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UConn loses nearly $1.8M at Fiesta Bowl By Michael Cerullo Sports Editor
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The UConn athletic department lost nearly $1.8 million at the 2011 Fiesta Bowl, according to bowl documents obtained by The Daily Campus. The university incurred total expenses of $4,280,998 at the Fiesta Bowl while only receiving a payout of $2,523,200 from the Big East. By far the largest expense
the university incurred came from absorbed ticket sales. The university sold only 2,771 of an allotment of 17,500 tickets, resulting in the university absorbing 14,729 tickets worth a total of $2,924,385. The official figure of 2,771 tickets sold is substantially lower than the previously reported amount of 4,600 tickets sold. That expense completely soaked up UConn’s revenue allotment of $2.5 million from the Big East all by itself.
UConn’s losses were then further inflamed by the costs of travel, meals, lodging and other bowl expenses. The UConn athletic department did not respond to a voicemail left at the office, but the Fiesta Bowl documents obtained did come with a survey to the NCAA that included comments from the university on it’s satisfaction with certain aspects of the bowl. In regards to the level of satisfaction with the bowl’s ticket
commitment for participating teams and the bowl’s ticket prices, the university gave the bowl a “neutral” rating for both. “We recognize the total ticket commitment associated with this BCS bowl game, but selling 17,500 tickets is a challenge for a school from the east whose fans incur significant travel expenses,” the comment from the athletic department reads in the NCAA survey. Travel expenses for the university were extensive as well.
UConn spent a total of $685,195 on travel, spending $315,378 on 213 members of the team, coaching staff and administration over eight days ($1,481 per person) and $369,817 on 335 members of the band and cheering squad over three days ($1,104 per person). On meals and lodging, UConn spent a total of $460,941. Of that, the university spent $215 per day on each of the 213
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UCONN’S ODD COUPLE Two freshmen have become fast friends. SPORTS/ page 14 EDITORIAL: APT. RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ALLOWED ON-CAMPUS PARKING Students in on-campus apartments should be allowed to park in other resident lots next year. COMMENTARY/page 4 INSIDE NEWS: UCONN CELEBRATES THE PEACE CORPS 50TH ANNIVERSARY Sen. Chris Dodd speaks to crowd. NEWS/ page 2
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Joette Katz, commissioner of the Department of Children and Families, spoke to a group of UConn journalism students in Wilson Hall Wednesday afternoon. Ken Best, the editor of UConn magazine, interviewed Katz in front of the class to demonstrate good interviewing skills. Katz took questions from students after the interview. Best inquired about Katz’s decision to leave the Connecticut Supreme Court to lead DCF, and her plans to revitalize the image of an agency that has endured frequent criticism and operated under federal oversight for two decades. When asked to give examples of reforms she has enacted since her appointment in November, Katz explained how she had abandoned the agency’s previous “silo” model in favor of regional branches that can more effectively monitor cases. Before Katz’s arrival, DCF directed children and families to a specific silo based on the type of problem. If a child had mental health issues, he or she would be directed to the mental health silo. Children with criminal histories were handled by the juvenile delinquency silo. Katz explained that this model was ineffective because a person’s problems often fall into more than one category, which caused DCF to shuffle cases back and forth between silos. “Nobody has just a child welfare issue,” Katz said. “A child isn’t a silo, a child is a child, and a family is a family.” Best asked Katz about the DCF’s controversial practice of sending children to outof-state group homes. Katz said that, although the sheer number of children sent out of state seemed excessive, the arrangement was popular among families because the nearby out-of-state homes provided quality care. She added that Conencticut towns typically don’t want group homes for troubled children. After being asked about how her background and experience will help her change DCF, Katz spoke about the importance of critical thinking and her skill at assembling teams of qualified people to assist her. Katz said that her new job is an exciting challenge, and that learning how to make effective changes is like “flying an airplane and trying to rebuild it at the same time.”
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Students came together to rally in support of Planned Parenthood on Fairfield Way outside the Student Union Wed. Five Campus Action Interns for Planned Parenthood of Southern New England speech to students and lead crowd in chants.
Rally raises support for Planned Parenthood of Southern New England.
By Elizabeth Crowley Staff Writer Engulfed by pink posters and pins, students rallied to oppose a cut in federal funding of the Title X Family Planning program that funds Planned Parenthood, Wednesday on Fairfield Way. Planned Parenthood of Southern New England, the local branch of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and Students United for Reproductive Justice (SURJ) organized the rally. Their mission was to spread awareness about the bill and gain student support to contact senators before they vote on the proposition to cut federal funding for Title X and Planned Parenthood. “We need to send a loud message to our elected officials in Washington that family planning and reproductive services are necessary,” said Gretchen Raffa, organizer at Planned Parenthood
The House of Representatives passed a $60 billion budget cut Feb. 19 that included denying government funding of Planned Parenthood. The Senate will vote on this budget cut, Friday. Title X was passed in 1970 to provide low-income families access to contraceptive services, supplies and information. Funding for this program goes to many Planned Parenthood clinics, but not to abortion. “The funding cut has nothing to do with abortion at all… because Title X is the Federal Family Planning Program, so no dollars can be used for abortion,” Raffa said. She said that this would be a cut in services that help to prevent unintended pregnancy. Raffa said that 95 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is provide preventative healthcare and education.
One male passerby yelled, “Stop talking baby killers,” as Raffa spoke to the crowd. Raffa said she was angered by the man, but decided to speak louder in response. She said many people assume incorrectly that Planned Parenthood and Title X solely finance abortion. Campus Action Interns for Planned Parenthood at UConn worked to put together this rally to make students aware of the situation. Pink pins were passed around bearing the slogan, “Will you stand with Planned Parenthood?” as the rally leaders led chants like, “Women united, we will never be divided” and “If you love safe sex, save Title X.” Tea Psorn, 6th-semester political science major and human rights minor and a Campus Action Intern, said it is important for students to know they have a voice. She said students can contact their senators through letters,
e-mail or phone calls. “It sounds cliché that one person can make a difference but they can, especially if they stand in solidarity,” Psorn said. Psorn said it would be a shame to lose Planned Parenthood because it is an affordable service available to everyone. She said it is used by women and men who are and are not sexually active. Per year, Title X provides 2.2 million pap tests, 2.3 million breast exams, six million STI/STD tests and one million HIV tests in addition to treatments, birth control and examinations, said Victoria Flagg, an 8th-semester women’s studies major and Call to Action Intern. “I think that this is an incredibly important issue because students are in a precarious financial situation [in college] and this will really affect us,” said Flagg. “Women’s health is valuable…
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Delta Chi Fraternity loses recognition as chapter
By Joseph Adinolfi News Editor
Delta Chi Fraternity lost recognition as a chapter at UConn Wednesday because of sanctions imposed by the Offices of Community Standards and Fraternity and Sorority Life. The organization cannot regain its station on campus until May 31, 2015, according to an e-mail sent by Assistant Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life Lindsay L. Sell. In the e-mail, Sell assured readers that “a lengthy process was utilized” by Community Standards before the office imple-
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mented the sanctions. Sell added that the decision “will result in Delta Chi no longer having space in Husky Village.” The e-mail did not include any mention of the fraternity’s specific offenses. Calls and an e-mail to the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life were not returned Wednesday, and no members of Delta Chi could be reached for comment. According to the UConn website for Fraternity and Sorority Life, the Delta Chi chapter at UConn was founded in 1955.
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Outside view of the Delta Chi fraternity house (top-most Greek letters) in Husky Village. Delta Chi lost recognition as a chapter Wednesday.
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DAILY BRIEFING UConn celebrates Peace Corps’ 50th anniversary
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Web sparks leads on East Coast Rapist
NEW HAVEN (AP) — A campaign to catch a man known as the East Coast Rapist by using electronic billboards and a website is generating leads, an investigator said Wednesday. The man is believed responsible for rapes and other attacks on 17 women since 1997. Billboards featuring sketches of the suspect are running where attacks occurred in Virginia, Connecticut, Maryland and Rhode Island and in neighboring states. Police set up a website about the case at eastcoastrapist.com. Detective John Kelly in Fairfax County, Va., says investigators are pursuing “some very interesting leads.” He says the website generated 44,000 hits in 12 hours after it was launched last week. Kelly says an arrest is not imminent. He called the case unusual because it involves many high-risk outdoor attacks over many years and jurisdictions without being caught.
Discussing ‘culturally responsive’ schools
HARTFORD (AP) — It’s long been accepted in Connecticut that a well-rounded education isn’t only about reading Mark Twain, studying the Mayflower and reciting Robert Frost poems. Increasingly, it’s also about studying the memoirs of famous black authors, the accomplishments of nationally renowned Hispanic public servants, the rich history of Native American tribes and other topics. Now, Connecticut’s state Board of Education is considering a policy that would urge local school districts to make sure their teaching methods and topics are engaging students of all cultures.
By Abby Ferrucci Staff Writer Philip Austin, Chris Dodd and returned volunteers were among the speakers at last night’s 50th anniversary celebration of the Peace Corps. The aim of the Peace Corps is to provide humanitarian services outside of American borders and make real differences in the lives of real people. 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the organization of American volunteers. UConn professor Eric Donkor told audience members about the impact the Peace Corps had on him as a young man living in Ghana. “My ultimate career path was changed by the interaction I had with many volunteers,” Donkor said, explaining how volunteers would go out of their way to help him get a ride to school, a trip that was over eight miles on foot. Many returned volunteers spoke to the audience about their experience, hoping to both raise awareness and highlight the importance of volunteers Beth Salsedo, UConn extension educator, modestly said, “We’ll never admit we changed the world. We are the Peace Corps, we don’t do that.” Past volunteer Ailton Santo Coleman addressed the audi-
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Former Senator Chris Dodd, a returned Peace Corps volunteer, spoke at the Peace Corps’ 50th Anniversary celebration at the Dodd Center. He spoke about his experience in the Dominican Republic.
ence about his positive experiences with the organization while emphasizing the importance of volunteers. “As a future generation you have to be a spokesperson for the country you represent,” Coleman said. Featured at the celebration were posters honoring its 50th
anniversary, created by UConn students from the school of Fine Arts and departments of Art and Art History. “We didn’t originally do the posters for a big show, but they came out really great,” said Mitch Bilodeau, an 8th-semester illustration major, and one of the students whose artwork was featured.
Former Conn. Sen. Chris Dodd addressed the audience about his experiences volunteering in the Dominican Republic. “In life, if you can give an individual a new perspective, that is far greater than erecting a building,” Dodd said.
password retrieval, according to Koumarianos. He said that on sites such as Gmail and YouTube, if someone wants to take over your account all they have to do is type in your account name and click “change password.” If you do not respond to the email the website sends out after three days, then that same person can say, “’I don’t have access to that email anymore, let me just change the password now,” and these sites will let that random person do that. The next threat to your online identity is your reputation, Koumarianos said. “Forty-five to 65 percent of employers check Facebook, Twitter or run a Google search on you before they will hire you,” Koumarianos said. “They’ll basically stalk you everywhere to see what you’re all about.” Koumarianos said that, in general, employers don’t like to see drugs, drinking, bad mouthing of current or former jobs or inappropriate photos or information. He added that people should not put their address or year of birth on Facebook. “People need to be smarter about what they put on Facebook,”
Koumarianos said. “Facebook has whatever information you put on there forever.” There are also dangers connected to becoming friends with random people over Facebook or Twitter. Koumarianos said that companies sometimes use surreptitious means, such as creating an account for a fake person, to “friend” someone in order to see their entire profile. Another online danger to your reputation is from search engines such as Google. Spam sites take advantage of the search engine by inserting random words or people’s names into their website just to get hits from the search engine, according to Koumarianos. He demonstrated this by searching his own name on Google. After clicking a few pages into the search, a site for feminine hygiene products came up. The site listed his name on their website in a list of random words and phrases such as “hierarchical tissue” and “adolescent learning curves.” Koumarianos says that for this case or in any case where someone does not want something connected to their name appearing on a Google search, you can ask Google to take it down.
“They’re pretty good about taking stuff down,” Koumarianos said. “Google usually takes 90 days to remove anything…my Facebook page does not show up in Google searches of my name anymore.” Some people did not mind the risks to their reputation in connection with social networks and spam sites. “If I have nothing to hide why should I care what comes up on Facebook,” said Kristina Breuninger, an 8th-semester biology major, “If I were an employer I wouldn’t necessarily care that a person was drinking…Say an employer searches your name and it is linked to a Viagra site, they’re gonna know that it is a spam site and not actually you.” Also touched on in discussion was the fact that some people felt discouraged with the risks and precautions that are becoming increasingly inherent with online identities, such as on Facebook. “I think Facebook became so popular because it is a place for people to vent,” said Cindy Tian, an associate professor in animal science at UConn. “But now it’s not a place for that.”
Abigail.Ferrucci@UConn.edu Espinosa appointed to Rainbow Center cautions students about privacy online Appellate Court HARTFORD (AP) — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Wednesday appointed Carmen Espinosa to Connecticut’s Appellate Court, making her the first Hispanic member of the second-highest court in the state. Espinosa, who moved from Puerto Rico to the U.S. when she was three years old, said it was fitting that Malloy announced his appointment on the 94th anniversary President Woodrow Wilson’s signing of the Jones Act, which made Puerto Rico a territory of the U.S. and granted Puerto Ricans U.S. citizenship. “Your historic appointment not only honors me, but also the Hispanic community,” the 62-year-old Espinosa told Malloy during an announcement at the state Capitol, with friends and family looking on. Her nomination awaits legislative approval. Espinosa grew up in New Britain. Her father was a laborer and her mother was a factory worker. She said she did not know any lawyers as a child and the only professionals she knew were her teachers and doctor.
More oversight of hookah lounges HARTFORD (AP) — Some Connecticut lawmakers want tougher regulation of hookah lounges, increasingly popular establishments where customers gather to smoke flavored tobacco or herbs. The General Assembly’s Public Health Committee heard testimony Wednesday on a bill requiring the state’s Department Public Health to have oversight authority over the operation of hookah lounges. The commissioner would also be required to come up with regulations for the lounges that protect the health of customers and staff. Dr. Dennis McBride, Milford’s health director, says he’s concerned about the health risks of sharing hookah pipes and says there is no proven safe way to clean and sanitize the pipes. Aaron Sawar, who owns the Shish Kebab House in West Hartford, says hookahs are a long-held tradition in Middle Eastern culture. He says there are already enough regulations.
Amtrak delayed after person killed on track
NEW HAVEN (AP) — Amtrak officials say train service between Boston and New Haven has resumed following a delay caused by the death of a person struck on the tracks near Mystic. A spokesman says a train traveling between Washington, D.C. and Boston struck the person, who was trespassing, at about 9:45 a.m. Wednesday. Rail traffic was limited to one of two tracks until about 1:30 p.m. as authorities investigated. There are no reported injuries to the 108 passengers or crew members on board.
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By Garrett Gianneschi Staff Writer Tips on protecting your online identity were discussed at the Rainbow Center last night in a short presentation followed by an open discussion. The presentation dealt with protecting yourself from the negative light social networks can portray you in, search engines such as Google and other risks involved in becoming a member of a website. In becoming part of online communities sometimes the stakes can go beyond simple invasion of privacy or putting yourself in jeopardy of losing a potential job. “If you friend a random guy over Facebook, that random guy can hack your Facebook, it’s actually pretty easy, and find out your password,” said Andrew Koumarianos, a freelance web designer and 6thsemester American sign language and deaf culture major. “And you probably use that password for other things so there is a chance he could access everything, even credit cards.” Certain sites like Gmail or YouTube have less than adequate security measures in regards to
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UConn’s 2011 expenses exceeded West Virginia’s in 2009 from UCONN, page 1 members of the team, staff and administration over the course of eight days, as well as $94 per day on each of the 335 members of the band and cheering squad over three days. Other expenses that UConn incurred included entertainment, promotion, awards, equipment and supplies, administrative, band facility rental, bag tags and lanyards. These expenses combined totaled $210,477. UConn’s loss of nearly $1.8
million at the Fiesta Bowl is huge even when considering the fact that most schools either just break even or incur losses at bowl games. One of the biggest financial disasters at a BCS bowl game was in 2009 when Virginia Tech lost $2.2 million at the Orange Bowl, according to bowl documents obtained from Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech’s expenses at that game, however, were only $3.8 million compared to UConn’s total expenses of nearly $4.3 million. Virginia Tech’s losses were inflamed by receiv-
ing a substantially smaller bowl payout from the ACC. The last Big East team to participate in the Fiesta Bowl before UConn was West Virginia, who faced Oklahoma in 2008. According to bowl documents obtained from West Virginia, the school’s losses only totaled about $1 million, nearly half that of UConn. West Virginia received a similar payout as UConn from the Big East, but their expenses totaled $3.5 million. West Virginia’s numbers were bol-
stered by their stronger ticket sales; of an allotment of 17,500, the school sold 7,981 compared to UConn’s 2,771. The document does not include bonuses awarded to former head coach Randy Edsall, his coaching staff, athletic director Jeff Hathaway or any other athletic department administrators. The document also does not include revenue earned on Fiesta Bowl- related merchandise or sponsorship.
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Six frozen eggs have live births Chants raise student support
By Courtney Robishaw Campus Correspondent
The Center for Advanced Reproductive Services at the UConn Health Center recently announced that it has achieved six live births resulting from frozen eggs, including a set of twins. The CARS conducted a study examining the effectiveness of using frozen eggs, as opposed to frozen embryos, on achieving pregnancies and births. They found positive results, with previous data demonstrating a 53.8 percent pregnancy rate and a 46.1 percent birth rate. Across the nation, egg freezing is considered experimental by the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, but the UCHC will begin offering it this summer after experiencing positive results. It is estimated that almost 900
births have occurred worldwide from egg freezing, with about 600 of them within the past three years. The goal of the Center for Advanced Reproductive Services is to “achieve term pregnancies at rates equivalent to those obtained with fresh oocytes,” said Linda Siano, chief embryologist at UCHC. Patients who participated in the study had some of their eggs frozen in a cryoprotective solution. The eggs were then thawed and fertilized through intracytoplasmic sperm injection. “The Cryotop method of vitrification, which we aim to investigate in our study, has been reported as the most efficient method for human oocytes cryopreservation,” Siano said. The benefits of egg freezing are numerous, including being more ethical, enabling women to preserve their fertility and enabling the possible future creation of egg banks, similar to sperm banks.
Egg freezing is especially beneficial when couples have to make hard decisions about the fate of the excess frozen embryos when undergoing fertility treatments. “Decision-making about the fate of these embryos can be a very emotional and traumatic experience for couples using in vitro fertilization,” said Theodore Taigen, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UConn. “The mean birth weight and the incidence of congenital anomalies are comparable to that of spontaneous conceptions in fertile women or infertile women undergoing IVF treatment,” Siano said. “Oocyte cryopreservation is gaining in popularity as an option for infertility treatment as well as fertility preservation,” she added.
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from RALLY, page 1 we are trying to make health care reform in this country and this is setting us back.” Austin Longendyke, a 4thsemester American studies and women studies double major and member of NOW and SURJ, said he is scared that the bill was already passed by the House of Representatives. He said the funding doesn’t go to abortion, but that is what the government was trying to attack. “When push comes to shove it is all anti-choice,” Longendyke said. “Planned Parenthood isn’t what harms people; it is abstinent-only education and a lack of access to protection that does.” This bill will further disadvantage low-income families because it will take away the affordable, accessible healthcare they rely on, Longendyke said. He said this is very important to college students who do not have a lot of money and who are recently sexually active. “College is a time where people become sexually active…you should be entitled to birth control and unbiased education,” Longendyke said. The rally included chants and speeches made by students and Planned Parenthood representatives. Phil Brown-Wilusz, a member of UConn NOW, said through the megaphone that as a man he found Planned Parenthood very useful and wanted to know he could return there when he is ready
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“The most important thing for students to know is that they can make a difference and they should stand up for their rights,” Tea Psorn Campus Action Intern
“I think it’s wrong. It just doesn’t make sense,” Miranda said. He said he believes this is another bill that the government will pass that will undermine women’s rights, such as the redefinition of rape. He said he believes cutting the money for Title X would be a waste of money. “The most important thing for students to know is that they can make a difference and they should stand up for their rights,” Psorn said.
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Apt. residents should be allowed on-campus parking
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tarting in September, residents who live in university apartments at the edge of campus face a restriction to their parking ability that has the potential to cause them difficulties and possibly even danger. Parking Services recently announced that beginning with the Fall 2011 semester, students who live in Charter Oak, Hilltop, Mansfield and Northwood Apartments, as well as Busby Suites, will be required to purchase an apartment-specific permit that will only allow them to park in their respective lots. These permits will not enable students to park in residential lots Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., nor will these students be allowed to park in commuter lots. In addition, apartment parking will be restricted to only those with these apartment-specific passes 24 hours a day, seven days a week. According to Parking Services Manager Martha Funderburk, there are two reasons as to why Parking Services decided to undertake this change. First, it is ostensibly to cut down on traffic in the center of campus because the status quo allows people who live in the apartments to drive to class. Nonetheless, this reason should not be seen as sufficient for creating this change in policy. As it stands, parking is already very difficult; few people elect to move their cars from residential lots unless there is no alternative. In addition, the reasoning of minimizing traffic could be extended to students who live in dorms. If someone from South wants to drive to the physics building for class, that would also be cause for congestion. Consequently, the only way to prevent this would be to say that residents can park only in lots near their building. But this simply isn’t the case. Another reason that Funderburk provided to justify this new limitation is that it would be unfair for apartment residents to be able to park both on campus and in their designated apartmentspecific spots. A few years ago, there also existed apartment-specific passes, but they also permitted students to park in residential lots. Parking Services intended to change this for next year because they didn’t think the students should be allowed to “double dip,” Funderburk said. Yet this fails to take into consideration the reason why apartment residents need to park on campus, versus the other way around. For non-apartment residents who want to park in the apartments, the reasons are either a dearth of parking spaces in one of the lots in the center of campus, or if they are visiting someone in the apartments. For apartment residents who want to park on campus, though, it would be because they have either class or work – a far more pressing matter that needs to be addressed. This proposed change is a wholly unreasonable plan that is not just inconvenient for students living on the fringe of campus, but has the potential to be unsafe. What happens when students have obligations, such as work, that either bring them on campus before the buses run, or keep them on campus until after the buses stop running? It would be unsafe for these students to walk. Northwood Apartments, for example, is about two miles away – too far away to walk after dark – from the center of campus. Although these cases could be addressed on an individual basis, the fact of the matter is many students have extra-curricular activities, work or other extenuating circumstances that could bring them to and from campus sporadically when the only safe option of transportation is to drive. Students who live in apartment housing should continue to be allowed to park in residential lots. The Daily Campus editorial is the official opinion of the newspaper and its editorial board. Commentary columns express opinions held solely by the author and do not in any way reflect the official opinion of The Daily Campus.
I just followed a trail of blonde hair extensions from the entrance of the library to the third floor. I thought my midterms were bad. To the girl who dropped her hair extensions in the library... well frankly I have nothing appropriate to say. By the end of this week, I will be a limp mass of skin, bones and shattered dreams. Thanks, midterms. I’ve had about 15 coffees and zero vegetables this week. Exams are litterally killing me. My roommate just asked me, “You get free A’s if your roommate dies, right?” Guess who’s not sleeping the rest of midterm week. The students at West Virginia have terrible sportsmanship. What kind of cosmetic surgery does a ghost get? BOOtox. Is it me, or does Bob Huggins look like John Goodman’s lost brother?
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Oscars should introduce category for trailers
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he 83rd Academy Awards were held this past Sunday, and although 24 awards were handed out, something was missing. It is time for the Oscars to introduce a new award for Best Film Trailer. The most recent award introduced was Best Animated Feature in 2001 in response to the growing number of computeranimated films of the preceding years – namely By Jesse Rifkin “Toy Story” in Weekly Columnist 1995. So, clearly, the Academy is willing to introduce new categories as a result of developments in the motion picture industry. What has been the biggest development in the past few years? While many would say three-dimensional (3-D) films, this has actually just been a renewed focus on technology that has been around since the 1950s. I contend that the big development is actually movie trailers. In the earliest days of film, trailers did not exist at all. They came around back in the days when films would show a different movie every week, and were shown solely to advertise the next week’s film. Usually minimal work was put into the project, and a cursory look online at some vintage trailers generally proves that to be true. But this has undergone a complete turnaround the last few years, due largely
to the popularity of the Internet. Whole websites are dedicated to trailers, and the most popular ones receive millions of views. In fact, the “Inception” trailer was credited with building anticipation, as the film went on to become one of the highestgrossing films of 2010. The same thing occurred with “Iron Man” in 2008.
“Trailers are so frequently better than the films they advertise that they deserve their own Oscar category.” Trailers are no longer just a haphazard stitching together of random scenes in the hopes that it looks okay; they have become an entire sub-industry within the film industry. There are people whose jobs are to work solely on the trailer, rather than on the actual film itself. It can hardly be denied that trailers have become increasingly important. This is why the Oscars should have an award for Best Trailer. For one thing, the general viewing public would be much more interested in that category than they are in several current ones like Best Sound Editing or Best Short Subject Documentary. Secondly, while the ceremony is still able to command a fairly large audience, viewership numbers have generally been declining the past few years, including an estimated 7 percent this year despite having Anne Hathaway and James Franco as hosts. With youth being the primary audience for movie
trailers, such an award would help the Oscars reach that demographic. Third, and perhaps most important, trailers deserve their own award. Perhaps you have experienced that moment while watching a coming attraction in a theater, when a trailer is so good that after it ends, everybody looks at each other excitedly in anticipation of the release — which is still months away. Keep in mind that everyone is sitting in the theater to watch a different movie, the feature presentation. But that is what a great trailer has the power to do. In 2006, Fox released the “Simpsons Movie” trailer as a coming attraction during “Ice Age 2,” well before most people even knew they were making the movie. For the first few moments of the trailer, it is not apparent what the film is, until the camera zooms out and you realize what had been appearing on screen was Homer Simpson. At that instant, people in theaters across the country went crazy. Similarly, there were reports of people back in 2001 paying full admission price to watch “See Spot Run” in theaters. Not because of the actual film, mind you, but solely because it was the first picture to show the trailer for “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” Trailers are so frequently better than the films they advertise that they deserve their own Oscar category. They are an art form unto themselves. It would be a shame for this to be ignored by the Academy.
Weekly columnist Jesse Rifkin is a 2nd-semester political science and communications double. He can be reached at Jesse.Rifkin@UConn.edu.
Campus bottle ban an unnecessary intrusion
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n the last few decades, businesses, schools and governments have sought to lessen their impact on the environment. When organizations can accomplish this responsibly and effectively, it is an admirable goal. However, in recent years, there have been calls from some in government, By Joseph Gasser academia and speStaff Columnist c i a l interest groups to impose draconian regulations on Americans in the name of “environmental sustainability.” For example, across the country and here in Connecticut, some have called for seemingly-benign bottled water to be banned. This is another intrusion on the personal liberties of American consumers; it is unnecessary and should be dropped. Recently, there have been attacks on bottled water in our own state. An alderman in New Haven has proposed an outright ban on plastic bottles for public purposes. Buoyed by a Yale student group, this initiative would exclude tax dollars from going to pay for bottles for public schools and government in the city. This means that students in public K-12 educa-
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tion and employees of schools and other city buildings would lose the freedom to buy and use portable, plastic water bottles. Furthermore, it would spell the end of vending machines in those locations. A push for the exclusion of plastic bottles may even be underway on our very campus. From the pages of this newspaper have come calls to ban these “environmentally grievous” containers. Additionally, the UConn EcoHusky group has supported a “Think Outside the Bottle” campaign similar to Yale’s. Although such policies might make environmentalists feel good, the impacts of a bottle ban on campus would be almost entirely negative. First of all, as with the New Haven case, consider the consequences for students. Unless students leave campus, they would no longer be able to purchase disposable plastic bottles here. Thus, such a policy would put an end to students’ freedom to purchase bottles of water, soda, juice or tea from the Co-Op, the Grab ‘n Go’s, Bookworms café, the Benton café or any of the dozens of Coke vending machines across campus. Our athletes would have to find their Powerade on tap from the
dining halls and haul it around in Thermoses before practice. Resident students would have no access to beverages other than sink water after the dining halls close.
“...citizens are perfectly capable of making responsible decisions regarding their environmental impact” Apart from being invasive, a bottle ban here would be unnecessary. As you know from signage at Gampel Pavilion and Rentschler Field, Coca-Cola is a major sponsor of our athletic department and our source for beverages. In 2009, Coca-Cola, which provides UConn with Coke, Powerade, Dasani water, Sprite, Minute-Maid, Vitamin Water and Nestea, announced a new packaging called the Plant Bottle. Made with up to 30 percent plant material, it is completely recyclable and less dependent on petroleum-based plastic. Furthermore, the bottle can be recycled through tradi-
tional means without requiring any additional expense. Consumers of the new Coke bottles would be helping to reduce plastic waste and make the campus more environmentally friendly. All across America, companies like Coca-Cola are coming up with innovative solutions to environmental concerns independent from the government. Consumers can go about their daily lives and lessen their environmental impact without another power grab from the authorities, whether it be federal, state, local or campus-wide. At every level, the government needs to be made aware that its citizens are not to be shepherded around at the whim of special interest groups— in this case environmental ones. Both corporations and citizens are perfectly capable of making responsible decisions regarding their environmental impact, and they do not need to have their liberties abridged by transient governments to coexist with nature.
Staff Columnist Joseph Gasser is a 4thsemester political science major and president of the College Republicans. He can be reached at Joseph.Gasser@UConn.edu
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Aries - Today is a perfect day for meditation and soul searching. Find time to get away from noise, even the kind that you can’t hear, and just listen. Taurus - Listen to a friend, even if they seem like a hopeless dreamer. Let go of a fear by inspecting and researching it. Throw your hat over the fence, and jump after it. Gemini - Write blueprints for a vision. Your reputation is on the rise. It may translate into a new career, a raise or new discoveries that pay off nicely. Cancer - Dreams empower. Listen to your environment. Go on an adventure; smell the flowers; look under the rocks. Be like a three-year-old. Don’t be afraid to ask “Why?”
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Leo - Take it easy today. The more you learn, the more you discover you don’t know, and that’s a good thing. Keep it up. Stick to the facts, even when tempted to embellish. Virgo - Today you may be torn between wanting to be alone, and wanting to be with others. While you’re figuring it out, go burn some calories. No excuses. Libra - New information opens up new possibilities. Avoid distractions for great productivity. You’re the king of the jungle today. Be a good and just ruler. Scorpio - You’ll have to study to comply with a new request. Make sure you leave time for play. Release your inner child and creativity flourishes. Don’t worry about results yet.
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Sagittarius - A friend’s faith will help you discover a hidden truth. It’s a good day for springcleaning, to clear out the winter dust. Make space for this new possibility. Capricorn - Get in communication with an elder in your family or community. You’ll never be as young as you are today (nor will they). Imagine success in something important to you. Aquarius - You’re part of the solution. It’s a great day to make some dough, but remember that money can’t buy love. Be grateful for what you have, and stay active. Pisces - The moon is in your sign for the next three days. It’s a good time to pull forward, appreciate what you have and shoot for what you want. Your aim is true.
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HARTFORD, (AP) — For the first time, revenue has fallen at American Indian gambling casinos nationwide as the recession forced consumers to curtail spending on entertainment, according to a report issued Wednesday. Casinos generated about $26.4 billion in 2009, down 1 percent from 2008, according to the Indian Gaming Industry Report. Revenue from food and beverages, lodging, entertainment and shopping declined 4 percent to $3.2 billion in 2009 in the more than 200 Indian tribes that operated nearly 450 casinos in 28 states. The decline in Indian casino gambling was part of a larger trend, said Alan Meister, the economist who wrote the report. Gambling revenue has declined steadily from 15 percent in 2005, he said. Before the start of the recession, the sagging gambling revenue was due to public policies intended to restrict Indian gambling, such as legislation and regulations, court decisions and tribal-state agreements. Commercial casino gambling revenue declined even more, falling 8 percent, to $27.6 billion in 2009 from $30 billion the previous year. Meister said in an interview that Indian casinos generally performed better than their commercial counterparts because Indian casino markets are newer and have room for more development, he said. In addition, when the economy is affected by events such as the Sept. 11 attacks or rising gas prices, consumers respond by staying closer to home for entertainment, he said. Revenue from Indian casino gambling was greatest in California in 2009, amounting to $6.9 billion. The state accounted for more than 26 percent of Indian gambling revenue nationwide. However, revenue declined in Indian casinos in California 2009 by about 5 percent.
NEW YORK (AP) — Pregnancy counseling centers, including those run by antiabortion groups attempting to dissuade women from ending their pregnancies, would be forced to disclose whether they provide abortions, emergency contraception and prenatal care under a bill passed by the City Council on Wednesday and endorsed by the mayor. The bill would force centers to include the disclosure in their advertising and on signs in their entrances and waiting rooms. Additionally, the centers would need to give the information verbally whenever asked in person or over the phone about those services. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is expected to sign the bill into law, his spokeswoman Evelyn Erskine said. A similar ordinance in Baltimore was declared unconstitutional by a federal judge in January, though that city plans an appeal. And Austin, Texas, has enacted a similar measure. The New York City measure would apply to any pregnancy center that looks like a medical facility or provides ultrasounds, sonograms or prenatal care — but where services aren’t directly overseen by licensed medical providers. Abortion rights advocates say the centers attempt to deceive women by opening near offices that offer abortions and implying they will give referrals to women considering ending their pregnancies. Although center staffers dress in medical uniforms, take clients to examining rooms and perform and evaluate ultrasounds, there often are no licensed medical providers there, advocates say. “There are people out there presenting themselves as medical offices, deceiving women, giving misinformation,” said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who called the bill a consumer pro-
Indian casinos NYC OKs bill mandating revenues fall pregnancy center disclosure tection measure. The legislation, which also guarantees that women who visit the centers will have their information kept private, is expected to spark a court challenge by opponents. “This legislation is designed to prevent pro-life advocates from speaking freely merely because their speech is considered unwelcome by some powerful interest groups that favor abortion,” New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan and Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio said in a statement. “Ultimately, this legislation will deprive some women of valuable services and information before they make their decision as to whether or not to have an abortion.” The president of EMC Frontline Pregnancy Centers, Chris Slattery, said the bill contains “a grotesque violation of our First Amendment rights.” “We are there to protect women from this abortion industry,” he said. Slattery said that his group has 12 centers in New York, some of which are supervised by doctors, and that women who seek help there are not deceived. The group calls New York the “Abortion Capital of America.” In 2009, 41 percent of pregnancies in the city (excluding miscarriages) ended in abortion, the city’s Department of Health says. Nationally, 22 percent ended in abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which produces resources on topics pertaining to sexual and reproductive health. Quinn argues the New York City measure will withstand any court challenge and has significant differences from the Baltimore ordinance. In New York, the rules apply to centers regardless of whether or not they offer abortions or refer clients to doctors who perform abortions, she said.
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Speaker seeks to redefine family, marriage By Kim Halpin Campus Correspondent Dr. Judith Stacey, author of “Love, Marriage and Family Values: West Hollywood to China,” and soon-to-be-published “Unhitched,” spoke Wednesday at the Rainbow Center’s “Out to Lunch” lecture. Stacey has spent a great deal of time researching the contemporary family. Her newest literary accomplishment seeks to shift fundamental assumptions regarding family institutions. Stacey began with the jumproping rhyme, “first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes June with the baby carriage,” with which everyone is familiar. Using this as a platform to explain how love is equated with marriage and
children, Stacey challenges that marriage is not a worldwide universal. Using the example of a unique Chinese culture, she provided evidence that strong family ties can be created without marriage, or knowing a child’s biological parents. Instead, individuals within that culture live with their maternal family all their lives, and love is separate from family. This leaves no necessity for divorce, family desertion or “fatherless” children because those notions don’t exist. Perhaps the most charged statement Stacey explained was her feelings that the rights to same sex marriages wouldn’t lead to equality. This, she stated, is due to the fact that legally it might not change the benefits for couples, especially with children.
Stacey interviewed same sex couples who, as part of a 2003 Los Angeles study, had complicated arrangements in order to have children. Some had polyparenting arrangements where a male couple and female couple share children, or a single gay male had an arrangement with a lesbian female couple. The ability to marry their partners, Stacey argues, would not give the non-biological parent any more legal right to the children should something happen to the biological parent. Clive Richards, a 6th-semester political science major, expressed his confusion about this idea: “She seemed to be arguing against same-sex marriage,” he said.
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Dr. Judith Stacey, author of the books ‘Love, Marriage and Family Values: West Hollywood to China’ and ‘Unhitched,’ spoke at the Rainbow Center Wednesday.
How much do you know of sustainability? By Becky Radolf Staff Writer
A spring playlist to thaw out to
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Hopefully you, too, will be able to catch some rays like Ke$ha this break. The playlist below –which includes songs by Ke$ha, The Beach Boys, The Beatles and Kanye West will help ring in spring time.
These songs will lift the winter blahs and make way for warmer temps and sunny days By Julie Bartoli Campus Correspondent
prequel to the Black Keys’ “Everlasting Light.” 6. “Post Acid” by WAVVES
Contrary to popular belief, the snow will eventually melt. Jackets will be brought home and remain there until the end of the semester. We’ll thaw out. Here’s a soundtrack for when that all goes down.
Nathan Williams pioneers the chillwave genre with a wink, adding edge to his deceivingly sunnysounding number. “Would you understand/That I’m just having fun/I’m just having fun with you.”
1. “Give Up the Ghost” by Radiohead Opening with birds chirping and a lush acoustic guitar, a subtle yet intriguing ThomYo r k e - m e e t s - T h o m - Yo r k e harmony makes the song ideal for sunbathing. 2. “And Your Bird Can Sing” by The Beatles Off their “Revolver” album, this Beatles song captures Harrison and McCartney in their instrumental prime, with two minutes of dueling guitars swapping places behind Lennon’s wounded vocal line. And who doesn’t want to think about the birds chirping?
7. “All of the Lights” by Kanye West featuring Rihanna Tribal drums blaze over Rihanna and Kanye’s infectious vocals, successfully drowning out the song’s deadbeat theme. Photo courtesy of Myspace.com
Members of the band WAVVES enjoy the sunshine in a lush, green backyard. Never fear, that same lush will reach Connecticut soon enough.
3. “Blow” by Ke$ha
8. “Under Cover of Darkness” by The Strokes Julian Casablancas is as sharp as he was five years ago, belting out a springtime anthem between interlocking guitar loops and sporadic start-stops reminiscent of “Is This It.”
We’ll all hate this song in a month, but then Ke$ha will just make something equally unintelligent and undeniably catchy.
back vocals over Derek Miller’s mellow pops and snaps. It’s a single devised primarily for road trips in vintage vehicles, as seen in their MTV-unfriendly music video.
4. “Rill Rill” by Sleigh Bells
5. “Mambo Sun” by T. Rex
9. “Daft Punk is Playing at My House” by LCD Soundsystem
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your refilling-the-pool party or for the minute you land at your tropical destination. 10. “Hot Girls in Good Moods” by Butch Walker and The-Let’s-Go-Out-Tonites A lip-biting guilty pleasure from the ex-Marvelous 3 vocalist himself. 11. “Month of May” by Arcade Fire It’s only March, but “Month of May’s” guitar crunch proves to be mouth-watering any month of the year. Not to mention, listening to Arcade Fire conjures images of Win Butler’s bewildered post-Grammy win expression. 12. “Good Vibrations” by The Beach Boys What you should be picking up all next week, and for the rest of UConn’s soon-to-be warm spring semester.
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Making smart choices about how to go green isn’t always easy. There are thousands of options nowadays and the terminology can get confusing, which begs the question: do people really know what they’re purchasing? Do they know the most effective way to save energy? To find the answers, I quizzed UConn students. Eric Day, a 10th-semester psychology major, and Patrick Kania, an 8th-semester political science major, both live on campus, and both feel they are making an effort to try to be eco-friendly throughout the day. “I try not to use disposable stuff as much,” Day said. “I use actual stuff I can wash and reuse.” “I try not to step on any bugs,” Kania said. So, one of them was definitely going to take this quiz seriously, but they were both interrogated. First, I asked them if they knew the difference between the terms “all-natural” and “organic,” something that tends to be a bit of an elusive concept for the average consumer. Much like most people, Day and Kania knew what organic meant, but “allnatural” was trickier. “’Organic’ means the plant or animal lived a wonderful life before we consumed it,” Kania said. All-natural just means it came from a plant or animal.” “Organic means no pesticides or anything,” Day said. “’Allnatural?’ Doesn’t that mean it grew without any cultivation or something?” They have good reason to be confused, because “all-natural” doesn’t really mean anything at all, except that it’s made without preservatives. So the “all-natural” trail mix can be processed using completely unnatural means, but because it hasn’t been synthesized or chemically altered, it’s considered a natural product. Next question: What is the ideal speed at which to drive your car? Both Kania and Day were within the correct range; Day guessed 50 mph and Kania guessed 55 mph – the actual answer being 60 mph (although Kania originally responded zero mph, which would technically be correct, since he wouldn’t be driving at all). Fueleconomy.org states that for every five mph a person drives over 60 mph, he or she will waste an extra 24 cents a gallon. While there’s no way for Kania and Day to know this unless they looked up such a statistic, the fact that they were even in the range was still impressive. Finally, I asked the two of them to name at least two of the 10 most endangered species on earth. This was a bit of a trick question, because a general name wasn’t going to cut it. Both of them had to give me specific names of animals that topped the list. “A panda?” asked Day. If he threw the word “giant” in front of that he would’ve guessed the No. 10 most endangered species, with only about 1,600 left in the wild. Kania, on the other hand, guessed both the No. 1 and No. 2 species, the Siberian tiger and the polar bear, respectively. There you have it. When it comes to general knowledge about sustainability and being eco-friendly, there’s the comforting reminder that there seems to be at least a basic understanding. Kania and Day performed outstandingly and made a strong showing for college kids everywhere.
Rebecca.Radolf@UConn.edu
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1. “Never Say Never: the Remixes,” Justin Bieber 2. “Sigh No More,” Mumford & Sons 3. “NOW 37,” Lady Antebellum 4. “Need You Now,” Nicki Minaj 5. “Doo-Wops & Hooligans,” Bruno Mars 6. “Recovery,” Eminem 7. “2011 Grammy Nominees,” Various Artists 8. “My World 2.0,” Justin Bieber 9. “Pink Friday,” Nicki Minaj 10. “Loud,” Rihanna
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to disappoint, and Go Radio’s fan base is undoubtedly going to grow in the coming months with the release of the album and the band’s appearance on Warped Tour this summer. For a band constantly overshadowed by its origins, Go Radio has struck gold with its first fulllength studio album, “Lucky Street.”
Music collaborations are not anything new: think supergroups like The Traveling Wilburys and Them Crooked Vultures and artists like Eminem and Dr. Dre, who seem to be attached at the hip. Often times musicians will reconnect with their mentors, just as Thom Yorke did when he had Michael Stipe sing alongside him on Radiohead’s concert tour in 2003. This strategy of joining forces is quite convenient in an economic sense, but it also appeals to audience interests, especially if the attached artists are high-profile individuals. Collaboration is a strong marketing and musical effort and more artists should look to pool their creativity together. Here are a few artistic alliances that would be both practical and excellent if they ever occurred. John Butler Trio and Citizen Cope need to get to know each other. John Butler is a master at guitar and Citizen Cope, (a.k.a. Clarence Greenwood) is a genius when it comes to writing insightful lyrics. Although their styles are slightly different, Butler and his group have made a push toward other genres in the past year. By meshing Greenwood’s blues techniques with Butler’s purist guitar skills, the artists can do great things in a very minimalist fashion. If Adele and John Legend worked together they could bring some Motown magic back onto the airwaves. Adele has already hit multiple homeruns in Europe with her resounding vocals, which could have landed her a job with The Supremes back in the ‘60s. She has a strong, deep voice that can perfectly complement Legend’s soulful croon. These two would be adept at both melting and mending hearts. Sufjan Stevens and Regina Spektor should make music – even babies – together. These two indie darlings have very distinct voices. Stevens has a soft falsetto that is perfect for the traveling bard role. Spektor, meanwhile, likes to sing waterfalls of notes and tends to gravitate toward sharps and flats that are usually characterized as repulsive. But these two musicians are masters of folklore. By marrying their writing styles Stevens and Spektor could create a profound and interesting album. Kanye West has worked with Jay-Z. West has also worked with Kid Cudi. But West, Cudi and Jay-Z have yet to put a song together. With Jay-Z’s shrewd raps, Cudi’s confident demeanor and West’s exceptional artistry, the trio could rule the rap empire with an expertly conducted single (think “H.A.M.” times 100). Such a piece would be, at the very least, mind-blowing. One of the recent trends in the music industry is the partnership between rap and more unlikely genres of music, such as country and folk. Drake featured Peter Bjorn in the track “Let’s Call it Off” last year, and West brought in the up-and-coming group Bon Iver for his song “Lost in the World.” This integration of rap into other forms of music shows that listeners are no longer content with the one-trick pony. Audiences want diversification and the only way to give them that is through collaborative efforts between the most favored and talented artists.
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In ‘Going Out in Style,’ the Dropkick Murphys add a new flair to its Celtic punk – the blue-collar taste of Bruce Springsteen.
Dropkick Murphys’ new album debuts just in time for St. Patty’s Day By Julie Bartoli Campus Correspondent It’s hard to listen to the Dropkick Murphys with a straight face, mostly because the general population has only caught wind of their trademark sound while deliriously bar hopping. Otherwise, the inevitable Murphy-induced grin is a response to the band itself. The Dropkick Murphys are a Celtic-punk outlet straight out of Boston. Their genre is an enig-
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This Day in Music 1966 Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay, Bruce Palmer and Dewey Martin formed the band “The Herd.” Later renamed “Buffalo Springfield” after the steamroller company, the quintet would become a landmark in the birth of folk rock. The group began their career modestly, touring as an opening act for other lesser-known bands such as the Dillards, and releasing a poorly received self-titled debut. However, months later Stills witnessed police violence against youths gathered in protest of a nightclub’s closing. In November of 1966 he wrote his staple song, “For What It’s Worth,” as a response to the event. The song debuted at the Whisky a Go Go, was immediately recorded, and by March of 1967 it became a top-10 hit. “For What It’s Worth” later received a gold award, and was played at the band’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Not to mention, it became the unofficial anti-Vietnam theme song. And to think Stills got the title by handing a demo to his producer and explaining, “I have this song here, for what it’s worth.” – Julie Bartoli
ma alone, further enhanced by Springsteen-inspired blue-collar personas that make these Red Sox fans 10 times more charismatic. Released March 1, their 13-track record, “Going Out in Style,” is relatively similar to their last six LPs, only with a twist: it’s a concept album. Based on personal experiences and family stories, the Murphys created a fictional character, Cornelius Larkin, a deceased Irish immigrant and Korean War veteran. The album tells
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his story, leaping from battle wounds to heartbreak. Several vocalists make an appearance on the album, including The Living End’s Chris Cheney, NOFX’s Fat Mike and none other than Bruce Springsteen himself. Opening with the bagpipe-driven “Hang ‘Em High,” Cornelius’ story begins with tales of brawling and bad luck. It’s followed by “Going Out in Style,” a belt-along title track defined by sporadic yelps and chants entailing how Cornelius plans to be put to rest. Track five, “Memorial Day,” treads a bit too close to ska and doesn’t flow quite right when the album is played straight through. However, the lapse in judgment is immediately forgotten when “Peg O’ My Heart” rolls around, the song Springsteen lent his vocals to. The piece centers on the love of Cornelius’ life, and considering the mix is bombarded with instrumentation, Springsteen’s
voice is nearly indistinguishable from Al Bar’s. In retrospect, the production choice was admirable. The boys did not capitalize on Bruce; they included him, and the single holds its own with no hidden agenda. The album closes with “The Irish Rover,” a cacophony of brash vocals and frenzied instrumentation that draws to a close with whistles and clinking glasses, ending the album in the same way it should be heard. Ideally, Cornelius Larkin is the type of world-wearied elder you’d want to meet at a bar. He’s the personifier of every post4 a.m. pub cliché you’ve ever heard. However, the Dropkick Murphys get away with reintroducing this typical character by doing it in an atypical way. They’re the Celtic-punk Springsteens of Boston, coming to a bar near you.
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Go Radio gets ‘Lucky’ with first full release By Nicole Green Campus Correspondent Tallahasee’s underdog, Go Radio, formed in 2007 by Mayday Parade’s ex-lead vocalist Jason Lancaster, released its first full studio album on March 1 titled “Lucky Street.” And the
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album has not disappointed. Although fans of both Mayday Parade and Go Radio will agree that Jason Lancaster and Derek Sanders were an unbeatable duo as Mayday Parade’s original lead vocalists, both bands are doing exceptionally well as separate units. Lancaster’s husky, raw lead vocals are certainly the new album’s main punch. While some aspects of Go Radio are highly reminiscent of it’s Mayday Parade days, “Lucky Street” finally gives Go Radio its own name and sound. Lancaster’s incomparable voice dominates a genre of boy bands with no distinction among them. The 14-track album opens with the title track showing Lancaster’s range from a tame opening to powerful chorus. The album’s first released single, “Any Other Heart,” packs a punch for Lancaster, and the rest of the album follows suit. A slightly different version of the band’s older song, “Why I’m Home,” is sure to remind fans of Mayday Parade’s lesser known “One Man Drinking Games,” a slow, beauti-
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ful ballad backed by brilliant piano chords. “Kill the Beast” is as potent as the title suggests. Lancaster sounds absolutely perfect throughout the chorus. Each song on the album is just as spectacular as the last, and the album is sure to put Go Radio down in history as one of the best in its genre. The album, whhighly anticipated by fans and critics alike, did nothing
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Beady Eye: What’s left of Oasis come back strong By Julie Bartoli Campus Correspondent Liam Gallagher is a rock star in every sense of the term. He’s crude, disrespectful and shows no interest in being socially acceptable. Barely three days ago he gave critically acclaimed Thom Yorke the finger in print. Before that, he engaged in a variety of arguments, including an August 2009 backstage brawl with his brother and Oasis bandmate Noel Gallagher which ended with Noel quitting the band. Noel was Oasis’ staple, named “the finest songwriter of his generation” by George Martin. He had a better temper than Liam, a solid singing voice and he played guitar. So
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it was shocking when Oasis bandmates took Liam’s side in the argument, and joined him to form “Beady Eye.” After nearly two years of preparation, Beady Eye released its first album on Feb. 28. Titled “Different Gear, Still Speeding,” the 15-track LP is a phoenix from the ashes. The record opens with “Four Letter Word,” which
either means the obvious or is a nod to Noel. With a Spectoresque wall of pounding drums and Archer on slide guitar, the single sounds relatively Oasis-like, but not to worry. Straight from the school of Lennon and McCartney, the album’s next songs are vintage rock, some hitting a little too close to home. “The Roller” bears a resemblance
to Lennon’s “Instant Karma,” while track four, “Beatles and Stones,” is a lawsuit waiting to happen. The single is ripped straight from The Who’s “My Generation,” slowed down slightly and with a convenient note-drop. “Bring the Light” is a piano piece reminiscent of Jerry Lee Lewis, full of anger, lust and 60s swing. The song’s crowning feature? It’s not Oasis. “Bring the Light” is the pinnacle of Beady Eye’s potential— spontaneous, unexpected, pulsating and completely genuine. The album’s other savior, “Standing on the Edge of Noise,” is hot-blooded noise rock at its prime, something the perfectionist Noel would have sneered at. But Liam wails and grunts in what sounds like a bomb shelter, reaffirming the
idea that a song doesn’t have to be manufactured perfectly to sound incredible. And that was the point of Beady Eye, was it not? Liam got his group together and walked his own talk, creating two timeless songs without the help of his song-writing savant sibling. Of the Gallaghers, Noel may have possessed more intellect, but Liam has the attitude. His cocky demeanor sells “Different Gear, Still Speeding,” and his nonchalance allows for spontaneous bursts of ingenuity. Beady Eye produced a rock ‘n’ roll album and has the potential to create many more. Oasis dished out “Wonderwall,” but Liam’s winning this one. Rock stars finish first.
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Anniversary for Jimmy Fallon, plus ice cream
NEW YORK (AP) – As Jimmy Fallon celebrates his second anniversary hosting “Late Night,” what he eats for dessert should be a no-brainer: a brand-new ice cream flavor named for his show. The scoop about Ben & Jerry’s Late Night Snack was timed to the milestone Fallon marked on Wednesday, two years after he took over for Conan O’Brien as host of the NBC talk show (which airs weeknights at 12:35 a.m. EST). “I’m still enjoying it as much as I did when we first got started,” Fallon said earlier this week. “It’s so much fun!” Asked to single out just one of his job’s cool features, he replied: “To look in the audience now, when you come out to do a monologue, and there are people wearing shirts with your name on it. You go, ‘Two years ago, those shirts didn’t exist.’ “Back then, the audience didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t even know what to expect!” Everybody knows now: goofy, playful comedy and jovial chat, plus his powerhouse band, The Roots. With that formula, Fallon’s “Late Night” has settled into a robust battle with its CBS rival, “The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson” – a ratings battle that often tips in Fallon’s favor. And now he has his own ice cream, too. Previously, Ben & Jerry’s flavors have saluted such showbiz figures as Stephen Colbert (Stephen Colbert’s Americone Dream), Elton John (Goodbye Yellow Brickle Road), Jerry Garcia (Cherry Garcia) and Vermont-bred rockers Phish (Phish Food).
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But he expressed that he “was open to listening to her points.” Though unusual, Stacey’s viewpoint was that legalizing same-sex marriage is too narrow a focus, and that we should be looking to change cultural values that say that if you are in love, then you must get married to have children. Later during the Q&A, Stacey expressed that she “[doesn’t] like the idea of going to court where it rests on one person,” regarding Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage. Another focus of her talk was redefining fidelity, which Stacey said she views as more of a commitment to integrity than to monogamy. Many couples are committed to their agreements for open relationships, and staying together can provide more happiness for them than separating for being “unfaithful.” Overall, Stacey expressed that she wants her new book to do “more good than harm in getting people to think.” She urged the audience to reconsider social stigmas against polygamy and traditional marriage values. Audience members responded with informed questions and were able to engage in an open dialog with Stacey on the points she presented. “I found it very informative, and I’m glad that I came,” sai Parag Santosh, an 8thsemester accounting and history double major.
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Winning? Sheen gains on Twitter, loses kids LOS ANGELES (AP) – When Charlie Sheen threatened and maligned his bosses over “Two and a Half Men,” it was business and, to some people at least, bizarrely comic. When his estranged wife alleged that she and their twin toddlers were in peril from the TV star, the saga turned ugly. Sheen’s 23-month-old sons were removed from his home Tuesday night after Brooke Mueller Sheen claimed that he threatened her with decapitation, adding a nasty custody battle to the actor’s bitter war with the studio and producers who shut down his hit CBS show. Her claims followed days of sometimes manic, sometimes violence-tinged media interviews by Sheen, part of a public campaign to disprove that he is a drug-using, reckless playboy who was unable or unfit to work on this season’s final episodes of TV’s No. 1 comedy. Sheen’s grandstanding has fascinated the public, with his Twitter account drawing more than 1 million followers a day after it was created. But Mueller Sheen said in a claim seeking a restraining order filed Tuesday that his “bizarre, disturbing and violent” comments made her fear for the safety of their children because Sheen “does not appear mentally stable.” According to Mueller Sheen’s filing, Charlie Sheen has rarely seen the boys in the past year, but took them on Saturday and refused to return them. According to a sworn declaration filed in the case, she said her husband told her in a phone call Sunday night, “I will cut your head off, put it in a box and send it to your mom!” She also claimed earlier threats and physical abuse. A court order issued Tuesday and obtained by The Associated Press requires Sheen to stay 100 yards away from Mueller Sheen and their twin sons. Sheen has two other children with former wife Denise Richards. The twins, Max and Bob, were taken from Sheen’s Hollywood Hills home that night and returned to their mother’s care. The boys turn 2 on March 14. A Los Angeles Police Department statement that its officers had removed the boys was incorrect, police Officer Bruce Borihanh said Wednesday. The department was not involved and he didn’t know which agency might have been responsible, he said. Mueller Sheen’s attorneys did not immediately respond Wednesday to a query about the event. Text messages sent to Sheen Wednesday morning for comment were not immediately returned. A phone message left for Sheen’s divorce attorney, Mark Gross, was not immediately returned. A hearing on the order is scheduled for March 22. Earlier, on NBC’s “Today” show, Sheen said he was “very calm and focused” about having the children taken away but was ready to fight to get them back. Moments later, Sheen was asked by reporters outside his home whether the legal move came out of left field for him. “It came out of the bleachers, actually,” he said. “Yeah, I was told a restraining order was being delivered and I thought, ‘OK, I can deal with that.’ And it was revealed that it was something much more serious.” Asked why Mueller got the court order, he replied, “It’s just silly. I think she’s latching on to some of this recent press.” In interviews filled with strange comments such as “I got tiger blood, man,” Sheen has lobbed vitriol at “Men” executive producer Chuck Lorre and Warner Bros. Television while sharing details about his unusual home life and insisting he was “winning.” He’s demanding a big raise from his $1.8 millionan-episode pay – already among the highest in television. In a house he calls “Sober Valley Lodge,” Sheen has been living with a former porn star and a model – his “goddesses,” he says. Sheen was asked on “Today” if marijuana magazine cover model Natalie Kenly and adult film star Rachel Oberlin, who performed as Bree Olson, helped care for the twins.
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New Jersey Devils goalie Johan Hedberg makes a stop against the Tampa Bay Lightning's Dominic Moore during a game on Feb. 25.
Once dead and buried, the Devils have fought back By Matt Stypulkoski NHL Columnist Earlier this season, the New Jersey Devils and their freshly-signed star forward Ilya Kovalchuk were ice cold and among the league’s biggest disappointments in the young season. But as the saying goes, time heals all wounds, and the Devils are looking about as hot as ever. Despite still sitting slightly below the .500 mark at 27-31-4, New Jersey has been on an absolute tear of late, having picked up 36 of the possible 40 points available to them over the last 20 games – including an 11-1-1 record in the month of February. During that February stretch, Kovalchuk – who seems to finally have found his stride – registered 14 points and had a 12-game point streak stretching from Feb. 1 until Feb. 24, which was ultimately broken in the team’s final game in the month in a win at Florida. Kovalchuk, who had 19 points in the three months before the New Year, has more than doubled that total since the beginning of 2011, racking up 24 points over the past two months for a total of 43 to date. Perhaps the most refreshing part of Kovalchuk’s point total so far this season, however, is the balance that he has shown. With 21 goals and 22 assists, it is a contrast to the star player who often late last season and earlier this year appeared to be trying to carry the goal-scoring entire load for the Devils on his own. Interestingly, the Devils have also been streaking as of late without the support of future Hall-of-Fame goaltender Martin Brodeur between the pipes. Due to injury, backup goalie Johan Hedberg was forced to take on the starting job for much of the month of February. And he has performed tremendously for New Jersey,
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leading the team to a 7-1-1 record in games he started during the month, a record that included two shutout wins and a seven-game win streak during the middle part of the month. In those nine starts, Hedberg also managed to put up an impressive 1.03 goals against average, which proved to be key as the majority of the team’s wins throughout the stretch came by just a single goal. And now, due to this recent red-hot streak the Devils have found a way to ride, the team has vaulted themselves from the last place team in the NHL into potential playoff contenders, as they sit just 11 points behind the Carolina Hurricanes, who currently hold the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference with 69 points. And although New Jersey is still very much on the periphery of the playoff bubble, if they can manage to continue playing like they have of late, those chances could continue to steadily improve. Over the past few years, the final playoff team in the Eastern Conference has consistently finished the season at around the 90-point mark. Hitting that mark would require the Devils to go 16-4 in their final 20 games, which although difficult, still remains within the realm of possibility. As it currently stands, if the Devils could eke their way into the playoff picture, they would be faced with the always daunting task of playing the Eastern Conference leading, and Atlantic Division rival Philadelphia Flyers. But I can assure you of one thing: if New Jersey does manage to scrap its way from being the league bottom-dweller to the playoffs, no one, not even the Broad Street Bullies, will want to face a team as hot as the Devils come playoff time.
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cash. All in all, I think at best they did not lose or gain anything. The Knicks, meanwhile, get arguably the best scorer in the world in Melo and an experienced, savvy vet in Chauncey Billups. New York was also able to dump Eddy Curry and his out-of-shape body, something that they have wanted to do for a while. With Melo, Chauncey and Stat (Amare), the Knicks’ own version of the “Big Three” can now take down powerhouses like Miami and Boston. Szego: Most people seem to be overlooking the fact that although he was a spiritual leader, Perkins has only played in 12 games this season, starting merely seven. In those 12 games with Perkins, the Celtics have a record of 8-4. In the previous 43 games before Perkins came back from a major knee injury, Boston went 33-10, a record that the Knicks could only dream about this season. Combine that with the fact that Perkins was going to be a freeagent after this season (he has since signed a multi-year extension with Oklahoma City), and we can see why the Celtics believed they could make a championship run without their starting center. As for Robinson, though a fan favorite, he will never be a dominant player outside of the Slam Dunk Contest and was merely taking away shots from Delonte West and Glen Davis when the Celtics bench was in. Daniels, who was providing solid bench minutes backing up Paul Pierce, is currently rehabilitating a back injury that could sideline him for the rest of the season, which factored heavily into the decision to add a wing-scorer to the roster before the deadline. Erden and Harangody can be completely removed from the discussion because of their ability to be so easily replaced, and for their general lack of relevance. Ultimately, when you look at the caliber of player that they received in Jeff Green, the team will be better off this year. And, alongside Rajon Rondo, Green could be a key contributor to the Celtics’ success for a very long time. McCurry: When it comes
down to it, all Boston got is a couple of role players. Nenad Kristic averaged seven points a game with the Thunder this year, and Jeff Green will have to adapt to a brand new role. With Oklahoma City, Green was an undersized forward and took some questionable shots at crucial points in games. That being said, he still was one of the main options for the Thunder and started every game. As a Celtic, the Georgetown grad must accept the fact that he is coming off the bench to score a little and play some defense. The Celtics need nothing more out of him than that. This trade will only be remembered by fans if Perkins proves to be the missing piece to get Oklahoma City over the hump - and many think he will be. The deal the Knicks made, on the other hand, will possibly go down as the most meaningful trade in NBA history. The 13-player deal is the secondbiggest transaction ever made, and New York now has two more AllStars on their roster (Chauncey is a three-time All-Star). At age 26, Carmelo Anthony is in the prime of his career and is the toughest wing to guard in the Eastern Conference. Although Billups is a little older, he is in no way washed up. Need proof? He is second in the league in free-throw accuracy (92.1 percent) and eighth in three-point field goal percentage (43.8 percent). Szego: Yes, it is true the Knicks deal was one of the largest in NBA history, but let’s not get too excited about the acquisition of Anthony Carter, Ronaldo Balkman and Shelden Williams. Also, if Jeff Green is a role player at best, they will be modeling suits on the sidelines come playoff time. Plus, what’s wrong with role players? If Doc Rivers has proven anything as the coach of the Celtics, it is that he knows how to let players play their games while still contributing to the team. It should also be mentioned that Nenad Kristic is a battle-tested veteran who, like Green, had previously started all 47 games for Oklahoma City this season. Barring injury, a combination of Kristic and future Hall-of-Famer Shaquille O’ Neal (plus the reported acquisition of Troy Murphy) will undoubtedly be able to hold down the paint in
the playoffs for Boston, filling the void in the paint left by Kendrick Perkins. With Shaq getting plenty of rest this season, the hope is that the three-time NBA Finals MVP will at least be able to defend the top big men in the Eastern Conference, while getting plenty of rest throughout the game thanks to Kristic. Though it was sad to see Perkins go, the Celtics are still a force to be reckoned with in the paint, providing size that is unmatched in the East. And with the addition of a wing-scorer like Green, we should see winning basketball in Boston not only throughout the rest of this season, but for many years down the road. McCurry: Look, Mike, I hate to break it to you, but there were no commercials with J-Cole’s song for Jeff Green coming back home (drafted fifth overall by Boston in 2007). Not only did Melo create the 30-second clip that got me teary, he dropped 27 in his first game as a Knick in a win. Billups has thus far shown that he can average 20 points per game in New York as long as he can continue to play major minutes. So maybe Anthony Carter, Renaldo Balkman and Shelden Williams are not great bench players - that is beside the point. The Knicks acquired Melo and Billups to complement Amare, giving them enough offensive firepower to upset top-tier teams like the Bulls, Heat or Celtics. I am a big Knicks fan, and I can say without any doubt in my mind that I have never been prouder of the front office. I’m sure you, being a Knicks fan as well, feel similarly. And this is the same organization that drafted first-round busts Michael Sweetney, Channing Frye and Mardy Collins. Let’s just say Donnie Walsh and company did the right thing here. After all the dust is cleared, the New York Knicks clearly made more productive deals than the Celtics at the 2011 NBA Trade Deadline. With Melo and Stat, NYK has two of the top-10 players in the league. Billups took Detroit to seven straight conference finals and has an NBA Finals ring. With the addition of two bonafide stars, the Knicks will be a major factor in the East down the stretch.
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Giffey and Olander have formed unique bond from THE ODD, page 14 movie, some of their hijinks seem almost too bizarre to be true. “Recently, this weekend, Niels came running out the bathroom at me and tried to do a flying kick. He tried to kick me while jumping,” Olander said. “He ran out of the bathroom through our door, and you notice you can’t really run through our room at all, and he just tried to jump and kick me. And it completely failed. He ended up landing on my desk or something. I was like ‘Niels what are you doing?’” Olander explained that the reason why Giffey tried to dropkick him was because when they had both been using the bathroom urinal earlier, he pushed Giffey as he was leaving so he would “mess up a little.” “After, he told me that all he was thinking was ‘I’ve got to get him back for doing that,’” Olander said. Evidently, trying to dropkick him was the best solution. Olander also recounted a story about how he and Giffey had recently been hanging out with a couple of girls, and Giffey suddenly started singing German drinking songs. Stories like this are apparently the norm for these two. It’s actually somewhat remarkable how well the two have taken to each other, especially considering that they did not choose to be roommates originally. “I don’t know who decided that,” Giffey said. Giffey described his and Tyler’s first meeting as an interesting one, and that he first found out about his roommate assignment as he walked in. “I walked in here, and this side over here was a huge mess, and on my side there was nothing, and he was sleeping, there was no light on,” Giffey said. “So I just walked in, flipped the light on and coach LaFleur is like ‘Hey, there’s Tyler, he’s your new roommate, why don’t you just show him around?’ And Tyler is like ‘…what?’” “Yeah I was knocked out and
he woke me up,” Olander said. “They told me he was coming, but I guess I fell asleep or something. But he came in and kind of put his stuff away. He was hungry so we went down to the Union to get some food, started talking and stuff, so it was pretty good, I guess, for a first meeting.” Culture shock Shortly after arriving in Storrs, Giffey found that life in America isn’t quite the same as what he was accustomed to in Europe. Besides the time difference, which he said took him about a week to adjust to, Giffey struggled initially with some things that many Americans consider normal. “I wasn’t used to the air conditioning,” Giffey said. “I mean there is air conditioning everywhere, and I just got sick for a little time. I was like ‘why do you Americans have air conditioning everywhere?’” Giffey explained that in Europe, they don’t use much air conditioning even if it is scorching hot outside. He said he also found it odd that during the summer he would see people in the dining hall wearing heavy sweaters. “It’s just kind of strange, you know what I mean?” Giffey said. “If you go into a house and it’s mad cold, then you go out and it’s mad hot?” According to Olander, the air conditioning wasn’t the only temperature-related adjustment Giffey had trouble getting used to at first. “Some of the stuff was kind of funny. I remember one day, we were just in the cafeteria and he was like ‘Dammit!’ And I was like ‘What?’ And he’s like ‘I hate how your drinks are always so cold,’” Olander said. “He’s like ‘Yeah, in Germany, the drinks are never cold. If you want it cold you have to put ice in them, but here the drinks are already kind of cold and you can put more ice in them to make them colder. I was like ‘What?’ That was kind of crazy to me. ‘The drinks are too cold?’”
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Tyler Olander screams after a basket during UConn's 62-55 win over UNH on Nov. 30, 2010.
Enosch Wolf, who was sitting on the bed next to Olander as he was speaking, started to laugh during this story and chimed in. “He told me about that too, and it’s kind of true,” Wolf said. “In Germany, if you want your drinks cold, you tell people to put ice in it. And here it always comes with ice and it’s always so cold. So I can picture Niels being like ‘Agh, it’s so cold!” There were other adjustments for Giffey to make, more cultural than anything else. For instance, Storrs is a much more rural area than his native city, Berlin. The popularity of football compared to soccer is another stark difference as well. Regardless, Giffey settled in over time, and now his only focus, like his teammates’, is on basketball. Being a big man on campus Giffey and Olander’s dorm room is not unlike any other room you might find a pair of freshmen living in. When you walk in, you see two beds, one on each side of the room.
Surrounding each bed is a desk and some decorations. On Giffey’s side is a big, brown Maui Invitational beach towel that covers the wall like a tapestry. There is a necklace of hula flowers hung on the wall, and a tiny surfboard tied to the shade. By his desk, which sits at the foot of his bed, a team picture is hanging on the wall. Under the bed, some clothes and belongings are strewn about, and several pairs of basketball shoes are lined up neatly. On Olander’s side, however, it looks like a bomb went off. Under the bed is a pile of clothes so deep that you could easily get lost in it. On the wall hangs two old basketball jerseys, Olander’s white E.O. Smith jersey and his red Xpressions Elite AAU jersey. Above his pillow, two crosses hang from the wall, and at the foot of his bed there is a big, cumbersome TV that’s missing it’s cable wire. Olander acknowledged that his side is kind of a pit. “Yeah, I’m not really that clean a person,” Olander said. “But he doesn’t mind because he’s like ‘whatever’ I guess. He doesn’t tell me he minds if he does.” There are no posters, and beyond the bootstrap decorations, the two don’t have much else other than clothes and the bare essentials. This is the setting as Giffey sits on his bed, wearing a blue sweater and a pair of grey sweatpants, leaning back against the wall as he tries to explain what it’s like to be a member of the UConn men’s basketball team. “You can have a pretty nice time because you just enjoy playing at a high level,” Giffey said. “That and school are pretty much your life. You don’t have too much free time. We just got the regular life like everyone, I guess.” That notion may seem a bit odd to the common UConn student, but both Giffey and Olander said that they don’t feel like they are any different than other students. “It’s like whatever, at the end of the day I’m just a student just like everybody else,” Olander said. “I think in terms of being a UConn basketball player on campus, people tend to look at you a little differently, but in terms of people from my hometown, people I grew up with, there’s no change. It’s the same.” Giffey said that the prospect of people knowing him and randomly talking to him was strange at first, given the culture of his high school in Germany. “It was weird. Especially when you go out now, people are just like randomly talking to you. It’s kind of strange, definitely,” Giffey said. “Especially because I wasn’t used to it. I had that atmosphere in my high school, people knew me but they knew me for being a basketball player, but no one ever went to my games or anything like that.” Giffey explained that in Germany, nobody even knew he played basketball until he was playing with the youth national team in 11th grade. “I had to explain to my teachers that, ‘I really need to go to the national team to get better’ and they just didn’t understand,” Giffey said. “They were like, ‘OK, well are you going to do your schoolwork, or what?’ According to Giffey, the professors at UConn have been much more accommodating.
Different paths To say that Giffey and Olander took different paths on their way to Storrs would be a huge understatement. Giffey is from Europe and he played for the German club team Alba Berlin, along with the U-20 national team, before being recruited by assistant coach Andre LaFleur during a recruiting trip through the country. “He saw me at an away game in north Germany,” Giffey said. “They’d already been recruiting me, like, checking me out, so they came to Germany to see one of my games.” Olander, on the other hand, grew up in nearby Mansfield, Conn. and played his high school ball at E.O. Smith High School. Unlike most prospects, Olander had the UConn basketball program right in his backyard, and as a result he got to know the program better a lot earlier than most. “When I was, I think, a sophomore or a freshman, [UConn players] were inviting my brother to come up and play pickup and I would just come along and play too,” Olander said. “And from there, I guess, probably when I was a sophomore, I would just come up and play pickup. I did that every summer.” Olander’s brother, Ryan, would go on to play basketball at Fairfield University, where he is currently the team’s starting center as a junior. Tyler, on the other hand, stuck around. He got to know many of the team’s older players, including the recently graduated Gavin Edwards, and over time the program began to take a closer look at him. “They started coming to me my junior year,” Olander said. “Coach [Patrick] Sellers started coming to some of my games, and then they offered me that summer going into my senior year.” Olander committed to UConn after the end of his senior season. He said his reasons were because he felt it would be the best fit for him, and he liked the fact that it was close enough that his parents could come to all of his college games as they had during high school. For Giffey, the program’s history and track record were a lot more important than its proximity to home. “We had a big freshman class, which gave me at least a chance to develop myself and to have a chance to compete right away,” Giffey said. “I feel like that’s one of the main reasons, and – oh, a Hall-of-Fame coach right here, that was one of the major reasons, too. You’ve got a good history of winning and a bunch of players who went to the NBA, those are the main reasons.” Playing at the next level Giffey’s breakout performance against Kentucky in the Maui Invitational championship game turned a lot of heads. After scoring 14 points and helping complete UConn’s stunning arrival back onto the national stage, Giffey suddenly found himself right in the middle of the national spotlight, and the feedback started pouring in. “It was exciting to see UConn do so well and have Niels play such a big role," said Henrik Rödl, who coached Giffey while he was playing for the U-19 Alba Berlin team in Germany. "I felt happy for him and proud to have been his coach for the last three years." Rödl, now the coach of TBB Trier in the German Basketball Bundesliga, also played in the Maui Invitational back in 1989 when he was a freshman at North Carolina. He and Giffey keep in touch, and he said that he expects Giffey to keep improving over time. "Niels is a very smart and reflective person, mature beyond his actual age," Rödl said. "I think he's doing incredibly well considering the cultural and basketball challenges he faces." Though the Maui Invitational final was a high point for Giffey and the rest of the team, the rest of the season hasn’t always been sunshine and butterflies. Giffey’s outburst last Thursday against Marquette helped get UConn back into the game, but ultimately it wasn’t enough to stop the Huskies from losing in overtime. Over
the course of the year, they have seen limited minutes, and are averaging 2.7 and 1.3 points per game respectively. “In the beginning of the season I was feeling really good, and I was feeling really confident about myself and my game,” Giffey said. “But right now I’m seeing less and less minutes, and I guess it’s part of the freshman experience – everyone struggles sometimes.” Olander has had a very particular form of adversity that he’s been struggling to overcome. He has started a lot of games, but in many cases he has been pulled after the first mistake, and often doesn’t see the court again for the rest of the game. Olander said this has been both a source of frustration and motivation for him. “It’s a little bit of both, because, I mean, [coach Calhoun] will pull me out for any mistake that I make, when I get in there I try to be perfect and not make any mistakes,” Olander said. “Your every move and every mistake will be noticed and put under a magnifying glass and blown up, so you’ve got to make sure that everything you’re doing is what you’re supposed to be doing.” Despite the struggles, each player has seen flashes of success to point towards early in their careers. For Giffey, it was the Maui Invitational championship previously mentioned. For Olander, that game came a few weeks later when UConn blew out Harvard. Olander was a perfect 3-for-3 from the field, scoring seven points and grabbing seven boards. If nothing else, the performances should serve as inspiration when things aren’t going well. Either way, both players acknowledged that they knew playing at UConn wouldn’t be a nice, smooth ride. “I knew it wouldn’t be easy to play here,” Giffey said. “I knew that I would be facing more athletic people…I feel like it’s a good step to go if you’re a European.” Drawn together The UConn student body first met Giffey and Olander on the night of Oct. 15, 2010. While coach Calhoun was arguing his case before the NCAA committee on infractions, the rest of the team was back in Storrs for the First Night pep rally. Obscured by a silhouette, Olander approached the court and emerged from behind the curtain into the spotlight as his name was announced to thousands of cheering fans. And with all eyes on him for the first time, he busted out a move that vaguely resembled dancing while sporting this big, goofy grin on his face. Following right behind him was Giffey, who took his turn in the spotlight and followed his friend and roommate with a simple, effective and appropriate move of his own – the shopping cart. It was a light-hearted, goofy moment, the perfect first impression to deliver to the fans. Yet in many ways, it was also the culmination of a journey that brought these two basketball players together, and the start of a new one that will take them, along with their five fellow classmates, through a college career that has only just begun to unfold. Olander and Giffey grew up 3,853 miles apart, and each took a much different road to get to UConn. Giffey played for club teams and national teams before arriving after a long plane ride across a continent and an ocean. Olander played at the high school next door that is a simple walk down the street. But both wound up in the same place together, under the same roof in a small, nondescript (and somewhat messy) dorm room to play basketball for a Hall-of-Fame coach at one of college basketball’s most storied programs. Only time will tell how their legacy in Storrs will ultimately be defined. But, as they work towards their future, if nothing else they will have each other to lean on throughout it all. “Definitely,” Olander said. “I love having Niels as a roommate.”
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The Daily Question Q : “Are you going to New York for the men’s Big East championship?” A : “I am not but I wish I could.” —Jesse de Boer, 6th-semester sports management major
“He’s allowed to do some activity.” – Red Sox manager Terry Francona on P Josh Beckett’s concussion.
March 6 Big East Tournament 2 p.m.
March 7 Big East Tournament 6 p.m.
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Staff Reports
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“Will UConn get a first round bye in the Big East tournament?”
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Away game Gampel Pavilion, XL Center
March 5 Notre Dame 2 p.m.
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The University Information Technical Services (UTIS) announced yesterday that the YES Network has been added to the university’s cable lineup. Students will now be able to watch the network on channel 16. The YES Network is the flagship station of the New York Yankees, and also carries New Jersey Nets basketball games.
» NFL
Men’s Hockey (13-17-4)
Patriots OL Neal retires FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP)—New England Patriots offensive lineman Stephen Neal, who wrestled in college but didn’t play football, is retiring after a 10-year NFL career. A two-time NCAA wrestling champion at Cal State-Bakersfield, Neal won the Dan Hodge Award that is known as the Heisman Trophy of collegiate wrestling. He signed with the Patriots as a rookie free agent in 2001 and, after being released, resigned and injured, finally broke into the starting lineup for good in 2004 when the Patriots won the Super Bowl for the third time in four years. In 2011, Neal started the first eight games of the season before being placed on injured reserve with a shoulder injury.
TBA Atlantic Hockey Tournament Quarterfinals TBA
Baseball (2-4) (0-0) March 5 San Diego State 9 p.m.
March 6 California 3 p.m.
March 7 San Diego 5 p.m.
March 8 UC Irvine 9:30 p.m.
March 10 San Diego 5 p.m.
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Softball (2-3) (0-0) Tomorrow Akron 11 a.m.
Tomorrow March 5 March 5 Alabama Jacksonville UNC State State Greensboro 4 p.m. 11 a.m. 4 p.m.
Billups out with bruised thigh March 6 Drexel 11 a.m.
Lacrosse (3-0) (0-0) March 7 Boston College 1 p.m.
March 9 Holy Cross Noon
March 12 Sacred Heart 1 p.m.
March 19 Rutgers 1 p.m.
March 25 Canisius 5 p.m.
Men’s Track and Field March 5-6 IC4A Championship All Day
March 11-12 NCAA Championship All Day
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Men’s Swimming and Diving March 11-12 Zone Diving All Day
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Atlanta Hawks’ center Al Horford dunks the ball and hangs from the rim during a game against the Chicago Bulls last night. The Hawks went on to win the game 83-80.
NEW YORK (AP)—Point guard Chauncey Billups missed the New York Knicks’ game against New Orleans on Wednesday night because of a bruised left thigh. Billups was hurt when he banged into Magic center Dwight Howard in the fourth quarter of the Knicks’ 116-110 loss in Orlando on Tuesday. The Knicks say it’s too soon to determine Billups’ status for their next game, at home Friday against Cleveland. Billups scored 30 points before leaving with 2:13 left Tuesday and is averaging 23.3 in four games since arriving from Denver along with Carmelo Anthony( in last week’s blockbuster trade. He said he felt better Wednesday after treatment, but was still limping noticeably before the game. “I’m going to play when it feels good enough,” Billups said. “I can’t say when, but if I continue to get better every single day, I’m going to try to get out there as fast as I can.”
» WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Years after graduation, Okafor still finding success
By Eric Ploch Campus Correspondent The year 2004 was a special year for the UConn athletic department. For the first time in NCAA history, both the men’s and women’s basketball champions hailed from the same school: the University of Connecticut. A key member of the men’s squad that year was center Emeka Okafor, who was not only one of the program’s best players, but one of its best student-athletes as well. Emeka was born in Houston, Texas to two Nigerian immigrants and instantly took on basketball. In high school in Oklahoma, he was one of the state’s premier players, as he went on to play with former Oklahoma State guard John Lucas III. Okafor was a low-profile recruit for much of high school, and chose UConn over Vanderbilt and Arkansas as his recruiting intensified towards the end of his senior basketball season. While in Storrs, Okafor rewrote the record books finishing as the program’s leader in blocked shots with 441. During his junior season in 2004, Okafor added some awards to the National Championship trophy. He was named the
NCAA Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player, as well as Big East Player of the Year and National Defensive Player of the Year. Okafor was also a model student-athlete. Majoring in finance, he graduated a year early with a 3.8 GPA. Okafor was rewarded for his efforts by being named the Academic AllAmerican of the Year. In the 2004 NBA Draft, he was selected second overall to the Charlotte Bobcats behind Dwight Howard, who went first overall to the Orlando Magic. His rookie season saw him get the most votes for the NBA All-Star Game for any rookie and he was named the NBA’s Rookie of the Year after recording 19 double-doubles. After five seasons with the Bobcats, he set franchise records for consecutive games played (93) and consecutive games started (92). Then, out of nowhere, Okafor was traded early in the 2009-2010 season to the New Orleans Hornets. Among his best rewards for playing basketball was representing Team USA in the 2004 Summer Olympics where he helped the team take home a bronze medal. Just like he did in college, Okafor has used his NBA well-
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Emeka Okafor goes up for a shot over former Celtic Kendrick Perkins on April 5, 2008.
being as more than just a means for stardom. In 2006, he established the African Initiative to Save Lives. Okafor’s goal was a five-year plan in which one million Africans in the subSaharan region of Africa would be saved from death. Since his days as a Husky,
Okafor has gone on to become a dominant double-double machine in the NBA, and has been a truly great ambassador to the UConn community through his continued studies and acts of relief for those in need.
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» INSIDE SPORTS TODAY
P.13: UConn adds YES Network to cable. / P.13: Patriots OL Neal retires. / P.11: New Jersey Devils fighting back after terrible start.
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Some quick thoughts
are right now too, but my point is that things could be a lot worse. I mean, we could’ve gotten a postseason ban last week. That would’ve been pretty weak. Since we didn’t, and there is still a postseason to be played, this is how I think it will go down... based on The D.E.N.N.I.S. System of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” fame. First, the Huskies will Demonstrate value to their fans by blowing out Notre Dame on Senior Day. Then, they will Engage the competition physically in the first/second round of the Big East tournament, showing the opponent who’s boss and ending the Big East Tournament drought with a big win. After that, the Huskies will Nurture dependence when they suddenly make a surprising run to the Big East finals, defeating a host of strong teams such as Syracuse, Georgetown and Louisville in the process. But after that, UConn will Neglect us emotionally by getting blown out in the championship game, suddenly throwing into doubt the team’s ability to make a run in the NCAA tournament. The brackets will come out, however, and UConn will be given a No. 4 seed and a manageable first-round opponent. But just when you think UConn is done, when they fall behind by 11 at halftime to their firstround opponent, the Huskies will Inspire hope when they race back in an instant classic, winning on a Kemba Walker buzzer beater, and then riding the momentum through to the Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight. But in the end, the team will Separate entirely after they eventually fall short of the national championship. But that’s just me. Seriously, who knows what’s coming next?
Mac Cerullo Considering that this column is sitting next to a 3,000-word gorilla of a story, I think I’ll do you guys a favor and keep this one brief. Anyway, with the men’s basketball season just about over, now seems as good a time as any to look back at how the year has turned out. Despite that turd of a game last night, and the past few weeks in general, you can’t tell me with a straight face that this team has been a disappointment. Lately, sure, but coming into the year, what were the expectations? Who knew if Lamb, Napier, Smith, any of those guys were going to be any good? Who actually expected Walker to go on the tear that he did? My point is we need to keep some perspective here. As bad as things have been recently, this team is still going to make the tournament. That’s a fact. They are probably going to end up being a No. 4 or 5 seed in the tournament, maybe a No. 6 or 7 if they really stink up the joint against Notre Dame and in the Big East Tournament. But either way, it’s not like they’re anywhere close to the bubble. And considering that this time last year we were looking at the NIT, I’d say that’s not a bad place to be – especially with a whole new team. Don’t get me wrong, I wish the team was playing better than they
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An unlikely duo, Giffey and Olander are...
UCONN’S ODD COUPLE By Mac Cerullo Sports Editor The crowd at the XL Center is on its feet. The Huskies have just erased an 11-point halftime deficit, and now Kemba Walker has the ball with a chance to give UConn its first lead of the second half. Marquette chooses to double-team him, leaving Niels Giffey open in the corner. Walker finds him, dishes him the ball and Giffey takes the shot. Nothing but net. The basket blew the roof off the XL Center. Marquette’s coach, Buzz Williams, was forced to call a timeout, causing the UConn bench to clear and prompting Big Red’s U-CO-N-N chant. The team mobbed Giffey, with Tyler Olander jumping off the bench first and leading the charge. He got there with a huge grin on his face and chest-bumped Giffey. “That’s the way to go!” Olander screamed. In an up and down season for the two freshmen, the moment exemplified the unique bond these two unlikely teammates have developed since joining the UConn program.
Like step brothers Niels Giffey and Tyler Olander are both freshmen on the men’s basketball team. Giffey is from Berlin, Germany, and Olander, by contrast, played his high school ball within walking distance of campus at E.O. Smith High School. They are also roommates, and despite the vast differences in their backgrounds, they have become very close friends since arriving on campus this past summer. “Me and Niels? I don’t even know how to describe our relationship,” Olander said. “We’re really good friends and we agree on a lot of stuff. With Niels, it’s really easy to get along with him just because he’s down for whatever. We get along real well, we always go to the dining hall and whatever, stuff like that. We can talk to each other about whatever.” Olander said their relationship is similar to Dale and Brennan’s from the movie “Step Brothers,” and that they often come up with “random, funny, out-of-nowhere stuff” to do around campus and in their small dorm room in Hilltop. And like in the
» GIFFEY, page 12 Illustration by JIM ANDERSON/The Daily Campus
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Huskies suffer major setback, fall to West Virginia
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP)—Kevin Jones scored 13 of his 15 points in the second half and West Virginia used a late run to beat No. 16 Connecticut 65-56 on Wednesday night. Jones had 10 rebounds for his second straight doubledouble. Joe Mazzulla led the Mountaineers (19-10, 10-7 Big East) with 18 points, three after halftime. Kemba Walker led Connecticut (21-8, 9-8) with 22 points on 8-of-23 shooting. Shabazz Napier added 18. Napier’s jumper with 2:49 remaining broke a 5-minute scoring drought and brought the Huskies within 56-53, but West Virginia scored the next nine points, with Truck Bryant making seven free throws over the final 1:19. West Virginia moved into a three-way tie for sixth place in the Big East entering the conference’s
final weekend. Connecticut lost for the third time in four games and dropped into a three-way tie for ninth. With a first-round bye in the conference tournament at stake, the Mountaineers host No. 11 Louisville on Saturday, while Connecticut returns home to face No. 8 Notre Dame. Coach Bob Huggins wanted the Mountaineers to stay out of foul trouble because of a thin lineup. Backup guard Jonnie West was held out of the game due to food poisoning and West Virginia used just eight players. Connecticut attempted two free throws in the first half and was outscored
16-5 from the line for the game. Just like in a 67-59 win over Cincinnati on Sunday, Connecticut had few leads against the Mountaineers. The Huskies jumped ahead briefly just before halftime and didn’t lead again until a 3-pointer by Walker put them ahead 43-42 with 12:35 remaining. That, too, didn’t last long. The lead changed hands five more times over the next 3 minutes, with John Flowers’ hook shot with 9:36 remaining giving the Mountaineers the lead for good. Just like Sunday, when West Virginia held Rutgers to one field goal over the final 5:32
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of a 65-54 win, the Mountaineers came up with another defensive stop down the stretch against Connecticut. Flowers’ basket started a 10-3 run, with Deniz Kilicli’s layup putting the Mountaineers ahead 56-51 with 3:52 left. After Napier’s basket, Bryant, who was just 1 of 9 from the field, sealed the win from the line. Connecticut shot 37 percent (22 of 59) and was outrebounded 30-23. West Virginia scored the game’s first seven points and extended the lead to 18-9 on Casey Mitchell’s 3-pointer with 9:09 left until halftime. The Mountaineers then went 4 minutes without scoring and Connecticut’s Alex Oriakhi hit a jumper to tie the score at 22-22 with 4 minutes remaining. Mazzulla hit a 3-pointer with 3 seconds left that gave the Mountaineers a 28-26 halftime lead.
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Jamal Coombs-McDaniel reacts during the Huskies’ 65-56 loss at West Virginia last night.
Who made the best move at the NBA trade deadline? Boston Celtics
By Mike Szego Campus Correspondent In the NBA, change is inevitable. Celtics fans were forced to say goodbye to a player they loved, a player who helped them win an NBA Championship in 2008: Kendrick Perkins. However, rest assured, Celtics fans. Once the dust settles and the pain of losing one of your own passes, we will see why Danny Ainge made the move he did. With the trade, Boston both solidified their relevance in the league for years to come while adding key pieces for making another run at the title this season.
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The Celtics got Jeff Green and Nenad Krstic...
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» POINT/COUNTERPOINT
Mike Szego: Though it may be true that the Knicks could be a tough match-up in the first round of the playoffs, winning an NBA championship this season is nothing but a pipe dream. The Celtics prepared themselves for both this season and the future, and New York only bulked up for the latter. With only seven or eight players on the roster who are worthy of getting minutes in a playoff game, the Knicks lack one trait that the Celtics possess: flexibility. Jeff Green is a versatile player that can perform well at both forward positions, allowing the Celtics to mold their lineup in certain situations. For example, in a playoff series with the Miami Heat, Green can be brought off the bench to guard LeBron James if Paul Pierce needs to rest. In another instance, if Kevin Garnett needs a rest, the Celtics could
keep Pierce on LeBron and bring in Green guarding Chris Bosh. Flexibility is key to a championship run for any team in the NBA and should not be overlooked with regard to the Celtics’ moves at the deadline. Mike McCurry: I agree with you about Jeff Green, and I do think the Celtics are one of the deepest teams in the NBA. That being said, they lost a ton of frontcourt production in the trade. Boston got rid of Semih Erden, Luke Harangody and obviously Kendrick Perkins. They also lost solid bench players in guards Nate Robinson and Marquis Daniels, who often provided nice sparks off the bench. What do they get in return? A couple of draft picks, two bench players in Krstic and Green and a little
» SZEGO, page 11
New York Knicks
By Mike McCurry Campus Correspondent
After not being able to lure other dominant players like Lebron or Joe Johnson, the Knicks finally got a legitimate superstar in Carmelo Anthony. Along with Anthony, teammate and proven winner Chauncey Billups was included in the package. Although they gave up some key role players, the trade deadline was a huge victory for New York. Before the blockbuster trade, this was an average playoff team by default because of the lack of depth in the East. With Carmelo and Chauncey, the Knicks are borderline title contenders who will be an extremely tough out in the postseason.
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... but the Knicks got Carmelo Anthony!
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