be included in the cleanup.
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» UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT GOVERNMENT
External affairs discusses Mansfield laws
By Kim Wilson Staff Writter
The USG External Affairs Committee discussed Mansfield laws at its weekly meeting last night in the Student Union. “The town of Mansfield is increasingly formulating policies targeted at students. We are doing our best to inform the population and ensure the student voice is heard,” said Thomas Jacob Knecht, vicechair for the External Affairs Committee and an 8th-semester political science and economics double major. External Affairs deals with issues outside the campus on a local, state and national levels. The committee also organizes state and govern-
ment conferences and is the chief organizer of the UConn Voters Coalition. The committee focuses mainly on education, including issues such as financial aid, textbook prices, and college loans. Other issues covered by the committee include public transport and student political involvement. Last night’s meeting detailed strategies for lobbying and some Mansfield laws. One such policy, the “Ordinance Regarding OffStreet Parking on Residential Property,” requires residential rental property owners to submit a detailed parking space site plan and a $35 review fee to the town. The committee also discussed the proposed “Nuisance House Policy Ordinance,” which, if passed,
would fine renters, landlords or both if the house is deemed a “nuisance.” Christine McGrath, chairperson of the External Affairs Committee and an 8th-semester political science major, said that the committee has big plans for the current semester. “We’re hoping to do some lobbying on the state level on issues such as education,” McGrath said. “We’ve done a few things this past semester, and are hoping to take it further.” The committee stresses the importance of student involvement in political matters and students interested in government or law are encouraged to attend.
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The Undergraduate Student Government External Affairs Committee discussed University relations with the state of CT government as well as relations with the Mansfield/Storrs town government.
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Governor unveils first proposed agency merger
HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has announced his first proposed merger of state agencies, calling for the creation of a Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. In a statement released Tuesday, the new Democratic governor said he wants to consolidate the state’s “widely dispersed energy functions,” including the Department of Public Utility Control, with the Department of Environmental Protection. He said the new agency will be able to better coordinate and integrate the state’s energy and environmental policies. Malloy has said he plans to propose merging additional agencies to help streamline state government. He is expected to unveil his new two-year budget on Feb. 16. Under this new consolidated agency, two new bureaus will handle energy policy affecting citizens and businesses, as well as managing state energy costs and usage.
Otis announces environmental program for product
BRISTOL (AP) — Otis Elevator Co. has announced an environmental program it says will cross all aspects of its business, including design and manufacturing, operations and recycling. The subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. said Tuesday the program will reduce energy use among its products and manufacturing processes. For example, Otis said its Gen2 elevator system requires little lubrication, eliminating storage, cleanup and disposal of hazardous waste. The elevator manufacturer also said a site in the Spanish capital of Madrid uses solar panels to generate about 60 percent of its energy needs. Otis President Didier Michaud- (Deed-YAY Mih-show)-Daniel said in an interview that Otis is responding to customers who are asking about the company’s environmental strategy.
Malloy: communication breakdown over plates
HARTFORD (AP) — A spokeswoman says Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy believes the release of license plate registrations to a columnist by one of his top aides stemmed from “a breakdown in communication” within the office. Colleen Flanagan said Monday that Malloy’s legal counsel is reviewing whether Senior Adviser Roy Occhiogrosso (ohchee-oh-GROH’-so) violated any laws by providing a list of low-number license plates — many issued to former Gov. M. Jodi Rell, her family and supporters — to a Hartford Courant columnist. Both state and federal laws prevent the Department of Motor Vehicles from releasing such information. Both Occhiogrosso and Chief of Staff Tim Bannon, who got the list from DMV, say they didn’t now the information was private. State Republican Chairman Chris Healy the chief state’s attorney should investigate the matter.
United Technologies exec touts non-Conn. business
HARTFORD, (AP) — The chief financial officer of United Technologies Corp. says doing business outside Connecticut, where the industrial conglomerate is based, has helped keep down costs. At a meeting with investor analysts Tuesday, Chief Financial Officer Greg Hayes cited subsidiary Sikorsky Aircraft, which he said has doubled sales over the past four years while its presence in the state has not grown. Hayes said Sikorsky’s non-Connecticut operations are now equal in size to its in-state business. Hayes said United Technologies also is moving work at its Fire and Security segment to Mexico. Another United Technologies’ subsidiary, Pratt & Whitney, is shutting two jet engine repair plants in Connecticut and shifting work out of state. Pratt & Whitney’s president, David Hess, last month told a business group that Connecticut needs a more supportive business environment.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
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Nordic skiing enjoys resurgence
STOCKHOLM, Maine (AP) — Suzy Anderson recalls the days when everyone skied in Aroostook County. She and her friends skied to school. They wore their ski boots in class, and skied after school. They competed in winter carnivals and raced each other on weekends. Then Anderson left northern Maine to go to college. When she returned in 1974, the skis had disappeared. They’d been replaced by gas-powered snowmobiles. “None of the kids were skiing. There was no skiing whatsoever. It was because of the snowmobiles,” Anderson recalled. “Skiing was essentially over.” These days, kids are back on skis, thanks to a $25 million effort over the past 12 years to restore the cross-country skiing tradition in Maine’s northernmost county, a rural expanse of rolling hills, wilderness and potato farms that’s bigger than Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. Unlike downhill skiing, cross-country skiing involves zooming across the countryside on longer, skinnier skis, providing an exceptional aerobic workout. The Maine Winter Sports Center, backed by a charitable trust in Portland, has provided rental skis, equipment and expertise to communities, and has built a pair of world-class biathlon venues dedicated to the Olympic sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle marksmanship. A pair of World Cup biathlon events, one last weekend in Presque Isle and another this weekend in Fort Kent, highlight the center’s success and inspire local kids, who are excited about getting outdoors and engaged in a healthy activity in the state with New England’s highest obesity rates. Many dream of competing beyond Aroostook County. “I pretty much can’t live without skiing,” said Ashley Richards, a sophomore skier at Caribou High School, which last year won the state cross-country championship, before skiing off from a state-of-the-art ski building and onto a 7-kilometer (4.3 miles) system of trails, all created in the last 10 years. Maine’s skiing tradition began in the untamed woods of northern Maine after the Civil War, after Maine looked to Sweden to find hardy souls to settle Aroostook County. In 1870, the first Swedes arrived, settling the town of New Sweden. Several towns, including Stockholm, followed. The roads they built became impassable in winter in a region that averages 115 inches of snow. So the Swedes skied for transportation, for hunting, and for fun, just like they did back home. “Everybody skied at the time because the roads were closed. It was the only way to get around,” said Ralph Ostland, 87, of New Sweden, who recalls skiing’s heyday in the 1930s, when the New
Sweden Athletic Club was formed, and when the hardiest skiers participated in a legendary 180-mile race from Bangor to Caribou. The winter sports tradition held in the sparsely populated region for a century, even after mechanized equipment opened up the snow-covered roads around World War II. Its fall coincided with the arrival of snowmobiles, powerful and seductive, followed by other modern conveniences that lured kids indoors: television, video games and computers. Over time, snowmobiling evolved into a massive economic engine in Maine, which has 14,000 miles of groomed snowmobile trails that draw visitors from all over New England. But until the arrival of the Libra Foundation, the charitable trust set up by the late Elizabeth Noyce, ex-wife of an Intel Corp. founder, there were few groomed skiing trails. Funded by Libra Foundation, the Maine Winter Sports Center fulfilled the vision of Andy Shepard and Max Cobb, with a mission statement of “Creating a model for the sustainability of rural communities through a skiing lifestyle.” Anderson, co-owner of the general store in Stockholm, credits the Maine Winter Sports Center and Libra Foundation for rescuing Aroostook after the closing of Loring Air Force Base in 1994. The Maine Winter Sports Center built a biathlon lodge and stadium called the 10th Mountain Center in Fort Kent in 1999, and provided
snow-grooming equipment to ski clubs and expertise in laying out trails. It began a rental program to give parents a low-cost alternative to buying skis for their kids. Soon there was a second skiing venue, the Nordic Heritage Center, in Presque Isle. “You get kids going early and it just becomes part of how they move,” said Michael Smith, director of healthy hometowns for the Maine Winter Sports Center in Caribou. On a recent 15-degree day, more than a dozen miles from Smith’s office, third- and fourth-graders at the New Sweden Consolidated School grabbed skis from a rack and headed outside for PE class. First- and second-graders, part of an after-school program, joined them on skis. The youngsters raced along a groomed trail that looped behind the playground, all smiles even when they took an occasional spill. Typically there’s hooting, hollering and horseplay, and sometimes they engage in a game similar to tag. Teachers make sure they’re having fun. Laurie Spooner, the school’s principal, said there’s no data to quantify the healthful benefits of the skiing program, but there’s anecdotal evidence to suggest it’s good for kids and educators alike. “We don’t have as many disciplinary issues on the days the kids ski,” she said. “They seem to have more energy, more focus as far as learning, if they have the opportunity to be active,” added Ernie Easter,
who coaches the middle school ski team. The school provides cross-country skis for use at school for grades 3-6 and offers rental skis, at $55 for the season, for other children. Everyone has access, regardless of ability to pay. Other communities are building programs. At Caribou High School, the cross-country ski team no longer has to load up on a bus to go skiing because new trails have been built right behind the soccer field. The trails are lighted and groomed, thanks to donors, and there’s snowmaking equipment for those rare occasions when Mother Nature lets the skiers down. There’s even a ski building, with ski lockers, changing rooms, and bathrooms, funded by private donors, said Curtis Richards, vice president of the ski club. The whole idea, Richards said, was to eliminate any barriers that prevent kids from getting outdoors. “If you want kids to be in activities, you’ve got to make it so easy that they can’t say no,” Richards said. “The ones who try — they usually stick with it.” A number of local skiers are moving up the competitive ranks. Russell Currier, a skier from Stockholm who aims to join the World Cup circuit, recalls the day Winter Sports Center representatives arrived at his school. They brought with them some skis for the kids to try. Currier was happy to get out of class for a couple of hours.
UConn’s new president, Susan Herbst, is making unprecedented steps to open channels of communication with the student body: UConn’s first Presidential Open Office Hours. “My first experience with open office hours was long ago when I was a child,” Herbst wrote in an email. “My father, a long-time IBM engineer, once had a frustrating issue and took it all the way up to the CEO.”
Herbst wrote that she was very impressed by the company’s “open-door policy.” She enjoyed the policy even more while getting her political science degree at Duke, where her professors “stayed until the last student was heard.” Now it will be invoked here in Storrs, allowing anyone with an idea to meet directly with her. Herbst currently lives in Georgia and oversees 15 university presidents. She will move up to the “Oakhill,” the presidential house, in July. Office hours will begin after “people start arriving back
from summer break,” she said. Over 28,000 students will enroll state wide at UConn next semester. “What is most important is teamwork,” Herbst wrote. “No university, large or small, is run by a single person.” Herbst also described her favorite part of UConn thus far. “That’s easy,” she wrote. “The people.” She mentioned her love of lunches with students and wrote of her hopes for “informal interaction” on campus. “One of my very best memories as a professor at Northwestern was dancing in the wonderful,
student-organized dance marathon for charity. I read UConn has one as well, yes? If so, I’m glad to participate.” It is still too early to know which days of the week the office hours will be held, but Herbst hopes they will include “out of the box thinking and big, bold ideas for UConn’s future,” and “visitors [who] will have ideas about how to make campus a better place for students, faculty and staff.”
In this photo made Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, fourth grader Noah Hixon cross country skis during a physical education class at the New Sweden Consolidated School in New Sweden, Maine.
Conn. Facebook firing Pres. Herbst plans to offer first ‘open office hours’ By Keelan Freitag case is settled Campus Correspondent
HARTFORD (AP) — A settlement has been reached in the federal labor case of a Connecticut woman who was fired from her job after criticizing her boss on Facebook. An official with the National Labor Relations Board confirmed the settlement Monday in the case of Dawnmarie Souza of East Haven, an emergency medical technician who was fired by American Medical Response Inc. of Connecticut in 2009. A hearing before a federal labor judge was to begin Tuesday in Hartford. Souza declined to comment. Messages were left with American Medical Response. John Cotter, deputy regional director for the Labor Relations Board, said the settlement between Souza and the ambulance company is confidential. He said AMR also settled unfair labor practice claims by agreeing to not limit employee discussions of working conditions.
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A story in Friday’s edition incorrectly identified Chris Lariviere’s employer as WFSB news station and featured a direct quote from him, when it was, in fact, a second-hand quote. Anonymous was also described as an organization that hacks into websites, which it does not.
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Conn lawmakers to take up Sunday liquor sales bill
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The battle over allowing retail alcohol sales on Sundays resumed at the Connecticut Capitol on Tuesday, pitting the liquor industry and supermarkets who favor the move against package store owners who say an extra day is bad for business. The General Assembly’s General Law Committee held a public hearing on the latest legislation that would end the practice of forbidding purchases on Sundays. Connecticut is one of three states, including Georgia and Indiana, with such a law on the books. While the issue is a perennial one at the capitol in Hartford, this year it stands a better chance of passage because Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has said he’d sign it. Sunday sales also are being touted by supporters as a possible revenue generator for the state, a tempting idea considering the state faces massive budget deficit problems. Jay Hibbard, vice president of the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, said 14 states since 2002, including neighboring Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York, have seen increases in sales tax revenues after allowing retail sales of alcohol on Sundays. “There’s simply no reason that Connecticut would be any different,” he said. Carroll Hughes, lobbyist for the Connecticut Package Store Association, dismissed estimated revenue gains from a recent legislative study as
flawed. The Program Review and Investigations Committee has said the state could realize $7.5 million to $8 million in additional tax revenue from Sunday sales. Another legislative estimate was $3.6 million. Hughes questioned whether consumers will buy more alcohol if Sunday sales are allowed in Connecticut. He said it will cost his member stores money because they’ll have to staff their stores for a seventh day. Even though they wouldn’t be required to open, the store owners said they would feel the need to open because of competition, especially from supermarkets that sell beer. “These stores can’t stay open if we go to $12,000 or $14,000 for that one day,” Hughes said, referring to the estimated cost to keep a liquor store open one more day. Jim Ransford, who owns Connecticut Beverage Mart, with stores in New Britain and Middletown, said he has a large operation but he still opposes Sunday sales. He said it’s a bad business decision. “If I felt that being open on Sunday would significantly increase my bottom line, I’d be the first person to promote Sunday sales,” he said. Hibbard, whose organization represents the Norwalk-based Diageo liquor company, said Sunday sales in Connecticut would provide an added convenience to consumers and help recapture business lost to stores in border states. “That opens the marketplace
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Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, right, shakes hands with U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D- Conn., outside office at the Capitol in Hartford, Conn., Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011. Malloy and Blumenthal met to discuss ways in which they plan to work together over the course of the coming years.
to free and fair competition,” he said. Rep. Kathleen Tallarita, D-Enfield, whose district borders Massachusetts, agreed. She said store owners should have the opportunity to compete with outlets just miles away. “This is about being fair,”
she said. “We’re not saying you have to be open seven days a week. Representatives of substanceabuse treatment organizations as well as the Connecticut Coalition to Stop Underage Drinking voiced opposition to the Sunday sales bill, arguing
Living like any other student is a challenge for her from BALANCING, page 1 with Crohn’s “brought me and my mom to tears,” said Gottier. “Part relief to finally have a diagnosis and a starting point and part total terror because my father has Crohn’s and for them to think about their baby girl having to deal with that was scary for them.” “I had been dealing with the disease for over 15 years and knew she would have to deal with this for her lifetime,” said her father, Michael Gottier. “It gives me more empathy for her condition.” A sophomore at the UConn, Gottier is 19 years old, and while it may appear that she lives her days like any other college student, her daily routine strays from the norm. Studies at the University of Michigan indicate that students with Crohn’s disease, colitis and other chronic illnesses experience greater perceived stress and are more greatly impacted by college adjustment. “It adds an extra level of complications to a life and setting which can already be pretty complicated for a student,” said Michael Gottier. Many college students nap, and although it may not be essential, Gottier naps daily. “I take a nap almost every-
day now out of sheer necessity,” said Gottier. “My body doesn’t absorb nutrients as well as a normal one does, so I get tired and dehydrated extremely easily.” Last summer, Gottier underwent a small bowel resection. A stricture had formed in her intestine and caused a blockage. About five inches of Gottier’s intestines were removed and the ends were reattached. Less than a week into her recovery, Gottier experienced an infection and was rushed back to the hospital for an emergency surgery in which she was given an ostomy bag. “That led to a bunch of problems, just getting used to it, “ said Gottier. “Before the summer it used to be like this: wake up, take medicine, get ready for the day, go to classes, go to the library/wherever on campus, study, take more medicine and go to bed,” said Gottier. “Since my surgery, I have the ostomy bag to worry about. I empty it every time I go to the bathroom and change it out twice a week, unless it leaks and I change it more often.” Her situation has become very different since her surgery. “Prior to surgery she was able to adapt almost seamlessly,” said her mother, Lynne Gottier. The extra time Gottier must take for her ostomy bag definitely takes a toll on her daily
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routine. “She has had so much more to contend with as far as being prepared to take care of her ostomy and be vigilant about not getting dehydrated,” said Lynne Gottier. Gottier does not broadcast her condition to her peers, despite the extra stress she must contend with. She does her best to avoid the “Awws” and the “Oh, you poor thing” reaction she seems to receive when she does inform people about her illness. “It’s just frustrating,” Gottier said. “I’m a big girl, I don’t need people feeling sorry for me.” She is also faced with a lot of questions. “Most people say, ‘What is that?’ Although, there are some people we’ve shared the information with who also know someone suffering with the disease,” said Lynne Gottier. “I’d say people are for the most part empathetic.” Not all people understand Gottier’s illness, however. “Sometimes a flare can come on quickly without warning and people without the condition may not understand that she is dealing with a chronic issue,” said Michael Gottier. Upon the start of summer classes, Gottier e-mailed one of her teachers explaining that she would not be able to attend class. The response
she received gave an “impression that [they] didn’t really think she was sick,” said Michael Gottier. Despite situations such as this, Gottier tries her best at working around the stipulations of her condition and does not wallow in the face of any setbacks she may face due to the disease. “She just deals with it,” said Grohs. “There is nothing she can do about it, so when she isn’t feeling well she just stays in bed until she is feeling better, and then moves on with her day.” Gottier understands that she must live with a chronic condition that has no known cure. But she does well in continuing to move on with her life as normally as possible. “I cannot stress enough how proud I am of how strong she is,” Lynne Gottier said. “She is determined to continue to live her life on her terms.” To anyone passing by her, Gottier appears to be just like any other college student, immersed in her studies while drinking coffee in hope of successfully making it through the day without dozing off. She does well at maintaining a well-balanced life between school and friends despite her condition and does not let it control her life.
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there are potential negative consequences to allowing greater access to alcohol. The bill awaits committee action. Also on Tuesday, the same committee heard testimony on a bill that would allow “gift basket retailers,” such as flo-
rists, to sell wine with their baskets. The bill creates a new gift basket retailer license, with a fee of $500. Other bills under consideration would allow local wines to be sold at farmers’ markets and create a Connecticut Beer Trail to promote local brews.
Drought endangers Chinese winter wheat harvest ROME (AP) — China’s winter wheat harvest is at risk because of a drought that has also led to shortages of drinking water for people and livestock, the U.N. food agency said. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said the North China Plain drought is already putting pressure on wheat prices in China, with average flour prices rising more than 8 percent in January compared to the previous two months. The impact on global wheat production and prices was unclear. FAO said Tuesday that China hadn’t exported wheat for the past two years, although there were some exports before 2008 of about 1.5 million tons. The North China Plain region produces most of China’s winter wheat, which is harvested in June. Low precipitation has meant there hasn’t been enough snowfall to protect dormant plants from frost, and has affected soil moisture needed for the growing season, FAO said. FAO said the situation could become critical if a spring drought follows the winter drought or if temperatures this month plunge. But it also noted that temperatures so far have been moderate, that the government had increased irri-
gation to the region and allocated $15 billion to support farmers and subsidize diesel, fertilizer and pesticides. Already, a large part of the harvest area — some 5.16 million hectares of the 14 million hectares planted — may have been affected, FAO said. The main provinces affected are Shandong, Jiangsu, Henan, Hebei and Shanxi. FAO said the drought had also affected some 2.6 million people and 2.8 million livestock “due to the shortages of drinking water.” The United Nations has sounded the alarm about rising commodity prices, particularly for wheat, warning that social unrest is likely, such as that seen in Tunisia and Egypt. Wheat prices shot up most sharply in August when Russia imposed a wheat export ban after severe drought hurt harvests across the region. In October, Ukraine, another major grain exporter, imposed quotas on exports because of the drought. FAO’s forecast for 2010 wheat production stands at 648 million tons, 29 million tons less than predicted in its June report, blamed mostly on the sharp fall in the production in Russia that offset improved prospects in Argentina, Australia and the U.S.
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Internship Fair first step toward success
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Revolution forces US to solidify policies
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he Egyptian revolution is more than a nation bravely unifying in opposition to an oppressive ruler. It is more than a people standing up to demand a democratic government in an area of the world where self-representation is a historical anomaly. This revolution is a major test of American foreign policy on both a practical By Arragon Perrone and a philosophical level. It calls Weekly Columnist into question America’s longstanding policy of supporting foreign governments who like the U.S. and are willing to form alliances against enemy states, regardless of whether or not the friendly governments are democratic at all. This policy has helped the U.S. oppose the expansion of Soviet and, later, fundamental Islamist influence in the region. But it has now placed the U.S. in a precarious moral position. Does the U.S. support an autocratic ruler who is helping us fight terrorist regimes in the Middle East? Or does the U.S. support the spread of democracy, even if doing so risks an extremist group taking power? If ethics did not play a role in American foreign policy, there would be much to like about the Egyptian government. Not only has autocratic Egypt been one of the most stable Arab states, but it has also been one of America’s strongest allies in the Middle East since the 1970s. However, the relationship is purely one of convenience. In the early 1970s, Egypt’s Anwar Sadat abandoned his alliance with the Soviet Union to support the world’s only other superpower, the U.S.. As a result, the U.S. gained a powerful friend to help fight communism. In 1979, Sadat made peace with Israel – America’s strongest ally in the region – in exchange for Israel’s withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula. As a result,
Egypt became a reliable ally in the fight against anti-Semitism, which had become a major tenet of fundamental Islam. This support became essential after 9/11, in order to protect both American and Israeli interests. Nevertheless, the strategic advantages to supporting the current Egyptian government do not erase the regime’s negatives. The current ruler, Hosni Mubarak, has been in power since he invoked emergency law in 1981 following Sadat’s assassination. Though Egypt is a republic according to its original constitution, Mubarak has ruled like a pharaoh. He has suppressed opposition, tortured prisoners and conducted arbitrary arrests. In 2005, only 11 percent of the total population voted in the presidential election. The revolutionaries’ current demands are for Mubarak to leave the country and to replace the corrupt regime with self-representative government, a noble goal. Skeptics of the revolution point to the possibility that the radical Muslim Brotherhood may seize control if Mubarak’s exit creates a power vacuum. Such worries are exaggerated, at best. Based on the direct correspondence between international journalists and the protestors, the goals are to create a democratic government, not a theocratic state like Iran. The protestors are overwhelmingly secular cosmopolitans. Also, the protestors have shown remarkable courage in opposing anyone with a domineering agenda, and the Muslim Brotherhood or any organization sympathetic with Al-Qaeda’s goals would be foolish to wrestle control. The popular will is simply against the extremists. The U.S. can sympathize with this desire to cast off the reins of an oppressive government in favor of democratic principles. After all, this is the precise reason why the American colonies revolted against British rule. Furthermore, the U.S. has a long history
of promoting democracy around the world since Woodrow Wilson first established the principle in 1919. Franklin Roosevelt and every president after him have fought to protect democratic governments in Eastern and Western Europe, Korea and Vietnam.
“Abortion opponents do not understand how being physically dependent on another makes someone less human.” More recently, anyone who has lived through the past ten years knows the sacrifices Americans have made to spread democracy in the Middle East. In Afghanistan and Iraq, thousands of American soldiers have died in order to liberate nations from brutal regimes. President George W. Bush was laughed at for believing that democracies could spread in the Middle East. That is now happening. Except this time, there is no American intervention. Egyptians have chosen democracy on their own. No “shock and awe.” No insurgency. No political firestorm. No dead American soldiers. If the U.S. does not back the supporters of democracy in Egypt, it not only betrays its principles but betrays those who were sent in harm’s way in order to create the very situation that is now being broadcast on televisions around the world. America has seen the first fruits of its hard-fought labor. Will it deny them?
Weekly columnist Arragon Perrone is a 6th-semester political science and English double major. He can be reached at Arragon.Perrone@UConn.edu.
US should support democracy in the region
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ver the past few weeks, the entire world has watched in awe as the Arab world’s most populous country, Egypt, has undergone a remarkable upheaval. Inspired by Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution, in which the Tunisian people deposed 30-year dictator Zine Ben Ali in a popular revolt, the By Ali Mirza Egyptian Staff Columnist people have mobilized on a massive scale, demanding the departure of Hosni Mubarak and a full transition to democratic rule. Other demonstrations across the region have had remarkable consequences. Protests in Jordan have led King Abdullah to sack his entire cabinet. Large protests in Yemen have forced President Ali Saleh not to extend his rule beyond his current term. A 19-year state of emergency is being lifted in Algeria after significant protests. How much change will actually take place has yet to be seen. Nonetheless, it is clear that an inspired movement has swept a region that has been living under dictatorships for decades. It is important for us as Americans to reflect on our
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role in all of this. For years, countless Arab dictators have enjoyed the unwavering political, financial and ideological support of the U.S. In order to maintain “national security” as our leaders have historically claimed, which is really a euphemism for defending our strategic designs for the region, we have propped up the various puppet presidents and corrupt kings that have ruled the Arab world without exception from Morocco to Iraq. Only when one of our dictators gets out of line by threatening our interests, as was the case with Iraq, do we invoke the sacred democratic
“It is a simple fact that our government... is willing to support...brutal tyrants.” rights of the Arab people. One could go through the entire laundry list of despotic regimes that the U.S. has supported over the years, but it
simply isn’t necessary for the purposes of this column. It is a simple fact that our government, in order to secure access to resources and markets, is willing to support, and sometimes even directly install, brutal tyrants to carry out those goals. The moral bankruptcy of the current political elite was perhaps best illustrated by Arizona Sen. John McCain, when he recently proclaimed that democracy in the region is important only if it benefits the U.S., not out of some “misplaced moralism,” as he called it. Perhaps we should demand that our leaders heed this wakeup call. In fact, our policies vis-à-vis the Arab and Muslim worlds are directly related to our national security. Member of British Parliament George Galloway perhaps put it best when he addressed a crowd in Boston in 2005. He was speaking about the attacks of 9/11, and the state of national security following Washington’s “war on terror.” “Some people think that those planes came out of a clear blue sky,” he said. “But what they really came out of was a swamp of hatred, created by our policies.” He went on to list three main
areas that need reform when it comes to relations between western powers and the Muslim world if we are at all serious about addressing the root causes of terrorism. First, the U.S. should end its longstanding doctrine of launching wars of aggression against countries in the region. Second, we should end our bottomless political, military and ideological support for the Israeli government as it continues its relentless and brutal occupation of the Palestinian territories, an occupation which is now in its fourth decade. Finally, we should end our policy of opposing democracy in the region when it threatens our strategic interests. What Galloway proposed was an honest, tangible and logical approach to trying to minimize the threat of violence and terror. Today, the people of the Arab world are invigorated with a new confidence. We should support their efforts, by not only recognizing their right to self-determination, but by recognizing the significance of how our policies affect what happens to them.
Staff Columnist Ali Mirza is an 8th-semester electrical engineering major. He can be reached at Ali.Mirza@UConn.edu
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OMG, when did we start talking like txt msgs?
NEW YORK (AP) — “ILY!” Susan Maushart’s 16-year-old daughter often calls out over her shoulder as she leaves the house. Sure, actual words would be better. But Mom knows not to complain. “A mother of teenagers is pathetically grateful for an ‘I love you’ no matter what form it takes,” she observes. Then there are the various forms of “LOL” that her teens use in regular parlance — it’s become a conjugable verb by now. And of course, there’s the saltier acronym used by son Bill: “WTF, Mom?!” But before you judge, note that former VP candidate Sarah Palin just used that one in a TV interview. And CNN’s Anderson Cooper used it on his show the other night. Acronyms have been around for years. But with the advent of text and Twitter-language, it certainly feels like we’re speaking in groups of capital letters a lot more. It’s a question that intrigues linguists and other language aficionados — even though they’ll tell you they have absolutely no concrete research on it. “It’s fascinating,” says Scott Kiesling, a socio-linguist and professor at the University of Pittsburgh. “What’s interesting to me as a linguist is figuring out which words get picked up, and why. What is it that makes OMG and WTF and LOL so useful that they spread from the written to the spoken form?” One possibility, Kiesling proposes, is that some of these acronyms actually become a whole new thought, expressing something different than the words that form them. For example: “You wouldn’t say, ‘OMG, that person just jumped off a cliff,’” he explains. “But you’d say, ‘OMG, do you see those red pants that person is wearing?’” Which brings us to WTF, an acronym that needs no translation. When Palin used the expression recently in a Fox News interview — twice in two sentences, actually — some pun-
dits were a little shocked. (Palin was playing on the president’s “Win the Future” message in his State of the Union speech.) “That’s going to be a tough one for her to come back from and explain,” remarked conservative commentator Pat Buchanan on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Host Joe Scarborough simply shook his head and said: “Not very presidential.” But the chatter died down quickly. “I haven’t seen any big blowup,” says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert on political communication. “It was misplaced humor. But I assume she thought it was clever and thus would not be judged.” Clever may be in the eyes of the beholder. But Palin is not the only prominent person to use the expression on TV recently. On “Anderson Cooper 360” Monday night, the host was commenting on rapper B.O.B.’s use of an airplane’s public address system to perform for the captive passengers. “WTF, B.O.B.?” Cooper asked. Imagine if he’d said the actual words — a quick call from network executives might have ensued. But WTF seems to have become a winking way of saying something with a little edge, a little bite, without being truly offensive. It can also be a good icebreaker with an audience. “I do a lot of public speaking,” says Maushart, the mother of three, who is also an author (The recent “Winter of our Disconnect.”) “And if there is one utterance that I always know will get a laugh, it is WTF. It establishes that you are kind of with it. It brings an instant laugh.” And so she doesn’t mind when her kids (they are 20, 17 and 16) use it. If only she could keep up with all their other acronyms. They’ve graduated from the simple LOL and LOLOL
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FILE- This undated file photo courtesy of Frances Andrijich shows Susan Maushart, second from left, with her children, from left to right, Anni, Sussy and Bill (with cat Hazel) as they play a board game together at the family home in Perth, Australia, before the family moved to the U.S. Maushart’s children frequently use acronyms like “ILY!” and “LOL.” Acronyms have been around for years. But when exactly did we start speaking in the
to LMAO — literally, laughing so hard that part of your body comes off (for extra credit, use LMAOOTF — it means it’s all happening on the floor.) Her youngest, Sussy, 16, seems particularly advanced. These days, she has started saying “K-Dot.” Translation: OK, but with a finality to it, as in, end of discussion, “K’’ followed by a period, ergo: “K-Dot.” Not avant-garde enough for you? Try this: Sussy also is known to SPEAK a question mark when asking a question. As in: “Do you really want me to do that, question mark?” All this delights Robert Lane Greene, author of the upcoming book “You Are What You Speak” and a self-described linguistics nut. Greene doesn’t buy
in to the concern that kids are destroying our language. “People often think the language THEY learned was perfect,” he says. “But innovation is generally enriching. It’s fascinating, if you don’t pull your hair out over it.” So just how new is the use of acronyms? Did this all come from Internet speak, texting and the like? “Americans have always liked abbreviations,” says linguistics professor and author Deborah Tannen, author of several popular books on language. “That certainly predates the Internet.” In fact, acronyms themselves are an early 20th century creation, says Greene. They became prevalent during the New Deal, he says, the series of
economic programs passed during the first term of Franklin D. Roosevelt — who, of course, became known by his three initials. They are also widely used in the military and today’s government bureaucracy. People who think acronyms are new may be suffering from what linguists call a “recency illusion” — the illusion that something is new merely because one has just noticed it. They may not realize, for example, that the oft-used “snafu,” in its cruder, more popular version, contains the same “F’’ that “WTF” does. But one thing that does seem genuinely new, Greene says, “is that these three-letter phrases from the Internet and twitter-speak are being spo-
ken out loud.” And so, maybe you CAN blame the kids for that. However, Greene notes, “People have been complaining about what the kids are doing to the language since ancient times, and Latin. Language is always changing. It’s a fact of life.” And besides, young people are always on a search for the next new thing. And so this whole spoken-acronym thing may be a fad, destined for the linguistic garbage heap in a matter of a few years. Remember the word “groovy”? “One generation’s teenage slang,” Greene says, “is the next generation’s “OMG Dad, I can’t believe you said ‘groovy.’”
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‘Project 35’ on display at Benton Spice up your V-Day celebration By Alessandra Petrino Campus Correspondent
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‘Project 35,’ a compilation of pieces showing at the Benton, includes “Lennon Sontag Beuys“ a 2004 video by Kota Ezawa. Ezawa is known for addressing cultural history through animation. Typically, his pieces employ a limited color palette, as seen above. This scene, one of three in the short film, paints Joseph Beuys as a two-dimensional lineless animation giving a presentation he made in 1974 with the original audio playing along with it.
Ongoing exhibit showcases curators’ favorite pieces By Stephanie Ratty Staff Writer UConn’s own William Benton Museum of Art welcomed a new kind of “white box” with Project 35, an exhibition highlighting individual works that curators believe should be seen and heard by the public. Based in New York City, Project 35 was conceived by the non-profit organization, Independent Curators International. The mission was clear: each curator would select a short piece of video art that would offer a contemporary message for audiences all over the world. The endeavor collected works of all styles and is being released in four chapters over the course of a year. At the Benton, visitors are literally immersed in a “white
box,” which simply implies four white walls waiting for artists to accessorize. The museum exhibit focuses on three artists at a time, commencing with Japanese artist Yukihiro Taguchi’s stopmotion video, “Moment.” Taguchi was born and raised in Osaka, Japan, and moved to Berlin after graduating from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music in 2004. He often incorporates digital techniques into his pieces, which won him an Excellence Prize in Japan in 2008. His piece for Project 35 was selected by curator Mami Kataoka. “Moment” is a look into Taguchi’s art and his life in Berlin. He individually tore up floorboards from a workspace and began a journey across the city. Taking pictures to document each new position of the planks, Taguchi’s stop-motion
method was an arduous process that took him from his apartment to streets, sidewalks, parks and various other elements of nature. The film shows audiences how a simple piece of wood doesn’t stand alone, but rather can be altered to create countless new objects. We see through Taguchi’s work that he uses the planks to create an assortment of geometric figures that bring the wood to life. A bench, an inchworm and a pinwheel are just some of the objects Taguchi was inspired to make. While Taguchi’s “Moment” is a silent expression of contemporary art, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz’s “Ask Chuleta,” is a personal entry with a Latina kick. Curator Franklin Sirmans chose this piece for Project 35, which is centered on finding one’s identity, regardless of
the road required to do so. Thirty-eight-year-old Raimundi-Ortiz’s attempt to “bridge gaps and build communities” comes through a preconceived persona known as “Chuleta.” The character connects with audiences through a camera lens confessional, where she defines terms through accessible language and intentional slip-ups. Even though the segment is scripted, RaimundiOrtiz’s skills allow her to perform the piece convincingly enough that audiences truly believe she is “Chuleta.” Accent and all, RaimundiOrtiz discusses the meanings of relevant terms such as the “white box,” “identity politics” and “post-identity politics.” In an effort to send a clear message without breaking character, she dives into examples that can relate to diverse audiences.
She translated “identity politics” as “in the art world, answering the question ‘Who am I?’” However, after defining “post-identity politics” as “the same thing, but different,” Raimundi-Ortiz took a step back and compared the two terms to how we treat leftover food, making it into something else the next day. These two segments are just a part of one chapter in Project 35. Artists vary in age, race, location and the message they convey, and while techniques range from stopmotion to diary or silent to vocal, the underlying significance is celebrating diversity in contemporary art. Project 35 continues with exhibitions in Storrs, Conn. until Jan. 2012. The next chapter opens April 1, 2011 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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Lindsay Lohan to be charged with grand theft regarding $2500 necklace LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors said Tuesday they plan to charge Lindsay Lohan with felony grand theft of a $2,500 necklace reported stolen from a jewelry store last month — the most serious count the actress has faced in more than three years of trouble with the law. District Attorney’s spokeswoman Jane Robison said the charge will be filed Wednesday. Lohan, 24, is due in court for an arraignment on Wednesday afternoon. Los Angeles police said Feb. 2 that Lohan was under investigation for taking a necklace from a Venice store later identified as Kamofie and Co. Detectives obtained a search warrant to try to retrieve the item from Lohan’s home, but it was turned in to a police station before any search was made. Police said they had no update on the case Tuesday and did not say whether the actress had made arrangements to turn herself in at court or at a police station. Robison said bail would be decided by a judge. A phone message to Lohan’s
attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, was not immediately returned. Holley has previously denied any wrongdoing by Lohan. “We vehemently deny these allegations and, if charges are filed, we will fight them in court, not in the press,” Holley said in a statement released Saturday. Arrested twice in 2007, Lohan was charged with drunken driving and drug possession, but both were misdemeanors. The “Mean Girls” star has been jailed three times in that case, but has been granted a quick release due to jail overcrowding and a requirement that bail be set on misdemeanor cases. Lohan remains on probation for drunken driving, and a judge has threatened to throw her in jail if she runs into trouble again. Prosecutors in Riverside County have been considering whether to press charges against Lohan for a December altercation with a worker from the Betty Ford Center, where she was being treated. The treatment, her fifth rehab session, came after she admitted failing a drug test
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The Kamofie & Company jewelry store window is seen in Venice, Calif., Wednesday. Actress Lindsay Lohan is being investigated for grand theft after the owner of the Kamofie & Company jewelry store reported a $2,500 necklace missing. Prosecutors say police have presented potential video evidence in a jewelry theft case against Lohan, but they don’t expect to make an immediate decision on charges.
shortly after being granted early release from another treatment program. Lohan’s court struggles and treatment have taken a serious toll on the former Disney
star’s career. Her role as porn star Linda Lovelace in a biopic was recast last year while Lohan was at Betty Ford and no replacement projects have been announced.
She had been due in court on Feb. 25 for a probation status hearing and a judge had said he would be willing to loosen the terms of her probation if she remained out of trouble.
Let’s play a guessing game. We’ll start with some clues and then you can try to guess what it is I’m referring to. Ready? Set. Begin. There is a huge debate about why it was created. It makes some people smile and others frown. This time of year, you can’t get away from being reminded of it every time you walk into a grocery store, gas station, department store or our own Student Union. Have you guessed yet? Well, time’s up. Yes, I am talking about Valentine’s Day – either the most thrilling or the most dreadful holiday of the year. For those that are in relationships and into that whole loveydovey thing, Valentine’s Day can be great if you know how to make it special. However, for those that aren’t in relationships, Valentine’s Day can be somewhat of a drag. Considering that V-day is less than a week away, I felt it important to help in making that day enjoyable for everyone: for those in relationships and for those that are single, for people on a budget, for people who don’t want to do the traditional romantic dinner and a movie. So, whatever category you fall into, just remember you’ve been forewarned, this will not be about love. When one thinks of Valentine’s Day, the images of flowers, candy, stuffed animals, cards and candlelight dinners come to mind. It’s all very PG-13. Here are some tips for those in relationships who want to sex things up this Valentine’s Day: Instead of going out, why not stay in? Try something different. Role-play your favorite fantasy: doctor and nurse, student and teacher, secretary and CEO or even more elaborate role-plays: Princess Leia and Han Solo, Wolverine and Jean, Superman and Lois Lane or even Snooki and “The Situation” (cause you know you’re about to have a situation). Instead of flowers and candy, try something a little more. Though I would never blatantly tell anyone to use handcuffs on another person, if you’re both into that sort of thing, go for it. Other sexy Valentine’s Day treats could be hot wax, massage oils, fruits, whipped cream and chocolate syrup (clearly I’m talking about an ice cream sundae). But you can sex up your Valentine’s Day even if you aren’t in a relationship: First, don’t be ashamed of exploring your own body. Masturbation is healthy, and honestly, the person who knows what you like best is you. Second, don’t be afraid to spice things up with yourself. If you’ve explored your body with your hands, why not find something else that gives you pleasure and stimulates the areas you are sensitive to the most? Sex toys can be fun and exciting with or without a partner. Ladies, here are some of my personal favorites: The G-spot Rabbit Vibrator: this vibrator does exactly what its name promises. Both the g-spot and the clitoris are stimulated by the curving shaft, which rotates while the rabbit-shaped extension pulsates against the clitoris. “The rabbit,” which you may
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Just like its predecessor, LittleBigPlanet 2 thrives as a result of its players’ creativity by allowing users to create their own levels. This enhances the variety, and thusly the longevity, of the game.
LittleBigPlanet 2 thrives off players’ creativity By Jason Bogdan Staff Writer Although the build-yourown-game genre has been prevalent for many years now, few games have done it quite like LittleBigPlanet. Though the foundation was a solid platformer, underneath it were tons of collectibles to help shape both your character and your levels to your creative limits, as well as a fantastic online
service to help share your platforming challenges to the whole world. It was truly one of the few games that could be as good as the dedication of the people who played it. In that aspect, it’s hard to imagine just how Media Molecule can make a proper successor to the original. My own experience has only been the few hours I’ve played on a friend’s console. But even in my case I wondered if I
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The Good
-It did the impossible – make a game dependent on the creativity of its players even better -New perks to make some amazing new stuff -From what has already been made with the LBP 2 level creator, this game is already a whole different beast from the first game. -The presentation is still perfection for this game
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-It never gets to the point of being a game breaker but Sackboy controls are still a bit off
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should’ve just paid for the nowlower-priced first game. And yet, from how LittleBigPlanet 2 turned out, everything new about this sequel is absolutely worth the purchase. The levels developed by Media Molecule themselves merely scratch the surface of the madness that can be brought forth from the superb new level creator. The game has only been out for a few weeks, but I’ve already seen great dual-joystick shooters, fluid-controlling racing games, a straight-up fighting game and even a decent emulation of a Legend of Zelda dungeon. You’ll still find a deluge of regular LBP levels designed after Super Mario stages, but thanks to new perks that allow you to control other objects and theatrics, LBP2 has already expanded into completely different genres. The amount of fantastic user-created levels is already staggering. But because the developers wanted to have the million-plus community levels from the first game playable in LBP2, the actual platforming hasn’t changed much. Sackboy still controls a bit loosely, making me thankful that the level aestetics don’t
require Super Meat Boy-like precision. It’s weird, since the parts of the regular-style levels where you ride a giant rabbit or hamster ball actually show how much has been changed to the core engine. But Media Molecule at least redeems themselves with some neat new items for Sackboy like a grapple hook and a cakeshooting gun to make things more fun when you might have trouble with the jumps. The actual presentation hasn’t changed much. But because it is so charming and perfect for the creative energy for the game, it’s certainly not a bad thing. You’ll still see everything constructed with arts-and-crafts materials and pre-school toys with a graphical engine that’s consistently pleasing to the eyes. The soundtrack is also just as unique as the first game, with a variety of tunes from modern coffee shop music to licensed 1970’s beats. It’s just a testament to how the developers have kept what makes the franchise so endearing, while also adding so much great new stuff to make this user-creative paradise feel new again.
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Mainstream games: don’t believe the hype By Lucas Ma Campus Correspondent
WTF: Work Time Fun (PSP) With the NGP finally being announced by Sony, I can finally not feel so guilty for not playing my old PSP anymore. Yeah, I am disappointed that my PSP game library is easily the lowest of any system I’ve ever owned. But you know what? There were actually some games that made me glad to own it. One such game is the highly underappreciated Work Time Fun, which certainly earns the acronym WTF. Imagine WarioWare but with fun micro-games that are weirder than that odd duck of a series. I still have nightmares about the insane Ramen Timer, which for that game is the highest praise possible.
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If I asked you to name a few games right off the top of your head, which ones would you say? I’ll guarantee at least one of those titles would be Halo, Call of Duty or, if you actually play the Wii, Mario Galaxy. This shouldn’t be a surprise, seeing as how these games are just a few of the many mainstream titles who have sites dedicated to video games that do nothing but post article after article about them. Don’t get me wrong: there’s a reason why mainstream games become so popular, and that’s because they are usually welldeveloped, at least to an extent. But the amount of media coverage they get is sickening. Even before the game is released I find myself already tired of it. Still, I’d be able to overlook all of this if it wasn’t for the overall simplicity of mainstream titles. It’s as if developers are afraid to challenge players. I always find it amusing when said games have a mode called “casual,” rather than the traditional “easy” mode. It’s like the developers think the players would be offended if they had to play on beginner, so they call it some-
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While mainstream games like Call of Duty (Modern Warfare 2 screenshot above) provide players a familiar interface and continuity between versions, features like checkpoints and regenerative health bars reduce the amount of skill required to play.
thing else. That being said, they don’t need to worry, since normal mode is already a joke in many popular games. With regenerative health bars, energy shields, constant checkpoints and levels where your character is practically tripping over ammo crates, how much actual skill is involved? Even on hard settings, I still find that they’re not as challenging as they could be. From my experience, the only difference in playing Halo on Legendary is that enemies are more accurate and
the shots do much more damage. The enemy AI is still laughable. Compare the difficulty of this game to Atlus’ Demon’s Souls on the PS3 – no competition. While Demon’s Souls can be considered somewhat of a mainstream title, it certainly does not play as a one. Aside from attacks and traps that kill you in one hit and no checkpoints in a level, the game doesn’t allow pausing. That being said, you will die multiple times on the first level (and yes, every time you die you lose all your experience gained).
But when you finally defeat the boss, there’s no greater feeling of relief and satisfaction. It’s that exact feeling one never gets from playing Brawl or GTA, but it’s that feeling which makes gaming worthwhile. So, instead of buying Modern Warfare 15, try doing some research beforehand and pick a title with a real challenge. After a few hours of crying, swearing fits and broken controllers, it might become your new favorite game.
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There have been more rumors and leaks than anyone could ever count, but on Jan. 27, Sony finally put the speculation to rest with their announcement of the PSP 2. Or rather, the NGP (Next Generation Portable). But lame working title aside, Sony’s next foray into the portable gaming scene is set for a Japanese release in winter 2011. From what was announced during “Playstation Meeting 2011” in Japan, the NGP has quite a few new perks compared to the PSP. First and foremost, the graphics are unbelievable. The amount of gameplay footage is small, but based on how Uncharted looked, all signs seem to indicate that it does look like a PS3 game. But what would a portable gizmo be nowadays without a touch screen? To prevent all the inevitable fingerprint stains on that beautiful screen, Sony took the smart route and put a grid-like panel on the back for all your point/ swipe needs. Bells and whistles also include two analog sticks that look a lot better than the terrible PSP nub, front and rear cameras motion sensors, as well as 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity for all those games you’ll have to download (cause there’s no way Sony’s going back to UMDs after the PSP Go). All in all, the NGP seems to be just what the PSP seemed to be before it was released: dedicated to crushing all portable competition with the power of technical prowess. It’s hardly anything new for Sony (after all, they’re first and foremost a hardware maker). But there’s one question that’s been plaguing gamers since its announcement: how much is this thing going to cost? We’re talking about a portable PS3 with cameras, gyroscopes and touch-support that makes even the $250 price point for the 3DS seem like charity. It pains my soul/wallet to think about buying a portable game system for upwards of $400. But since it’s being released from the folks who nonchalantly asked people to buy $600 for the PS3, it’s impossible to believe it will come cheap. And that inevitable high price is what fuels the fire on the message boards and podcasts pondering if it’s all worth it. I’ve loved portable gaming since my Game Boy days in pre-school, but would I really want to play the next Resistance on a small screen instead of my big screen TV. To be blunt: no. At the end of the day, the failure of the PSP wasn’t so much the lackluster game lineup as much as people didn’t care if they can play console games on a smaller screen. Success will depend on what the developers can creatively do with the cameras and touch-screen so that it won’t just be Call of Duty with
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Troubled grandson of J. Paul Getty dies
LONDON (AP) — Great wealth became his great curse, consigning him to a life that seems to have been almost over before it truly started. J. Paul Getty III, born into one of the world’s richest oil families, was a kidnap victim at 16, and coldly mutilated by his captors after his cash-rich family stalled on paying ransom. Once freed from his fivemonth ordeal, the traumatized teenager — grandson of the founder of Getty Oil — embraced the hippie counterculture that flowered in the late 1960s and early 1970s, turning his back on his family’s capitalistic roots in favor of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. J. Paul Getty III cut a dashing figure, with tight jeans, open shirts and long flowing hair — resembling at times a young Mick Jagger. At 17, he quickly took a bride and soon had a child of his own, but Getty soon fell victim once again, this time succumbing to his own youthful excess, suffering a devastating stroke in his 20s after becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol. Getty never recovered, spending the rest of his life severely impaired in a wheelchair. He died Saturday at his country estate in Buckinghamshire northwest of London, his son, the actor Balthazar Getty, said in a statement. The cause of death was not disclosed, but Getty had been gravely ill for some time. His son, a successful TV and movie actor, said his father “never let his handicap keep him from living life to the fullest and he was an inspiration to all of us, showing us how to
stand up to all adversity.” But Balthazar Getty’s kind words about his father’s death could not mask the terrible price the family has paid for its history of drug-related problems. J. Paul Getty III’s own father struggled with a well-publicized drug addiction and his stepmother died from a drug overdose. His life captured the turmoil of his times. Born in November 1956 — on either the 4th or the 5th, it’s not clear — to vast oil wealth counted in the billions of dollars, Getty’s life was upended when he was kidnapped in Rome in 1973. He was a tempting target because of his family’s huge wealth — his grandfather was often said to be one of the world’s first billionaires. At the time of his snatching, Getty was known as the “golden hippy,” a reddish-blond oil magnate’s grandson who hung out with young leftists and counter-culture types in Rome’s Piazza Navona, Campo dei Fiori and Piazza Farnese. At first, some thought the kidnapping was staged to extract money from the grandfather. Friends at that time said the youngster had actually joked about such a tactic. His mother, American actress Gail Harris, called journalists to her home one evening in the upscale Parioli section of Rome to announce the family had received a ransom demand of $17 million. Getty’s grandfather refused to pay. He was quoted as saying that he had 14 grandchildren “and if I pay for one, then I’ll have 14 kidnapped grandchildren.”
But his will was broken when a Rome newspaper received a plastic envelope with a severed ear inside and a warning that another would follow if the family didn’t pay. The teenager, missing an ear, was released after five months, found wandering on a country road in Italy’s southern Calabria. He was freed for a reported ransom of $2.7 million — far less than the kidnappers’ original demands. Several people were eventually convicted and sentenced to prison. Prosecutors blamed the Calabrian mob. Most of the ransom money was never recovered. Once freed from his ordeal, Getty enthusiastically embraced a life of drugs and parties, becoming a wellknown member of the hippie subculture. He soon developed the drug and alcohol habits that would eventually lead to his destruction. He did not speak out in public and was not really a celebrity, but the fact that a grandson of the oil tycoon had embraced the flower power ethos did not go unnoticed. Photographs told his story well. Within months of his release, he was pictured with a striking young brunette — her hair was shorter than his — who would in 1974 become his wife. She was known as Gisela Zacher or Martine Zacher, and their union produced a son, Balthazar. She was several years older than he and already had a daughter, Anna. While undergoing treatment for alcohol abuse in 1981, Getty suffered a life-altering stroke
that left him paralyzed, unable to speak and in need of aroundthe-clock care. Newspaper reports indicated the stroke was drug related, but details were not released. Gisela sued two drug companies, claiming sedatives prescribed to treat a severe and debilitating medical condition caused Getty’s permanent brain damage. The couple later divorced. Getty was rarely seen in public after the stroke, and soon drifted from the public consciousness as well even as his family name became associated with global philanthropy and the arts. The family rose to global prominence with the unprecedented success of his grandfather, J. Paul Getty, who built Getty Oil into a $6 billion fortune — making him one of the world’s richest men in his day. J. Paul Getty was known for his tightfisted approach, reportedly installing a pay telephone in one of his homes so that family and friends would not be able to place long distance calls at his expense. He also built one of the world’s great art collections, which formed the basis of the J. Paul Getty Museum — a cultural centerpiece in the Los Angeles area. His son, the late John Paul Getty Jr., made charitable donations that totaled more than $200 million in Britain alone, to causes related to everything from cricket to needy children. But this charitable generosity did not extend to his own family — the reclusive multimillionaire initially refused to pay for his son’s steep monthly medical
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In this May 12, 1976 file photo, J. Paul Getty III sits in the courthouse at Lagonegro, Italy, watching the opening session of the trial against seven men charged with having kidnapped him. Getty, the troubled grandson of a U.S. multibillionaire oil magnate who once lost an ear in a grisly kidnapping, has died at age 54. His son, actor Balthazar Getty, confirmed Tuesday Feb. 8, 2011 that his father died Saturday Feb. 5, 2011 surrounded by his family at his English mansion in Buckinghamshire, northwest of London. The cause of death was not disclosed.
bills, agreeing to do so only in the face of a lawsuit from his first wife, Harris, with whom he had three other children. Getty is survived by his two children, Balthazar and stepdaughter Anna, and six grand-
children. He is also survived by his mother, Harris, and four younger siblings: Getty Images co-founder Mark Getty, prominent AIDS activist Aileen Getty, Ariadne Getty and his half-brother Tara Getty.
Early ‘Spiderman’ musical reviews cause problems NEW YORK (AP) — The reviews are in for “Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark” — and that could be a bit of a problem. Not because of what they say, but that they exist at all. Some theater critics are weighing in on the $65 million musical even though it doesn’t officially open until March 15, a move that violates the time-honored agreement between producers and journalists. The latest reviews — and, for the most part, vicious pans — include assessments by The Washington Post (“a shrill, insipid mess”), The New York Times (“sheer ineptitude”), the Los Angeles Times (“an artistic form of megalomania”), the Chicago Tribune (“incoherent”), New York Post (“erratic”), Variety (“sketchy and ill-formed”), New York Daily News (“in need of a lot of work”) and New York magazine (“underbaked, terrifying, confusing”). Their defections, timed to coincide with the third revised opening date, drew a furious response from the show’s producers and threatens to upend the often cozy relationship between reviewers and show backers. “This pile-on by the critics is a huge disappointment,” said Rick Miramontez, spokesman for the show. “Changes are still being made and any review that runs before the show is frozen is total-
ly invalid.” Most of the critics have cited as reasons for their impatience the show’s record-breaking preview period and the high cost of tickets, which for a single seat can approach $300. They also worry that producers are deliberately outflanking them by pushing off potential negative write-ups, even as the show enjoys a virtually sold-out run: So far, the musical’s 67 preview performances translate into close to 130,000 tickets sold. “The big question is: How long do you wait?” Bob Verini, a Los Angeles-based critic for Variety and the president of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, said in a telephone interview. “That’s a fair question that honorable people can agree to disagree on.” The stunt-heavy show, cowritten and led by “The Lion King” director Julie Taymor and with music by U2’s Bono and The Edge, began previews on Nov. 28 after years of delay. Its planned opening was initially set for Dec. 21, but that was pushed back to Jan. 11, then again to Feb. 7 and now to March 15. By the time it opens, it will have had the longest preview period in Broadway history. Reviews have always been considered separate from news stories, of which “Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark” has generated many. Several injuries to cast
members — including a 35-foot fall by an actor playing the webslinger that left him with a skull fracture and cracked vertebrae — have marred the production, as well as the defection of a lead actress after she suffered a concussion. “It’s a story that has attracted national attention in a way that most Broadway musicals don’t,” says Adam Feldman, a theater critic for Time Out New York and president of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. “Editors and writers want to have their say in it and get the readership that comes with that.” Early reviews are unusual: Critics jumped in while the play “Nick & Nora” was still in the middle of its 71-preview run in 1991, and did the same for the musical “Sarava” in 1979 before it finished its 39 previews, then considered outrageously long. Now the rules have been tossed away again. Some of the reviewers for “Spider-Man” didn’t even see the main cast, including The Washington Post’s critic who wrote a review having only seen an alternate play Peter Parker instead of Reeve Carney. Jordan Roth, who runs five Broadway theaters as president of Jujamcyn Theaters — though not the Foxwoods Theatre, where “Spider-Man” is playing — urges both producers and media to pull back and see the issue from a
global perspective. “In the grand scheme, we are all in the same industry — those who make the shows and those who write about the shows. We all want the same thing: for people to be interested in shows,” he said. “If the artists say they have more ideas and more work, we should want them to do that.” Here’s how the process usually works: A show announces an opening date and begins a fixed preview period of a few weeks to work out any kinks. A few days before opening, the production is “frozen,” meaning no more changes are permitted and critics are invited to attend as long as they hold their reviews until after opening night. The case of “Spider-Man” has strained that agreement to the breaking point, in part because it has become Broadway’s most expensive show and its opening has been delayed four times while full prices are being charged at the box office. Also, a big-budget marketing campaign has been launched, including billboards and TV commercials. “If they had lowered their prices and been a little quieter, frankly I don’t think the whole issue would have arisen,” says Verini. “Our duty is to our readers. And I think that bombarded by the yin of months of aggressive marketing at top, top prices, they’re entitled to the yang of guidance as
to whether it’s worth it.” The latest flood of reviews joins previous preliminary assessments by theater critics from Bloomberg, Newsday, the Toronto Star and The New York Observer. The Star-Ledger has also sent a music critic — not its theater critic — to critique the show. The Associated Press is holding off, hewing to its policy to wait until a work is complete before reviewing it. Part of the frustration some critics feel is because restrictions on their opinions aren’t shared by amateurs, who freely offer their thoughts on Twitter and online message boards. And while the professionals have been stuck on the sideline for weeks, celebrities such as Glenn Beck and Oprah Winfrey have raved about the show, which the production’s media team has been more than happy to point out. That’s left theater critics wondering where the line is between becoming patsies of producers or champions for consumers. When, after all, is too long? The timing of the latest “Spider-Man” reviews now come just five weeks before the March 15 opening. “Personally, I really think that waiting and playing by the rules and being a professional is part of what separates the remaining professional critics from the glut of amateur critics that can post their opinions anywhere
they want,” says Time Out’s Feldman. “It’s not like the public has no way to find out information about ‘Spider-Man.’ They can go online any day and see what random people are saying.” Patrick Page, who plays The Green Goblin and Norman Osborn in the show, says he understands the critics’ frustration, but argues that the show simply isn’t yet ready for its close-up. “If I were a critic, I probably wouldn’t want to see it until the whole show is there, until you evaluated the whole piece of art,” he says. The producers say the delays are because the show is so technically difficult and was built specifically for the 1,930-seat Foxwoods Theatre, meaning a traditional out-of-town tryout to fix glitches wasn’t possible. Lead producer Michael Cohl has said he considered delaying previews until the production had gelled better, but argued that the cast and crew had to bite the bullet eventually, even if they risked embarrassment and bad press. The tempest has even prompted some critics to turn on their brethren, such as former Bloomberg critic John Simon, who called the early reviews “unfair to the show” and “discourteous to other critics.” Reviewing before being invited to, he argued, is “like grabbing a dish from a restaurant kitchen before it is fully cooked.”
Be your own Valentine this year by investing in any of these sure-to-please top-selling sex toys from SPICE, page 7 remember from its appearance on “Sex and the City,” is a top-seller amongst adult toys, and with its many variations in size, shape and vibrating functions, is bound to make you orgasm. The Clit Kisser: A toy with many variations, “the clit kisser” is a rubber-shaped mouth or
tongue containing a vibrating bullet, which stimulates the clitoris when placed or suctioned against it. It is controlled by a remote with many different vibrating functions. Also, if you are someone more sensitive in your breast and nipples, there are many toys that may fit your liking. If you would like to look up any of these costumes or
adult toys I’ve spoken of, you can visit adameve.com, one of America’s most trusted sources for adult products, or take a ride to any of the V.I.P. store locations in Connecticut. Sorry boys, I can’t help you in this department, but hopefully this gave you some good ideas of gifts for your girlfriends. Finally, for those on a budget, here are some simple tips for you:
To girls who would like to dress up for their boyfriends, but don’t have the money for sexy lingerie, take one of his button-ups and your sexiest pair of underwear and wear that. It never fails. And if you want to spice things up in the bedroom, but are totally broke, I have two words for you: ice cubes.
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Good luck Sony – you’ll need it! from SHOULD, page 8 vulgar video chat and swiping to reload your gun. But also, as Ryan Davis said on the recent Giant Bombcast, this is a whole new terrain, where having the best graphics means nothing to the behe-
moth casual appeal. It has both the glasses-free 3D of the 3DS and all those dollar games on the iPhone. Best of luck to you Sony, because you’ll really need to amaze a lot of us to shell out whatever high price you’ll ask for.
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‘Detective,’ ‘Assassins’ emerge as top Hong Kong nominees HONG KONG (AP) — Director Tsui Hark’s new costume drama, former Bond girl Michelle Yeoh’s latest kung fu thriller and Donnie Yen’s second biopic of Bruce Lee’s kung fu master were the top nominees in the Hong Kong Film Awards shortlist announced on Tuesday. Tsui’s “Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame” was nominated in 13 categories. The Hong Kong filmmaker’s latest picture was also nominated for the top Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival last year. “Reign of Assassins,” which stars Yeoh as a killer who uses plastic surgery to escape her past, is up for 11 awards. Yen’s portrayal of a famed Hong Kong martial arts teacher, “Ip Man 2,” had 10 nominations. The three pictures are contending for best movie honors against the kung fu comedy “Gallants” and the Dante Lam police thriller “The Stool Pigeon.”
Exhibit honors AP Vietnam War Photographer
PARIS (AP) — A U.S. Army medic peers through dirty bandages on his own head while caring for a wounded comrade. A helicopter winches up the lifeless body of an American soldier, silhouetted against a bare white sky. Such images from the Vietnam War feature in a new museum exhibit in Paris focusing on Associated Press photographer Henri Huet, who was killed 40 years ago when a helicopter he was riding in was shot down over Laos. Co-curated by the AP, “Henri Huet: Vietnam” focuses on about 70 photos that he took during the war. The show starts Tuesday and runs through April 3 at the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie in Paris’ Marais district. Huet, who was half-French and half-Vietnamese, and three foreign photographers died Feb. 10, 1971 when the South Vietnamese helicopter they were on was shot down while they covered a crossborder invasion. Huet, Larry Burrows of Life magazine, Kent Potter of United Press International, and Keizaburo Shimamoto of Newsweek were on board with U.S.-backed Vietnamese forces, killed in the flash of an antiaircraft gun. Huet was 43. The exhibit aims to bring to light the impact of Huet on the public’s understanding of Vietnam and as a reference for today’s generation of photojournalists — in terms of style, shot selection and emotional impact. Huet captured the pain, fatigue, frustration, grittiness and a gamut of emotions with his black and white photos that made newspaper and magazine covers worldwide throughout the conflict. He had “a sense of artistry, because he was a painter, he showed his sense of feeling for the Vietnamese,” said former AP reporter Richard Pyle, who served as Saigon bureau chief during the war. “People in Vietnam won prizes, and won accolades, for their work as photographers and the irony of this was that Henri — who was probably the finest combat photographer of his time, maybe in any war ... never got the attention nor the credit that he deserved,” Pyle said. In days long before satellite transmission, the Internet, digital photos and laptop computers, Huet would trek off for days with the U.S. military, and return with a trove of photos shipped to AP headquarters in New York. Sometimes, a single picture captured the essence of the war. “You had one Henri Huet picture on the front page of the New York Times, and that was it — that was the battle of Vietnam,” said Horst Faas, a Pulitzer Prizewinning AP photographer who worked with Huet in Vietnam. “There was mud in there, there was frustration in there, a bit of loneliness in there — all these things that a soldier went through in the circumstances, or a civilian, or anyone else,” Faas said. Faas, Pyle and other colleagues have come to Paris for the exhibit, and remembered Huet’s compassion, respect for both Vietnamese civilians and U.S. soldiers, and tendency to stay to himself once the work day was done.
Lam, Tsui and “Ip Man 2” director Wilson Yip are vying for the best director trophy against Taiwanese filmmaker Su Chao-pin, who made “Reign of Assassins,” and Derek Kwok and Clement Cheng, the two-man team behind “Gallants.” Hong Kong veteran Chow Yunfat is among the best actor nominees, shortlisted for his role as the ancient Chinese sage Confucius in last year’s biopic. He is competing against Chinese pop legend Jacky Cheung, who played a shopkeeper who dodges matchmaking attempts in the romantic comedy “Crossing Hennessy,” and Tony Leung Ka-fai, who starred as the father in “Bruce Lee, My Brother,” a biopic that focuses on the late kung fu icon’s youth. “The Stool Pigeon” was double-nominated in the category, with both Nick Cheung and Nicholas Tse in the running for their roles as a police inspector and an informant.
The best actress competition pits Chinese actress Tang Wei against Hong Kongers Carina Lau, Miriam Yeung, Fiona Sit and Josie Ho. Tang played Jacky Cheung’s love interest in “Crossing Hennessy” — her first role since being catapulted to fame by her starring role in Oscar-winning director Ang Lee’s 2007 World War II-era spy thriller “Lust, Caution.” Lau played a Chinese empress in “Detective Dee,” a murder mystery that features the reallife Tang Dynasty detective, Di Renjie. Yeung portrayed a cosmetics saleswoman who has a romance with a fellow smoker in “Love in a Puff.” Sit starred alongside Jackie Chan’s son, Jaycee, in the romance “Break Up Club,” while Ho, the daughter of Macau casino tycoon Stanley Ho, played a serial killer upset by Hong Kong’s expensive real-estate prices in “Dream Home.”
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In this Sept. 3, 2010 file photo, director John Woo with his Lifetime achievement award at the 67th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy. A second John Woo gangster classic will be updated with South Korean talent. A publicists’ statement says Woo will produce the 3-D, English-language version of his 1989 crime thriller “The Killer.”
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Top programs bounce back this season
(AP) — Butler's improbable run to the national title game capped off a unique 2009-10 season that saw numerous midmajors rise in prominence. Making this ascension possible was a coinciding fall by some of college basketball's power programs. Connecticut, North Carolina, UCLA, Arizona and Indiana all missed the NCAA tournament last season, the first time that had happened since 1966. That meant three of the four programs with the most championships were out of the field of 65. This season, it seems power has been restored. Led by a surprising turnaround at UConn that even coach Jim Calhoun didn't see coming, some of college basketball's elite programs are, well, elite again. The rundown: Connecticut: The Huskies were a No. 1 seed and Final Four team in the 2009 NCAA tournament and followed that up by finishing 12th in the Big East last season, ending up in the NIT after a fifth consecutive first-round loss in the conference tournament. UConn wasn't supposed to be much better this season, either, picked to finish 12th again by Big East coaches. With do-everything guard Kemba Walker taking the reins, the Huskies raced past all expectations by beating some of the nation's best programs to win the Maui Invitational in November. That jumped UConn not just back into the polls, but the Top 10. Even after a two-game losing streak that ended with Saturday's win over Seton Hall, the Huskies are still No. 10 and, at 18-4, a beast again in the Big East. North Carolina: The Tar Heels took a hard fall after winning the 2009 national championship. With catalyst Tyler Hansbrough gone to the NBA and a slew of newcomers taking over, North Carolina foundered through one of its worst seasons in 2009-10, finishing an un-Carolina-like 20-17 with a trip to NIT. Led by Harrison Barnes, the first fresh-
man named to The Associated Press preseason All-America team, the Tar Heels have fought their way back into respectability. North Carolina, which faces rival Duke on Wednesday night, has already surpassed its regular-season win total of a year ago at 17-5 and has just one ACC loss. Even with point guard Larry Drew II leaving the program, the Heels figure to stay on track. Arizona: Once one of the most stable programs in college basketball, Arizona had stumbled through a jumbled mess that started with Lute Olson taking a leave of absence just before the 2007-08 season and abruptly retiring right before the next. Sean Miller, the fourth coach in three years in the desert, tried to pick up the scraps last season, but the Wildcats faltered down the stretch run of the Pac-10 season and had their NCAA tournament streak end at 25 years. Led by super sophomore Derrick Williams, Arizona is back atop the Pac-10 standings and in The Associated Press poll — up to No. 15 this week — for the first time since 2007. The versatile Williams has developed into one of the nation's best players and the Wildcats (20-4) have plenty of depth, meaning another NCAA tournament streak could be on the way. UCLA: The Bruins are the king of titleholders with 11 and had gone to three consecutive Final Four appearances under coach Ben Howland. Their run came to an end with the worst season (14-18) since 2003-04 last season, meaning athletic director Dan Guerrero, last season's NCAA tournament selection chairman, didn't have to recuse himself from voting for the Bruins. UCLA brought back plenty of experience this season, even without any seniors, and already has more wins than last season at 16-7. The Bruins have won three straight and seven of eight after knocking off St. John's in a nonconference game over the weekend and
are second in the Pac-10 behind Arizona at 7-3. Storied coach John Wooden, who died last year, would be proud of this bunch. Florida: The Gators took a big tumble after winning their second straight national title in 2007. Florida's starting five from those teams were all NBA draft picks, including three of the top nine, leaving coach Billy Donovan a huge void to fill. It took him a while to do it; the Gators missed the NCAA tournament in 2008 and 2009. Florida took a step back to respectability last season by winning 21 games and reaching the NCAA tournament, and had expectations ratcheted up this season with all five starters back to go with a talented freshman class. The Gators opened the season at No. 9 and moved to No. 17 this week after dropping out of the polls. Florida (18-5) bumped off No. 10 Kentucky over the weekend and No. 23 Vanderbilt before that to take control of the SEC East at 7-2 — and another step back toward notability. Indiana: It's hard to say a team that's 12-12 and just 3-8 in the Big Ten is making a comeback, but the Hoosiers' progress has been a bit skewed by injuries. Once one of college basketball's elite programs with five national championships, Indiana took a hard fall on the court and off after the phone-call scandal involving former coach Kelvin Sampson. The Hoosiers were just 6-25 with one conference win in 2008-09 and lost 12 of their final 13 last season to finish 10-21. Indiana hasn't exactly raced back to prominence, but has taken some small steps under coach Tom Crean this season, including wins over Top25 teams Minnesota and Illinois. The Hoosiers probably weren't going to make the NCAA tournament and losing guard Maurice Creek and leading scorer and rebounder Christian Watford to injuries in a two-week span all but sealed it, but at least they're making some progress.
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In this Feb. 2, , file photo, Indiana coach Tom Crean reacts after Indiana defeated Minnesota 60-57 in an NCAA college basketball game in Bloomington, Ind. Indiana hasn't exactly raced back to prominence, but has taken some small steps under coach Tom Crean this season.
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Sharks get 2nd straight shutout, 2-0 over Caps WASHINGTON (AP) — Logan Couture broke a scoreless tie with 8:05 to play, Antti Niemi had 25 saves for his second straight shutout, and the San Jose Sharks ran their defensive-minded winning streak to four games Tuesday, beating the Washington Capitals 2-0. Ben Eager led Couture just enough for the rookie center to take the pass in open ice at the left circle and put the shot through the legs of goaltender Michal Neuvirth. Dan Boyle added another goal, this time from the right circle with 5:53 to go, as the Sharks extended their points streak to nine games and improved to 3-0 on their seven-game road trip.
The Capitals, whose offensive struggles have threatened to cancel out the team's improved defensive play, were shut out for the eighth time this season and the second time in five games. They were coming off an emotional 3-0 win over rival Pittsburgh on Sunday, but their attack was stagnant against the unfamiliar Western Conference Sharks, including a lifeless second period that included just four shots on goal. Niemi and the Sharks were also coming off a shutout win — 2-0 over Boston on Saturday — and have allowed only 16 goals in their past nine games. The Capitals' final chances came when San Jose's Niclas
Wallin was sent off for holding with 2:51 remaining, the only penalty of the third period. Washington soon emptied the net to make it a two-man advantage, but Niemi was up to the task, sprawling on the ice to cover up one furious scramble with about a minute to play. Neuvirth made 34 saves for the Capitals. The Capitals actually put the puck in the net in the first period but were done in by a quick whistle. Alexander Semin, back after missing 12 games with a groin injury, took a shot that squeezed between Niemi's legs. Both Niemi and the official were unaware that the puck was behind the goalie, so the whis-
tle was blown before Niemi kicked it into his own net with his right skate. Niemi also made a nice kick save on David Steckel in the first period and deflected Nicklas Backstrom's drive during the game's first power play. Niemi's job was easier when Steckel lost control of the puck and didn't get a shot off during a clean breakaway in the second period. Neuvirth was also steady for the Capitals, snatching a drive with his extended glove when Eager had a clean shot from the left circle in the first period, but the Sharks finally solved the Washington goalie in the third.
McDonough: A tale of two seasons for Dolson Austrie excited from STEFANIE, page 14 The Hartford Courant’s John Altavilla mentioned to coach Geno Auriemma during the press conference after the DePaul game that Dolson told him she had a conversation with associate head coach Chris Dailey in the closing moments of UConn’s loss at Stanford. Dolson’s six points and five rebounds were not enough to continue the Huskies’ 90-game winning streak, and an experienced Cardinal squad overwhelmed UConn in Palo Alto. “Something changed inside her in January,” Auriemma said. “She’s not the same person that started at Connecticut in September.” Dolson’s averages are slowly increasing. She scores eight points and snatches five boards a game. The freshman also averages 20 minutes a game and has been better conditioned than she
was when she first stepped onto That’s some high praise from the Storrs campus. Not only her her Hall of Fame coach. With conditioning, but her confidence the regular season winding has improved as well. down and the Huskies setting “I think the team has helped their championship dials into me a lot with the comfort level beast mode, UConn needs a and my confidence,” Dolson low post presence like Dolson said after beating Duke. in order to win its third-straight “Knowing that the team has national title. confidence in me raises my In November, Griner and confidence overall. I think I’ve the Bears were one play away realized my role on the team from ending the Huskies’ streak and have just taken it.” well before “89” t-shirts were Before the season began, made. With a rematch looming let’s just say Geno had as much in early April, Dolson could be faith in Dolson as an atheist. the piece UConn needs to beat Although Auriemma has started Baylor again and avenge the her 21 of 23 games, Dolson has loss to Stanford. now found her role and fits into Just make sure there’s a seat the offense. She is even a main waiting for her at the press conoption and can also clean up the ference in Indianapolis. boards. Her teammates found If my Valentine wants to conher against DePaul. Dolson had tact me, the e-mail is listed 15 points in the first half against below. As for the two for the the Blue Demons. price of one with Matt, you’ll “Stefanie has turned into have to ask him. somebody you can trust, day in and day out,” Auriemma said. Colin.McDonough@UConn.edu
by guard play this season
from FORMER, page 14 were underrated. Seeing them to that, I can relate to it and I commend them for that.” DC: As a former UConn guard, what do you think of the guard play this year? Obviously Kemba Walker is having a good season, as well as Shabazz Napier and Donnell Beverly. Austrie: “I think they are all doing a great job. This team is guardoriented, and they stepped up and they stepped right into that role.” DC: You were in Springfield last year, but what are you up to now? Austrie: “Right now I started a business doing private training and basketball lessons (Craig Austrie’s Basketball IQ Skills) and it’s just now starting to take off.”
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UConn wins despite being held to lowest point total of season from NOT, page 14
“I thought that was a really good sign to see the way we stuck together,” Moore said. “Not for a second did anyone doubt that we were going to make our run and come away with the win. I was really pleased to see that, especially
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at a really tough place to play.” West Virginia lost its second straight at home after winning a school-record 31 straight on its court. “I told the girls ‘That’s not good enough. We lost,’” Carey said. “We stayed focused on our game plan about 30 minutes of the 40.” Still, Connecticut was held to
its lowest point total of the season, falling short of their 63-point effort last month against Rutgers. The Mountaineers didn’t have much success clamping down on Moore, but they held thirdleading scorer Bria Hartley to six points and second-leading scorer Tiffany Hayes to four. Hayes fouled out and Hartley
finished with four fouls. The game matched up two of the nation’s top three teams in scoring defense. But West Virginia’s defensive intensity took the energy out of the Mountaineers on the offensive end. They went nearly 7 minutes without a field goal spanning both halves.
Penfield: Yanks need to trade for starting pitcher after dismal offseason from NO SHORT page 14 Expect the Yankees to pursue a trade for a starting pitcher from Spring Training through the July 31 trade deadline. The St. Louis Cardinals may have the most important question mark of all 30 teams to sort out: Albert Pujols’ contract extension. It has been reported that Pujols wants an extension by the end of Spring Training. If not, Pujols will test the free agency market at the end of the 2011 season. The Cardinals absolutely need to sign Pujols. Give the man what he wants. He is the best
player in baseball and will go down as one of the greatest to ever play the game. Seeing Pujols in any other uniform than a Cardinal one would be weird. I don’t see a scenario in which St. Louis lets him walk, but if they do, Pujols will see a large payday and will probably get the biggest contract in the history of baseball. Lastly, how long before we see “the Machine” at San Francisco’s camp? Hopefully day one…
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The Daily Question Q: “Who is the way-too-early favorite to win Super Bowl XLVI? A: “I’m feeling the Dolphins next year.”
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» That’s what he said
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-Bobcats’ Stephen Jackson on a technical free All-Star break.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Magic center Dwight Howard says he is annoyed by the recent talk about his contract and the possibility he would leave Orlando when he becomes a free agent. Howard expounded on some recent Twitter comments Tuesday morning at the Magic’s practice before Tuesday night’s game against the Los Angeles Clippers. He says his situation should not be compared to what happened with Miami’s LeBron James or what is going on with Denver’s Carmelo Anthony because they “have nothing to do with Dwight Howard.” Howard says he’s “really tired of” the contract talk and that he wants “to help this franchise win a championship.” Howard’s current contract runs through the 2012-13 season, but he could utilize an early termination option and become a free agent after next season.
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A shirtless Green Bay Packers guard Jason Spitz waves a towel after diving bare chest into the snow during the “Return to Titletown” celebration Tuesday, at Lambeau Field.
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Women’s Swimming and Diving Feb. 11 Big East Championships All Day
Huskies sign 16 recruits on National Signing Day
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What's On TV NCAA Basketball: North Carolina at Duke, 9 p.m., ESPN It’s that time of the year again, as the best college basketball rivalry resumes right in the thick of the ACC schedule. Dick Vitale is going to be pumped. The No. 21 Tar Heels have rebounded after a slow start, entering the contest 7-1 in the conference. No. 5 Duke is 21-2 and 8-1 in the ACC.
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NCAA Basketball: Texas at Oklahoma, 9 p.m., ESPN2 It may not have the sasme atmosphere as the football version of the Red River Rivalry at the Cotton Bowl, but this Big 12 matchup is a rivalry nonetheless.
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No. 3 Texas is 20-3 with an 8-0 conference record. Oklahoma has had a rough year going 12-10 overall, and 4-4 in the Big 12.
Although Paul Pasqualoni has only been the UConn football coach for about a month, he has already introduced his first recruiting class. A week ago at the XL Center in Hartford, the Huskies welcomed eight offensive and eight defensive players to a program that is coming off a Big East championship and Fiesta Bowl berth. When Pasqualoni was hired, local high school coaches delighted in the hiring of the Nutmeg State native, hoping he would bring Connecticut talent to the state’s flagship university. But other than Connecticut players, the key will be to continue recruiting across the nation. Three players from Georgia will make the trip north to New England to wear the blue and white. The Huskies added more talent from the south by bringing in Tyree Clark from Tampa, Fla. The hotbed of skilled players
from states like Georgia and Florida is how UConn can continue to build its program. Another aspect of this class is that three of the incoming freshman have already enrolled this semester. They will play spring football and the 15 practices will help them in position battles, all while giving them a chance to learn the new system. Michael Nebrich, a quarterback from Virginia, Sean McQuillan, a running back from Glastonbury and Kenton Adeyemi, a defensive tackle from Wethersfield, are all in Storrs. Pasqualoni inherited this class from the work Edsall did before jumping ship to Maryland. The Huskies’ first post-BCS berth recruiting class enters a team that has a tradition to uphold, and they have four years to make it to more big-time bowl games.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Sean Payton is moving his family to Dallas and the Saints have no problem with it — however, many New Orleans fans do. Payton confirmed Tuesday that he buying a house in Dallas and is moving his wife and two children to Texas while he remains the Saints’ head coach. “When my wife and I relocated our family from Dallas, we had always dreamed of someday settling there,” Payton said is a statement released by the team. “We feel that now is the best time to do this. It’s a decision that I’m sure many families have to confront, and I don’t know if there is any one right or wrong decision — just the best one you can make for your own family.” The decision is not sitting will with numerous Saints fans who’ve expressed consternation and confusion over the matter on call-in shows and internet chat sites. Saints owner Tom Benson and Mickey Loomis both issed statements of support and sounded confident that Payton was committed to sticking with the club that first made him a head coach in January of 2006. “Sean is our head coach,” Benson said. “Like we do with everyone in our organization, we support them when they need to make tough personal decisions. Sean is making a decision in the best interest of his family and he needs our support and he will get it. What I do know is that Sean is completely focused on bringing our team back to a championship.”
THE Pro Side With Super Bowl over, the NFL Draft hype begins By Dan Agabiti Staff Writer The NFL Draft is 79 days away, but that hasn’t stopped ESPN’s NFL Draft expert Mel Kiper Jr. from unveiling his top five players of the 2011 draft. In order from one to five are Nick Fairley, the Auburn defensive tackle; Da’Quan Bowers, the Clemson defensive end; A.J. Green, the Georgia wide receiver; Patrick Peterson, the LSU cornerback; and Marcell Dareus, the Alabama defensive end. The first thing that jumps out about that list is that four out of Kiper’s top five are on the defensive side of the football. It appears as though this is not going to be a very fruitful year for offensive talent entering the NFL. Teams looking for a defensive standout are in a much better position than those looking for a prolific offensive weapon. Stanford’s quarterback, Andrew Luck—if he were to enter this year’s draft – would have been the unanimous top choice of scouts and analysts alike. But, he decided to stay in school and finish out his senior year to earn his degree in architectural design. With Luck out of the picture, Auburn’s Nick Fairley seems the likely choice for the Carolina Panthers.
The second fact to jump out about Kiper’s projected top five is the dominating presence of the SEC. When the final AP USA Today polls came out, six out of the top 25 teams were from the SEC, more than any other conference. The SEC has pretty much dominated the landscape of college football for the past five years. In that time, every BCS National Champion has reigned from the conference. Scouts and college football experts agree that the SEC was the most athletic, hardest-hitting and fastest conference in football this season. This bowl season, it sent 10 teams to a bowl game, more than any other conference. Five of those teams won,, including Auburn in the National Championship Game. It would only make sense that the conference that so dominated the sport would be the home of four out of Kiper’s top five prospects. But at the end of the day, the NFL Draft is is all about what you’ve done lately and how you’ve looked in shorts and a T-shirt in front of men with a stopwatch. As a result, one bad workout or an injury could change this list dramatically. There is still much speculating to be done, workouts to be held and analyzing to do before the first round of drafting starts on April 28.
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Stefanie stepping up
Visiting Huskies top Mountaineers by six
Colin McDonough On Nov. 16, in a No. 1 versus No. 2 matchup on ESPN, Stefanie Dolson played 12 minutes, shot 1-for-6 from the floor and fouled out. Fellow freshman Samarie Walker also racked up five fouls, scoring five points while hauling in seven boards. Although she played 25 minutes, Walker still had rather pedestrian numbers. The difference was how tough Walker played Baylor’s 6-foot-8 Brittney Griner. Walker played tough and strong while Dolson looked lost at times on the XL Center hardwood. Walker was in the press conference room after the Baylor game along with Bria Hartley and Maya Moore, answering questions about how hard it was to play with Griner and eek out a onepoint UConn win to continue its record-setting streak. My, how times have changed. Walker is no longer a Husky as she transferred to Kentucky, and who sat in the media room at Gampel Pavilion Saturday night, laughing alongside Moore? Dolson. Dolson scored a career-high 21 points and helped hand DePaul its first conference loss of the season. On the previous Monday night, Dolson scored eight points and grabbed 12 rebounds in the UConn’s nationally televised beatdown of previously unbeaten Duke. Guess who sat next to Moore in the bowels of Gampel?
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — When West Virginia couldn’t make shots, things fell apart. When No. 2 Connecticut needed to seal the deal, the Huskies turned to Maya Moore. Moore scored 27 points, including several key baskets down the stretch, and the Huskies needed a second-half comeback to hold off No. 17 West Virginia 57-51 Tuesday night. Moore surpassed 20 points for the ninth time in 10 games. “There were times when we just couldn’t get anything going on the offensive end,” Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma said. “Maya just made great individual plays. Without somebody like that, a night like tonight probably turns into a loss. Tonight it all fell on Maya’s shoulders.” Connecticut (23-1, 11-0 Big East) overcame its second halftime deficit of the season and some sloppy play to beat West Virginia for the 23rd straight time. West Virginia (20-5, 6-5) couldn’t keep the momentum of a good first half going and lost for the fourth time in five games. Now coach Mike Carey believes the Mountaineers need a strong finish to the season to even make the NCAA tournament. Freshman Stefanie Dolson added 10 points for Connecticut. Madina Ali led West Virginia with 17 points and Liz Repella added 13. Connecticut trailed 29-27 at halftime and didn’t take its first lead until early in the second half. Moore scored 15 points after halftime, including eight straight for the Huskies over a three-minute span near the end to dash West Virginia’s hopes for the biggest upset in school history.
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Connecticut’s Maya Moore, (23), celebrates with teammates Kelly Faris (34) and Lorin Dixon (30) after a turnover by West Virginia’s Liz Repella (10) in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Morgantown, W. Va. on Tuesday.
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Rentschler rewriting UConn hockey history By Peter Logue Campus Correspondent
By Willy Penfield MLB Columnist With the first batch of pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training in a week or so, many teams still have plenty of question marks. Michael Young of the Texas Rangers recently requested a trade after being forced into the DH role with the signing of Gold Glove third baseman Adrian Beltre. The Rangers’ ownership has said they will try to accommodate Young’s request, but admitted they did not want this to happen and wished their team captain would reconsider. Potential suitors for Young include the Los Angeles Angels, but it is doubtful the Rangers would trade Young within the division. A more likely destination for Young is the Colorado Rockies, who could use the veteran leadership and a third baseman to play alongside their stud shortstop Troy Tulowitzki. With the recent retirement of Andy Pettitte, the New York Yankees now have big questions about the back end of their rotation. Yankee GM Brian Cashman was recently quoted saying “Our starting rotation is not where it needs to be right now.” You got that right Cashman. What are the Yankees’ options? CC Sabathia leads the rotation with Phil Hughes and A.J. Burnett behind him. What follows are only question marks. The Yanks signed Freddy Garcia and Bartolo Colon, but both are fossils and can’t contribute much at this point of their careers. They might be forced to move Joba the Hutt back to the starting rotation, a move that would make sense with his struggles in the bullpen and the signing of Rafael Soriano.
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Members of Whalers Sports and Entertainment help clear Rentschler Field of snow in preparation for the “Whale Bowl.”
The UConn men’s hockey program was forced to play outdoors for the first 38 years of its existence until the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum was built in 1998. On Sunday, UConn hockey will be played outdoors once again, only this time it will be in a far more glamorous setting than the “huttype building with a roof, but no sides” rink that the vintage Huskies played in, as described by Matt Lee of the Athletic Communications Department. They will be playing at Rentschler Field. Both the men’s and women’s hockey teams will be participating in the Whalers Hockey Fest, a weeklong celebration of hockey in the area. Howard Baldwin, Sr., founder of the Hartford Whalers and two-time Stanley Cup champion, approached the Huskies with an invitation to participate in the “Whale Bowl,” an event he is throwing partially with the hope of regenerating interest in
the Whalers, an NHL team based out of Hartford until the franchise moved to North Carolina in 1997. “Howard Baldwin, Sr., actually came to us to ask if we wanted to be part of this,” said men’s hockey coach Bruce Marshall. “We definitely thought it would be a great opportunity for our students and our student-athletes.” “The University of Connecticut is excited to participate in this celebration of hockey in Hartford,” said UConn Athletic Director Jeffrey Hathaway in an article published by UConn Today on June 4. “It will be a memorable experience for our student-athletes, coaches, and fans. Given the close proximity of the participating teams, we hope that UConn supporters as well as hockey fans throughout the region will make plans to join us for this unique event.” This will be the second straight week that the men’s and women’s squads will have to travel off campus to play home games. Last week, the Freitas Ice Forum was unavailable due to ice accumulation on the roof. Marshall said that
his team’s game at the XL Center last Saturday drew close to 1,000 spectators, well above the average attendance at games held in Storrs. He is hopeful that both teams will enjoy a similar outpouring of support on Sunday. “Maybe some people don’t want to drive all the way out to Storrs to watch hockey,” Marshall said. “Hopefully we can grab some of those people, grab some of the youth kids and really show them what college hockey is all about. It can bring nothing but great exposure to us. It also brings great exposure in the recruiting sense of it. Not many college hockey teams get to play outdoors.” The men will be taking on Sacred Heart at 1 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, followed by the women facing Providence College at 4 p.m.. Tickets are $5 for students (good for both games) and can be purchased, along with a bus ticket, at the Student Union Ticket Office.
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Former point guard Austrie stops by UConn
By Matt McDonough Associate Sports Editor
Craig Austrie began and ended his UConn men’s basketball career in a leadership role. The freshman was thrust into a starting role, playing point guard in his first 24 contests. With Marcus Williams shelved due to suspension, a young Austrie helped a talented team win the Maui Invitational. He had a UConn freshman record of 14 assists in a game against Quinnipiac. That 2005-06 team, stacked with stars like Rudy Gay, Hilton Armstrong, Josh Boone, Denham Brown and Rashad Anderson, won the Big East regular season title and made it to the Elite Eight before
being upset by George Mason. Austrie averaged three points per game that year. As a sophomore, he played in 30 games, averaging just under six points per contest. The next season, Austrie improved his point totals, averaging 7.5 points in 16 starts, seeing action in 31 games. He shot 89 percent from the free throw line. As a senior, Austrie, Jeff Adrien, A.J. Craig Austrie Price and Hasheem Thabeet led the Huskies to a Final Four berth and a No. 1 ranking for several weeks during the season. Austrie was the clutch rock of that team and started in the Final
Four loss to Michigan State. The ever-reliable Austrie finished his career third all-time in free throw percentage at UConn, at 83 percent from the charity stripe. Prior to UConn, the Stamford native won two state championships at powerhouse Trinity Catholic. Austrie was the 2005 Gatorade State Player of the Year and had committed to UMass, before a coaching change reopened his recruitment and helped him stay home. Following graduation, Austrie was selected third in the fourth round of the 2009 NBA Developmental League Draft by
the Springfield Armor. He played going to grow through their misfive games with Springfield, aver- takes even though they haven’t aging 7.6 points and made many this 1.6 assists per game year. I see them before being waived doing big things in in December 2009. the future.” Last week, the DC: Did Maui Daily Campus bring back memocaught up with ries in the way you Austrie when he had to take on the took in the UConnleadership role Syracuse game in as a freshman in Hartford. 2006? Did you see DC: How does the same character it feel to be back from this group of A multi-part series and what do you freshmen? think of UConn’s Austrie: “Yeah, surprising year? I thought the freshAustrie: “It’s great to be back. men really stepped up. I can I mean, coming back and seeing relate because I was in that posithem represent, it’s great, it’s tion there as a freshman and we amazing. They’re a young team » AUSTRIE, page 12 and everything and they are
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?