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Volume CXVIII No. 148
Yesterday was Equal Pay Day, a national event highlighting the pay disparities between men and women. The all-day event was promoted and sponsored by UConn’s National Organization for Women (NOW) branch.
NOW is dedicated to taking action for women’s equality by promoting women’s social and economic rights, embracing diversity and fighting violence against women. Equal Pay Day symbolizes how women must work into 2011 to earn the same amount that men earned in 2010. Tuesday was selected as Equal Pay Day because it rep-
resents how far into each week women must work to earn what men earned the previous week. On average, women make $0.77 to every dollar a man makes. Minorities fare even worse, with black women earning an average of $0.59 to a man’s dollar and Hispanic women earning an average of $0.57 to a man’s dollar. Students were encouraged
via Facebook invites from NOW to wear red, to represent how women and minorities are “in the red” with their pay. NOW held a bake sale in the Student Union from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Fake dollar bills with statistics of women’s pay were attached to the baked goods. “We wanted to raise awareness that women make significantly less than men,” said
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bigger and better things Kemba Walker annouces he will skip senior season and enter NBA Draft. SPORTS/ page 14
EDITORIAL: IF LEGAL, DEATH PENALTY LOGISTICS NEED REFORM Legislators agree change is needed.
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CONN. DEATH PENALTY BACKERS HOPE TO RALLY SUPPORT The people of Connecticut want a more workable death penalty. NEWS/ page 2
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Jim Calhoun, left, and Kemba Walker, right speak at a press conference Tuesday about Walker’s decision to leave for the NBA Draft. See full story on page 14.
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By Ben Fechter Campus Correspondent The sixth annual John and Valeria Rowe Lecture took place last night at the Student Union Theater and featured Dr. Steven Strongwater, CEO of Stony Brook University Hospital. In his speech, which was entitled, “Health Care Reform and the Future of Medical Education,” Dr. Strongwater discussed how U.S. healthcare currently works and how the healthcare reform will cause serious changes in society. Dr. Strongwater began by providing the audience with statistics showing the lack of adequate healthcare for Americans. His data proved that there is a large – and growing – number of uninsured Americans, that people are over-utilizing healthcare services and that, contrary to popular belief, the U.S. does not adhere to the best practices of medicine. The life expectancy rates in the U.S. are not the highest in the world. Neither are the infant mortality rates, of which the U.S. most closely compares to Cuba. Dr. Strongwater also emphasized the impor-
tance of the number of retiring persons coming out of the baby boomer generation. “It’s a staggering number,” said Strongwater. “10,000 people a day are retiring and are eligible for Social Security.” But his presentation also included ways in which the healthcare system may be improved, considering that many billions of dollars are spent on non-essential costs. “Cutting $648 billion: that was the target that Obama laid out,” claimed Strongwater. He labeled the president’s eight principles that need to be adjusted as, “absolutely brilliant.” Three of the eight principles include investment in prevention and wellness, retaining choice in a person’s plans and physicians and reducing long term health care costs. One of the ways in which the government will be able to achieve these eight transitions is through a process in which penalties will be enforced on hospitals and providers for inadequate care. This controversial subject is meant to force hospitals to become more efficient and to treat patients more quickly in order to reduce costs and long term care.
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On this picture Dr. Steven Strongwater, CEO of Stony Brook University Hospital, discussing healt reforms and their impact on society with UConn students.
Dr. Strongwater also discussed the prospects of medical school to the many premed students in the audience. His final slide in the presentation displayed MCAT scores. According to Strongwater, “You really need to get above a 30” in order to get into medical school. Strongwater also mentioned that “Men and women are
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Malloy contingency plan hits aid to state cities
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Jackie Martone, president of UConn’s branch of NOW. “Equal Pay Day is our way of showing that we stand in solidarity with the women of the workforce.” Students can visit the NOW and the Women’s Center websites for more information.
equally likely to get into medical school,” which is a trend that has dramatically changed over the last 100 years. The Rowe Lecture Series is administered jointly by the UConn Health Center and the Honors Program. This lecture counted an honors event.
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HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut cities and towns would lose one-third of their state aid under a contingency plan Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has requested in case there is no agreement on $1 billion in union savings and concessions to help balance his budget. The Democratic governor’s office on Tuesday released copies of the town-by-town breakdown that outlines how a $1 billion cut in state aid to municipalities would be distributed. For instance, Hartford would lose $86 million and Bridgeport $67 million, while small towns such as Griswold would lose $4 million and Pomfret, $1.2 million. It’s the latest in a series of contingency-related steps being taken by Malloy’s office as time runs out for a deal with the state employee unions. Malloy hopes to reach a budget deal with the General Assembly by May 6. Closed-door talks are continuing between the administration and members of the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition, the group that represents 13 unions members totaling more than 40,000 workers. “There are only so many places where you can go to get large sums of money to get to $1 billion, if that number is not reached in discussions with labor,” said Roy Occhiogrosso, the governor’s senior adviser. “Municipal aid is certainly one of those places. It represents a large portion of the budget.” Occhiogrosso said the full $1 billion would not come entirely from municipal aid, if talks with labor fall apart. “There are different scenarios being looked at — municipal aid, reduction in state agencies’ (budgets), several different scenarios,” Occhiogrosso said. “The governor’s been pretty clear that one thing will not happen. Taxes will not rise beyond what he has already proposed ... Everything else is on the table.” Tuesday marked the last of 17 town hall-style meetings Malloy has held across Connecticut, discussing the state’s fiscal woes with constituents. Occhiogrosso said Malloy has frequently been asked why New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget does not raise taxes while Malloy’s seeks $1.5 billion in wideranging tax hikes, as well as $758 million in spending reductions, to help bridge a budget deficit for the new fiscal year beginning July 1. The deficit has been estimated to be $3.3 billion to $3.5 billion. Occhiogrosso said Malloy’s scenario of cutting $1 billion in state aid to cities and towns would be comparable to Cuomo’s plan to cut $4.65 billion in local aid. He said releasing the town-by-town break-
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What’s on at UConn today... Book Drive All Day SU, Cultural Center The ELITE Hermanos of La Unidad Latina are hosting a semester-long book drive for the York Correctional Institute for Women’s library.
$tart $mart Training 5 to 8 p.m. SU, 421 The WAGE Project will conduct a highly interactive three hour workshop to enable students to assess how well they understand the principles of salary negotiation.
Sexual, Spiritual and Religious 12 to 1:30 p.m. Rainbow Center
Master of Fine Arts Exhibition 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Benton
This presentation will give participants the opportunity to examine spirituality and/or religion as essential parts of a whole, healthy LGBTQ person’s identity.
The Benton is proud to present this year’s MFA Exhibition, showcasing a variety of sculptures, paintings, photographs and videos.
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NEW HAVEN (AP) — Gov. Dannel Malloy has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a man authorities say sexually assaulted five women in New Haven since December 2007. Police say the victims ranged from teenage to 28 years old and had been walking alone in the Newhallville section. The last attack was in January. Earlier this year, police linked the crimes through DNA. Investigators say the assailant is described as in his early 20s, black, with short hair, 5-foot-7 to 5-foot-10 tall, and weighing 170 to 200 pounds. He was last seen wearing an olive green puffy winter coat and blue jeans. The man wore a mask over his face and had a gun in some cases. Police asked anyone with information to call a tip line, 203-946-6296.
Boy Scout leader charged with child porn WESTPORT (AP) — The arrest of a former Boy Scout leader in Westport on a child pornography charge has stunned people in the wealthy Fairfield County suburb, a local scouting leader says. Kevin Hill, 47, is scheduled to be arraigned Friday at Norwalk Superior Court on a charge of first-degree child pornography possession, after Westport police allege they found more than 50 images of child porn on Hill’s home computer last week. The charge carries a mandatory minimum prison sentence of five years and a maximum prison term of 20 years upon conviction. Messages were left Tuesday for Hill and his attorney. “Everyone is very shocked,” said Scoutmaster Jennifer Jackson of Boy Scout Troop 100 of Westport. She said Hill is no longer with the Boy Scouts, but she declined to elaborate. The police investigation began last December when state police computer crime experts discovered child pornography and tracked it to Hill’s home computer, said Westport police Capt. Sam Arciola.
Civil War anniversary with cannon
HARTFORD (AP) — The sound of cannon fire rang out from the Connecticut state Capitol as Union and Confederate reenactors commemorated the Civil War’s 150th anniversary. Tuesday marks the anniversary of the day the bloody, four-year war opened with Confederate artillery firing on Fort Sumter in South Carolina on April 12, 1861. Organizers said the shots fired by Connecticut’s artillery were the only northern response to a commemorative firing held at Fort Sumter earlier Tuesday morning. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy told the small audience gathered for the ceremony that the war should be celebrated because it created a more perfect union. He then gave the order for the batteries at the edge of the Capitol parking lot to open fire.
Doctor accused of illegally prescribing narcotics OLD SAYBROOK (AP) — An Old Saybrook doctor has been arrested on 47 felony counts after police say he illegally prescribed narcotics and controlled substances, even after his license to do so was suspended. Dr. Scott Houghton, who lives in Madison, faces charges including illegal prescribing of narcotics and controlled substances, failure to maintain controlled substance records and failure to secure controlled substances. Police tell The Day of New London that Tuesday’s arrest came after a two-year state investigation that included a raid on Houghton’s offices last year. Houghton’s license to prescribe controlled substances was suspended after the raid, but police said he continued to write the prescriptions. The 43-year-old Houghton has been licensed as a doctor in Connecticut since 2004. He’s due in court April 26. A message seeking comment was left Tuesday at Houghton’s
Flood watch issued for Connecticut River HARTFORD (AP) — The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for the Connecticut River in anticipation of heavy rain combining with melted snow. The river is already swollen from melted snow due to mild temperatures in Vermont and New Hampshire over the last three days and forecasters are calling for as much as inch of rain in some areas on Wednesday. The weather service says there is a risk of minor flooding beginning Wednesday in low-lying areas along the river. Swift river flows could also disrupt some cross-river ferry services.
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HARTFORD (AP) — Death penalty supporters urged Connecticut voters to call their state legislators and demand they oppose a bill moving through the General Assembly that would repeal the state’s capital punishment law. The proposal is expected to clear the legislature’s Judiciary Committee, which has until Friday to vote on the bill. Opponents said they hope to strip the repeal language and amend the legislation on the floor of the House of Representatives with changes they believe would make the existing death penalty law more “workable,” reducing the length of time between a killer’s sentencing and execution to seven to 10 years. Currently, people can spend decades on Connecticut’s death row awaiting the results of various appeals. “The people of Connecticut want legislators to fix the system, not throw it out. The people want a more workable death penalty,” said Rep. Steven Mikutel, D-Griswold. A March 10 Quinnipiac University Poll found 67 percent of registered voters favor the death penalty, a new high for the state. An October survey found 65 percent supported the law. Yet Rep. Gary HolderWinfield, D-New Haven, a leading proponent of the repeal bill, pointed out how the same poll showed that support for the death penalty drops when people are asked
New contengency plan threatens municipal jobs from MALLOY, page 1 down of how a $1 billion cut in local aid would be distributed shows how devastating such a reduction would be on local municipalities and property taxpayers. The municipal aid contingency plan, first reported by Hearst Connecticut Newspapers, came as a surprise to Jim Finley, executive director of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities. Malloy, a former mayor of Stamford, made it a point in his proposed two-year $40 billion budget to protect much of the state aid programs to cities and towns, saying he did not want to pressure local leaders into raising local property taxes. “We hope this contingency is never implemented,” said Finley. “A billion-dollar cut in municipal aid will result in massive municipal employee and teacher layoffs across the state.” Last week, Malloy’s budget director asked agency commissioners for ways to cut their spending by 10 percent beyond the governor’s budget proposal. Also, the administration sent out a memo to agencies about procedures for possible layoffs. The state needs to provide eight weeks of notice to senior workers
to choose between death and life in prison without chance of parole. Forty-eight percent said they backed capital punishment, while 43 percent said they supported life in prison with no parole. The telephone survey of 1,693 registered voters had a 2.4 percentage point margin of error. “They’re not citing the right part of the poll,” said Holder-Winfield, whose legislation would replace the death penalty with life in prison with no chance of parole for certain murders. The bill would be prospective and not apply to the 10 men currently on death row. However, there are differing opinions as to whether those men could use the law change as part of an appeal, claiming it’s an arbitrary classification. Details of the proposed amendment are still being drafted. Rep. David Labriola, R-Naugatuck, said the lawmakers have been working with the chief state’s attorney’s office on the language and believe it would be considered constitutional. He said it would provide new time limits for filing habeas corpus petitions and automatic stays of execution. The death penalty supporters said they believe the state’s murder rate will decline if the process is streamlined. Holder-Winfield said he’s heard the argument about how other states have been able to shorten the time between a person’s sentencing and their execution. But he’s skeptical of that working in Connecticut. “In some of those states, they’ve executed innocent people,” he said. “I don’t know if that’s the fix.” Both Holder-Winfield and
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Death chamber at the state prison in Jackson, Ga. Georgia has canceled all executions after federal drug agents seized its supply of a sedative used in lethal injections. The drug has been criticized by activists who oppose capital punishment and by death-row inmates, including one whose lawyers called the British exporter of the drug a “fly-by-night supplier.”
Ben Jones, executive director of the Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty, said don’t believe the death penalty process can be “fixed,” as the proponents are promising. They pointed to past efforts dating to 1995, when lawmakers attempted to hasten the process for executing a death row inmate. “Here we are, over 15 years later, a never-ending appeals process,” Jones said. “It’s the same-old, same-old. This is a problem that you can’t solve and that’s why these reform efforts keep failing and I think for good reason.” Besides the state lawmakers, police and family members of murder victims, including Dr. William Petit — whose wife and two daughters were killed in a 2007 home invasion in Cheshire, turned out for Monday’s news conference at the Legislative Office
Building. They were the latest group to speak out about the repeal bill. Last week, more than 300 Christian and Jewish leaders gave legislators a letter supporting the legislation. Also on Monday, two dozen current and former law enforcement officials from Connecticut signed a letter to state lawmakers, urging them to support the repeal bill. The group claims there is no evidence that the death penalty deters potential murderers from committing crimes. Supporters of the repeal are hopeful of its final passage because Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a Democrat, has said he’d sign the bill, which would apply to future convictions. In 2009, then-Gov. M. Jodi Rell, a Republican, vetoed a similar bill, saying she believed the death penalty was appropriate for particularly heinous crimes, such as
Conn. company: New sub being built at record pace
HARTFORD (AP) — A contractor tasked with boosting the U.S. Navy’s fleet of nuclear-powered submarines said Monday that it is on track to deliver a Virginiaclass ship in record time. Construction of the hull, radar and hatches of the Mississippi is far ahead of record schedule, according to Electric Boat, a Groton-based company that is doubling production of nuclear-powered attack submarines for the Defense Department to two annually beginning this year. With debate still raging over the federal budget in Washington, analysts say reductions in time frame and cost would help preserve the plan to bolster the submarine fleet. “The government is headed into a period of fiscal austerity, so making submarines as affordable as possible could be key to keeping the program on track,” said Loren Thompson, a military analyst at the Lexington Institute think tank. Electric Boat, a division of General Dynamics Corp., is the primary contractor for the Virginia-class submarines and builds them jointly with the Newport News, Va., ship-
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The Royal Navy’s newest and most advanced submarine, HMS Astute is docked in Southampton, England, Friday. One person has been killed and a second has life threatening wounds following a shooting on Friday aboard a British nuclear submarine, police said.
yard that is part of Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding. The Virginia-class submarines take five years to build and cost about $2.6 billion each. Seven have been delivered since 2004, and 11 more are under contract. The Mississippi is to be delivered in 2012. It is on track to set a Virginia-class record for the shortest time span from construction to delivery, the company said.
John Holmander, a company vice president for the Virginiaclass program, said one key innovation was to construct the sub in four large modules that are delivered to the assembly site instead of building it in 10 sections. He said building the ships more quickly also saves on expenses such as utilities and security while it remains in the yard. “By applying the lessons learned from the previous hulls,
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Feds investigate safety of hair-smoothing product WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal safety regulators say a popular hair smoothing treatment called Brazilian Blowout can release unsafe levels of the chemical formaldehyde, posing a risk to hair salon workers and their customers. Government regulators also said they have found the chemical in a variety of hair products that are labeled “formaldehyde-free.” The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating complaints from stylists and hair salon owners about the products. Formaldehyde, which has been classified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a probable carcinogen, can irritate the eyes, skin and lungs and cause breathing problems and skin rashes Many hair products contain the ingredient, but government regulations specify the amount, labeling and appropriate use. The federal safety advisory issued late Monday follows similar announcements from state health authorities in Oregon, California and Connecticut. In one case, the federal government found excessive levels of formaldehyde in the air at a salon using Brazilian Blowout Acai Professional Smoothing Solution. The product is marketed by GIB LLC, which does business in the U.S. as
Brazilian Blowout. A company employee reached by phone in Los Angeles Tuesday could not immediately provide comment. “The best way to control exposure to formaldehyde is to use products that do not list formaldehyde, formalin, methylene glycol, or any of the other names for formaldehyde listed above on the label,” said the online statement from OSHA. The agency said it is working with the Food and Drug Administration and other agencies to make sure hair products are used safely. Brazilian Blowout surfaced around 2005 in Brazil, where a combination of high humidity and a curly haired population made the treatment popular. It soon spread to North America and Europe. Many women swear by the product as a solution to curly, kinky or hard-to-tame hair. Because of health concerns, however, some salons in the U.S., Brazil and elsewhere have stopped offering the treatment. Public safety advocates welcomed the government’s announcement but pointed out that a half-dozen countries have already recalled Brazilian Blowout and other formaldehyde-based hair straighteners. “Canada pulled Brazilian Blowout off the market six
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If legal, death penalty logistics need reform
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lthough the death penalty is a consequence that we do not condone, we do think that everyone should agree that it is a process with many challenges and that, if it is to remain an option, must be done in a fair and legal manner. Legislators on both sides of the capital punishment debate agree as it stands, capital punishment requires reexamination and reform. Consequently, a bipartisan group of supporters for the death penalty are in the process of creating an amendment that they claim “would streamline the appeals process and ensure executions occur within seven to nine years of conviction,” according to the Hartford Courant. The Courant also stated that “the amendment would set limits on habeas petitions and stays of execution once automatic appeals have elapsed.” The group presented their plan at a press conference, which occurred even as opponents of the death penalty continue seeking to repeal these statutes. By the end of this week, the judiciary ought to have voted on a bill that would abolish the death penalty for future crimes, though ones that were committed before the passing of this bill could still face the death penalty as a punishment. Gov. Dannel Malloy has indicated that he intends to sign this bill, which we support. But we also believe that the establishment of the other amendment would be beneficial to address already-committed crimes for which the death penalty is still a possible punishment. The bill is supposed to clear the judiciary committee, but proponents and opponents of the death penalty alike are unsure of the outcome in the House of Representatives and the Senate, saying that the votes are likely to be close either way. Ultimately, the debate over the death penalty is one that is difficult to reconcile. Supporters will claim that it is necessary, whereas detractors will claim that it is not. Regardless of the pros and cons of the legality of the death penalty, its existence in the present form is problematic. That is why even if the abolishment of the death penalty is effected, preventing it from being used in trials for future crimes, the House and Senate need to consider this amendment as a possibility for the crimes that have occurred or may occur in the transition period during the passage of a bill abolishing capital punishment. 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.
To the guy in Putnam who put blue Powerade and Coke in the same cup without it mixing: I have so many questions for you. Wearing my “I Love Nuggets” shirt to Poultry Science class probably wasn’t one of my smartest ideas. Kemba can have my scholarship if there aren’t any left. Now that I’ve gotten into the InstantDaily I can focus on my other life goals, like having an orgy. Only 12 percent of UConn students drink more than one cup of coffee a day? HOW DO YOU ALL SURVIVE??? To the dude who asked, “Can I stop you?”: Sorry, I misheard. I thought you said “slap.” That’s why I asked if I could punch you in the throat. Watch out, my friend totally has dibs on the attractive burrito guy. You’d better work on your bad jokes if you want to get on her level. Studying is so much better when a pretty girl is studying near you. Same time tomorrow? And he day after that? Alpha Omega Christian Club: Sorry for leading you on, I’m atheist. I just thought your recruiting mission for a bible discussion was really sincere and couldn’t say no. Dear kid who is violently chewing his gum while simultaneously irregularly panting: I hate you.
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Paul Ryan’s plan the only realistic option
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epresentative Paul Ryan’s austere budget proposal has made him a divisive figure in Washington politics. Conservatives defend his recommendations as bold, courageous and essential challenges to reign in uncontrolled spending. Liberals argue that, in the words of Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), he wants to “kick seniors and children to the curb.” If Washington operates as it usually does, exaggerated accusations and dishonest mudslinging will conceal any honest debate on spending policy. So far, the demagoguery seems to be coming from Democrats, who risk losing supBy Arragon Perrone port from their most loyal base – lowWeekly Columnist income workers and union members – if they accept major spending cuts on popular programs like Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid. Unfortunately, the U.S.’s $14 trillion national debt leaves few options other than cut, cut and cut some more. Democrats have proposed higher taxes as an alternative solution. Higher taxes may increase revenue somewhat, but they may also strangle economic growth. People will not invest in the economy if they are paying more taxes. President Obama’s own deficit commission has recognized this principle, and has suggested that the government lower taxes across the board. The debt crisis cannot be taken lightly, though some Democrats wish it were. Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has said, “We have been willing to do what is fair in ratcheting down very, very hard on programs dealing with domestic discretionary spending...We can’t do any more.” Unfortunately, politicians have no choice but to do more. Every day, the national debt increases by $4 billion. Rep. Ryan’s plan might seem unappealing, but it is the most realistic proposal. Deep cuts in federal spending need to be made or else the entire American economy will collapse under its insurmountable financial weight. When the Democrat-versus-Republican defamation is put aside, the numbers point to a scary economic future. The national debt may seem large now, but it is set to explode. Currently, debt is equal to approximately 70
percent of the U.S. economy; by 2050, it will be 344 percent. Deficits will make up 42 percent of the GDP by 2080. The picture gets worse. According to a nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) test simulation, if debt continues along this skyrocketing path, the economy will implode in 2037. This bleak financial outlook presents politicians with an equally disheartening but necessary choice: cut spending, which means reforming government programs – a lot. Ryan’s proposal takes the right step in this direction. According to the Wall Street Journal, the proposal will return spending to its modern average, 20 percent of the gross domestic product, while decreasing the amount added to the national debt by $4.7 trillion. By 2080, there will be surpluses at 5 percent of the GDP. On the contrary, President Obama’s current plan would keep spending at 24 percent of the GDP while establishing a new status quo of $600 billion budget deficits. Moreover, Ryan’s plan would decrease federal borrowing from 10 percent of the GDP to 2 percent by 2017. These efforts will, therefore, produce real savings for the American people. As the numbers show, they will also decrease the debt to a significantly more manageable level. Progressive Democrats find fault in Ryan’s suggestion to reform Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare would become a subsidized-voucher program, which means that recipients would choose coverage from a list of options and government-subsidized payments would go to insurance companies instead of directly to recipients. Here, Democrats have a point. According to a CBO analysis, federal spending on Medicare would indeed decline; however, “enrollees’ spending for health care and the uncertainty surrounding that spending would increase.” Senior citizens cannot afford higher costs, and Republicans must take a closer look at this plan. But in regards to Medicaid, Ryan holds the high ground. Democrats may complain about the proposal, which allows states to run Medicaid in exchange for a fixed annual payment. But this proposal follows the same formula as the 1990s welfare reform bill, which congressional Republicans and Democratic President Bill Clinton both approved. Ryan’s proposal also leaves Social Security alone, a
practical concession to progressives. The Republican plan does indeed mark a radical shift regarding traditionally popular social programs. But except for the weak ground surrounding the Medicare reform proposal, Ryan’s proposals do not deserve the “doom and gloom” rhetoric that progressive Democrats are promoting. President Obama has endorsed the Simpson-Bowles plan, which suggests tough fiscal reforms that would demand more from struggling Americans. Yet progressives have refrained from attacking it. The most likely reason is political concern: progressive Democrats do not want to admit that reality is not on their side. The current spending model is unsustainable, as nonpartisan projections such as the CBO’s have shown. Painful changes must be made, and progressives – whose political platform is centered around increased federal spending – have the most, philosophically, to lose. The Simpson-Bowles plan can easily be treated with as much rhetorical bad-mouthing as Ryan’s plan currently receives. SimpsonBowles suggests cutting benefits to Social Security and raising the retirement age to 69. The proposal also recommends a gas tax (15 cents to the gallon), a decrease in 200,000 federal jobs by 2020, cutting the State Department’s foreign aid budget and contributions to the United Nations by 10 percent each and permitting airlines to increase per-ticket security fees, among others suggestions. Paul Ryan’s budget plan is a tough sell, but it may be America’s best chance at a brighter financial future. The name-calling and distortion, which in this instance are coming from progressive Democrats, distract from the real debate. When the meaningless PR ploys are stripped away, the numbers are revealed. These numbers divulge a depressing economic outlook that will come true if the government does not drastically change its spending policies. Right now, compared to the alternatives, Ryan’s proposal is the best option for the American people, even if it is a tough pill to sell.
Weekly columnist Arragon Perrone is a 6th-semester political science and English double major. He can be reached at Arragon.Perrone@UConn.edu.
USG elections undemocratic, unacceptable
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emocracy at UConn took a major step backward last week. After the conclusion of the USG election in late March, it appeared that candidates Sam Tracy and Lindsay Chiappa had won the presidential and vice presidential election by the narrow margin of 32 votes over Brian Ingmanson and Ali Albini. Tracy’s supporters immediately declared victory, as it seemed that the extra effort put in By Christopher by the highly enthusiasKempf tic and effiStaff Columnist ciently mobilized Tracy/ Chiappa campaign had won the day in a very close election. The people had spoken, even if the competitiveness of the election revealed a divided electorate. But soon after the election results had been announced, third-place candidate Vijay Sekhara struck back with violation charges seeking not only to cast doubt on the vote totals but to disqualify the candidacies of both of his opponents, even though he possessed evidence of campaign violations before the polls closed. In his cases, Sekhara detailed various incidences of “improper campaign conduct,” “illegal canvassing activity” and “illegal activity at a polling place,” hoping that he could convince the
judiciary that a “major violation” or three “minor violations” had occurred, which, under the USG’s policies, would result in a disqualification of the offending candidate at the discretion of the Judiciary.
“[The] bureaucratic and illegitimate electoral system has lost many students’ confidence.” As soon as the charges were filed, Sekhara, Tracy and Ingmanson busied themselves recruiting voters who could be persuaded to sign affidavits corroborating their own view of events, then proceeded to dump them in the hearing for the benefit of a bewildered audience and panel of justices. The election had come down to this: a group of justices forced to decide which candidate’s particular cocktail of hearsay and speculation deserved to be called “truth,” with the winner having won over the majority of justices, not the students. Indeed, that majority of justices disqualified Ingmanson’s candidacy on April 7. What great violation did Ingmanson and Albini commit? “Chalking supporting [their] campaign was located less than 100 feet
away from Student Appreciation Day,” and a campaign message was posted to the Facebook wall of Student Appreciation Day, an official USG event intended to be off-limits to politicking. The hours of campaign work they had spent attempting to convince UConn of their vision for USG were rendered meaningless and the voices of the 1,233 voters who believed in that vision were silenced. Certainly Sekhara’s timing and the frivolity of his charges were deplorable. But I feel that he is not the one to blame here – he was merely attempting to secure enforcement of election procedures, and it was certainly within his right to challenge the candidacy of those whom he believed were not following the rules. The true culprit of the election crisis, rather, was a system of election rules that will force candidates to worry whether they have committed some minor violation somewhere at some time that could put them on the road to disqualification. Indeed, in reviewing the 2011 election cases, the USG Judiciary set some worrying precedents for the future. Election rules stipulate that campaigning cannot take place within 100 feet of a USG-sanctioned event, but where is the boundary on the Internet? The Judiciary ruled that posting on the Facebook wall of Student Appreciation Day constituted a violation. Does this mean,
as Tracy pointed out in his oral argument, that all campaigning within 100 feet of a computer, since it serves as both a polling place and the location for a USG event, violates election rules? Does a voter’s “right to refuse contact” by campaign workers mean that flyers cannot be slipped under their doors, implying that a voter must give permission to be contacted? These issues will certainly provoke needless challenges by the unscrupulous to campaigns in the future. The new USG president and vice president – Tracy and Chiappa – will preside over a student government whose bureaucratic and illegitimate electoral system has lost many students’ confidence when they take office this month. The incoming administration, at the very least, must act to reform the rules governing elections to eliminate the possibility that a candidacy can be thrown out on the basis of technicalities with a charge and some salacious affidavits. And, though such a thing will surely never happen, they ought to consider holding another round of elections out of respect for the 36 percent of UConn voters whose votes didn’t count.
Staff Columnist Christopher Kempf is a 2ndsemester political science major. He can be reached at Christopher.Kempf@UConn.edu
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Dismiss the Cynics by Victor Preato
Down 1 Mongolian desert 2 Congregational yes 3 Wonderful, in slang 4 Mythical sailor 5 Affectedly elegant 6 Trig function 7 Fellow suspect of Mustard 8 1998 Sarah McLachlan hit 9 Hailing from 10 Stove nozzle 11 Hitching post? 12 Prove false 13 Bawl out 21 “__ have to do” 22 Camera eye 25 Poster mailer 26 Greeting from a deck
27 Hayride seat 28 Grave robber 29 False 30 Theme 33 Sister of Meg, Jo and Amy 34 Carrot or cassava 35 Has title to 37 Tiny Yokum’s big brother 38 Pictures of perps 40 Elect 41 Bona __ 42 Curl beneficiary 43 Hardly ever 44 Etching supplies 45 Birch of “American Beauty” 46 Mortise’s mate 49 Galway’s land 50 Driver’s decision point 51 Bassoon kin
52 Server’s edge, in tennis 53 Court plea, for short 54 Depicted
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63 White man’s makeup?
Jason and the Rhedosaurus
Across 1 Explorer Vasco da __ 5 Political channel 10 Blabbers 14 Actor Sharif 15 Broom rider of comics 16 Brother of Daniel, William and Stephen 17 Titanic bane 18 Alaskan native 19 “Battle for __”: Peter Yates WWII book 20 Unable to reach a human, no matter which buttons one presses 23 Highest ordinal number? 24 Changed course 25 Word processor setting 31 Ryder rival 32 Screech owls don’t make them 33 ‘Hood pal 36 It may be put in a washer 37 Bingo relative 38 Pet plaint 39 Observe 40 First of 12 popes 41 Bed that can be stored during the day 42 1791 legislation 44 Prison in 1971 headlines 47 Some pop-ups 48 Verify ahead of time, and a hint to what 20-, 25- and 42-Across have in common 55 Skye of film 56 Mythical weeper 57 Baking soda target 58 Let go 59 Swashbuckling Flynn 60 Mosaic piece 61 Without 62 Type in again
I Hate Everything by Carin Powell
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Classic Toast by Tom Dilling
Aries - Make sure you know what’s required. Keep communications channels open. Find out more. Replenish your reserves. Discover a money machine. Make long-term suggestions. Let somebody else get it for you. Taurus - Listen well to others, to yourself and to your inner instinct. Notice music like you never have before. Think twice before speaking, and then be true to yourself. Love shows up. Gemini - Take time to detail your schedule for the next few weeks. Review your budget, and you’ll discover savings available. Set aside time to study with a family expert.
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Cancer - Listen to a friend’s romantic advice. They see something in your blind spot. It’s a good time to get a message across. Review all sides of a deal before signing. Leo - Make sure your loved ones know how much you care. Write any promises down. Your cheerful optimism and strong business ability open doors. Walk right in. Virgo - You’re beginning to understand, so let your family know. Your entertaining wit keeps them in the loop and smiling. Record a creative new phone message. Libra - Your glass is more than half full, and friends want to hang around. Invent new business opportunities and run with them. People will go along. You’re in charge.
Why The Long Face by Jackson Lautier
Scorpio - Complete those tasks that you’ve been resisting. This is greatly appreciated. Fire up your financial engines. It’s a good time to ask for money. Share your regard for people. Sagittarius - Today is about partnership, even with its glitches. Situations with houseguests may require your very best diplomatic self. Or you may just want to go away for a vacation. Capricorn - In the middle of the mind storm, optimism reigns. Reveal your dreams or just pay attention, as they may reveal themselves to you. Appreciate your own charm. Aquarius - Isn’t life great? Great music and art bear that out. Patience reaps results. Open your heart to the contribution of your friends. Aren’t they the best? Listen for deeper truths. Pisces - It’s a good time to get the message across. Send it out with love. New assignments are coming in. Recall a friend’s wise
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News
WORLD BRIEFS FBI thought Demjanjuk evidence faked
BERLIN (AP) — An FBI report kept secret for 25 years said the Soviet Union “quite likely fabricated” evidence central to the prosecution of John Demjanjuk — a revelation that could help the defense as closing arguments resume Wednesday in the retired Ohio auto worker’s Nazi war crimes trial in Germany. The newly declassified FBI field office report, obtained by The Associated Press, casts doubt on the authenticity of a Nazi ID card that is the key piece of evidence in allegations that Demjanjuk served as a guard at the Sobibor death camp in occupied Poland.
Publisher yanks book implying Vatican OKs
VATICAN CITY (AP) — An Italian publisher has yanked copies of a book on Catholic Church teaching after a translation error implied the Vatican approved of contraception, officials said Tuesday. The book “YouCat,” a Catholic catechism book for young people, is to be presented officially Wednesday at a Vatican press conference. But on the eve of the presentation, officials confirmed that Nuova Citta, the Italian publisher of “YouCat,” had pulled the Italian copies to fix the error, which concerned whether married couples could plan the size of their families. AP
Paul Volcker, former Federal Reserve Chairman, addresses the audience at the Family Centers’ Business Breakfast, Tuesday at the Stamford Plaza Hotel and Conference Center in Stamford.
Former fed chairman says debt urgent issue STAMFORD (AP) — The nation’s growing debt level is an urgent issue, and the country could reach a “tipping point” if debt gets too high, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker said Tuesday. The United States has seen its publicly held debt jump from 36 percent of the total economy in 2007, before the financial crisis hit, to 64 percent this year. The U.S. government forecasts that its publicly traded debt as a percentage of the total economy will reach 77 percent by 2020. Volcker, speaking at a fundraiser in Stamford, said the
U.S. needs to show it’s dealing with the issue, which he says should be a central matter of debate for next year’s election. Countries can get in trouble when their debt reaches 90 percent, and the debt level could reach 90 to 100 percent in the coming years if steps are not taken to curb it, Volcker said. “At some point, some unknown point, there will be a tipping point,” Volcker said, noting that the growing interest burden of such debts can outrace the ability to deal with the debt. The budget deficit can’t be cured in a year, but the country
needs to show it’s on a path to deal with the red ink in the next seven to 10 years, Volcker said. Volcker, who acknowledged at the start of his talk that he does “not have the reputation of being Mr. Sunshine,” raised a host of concerns. He noted: —The economy is not growing as fast as typical after a deep recession. —China’s manufacturing growth is outpacing the United States. — The average American household has not had a real increase in income for 15 years, and economic growth
has gone to the top 10 percent of earners. “Most of the folks are stuck in the mud,” Volcker said. Volcker spoke at a fundraiser for Family Centers, a private nonprofit organization that provides counseling, preschool services and other programs. Volcker, who was Fed chief from 1979 until 1987 under presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, still commands attention when he comments on economic matters. He recently ended his term as chairman of President Obama’s economic advisory panel.
Rains pound Grenada, flooding forces evacuations
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada (AP) — Unseasonable heavy rains have caused landslides on the Caribbean island of Grenada, where officials on Tuesday relocated families away from swollen rivers that flooded homes and destroyed small fishing boats. “We should be in the dry season, but we are experiencing so much rain,” Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas said while he toured the island’s northwest region. Flooding turned the small coastal town of Gouyave into a jumble of mud, trees, sand and stones. More than 20 families were left without shelter.
Baseball in Japan: a time to heal ... and cheer
CHIBA, Japan (AP) — Players stood along the baseline, heads bowed. Fans observed a moment of silence. In the stands, spectators held signs reading, “Stay Strong Japan.” Away from the ballpark, those who no longer have homes, watched the game on television from shelters. It was time to play baseball again in Japan — opening day. It was also a time for honor and remembrance in a country convulsed by a deadly earthquake and tsunami and worsening radiation leak. “Despite the difficult conditions, we are able to open the season because everybody helped us to do it,” said Rakuten Eagles infielder Kazuo Matsui, an infielder who has played in the U.S. major leagues with the New York Mets, Colorado Rockies and
Retired 61 years old Aetna CEO exercised $50M in stock options AP - Aetna’s retired CEO Ronald Williams gave himself a lucrative farewell last year by exercising stock options worth more than $50 million. The 61-year-old executive also received a compensation package totaling $18.4 million from Aetna and heads into retirement with a pension valued at $9.5 million and a consulting job that pays $20,000 per month, according to a recent regulatory filing. Williams retired as CEO last November and as chairman this month. He joined the Hartford, Conn., insurer in March 2001 and had served as chairman and CEO since 2006. He was replaced in both roles by company president Mark Bertolini, who received compensation for 2010 valued at $8.8 million last year. That included a salary and performance-related bonus amounting to $2.8 million and stock awards valued at $5.8 million. Williams exercised 2.4 million in stock options last year for $50.4 million. The
options were granted when he joined the company in 2001 and had been set to expire on March 15, 2011, according to the proxy statement filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. “It’s an exercise of options he’s been holding for 10 years,” spokesman Fred Laberge said. He noted Aetna’s stock price, when adjusted for two splits, was $9.35 when Williams started at Aetna. It closed at $30.16 on Nov. 29, his last day as CEO. The stock, however, is down about 42 percent from the end of 2006, the year he became chairman and CEO. Last year, Williams received a salary of about $1.1 million and a performance-related cash bonus of $2.75 million, according to the filing. Williams also received a stock award valued at $14.3 million when it was granted. Williams received $300,000 in other compensation, including $257,659 for personal use of corporate aircraft, something the company requires
HARTFORD (AP) — Defense lawyers said Tuesday that a man convicted of killing a pregnant teenager 23 years ago and released after being cleared by DNA evidence is guilty and their client now on trial had nothing to do with the crime. Pedro Miranda has been charged with capital felony and murder in the death of Carmen Lopez, who was hanged from a couch with an electrical cord in January 1988, prosecutors said. He’s also awaiting trial in the killings of two other teenage girls from Hartford in the 1980s. But defense lawyer Vicki Hutchinson told the jury of seven women and five men in Hartford Superior Court that Lopez’s boyfriend, Miguel Roman, who was convicted of
murder and served 20 years of a 60-year prison sentence before being exonerated, was properly charged and convicted. “They got it right the first time,” she said. More than two dozen police officers, including 15 detectives, examined dozens of pieces of evidence and interviewed 100 people before arresting and charging Roman, she said. A judge set him free in December 2008 based on the DNA test results. State prosecutor David Zagaja told the jury in opening statements that new technology determining DNA leaves no doubt that Miranda is the one who raped, beat and strangled the 17-year-old Lopez. “Twenty-three years later, why
“It’s an exercice of options he’s been holding for 10 years... refkecting our confidence in our strategy and a continued commitment to enhancing tital return fir our shareholders’” Fred Laberge Spokesman
for security reasons. He also received about $16,000 for personal use of a company driver and vehicle. Williams’ total compensation package rose 13 percent compared to 2009, according to Associated Press calculations. That does not include the value of the stock options he exercised during the year or his pension. The Associated Press formula calculates an executive’s total compensation during the last fiscal year by adding salary, bonuses, perks, abovemarket interest the company pays on deferred compensation and the estimated value of stock and stock options awarded during the year. The AP formula does not count changes in the present value of pension benefits. That makes the AP total slightly different in most cases from the total reported by companies to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The value that a company assigned to an executive’s stock and option awards for
2010 was the present value of what the company expected the awards to be worth to the executive over time. Companies use one of several formulas to calculate that value. However, the number is just an estimate, and what an executive ultimately receives will depend on the performance of the company’s stock in the years after the awards are granted. Most stock compensation programs require an executive to wait a specified amount of time to receive shares or exercise options. After retiring as chairman, Williams will work as a consultant for Aetna and Aetna Foundation Inc. until next February. Aetna provides health, dental, group life and disability coverage and is the thirdlargest publicly traded health insurer based on enrollment, trailing only WellPoint Inc. and UnitedHealth Group Inc. The insurer’s net income climbed 38 percent last year to $1.77 billion, but revenue fell slightly to $34.25 billion. Aetna’s stock fell 4 percent
in 2010 to close at $30.51. That compares with a 12.8 percent increase recorwded by the Standard & Poor’s 500 index. Like other health insurers, Aetna saw its shares tumble in the first quarter of 2010, as Congress passed the health care overhaul, which aims to cover millions of uninsured people but will impose a host of taxes and restrictions on insurers. But sector stocks rallied in the second half of last year, as investors saw little impact from the first few provisions of the overhaul. Aetna said in its proxy that operating earnings per share increased 34 percent last year compared to 2009, and the company has introduced a larger quarterly dividend payment, “reflecting our confidence in our strategy and a continued commitment to enhancing total return for our shareholders.” It now pays shareholders a 15-cent quarterly dividend, or 60 cents annually, up from the 4-cent annual one it paid last November.
HARTFORD (AP) — Jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney spent much of last year fighting to shut two engine repair shops in Connecticut due to fierce competition and the recession. Now the economy is recovering, orders are rising for a marquee product and a competitor has been eliminated for a military fighter jet engine. As a result, business is booming for the subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. In the last five weeks, three significant deals have been announced: an order for 300 of Pratt & Whitney’s next-generation engines from Indian budget airline IndiGo, 30 engines for Lufthansa and 60
engines for Airbus planes purchased by International Lease Finance Corp., a subsidiary of American International Group. “The backlog keeps getting bigger,” Pratt & Whitney President David Hess told reporters last month. United Technologies has spent $1 billion over 20 years to develop its geared turbofan jet engine. The East Hartfordbased Pratt & Whitney, which says the engine generates fewer carbon emissions, cuts airlines’ fuel costs and produces less noise than other airplane engines, “hung the future” on its product, said Matt Collins, an analyst at Edward Jones..
“They’ve proven they can win the orders for the geared turbofan and now they need to deliver,” he said. Pratt & Whitney also was the beneficiary of a decision by Congress last month to halt production of an alternate engine developed by General Electric Co. As a result, Pratt & Whitney is the sole manufacturer of the Pentagon’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet engine. Projected revenue will double by 2020 and employment in Connecticut is expected to hold steady, Hess said. Revenue was $12.9 billion in 2010 at Pratt & Whitney, the No. 3 jet engine maker after GE and Rolls Royce.
New DNA focus of trial in teen’s ‘88 killing Jet engine business booming for Pratt & Whitney are we here?” Zagaja asked the jury. “The technology in 1988 is not what we have today.” The time that has lapsed was an issue in testimony by Stanley Lukas, a retired Hartford detective. He said he could not recall a detail about the crime scene. “We’re dealing with 23 years,” he said. “I don’t remember who exactly touched the couch.” The jury was shown photos of Lopez’s body shortly after police entered the apartment. She was hanged from the couch, her hands and feet bound and her mouth stuffed with fabric, perhaps a sock, prosecutors said. Authorities say all three kiineweRoman was convicted of him based on circumstantial evidence and witness testimony.
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LUNAFEST lights up Konover By Kim Halpin Staff Writer UConn took part in the 10th annual LUNAFEST film festival Tuesday night with a screening and reception. The program, created by the women’s nutrition company LUNA, was produced to showcase female short filmmakers. It concentrated on stories about women. The show, which has toured the country, consisted of 10 short films, extending to topics such as love, suicide, companionship and disease. All stories were produced “by, for, about Women.” The short films showcased a variety of genres and filmmaking techniques, including documentary and animation.
The audience really responded to “Thambi’s Diary,” an audio diary of Thambi’s life with AIDS set to animation. Though the film was just over six minutes long, the unfairness, the devastation and, most importantly, the hope that Thambi felt left audience members speechless. One of the most uplifting stories, which invoked plenty of laugher, was an animation entitled “Love on the Line,” by Melissa Graziano. The story follows a Victorian woman and man having a conversation via telegraph. Everything seemed proper until the man asks, “So what are you wearing?” From there it turns into modern day phone sex, until their guardians catch them. Graziano was present for
the screening and was able to answer questions from the audience afterward. Of the LUNAFEST film series, she said, “When women write for themselves – you can tell. There’s a female sensibility.” Graziano also went into the details of producing her film and her subsequent life in the animation industry. A powerful theme throughout the event was inspirational women and the story of how they achieved what they have today. “Top Spin” featuring a young table tennis star shows the serious stress the activity has on her body, but also now the hard work, sacrifice and determination that she demonstrates have brought her great rewards. “Getting a Grip” featured
Fannie Barnes, the first woman to ever be a cable car gripper. She achieved this distinction at the age of 52, a feat in itself, when everyone was literally betting against her. By working out everyday, she managed to stay healthy in her physically demanding job. Erica Hollyway, an 8th-semester psychology major, said, “The films were interesting. I have never seen anything like that, especially the animation.” Supporting the event was the all-women a cappella group Rubyfruit, who performed prior to the showing. The group performed “Dog Days Are Over” by Florence + the Machine, showcasing their talents. Rubyfruit was created for female empowerment, so they felt that it was important to
perform at such an event as LUNAFEST. The students who brought LUNAFEST to UConn aim to raise awareness and funds for both the Women’s Center on campus and for the Breast Cancer Fund. One of the student hosts was 8th-semester communications major Sarah Hannon, who helped coordinate the event last year as well. She said, “The event is something we are all passionate about and can work together on.” Following the presentation was a small reception, with donations from local groups and prizes such as salon gift cards and LUNA bars getting raffled off.
Kimberly.Halpin@UConn.edu
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Lohan in talks for role in Travolta’s Gotti biopic
NEW YORK (AP) — A press conference for John Travolta’s latest project, “Gotti: Three Generations,” had a surprise guest: Lindsay Lohan. The 24-year-old actress has been rumored to be up for the role of Victoria Gotti, daughter of the infamous “Dapper Don” John Gotti. Producer Marc Fiore confirmed Tuesday that he’s in talks with Lohan, whom he called “a terrific actress,” but said nothing had been finalized. Lohan, who has starred in such films as “Mean Girls” and “Freaky Friday,” sat in the front row at the press conference and posed for photos with the cast and crew but didn’t talk to the press. She has been plagued by legal problems in recent years and is now battling a felony grand theft charge in California over a $2,500 necklace. Travolta, 57, will star as John Gotti, the well-dressed leader of the legendary Gambino crime family, who had a knack for evading convictions on a variety of mob indictments brought against him, earning him the nicknames Dapper Don and Teflon Don. Gotti finally was convicted in 1992 of murder and racketeering and died in prison a decade later. At the press conference, Travolta, star of movies includ-
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(Left) Victoria Gotti, daughter of John Gotti Sr., left, and actress Lindsay Lohan pose during a news conference for the film “Gotti: Three Generations”, based on the life of John Gotti, leader of the Gambino crime family, at The Sheraton Hotel on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 in New York. (Right) John Gotti Jr. and actor John Travolta pose for photos after the news conference.
ing “Pulp Fiction” and “Be Cool,” talked about connecting to the Gotti role on a deeper level. He said he had talked to one of Gotti’s surviving sons,
John “Junior” Gotti. “His father lost a son, and I’ve lost a son, and we discussed that in depth and how painful that is and how pain-
ful that was for his father,” Travolta said. Travolta’s 16-year-old seizure-prone son, Jett, died at the family’s vacation home
in the Bahamas in 2009. John Gotti’s 12-year-old son, Frank, was accidently run over by a neighbor and killed in 1980.
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Are we programmed? By Alessandra Petrino Campus Correspondent It would be a bit of an understatement to say the media has become engrossed with proposals, marriage and having children. Every channel seems to have some type of reality television show dedicated to the preparations of the perfect wedding or the trials and tribulations of having children. Shows like “Four Weddings,” “Say Yes to the Dress,” “Whose Wedding is it Anyway” and “Bridezilla,” just to name a few, emphasize the work that goes into creating the perfect wedding for a bride and her husband-to-be. At the same time, we must remember why these shows are successful. These shows are entertaining to us and they show childhood dreams coming true: getting married, having the perfect wedding and eventually having children and a happy family. Perhaps when you were a young girl you may have dressed up, put on your mother’s makeup and attached a white tablecloth as a veil while you began humming the wedding march tune, imagining your perfect wedding. Or maybe as a young girl, you and your friends pretended to play house, debating on who would play the part of the mother, the father and the child. Then there’s a girl’s teenage years, where she may fall in love for the first time and imagine spending the rest of her life with that one guy. She may play out in her head the perfect wedding and imagine having the perfect children who will have his eyes and her hair, his smile and her nose. Now, let me say that I am not against marriage or having children, but I am also not the biggest supporter of those ideas for myself. But even for someone like me, sitting in my room with my girlfriends watching “Say Yes to the Dress” can make me want to have that fairytale wedding. If a non-believer like myself can have moments where the dream of marriage and children take over just by seeing others live out these childhood fantasies, then do all of us truly want these things? Do we really want such things as marriage and children? Or are we programmed to want them? “I think we are all programmed to want to find a mate and procreate with each other to have children, but not necessarily get married,” Nisha Acharya, a 4thsemester political science and sociology major said. “I feel like marriage is a social construction as well as a religious construction. Back when we were cave people, there wasn’t a need to ‘get married.’ It was more like you chose a mate and you generally stuck with them without the need of marriage,” Acharya added. “It’s said that these are the years (age 19 onwards) when women want to start having kids because this is when our bodies are primed and ready, according to evolution.” Let me say that not all women want to get married and have children (as I’ve already said, I am one of those women). However, perhaps Acharya is onto something when she says we are programmed to want to find a mate and procreate due to evolution. Perhaps that want for these social constructions and stability are more prominent in some women than in others. And due to that fact, maybe there will always be an urge for a woman to want to get married (even for a brief moment while watching TLC). We’ve come a long way since living as “cave people,” to quote Acharya, but maybe even through all the evolution and the struggles different genders and races have overcome, there will always be certain aspects of life that remain the same, such as the desire to be married and to have children. Perhaps the only thing changing is our attention spans.
Alessandra.Petrino@UConn.edu
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Above, several screenshots show Super MonkeyBall 3D gameplay on the Nintendo 3DS. The gameplay is smoother than in past versions, but the mazes are a little too easy.
Super Monkey Ball 3D a great improvement on the original By Jason Bogdan Staff Writer Sega deserves some credit for at least trying to make the Super Monkey Ball games feel new over the last decade. After all, there’s hardly much to be added to a game where you tilt an adorable primate in a giant hamster ball across a danger-filled maze. After trying to make the game feel fresh through gyroscopic controllers, touch screens and balance pads, one thing is clear; there’s just no better way to roll those encased monkeys than an analog stick. And with the 3DS’s circle pad, everything old is new again in SMB 3D. Nothing really proves this fact as well as trying to play the game with its optional “motion support” mode. Not only is it unplayable because it guarantees to mess up the 3D effects, it’s also incredibly difficult and even made me dizzy after a few tries. However, with that awesome 3DS circle pad, reaching the end of every maze is made as smooth as ever. In fact, one
could say it’s too good for SMB. Maybe it’s because none of the designs in the 80 stages here have the insanity that the Expert levels of the earlier games had, but I only fell off the maze about three times tops. It’s sad, but true, that the stages here lack the raw difficulty that made replaying them in the first game so much fun. But even sadder is that there are only two extra games to play in this game, with Monkey Race and Monkey Fight. It’s an absolute travesty that Target and Billiards aren’t here for everyone’s portable pleasure, but thankfully they aren’t terrible. Race isn’t built as well as Mario Kart and the controls in Fight make it not nearly as good as Smash Bros. But for the time being (before more games will make these modes obsolete), it’s a decent stereoscopicdrenched duo of party games to play with your friends. But speaking of the 3D here, it’s actually one of the most impressive things you’ll find on the 3DS. It never made me a better player in the three modes than I would’ve been
otherwise, but there’s not a single drop in frames-per-second, even with the 3D slider all the way up. For whatever it’s worth, playing through all the Monkey Ball stages, with the added sense of depth and plenty of air particles, bubbles and more always zooming at me, made the experience more enjoyable aesthetically.
some control changes for the system. Keep in mind that I’m no fighting game “pro,” but I didn’t really mind that the heavy attacks had to move to the shoulder buttons, or that you can’t plug in an arcade stick here. From my experience with the available controls, I actually had an easier time performing the special moves with the circle pad.
But there’s no question that the D-Pad – small as the bugger is – is the way to go for the most precision. It even uses the touch screen to make the convoluted ultra attacks easy as cake to pull off, which is great. Capcom also did a good job making the “3D Edition” have its own perks on the 3DS. There’s no getting around the
Super Monkey Ball 3D
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The Good
- With the circle pad on the 3DS, Super Monkey Ball has never played this smoothly - The maze stages are all fun - The 3D takes no sacrifice in frame-rate like it does in other 3DS games
The Bad
- There just isn’t enough variety and dearth in the modes to make Super Monkey Ball 3D have the longest shelf life - The 80 maze stages may be fun, but they’re also a breeze to run through
Because it doesn’t have many modes or stages to work with, Super Monkey Ball 3D is far from a perfect value. But if you want to play the game as it was meant to be played, with that great circle pad, you’ll have a fun time and will even see some impressive 3D to go with it.
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Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition impresses
Super Monkey Ball (GC) The original Super Monkey Ball was an especially memorable game I got with my Gamecube for Christmas 2001. Despite being the “extra game” I didn’t ask for, I managed to play it as much as Pikmin and Smash Bros. Melee. And not just because it’s an insanely fun party game. This game, along with Mario Kart 64, is the only one among my ever-growing library that my two sisters were ever willing to play. My siblings never got into new games like Wii Sports or Rock Band. But I’ll never forget the countless hours we played Monkey Target. - Jason Bogdan
By Jason Bogdan Staff Writer It seems as if Capcom has taken the easy route when making the best launch title for the 3DS. They took their brilliant 2D fighter Street Fighter IV, ported the “Super” version as great as the system can handle and added a few 3DS touches only because it had to. It has no out-of-the-box appeal. But you know what? It totally worked in creating the first “must have” title for the system. Considering how SF IV originated on the PS3 and Xbox 360, it’s absolutely amazing how good the port job was done on the just-aspowerful-as-the-Wii 3DS. All 35 fighters are here and move as fluidly and personified as they did on the HD consoles. Unfortunately, it cost the game’s ability to have any kind of movement on the backgrounds, but the impressive fidelity on the characters blocks and hits more than make up for it. SF IV, unavoidably, makes
Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition
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The Good
- Everything that looks and plays as amazingly is just as impressive on the 3DS - With all the modes and characters, this portable port has plenty of re-playability - Undeniably, the best online that SF IV has available on any system
The Bad
- Even with the 3D turned on, those stage backgrounds are as lifeless as they come - The figurine mode and optional 3D perspective aren’t worth coming back to
fact that making a 2D fighter in stereoscopic 3D hardly does anything except make the backgrounds look less lifeless, but it looks nice without much frame rate decrease. The other additions of the optional new 3D perspective and the figurine collecting that uses the Street Pass are pretty useless, but the online mode Capcom added is incredible. It’s actually faster to get into Wi-Fi matches here than it ever was on the console versions. In a way, it does feel like Capcom cheated in making the best 3DS launch title by just porting their most beloved fighter in years with a few extra bells and whistles. But the amount of care put into this portable adaption easily stands out amongst the half-hearted trash that is (and will continue to be) available for the system. And, if nothing else, the 3DS managed to get one of the greatest portable fighting games ever, just on its launch day.
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As I was playing through all the Super Monkey Ball 3D maze stages, there was this lingering thought that something was missing. Was it the goal line lacking any confetti, or the lack of any true balance test? Well, yes, but that wasn’t quite it. After a while, it finally dawned on me: none of the hundreds of bananas I’d been collecting ever had a Dole sticker. Was it wrong for me to feel so nostalgic for such blatant advertising in a video game? Maybe., But this was hardly the first time I didn’t feel so bad when I saw a food ad in one of my games. Heck, whenever I see a billboard in the Burnout games for whatever other new game EA is releasing, it actually comes off as pretty cool in adding more flair to the normal environments. And it actually made me laugh out loud how blatant the ads were in Guitar Hero III, when the story mode was about rockers who were against selling out to “the man.” I guess what I’m trying to say is that when it’s done so sparingly, or it’s just ridiculous enough to make it funny, advertising in games can actually add more charm to games. It certainly ticks me off when I see a Mountain Dew label in a movie or read about characters eating Oreos in a book because it just distracts from the story. But in a video game where I’m crashing a car or rolling a hamster ball across a stage and my brain is already partly turned off, it hardly matters if I also happen to see an Axe Body Spray logo. I’m not saying there isn’t a dark side to the use of commercialism in games – far from it. It was a bit much that I was using Energizer batteries for my flashlight and constantly using a Verizon phone in Alan Wake. But I almost turned off the game in disgust in the first DLC, when Alan pulls off the “Can you hear me now?” routine during a call. And if you haven’t already seen the absolute worst being shown off in the “Quick Look for Shaun White Skateboarding” on GiantBomb.com, you should, if you want to see the absolute evil that Stride gum ads can bring to a forgetful skating game. Ultimately, there are multiple ways in which advertising in games can be regarded. It can be used slightly enough to be tolerable, pathetic enough to be hysterical or banal enough to make it stand alongside the movie “I, Robot.” So the next time you’re displeased when you see a random product placement in a game, keep in mind that all hope is not lost. There’s always Pikmin 2 that had you salvaging a Bowser-themed matchstick box and a Dannon yogurt lid to make the treasure hunting more intriguing.
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Baryshnikov-owned painting sells in NYC, proceeds to benefit NYC performing arts center
NEW YORK (AP) — A 19th century painting of St. Petersburg that Mikhail Baryshnikov purchased decades ago, and depicting the Russian city he loved, was auctioned Tuesday for $746,500 to benefit the famous dancer’s New York City performing arts center. The proceeds from the Sotheby’s sale will go toward new programming at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. A German private collector placed the winning bid by telephone for “View of St. Petersburg” by Petr Petrovich Vereshchagin. The pre-sale estimate for the cityscape was $300,000 to $500,000. Baryshnikov recently donated the painting to the center’s foundation so it could sell it to raise money to develop new programming from theater directors, musicians and choreographers. Baryshnikov serves as artistic director of the center
that he founded in 2005 as a “creative laboratory” and performance space for multidisciplinary artists from around the world. It houses four studios, a studio theater and the 232-seat Jerome Robbins Theater in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen, offering performances in chamber music, dance, theater and visual arts and film screenings. In a recent interview with The Associated Press, Baryshnikov said he purchased the painting at a Helsinki gallery around 1978. While it held sentimental value because he “spent the best of my youth” in St. Petersburg, he felt the money from the sale could be used to produce new art at his center. “That’s much more important than a look back and being nostalgic about the past,” he said. Baryshnikov said his nonprofit arts center did not yet
have an endowment and relied on donations from individual and corporations. He has already donated hundreds of works from his extensive 19th- and 20thcentury art collection to the foundation but said the Vereshchagin work was the first to be sold to benefit the organization. Eventually, Baryshnikov said he planned to donate all his artworks to the foundation. Baryshnikov called Ve r e s h c h a g i n ’s work “extraordinarily detailed and beautifully lit,” offering a “very recognizable” panoramic view of St. Petersburg. He couldn’t recall how much he had paid for it at the time. “I totally fell in love with it and borrowed some money to buy it,” the 63-year-old artist said. “It was significant in my budget at that time, but I was so glad I bought it.”
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This undated photo provided by Sotheby’s in New York shows the painting “View of St. Petersburg” by Petr Petrovich Vereshchagin, which is to be sold at Sotheby’s on April 12 as part of the auction house’s Russian art sale, where it is expected to fetch $300,000 to $500,000. The 19th century painting of St. Petersburg that Mikhail Baryshnikov purchased decades ago will be auctioned to help benefit new works at his Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City.
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Potter star Emma Watson feels for Kate Middleton
LONDON (AP) — Emma Watson has a lot of sympathy for Kate Middleton. The royal bride-to-be is under a worldwide spotlight ahead of her April 29 wedding to Prince William — with special focus on fashion, what she’ll wear for her big day. Only two billion people may be watching, according to one British minister. “Poor girl, that must be an incredible amount of pressure,” Watson told The Associated Press in an interview earlier this month. “I hope she’s enjoying it. Must be intense.” Watson herself knows something about life in the spotlight. Over the last eleven years she’s grown up on screen and in public from a child actress to a film star. These days who she’s dating is big entertainment news, what she’s wearing is dissected by fashionistas around the globe, which products she is endorsing fuels business stories. A simple trip to the hairdresser to cut her long golden brown
hair into an elfin crop made international headlines. Along with co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint, Watson’s brought the magical books of JK Rowling to life, by playing Harry Potter’s bookish but gutsy pal Hermione Granger. And, like her character, Watson has always been studious. She enrolled to study liberal arts at Rhode Island’s Brown University in 2009. But being a movie star and an Ivy League student took its toll, and she says commuting back and forth to the U.S. left her stressed out. Ever the perfectionist, Watson couldn’t stand delivering a below-average performance, so she took some time off. How very Hermione. “I just knew I was going to be beating myself up because I wasn’t going to be able to be doing the best that I knew that I could at school or in my job,” she said. “If I’d been getting B’s or C’s I would’ve been really upset.” So she will be returning to
school in September after helping to promote the final two films. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” is out on DVD in the U.S. on April 15 — with “Part 2,” the last installment, set for release in July. Watson also found time for another movie role in “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” which starts filming in May. Watson also plans to check out Radcliffe’s Broadway stint singing and dancing in “How to Succeed to Business Without Really Trying” — and admits she’s very tempted to follow in his tip-tapping footsteps. “It’s something that I’ve always wanted to do,” she explained. “The idea of having a live audience is just really appealing to me. I think that must be an amazing experience.” So, for the girl who turns 21 on Friday, life is good. “I just had so many amazing opportunities come my way. I just want to make the best of everything,” Watson said.
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This is a Sunday, Feb. 13 file photo of actress Emma Watson as she arrives for the BAFTA Film Awards 2011, at The Royal Opera House in London. Watson will be returning to school in September after helping to promote the final two Potter films.
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Rutgers students seek Springsteen to bolster image
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — Some students at New Jersey’s largest university believe Bruce Springsteen is their salvation. They have started a Facebook campaign called “Let’s Bring the Boss to Rutgers!” to counteract fallout from a recent appearance by Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi. The Rutgers University Programming Association paid the “Jersey Shore” reality TV star $32,000 to answer questions. That’s $2,000 more than Rutgers will pay Nobelwinning novelist Toni Morrison to deliver the commencement address next month. Freshman Daniel Oliveto and junior Paul Tranquilli are spearheading the effort. Oliveto tells the Asbury Park Press Polizzi’s message to “study hard, but party harder,” was offensive. Rutgers University President Richard McCormick said school administrators asked students in charge of booking campus entertainment to reconsider
their decision to bring “Snooki” to the school. He said students are allowed to book whatever entertainers they choose with the $6 per student per semester fee for such events. “We don’t censor who they invite — we don’t say you can invite Lawerence Welk but you can’t invite Snooki,” McCormick told a panel of New Jersey senators in response to a question on Monday. One GOP senator has since called for legislation allowing students to “opt in” to paying entertainment fees. Sen. Joe Kyrillos said students and their parents shouldn’t have to pay for entertainment they find objectionable. McCormick said the administration and the students have learned a life lesson. The students hope Springsteen would either perform or have a question-and-answer session similar to the sit-down Snooki gave last month. Springsteen’s publicist has not replied to a request for a response.
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Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi leaves a taping of the “Late Show with David Letterman” in New York, in this Jan. 10, photo. The Rutgers University Programming Association paid “Snooki” of the reality TV show “Jersey Shore” $32,000 Thursday March 31 to dish on her hairstyle, fist pumps, as well as the GTL lifestyle. That’s $2,000 more what the university is paying Nobel-winning novelist Toni Morrison to deliver Rutgers’ commencement address in May.
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President’s sister puts their mom in picture book NEW YORK (AP) — Above a rooftop in Jakarta or the Indus River in Pakistan, the moon looms large in the childhood memories of Maya Soetoro-Ng, but President Obama’s little sister hadn’t realized how important those memories were until she was pregnant with her oldest daughter. It was then she thought about how their mother, Ann Dunham, would jostle her awake wherever they were — in India or New York, England or Hawaii — to head outside so they could appreciate the moon. And how grandmother and granddaughter would never meet. Suhaila, now 6, was born a decade after Dunham died of cancer, but Soetoro-Ng has paired her and “Grandma Annie” through the moon in a picture book out this month. The dreamily drawn book from Candlewick Press, “Ladder to the Moon,” opens with little Suhaila asking her mother what her grandmother was like. “She was like the moon,” her mother replies. “Full, soft and curious.” In a telephone interview from her home in Hawaii, Soetoro-Ng told The Associated Press that she thought of her mother “a lot during my pregnancy, having come across boxes full of my children’s books and toys that she had saved for me. That moment was a great shuddering moment of love and longing. I really did want to somehow connect the two of them.” She and husband Konrad Ng chose the name Suhaila because it means “glow around the moon” in Sanskrit. The book describes how one night, a golden ladder appears at the girl’s open bedroom window with her grandmother, hair flowing down her back and silver bangles tinkling on her arms. The two climb to the moon, looking down on a world filled with sorrow, from earthquakes and tsunamis, poverty and intolerance. They invite children and others who are suffering to take refuge on their gray, glowing moon, until it’s time for the girl to say goodbye and climb back into bed, knowing they’ve helped others heal. Like Soetoro-Ng, who said she wrote the book to encourage unity, compassion and peace, Suhaila hopes the book will have an impact on the world.
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(Above) A Tuesday, March 29 photo shows Maya Soetoro-Ng, left, and her daughter Suhaila Ng, 6, as they look at Soetoro-Ng's new book, "Ladder to the Moon," at their home in Honolulu. (Top Right) Maya Soetoro-Ng holds her new book, which draws on memories of their mother, Ann Dunham. (Bottom Right) The cover of "Ladder to the Moon."
“I hope my friends read my moms book,” the first-grader said in an email, clearly composed on her own, 6-year-old grammar and all. “And my cousins read my moms book. and my teachers read my moms book. And when my sister is old enough to read I hope she reads it. I hope that when they read it they think about peace and no more fiting in the world and I hope that many peopol like it.” She continued: “I think its awesome that my name is in the book becuaes I love books and maybe someone like me will read the book and feel like I am there friend.” Friendship was something that came easily to Dunham, explained Soetoro-Ng. Her mother lived in 13 different places around the world, first alone and later with her daughter and son in tow, but felt at home, “more or less,” in each, Soetoro-Ng said. And how did this affect SoetoroNg’s famous brother? “That ability to break down perceived boundaries or cross bridges is something that he got from her,” she said. On Tuesday, during a New York City swing to promote the book, Soetoro-Ng deftly handled yearsold questions about her brother’s citizenship, an issue Donald Trump has been trying to revive in
recent weeks as he mulls a run for president himself. “The facts are simply that my brother was born in the United States at the Kapiolani Hospital for Women and Children in 1961. His birth certificate has been authenticated by a number of sources,” she said. “Really I feel that it behooves us to think about moving forward, and up, and really focusing on positive possibilities and solutions, and the facts are that my brother is a U.S. citizen.” Dunham, divorced from Obama’s father and years later from Soetoro-Ng’s, died in 1995 at age 53 of ovarian and uterine cancer before the births of her four grandchildren — Suhaila, her 2-year-old sister Savita and their famous cousins, Malia and Sasha Obama. A natural storyteller, Dunham passed on many of her best to her kids while under the glow of the moon. “The moon sort of guided us to points of intersection,” Soetoro-Ng said. “She loved the moon so much because the moon was the same for everybody and all of these people and places were connected because we shared the same moon.” The book takes its title
from Georgia O’Keeffe’s 1958 painting of a floating ladder on an aqua background. Born in Jakarta, Soetoro-Ng attended Barnard College and the University of Hawaii before earning her master’s in secondary education from New York University. She spent several years teaching and developing curricula for public middle schools in Manhattan, then returned to Hawaii and received a Ph.D in international comparative education. She now lives with her family in Honolulu, working as a cultural educator for the nonprofit East-West Center and lecturing in the education department at the University of Hawaii. So when did she find the time to write a children’s book? In Chicago, at her brother’s kitchen table while helping to get him elected president. SoetoroNg had always wanted to write a book for young kids. At the time, Obama had just signed a contract for “Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters,” his picture book released last November. “I felt suddenly brave, taking the risk of trying to get published,” she said. Soetoro-Ng, nine years younger than the president, has
always celebrated her multicultural heritage as the daughter of a white American and an Indonesian dad, but Dunham has brown skin in the book — and deliberately so. Soetoro-Ng showed her illus-
trator, Yuyi Morales, photos of Dunham and Suhaila before Morales went to work and “asked her to not be true to those pictures.” Morales drew partly on her own Mexican heritage in creating the drawings.
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Werth homers against former team to help lift Nats WASHINGTON (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jayson Werth tried hard not to show this performance against his old Phillies teammates meant anything special. Werth homered and doubled to lead the Washington Nationals to a 7-4 win Tuesday night in his first appearance against Philadelphia since leaving as a free agent this winter. When asked afterward about the significance of the game, at first he shrugged it off, calling it "business as usual." But a question about his home run led to a playful dig at his former manager, Philadelphia's Charlie Manuel. "I was just trying to perform well for Charlie," Werth said with a smile. "He hasn't seen me play in a while." Werth showed everyone he still has the offensive form that earned him a $126 million, seven-year contract with the Nationals this offseason after four years with Philadelphia. He doubled to lead off the fourth inning and later scored, starting a three-run inning that gave the Nationals the lead for good. His solo homer in the fifth gave Washington a 5-1 lead. "Anytime you hit a home run you're going to have some satisfaction," Werth said. "Was it extra special against those guys? Probably a little bit." Phillies fans made up a large percentage of the sparse crowd at Nationals Park, and they booed Werth each time he came to bat â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or fielded a fly ball in right field. Nationals closer Sean Burnett, sitting in Washington's right-field bullpen, heard those jeers clearly throughout the early innings. "I haven't pulled so hard for a guy to hit a home run in my life," said Burnett, who pitched the final five outs for the save. "It was something the bullpen really wanted, because we had to listen to those fans out there." Livan Hernandez (1-1) allowed one run on seven hits, struck out six and didn't
walk a batter in 6 2-3 innings. He also picked up a sacrificebunt RBI as the Nationals won for the fourth time in five games. "He just knows how to pitch," Phillies center fielder Shane Victorino said. "That's why he's been successful and why he's been doing it for so long." Washington led 5-1 after five innings and 6-1 after seven, but Philadelphia didn't go down easily. The Phillies loaded the bases with one out in both the seventh and eighth innings. In the seventh, Hernandez struck out pinch-hitter John Mayberry on a 62 mph curveball, and Clippard struck out Victorino to end the inning. The Phillies were able to score two in the same scenario an inning later. Jimmy Rollins scored on a fielders-choice groundout by Raul Ibanez and Howard came home on a wild pitch by Burnett. "It's the Phillies," Washington manager Jim Riggleman said. "You know they're going to battle you the whole way through. All night, it never felt like a widespread margin." Philadelphia's Ryan Howard led off the second inning with a homer to left, his third of the season. Joe Blanton (0-1) worked six innings, giving up five runs on seven hits for the Phillies. In two starts this season, Blanton has allowed 12 runs in 10 1-3 innings for a 10.45 ERA. The Nationals tied the game 1-all in the bottom of the second on Danny Espinosa's sacrifice fly, then grabbed the lead in the fourth. Wilson Ramos doubled home Werth, and Washington loaded the bases on Laynce Nix's single and a walk to Danny Espinosa. Jerry Hairston Jr. singled home Ramos, and Hernandez followed with a surprise bases-loaded sacrifice bunt to score Nix. Washington increased the lead to 6-1 in the seventh when reliever Antonio Bastardo issued a bases-loaded walk to Ramos.
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Washington Nationals' Jayson Werth (28) is followed by teammates as they are congratulated by Nationals staff after a 7-4 win the against the Philadelphia Phillies in a baseball game at Nationals Park on Tuesday.
Thanks for the memories Kemba, good luck in the league!
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BROWN BEARS COME TO STORRS BASEBALL
16-12-1, 7-2
VS.
6-18, 4-4
Today, 3:30 p.m. J.O. Christian Field
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After dropping a heartbreaker on the road at Yale last night, UConn will look to rebound today at home against Brown. First pitch is 3:30 p.m. in Storrs.
McDonough: Whatever decision Calhoun makes is right one from BIGGER, page 14 coach to win an NCAA championship and said in 2009 that he would’ve retired if UConn won the title. They fell short in the Final Four, but two years later the Braintree, Mass. native has an opportunity to go out on top. After the 53-41 win and defensive showcase against Butler, Calhoun told reporters he couldn’t make such a decision on such an emotional night. After returning home to Boston last weekend for the Yankees versus Red Sox game, Calhoun still has not made up his mind. “I can guarantee you I haven’t made my mind up in any way,” Calhoun told the AP Saturday at Fenway Park after throwing out the first pitch. “I’m just going to try to get this team ready for next year and we’ll see what happens.” There is a part of me that wants Calhoun to go out on top. He is one of five coaches to win
three championships. He has a wife, Pat, children and grandchildren. He has made UConn the school it is today. No president, professor or student has had the impact that Calhoun has had on the university. Not to spite anyone, but the UConn basketball team has risen in the last 25 years, and so has the university. Calhoun is not perfect. At times he looks like an angry old man. He chews and spits his gum while screaming at players. He’s been cited by the NCAA for recruiting violations, which is one reason for him to stay. Calhoun has a three-game suspension to serve next year while his young pups will be the defending national champions. Calhoun may not want to leave the program during its probation and especially leave Jeremy Lamb, Roscoe Smith and Shabazz Napier after one season. Along with Alex Oriakhi, the other freshmen and hopefully Andre Drummond in the next two years, Calhoun will have a chance to add to
his legacy. Although Calhoun can also leave with his star, Kemba Walker, staying for more chances at glory wouldn’t be a bad idea. But if he doesn’t come back he’s already secure in the pantheon of the great coaches in sports history. NCAA violations aside, the UConn basketball program has a bright future, with or without its catalyst. If Calhoun does retire, I will have been at his final game coaching basketball. Just like Calhoun was in a Boston suburb for my father’s final game playing high school basketball. But if our coach comes back next season, hopefully I’ll be standing in New Orleans, while there’s a mob on Fairfield Way, and Calhoun will have another chance to end his career on top. That’d be an even better ending to the story.
Colin.McDonough@UConn.edu
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Jim Calhoun, coach of the NCAA champions University of Connecticut men's basketball team, throws the ceremonial first pitch prior to a Yankees-Red Sox game Saturday in Boston.
Walking away: Kemba says goodbye Penfield: Manny should not be forgiven for his mistakes to place he considered home from RAMIREZ, page 14 from BIGGER, page 14 Walker is the 13th player in UConn history to leave school early for the NBA. After each of the three national championships, in 1999, 2004 and now 2011, the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four left UConn after their championship junior seasons. In 1999 it was Richard Hamilton. In 2004 it was Emeka Okafor. Now it is Walker. Walker will graduate on May 8, in three years, just like Okafor. Walker said finishing 11-0 in the postseason made it easier to leave. “It definitely made it that much easier, because it rose my stock,” Walker said. “Winning those games definitely helped me out, it wasn’t that hard of a decision.” Calhoun said that Walker is not only a great player, but also a great person.
“If you wanted to ever have a road map to do it the right way, Kemba Walker may be the road map to follow,” Calhoun said. “There’s no one that’s ever had a season like Kemba. He’s going to be missed, I’m starting to miss him now actually.” The Bronx native is a Knicks fan, and said in a perfect world he’d call MSG home in the NBA. Walker said that the national championship hasn’t fully sunk in, but no matter where he goes in the NBA, “It was like a movie, the whole year,” Walker said. “The postseason was perfect.”
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Ramirez has always been forgiven for his mistakes in the past. But this is the last straw. Many a time, Ramirez used his phantom “hamstring” injury to take time off. He was forgiven. Many a time, Ramirez demanded a trade from the Red Sox. He was forgiven. In 2008, Ramirez got into physical altercations with Kevin Youkilis and a 64-yearold clubhouse attendant. He was forgiven. In the midst of the 2008
season, Ramirez finally got his wish: the Red Sox got fed up with his act and shipped him to the Dodgers. It was almost as if they could see into the future. The Dodgers were thrilled with what Ramirez gave them in the last 53 games of the season: a .396 batting average, 17 home runs and 53 RBI, leading them to their first NL West title since 2004 and a berth in the NLCS. They even named the leftfield bleachers “Manny-Wood.” They weren’t prepared for what happened next. Ramirez tested positive for a banned
substance before the season started and missed the first 50-games of the season. The magic of Manny in L.A. never returned. He had only 19 home runs and 63 RBI in 104 games that season. The demise of Manny was complete. He has since bounced between teams, playing half a season for the Chicago White Sox before ending up on the Tampa Bay Rays to begin the 2011 season trying to revitalize his career as a DH. Manny played just five games for the Rays, hitting .059 before his positive test was revealed,
tainting a sure first-ballot Hall of Fame career. Instead of facing his most recent suspension like a man, Manny quit. It’s fitting that Ramirez would be the player to test positive twice, because that’s the type of bozo he is. Bobby Jenks said it best: “You do it, you get caught, you’re an idiot. If you do it again, you’re a dumbass.” Just Manny being Manny, right?
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Home game
Away game Gampel Pavilion, XL Center
Today Brown 3:30 p.m.
The Daily Question Q : “How long will it be until Maya Moore wins WNBA MVP?” A : “She’ll win the award next year.”
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April 18 UMass 3 p.m.
Next Paper’s Question:
“How early will Kemba Walker be drafted?”
– Kerri Flaherty, 6th-semester psychology major.
» That’s what he said
» MLB AP Kemba Walker
» Pic of the day
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Texas Rangers’ Josh Hamilton reacts after being tagged out at home plate in the first inning of a baseball game in Detroit. It was reported he broke his arm and will be out 6-8 weeks.
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“It says 2008 to 2011 (on the banner), so it was like he’s (saying), ‘Let’s get him out of here.“ – Former UConn guard Kemba Walker on Calhoun and the school inducting him into the “Huskies Ring of Honor.”
Baseball (16-12-1) (7-2)
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Bonds jury deliberates for 3rd day with no verdict
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jurors in the Barry Bonds case remained mostly out of sight on day 3 of their deliberations. They never entered Judge Susan Illston’s courtoom on the 19th floor of the Phillip Burton Federal Building, spending about six hours behind closed doors Tuesday without reaching a verdict. Except for a couple of quick breaks and a timeout for lunch, that was it. No questions for the judge. No readbacks of testimony. And no clues as to which way, if any, the eight women and four men who will decide the home-run king’s fate are leaning. With each passing hour Wednesday, speculation mounted as to whether the jury even will be able to reach a verdict on the four charges: three counts of making false statements to a grand jury in 2003 and one count of obstruction of justice. Only the dozen jurors really know what’s going on. “I would say it is still early to be thinking about a hung jury,” said Douglas Tween, a former trial attorney in the Justice Department’s antitrust division and now a principal at Baker & McKenzie. “A general rule of thumb is one to two days of deliberation for every week of trial, so I don’t think this case is unusual at this point.” Following 25 witnesses who testified over the better part of three weeks, the jury must decide whether Bonds is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt on each count. He is charged with lying to the grand jury when he denied receiving steroids and human growth hormone from personal trainer Greg Anderson and when he said that he allowed only doctors to inject him. During closing arguments last week, defense lawyer Allen Ruby reminded the jury that in addition to being proven false, Bonds’ statements also must have affected the grand jury’s work, which was to investigate the distribution of performance-enhancing drugs by the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative. While Bonds’ former personal shopper, Kathy Hoskins, testified she saw Greg Anderson inject Bonds near the navel in 2002, she also didn’t know what was in the syringe. In the jurors’ two questions to Illston last Friday — their only ones during deliberations thus far — they asked to rehear a secretly recorded conversation between former Bonds business partner Steve Hoskins — Kathy’s brother — and to have Kathy Hoskins’ testimony read back. Even if the jurors determine Bonds’ answers were false, they also must conclude that by lying Bonds was capable of influencing the grand jury’s decision.
THE Pro Side
Unlike this season, rest of wom- Red Sox slow start and sleepy bats shocks baseball world en’s team must shoulder load By Colin McDonough Senior Staff Writer Coach Geno Auriemma and the UConn women’s basketball team’s bid for a third straight national championship ended April 3 at the hands of Notre Dame in the Final Four. The proIrish crowd in Indianapolis cheered as Skylar Diggins celebrated with her green clad teammates as Notre Dame pulled off the upset against the No. 1 seed Huskies. The game ended Maya Moore’s career, but will be lingering in the mouths of Bria Hartley, Tiffany Hayes, Stefanie Dolson and Kelly Faris heading into next season. If UConn wants to get past the national semifinal and win the program’s eighth national championship, then these four, along with the rest of the team, will have to step up and collectively fill Moore’s shoes. Moore, the best player in the history of women’s college basketball, will leave a void that could only be filled by multiple
players. In her final collegiate game, she quite frankly didn’t get enough help. There weren’t enough contributors in Indy. Moore took 30 of 59 shots and Hartley was the only other Husky that scored double figures. Dolson was plagued with fouls and Hayes and Faris combined to shoot 4 of 13 from the field. Moore scored 36 points and had to shoulder too much of the load. Despite the scoring output, it wasn’t enough to carry the Huskies to victory. Next season, Hartley and Dolson will be sophomores with experience and Hayes will be the senior leader. The women will once again be a contender for the national championship. With Jeremy Lamb and other freshmen on the men’s team leading them to the title this season, there is no doubt with a little push from coach Geno Auriemma, the group coming back next year can win it all once again.
Colin.McDonough@UConn.edu
By Mac Cerullo Sports Editor Coming into the year with World Series aspirations, the Boston Red Sox have not even come close to meeting the hype in the early going of the new season. Starting the year at a dismal 2-8, the Red Sox have struggled in all areas of the game, including many that are supposed to be some of the team’s biggest strengths. Perhaps most shocking of all is the team’s inability to pitch. Through the first 10 games of the year, the Red Sox’s starting rotation has only produced two quality starts. Of those two starts, the Red Sox only managed to win one in Josh Beckett’s eight-inning gem against the New York Yankees. Overall, the Red Sox pitching ranks last in the major leagues, with a team ERA of 7.29, and the staff has served up 21 home runs, also worst in the majors. To be sure, that isn’t what the experts were planning on before the year. But beyond the team’s inability to pitch has been its struggle to get big hits with runners on base. The normally clutch lineup has repeatedly come up short this season, which
AP Terry Francona relieves Clay Buchholz.
hasn’t helped the team’s pitching deficit one bit. But with a rotation that includes proven competitors like Jon Lester and Josh Beckett, and a lineup that includes offensive stars like Dustin Pedroia and Adrian Gonzalez, it seems likely that the Red Sox will find their stroke eventually. The team started off slowly last season, too, before eventually climbing back into the picture. Good teams have underachieved before, and only time will tell whether the Red Sox will prove to be a great team that started off slowly, or a bad team that should have been great.
Michael.Cerullo@UConn.edu
» INSIDE SPORTS TODAY
P.13: Bonds jury deliberates for 3rd day. / P.12: Baseball takes on Brown. / P.11: Werth paces Nats to win over Phils.
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Kemba Walker announces he will skip senior season and enter NBA Draft
By Colin and Matt McDonough Sports Staff
Colin McDonough Jim Calhoun, like my father, is an Irish guy from outside of Boston. Calhoun has felt like part of my family since we started watching UConn basketball growing up in Connecticut. But my dad had a connection to coach Calhoun prior to paying my tuition at UConn. When my dad was a senior in high school, his last varsity basketball game at Norwood High School was against nearby Dedham. Calhoun was at the helm of Dedham High School in 1972, on his way to leading the Marauders to a perfect regular season, while my dad was a part of a Mustang team that had already been eliminated from Massachusetts state tournament contention. The next year, my dad was a freshman at Duquesne University. Calhoun was a first year college coach at Northeastern. Since 1972, the year my dad moved to Connecticut, and for better or for worse, brought Matt and I into the world. But more importantly, Calhoun has brought three national championships back to the state of Connecticut and made UConn a name known around the world. On April 4, Matt and I stood in Reliant Stadium while confetti rained down on the Huskies and us as UConn capped an incredible run to the national title. While Calhoun was interviewed by Jim Nantz, it finally dawned on me that Husky nation could be seeing its creator one final time. Calhoun, 68, is the oldest
» MCDONOUGH, page 11
Ramirez ends career a quitter
By Willy Penfield MLB Columnist Quitting on his team – a rather fitting end to the long, wacky career of outfielder Manny Ramirez. Rather than face a 100-game suspension for a second violation of Major League Baseball’s performance-enhancing drug policy, Ramirez has decided to retire. Ramirez says he is at ease and is off on a trip to Spain. This is not the first time Ramirez tested positive for a banned substance. In 2009, Ramirez served a 50-game suspension to begin the season after testing positive for a banned substance as a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers. In typical Ramirez fashion, he claimed that he did not take steroids, but in fact took a fertility drug that produced artificial testosterone. “I do want to say one thing, I’ve taken and passed about 15 drug tests over the past five seasons,” Ramirez said after being handed down his suspension in 2009. Well, Manny, you may have beat the system 15 times, but you’ve finally gotten caught. It is well-known that the drug you supposedly tested positive for in 2009 is a drug that masks HGH and steroids. You’re not fooling anyone. It makes you wonder what Manny was taking before Major League Baseball implemented drug testing. The once-beloved Boston player, who led a “cursed” team to two World Series Championships, is now the laughing stock of baseball.
» PENFIELD, page 11
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As Jim Calhoun sat at a table, still wavering as to whether he will return for his 26th season as coach of the UConn men’s basketball team, Kemba Walker, sitting beside the coach, made his intentions very clear. Walker was going out on top. The junior guard announced his decision to forgo his senior season and final year of eligibility by declaring for the NBA Draft at Gampel Pavilion yesterday afternoon. Walker has not hired an agent yet, but he said there’s no chance he’d come back. “I just think it’s the right time for me to go to the NBA,” Walker said. “I think Coach did a great job of preparing me to play on that level.” Calhoun and Walker joked that UConn didn’t have enough scholarships to come back next season. “It’s an incredibly happy day for all of us, but it’s a very sad day for us to lose them (Walker’s family) and Kemba,” Calhoun said. “In life you got to keep going, he’s ready to move on. He’s a man, he’s ready to move on as a basketball player. He just completed the finest basketball season in the history of this university.” Walker finished his career playing in 111 games in three seasons. He finished seventh on
UConn’s all-time scoring list. The Cousy Award winner averaged 16.1 points per game, 4.4 rebounds and 4.1 assists. In his final season he won tournament MVPs in the Maui Invitational, Big East tournament and NCAA tournament. After winning the national championship on April 4, Walker’s No. 15 was retired in the UConn Huskies of Honor in Gampel during the welcome home rally on April 5. The Huskies were unranked prior to the season, and finished the year No. 1. Although UConn pulled out a surprise title, it was never a shock Walker would leave after his junior year. “None of us are really surprised,” said Alex Oriakhi. “Kemba’s one of my best friends on the team, it definitely will suck when he does leave.” Oriakhi, along with Donnell Beverly, Roscoe Smith, Jeremy Lamb and other members of the program, attended the press conference. “My teammates, everybody around this program have just been key factors in my life on every aspect,” Walker said. “It’s a happy day but also a sad day, like I said I’m leaving my brothers…the whole state of Connecticut has been very supportive throughout my whole career here. Connecticut will always be my home. I’ll never forget this place, because this place raised me. I’m just happy to say I played at this program.”
» WALKING, page 12
Junior Kemba Walker announces that he will not return to UConn next season and will enter the NBA Draft, becoming the 13th Husky in history to leave school early.
Excitement in camp as spring game looms
By Darryl Blain Campus Correspondent
coming in a chance to compete,” said Pasqualoni. This philosophy means a lot to the Huskies, with the starting There was noticeable excite- QB job up for grabs. Freshman ment among the UConn foot- Michael Nebrich is being considball team at practice yesterday, ered for the position, along with inside of the Mark R. Shenkman Michael Box and famed trick-shot Training Center. It’s the beginning QB Johnny McEntee. Pasqualoni plans to balance out the of a new era under head reps during the game coach Paul Pasqualoni, between all the QBs. and the annual Blue“It all comes down to White spring game who is most productive on Saturday is rapfor us.” idly approaching, with Pasqualoni also the players wanting a doesn’t seem concerned chance to get out and Notebook with how game-ready prove themselves. the team is. “The fact The practice started with drills and moved on to full- that they played in a later bowl speed situational plays, which game gives them a chance to stay included everything from scream- in better shape, as it is for all of ing coaches to one-handed side- college football.” D.J. Shoemate, RB and senior line catches (courtesy of red-shirt freshman Geremy Davis) and an transfer from USC, is another occasional big hit or two. With a player with a lot to show everynew coach to impress, the players one. Shoemate, who only received are making it clear that they have 28 rushing attempts last year, is expected to step up into a much something to prove. “Our policy is to give everyone larger role this year now that
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Jordan Todman has left for the NFL draft and Robbie Frey has transferred. “Last year was a learning process for me,” said Shoemate. “I’ve grown chemistry and built relationships with my teammates, and I’m more confident this year.” Shoemate will have to step into this role under Pasqualoni’s new system, but he seems to be adjusting. “I played in this type of offense at USC, so it’s not a huge jump.” Still, the team will likely be under a lot of scrutiny from fans and coaches alike. Shoemate just wants fans to, above all else, “have a good time and see a team giving it their all and playing as a team.” LB Jerome Williams did not practice yesterday and will miss the Blue-White game, but is expected to return for preseason practice according to Pasqualoni. The game is scheduled to kick off at 5 p.m. on Saturday at Rentschler Field. Admission and parking will be free.
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Wide receiver Kashif Moore, seen here i nteh Fiesta Bowl, will wear the No. 6 jersey for his senior season. It starts this Saturday at Rentschler Field for the Blue-White Spring Game.
UConn looks for the upset against the ‘Ville By Michael Ferraro Campus Correspondent
er in Kentucky. The Huskies, riding a small twogame win streak, will counter with Kiki Saveriano and Ali Adelman. After two wins against teams with The Huskies will look to hand the sub-par records, the Huskies look to Cardinals their second loss of the upset the Louisville Cardinals, who season in Big East play. For the are tied with DePaul for third place Huskies to have any chance of beatin the Big East Conference. ing Louisville, they will need to be The Cardinals have a record of consistent on offense and defense, 30-10 on the year and something they have are led by starting pitchstruggled with all year. ers Caralisa Connell and The Huskies will get a Tori Collins. The Huskies at Louisville chance at revenge after look to stop the Cardinals’ last season ended with 11-game win streak, 12 and 2 p.m. three straight losses to in which Connell is the Louisville. In the final Ulmer pitcher of record. Before home series last seaStadium their win streak, Connell’s son the Huskies scored pitching history was just a total of four runs and above average. Now she is 17-4 on were shutout in one of the games. the season. Collins is 12-5 on the During the Cardinals’ season. In all likelihood the Huskies 11-game win streak they have will face one, if not both, of these swept three games against pitchers in tomorrow’s doublehead- Pittsburgh, had a double-header
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Jennifer Ward and the Huskies will look to continue their winning streak at Louisville.
at DePaul and a three-game sweep of Seton Hall, Indiana and won two games out of a three-game series against Villanova, the last team to
defeat the Cardinals. If the Huskies could manage the double-header sweep, they would have a solid hold on the No. five spot in the Big East and will be over
.500 for the first time since their home opener against Fairfield. This upcoming stretch of five Big East games will be the second longest stretch of games the Huskies will play against Big East opponents. In order for the Huskies to be successful, they need to have stellar pitching performances from Saveriano and Adelman. But they will also need players like Julianne Towers, Andrea Huelsenbeck and Kim Silva to have big games in order to squash the Cardinals. This is the Huskies’ sixth game of Big East play. Their current record stands at 3-2, while the Cardinals are 8-1 in Big East play. The action will start tomorrow at noon and the second game of the double-header is scheduled to start at 2 p.m.
Michael.Ferraro@UConn.edu