The Daily Campus: April 21, 2011

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Efforts made to control Spring Weekend

By Monica Mula Campus Correspondent

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Spring Weekend has undergone many changes this year.

One of these is the amount of students and administration involved in the conversation about it.

A task force was created under President Hogan to deescalate the weekend. USG wrote a statement of position on it and students were encouraged to be an active part of the

discussion as well.

After USG passed the Statement of Position in February, Connor Bergen and the student affairs committee took to spreading its information.

As student affairs committee chair, Bergen said he felt responsible for making it clear to students what is expected of them during Spring Weekend and what they should know before going out.

“The main objective was safety for students and everybody involved,” said Bergen, a 4th-

semester political science and economics major. “We want to let people know what makes this year different than others.”

USG created a Spring Weekend website, www.uconnspringweekend.weebly.com, to achieve this goal of educating the student body.

“After lots of meetings and talks with officials, we felt an informative website would be the most effective way for students to access important information and safety precautions in order to make this year a safer

one,” Bergen said.

Bergen said Maeve Shea, a 2nd-semester ACES student and freshman class senator, played an integral role in this campaign.

“Communication between the administration and students has been an issue in the past and I knew it was absolutely necessary to make sure the entire campus knew what was going on,” Shea said. “That’s why we created the website.”

Viewers of the site can learn about the history of Spring Weekend since it began in the

1960s, read the statement of position and official university task force report, gain useful safety tips and learn what has changed this year.

The guest policy, in both the dorms and dining halls, is among the changes this year and is explained in detail on the website.

During Easter weekend, only UConn students may be guests in dorm rooms and they must first obtain a pass from

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New rules change weekend plans

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By Olivia Balsinger Campus Correspondent

HUSKIES FALL TO MINUTEMEN Plourde and UMass shut out UConn in Storrs.

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EDITORIAL: STATE VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS MUST KEEP DOORS OPEN Schools offer an important alternative.

COMMENTARY/page 4

INSIDE NEWS: NEASC PICKS FORMER LAWMAKER AS NEW HEAD OF ASSOCIATION Cameron Staples will begin her term as chief executive officer on July 1.

NEWS/ page 2

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Students take back the night at UConn

By Brian Zahn Associate News Editor The statistics are not in favor of college-aged women.

Women between the ages of 16 and 24 are four times more likely to be raped than women above the age of 25. Last night, UConn held its annual Take Back the Night event, an international event that

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began around 1976. The event is aimed at empowering victims of rape and sexual abuse, while creating a “community initiative,” according to program coordinator of UConn’s Violence Against Women Protection Program (VAWPP), Venida Rodman Jenkins.

The event is iconic for having participants march a lap around campus with signs, chanting things like, “Whatever we wear/

Wherever we go/ Yes means yes/ No means no!” and “Sexist/ Rapist/ Anti-gay/ Don’t you take our night away!”

Guest speaker Barbara Gurr, a women’s studies instructor at UConn, led the charge into the night. “If we don’t see each other, how can we help each other?” she asked.

She addressed several groups, Native American women, women who are victims of sex-

ual abuse, men who “challenge masculinity” and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, telling them that she “sees” them.

Gurr referred to the tone of her speech as depressing, saying that she had effectively killed the mood that gospel choir Voices of Freedom had set with an opening number that

do family,” she said.

Majumdar noted that South Asian families have great pride in their family bonds, commenting that many often use the high American divorce rate as proof that South Asian bonds are fundamentally stronger than those developed in the Western world.

“In South Asian culture, there are strong family bonds, there is strong filial piety; it is an overall strong family community.”

“It is very, very different than family in Western culture,” Majumdar said.

South Asian countries are well- known for their traditional pressure for marriage, something existent – but not so potent – in American culture.

Because of that sometimes daunting pressure to marry, Majumdar said the plight of an in-the-closet South Asian gay is often seen as a greater burden

than that of any other gay who has yet to share his sexual orientation.

“There is a lot of policing of sexuality [in South Asian culture],” Majumdar said.

“Homosexuality is treated as a Western thing that corrupts their people.”

Majumdar noted that, in interviews she conducted, many South Asians she had spoken to said they had no concept of gay until they learned of American celebrities, like ‘80s pop star George Michael.

When there is a realization of a queer lifestyle, “Some people maintain two separate worlds – distancing themselves from their families of origin.

Much of this is out of fear that the families will discover their true sexuality. It’s about being queer here and straight there,” Majumdar said.

But, despite the differences of

being South Asian, Majumdar doesn’t believe the culture makes things as bad as they may seem to the outsider.

“There have been stories where children have been disowned, but there is a large stake that this is not adversarial,” she said.

Majumdar said many people she talked to had families who were supportive of their sexual orientation. This result may seem surprising to some who simply imagine the family situations of queer South Asians.

Majumdar wants to change that.

“No one is asking questions about what queer South Asian life is like today – today, no one is doing interviews to see how these people feel about themselves. That is the gap I am trying to fill,” Majumdar said.

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Lecture examines queer South Asian identity

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Nellie Stagg, center, and other students march past Northwest dorms on their path around the Storrs campus during Take Back the Night, making the statement that they are unified against sexual violence.

Shweta Majumdar, a current sociology Ph.D candidate at UConn, presented a segment of her dissertation at Wednesday’s Rainbow Center “Out to Lunch” lecture. Majumdar examined the unique situation of the queer South Asian, one whose sexual orientation seems to challenge the traditional expectations of South Asian culture.

Majumdar, whose research has focused on gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, human rights, and immigration, began by explaining the difference between being queer in America and being queer in any South Asian country.

“How is queer South Asian identity different from any other ethnicity?” Majumdar asked.

“It is because of the way we

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Let’s just say that it is not your average Thursday night on the UConn Storrs campus, as hoards and hoards of young adults walk together in a mob-like fashion towards the Celeron apartments, leading to near-riot situations.

This year, however, this long-standing image of a typical UConn Spring Weekend may be significantly different than what will occur.

According to John Saddlemire, UConn’s Vice President of Student Affairs, in his public statement regarding the weekend, “This year, the three-day period commonly known as ‘Spring Weekend’ at UConn will be significantly different from any recent, previous year.”

This increase in strictness at for the weekend is being implemented across campus for many reasons.

So, what big changes will be made to the campus strictness this weekend, as opposed to past years?

Both the UConn Police Department and the Connecticut State police will block certain roads, parking lots and pathways on and around campus. Police are also making sure that there will be limited outside access to campus and its parking lots.

The traditional areas students flock to on this weekend, Carriage House and Celeron apartments, are also going to be heavily guarded by UConn and Connecticut State police. Each house is allotted a maximum of 30 guests during the weekend, and those students who are not on the police force’s electronically managed guest list will not be permitted into the area.

Chrissy Vasilakos, an 8thsemester secondary education major and resident of Carriage House apartments said, “I think [the de-escalation] is ridiculous.

[The school] is ruining Spring Weekend. One of my favorite things of Spring Weekend is having random people walk into your house. The whole concept of my having to ‘sign people in’ is the reason why I don’t live on campus. I shouldn’t be having people tell me what I can and cannot do.”

Additionally, a no-trespass order has been filed with the state police by the owners of X- Lot, where students have gathered on past Spring Weekends. This order will last “until further notice,” and is going to be heavily enforced by both police troops.

Similarly, the only guests that will be allowed in the Celeron apartment complex are those that already live there, as a no-trespass order

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What’s on at UConn today...

Art Exhibition 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The Benton Stop by the Benton to see the Master of Fine Arts Exhibition showcasing sculptures, photographs, videos and paintings.

STD Testing 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

SU Ballroom 330 Take advantage of Get Yourself Tested UConn’s free testing provided by Student Health Services.

Spring Fling 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Dow Field Learn how to stay healthy and fit outside at this Earth Day celebration!

Enjoy the scenery with a walk, jog or bike ride around campus.

Documentary 5 to 7 p.m.

Rainbow Center, SU See “America the Beautiful,” a film by Darryl Roberts about how obsessed Americans are with appearance and achieving beauty.

– ELIZABETH CROWLEY

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United Tech’s 1Q profit up on stronger revenue

HARTFORD (AP) — Elevator, jet engine and building technology maker United Technologies Corp. said Wednesday that its firstquarter net income jumped 17 percent as its revenue rose and orders climbed for all three businesses.

The results beat Wall Street expectations, and the Hartford-based manufacturer of Otis elevators, Sikorsky helicopters, Pratt & Whitney jet engines and Carrier heating and cooling systems raised its 2011 profit guidance.

United Technologies has been benefiting from rising demand for airline parts and the improving commercial and real estate markets.

But the company warned that rising oil prices and disruptions in supplies in Japan following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami could hurt its airline customers.

Its shares rose $3.54, or 4.3 percent, to $86.31.

Guilty plea in killing at religious site

WATERBURY (AP) — A man accused of killing a teenage girl at a former religious attraction whose 50-foot cross serves as a city landmark pleaded guilty Wednesday to a murder charge.

Francisco Cruz, of Waterbury, will face 55 years in prison under a plea agreement when he’s sentenced June 17, prosecutor Eva Lenczewski said. Cruz, 20, had faced a capital felony charge that could have carried a death sentence.

Cruz confessed to killing his 16-year-old friend Chloe Ottman at Holy Land USA last July 15, prosecutors said. He told police he raped, choked and fatally stabbed the girl when she rejected his advances as they drank at the abandoned 18-acre site on a hillside

Attorney, former lawmaker to head NEASC

HARTFORD (AP) — A longtime Connecticut legislator and former attorney general candidate has been chosen over more than 100 other candidates to head a regional education accrediting agency.

The New England Association of Schools and Colleges says Cameron Staples will become its new chief executive officer starting July 1.

NEASC is the accrediting agency for more than 2,000 public and private institutions from pre-kindergarten through universities in New England’s six states. It’s based in Bedford, Mass.

Staples is an attorney from Essex. He was a Connecticut state representative from 1993 through 2010, when he unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination to run for state attorney general.

Staples’ time in the legislature included assignments as chairman of the tax-writing and education committees. He has also served on several national education advisory and oversight boards.

Woman arrested over son’s school enrollment

NORWALK (AP) — Police say a homeless 33-year-old woman has been arrested after allegedly enrolling her son in Norwalk schools by using her babysitter’s address.

Tonya McDowell, whose last known address was in Bridgeport, is scheduled to be arraigned April 27. She is charged with larceny and conspiracy to commit larceny for allegedly stealing $15,686 from Norwalk schools.

Prosecutors say that is the value of her 6-year-old son’s education at Norwalk’s Brookside Elementary School between the time he was illegally enrolled in January and McDowell’s arrest on April 14.

Job cuts loom at Hamilton Sundstrand

HARTFORD (AP) — Aerospace parts-maker Hamilton Sundstrand, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., said it is cutting jobs at its Windsor Locks site to reduce costs.

The number of job cuts has not been determined, but they are needed to boost the company’s competitiveness, Hamilton Sundstrand spokesman Dan Coulom said Wednesday.

Mark Hebert, president of the Machinists local that represents Hamilton Sundstrand workers, said the first phase calls for the company moving 214 jobs from Windsor Locks and is set to begin by the end of the year. A second round of layoffs of 113 workers is scheduled for next year through 2013, he said. About 1,100 union-represented workers are currently employed at the plant.

Coulom said the company and union have agreed on a “transition plan” to move some work to other Hamilton Sundstrand sites in the United States and overseas, Coulom said. The agreement includes a voluntary severance package with a one-time $7,000 payment, one week of severance pay for each year at work and medical and dental insurance for a year.

“Hamilton Sundstrand continues to invest in our Windsor Locks headquarters to upgrade facilities and processes and we are committed to a strong presence in Connecticut,” he said in an emailed statement.

Hebert said the number of layoffs could be reduced if many workers take the voluntary separation deal.

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Participants shared their stories to empower others from STUDENTS, page 1 declared everyone in the audience a champion.

“It should be depressing,” Gurr said. “We should feel this pain.”

She personally thanked the survivors, telling them that for the survivors who were going to share their stories at the open mic, which would take place after the walk, she is “humbled by [their] courage.”

Students took to the sidewalks at about 8 p.m., including John Fitch, an 8th-semester electrical engineering major who rode at the head of the pack on his bicycle.

After the walk finished around 9 p.m. the survivors shared their stories, represented a wide spread on the spectrum of the healing process. Some shared their stories to empower others, while others stated plainly that they were not ready to move on just yet. Many spoke under the condition of having their stories and identities stay in the Student Union Ballroom, and several had not yet shared their stories with their families.

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Three UConn students join in the fight against sexual violence as they walk infront of the Student Union holding candles as part of Take Back the Night.

Stricter rules implemented for off-campus apartments from CHANGES, page 1 the hall director in their area of residence.

In the dining halls, only UConn students may use a friend’s flex pass to enter.

Thus, Bergen recommends always having UConn identification “readily available when going anywhere on campus.”

The police are also enforcing a strict guest policy for offcampus apartments.

Each Carriage apartment is limited to 30 guests and the owners must submit the guest list in advance so the police have a copy as a reference each night.

All others not on a guest list will not be permitted into Carriage.

The owners of X-Lot and Celeron have filed a no-trespass order with the state police.

“Our primary goal is the safety of both UConn students and all others on campus this weekend,” said Lieutenant Hans Rhynhart of the UConn Police Department patrol divi-

sion. “Violent behavior tends to increase in crowds, which is why these guest policies have been implemented.”

“If they choose to disregard these policies, students risk not only criminal charges, but university punishments that could impact their standing,” Rhynhart said.

As opposed to years past, there will be no university-sanctioned events, concerts or activities this year.

“The initial plan was for USG to give bagels and water again, but we wouldn’t have had the support that we did last year because it is considered a sanctioned event,” Bergen said.

“Therefore, USG will not be doing that this year.”

Rhynhart said the decision not to have university sanctioned events was done in an effort to stop the formation of large crowds.

“Anything that can help reduce the number of people that gather in large areas can help reduce destructive behav-

ior,” Rhynhart said.

Rhynhart said police will be directing parking all weekend, and that “there will be no place to park for people coming to party.”

Because of the constant presence and police checkpoints, Rhynhart said he agreed with Bergen that always having your student ID handy would be helpful.

Rhynhart said he realizes that many will still stay on campus and go out this weekend, despite the voluntary moratorium.

“For those who still choose to go out, be sure to walk in groups, stay in well-lit areas and don’t engage in destructive behavior,” Rhynhart said.

Bergen, Shea and the student affairs committee said they will continue spreading information this week through their website and the Facebook event “What Do You Know: UConn Spring Weekend.”

“There’s no need to be left in the dark,” Shea said. “This upcoming weekend is going to

be different than every Spring Weekend in the past and students need to be prepared for that.”

Bergen said he is hopeful that this campaign will achieve their goal of spreading information.

“It has been a month-long project that we really hope is successful in providing all information students could possibly want and need to know about Spring Weekend,” Bergen said.

USG made clear on the Spring Weekend website that their goal is parallel to that of the university community – to promote safety and prevent further violence, not strip students of a tradition.

“Although USG supports the safety of our students, we realize that the sanctioned events are a huge part of the UConn tradition,” reads the website.

“We also believe that students have not received all the important information regarding this weekend to be safe. That’s where this website comes in.

This is for you.”

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Students debate whether or not to stay on campus for weekend from NEW, page 1 has been filed with the state by the owners, which will last “until further notice.”

The police did not return an email in time for publication regarding their opinion on the greater strictness on campus this weekend in comparison to past Spring Weekends.

Another significant change occurring to this year’s Spring Weekend is that guests of UConn students are barred from all campus residence halls from April 21 to 24. Also, dining halls will not allow non-students to enter, which will be enforced by RAs and other Residential staff.

As stated by Saddlemire in his public statement, “Students who violate this temporary restriction by having guests will be subject to disciplinary action.”

As no student-related university events will be scheduled for the weekend, UConn has called for a voluntary moratorium of

the campus.

So, what exactly are Huskies going to be doing on this Spring Weekend?

Caroline Rossi, a 4th-semester political science and English double major said, “I am going home for Spring Weekend because it was scheduled on the holiday weekend. Although I am going home, I find the attempt of the de-escalation to be possibly harmful for the university.

Most UConn students want their traditional Spring Weekend and I think that they will do whatever they can to have it.”

“I guess I am going to be going home this weekend because I’m disappointed that the university doesn’t trust us enough to allow our friends to casually visit, even from dorms close by,” said 2nd-semester engineering major John Leveillee.

Tim Fontenault, a 2nd-semester journalism major said, “I haven’t decided but I am probably going home because it is

not worth having to deal with all of the trouble. The de-escalation is excessive. Trying to keep nonstudents off UConn is understandable, but the way things are now, students under 21 who are normally allowed into off-campus events, whether they drink or not, basically are confined to the campus unless they want to risk trouble with the large numbers of police that have been deployed for this weekend.”

Other students are still spending the weekend on campus, despite the attempts for a moratorium of the campus.

“I am staying on campus for the weekend. I think that it is understandable as to why UConn is trying to de-escalate Spring Weekend, with the dangers from non-UConn students last year. On the other hand they are also creating a bigger problem by moving school sanctioned events to a different weekend and essentially creating two Spring Weekends,”

said fourth-semester math major Kate Wilburn. She added, “The administration is also trying to control the students, which will in turn just make the UConn students angry and induce riots.”

Dallas Carter, Assistant Residence Hall Director of Buckley said, “ I actually think that the university enforcing these policies is a very good idea. It helps promote safety during this now unsafe tradition where there have been too many accidents occurring. I also do believe a lot of students will be going home this weekend.”

Carter’s opinion does not necessarily reflect that of all associated with Residential Life.

Whatever side one is on in regards to the de-escalation of Spring Weekend and the voluntary moratorium of the campus, one thing is certain—this year’s Spring Weekend will certainly be different from those of years past.

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BP sues rig owner for $40 billion for disaster

Thursday, April 21, 2011

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP on Wednesday sued the maker of the device that failed to stop last year’s calamitous Gulf oil spill and the owner of the rig that exploded, alleging that negligence by both helped cause the disaster.

The British company said in papers filed in federal court in New Orleans that it is suing rig owner Transocean for at least $40 billion in damages, accusing it of causing last year’s deadly blowout in the Gulf of Mexico that led to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. BP says every single safety system and device and well control procedure on the Deepwater Horizon rig failed.

It also is suing Cameron International, which provided a blowout preventer with a faulty design, which caused an unrea-

sonable amount of risk that harm would occur. Both companies have filed counter claims against BP. The filings are essentially legal maneuvers to preserve the companies’ claims. A federal trial is scheduled for next year that will determine which companies are at fault and how much their liability should be.

The lawsuits, filed on the first anniversary of the explosion that led to the spill, seeks damages to help BP pay for the tens of billions of dollars in liabilities it has incurred from the disaster. Though BP has estimated its liabilities at $40.9 billion, it still could face tens of billions of dollars more in civil and criminal fines and penalties from the U.S. government.

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A testing firm hired by the government determined last month the blowout preventer had a faulty design. But it also cited other problems related to rig crew actions.

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State vocational schools must keep doors open

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oday is Earth Day. It’s a great day to clean up a little bit, maybe recycle that old pair of sneakers, think about finding farmer’s markets to visit through the spring and summer or head over to the UConn Spring Fling on Fairfield Way. While considering how creative thinking can benefit the planet, it’s also a great day to consider how other out-of-the-box institutions in our society are also just as important.

If Gov. Malloy had his way, at the end of this year 17 vocationaltechnical high schools across the state will have lost the state funding that keeps them operational. At this point, control of the building and property would go to the towns in which they are located. The decision to continue to operate these buildings as specialized regional institutions would be at the discretion of the towns. Malloy’s argument is that these schools are a large expense in the state budget, and in most other states, regional councils fund such programs.

Fortunately, the schools are safe for the moment, pending a 10-month study that will evaluate the performance and needs of the vo-tech school system in Connecticut. The sad truth is that most of the schools are stuck with outdated or derelict equipment, and are in dire need of maintenance. On Jan, 15, 2012, the Education Committee will file a report with the state, according to State Representative Michelle Cook. She also stated that the committee’s goal is to seek measures that would improve the schools rather than eliminate them.

Elimination would be one measure that would push education measures in this state backwards, and further burden students at all levels. The mission of vo-tech schools is to provide the same immersion, learning and academic experience as a traditional high school, but to overlay a hands-on technical experience that will aid students in establishing careers upon graduation, or aid them in higher education goals should they choose to pursue them. In high school, these students are learning to work with innovative and adapting technologies, and graduate highly trained in specialized areas such as hvac, green and environmental technology, and even as licensed practicing nurses – a program in this state with a 100 percent job placement rate.

How many other programs can boast that? When measuring against more traditional school systems, the vo-tech program is extremely high-performing in comparison.

Also, thanks to an NSF grant and the GK12 federal program, these students work directly with UConn graduate engineering students, not only expanding the skills they develop in high school, but learning how their skills can be applied in higher education institutions.

There is a push to have these students attend UConn for engineering, so that the programs can continue to develop and become more innovative on both sides.

Vo-tech schools fill a large gap in our society for students who may just think outside of the box of the ‘test culture’ that has become the mainstream education process. Public education needs to continue to provide opportunities for those who have different interests and are extremely talented at different things. Just as our society tries to protect fine arts programs and magnet schools, we have to protect the vo-tech school system and make sure that these students’ needs are met. If the alternative is shutting down the schools and reaping the potential consequence of any percentage of 10,600 students falling through the cracks of mainstream education, instead of being given the tools to develop their skills, those are consequences we can not afford.

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Politicians should speak candidly on camera

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resident Barack Obama was “caught” last week speaking privately to a group of political donors, believing that all press reporters had left. However, CBS News correspondent Mark Knoller, the only reporter remaining in a distant press room, listened in on an audio feed of a microphone accidentally left on. Obama’s comments, intended to be off the record, were disseminated widely and preserved for the rest of history.

These remarks gained significant attention, and are considered a big scanBy Jesse Rifkin dal by many people. I am not one Staff Columnist of those people.

Why not?

Look at what Obama actually said. Here are the quotations receiving the most prominent coverage: “That’s what the budget debate was all about… The Republicans were thinking, ‘Can we transport issues that have very little to do with the budget and have everything to do with a particular agenda? Can we use the budget as a way to chip away?’ So they had a provision on repealing health care. They had a provision on basically repealing the EPA. They had a provision on making sure that we didn’t do anything on climate change.”

“I said, ‘You want to repeal health care? Go at it. We’ll have that debate. You’re not going to be able to do that by nickel-and-diming me in the budget. You think we’re stupid?’”

“Put it in a separate bill. We’ll call it up. And if you think you can overturn my veto, try it.

But don’t try to sneak this through.”

[On Republican House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan.] “When Paul Ryan says his priority is to make sure he’s just being America’s accountant... This is the same guy that voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted for the prescription drug bill that

cost as much as my health care bill – but wasn’t paid for. So it’s not on the level.”

“We’re going to see this again. We’re going to see this on the debt limit vote. This is going to be the strategy going forward – trying to do things that they can’t do legislatively under the guise of cutting spending. On health care, eliminating the health care bill would cost us a trillion dollars. It would add a trillion dollars to the deficit.”

“Politicians should not be afraid to speak the truth on camera.”

You might have noticed that everything Obama said was correct.

So then why are such comments considered controversial? In my opinion, the answer largely stems from the fact that the comments were not intended to be publicized, and people are fascinated by what is intended to be private. That is the same reason why tabloids featuring celebrity rumors sell millions of copies, why “tell-all” books receive so much press, why the WikiLeaks release of classified government documents garnered international attention, why the restaurant Friendly’s serves not just “chocolate” ice cream but “forbidden chocolate” and why the hit show is entitled “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” and not “Things You Already Knew About the American Teenager.” People wish to discover secrecy underlying the seemingly transparent.

What the American public needs are politicians speaking more candidly in public, since it is rare to hear an office-holder tell it like it is. Speeches by politicians on both sides of the aisle are filled with focus group-tested phrases virtually devoid of any real meaning or substance, which explains why politicians from both parties often sound so similar.

For example, both President Obama and the Republican Party deliver their “weekly

address” offering competing visions of America, but they almost never sound like competing visions. This week, I listened to both speeches, and here are excerpts from both Obama’s address and the Republican response from Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn: Obama: “You expect us to bridge those differences. You expect us to work together and get this done. And I believe we can.”

Coburn: “I know there isn’t a problem we can’t solve if we do it together. But the only way we can solve them is to put our political careers on the line and stop engaging in petty political attacks.”

Obama: “If we don’t act, a rising tide of borrowing will damage our economy, costing us jobs and risking our future prosperity by sticking our children with the bill.”

Coburn: “We could face a serious debt crisis sooner than anyone expects. We face an unsustainable debt and unsustainable entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. All of which will collapse if they’re not reformed.”

Coburn: “By pretending that Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security are sound financially when they are not, the president is jeopardizing the benefits for the very Americans he says he wants to protect.” Obama: “We’ll reduce health care spending, and strengthen Medicare and Medicaid through commonsense reforms that will get rid of wasteful subsidies and increase efficiency.”

My personal favorite part of either speech was when Coburn said, “What we need to avert a debt crisis is real leadership and specific solutions, not campaign- style political attacks,” and then proceeded to offer no specific solutions while engaging in campaignstyle political attacks.

In many respects, Obama’s speech and Coburn’s speech were exactly the same.

Politicians should not be afraid to speak the truth on camera. Perhaps then, when they speak the truth off camera, it will no longer come as such a shock.

Staff columnist Jesse Rifkin is a 2nd-semester political science and communications double major.

He can be reached at Jesse.Rifkin@UConn.edu.

Netherlands sets example for gay marriage in US

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en years ago this month, the Netherlands became the first country in the world to legalize samesex marriage. Since then, nearly 15,000 gay and lesbian couples have wed in the Netherlands – about 2 perBy Ryan Gilbert cent of the total number Staff Columnist of marriages registered between 2001 and 2010, according to COC Nederland, a Dutch organization for LGBT men and women. Other countries have followed suit. Belgium, Spain, Canada, South Africa, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Iceland and Argentina have all legalized samesex marriage.

Much to the chagrin of bigots everywhere, the sky has not fallen, the earth has not opened up revealing the pits of hell, the brains of our heterosexual friends have not exploded and there are still plenty of tacky tuxes and garish gowns to go around. In other words, over the last decade, men have married women, men have married men, women have married women and the world has just kept on turning.

Who’da thunk it?

Sadly, only five of our freedom-favoring, liberty-loving, pursuit of happiness-promoting states marry same-sex couples: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont and Washington, D.C. The rest

of the country has yet to follow suit. Despite more than half of Americans saying that marriages of gay and lesbian couples should be legally valid, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research poll, 45 states continue to unashamedly discriminate against homosexuals and treat them as second-class citizens.

So where do we go from here?

Polls like the one from CNN are encouraging, and more states have gay marriage bills working their way through the gears of government machines. There are valuable and revealing websites like Freedom to Marry and SpeakOut. com. There are reformist movements like openly gay students at Christian universities coming out of the closet and snubbing ideas that they should seek help with same-sex gender issues. There are gutsy people like Louis Marinelli who, less than a year ago, was touring the country on a bus fighting against same-sex marriage for the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), one of the largest anti-gay marriage groups in the country, but has now broken away from NOM and is backing marriage equality beside the very same people he’d wrangled with for years.

Is the Obama administration’s decision to no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) impressive? Definitely. But House

Republicans have recently recruited former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement to represent the government in federal cases challenging the law. The president needs to take a stand instead of recoiling behind support for states’ rights and civil unions.

“We should not allow an ignorant, inarticulate and hateful few to garner any real credence.”

Is the possibility of Perry v.

Schwarzenegger, the federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8 in California, making its way to the U.S. Supreme Court a potential boon to gay rights? I think so. But politicians, activists and media talking heads are attacking retired Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, the federal judge who struck down California’s gay marriage ban, because he recently confirmed that he is gay.

Assailants like Tom Wildman, president of the American Family Association, are claiming that Walker should have recused himself from the case because “his judgment is clearly compromised by his own sexual proclivity.”

This is more than just the old two

steps forward and one step back; this is hopscotching all over the piteous playground.

I know that columns like this one can sometimes feel a little bit like a hammer over the head.

And I know that our generation doesn’t look at an issue like samesex marriage as…well…an issue, because most of us recognize the utter stupidity and malice connected with not allowing two people who love each other to marry. But it’s important to shine a light in the dark corners where the basest among us like to hide and where hate percolates.

We should celebrate the Netherlands 10th anniversary of gay nuptials and use their enlightened success as a catalyst for enacting change and reform in this country. We should not allow an ignorant, inarticulate and hateful few to garner any real credence. We control this debate. We set the terms. We, who are educated, eloquent and compassionate. We, who don’t give up, who don’t take no for an answer and who don’t sit idly by and watch our family members, friends and neighbors be targeted and discriminated against. We are on the right side of history. We just need to believe it.

Staff Columnist Ryan Gilbert is a 6thsemester journalism major. He can be reached at Ryan.Gilbert@UConn.edu

Thursday, April 21, 2011

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59 Soccer mom’s need 60 Hooved grazer

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2 Fish delicacy 3 Michigan neighbor 4 Court figure 5 Greets the visitors 6 Open org.

7 Good-lookers 8 1991-’96 Indian prime minister 9 Put the kibosh on 10 Silents star Pitts

11 “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” autobiographer 12 Private place 13 Exhorts 18 Gossip-worthy 22 New England catch 23 “Avatar” spec. effects 24 Upper limb 26 Water bearer, maybe 27 One in a herd 30 It often gets away, so we’ve heard 33 Cartridge filler 34 Partners 35 Deadwood’s terr.

36 “Get lost!”

38 Antitank weapon 39 Civil War love song 40 Totaled 41 Robin’s way down 42 Uno e due

Monkey Business

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63 Mideast airline 64 “Norma __” 65 Large TV family 66 Marathon prep, maybe

Stickcat

Across 1 “__: Legacy”: 2010 sci-fi sequel 5 Chihuahua city 11 Is for all?

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23 Pearl weights 25 Stone’s 14: Abbr.

28 First-century B.C. pharaoh, briefly 29 “... but a __ without a cat!”: Alice 30 Pay-per-view event 31 Color in a stable 32 “Here’s how I see it,” in netspeak 33 Lament about a lost opportunity, as hinted by 32-Across 36 Unexpected issue 37 Bracelet bit 38 “Break time’s over,” as hinted by 41-Across 41 “Oh, and did I mention ...,” in netspeak 44 Bullish start?

45 Eliza’s ‘elper 46 Storied cocky racer 47 Poet Pound 48 Check out 49 Slatted containers 51 Rich soils 53 Wood shop device 55 “That’s too funny!” in netspeak

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Aries - Move quickly to get a good deal. Devise a plan with your partner or mate. By now you should know how much you can spend. Accept a gift. Follow a strong recommendation. You’re learning fast.

Taurus - You have no trouble getting your message across.

Keep team communication channels open. Accept a pearl of wisdom from a friend who can guide past fears that have detained you.

Gemini - It’s a good time to ask for money, whether it be a raise, an invoice or a donation for a fundraiser. Use some of what you personally earn to feather your nest.

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Cancer - You’re entering a highly creative, artistic phase, which advances your career over the next month. Work out a plan for the future you want, and share it with loved ones.

Leo - Stick to the old rules. Good manners get you forward faster.

Self-discipline’s the best kind, but don’t let guilt get out of hand.

Send support to someone on the leading edge.

Virgo - Create something beautiful.

For the next month, your assets gain value. Helping someone else with their finances is actually fun.

Offer advice when asked.

Libra - Romance is brewing.

Friends help you understand. It may require a compromise or use of your hidden resources. There’s plenty of good work ahead.

Scorpio - It’s easy to get distracted by financial obligations and forget about loved ones. Find a way to balance it all. Take a walk and give thanks for what you’ve got.

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Replace something volatile with something secure.

Capricorn - The next four weeks are good for wrapping yourself in arms of sweet romance.

Discuss esoteric subjects with a friend. Loving words come back multiplied.

Aquarius - The following four weeks are perfect to fall in love with a research project. Find satisfaction with cost-effective solutions for routines. The work is challenging, but profitable.

Pisces - Your words have great power now. Accept well-earned compliments. Study and learn with a partner. Business is good and travel is better. Try a new perspective.

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For besieged Libyan city the sea is sole lifeline

ABOARD THE IONIAN SPIRIT (AP) — This Greek passenger ferry streamed toward the besieged Libyan port city of Misrata on Wednesday, its mission to deliver 500 tons of food and medical supplies and spirit away 1,000 people fleeing weeks of heavy shelling by forces loyal to ruler Moammar Gadhafi.

The ferry is part of a flotilla of ships, fishing trawlers and tug boats that have become the lifeline for the last significant rebelheld city in western Libya as it tries to hold out against a crippling siege that has dragged on for more than 50 days, devastating the city of 300,000.

They brave sailing into a port that is under frequent shelling — some of the smaller vessels have been fired on with rockets or chased by government warships.

The flotilla, motoring back and forth across Libya’s Gulf of Sirte between Misrata and the rebel capital Benghazi in the east, not only keeps residents alive. It also keeps them fighting, bringing weapons and ammunition to Misrata’s defenders.

Salah Budelel has made the sea journey three times in the past two months in his 40-meter (yard) tugboat, each time loaded down with supplies — mainly weapons. It was guns at first, he said, but now Misrata’s fighters are in greater need of ammunition as they hold out against Gadhafi troops who have swept into the center of the city and constantly bombard neighborhoods with

artillery, tanks and rockets.

“We realized that Misrata needed help, food, medicine and weapons,” the bearded, whitehaired captain said aboard his tugboat in Benghazi’s port earlier this week. “And the only way to get there was by sea.”

“Ammunition, too, is a kind of aid,” he said, smiling.

Desperation in the city — Libya’s third largest — has swelled. Electricity has been along with water in many parts.

Buildings on the main boulevards of the city’s center have been reduced to bombed-out husks, Gadhafi snipers fire from rooftops, and residents have fled their homes to crowd into districts still not in Gadhafi’s hands — most importantly, the port, the city’s only connection to the outside world.

Benghazi boat captains like Budelel were the first to open an impromptu supply line, and now around a dozen local tugboats and aged fishing trawlers make the 240-mile (400-kilometer) run about once a week each. They are the arms runners, though they also bring food and medicines — sometime Benghazi residents will show up on the docks with supplies to be taken to Misrata.

Their informal boatlift has expanded in recent weeks as larger vessels from Turkey, Malta and elsewhere — some hired by international organizations — have begun making the crossing to take humanitarian aid into Misrata and bring out wounded and people

fleeing the siege.

“Keeping the port open is the only gate to the world and the only way to keep the city alive,” said Suleiman Fortia, a Misrata representative on the rebels’ National Transitional Council. “If not, we’ll have to surrender.”

Fortia, an engineering professor before the anti-Gadhafi uprising broke out Feb. 15, battled seasickness for a 35-hour tugboat ride to Benghazi to help coordinate the aid effort.

In its voyage Wednesday, the Ionian Spirit was carrying 500 tons of supplies organized by the International Organization for Migration, including tomatoes, pasta, onions, mattresses, generators for hospitals and medical supplies. It also carried doctors and surgeons, who along the way were setting up intensive care units in the ferry’s staterooms to treat wounded and sick among the escapees the vessel will bring out on its return journey to Benghazi.

This was the third time the ferry has made the run. In its previous round trip, it arrived in Benghazi’s port Monday night, carrying 900 residents out of Misrata, including Nigerian factory workers, Indian engineers, Ukrainian nurses and Libyans who lost limbs battling Gadhafi’s troops.

Thousands have fled Misrata in the boatlift, many of them foreign workers carrying scant possessions. More than 5,000 non-Libyans remain in the city, the IOM says, most squatting in

Gov. announces budget deal

HARTFORD (AP) — The Democratic majority in the Connecticut General Assembly and their party’s new governor announced Wednesday they have reached a deal to balance the deficitriddled state budget, an agreement that still raises taxes by well over $1 billion and counts on $1 billion in yet-tobe-reached labor savings for next fiscal year.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said he was pleased that a deal has been reached with the Democratic leaders so early in the legislative process, but said it was not a day to celebrate.

“What we are asking the people of Connecticut to do is to agree with us, to make a shared sacrifice in the hopes and in the expectations that in doing so we will find a better Connecticut sooner rather than later and that we will correct the behaviors of the past, building a stronger Connecticut on a much stronger fiscal footing,” Malloy told a crowd of mostly Democrats who gathered for an afternoon announcement at the state Capitol.

Malloy had offered a nearly $40 billion, two-year plan in February that attempts to address a projected $3.5 billion deficit in the fiscal year beginning July 1. It called for raising taxes by approximately $1.5 billion in the first year and $1.3 billion in the second.

Democrats said the new plan will raise taxes by $1.4 billion in the first year and $1.2 billion in the second. Republican lawmakers said the tax increases are higher.

The revised plan scraps several of Malloy’s more contentious tax changes. For example,

it restores sales tax exemptions on boat services such as storage and repairs, car washes, haircuts, trade-ins for automobiles and discounts received from using coupons. It applies the state’s highest personal income tax rate on more taxpayers, continues to raise taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products, yet restores the annual sales-tax free week.

The legislature’s tax- and budget-writing committees are expected to vote on the revised tax and spending bills Thursday.

Minority Republican leaders, who released their own no-tax-increase budget plan on Tuesday, were unimpressed with the news that an early budget deal had been reached before the legislature’s scheduled June 8 adjournment.

“What you saw today was oneparty government,” said House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk.

Cafero said Malloy, who won his election last year by a slim margin, initially promised to listen to all sides but in recent weeks has been unwilling to consider Republican ideas for balancing the budget.

“It was tossed aside and (he) said we’re doing it our way,” said Cafero. “It’s his right to do, but it’s not the right thing to do.

I don’t know why everyone’s surprised about it. I told you the macaroni was cooked two weeks ago.”

Both Cafero and Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, questioned the Democrats’ decision to push forward with the budget deal without any firm agreement with the state employee unions on labor savings.

Malloy is seeking $1 billion in

each year of the two-year plan and closed-door talks between the unions and administration are continuing.

The state constitution requires a balanced budget, and Republicans questioned whether it would be constitutional to pass a two-year budget with a $2 billion hole. Malloy said it has not yet been determined whether floor votes in the House of Representatives and Senate on the budget would occur without the labor savings nailed down, but said it wasn’t the “worst idea.”

Reaction from the State Employee Bargaining Agent Coalition, which represents 13 state employee unions on health and pension matters, was mixed. Larry Dorman, a SEBAC spokesman, issued a statement saying the organization was pleased to see some changes such as higher taxes on wealthier taxpayers.

“We would still like to see much more asked from big multi-state businesses and the very rich who have so far been the only ones to share in our state’s so-called economic recovery,” Dorman said. “We will continue our discussions with the governor to see if common ground can be found between him and those struggling middle class families who happen to work for the state.”

Under the revised plan, the state’s highest income tax rate of 6.7 percent will remain the same. However, Rep. Patricia Widlitz, D-Guilford, the cochairwoman of the Finance Revenue and Bonding Committee, said a greater number of taxpayers will pay that rate under the compromise budget.

5 percent of Kabul Bank loans paid KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan has stepped up efforts to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent loans made by the embattled Kabul Bank, but so far just 5 percent of the $909 million being sought has been recouped, the nation’s top banker said Wednesday.

Afghan officials have been under heavy international pressure to resolve the problems at Kabul Bank, the nation’s largest private financial institution, which nearly collapsed last year because of mismanagement and questionable lending practices. Its shareholders once included the brother of President Hamid Karzai.

The bank — now under the control of Afghanistan’s central bank — became a symbol of the country’s cronyism and deep-rooted corruption and is now considered a bellwether on attempts to root out

patronage and show accountability to world financial institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund.

“We are very serious,” said Central Bank Governor Abdul Qadir Fitrat. “The government is very serious.”

The USAID inspector general said in a recent report that it is estimated that “fraudulent loans were used to divert $850 million to insiders.”

Fitrat, however, said investigators have determined that Kabul Bank made $579 million in loans — including questionable ones to the bank’s shareholders and others. Adding tax and interest from the six years the bank has been opened, the amount of the loans is estimated at $909 million, he said.

Of that, $47 million in loans — or about 5 percent — have been repaid since September when the central bank took control of Kabul Bank, Fitrat told

reporters. But he noted that the central bank and government officials now have more muscle to chase the money.

“If somebody doesn’t cooperate, we will take action,” he said. “We will seize their property by the order of the court. Even we are ready to confiscate their properties if they do not cooperate.”

The bank, which plays a key role in the Afghan economy by handling payrolls for government workers and security forces, has close ties to Afghanistan’s ruling elite.

The former bank chairman, Sherkhan Farnood, a worldclass poker player who raised money for President Hamid Karzai’s re-election campaign, owned 28 percent. A brother of one of Afghanistan’s two vice presidents was once a shareholder, and Karzai’s eldest brother, Mahmood Karzai, had owned 7 percent.

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Stranded foreign refugees line up for registration ahead of boarding a ship evacuating wounded Libyans and refugees fleeing conflict zone at the port of Misrata.

the port with scant food, shelter and water and deteriorating hygienic conditions.

Not all the trips have been smooth. Aid ships from Turkey, Qatar and Denmark have aborted missions due to fears of government fire, he said. Some have unloaded their cargo in Benghazi, requiring other ships to take it to Misrata.

Earlier this week, Gadhafi’s government promised the United Nations humanitarian access to

Misrata, though not a halt in hostilities. Jeremy Haslam, the head of the IOM’s boat rescue, said the group informs the regime of its boat movements. In the Ionian Spirit’s previous trip to Misrata, its crew heard heavy artillery and shelling by Gadhafi forces in the city — but as they neared and entered the port, it fell “spookily” silent,” Haslam said. But, he added, “We have no guarantees from anyone.”

Budelel, the 50-year-old tug-

boat captain, says he has seen the city’s desperation grow during his three round trips. On his first, he brought back a dozen people, he said. Last week, he brought 200.

For Benghazi native Fawzia Gheriani, 46, the boatlift is the only hope for news from her brother, a 42-year-old banker who went to look for work in Misrata two days before the uprising.

They often spoke by phone during the uprising’s first days.

Millions in malaria drugs stolen LONDON (AP) — A global health fund believes millions of dollars worth of its donated malaria drugs have been stolen in recent years, vastly exceeding the levels of theft previously suspected, according to confidential documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The internal investigation by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria comes two months into a new anti-corruption program that the fund launched after an AP report detailing fraud in their grants attracted intense scrutiny from donors.

In internal documents detailing drug thefts, officials identified 13 countries, mostly in Africa, where millions of dollars worth of malaria drugs have gone missing. According to the reports, drug theft in which donated drugs are sold on the black market “appears to be on the rise and (is) becoming increasingly sophisticated.”

The reports were provided to the AP by an official with a different health organization, who did so on condition of anonymity because he was granted confidential access to the documents by a Global Fund staffer.

Global Fund spokesman Jon Liden confirmed the fund suspects $2.5 million worth of malaria drugs were stolen from Togo, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Swaziland and Cambodia, dating mainly from 2009 to 2011, but with some cases going further back. He said investigations are under way to determine how much more was stolen elsewhere.

“We take this very seriously and we will do what it takes to protect our investment,” he said.

An AP report in January exposed high rates of misappropriated money in some Global Fund grants and bruised the reputation of the multibillion-dollar fund, backed by big names including Bono and Bill Gates and hailed as

an alternative to the bureaucracy of the United Nations.

But the fact that these revelations have come to light at all may be due to stricter self-policing and greater transparency at the Global Fund, compared with other aid organizations.

Malaria infects more than 250 million people every year, killing about 1 million, the vast majority of whom are children in Africa. Because there is a huge demand for malaria drugs, which are widely available at pharmacies and on private markets, they are easier to sell than drugs for other diseases like AIDS, which are mainly handed out at health clinics.

After discovering the scope of the malaria drug thefts, the new Global Fund documents indicate the fund took prompt action, suspending grants for medicines to be stored at government warehouses in Swaziland and Malawi.

WORLD BRIEFS Argentine witness to bishop’s death disappears

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s president ordered all federal forces Wednesday to search for a key witness against a former military officer in the death of a bishop who tried intervene on behalf of victims of the dictatorship.

Victor Oscar Martinez, 52, disappeared Monday, his wife said in a formal missing person’s complaint.

“The fact that we have no details of his whereabouts is highly worrisome for the national government,” Justice Minister Julio Alak said.

Alak said President Cristina Fernandez personally ordered all federal police and other security forces to be used to find Martinez.

The mystery reminded many Argentines of the still-unsolved 2006 disappearance of Jorge Julio Lopez, who hasn’t been heard from since shortly after accusing a formerly high-ranking police official of crimes against

Police arrest in case of dead Chinese student

TORONTO (AP) — A 29-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a college student whose frantic boyfriend in China watched though a webcam as she struggled with an attacker, police said Wednesday.

Brian Dickson was charged with first-degree murder, Toronto police spokesman Tony Vella told The Associated Press. Dickson was scheduled to appear in court Thursday morning.

Police did not release any more details but asked the media not to publish any photos of Dickson, saying it could compromise the investigation.

The body of York University student Liu Qian, 23, of Beijing, was found Friday in her apartment in Toronto a few hours after her boyfriend witnessed the attack, police said. She was naked from the waist down and there were no obvious signs of sexual assault or trauma severe enough to kill her. The autopsy was inconclusive, and police said Tuesday they were awaiting toxicology test results.

Dickson is not a student at York, university spokeswoman Janice Wells said.

Ivory Coast: Charity delivers food amid gunfire

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The world must prepare for more nuclear accidents on the scale of Chernobyl and Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, the U.N. chief warned Wednesday, saying that grim reality will demand sharp improvements in international cooperation, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and others portrayed the growth of nuclear power plants as inevitable in an energy-hungry world as they spoke at a Kiev conference commemorating the explosion of a reactor at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear reactor 25 years ago.

Nuclear power “is a relatively clean and logical choice in an era of increasing resources scarcity,” Ban said. “The unfortunate truth is that we are likely to see more such disasters.”

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Grab a map, fire up the engine Celebrities who love the earth

A roadtrip out West or down South is a great way to see America’s greatest treasures

By Kim Halpin Campus Correspondent Like every other UConn student right now, you probably have a dozen term papers, end of the semester projects and finals to hesitantly begin studying for. Amidst the late night cram sessions and piles of flashcards, don’t forget the end goal: summer! It’s nearly in reach! And when is a better time to start planning than when you can’t look at another study guide.

One of the best summer traditions is a good road trip. Pack the car full with things for the beach, a map and, most important, friends. Then switch on the radio and head out for the unknown. If you plan smart, a road trip can still be an inexpensive vacation for you and your friends, despite the scary prices at the pump.

The first step is to pick your destination. It might seem easy, but there are so many places to choose from that it’s difficult to decide on a direction. If you’re thinking somewhere south, get on Interstate 95, and keep going until you hit Miami. Along the way there’s New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., before you’re even halfway there.

If you are more the beachbum type, spend a couple days on the Outer Banks in North

Carolina or Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. As the beaches are main attractions in these areas, there are plenty of places to find fantastic cuisine and old Main Street-style shopping.

When you finally hit Jacksonville, Fla., there are plenty of beaches headed your way. Daytona, Melbourne and West Palm are all on Interstate 95 and a short distance from each other. If you are stopping in Daytona, a must-see for NASCAR fans is the speed-way and motorcycle rally. Daytona is also home to some of the best golfing and fishing in Florida.

The young at heart can always use a trip to Disney World, just a little inland of the coast. There’s something about Disney magic that no one can turn down, and if you’ve never been, it’s a life experience you should plan for this summer.

For those of you with a little more time on your hands and an adventurous party, the ambitious destination for most road trippers is the Grand Canyon in Arizona. The western region of the U.S. has so many amazing landscapes that many East-coasters never get to experience. Walking tours, mule rides, rafting tours and helicopter tours are just a few ways to take in this natural wonder of the world.

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ing star, Cee Lo Green.

Mohegan Sun will round out the summer season with Ke$ha’s “Get $leazy” worldwide tour. After a successful first round of concerts, the singer added a summer leg to the list. She is joined by Spank Rock and rap duo, LMFAO to balance out her dance-techno sound.

Of course, the summer is full of concert opportunities outside of Connecticut.

Several locations in New York and New Jersey will host vocalist Adele, Weird Al Yankovic, Michael Bublé and alternative band, Panic at the Disco. Phish kicks off the summer tour on Memorial Day weekend in New York, and the Dave Matthews Band will have an Atlantic City performance in late June.

Whether it’s an intimate outdoor performance or a raging rock show, this summer will have a concert to fit any style. Search around for the best ticket prices to avoid breaking the bank before school is even out.

The power that comes with fame is a very fickle thing. Use it well and you can make a huge impact on society. Use it poorly and you’ll be the next Mel Gibson, spewing death threats to your wife and becoming the joke of a nation.

Certain celebrities have made good use of their influence and wealth, however, to contribute to eco-friendly causes to better our planet.

Team Treehugger of treehugger.com scoured the planet to conduct the 2011 Green Awards, giving kudos to the famous people who have contributed most to going green.

Topping the list: Leonardo DiCaprio for his $1 million donation to the conservation efforts of the Save Tigers Now Campaign to, well, save tigers. He partnered with the World Wildlife Fund and even flew to a tiger summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, escaping two plane crashes en route. If that’s not sexy, I don’t know what is.

Being a voice of power in America not only means giving your money away to any cause you want your name associated with, but also actually getting out there and supporting what you believe in.

For that, Edward Norton won the “Best Celebrity Activist” award. In 2004, he helped bring solar power to low-income families, then ran the New York Marathon to raise support for the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust to protect wildlife. He’s pioneered for clean energy legislation and launched Crowdrise, an online community that uses social media to help fund sustainability projects worldwide. And these efforts are just the tip of the iceberg.

While we’re on the topic of social media, it’s no secret that outlets such as Twitter and Facebook have created a new level of connecting with celebrities we love. The ones that have managed to use their power for good get the most credit, and Sophia Bush won the Treehugger Award, “Best Celebrity Twitter Feed,” for keeping readers constantly informed about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Now, with over 260,000 followers and counting, Bush continues to retweet “green” news and ways to take action.

Finally, who could forget Kevin Costner, who came out of the woodwork during the BP oil spill to present his machine that could separate oil and water. Winning the “Best Celebrity Product” award, his company, Ocean Therapy Solutions, developed the concept after the Exxon Valdez disaster and had it handy during the next crisis. BP purchased 32 centrifuges, which were able to clean 210,000 gallons of water per day by spinning the liquid and “pulling” the oil from the water.

These celebrities deserved to be recognized for their activism, because too many stars take the recognition they have for granted. While some are partying until the wee hours of the morning and repeatedly going to jail for it (ahem, Lindsay Lohan), others make good use of their status, and encourage others to follow in their footsteps to support the green cause.

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Taking I-95 South all the way down the coast can lead to Florida. The photo on top, taken in DeLand, Fla., shows a group of skydivers flying in special formation. Out west in Big Bend National Park in Texas, which is shown in the bottom picture, visitors can take gourmet raft trips.

3-D erotic comedy shakes up Hong Kong box office HONG KONG (AP) – A pioneering 3-D erotic comedy has taken the Hong Kong box office by storm, beating the first-day record set by “Avatar” and drawing viewers from mainland China as it eyes a global rollout.

The $3.5 million Cantoneselanguage production “3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy” had earned 17 million Hong Kong dollars ($2.2 million) as of Tuesday since opening last week on 73 screens, according to figures provided by producer Stephen Shiu.

That’s nearly seven times the total take so far for Hollywood thriller

“Scream 4,” which has earned HK$2.5 million ($320,000).

“Sex and Zen” – a remake of a 1991 Hong Kong movie by the same name – features full nudity and camouflaged lovemaking scenes but does not show actual sexual intercourse, as is common in pornographic films. The movie, which stars Japanese porn stars Hara Saori and Suo Yukiko and Hong Kong actress Vonnie Liu, tells the story of a sexually frustrated scholar in ancient China who loses himself in the harem of a duke he befriends.

The film brought in HK$2.78

million ($360,000) on its opening day last Thursday, eclipsing the previous first-day record set by James Cameron’s 2009 3-D sci-fi epic “Avatar,” which earned HK$2.63 million ($340,000) on its first day.

In Taiwan, where the movie opened Friday on 77 screens, it earned 17 million New Taiwan Dollars ($590,000) through Sunday.

That figure is still inferior to Hollywood competition but marks the best opening weekend for a Chinese-language movie in Taiwan this year, Shiu said Wednesday.

Shiu, whose father Stephen Shiu Sr. served as executive producer on

the original “Sex and Zen,” said he believes he has capitalized on a huge desire for 3-D erotic movies.

“We met people’s expectations.

People have always thought that you need 3-D technology for this kind of content. So people were very curious,” he said.

“Sex and Zen” bills itself as the world’s first 3-D erotic film, although Shiu acknowledges that a South Korean production – last year’s “Natali” – hit the market before his release did. However, Shiu’s movie is still a pioneering attempt at using new 3-D technology in theatrical releases of erotic

films, given that the market in the West is now largely dominated by DVD releases.

The movie’s Hong Kong performance has also been boosted by an influx of mainland Chinese viewers, whom Shiu estimates accounted for up to half of the business at some theaters. Although former British colony Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997, it still maintains a separate political system – and film regulatory regime. While Hong Kong has a film ratings system, mainland China doesn’t, which effectively rules out erotic content.

Mohegan Sun Arena is a hot spot for concerts this summer

By Steph Ratty Staff Writer

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In this April 7, 2011 file photo, singer Jon Bon Jovi attends the Food Banks Can Do Awards gala in New York. Bon Jovi and his band will be performing in Uncasville in May.

It might not feel like spring yet in Storrs, but summer is coming up quick, and that means saving the date for a season’s worth of concerts.

This summer, the Mohegan Sun Arena will host a myriad of A-list musicians. Early next month, Bon Jovi will perform a set of his greatest hits and four brand new tracks. His show is expected to bring in audiences both young and old, as his career has spanned over multiple generations.

The long- awaited collaboration of New Kids on the Block and the Backstreet Boys will hit Uncasville over Memorial Day weekend.

Together, the boy bands have sold over 200 million albums over the course of their careers, and will welcome American Idol winner Jordin Sparks to perform with them for a few shows.

Fox’s hit musical sitcom, “Glee,” will also tour this summer with 13 original cast

members. Lea Michele, Cory Monteith and Chris Colfer, among others, will travel the country and perform the most popular musical hits from seasons one and two. As a side project, “Glee” actor Matthew Morrison will also have a solo concert lineup over the summer months.

For country music fans, Keith Urban will embark on his 2011 “Get Closer” world tour this season. The tour features fellow country singer Jake Owen, and will promote Urban’s album, “Get Closer,” which was released in November 2010. Urban recently celebrated his 11th No. 1 hit single, and will feature many of those songs in the tour.

Come late July, Mohegan Sun will open its doors to Rihanna’s “Loud” tour. Rihanna has sold 26 million albums since her debut in 2005, and is expected to perform many of her latest releases, such as “S&M” and “Only Girl in the World.” At several of her concerts, including the one in Uncasville, she will be joined by special guest and the music industry’s grow-

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This Day in Music 1969 Janis Joplin made her stage debut at the Royal Albert Hall in London. She hit the stage with her Kozmic Blues Band in what would later be considered one of her greatest concerts.

NME writer Nick Logan was on the scene and reported that not only did Joplin receive a standing ovation, the audience also insisted she play two encores. She finished with “Ball and Chain,” a piece still known for its pure Joplin grit and lyrical urgency.

The live bootleg CD is included in the Joplin set, “Box of Pearls.” It features an audience recording of Joplin’s 11-song show, along with a bonus track of Joplin discussing the show backstage.

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Eliza Doolittle is an unsigned singer from London, whose debut album is now available on iTunes. Doolittle is also starting her U.S. concert tour on April 25 in New York City.

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Newest British starlet is too late to the pop music scene

By Julie Bartoli Campus Correspondent U.K. native Eliza Doolittle is the musical personification of adorable. Unfortunately, cute can only get you so far.

In her self-titled debut,“Eliza Doolittle,” released April 19, the 23-year-old singer works through 14 hit-or-miss tracks featuring either a vintage twist or perk to the 12th degree.

With Doolittle, there’s no middle ground. When she isn’t flouncing around in sugary pop numbers doing an infamous Lily Allen impression, she’s starring in her own 1960s lounge act. This indecisiveness makes it impossible to pinpoint a specific theme, and remains Doolittle’s downfall.

The album’s single, “Skinny Genes,” took cues from Peter, Bjorn & John. Doolittle plays dirty: she sings, “I really don’t like your skinny jeans/So take them off for me” between lighthearted whistling reminiscent of “Young Folks.” Her next track, “Mr. Medicine,” has a solid hook, and Doolittle tones down the Cockney accent, making the song more natural and less like a British stand-up act.

“A Smokey Room” is Doolittle’s best piece by far.

The bass is tight and her voice is pure grit and gravel with the occasional poignant crack, resulting in three dirty-sweet minutes that would fit perfectly in the “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” strip club scene. In close second is “Pack Up,” Doolittle’s take

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on George and Felix Powell’s World War I marching song.

Lloyd Wade does the sampling, engaging in a call-and-response chorus with Doolittle.

Unfortunately for Doolittle, the rest is filler, and it’s hard to gain lasting power with four fantastic tracks sandwiched between 10 mediocre beats.

Not to mention, if cutesy

Britpop is Doolittle’s staple sound, she missed the boat.

The Duffy/Kate Nash/Ida Maria/Lily Allen circus has been performing since 2005 and there’s no need to file another British starlet into the category, no matter how adorable she may be.

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Indie gets a boost from Garbus’s creative album

By Chandler Warren Campus Correspondent Merrill Garbus, the indie darling behind tUnE-yArDs, released her first album “BiRd-BrAiNs” in 2009, and I would have never heard it had it not been suggested by a friend. If you haven’t listened to it or weren’t aware of her new album, “w h o k i l l,” I’m here to give a similar recom-

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mendation.

The most observable difference between these two albums is the production quality, which shines through on her newest effort, released a couple of days ago. The self-released recording of “BiRd-BrAiNs” was fine and contributed to the overall sincerity of the album, but the added professionalism on “w h o k i l l” takes Garbus’ sound to a new level.

Beginning with “My Country,” the first song off the new release, the looped percussion and vocals from the previous album can be heard, just crisper and tighter than their earlier counterparts. The song also introduces a new sound into Garbus’ repertoire: horns.

The trumpet showcased here is a welcome addition to the relatively under-polished previous album, and seamlessly mixes with her unique sound.

Garbus also employs Nate Brenner on bass to further build on her previous work, adding yet another layer to her newest batch of songs.

Brenner’s presence is a refreshing addition on almost every song, and provides a more human compliment to Garbus’ strong and eccentric voice than what appeared on “BiRd-BrAiNs.” A lively bass drives the earlier released

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tUnE-yArDs is the brainchild of singer Merrill Garbus. Garbus, who is native to New England, has released two studio albums and is experimental with her music.

single “Bizness,” creating perhaps the catchiest song of the bunch.

Despite these various recording improvements, the album contains some negative aspects. For instance, the song “Riotriot” feels like Garbus was trying to do too much. It harkens back to the wildly creative songwriting that characterized her first album, but the result is a hodgepodge patchwork of ideas and sounds that never

fully coalesce. Some other songs contain weaker portions than others, but nothing is too offensive.

With “w h o k i l l,” Garbus has replaced the warmth of home recording with the luster of professional technology, and to a large extent, she succeeds in the transition.

This is an album you should listen to if you haven’t, and recommend if you have.

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Continued from last week: N: The National is one of the more well-known bands on this list, and for good reason.

Front man Matt Berninger has a gravelly baritone that at first seems unappealing, but ultimately, it grows on you and sounds rich and consoling.

O: Oh Land’s music video for the hit single “Sun of a Gun” is spectacular. Jellyfishlike lights, a lunar landscape and a singer who is a Heidi Klum look- alike are just a few of its special features.

And, of course, the song itself is catchy and exceptional.

P: Pretty Lights makes music that’s not really pretty.

However, by hashing together multiple beats, synths and the occasional vocal parts, the artists come up with songs that make for good listening.

Another reason to listen to the band is that all of its albums are available as free downloads on its web site.

Q: Now this is a tough one.

Instinctively, I want to go with Queen, though Freddie Mercury isn’t exactly fresh news. So, I’m going to settle on the breezy rapper Q-tip, who was big in the ‘90s, but who just popped out an album last year.

R: The Rescues are a sweet, romantic band that can harmonize better than any other group. All four of the members sing, write and play instruments. Their plethora of talents helps them to concoct perfect music.

S: Time to go international.

The band Sigur Rós hails from Iceland, but it may as well have come from heaven. The classical instruments, paired with lead singer Jónsi’s airy voice, make for a beautiful sound that is inconceivable and transcendent.

T: Anyone who’s seen the movie “500 Days of Summer” must have fallen in love with the song “Sweet Disposition”

by The Temper Trap. “Sweet Disposition” is only one of the many highlights on the band’s album “Conditions,” which has 11 exquisite tracks.

U: Two girls and an electro-pop band later, Uh Huh Her came into existence.

The duo makes music that’s abstract yet appealing, and is due to come out with an album this summer.

V: VV Brown got popular thanks to the single “Shark in the Water.” But she’s no onehit wonder. The singer has smart lyrics and a fun, vintage style that is appealing to all types of listeners.

W: If there was ever a group to be obsessed with, it’s The Weepies. No one else sounds more whimsical, sentimental and hopeful than husband-and-wife duo Steve Tannen and Deb Talan. The Weepies’ four full-length albums are each purposeful masterpieces in their own way.

X: Xaphoon Jones is only the second mashup artist on the list. He also makes up half of the hip-hop group Chiddy Bang. Jones makes edgy mixes between dissimilar artists, such as Kanye West and Radiohead, Clipse and Led Zeppelin. One of his more popular pieces is “I Wanna Know Now,” a mashup of Bob Marley’s “Is This Love” and MGMT’s “Kids.”

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TV On the Radio’s Gerard Westwood blurs lines Smith dies of lung cancer of fashion, art, culture

NEW YORK (AP) – TV on the Radio bassist Gerard Smith died Wednesday of lung cancer, the band said in an announcement on its website. He was 36.

Smith’s death comes a little over a month after it was announced that he was battling the disease.

At the time, the band said Smith had health insurance, great medical care and had already seen “dramatic results.”

However, Smith was unable to join the band on tour as they promoted their last album, “Nine Types of Light.”

In a recent interview with The Associated Press, the rest of his bandmates declined to talk about his illness out of respect for Smith.

“We are very sad to announce the death of our beloved friend and bandmate, Gerard Smith, following a courageous fight against lung cancer,” the band said on the website. “We will miss him terribly.”

The band canceled its concerts for the next few days, starting Wednesday in Detroit.

Smith had described himself as a subway performer in New York when he was

recruited for the band, who have been hailed by critics for masterful albums like “Return to Cookie Mountain” and “Dear Science.”

Smith recalled in a 2008 interview with The Brooklyn Rail, a journal on the arts, politics and culture, how lead singer Tunde Adebimpe discovered him and added him to the band.

“I saw Tunde in the movie ‘Jump Tomorrow’ on IFC. And I was super addicted to film at that time. A year later, I was playing on the subway platform here, at the Bedford stop, and he kept giving me money. And then I was like, I recognize this guy. Then it finally clicked, and I said, ‘Dude you were in that movie! I loved that movie!’

That film had meant a lot to me, especially because there was a black actor that wasn’t in the ghetto, and there weren’t a lot of politics,” he said. “He was being a human being and not only a black actor. And that meant a lot to me.”

In that same interview, Adebimpe told Smith: “What you were playing was just so far and above what was normally down there that I can’t

even describe it. I was just like, that dude’s awesome.”

Smith grew up in Long Island, N.Y., and studied fine arts in high school but would later abandon it.

“I had a difficult time, to say the least, toward the end of my fine arts career,” he told L.A. Record in 2008. “I started to look around and see that I was one of the few – if not only – black fine arts students and I saw that again in the art world itself.”

Smith didn’t expect that his stint in TV on the Radio would have lasting meaning.

“I just never took it seriously ... I never imagined that this would be a position that I would be in,” he said in the same interview.

Smith told the blog the Pistola Press in 2009, after the band went on hiatus, he was planning to use his time off to spend time with his son and get better at his craft, but also to embrace life.

“Yeah, trying to get back what little bit of life I can and appreciate that ...” he said.

He and Adebimpe also scored the music for the 2010 documentary “The Lottery.”

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Lindsay Lohan poses during a news conference for the film ‘Gotti: Three Generations,’ based on the life of John Gotti, in New York April 12, 2011. Lohan is joining the big screen as the wife of John Gotti Jr. in a biopic of one of New York’s most infamous families.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lindsay Lohan is joining the big screen Gotti family as the wife of John Gotti Jr. in a biopic of one of New York’s

The end of the alphabet finishes with strong artists from THE NOP’S, page 8 Y: Yeah Yeah Yeahs gets to be in this indie catalogue because of its work on the soundtrack for the movie “Where the Wild Things Are.” Freedom and nostalgia are the two underlying themes to the band’s music as singer Karen O’s voice oscillates between being moody and giddy.

Z: The last letter of the alphabet gets two winners.

First is a happy rock band called Zox that is reminiscent of Relient K. Second is Zooey Deschanel, one of the singers of the duo She & Him. She sets the scene for a lazy, summer’s day with each one of her songs. Deschanel’s pinupgirl composure and honeysweet voice have made her an indie goddess. She is greatly revered and coveted by fans and other artists.

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most infamous families.

She called her casting in “Gotti: Three Generations” a huge honor and told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the film is an opportunity to prove herself as an actress again.

“I’m really excited to be back on set and clear up all the misinterpretations about me and show this is what I love to do,” Lohan said.

John Travolta has been cast to play John Gotti Sr., the mob family’s patriarch who had a flair for style and a knack for avoiding convictions that earned him the name “Teflon

Don.” Joe Pesci will play one of his deputies.

The younger Gotti has insisted he left the mob life in the 1990s, but has been unsuccessfully tried four times on racketeering charges.

He sold the rights to his life story to Fiore Films, which is developing the film focusing on Junior Gotti’s relationship with his father. It will be shot in New York and is set for a 2012 release.

Lohan made a surprise appearance at a press conference last week and was expected to be in the running to play the elder Gotti’s daughter, Victoria. By Wednesday discussions for Lohan playing that role had ended, but the actress successfully lobbied to remain on the project.

“I think it’s such an iconic story,” Lohan told the AP. “I think it’s a great story to be told.

I’m honored to be working with John Travolta and Joe Pesci.”

Lohan’s role as Kim Gotti has parallels to her own life, she said.

“You don’t get to see the heart behind the story and the real side of people,” she said of most mob movies, which she said veer toward shoot-’em-up fare.

“I can relate to that because I think that I’ve been portrayed in a certain light. I just want to do my best to show what their family really went through.”

Like the Gotti family, Lohan is no stranger to criminal troubles.

She faces a felony grand theft case in Los Angeles after a jewelry store accused her of stealing a $2,500 necklace, and is due in court for a hearing on Friday.

She has rejected two plea deals in that case with guaranteed jail time, and could be incarcerated for violating her probation on a 2007 drunken driving case.

Fantastic music is essential for a entertaining car ride from A ROADTRIP, page 7 While in the area, think about heading to Las Vegas, the California coast and Colorado.

San Francisco and Seattle are also close by at that point and offer unique attractions that every American should experience.

When you’re busy stuffing the car with your suitcases, bags, umbrellas, maps and friends, don’t forgot the golden soundtrack you’ve created for the trip. Some of the favorites you’re not going

to want to leave home without include “Life is a Highway,” “Beautiful Day,” “Livin’ on a Prayer,” “Free Fallin’” and “Sweet Home Alabama,” so you can show off the American Idol-ready voice you’ve been practicing.

A license plate game contest and a change of scenery are probably sounding like just what you need right now. So continue studying, but make time to plan for an entertaining summer road trip.

Kimberly.Halpin@UConn.edu

AP

Dame Vivienne Westwood, left, and actress Christina Hendricks pose together at the opening celebration for the Vivienne Westwood flagship store and Palladium Jewelry Collection in Los Angeles on Wednesday, March 30, 2011.

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) – It’s 2:30 in the afternoon, and Dame Vivienne Westwood needs a little pick-me-up.

“Just wait a second. I think I’d like to have a glass of wine,” says the flame-haired British fashion designer, avant-garde as ever at 70, wearing a low-cut blouse that shows off an oversized heartshaped pendant and offers a peek of her ribbon-trimmed bra. “I just need to get going a bit for some reason.”

She has an excuse: The previous evening, Westwood, a 40-year industry veteran, celebrated the opening of her first stateside store in more than a dozen years with a star-studded party that stretched into the night.

Fashionistas and the famous such as Marilyn Manson, Christina Hendricks, Malin Akerman and Dita Von Teese packed the new two-story boutique and showroom (with impressive rooftop views of the Hollywood Hills) on L.A.’s trendy Melrose Avenue. Afterward, Westwood hosted a private dinner for her closest colleagues.

Now she is relaxing on the patio outside Chateau Marmont, a Hollywood hideaway since 1929, with husband and collaborator Andreas Kronthaler by her side. And her pinot noir has just arrived.

Westwood and Kronthaler (who is more than 20 years her junior) independently own and create the Vivienne Westwood brand.

“Andreas does half the work,” Westwood says of her partner since 1993. “He’s a designer. He’s my husband but he does as much design as I do.”

It was he who helped set up the new store in Los Angeles.

The couple found it a natural home for the brand’s American operations, “especially because we do these great dresses for the red carpet,” says Westwood, who scored credits on Oscar night for Anne Hathaway and Helen Mirren.

More practically, Los Angeles, compared to New York’s Soho, where Westwood closed her store a decade ago, offers an ideal location for shipping throughout the United States and Asia, Kronthaler adds. In case you couldn’t tell, Kronthaler is the more business-minded of the pair.

“It’s like a gateway, so it’s an incredibly big opportunity for us,” he says. “It’s like a door is opening.”

For Westwood, this is just the latest chapter in a career

that began in 1971, when she opened her first clothing store with then-partner Malcolm McLaren. He went on to create the Sex Pistols, and she pioneered a new London street style characterized by zippers, safety pins, scrawled messages and torn fabrics.

Music has always been tightly woven into the Westwood label, and many – including rocker Marilyn Manson – consider her the queen of punk.

“There’s a bit of an opinion on the Sex Pistols, the Stooges or the Doors on who invented punk rock, but for me, she did,” says Manson, who attended the grand-opening bash. “The entire thing was a process, very much an art piece, and that’s what made it punk rock.”

Westwood is reticent to call fashion art, but she hints that maybe, sometimes, it can get close.

“Art is always original,” she writes in her “Active Resistance to Propaganda” manifesto, which she published in 2005.

Today, she says, “I’m proud in the past to have invented silhouettes that didn’t exist if I hadn’t have existed, in an age of conformity, really.”

Indeed, without her, the world likely would be without Rocking Horse platform shoes and mini-crinis (crinoline-flared short skirts), among other things.

“I certainly think fashion makes your life better, that you have a more positive outlook,” she says. “It’s a way of engaging in the world ... and fashion is a way of communicating and projecting an image of who you feel you are and the kind of person you wish to attract.”

Westwood makes fashion personal and political, putting slogans on T-shirts since her earliest design days. Some of the latest messages on the now-$90 tees include “I (heart) crap,” ‘’I am not a terrorist, please don’t arrest me,” and “Act fast, slow down, stop climate change.”

Perhaps ironically, the designer, whose dresses and suits sell for thousands of dollars, rails against consumerism.

“I think it’s very dulling.

It’s not very alive to just be sucking up one thing after another without really choosing anything,” she says, sipping her wine. “So I’m saying at the moment: Buy less, choose well.”

And make fashion your own, she says. “I always like that anyway, you know. Sticking safety pins on you, even make

a necklace out of safety pins and put a towel around you instead of a coat and pin it on you like a little dress or whatever, I love all that.”

It’s no accident that she likes what her label sells, although Kronthaler makes an active effort to make sure customers will like it, too.

Westwood, though, can act on a whim, and often does.

“That’s the freedom I have by not being tied to any other company. ... My clothes have always got a story of a character, and I just feel that other people can get into this thing, too. But I don’t do it for them. No, I do it for myself, actually.”

Fashion, however, isn’t the be all or end all to Westwood – although she allows that it’s an important piece in the dramatic puzzle of her life. But, even more than a designer, Westwood considers herself a thinker who sees things as a process of discovery.

She vigorously defends art as a requisite part of culture, and culture the only antidote to propaganda. Culture is uplifting, she says, and by experiencing the truth reflected in art, we learn more about our connection to humanity and our relationship with the world.

Westwood judges herself on what she thinks: “I always make my choices according to what stimulates me intellectually more than any other thing.”

It might surprise some observers, though, that Westwood isn’t aiming for shock value. In fact, she says, there are limited variables when it comes to fashion. She’s just making do with those.

“To be a fashion designer, you’ve got to be interested in new things, but you’re not trying to do something that’s for somebody who hasn’t got arms and legs, you know?”

As her wine glass empties, Westwood closes an interview with an anecdote. Nearly 30 years ago, when she was first invited to show her collection in Japan, she and Calvin Klein, Gianfranco Ferre, Claude Montana and Hanae Mori faced an unprecedented barrage of reporters. One thrust a microphone in Westwood’s face and demanded to know, “What is fashion?”

“Fashion,” Westwood had replied, “is about eventually being naked.”

That still applies, she says.

“I would say the best dress is to be naked, if you’re young and pneumatic and you know ... at my age, I would like a pair of high-heel shoes.”

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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Focus

Director Hetherington killed while documenting the war in Libya

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Photographer Tim Hetherington, is shown at the Restrepo outpost in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, during the filming of their documentary "Restrepo" in 2007. Hetherington was killed in Misrata Libya Wednesday, while covering battles between rebels and Libyan government forces.

NEW YORK (AP) – In "Restrepo," his searing, Oscarnominated documentary about a U.S. platoon in Afghanistan, Tim Hetherington achieved what every war filmmaker aspires to: bringing the viewer painfully close to the raw and

terrible truths of battle.

On Wednesday, the director and veteran photojournalist came too close himself to a different war – the chaotic, unpredictable conflict in Libya.

Hetherington was killed while covering fighting between reb-

els and government forces in the western city of Misrata.

Also killed was Chris Hondros, a New York-based photographer for Getty Images.

The British-born Hetherington, 40, was remembered by colleagues and friends not only as a

brave, dashing figure but also as a singular talent who constantly sought to expand the boundaries of his craft as he traveled the globe chronicling conflict.

"He was an artist," said Susan White, photography director of Vanity Fair magazine, where Hetherington had been a contributor since 2007. "He was a package deal. He had it all."

In his multifaceted career, Hetherington also used his photography for human rights work in places like Darfur.

"Tim Hetherington was much more than a war reporter," said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. "He had an extraordinary talent for documenting, in compassionate and beautiful imagery, the human stories behind the headlines."

A haunting example of Hetherington's work was "Sleeping Soldiers," a 2009 video piece in which still images of soldiers sleeping in Afghanistan were superimposed with video images of battle: huge explosions, the chaos of troops in the field trying to figure out their next move, and, heartbreakingly, a soldier dissolving in tears after learning that his buddy had just died.

But he was best known for "Restrepo." He and Sebastian Junger, author of "The Perfect Storm," were co-directors of the 2010 documentary, which was nominated for an Oscar and won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

"There is no way to express my devastation and sorrow at the death of my dear friend Tim Hetherington in Misrata, Libya," Junger said Wednesday.

"Tim was one of the most courageous and principled journalists I have ever known. The good that he accomplished –

both with his camera and simply as a concerned person in some of the most devastated countries in the world – cannot be measured."

"Restrepo" tells the story of the 2nd Platoon of Battle Company in the 173rd Airborne Combat Team on its deployment in Afghanistan in 2007 and 2008. The title refers to the platoon outpost, named after a popular soldier, Juan Restrepo, who was killed early in the fighting.

"We're at war," Hetherington said in an interview with The Associated Press before the Oscars. "We wanted to bring the war into people's living room(s) and put it into the movie theaters, and get people to connect with it."

A key characteristic of the film was that it did not attempt to judge or take a stand.

"It's not necessarily about moral outrage," Hetherington said. "It's about trying to understand that we're at war and try to understand the emotional terrain of what being at war means."

In another AP interview, at Sundance in 2010, Hetherington spoke of "a vast appetite for people to find out what the reality is that the soldiers go through."

"Soldiers don't come back and talk about their experiences to their families," he said.

"Although we have lots and lots of news reports from Iraq and Afghanistan – information about this and that – we don't really get to see the experience of what the soldiers go through."

Bruce Davis, executive director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, said the film world had lost "a courageous, remarkably talented filmmaker."

"No one who saw 'Restrepo' had any doubts about the dangers that Tim Hetherington and his crew were subjecting themselves to in order to bring us that story," said Davis.

Hetherington was doing his own work when he was killed Wednesday in Misrata, the only rebel-held city in western Libya. His family said he was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade. "Tim was in Libya to continue his ongoing multimedia project to highlight humanitarian issues during time of war and conflict," the family said in a statement. "He will be forever missed."

Misrata had come under weeks of relentless shelling by government troops.

Hetherington tweeted Tuesday: "In besieged Libyan city of Misrata. Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces. No sign of NATO." Along with his work, Hetherington was remembered for personal qualities: His good looks and his charm.

Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter remembered him as "a rangy, charming workhorse of a photographer. Devilishly goodlooking and impossibly brave, he was both a ladies' man and a man's man."

Carter noted that Hetherington had "a deft eye and unwavering dedication" to his craft and compared him to legendary war photographers Robert Capa and Larry Burrows.

White, the magazine's photo editor, said Hetherington was so dashing, "I felt sometimes like he was on assignment for Her Majesty's Secret Service – just like James Bond. I could imagine him taking off a flak jacket to reveal a tuxedo, on the way to a cocktail party. There was a lightness to him, along with the seriousness."

Thursday, April 21, 2011

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Will the Grizzlies upset the Spurs? Will the Blazers down the Mavs? from WHICH, page 14 Dallas threw the kitchen sink at him, failing each time. Mavs’ center Tyson Chandler isn’t physical enough to battle with Aldridge, who has the athletic ability to overwhelm the NBA’s best low post defenders. While he only scored two points in the final five minutes, Aldridge wasn’t all to blame. The supporting cast for Portland only shot 2-for-16 from three-point range, were outshot 18-to-2 from the free throw line in the fourth quarter, and Gerald Wallace – the Blazers’ No. 2 scoring option – went 4-for-13 from the field. It’ll take more than one player from each team to win, and Portland will definitely have a better showing from the role players in the remaining games, which is why Portland will pull out the series victory.

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Memphis Grizzlies' Tony Allen, right, flips over San Antonio Spurs' Manu Ginobili (20), of Argentina, during the second quarter of Game 2 Wednesday in San Antonio.

Mike: Role players can most definitely make or break a series for a battling underdog. Where your argument goes awry is discounting the rest of the Grizzlies roster. Even after Rudy Gay, who was unquestionably the secondoption for Memphis before he went down with a shoulder injury, they still have the firepower to hang with the NBA’s best teams. Starting from the top, Mike Conley has run the point to perfection for the Grizzlies this season and might just be in the running for the NBA’s Most Improved Player Award. OJ Mayo, despite being relegated to sixth man duties in Memphis, is the swing-man that every team needs. He is a dynamic scorer with a deadly jump-shot. If Mayo gets hot from the field, look-out.

Lastly, Marc Gasol, a talented big man with plenty of big game experience playing in Spain, has finally locked down Memphis’ center position this season. In Game 1 against the Spurs, Gasol tallied 24 points, nine rebounds, three assists and two blocks.

That trade with the Lakers for his brother Pau isn’t exactly looking so one-sided anymore. With the length that Gasol gives playing alongside Randolph, the undersized Spurs (who don’t even have a true center on their roster, apart from a halfway-over-the-hill Tim Duncan) have serious problems in the trenches.

Quenton: There is absolutely no way the Grizzles' roster matches up with the Spurs. Tony Parker is an NBA Finals MVP who hold an immense advantage over Mike Conley, regardless of their performances in Game 1.

Tim Duncan is a future Hall of Famer who still had 16 points and 13 rebounds against Gasol and Randolph. And if Manu Ginobli returns from injury during this series, he’s skilled and crafty enough to dominate any of those Memphis defenders. The Spurs will be fine. Dallas, on the other hand, should be worried. Brandon Roy, Wesley Matthews and Gerald Wallace combined for 12 Portland points, and Dallas still struggled to pull out the victory.

Aside from Aldridge and Miller, these are the most consistent players on the Blazers’ team, and their horrid performances will not happen again. While Kidd scored 24 points aided by six three-pointers, it’s highly unlikely that it’ll happen again, and with Miller’s size, he’s the perfect guard to put the clamps on Kidd. Nicholas Batum is a lethal sharpshooter from beyond the arc, and had 14 points in the loss. His athleticism and length provide a matchup problem for the Mavs on both the offensive and defensive end.

Rudy Fernandez is an important piece off the bench, and Marcus Camby had 18 rebounds, while Dallas’ centers Brendan Haywood and Tyson Chandler combined for 15. With their versatility and defensive mindset, a Blazers series victory over the Mavericks is more than possible, and will prove that they’re amongst the Western Conference’s elite.

Mike: I think you’re disregarding one word you wrote in that last argument: “If Manu Ginobli returns from injury during this series.” That’s a pretty big “if.” Ginobli is undoubtedly the MVP of his team these days, and without him they lack scoring and depth on the wing. A tandem of Steve Novak and Gary Neal just will not get it done in the playoffs. Also, the fact of the matter is that even if Ginobli does come back. Memphis has the defense to stop both him and Parker from penetrating. To quote Charles Barkley,” every great team needs a crazy guy.”

Of course, he is referring to guys like Dennis Rodman with the Chicago Bulls of the 90s and Ron Artest of the current Los Angeles Lakers. These guys are unafraid of anybody, and relish the opportunity to go toeto-toe with the opposing teams’ best scorers. Memphis has that guy this season in Tony Allen.

Some may scoff at this, thinking he’s merely a bench player, but he has the defensive ability and athleticism to match up with just about anyone in this league.

He also has a great amount of

playoff experience, being a key part of the Celtics’ championship run in 2008. Obtaining him in the off-season is what has brought Memphis as far as they have come. He has completely changed the mentality of this squad, who led the NBA this season with 9.4 steals-per-game.

Look for coach Lionel Hollins to send Tony Allen and veteran stopper Shane Battier out there in crunch time to wreak havoc on San Antonio’s key players.

Quenton: While Allen is a good defender, he shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same breath as Rodman, or Artest either, for that matter. Besides, Portland doesn’t rely on a single stopper to win games. They play team defense. They allowed 94.8 points per game during the regular season, which was seventh in the NBA. Portland isn’t too shabby in the steals department either, ranking fifth overall, and the Blazers were the least turnover-prone team in the league, while their defense forced opponents to 16 per game. In Game 1, the Mavs were held to 40 percent shooting from the field, and if it wasn’t for Kidd’s miraculous flash-in-the-pan 24-point scoring output, it would’ve been worse.

Kidd and Nowitzki did combine for 52, but the other eight players had 37 total, which indicates that cohesive defense was present, regardless of the loss. With Memphis, on the other hand, they allowed six different Spurs players to score in double figures in Game 1. This trend will continue because the Grizzlies rely on quick offensive spurts and are not as defense-oriented as Portland.

Miller and Matthews will stop Kidd for the rest of the series, and if the Blazers continue their steady team defensive play, they will send the Mavs packing early.

Mike: What does everyone look for when trying to find an upset? Two things: First, matchups. But we’ve already gone over how Memphis gives San Antonio problems at almost every position. Secondly, and probably even more importantly, is how the team has played down the stretch of the season. Though San Antonio was red hot to start the season, they tapered off toward the end, having to deal with injuries and depth issues while stumbling into the playoffs as a vulnerable No. 1 seed. Memphis, on the other hand, is a team on a mission. After making the decision to trade former UConn star Hasheem Thabeet and a first-round draft pick to Houston for Shane Battier to fill

in the void left by Rudy Gay, this team took off. In March and April alone, the Grizzlies knocked off countless top teams across the NBA. Wins against Dallas, Oklahoma City, Indiana, Boston and now three straight victories against the Spurs have shown me that this team is poised for a run.

I’m not saying the Blazers can’t give Dallas a run for their money, but good luck to anyone trying to guard Dirk Nowitzki. The Grizz won’t be intimidated by any team, especially a Spurs squad that fails to compare to Gregg Popovich’s defense-oriented championship rosters of the past decade. They will come out to play hard nightin and night-out, and will grind the Spurs down until there is nothing left. The Memphis Grizzlies will pull the biggest upset of the 2011 NBA Playoffs.

Quenton: The Spurs may be getting older, but with age comes experience. They have that throughout the majority of their roster. Four championships in 11 years cannot be stressed enough, while Memphis just won their first playoff GAME in franchise history Sunday. The Spurs have a solid foundation in Parker and Duncan, as well as the key role players necessary to bounce back and eventually win the series.

On the flip side, Dallas knows how dangerous the Blazers are.

Portland went 5-2 in April to finish off the season with victories over Memphis and Utah, as well as over the conference elites Oklahoma City, the aforementioned Mavs and the defending champs Los Angeles. They’ve defeated Dallas three times in the regular season, and have taken two-of-three from San Antonio.

Also, Dallas has the pressure of overcoming their previous postseason woes. Their frequent early exits from the playoffs have been highly documented by critics and fans alike. Coming into this series, many thought Dallas had the necessary pieces to make a significant run. With Joe Crawford refereeing Game 2 – the Mavs are 2-16 in playoff games he’s officiated – those chances look dimmer and the idea of an upset look even higher for Portland.

Referee superstition aside, the Blazers were underestimated by analysts and teams all year, and with the addition of Gerald Wallace to go alongside NBA star LaMarcus Aldridge, they’re out to prove everyone wrong.

With that said, the Portland Trail Blazers will beat the Mavericks in six games, which will officially give them the respect they so rightly deserve.

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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Sports

Third inning blast is enough to top Huskies

By Michael Ferraro Campus Correspondent

All of the UConn pitchers were involved in Wednesday afternoon’s game, but their combined effort was not enough, as third inning two-run home run from Stephanie Mayne was all the offense UMass pitcher Sara Plourde needed.

then Katelyn Callahan took over for the rest of the game.

Callahan was able to get out of another UMass rally in the sixth and cruised in the top of the seventh.

Coach Karen Mullins of the pitching performance, “I was pleased with all three of them.

I thought they all did their job, they pitched tough. Ali did a nice job.”

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Pitching by Sara Plourde Committee: Overpowers the The Huskies went Huskies: with a pitcher by As of April 12 committee, so that Plourde was third in each pitcher wouldget nation with 282 » Notebook the some amount of work strikeouts. Coming during the game. into yesterday’s game Ali Adelman got the start for against UConn, Plourde had 299 UConn, lasting three innings strikeouts and by the end of the and giving up two runs on five game she added 13 more to that hits. Adelman had a relatively total, raising it to 312 strikeeasy first inning, only allowing outs on the season. The Huskies one hit. In the top second, she were only able to muster three battled out of a bases-loaded hits against Plourde. Through jam, but Mayne got a hold of the second to the bottom of the a fastball and sent it over the seventh, Plourde did not allow a centerfield fence. Those would base runner. The Huskies’ best be the only two runs that the chance to score came in the botHuskies would give up all day. tom of the seventh, when they Kiki Saveriano had a rough stranded two runners on base. fourth inning but was able to “The big thing is that we pitch out of a bases-loaded had to make them earn it, make jam again. Saveriano cruised them earn it. I can honestly say through the fifth inning, and I thought we played tough and

they earned it. We were in it until the end but they earned it,” Coach Mullins said.

Bottom of the Seventh Inning Rally falls short The bottom of the seventh inning was the Huskies’ best chance to steal a victory against Plourde. Jennifer Ward led off the bottom of the seventh with a sharp line drive through the third baseman and Huskies had their first base runner since the second inning. Amy DeLuca put runners on first and second with nobody out, but that’s as much as Plourde would give the Huskies. She went on to strike out the final three batters of the game. The last two batters swung and missed on six straight pitches to end the game.

“I think we battle through the whole game and we were in it right till the end. Even in the bottom of the seventh we had an opportunity to do something and just didn’t quite finish it,” Coach Mullins said.

The Huskies drop to 17-20 on the season and will return to action on Friday where they start a three-game series against the University of South Florida.

Michael.Ferraro@UConn.edu

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Senior second baseman Julianne Towers throws the ball during UConn's 2-0 loss to UMass Wednesday at Burrill Family Field in Storrs.

Cerullo: BCS system hurts football programs; FBS needs a playoff

from A POSTSEASON, page 14

Nothing against the sport of basketball, but football is the biggest moneymaker in American sports. The amount of money flowing through football—between the TV contracts, the stadium revenue, the sponsorships and everything in between— is staggering. To be blunt, teams that succeed in college football and make the postseason should be swimming in cash, and the fact that they aren’t is unacceptable and clearly illustrates that there is a serious problem with the system.

And, what happened to UConn perfectly illustrates everything that is wrong with the BCS and college football’s postseason.

When the news that UConn lost nearly $1.8 million at the

Fiesta Bowl broke, the majority of the public outcry was directed at the school itself.

Numerous comments on The Daily Campus website decry the travel expenses and the high ticket prices, and the general consensus was that it was the school’s fault that the losses were so great.

But, while the school makes for an easy target, the fact of the matter is that, in this case, they were caught between a rock and a hard place. The Fiesta Bowl made UConn buy 17,500 tickets as a condition for playing in the game, and the only way the school could have gotten that money back was to sell the tickets at prices that ultimately couldn’t compete with the deals people could find on Stubhub.com or eBay.

In essence, the Fiesta Bowl passed on the costs to the school, insulating itself from the inevitable losses in the process. Bowls do this in a number of different ways. For example, they mandate the number of days the team spends at the bowl, jacking up hotel and meal costs for the schools who otherwise might choose to only spend a weekend at the game instead of a week.

It’s not just UConn who is being gorged, either. Even college football’s traditional powerhouses usually don’t make out well in the postseason.

The most glaring example is Auburn, who won the national championship this year and proceeded to lose $600,000 at the game.

You’d like to hope that the bowls, which are mostly not-

for-profit organizations, are at least putting all that money to a good cause. It’s the least they could do, right?

Apparently, that’s too much to ask. About a month ago, the CEO of the Fiesta Bowl, John Junker, was fired for numerous “improper and inappropriate activities.” Specifically, Junker used Fiesta Bowl money to reimburse about $46,539 worth of political contributions to politicians whom one would assume are supportive of the bowl, according to the Chicago Tribune.

The Tribune also reported that he led a flawed initial investigation into the incident, tried to cover up the scheme from the Board of Directors and the state, and indulged in about $4.85 million worth of excessive and unauthorized

expenses over 10 years.

What kind of expenses? How about a $33,000 50th birthday party, a club membership to four different elite golf clubs and a $1,200 strip club romp for him and two associates?

Doesn’t it just make you feel wonderful knowing that some of the money UConn spent, while being forced to buy tickets that they systematically had no chance of reselling, may have wound up funding some random CEO’s strip club trip?

Since all of these details came out, the BCS has done its best to distance itself from Junker and the Fiesta Bowl in general, but you’d be naïve to think that this is an isolated incident.

The bottom line is, the BCS is a cancer that sucks money out of college football. That

money could have been better used to reward the football programs that succeed and, in turn, could be used to better the universities as a whole.

The fact that UConn profited off the NCAA basketball tournament clearly shows that an NCAA tournament in football, regardless of whether it’s a four-team, eight-team or 16-team playoff, would be a major improvement over the current system, and would financially benefit all of the schools involved.

Plus, it might give Boise State a chance to actually play for a national championship one of these days, but that’s a different argument entirely.

Follow Mac Cerullo on Twitter at @MacCerullo.

Michael.Cerullo@UConn.edu

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Chicago Blackhawks' Patrick Sharp celebrates after scoring a goal during the second period of Game 3 against the Vancouver Canucks in Chicago on Sunday.

bing of Vancouver on Tuesday night in an elimination game) has been decided by two goals or less and have been anyone’s game to win for the majority of the contest.

In fact, out of the 25 games played in the post-season to this point, only five of those games have been decided by more than a two-goal margin, while three have required extra time to determine the outcome.

And while some may point to the fact that by their nature the playoffs should indeed be competitive, the impressive part about the level of competition and parity throughout these playoffs is not just the fact that the majority of the games have been close, but that the NHL allows more than half of its teams – 16 of the 30 – into the playoffs, yet still manages to provide exciting games for fans.

By contrast, the NBA allows exactly half of its 32 teams into the postseason, and while there have been some exciting games and a few upsets so far,

the NBA has also had quite a few games that are just not competitive from the outset – like Miami’s Game Two thrashing of the Sixers, which was doomed to boredom after the first eight or so minutes of the game.

Even the NFL – a league that prides itself on its “any given Sunday” mentality – can provide a few blowouts in the early rounds of its playoffs, like the Packers-Falcons and RavensChiefs matchups this past winter, despite limiting the number of teams that make the postseason to just 12 of its 32 members.

So, for the NHL to keep its level of competition high, despite allowing more than 50 percent of their teams into the playoffs, is truly an impressive feat.

A big reason for that level of competitiveness, aside from the fairly even talent level on NHL teams, is because of the types of players that are in the league, or as SportsCenter anchors often like to put it, “because they’re hockey players.”

Indeed, the mental makeup of a hockey player is something

far different from that of every other athlete, and this mentality is never more exposed than in the playoffs. The toughness, determination and grit that hockey players compete with is unmatched by any other sport, as nowhere else is every player at every position subjected to the beating that hockey players receive. Whether it’s taking a hit, starting a fight or being run down by a forward crashing the net, every player on the ice is subjected to the physicality of the game, something that cannot always be said for other sports.

On top of the sheer toughness of hockey players, their tenacity and desire is a key element in making the sport what it is, especially in the playoffs. Rarely in other sports will you see a man get his teeth literally broken in half – like the Lightning’s Martin St. Louis’ were in Game One of their series against the Penguins – and continue to battle for the rest of the game, get a postgame double-root canal and then come back even stronger for Game Two with only one

day to recover in between.

It’s also not every day that you hear an NHL coach ripping the world’s most famous arena, Madison Square Garden, and its fans – who are among the most passionate in the league.

But that is exactly what we got out of Capitals’ coach Bruce Boudreau the other night as he ranted to the media about how the Caps’ facilities were both nicer and louder, inciting his opponent and providing some bulletin- board material not only for the Rangers but also their fans, who are sure to be as loud as ever for Game Four.

All of this is what makes the NHL uniquely interesting. Its unparalleled level of competitiveness, on top of the unmatched fire and grit of its players and coaches – all in the name of raising Lord Stanley’s Cup – is exactly what makes springtime hockey so exciting to watch, because as Forest Gump so eloquently put it, “you never know what you’re gonna get.”

Matthew.Stypulkoski@UConn.edu

UConn falls to UMass, 2-0

from HUSKIES, page 14

In the meantime, however, Plourde was dominant. The junior has been prolific this season, leading the nation with 12.2 strikeouts per seven innings and posting a miniscule 1.39 earned run average entering the game. Using a combination of a dynamic riseball and a fastball that repeatedly painted on the corners, the Huskies only managed one hit through the first six innings, a second inning single

by Amy Vaughan.

Katelyn Callahan would be called upon in the final two innings for the Huskies. The

freshman, despite only pitching 20.1 innings on the season and posting a 5.73 ERA, was extremely effective for the Huskies. She did not allow a hit during her two innings but the game went into the bottom of the seventh with UMass on top, 2-0.

The Huskies would make things interesting in the final half inning of the ballgame. Jennifer Ward led off with a crisp infield single off of the third basemen’s glove, giving UConn their first baserunner since the second inning. Amy Deluca followed with a bloop single into left field and all of a sudden the Huskies had the winning run at the plate.

However, Plourde would prove why she is one of the elite pitchers in the NCAA, striking out the next three Huskies in order to preserve a 2-0 victory.

“Mass is always a great rival,” Mullins said. “Their pitcher has had a great year and does some nice things. I would have liked to have seen us make a few more adjustments at the plate with her, but overall I thought we battled through the whole game.”

The Huskies will travel to Tampa for a three-game series with South Florida beginning on Saturday at 2 p.m.

Peter.Logue@UConn.edu

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Junior third baseman Amy DeLuca gets ready to scoop a ground ball during UConn's 2-0 loss to UMass Wednesday at Burrill Family Field in Storrs.

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The Daily Question Q : “How much attention are you giving the NHL playoffs?“ and check the scores every day. I’ll catch a game every once A : “Iin atrywhile.“ –Frankie Rende, 4th-semester MIS major

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» MLB

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– Knicks guard Chauncy Billups, who missed Game 2 due to a strained left knee.

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Tampa Bay Lightning right wing Martin St. Louis (26) celebrates his goal against the Pittsburgh Penguins during the second period in Game 4 of a first-round NHL Stanley Cup playoff series on Wednesday in Tampa, Fla.

Red Sox beat Athletics 5-3 for 1st road win

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP)—A short turnaround against a pitcher throwing better than anyone in the majors presented a tough environment for the Boston Red Sox to come up with their first road win of the season.

Kevin Youkilis and Jed Lowrie homered off the previously untouchable Gio Gonzalez and the Red Sox ended their season-opening sevengame road skid by beating the Oakland Athletics 5-3 on Wednesday.

“It’s a little late, but it feels good,” manager Terry Francona said. “If we bog ourselves down with what we did two weeks ago, that’s what we’re going to do: bog ourselves down. We need to try to stay in the moment and win.”

Clay Buchholz (1-2) allowed a leadoff home run to Coco Crisp and nothing else in 5 1-3 innings as the Red Sox snapped the longest road losing streak to start a season in franchise history.

Despite building a 5-1 lead, there were some tense moments late for the Red Sox. Crisp’s one-out RBI single off Bobby Jenks in the eighth inning cut Boston’s lead to three runs, but Jenks recovered by striking out Daric Barton.

Jonathan Papelbon escaped the jam by striking out David DeJesus.

The A’s added another run in the ninth on Landon Powell’s RBI single before Papelbon got pinch-hitter Josh Willingham and Cliff Pennington to end the game for his third save.

“We didn’t take advantage of some situations when we had them,” Oakland manager Bob Geren said. “We had some of our better hits up in certain situations and didn’t necessarily come through. We had our chances, we did.”

Gonzalez (2-1) came into the game having thrown 17 straight scoreless innings and having allowed only one run in three starts for an 0.47 ERA. But he allowed an RBI single to Carl Crawford in the second, a solo homer to Youkilis in the fourth and the two-run shot by Lowrie in the sixth in a rare off performance for an Oakland starter.

In the previous turn through the rotation, A’s starters gave up just one earned run in 33 2-3 innings for an 0.27 ERA. Gonzalez was touched for four runs and eight hits in six innings in a game played in a steady rain.

“It’s definitely a little bit of pressure,” Gonzalez said. “It was kind of a tough act to follow. … These guys were swinging. They weren’t going to let us go and just walk over them. That’s a tough team to keep down. If you make a mistake they’re going to make you pay for it and that’s exactly what they did.”

Gonzalez had good stuff as evidenced by his nine strikeouts but was done in by the homers from Youkilis and Lowrie as the A’s lost for just the sixth time in their past 24 home games against Boston.

Huskies take on Georgetown Hoyas at home

Golf May 19 NCAA East Regional All Weekend

BASEBALL Men’s Tennis Tomorrow Syracuse 10 a.m.

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3 p.m., WHUS J.O. Christian Field

Women’s Tennis Tomorrow Syracuse 10 a.m.

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Junior right-handed pitcher David Fischer pitches during UConn’s 9-1 win over St. John’s at J.O. Christian Field in Storrs on April 2.

» INSIDE SPORTS TODAY

P.13: Red Sox beat Athletics, 5-3. / P.13: Baseball takes on Georgetown at home today. / P.12: Softball notebook about UConn’s loss.

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HUSKIES FALL TO MINUTEMEN

A postseason problem

Plourde and UMass shut out UConn in Storrs

By Peter Logue Staff Writer

Mac Cerullo How can you measure the value of a championship?

Is it merely the feeling of euphoria when the clock hits zero and the confetti begins to fall? Or, is it possible that a price could be placed on such an accomplishment?

Well, according to the Hartford Courant, the UConn men’s and women’s basketball teams’ run to the Final Four brought in $1.7 million for the school, and that was on top of a $1.4 million share of TV revenue that the school earned from the Big East.

It only seems appropriate that the basketball programs be rewarded for their success.

Which is why the $1.7 million that they got is so ironic.

Recall the football team, and the roughly $1.8 million bath that the program took by going to the Fiesta Bowl. The question that I have, and that everybody should have, is this: how is it possible that the basketball teams could make so much money in the postseason while the football team loses nearly the same amount?

STORRS- Bristol native Sara Plourde returned to Connecticut in style on Wednesday afternoon, leading UMass to a 2-0 victory over the UConn softball team.

Plourde, one of the nation’s top pitchers, allowed only three hits while striking out 13 in a complete game shutout. UConn dropped to 18-19 on the season while UMass improved to 17-15.

With a crucial in-conference series against the University of Southern Florida looming this weekend, coach Karen Mullins decided to incorporate all three pitchers on her staff in Wednesday’s afternoon game. Although Kiki Saveriano has shouldered the vast majority of innings this year for the Huskies, it was Ali Adelman who would get the start.

“We felt like we wanted to give some work to all of the pitchers,” said Mullins. “We figured we were going to pitch by committee and keep showing them something different.”

Adelman, who has seen limited action this season, was not intimidated by the Minutewomen, and was effective throughout her first two innings of work. However, one bad pitch in the third inning would prove to be the difference in the game. With a runner on and an 0-2 count, Adelman left a fastball over the heart of the plate and Stephanie Mayne launched the ball well over the bushes in rightcenterfield for a two run home run.

Saveriano would make her first relief appearance of the season in the fourth inning to try to maintain the 2-0 deficit. She was able to work her way out of a bases loaded jam and keep the deficit in tact.

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NHL parity in postseason

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Junior catcher Amy Vaughan swings at a pitch during UConn’s 2-0 loss to UMass Wednesday at Burrill Family Field in Storrs.

UConn hosts Cincinnati hoping to end skid

By Matt Stypulkoski NHL Columnist

By Carmine Colangelo Staff Writer

the game, we did some good things but never finished the play, whether it was on attack or defense.”

The game against the Irish The UConn women’s lacrosse team is playing their featured a three- goal game first home game in nearly from junior M.E. Lapham, her 35th straight game three weeks today with at least one as they square off goal. The impresagainst Big East sive extension of the opponent Cincinnati.

The Huskies have vs. Cincinnati streak was in a losing effort, however, been on a two- game 4 p.m. as the Huskies fell road trip since their Sherman 15-5. Their record last home game now stands at 6-6 on April 1 against Complex with a 0-4 record in Georgetown. Since conference. their last game, Reflecting on the Huskies’ however, the Huskies have been on a three- game losing Big East woes this seaskid, dropping games to the son, coach Woods believes Hoyas, Syracuse and, most “we’ve had some very close Big East game thus far. recently, Notre Dame.

“We had a tough trip out to Losing to Rutgers by one South Bend last weekend,” and Georgetown by two was said head coach Katie Woods. tough, but I think it gave the “Notre Dame came out very team confidence that we can hard against us and we pan- compete. Notre Dame was icked. Once we settled into a tough weekend but I think

Ed. note: This column was written before Wednesday’s playoff games Just a week into the NHL playoffs, the league’s incredible knack for fiery competition and parity are already beginning to shine through.

Even though on a year in and year out basis, the intensity and ferocity with which the NHL playoffs are played are consistently high and fairly unmatched – except perhaps by the NFL – in the world of professional sports, this year’s postseason has been even more tenacious than normal. Thus far, out of the eight playoff series that are being played, six of those matchups sit at 2-1 through three games as of Wednesday afternoon. And the other two matchups, VancouverChicago and Detroit-Phoenix, are 3-1 and 3-0 respectively, but every game (with the exception of the 7-2 Blackhawks drub-

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» STYPULKOSKI, page 12

we’re ready to turn things around for this coming weekend. Both Cincinnati and Louisville are huge games for us.”

Now, the Huskies will look to the Bearcats to hopefully change the tide of their lack of in-conference success. The Bearcats have a 3-10 record thus far and are 1-3 in the Big East. Their lone win in the Big East came from Rutgers last Sunday, a team that has beaten the Huskies previously in this season.

The Huskies will play a team that Woods describes as “feisty” and “aggressive,” and they will need to give it their all in order to win their first Big East game this season. The game will start at 4 p.m.

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Junior attack M.E. Lapham runs after a Georgetown player during UConn’s 14-12 loss at the Sherman Complex in Storrs on April 1.

Which is the biggest potential NBA first round upset?

Grizzlies vs. Spurs

By Mike Szego Campus Correspondent The most intriguing matchup this year is shaping up to be the No. 1 seed San Antonio Spurs vs. the No. 8 seed Memphis Grizzlies. On Sunday the Grizzlies stunned the Spurs, taking Game 1 on their home court in the franchise’s first-ever playoff victory. Memphis showed facets of their game that left many Spurs fans scratching their heads. If San Antonio isn’t careful, Memphis has the ability to kick them to the curb and become only the fourth No. 8 seed to win a first-round series in NBA history.

The Grizzlies could upset the No. 1 Spurs...

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» POINT/COUNTERPOINT Mike Szego: The Blazers are a dangerous team, but they lack that one player that can close out games in crunch time. Brandon Roy used to be that guy in Portland. However, after the knee injuries he has suffered over the last two seasons, the weight has been placed solely on Aldridge’s shoulders. The Mavericks have two stars in Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Terry, who can put the ball in the bucket in clutch situations down the stretch of big games.

The Grizzlies have a player like that, too, in Zach Randolph. For some reason, Randolph does not get the praise he should as one of the elite power forwards in the NBA. The stats are most definitely there, as he averages 20.1 points-per-game, with 12.2 rebounds-per-game, and shoots a whopping 50.3 percent from the field. When it comes down to it

in the fourth quarter, Memphis can lean on Zach Randolph to dominate an aging Tim Duncan and an overall undersized San Antonio front-court. This will help them squeeze out some key wins in close games.

Quenton Narcisse: Randolph is a great player, but he pales in comparison to Aldridge. Aldridge was robbed of an All-Star spot this year, averaging 22 points and nine rebounds for the season while also shooting 50-plus percent from the field. He’s averaged over 18 points in his career and almost 20 points in the playoffs, which proves that he shows up when the spotlight is present.

In Game 1 against the Mavs, Aldridge scored 27 on 12-for-20 shooting with six rebounds, as

» WILL, page 11

Blazers vs. Mavericks

By Quenton Narcisse Campus Correspondent

One series that is gathering little attention is the Blazers versus Mavericks. Dallas is the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference, while Portland is No. 6. The Blazers are the more athletic squad, and play a slowpaced yet competitive style of basketball, which is a plus against Dallas’ average defense.

The supporting cast will play a vital role, as the Blazers need someone to contribute alongside the NBA’s most underrated power forward, LaMarcus Aldridge. If they can do that, it’ll be another early exit from the postseason for Nowitzki and the Mavericks.

Gregory.Keiser@UConn.edu

AP

... but there is a whole lot of talent in this series.