The Daily Campus: April 6, 2011

Volume CXVIII No. 138

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‘Quality scorecard’ measures online education

By Ben Fechter Campus Correspondant

The VERDICT IS IN ON ‘WITNESS’

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Comparing online educational programs has been difficult since their courses popularity boomed in the 2000s, but now there is an effective measure of an online education; the “quality scorecard.”

Kaye Shelton, and co-author George Saltsman, were doing research for Shelton’s 2005

book, “An Administrator’s Guide to Online Education”, when she realized that she had no way of comparing the quality of online programs.

“When I came to the chapter on quality, I just ended up chucking it,” said Shelton, who is currently dean of online education at Dallas Baptist University.

Through the work on her book, Shelton realized that there had to be a way to begin

comparing such unconventional programs as online education. By working with the nonprofit group for online education Sloan Consortium, along with other online education administrators, Shelton was able to develop the “quality scorecard.”

The scorecard contains 70 metrics, which are all weighted equally, although certain categories contain more metrics.

For example, the category titled “support for students” contains 24.3 percent of the total while “course structure” contains 11.4 percent.

“These are metrics that can be adopted by accrediting bodies that are maybe struggling with how they might evaluate online programs at both traditional and nontraditional universities,” said Francis X. Mulgrew, president of the online branch

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BEV BRINGS HOME THE HARDWARE National champs return home.

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EDITORIAL: CONGRATULATIONS TO UCONN MEN, WOMEN ASHLEY POSPISIL/The Daily Campus

From left: Jim Calhoun, Kemba Walker, Alex Oriakhi and Jeremy Lamb look up at the wall of Gampel Pavilion as Kemba Walker’s No. 15 is revelead on the “Huskies of Honor” board.

WELCOME BACK KEMBA

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Huskies arrive home with 3rd championship trophy

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Sloan-C, which holds annual conferences and publishes research on online education, supported Shelton’s work on developing the scorecard. The Sloan-C website describes the “quality scorecard” as, “versatile enough to be used to demonstrate the overall quality of online education programs, no matter what

By Garrett Gianneschi Campus Correspondent Jim Calhoun couldn’t resist cracking a large smile as he walked onto the court of Gampel Pavilion, under the outstretched hands of fans slung over the bleacher railings.

The entire team received the same greeting last night, in a pep raily held in honor of the men’s basketball team’s national championship victory, brought out multitudes of excited fans and a very humble men’s basketball team.

The highlight of the evening

was the unveiling of Kemba Walker’s name and number on the interior wall of Gampel for his induction into the “UConn Huskies of Honor.”

“The success of this team has consisted of Kemba standing up and saying,‘Follow me,’” said radio personality Joe D’Ambrosio. “Kemba has been a bright star since Day One.” Walker couldn’t hold back tears after his name was unveiled.

“Sorry I’m a bit emotional,” said Walker. “I never thought I’d see this day…I want to thank you guys because without you none of this would be possible.”

In Jim Calhoun’s short speech,

he thanked the players and the fans.

“Everything that you do tells us that you love this team,” said Calhoun. “You’ve helped us win the national championship.

Thank you.”

Fans more than reciprocated the appreciation with posters, such as “Kemba will you marry me?” and “Kemba had a little Lamb.”

“I’m just glad I got to be here,” said Scott Hagen, a 4thsemester marketing major.

“I was at Gampel last night. I walked with everyone after the game…I’m going to remember this for the rest of my life.”

“I appreciate most the overall sense of pride they bring to the state,” said Ned Froan, a Coventry resident. “I work for a bunch of people who aren’t from Connecticut and I ask them, ‘Which Final Four game are you going to?’ And it is like Calhoun said, they seem like a really good group of kids.”

Some segments of the ceremony were cut out, such as the remarks from the president.

The pep rally lasted around 30 minutes.

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‘Queer Animation: Wolves, Wonders and the Wild’

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and the Humanities Institute, among others.

Halberstam began her lecture with a history of animated films, outlining how and when they came to be staples in American society. Citing household names like Walt Disney, she talked about how, in the first half of the 20th century, cartoons were depicted globally as representations of American dominance.

These images changed and grew more elaborate, especially during World War II, when animated shorts were used to promote anti-fascist thought. “What looks like entertainment is actually propaganda,” she said.

Judith Jack Halberstam speaks during a lecture at Konover Auditorium yesterday in the Dodd Center.

» KIDS, page 2

By Steph Ratty Staff Writter Dozens of students lined the rows at Konover Auditorium yesterday afternoon for an interactive lecture on the undertones of animated films with author and gender theorist Judith Jack Halberstam.

Halberstam is a professor of English, American studies and ethnicity and gender studies at the University of Southern California. She was brought to UConn to discuss the evolution of animation and its political connotations by the women’s studies department, the Human Rights Institute

STORRS (AP) — Kemba Walker powered Connecticut to a third national title and in return the school put the star guard’s name and number on the wall of Gampel Pavilion.

It was a surprise moment during Tuesday’s victory rally before about 7,500 rabid UConn fans who came to the arena to celebrate Monday night’s 53-41 win over Butler, and chanted “Kemba Walker,” and “One more year.”

The junior playmaker, who averaged 23.7 points during the NCAA tournament, cried and pulled his championship hat over his eyes as a drape that covered his banner was pulled away. He became the 14th Connecticut player to join the “Huskies of Honor” wall — the first to receive the honor while he was still in school.

“It’s like a dream come true,” Walker said. “Every kid wants his jersey or his number to be retired and this is pretty special.”

It’s been a special month for Walker, whose team was picked to finish 10th in the Big East in the preseason, but completed a remarkable 11-0 run through the postseason that also included a conference tournament championship.

“He has had an incredible season, that no one before has ever had at UConn,” coach Jim Calhoun said. “When you get in that category of being called by one name ... that’s pretty special.”

Special enough that any future Huskies will have to ask Walker for permission if they want to wear his No. 15. That’s the type of pull you get for playing a key role in Connecticut’s third NCAA men’s basketball championship and first since 2004.

“You are an inspiration to your fellow citizens here in Connecticut. You are a great pride to your university,” Gov. Dannel P. Malloy told the team shortly after it arrived at Bradley Airport.

“This team, just amazing.”

The Huskies shook hands with several dozen fans that lined an airport fence in a cold rain, then boarded buses for campus, where students such as 21-year-old junior Matt Kuruc had been partying since Monday night.

“This whole campus is feeling great about this,” he said.

“There’s nothing else I can do but celebrate this best win that we could possibly get. It’s amazing.”

The UConn Co-op, the campus bookstore, had almost sold out of national championship shirts and hats by Tuesday afternoon, and had already reordered twice.

SophomoreBryan McCloskey, 20, of Guilford, was among the bleary-eyed shoppers looking for souvenirs.

“There’s been classes, but I skipped my first one because I was a little bit tired,” he said. “I went to bed at 2:30. Everybody was totally pumped.”

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UConn students celebrate national title

STORRS (AP) — Some UConn fans got a little too raucous celebrating the Huskies national championship.

Police say fans caused minor property damage on campus and in Storrs, and several have been arrested.

Campus police say 12 people were arrested there, five of them students. UConn police Maj. Ronald Blicher said early Tuesday that most of the charges involve vandalism and criminal mischief.

He says one car was flipped over and a couple of fires were started in dumpsters.

A couch was set on fire and a car was overturned at an off-campus apartment complex. State police say a crowd of 200 or so had gathered, and some were throwing bottles at troopers. They were using dogs to disperse the crowd.

UConn beat Butler 53-41 to win its third national title.

1st trial starts in Conn. doctor sex-abuse case

WATERBURY (AP) — A man says that a late Connecticut doctor suspected of molesting scores of children had him and his sister perform sex acts on each other when they were children.

The 50-year-old man testified Tuesday that Dr. George Reardon also took pornographic pictures of them. He spoke in a Waterbury Superior Court trial on the claims by another alleged victim of Reardon, who died in 1998.

The case is the first to trial among dozens against St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center of Hartford where Reardon practiced.

The lawsuits claim hospital officials failed to prevent the abuse. The hospital says it didn’t know about it.

Another man also testified Tuesday Reardon performed a sex act on him when he was 12 and taking part in a supposed growth study.

Heartless thief steals Conn. youth soccer goals

BRANFORD (AP) — A Connecticut youth soccer league kicked off its spring season this week without one key ingredient essential for soccer — goals.

League officials and police say it appears someone stole 20 of the Branford Soccer Club’s 6-foot-by-4-foot metal-framed goals apparently to sell as scrap. The goals were for use by the club’s L’il Kicks and Micros program for ages 4 to 7 that opened the season Monday.

Club vice president Cenk Sahin tells The New Haven Register he discovered the goals missing Saturday. He saw the nets lying on the ground, with the frames missing. A dozen were brand new.

Police say the goals were worth about $2,000 and are checking area scrap yards.

Meanwhile, the league will use cones as goals and seek donations of new goals.

Town keeps fighting sex offender facility

MONTVILLE (AP) — The Montville Town Council has voted to continue its legal battle against a residential sex-offender treatment facility proposed for town.

The council voted 3-2 Monday to keep fighting the 24-bed facility that would be built on the grounds of Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center. One councilor was sick and one abstained.

The town has already spent $87,000 in the legal fight. Councilor Dana McFee says the money has been well spent because opposition to the facility has been building and the state is reconsidering exactly who will be placed at the treatment center.

Councilor Candy Buebendorf voted against the measure. She says the town should concentrate on efforts to reach an agreement with the state to ensure the security and safety of the town’s citizens.

Yale mourns death of hockey player

NEW HAVEN (AP) — Yale University officials say the campus is mourning the death of Bulldogs hockey player Mandi Schwartz, whose 27-month leukemia battle drew thousands of people to sign up on bone marrow registries.

Schwartz’s father, Rick Schwartz, says she died Sunday in her native province of Saskatchewan, Canada. She was 23.

Schwartz underwent a bone marrow transplant last September, but tests later determined the leukemia had returned. Her father says her family and fiance were with Schwartz when she died.

Schwartz started playing hockey at 6 with her brothers. She was captain of the Athol Murray College of Notre Dame women’s team in her native town of Wilcox, Saskatchewan, before enrolling in Yale’s Class of 2011.

Her brother, Jaden Schwartz, was a 2010 first-round St. Louis Blues draft pick.

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Panel hears plan to cap fees in $3.4B settlement American Indians claim more in confrontation (AP) — Attorneys in the government’s $3.4 billion settlement with American Indians over mismanaged royalties are “stonewalling” a congressional panel as they ask a judge to more than double their fees in the case, the committee’s chairman said Tuesday.

Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, is co-sponsoring legislation to cap the attorneys’ fees at $50 million.

He said in a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Indians and Alaska Native Affairs, which he chairs, that “it smells” for the plaintiffs’ lawyers to now make the argument that they deserve $223 million, after the settlement limited their fee request to $99.9 million.

Young said both the plaintiffs’ attorneys and the Obama administration officials who negotiated the settlement refused to testify Tuesday on the proposal and have stymied previous attempts to gather information about how the fees were structured.

“Today, the Plaintiffs are stonewalling the efforts of this Committee to get to the bottom of the fee controversy in their refusal to testify or to respond to numerous written inquiries over the last year seeking information about their fees,” Young said.

If Congress passes the legislation, it will void the settlement, plaintiffs’ spokesman Bill McAllister said Tuesday.

Congress had a year to vet the terms of the settlement before it approved the deal in December, he said. Now it’s back under the authority of a federal judge and out of the panel’s hands.

“Political interference in the judicial process would harm 500,000 individual Indians, undermine our system of government and jeop-

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Elouise Cobell, second from left, with her legal team in the law offices of Kilpatrick & Stockton in Washington. Also shown, from left, are Bill Dorris, Keith Harper, Dennis Gingold and Geoffrey Rempel.

ardize the settlement in its entirety,” the plaintiffs’ attorneys said in a statement.

The federal government never would have agreed to a $3.4 billion settlement with American Indians if it knew the plaintiffs’ lawyers would try to more than double their fees, Young said.

Even $100 million is too much, he added.

Other subcommittee members echoed the belief that $223 million in fees is too high. But some said the bill by Young and Republican Rep. Doc Hastings, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, to cap the fees could scuttle the settlement and possibly leave hundreds of thousands people without any award at all.

With a court hearing on the issue scheduled for June 20, it would be premature for Congress to vote on the proposal, said ranking subcommittee member Dan Boren, D-Okla.

“The last thing we need to do is unwind decades of work, tons

of work, on behalf of individuals,” Boren said.

No action was immediately taken on the bill. Young said he hoped the proposal would give some direction to the U.S. Justice Department as it works through the issue in court.

The settlement ended 15 years of litigation between Native American landowners and the federal government.

The plaintiffs, led by Elouise Cobell of Browning, Mont., claimed the individual accounts of hundreds of thousands of Indians were mismanaged by the government for more than a century, costing them billions of dollars in royalties.

The settlement calls for $1.5 billion to go to individual Indian account holders — a number that will likely end up between 300,000 and 550,000. Another $1.9 billion would be used by the government to buy brokenup Indian lands from individual owners and then turn those lands over to tribes. And an additional

$60 million would go to a scholarship fund for Indian students.

The plaintiffs’ attorneys agreed in the settlement not to request fees in excess of $99.9 million. But on Jan. 25, lead attorney Dennis Gingold filed a petition with the judge in the case saying that agreement doesn’t prevent the judge from awarding more if he determines the amount is far below the standards in such a case.

Gingold said a fee award of $223 million, plus costs and expenses of $1.27 million, is “in accordance with controlling law” and within the court’s discretion. The plaintiffs’ attorneys “toiled for 15 years with an enormous risk they would not be paid for their work,” Gingold wrote.

The Justice Department in a February court filing called the $223 million proposal “grossly excessive,” and said it went against the $99.9 million provision in the settlement.

“They touted that bind-

Kids don’t watch film for the plot, they watch it for the image from QUEER, page 1 She later transitioned into an evaluation of recent Pixar movies and explained how animation techniques paved the way for future films. “Monsters Inc.,” “Finding Nemo” and “A Bug’s Life” all featured new technology that turned linear worlds into three-dimensional experiences.

In “Finding Nemo,” for example, “The big discovery is not actually finding Nemo,” Halberstam said. “The big discovery is getting an algorithm to represent the vision of light on water.” She also said that in “Monsters, Inc.,” the big revelation is an algorithm that makes the characters’ fur look like it’s moving. Finally, in “A Bug’s Life,” Halberstam said

that “swarm technology” was responsible for the appearance of several hundred insects, when in reality, two or three were simply repeated to look like a stronger character.

With all of the political and technological advances in animation, Halberstam added that children process these movies differently than adults do, and film companies have taken advantage of that fact.

“They count upon the fact that children don’t watch a film once,” she said. “They watch it 35 times. They are not watching for the plot, they’re watching for the image.”

Halberstam concluded the lecture with a clip from “Fantastic Mr. Fox.” She discussed how humans change the scene and the importance

of communication between animated characters.

A short question and answer session was held before a reception, where the audience could digest and discuss the elements of Halberstam’s lecture. “As a teacher, I was always trying to look for films that people might have seen,” Halberstam said at the reception. “As I watched more and more movies, I was interested in how the films differed from those I grew up with.”

“Her introduction of the algorithm and the narrative was very interesting,” said 2nd-semester art history major Valerie Garlick. “It makes perfect sense.”

Emily Scagel, an 8th-semester women’s studies major, learned how different algo-

rithms trigger several similar films. “For every movie that comes out, there are ten more copy-cats. I always just thought it was about the theme,” she said.

Even Nancy Naples, the interim director of women’s studies, was surprised to learn how new animations are changing societal roles. “I’m usually very critical of Disney movies,” she said, returning to how mothers in the films are usually painted in a negative or absent light. “These new ones don’t return us to this traditional, heteronormative family.”

The lecture is part of a series within Wesleyan University’s Weiss Lecture Program.

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Recruiters likely to consider online education on a résumé from QUALITY, page 1 size of type of institution.”

Considering increasing demands for an online education, this tool may prove to be rather helpful to college students who will be faced with the task of choosing the right

program. Students may also want to know how potential employers view an online education on a résumé. According to a Vault.com survey on 300 HR professionals and recruiters, 72 percent said that Internet and New Media industries would be most likely to embrace an online education. The indus-

tries of Media/ Marketing and Consulting received 29 percent and 22 percent, respectively.

Sloan-C plans on implementing the scorecard to all of its 150 member institutions as a means of improving their online programs, and even as the start for an online forum where administrators can con-

sult with each other.

“I’m hoping that it will become an industry standard,” Shelton said.

The Sloan-Consortium plans to open an interactive version of the “quality scorecard” on its website on April 23.

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Malloy announces support for Conn. I-84 busway

HARTFORD (AP) — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is backing a proposed $567 million busway between New Britain and Hartford, saying Monday he is reluctant to refuse federal money and risk future funding from Washington.

Malloy also said he is launching plans for a commuter rail line between Bristol and Waterbury.

“It is clear Connecticut can no longer afford the status quo on any front, including our current transportation system,” the governor said at a news conference.

The busway proposal would create a paved, 9.4-mile corridor through New Britain, Newington, West Hartford and Hartford along unused rail lines.

Supporters say the buses that would zip along the corridor would relieve congestion on nearby Interstate 84.

Malloy said he would “move forward with all due course” on the busway. But he also said

he would proceed with highspeed rail and other forms of mass transportation to establish a

“It is clear Connecticut can no longer afford the status quo on any front, including our current transportation system.”

- Dannel P. Malloy Connecticut Governor comprehensive system spurring economic growth.

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“Taxpayers can get more transit for less money given the competitive bidding environment, and while it may not be a perfect project, it is the first step in creating a comprehensive ... transportation system in central Connecticut,” Malloy said.

Michael Nicastro, president of the Central Connecticut Chambers of Commerce in Bristol, opposed the busway, saying it’s ineffective and too costly. He said he respects Malloy for making the decision, but disagrees with it.

“He made sure the can didn’t get kicked down the road,” Nicastro said.

He praised the governor for committing to the Bristol-toWaterbury rail study because train service is more effective than highway mass transit in promoting economic growth, he said.

“In my experience, I have rarely seen investment resulting from a bus stop,” he told Malloy

in a letter March 23.

Connecticut’s share of the busway is $113 million. More than $15 million in state money and $63.6 million in federal money have been spent for design and acquiring property.

Federal officials say it’s an affordable way to quickly transport commuters along the often congested Interstate 84.

It was proposed in 1998 with a price tag of $75.3 million, which has risen as acquiring rights-of-way and other factors have driven up costs.

Malloy said a “large factor” in his decision was the probability of walking away from federal money “and possibly losing additional federal funds in the future.”

In a March 21 letter, the Federal Transit Administration advised Malloy that a decision to withdraw from the busway project and seek federal money for an alternative rail project would have required Connecticut to

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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, responds to a comment made by a citizen as an interpreter communicates with sign language at a town meeting at C.B. Jennings Elementary School in New London. Malloy is touring the state trying to sell people on the concept of ‘shared sacrifice’ and his proposed two-year, nearly $40-billion budget.

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Congratulations to UConn men, women

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t the beginning of this week, both the men’s and women’s basketball seasons came to an end. The men were crowned national champions after a 53-41 defeat of Butler on Monday in Houston. The women suffered a heartbreaking defeat to No. 2 seed Notre Dame during the Final Four in Indianapolis. The Daily Campus would like to take this opportunity to congratulate both teams on their amazing seasons and encourage the returning players to keep working hard and to keep the success flowing into next year.

The No. 3 seeded men’s team, a team that, before the season began, was picked to finish 10th in the Big East, was not the favorite to win the NCAA championship.

Yet, while more highly-favored teams fell during a tournament rife with upsets, UConn kept its fighting spirit, downing Bucknell, Cincinnati, San Diego St., Arizona and Kentucky on its way to the title game. When faced with a Butler team making its second straight run at a national championship, they countered a quick defense with a quick offense, relegating Butler to second place once more.

A day before the men took home the championship trophy, the women suffered only their second loss in 115 games, including an unparalleled streak of 90 straight wins. Maya Moore scored 36 points, but it wasn’t enough to hold back Notre Dame and Skylar Diggins, who scored 28 points of her own. Despite this loss, the women’s basketball team is still, in our hearts, an unstoppable force that will rebound from this defeat and come back next year with the same drive to win.

Some of the players that helped this year happen aren’t going to be here next year – they’ll have moved on to the next stage of their lives. But for those who remain, we hope you keep your work ethic, your drive to win and your Husky pride. We hope that in the absence of the greats who have left us, the greats who remain will pass this spirit on to those soon to come.

So, great job, Huskies. Thanks for your hard work and your determination. Thanks for spreading UConn pride across the nation. And thanks for a great year.

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

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Activists, drop egos to foster discussion

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hen student activists criticize their fellow undergraduates for not being stronger political advocates, they often depict them as poor, lazy fools who have not been properly educated. Certain activists treat others with such egotistical condescension that it is no wonder why most college students refuse to get involved with political organizations at all.

Many students choose to not voice their opinions, not because they are ignorant, but because they worry that their views will be labeled extreme, their character attacked and their beliefs condemned.

Few want to come

By Arragon Perrone across as extremWeekly Columnist ists, especially in a time when the word “extremist” bears a dangerous connotation.

Nevertheless, unless rational people want intolerant voices to dominate college campuses forever, they must speak up and share their beliefs with others.

To rational thinkers who are afraid to speak up: Do not be afraid to profess positions for fear that some will call them “extreme.” If you are conscientious, polite and are willing to talk respectfully with an opponent, you are not an extremist. On the contrary, you are an honorable human being. Do not believe those who seek to tear you down. If you genuinely speak and listen to your opponent then you are not an extremist. Your positions can be unfounded at worst, but not extreme.

As long as you seek the truth, honestly and respectfully, people should hear what you have to say. Often, however, this is not the case.

Many people are attracted to the loudest voice in the room, whether or not that individual is the most knowledgeable or even the one who is right. These individuals hide their ignorance behind insults and verbal slurs. They shock people to wrestle control of the debate without

providing any meaningful discussion. But there are a few people who will listen to the soft-spoken person who calmly makes his or her case.

It is better for you to be a soft-spoken diplomat who wins over a few than a noisy dictator who sways the masses. The few who agree with you will do so because your argument is stronger, while the many will agree with the louder one, because the voice is stronger.

“Advocating strong beliefs without acknowledging the opposition... is offensive.”

Extremists are not those who hold passionately onto their beliefs and are able to clearly defend them – these are the educated ones.

Extremists are those who refuse to hear dissenting arguments, refuse to explain their own and limit the range of discussion so that only their perspectives seem legitimate. It is all right to feel strongly about one’s beliefs. Colleges are meant to be places of learning, where strongwilled and weak-willed people can both have access to education and open debate in order to better themselves. Having strong beliefs and being able to defend them is commendable. It is advocating strong beliefs without acknowledging the opposition that is offensive.

Disrespectful, self-appointed activists make campuses the exact opposite of educational institutions. They stifle debate, they scare the majority into silence and they make rational people think that their views are illegitimate and should be kept to themselves. In doing so, these extreme advocates monopolize the discourse, kicking out the more cool-headed

minds who have the integrity not to sacrifice respect for the soapbox.

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend, said Martin Luther King, Jr. College campuses are not short on the love that can bring people together, and not drive them apart. On UConn, this love and respect for human life can be witnessed at HuskyTHON, the campus organizations that are dedicated to community service and other charity-sponsored fraternity and sorority events. Students show remarkable understanding for others on a daily basis. As a result, extremists ought to have a very difficult time gaining popularity at UConn. If people are used to reaching out to so many people, they should easily recognize a hate-filled demagogue and turn away.

Therefore, students – all students – should not be afraid to speak up and say what is on their minds. Sometimes, those who call others extremists are extremists themselves.

Most people are smart and can pick out the real extremist in a crowd. The individual who is honest, respectful and treats the opposition with dignity is never the extremist.

This does not mean that the non-extremist needs to have everyone sit in a circle and sing “If I Had a Hammer” and “Kumbaya.”

People can and should have strong opinions that reflect close examination and heavy research. Sharing this knowledge does not make one an extremist. But dehumanizing the opposition, belittling them and slandering their names while refusing to hear their side of the story is a tragedy. People who do this are the real extremists and their voices are the ones that should be ignored.

Weekly columnist Arragon Perrone is a 6th-semester political science and English double major. He can be reached at Arragon.Perrone@UConn.edu.

How ‘Americanization’ of Canada transforms us

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anada has long been seen as a progressive’s paradise on America’s northern border. It is one of only a handful of countries in the world to have legalized same-sex marriage. Its parliament voted not to expel American expatriates who fled north to evade the institution of the draft in the Vietnam War. Canadians are guaranteed health insurance coverage by their government – a right that even the most conservative of politicians

By Christopher wouldn’t dare alter.

Kempf All govStaff Columnist ernment documents are required to be published in English, French and languages of the nation’s Inuit communities (known officially by the respectful term “First Nations”). It is known as the country where the people are friendly and polite, leave their front doors unlocked and settle their disagreements over a game of hockey. Not any longer, it seems.

Canada’s Conservative Party will undoubtedly trounce its hapless, hopelessly divided opposition in a parliamentary election there on May 2, and may win enough seats to govern without a minority of the seats in the House of Commons it has managed to win in the previous two elections but

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with a majority, granting it newfound political dominance. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the leader of the Conservatives, is likely the most divisive political figure in modern Canadian history.

The parallels between Harper and George W. Bush are striking.

The two are culturally conservative. Harper is from the oilrich province of Alberta, whose residents are keen on keeping the oil wealth flowing in by electing laissez-faire, a business-connected conservative politician. Harper receives electoral support from Protestant voters and English speakers and is unpopular among those who are neither. Surprisingly, a huge majority of Canadians did not vote for Harper and want him out. But as long as support for Canada’s opposition is divided between four different parties, it has become nearly impossible for progressive-minded Canadians to throw out the crafty and uneasily powerful politician they despise.

So what is the significance of yet another parliamentary election in our neighbor to the north? The outcome of the vote – in which Harper’s Conservatives are almost certain to pick up seats and gain a mandate to rule for several more years – may actually be of more concern south of the border than in Canada itself.

What we may come to see in the next few years is the fur-

ther Americanization of Canada.

Canada’s culture has always been dominated by television, music and foods imported unwittingly from over the border, which 90 percent of Canadians live within 100 miles of. But modern Canadians also spend their summers in American beach resorts, invest in American businesses and travel to America to shop when their currency outpaces the U.S. dollar. And now Canada is under the control of a premier who embraces American concepts of economic development, acts more like a strong American president than a weaker prime minister, undermines Quebec’s fragile cultural autonomy and is more willing than nearly any other Canadian administration to remain on good terms with the United States government. A nation that is made politically fragile by its cultural and linguistic dichotomies could be further destabilized if it continues to resemble the United States’ difference-blind politics.

Furthermore, what would happen if we could no longer look north to a society that is even fairer to its citizens than our own? What would happen if the businessfriendly, culturally conservative Harper clique dismantled Canada’s health insurance program, removed environmental protections and banned same-sex marriage? Then we would no longer be able to flee

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when the circumstances of our country displease us. We would be forced to agitate, to complain, to give our best effort to defend the ideals of America and the ideals of human society.

“It has become nearly impossible to throw out the...politician they despise.”

Question: From which nation does the United States import the most petroleum? The answer is not Saudi Arabia: it is Canada.

The oil and natural gas pipelines which snake south from Alberta into the United States are like handcuffs, inextricably unifying the fates of the two countries. In a few decades, once Canada’s fate has been revealed to be dependent upon and subservient to the colossal power of America, we may find that when the draft is instituted or when the President acts like a dictator or when the Constitution is ignored, there will be nowhere to run and we will have to stand and fight here, south of a meaningless border.

Staff Columnist Christopher Kempf is a 2ndsemester political science major. He can be reached at Christopher.Kempf@UConn.edu

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Libyan rebel leader says NATO isn’t doing enough BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — A rebel military leader lashed out at NATO Tuesday, saying it was falling short in its mission to protect Libyan civilians. The alliance said ruler Moammar Gadhafi’s forces position heavy weapons in populated areas, preventing some airstrikes.

Abdel-Fattah Younis, chief of staff for the rebel military and Gadhafi’s former interior minister, said he was asking the opposition’s leadership council to take their grievances to the U.N. Security Council, which authorized force in Libya to stop government troops from wiping out the anti-Gadhafi uprising that began Feb. 15.

NATO forces “don’t do anything” even though the United Nations gave them the right to act, Younis said. He said bureaucracy means that NATO strikes sometimes come eight hours after rebels’ have communicated targets.

“The people will die and this crime will be on the face of the international community forever. What is NATO doing?”

Younis said.

NATO last week took control over the international airstrikes that began March 19 as a U.S.-led mission. The airstrikes thwarted Gadhafi’s efforts to crush the rebellion in the North African nation he has ruled for more than four decades, but the rebels remain outnumbered and outgunned and have had difficulty pushing into governmentheld territory even with air support.

The government pushed back rebel forces in a strategic oil town to the east Tuesday, while rebels claimed they fended off an attack by Gadhafi’s forces in one of a string of oppositioncontrolled towns southwest of Tripoli, the capital. The rebels have maintained control of much of the eastern half of Libya since early in the uprising, while Gadhafi has clung to much of the west.

Gadhafi has been putting out feelers for a cease-fire, but refuses to step down as

the opposition is demanding.

On Tuesday his government announced a new foreign minister: Abdelati al-Obeidi, who has been in Europe seeking a diplomatic solution. He replaces Moussa Koussa, who defected last week.

Al-Obeidi’s deputy Khaled Kaim said the opposition council doesn’t represent most Libyans and that al-Qaida is exploiting the crisis. He accused nations supporting the airstrikes of supporting terrorism “by arming the militias, by providing them with materials, and the coalition’s decision to starve 85 percent of the Libyan population, while there was another course for solving this crisis, which was the political course.”

Kaim said “history will not forgive” Libyans who sought foreign help to change the regime. “People will reject them whether they are with or against Moammar Gadhafi,” he said.

Some nations, including the U.S., have considered arming the rebels but have not done so.

Brig. Gen. Mark Van Uhm of NATO said Tuesday that airstrikes have so far destroyed 30 percent of Gadhafi’s military capacity.

On Monday, the alliance said it carried out 14 attacks on ground targets across the country, destroying radars, munitions dumps, armored vehicles and a rocket launcher. Three-quarters of Monday’s scheduled strike missions, however, had to return without dropping their bombs or launching their missiles because Gadhafi loyalists made it more difficult for pilots to distinguish between civilians and regime troops, Van Uhm said.

The general and a doctor in besieged western city of Misrata said Gadhafi’s forces had recently changed tactics in there by moving tanks and other heavy equipment to civilian areas.

“They snuck their anti-aircraft weapons and tanks into the city. They are between the apartment buildings and the trees,” said the doctor, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear

of reprisals.

Younis, however, said civilians have cleared out of areas of Misrata occupied by Gadhafi’s forces and that NATO “would have lifted the siege days ago” if it wanted to.

“Children are dying every day and women and men are dying every day from shelling.

If NATO waited another week, that will be the end of Misrata.

There won’t be anyone left.”

Asked for a response, NATO spokesperson Oana Lungescu said: “The facts speak for themselves. The tempo of operations has continued unabated.”

Younis’ press conference — a rare public appearance by the top commander — was a sharp break in diplomatic protocol as the opposition seeks more airstrikes and other support, including arms, from the international community. The rebels’ political leadership also seeks

HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut’s legislative Republicans said Monday that taxpayers should no longer be forced to pay tens of millions of dollars a year for union representatives to do union business on the job.

A spokesman for one of the unions fired back, saying local union officials solve problems before they escalate, saving time and money. He compared the GOP lawmakers with Wisconsin and Ohio officials who are restricting collective bargaining for state workers.

on the job is permitted by contracts with the state.

Cafero said the state, which faces a projected budget deficit of $3.5 billion in the budget year that begins July 1, cannot afford paying salaries and benefits of shop stewards who are not at work.

“It’s not the fault of an individual who holds the job. It’s not the fault of the union,” he said. “It’s the fault of a system that has gotten out of control. It’s a system we can no longer afford.”

Larry Dorman, a spokesman for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union, said shop stewards save taxpayers money by solving problems before they become grievances, requiring arbitrators to fix.

“They show an actual ignorance

of how this works,” he said of Republican lawmakers. “I think this is a page out of the discredited Wisconsin playbook.”

Dorman also criticized Republicans’ timing. Monday was the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., who was shot while in Memphis supporting striking sanitation workers.

“I’m very disappointed they would pick this solemn day to trot out this harebrained idea,” Dorman said.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, asked about the Republicans’ comments, said shop stewards working on the job is established practice, though he would not design such a system now.

“I think it’s an interesting point that was appropriately pointed out,” he said. “Would I design that system as it is now?” No,” the governor said.

AP

Libyan rebels shell pro Gadhafi positions just outside Brega, Libya, Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Libyan government forces on Tuesday unleashed a withering bombardment of the rebels outside a key oil town pushing them back, even as the regime said Moammar Gadhafi might consider some reforms but would not stepping down.

GOP lawmakers target state unions

“I think this is a page out of the discredited Wisconsin play-book” Larry Dorman Spokeperson for the American Federation of State House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero and other GOP lawmakers said Monday that 911 shop stewards — union officials who answer workers’ questions about their contracts and handle potential grievances and other union business.— are allowed to do union work on state time. They said their salaries and benefits total $93 million a year.

“There appears to be no regard for how much actual state work is being done by these stewards,” Cafero said.

Of the approximately 50,000 state employees, about 43,000 are unionized.

Cafero said Republicans “in no way, shape or form” are attacking unions or collective bargaining, but are criticizing a system he said must be changed. Allowing shop stewards to handle union business

recognition of its council as the only legitimate government in Libya.

The rebels were holding talks with White House envoy Chris Stevens in Benghazi, their de facto capital in eastern Libya.

Stevens was trying to get a better idea of who the rebels are, what they want and what their capabilities are, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.

Stevens’ visit could pave the way for U.S. recognition of the Transitional National Council as Libya’s legitimate government, although no decision is imminent, Toner said. Three countries — France, Qatar and Italy — already have recognized the council.

The rebel leadership also apologized for the 1988 bombing of a jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people, most of them Americans, and it pledged to cooperate with

all investigations. In a statement read by Jason McCue, a British lawyer representing victims’ families, the council said it had given evidence to Victoria Cummings, the widow of one victim. McCue declined to say what the evidence was.

Gadhafi has accepted Libya’s responsibility for the attack but hasn’t admitted personally giving the order to carry it out.

The Libyan government took foreign journalists to the western city of Zawiya, where an uprising was put down in weeks of battles and the government claimed stability had returned.

Journalists were taken to see a hospital where rebels sought treatment. Nurses there staged a pro-Gadhafi rally for the press corps’ benefit.

Massoud al-Deeb was among the many doctors who helped treat the rebels and said that many of them were Libyan

locals from Zawiya — which goes against much of the government line that the rebels were expatriates from Egypt and Algeria.

“They are all our people. I helped both sides (rebels and Gadhafi forces),” said al-Deeb.

“We had 20-30 injured people every day, mostly with gunshot wounds. We have no statistical data. The injured were sometimes brought in by their families.”

The city remained essentially a ghost town, with most of the shops shuttered and buildings pockmarked with bullets and shell fire.

Near the main square, the rebels’ former base in Zawiya, a dirt lot was all that remained of a mosque that served as their hospital, jail and meeting place.

The government razed it, leaving little but bulldozer tracks deeply scratched into the soil.

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The verdict is in on ‘Witness’ What really matters?

Play addresses issues of consent in court

By Purbita Saha Staff Writer Rape is an intolerable crime that doesn’t always go punished in society today. The Violence Against Women Prevention Program (VAWPP) demonstrated that, even when such cases are sent to trial, victims do not always get the justice they deserve.

VAWPP performed the play, “No Witness,” at the Student Union Theater Tuesday evening.

The play was set up as a mock trial with randomly-selected jurors from the audience, and was linked with an overarching discussion about rape and consent. The group also had a showing of “No Witness” with a different set of characters and cast members on Monday night.

“No Witness” is based on a piece that was written at Seton Hall University. For the presentation, VAWPP members altered the script to make it more controversial and topical.

While Monday night’s trial was centered on a heterosexual couple, Tuesday’s night’s perfor-

mance was about a gay couple.

The case followed Jake Willis, who was accusing his former boyfriend of raping him after a party at Celeron Apartments.

Meanwhile, the defendant, Mark Johnson, denied the claims that he forced himself onto Willis.

The trial portion of the event took about 30 minutes, as both sides called up their witnesses, cross-examined and rebutted each other and presented closing statements. Willis was persistent when he said that Johnson raped him after they both went back to Johnson’s room, despite the fact that he said “no” multiple times.

But Johnson’s attorney pointed out that Willis was under the influence of alcohol and that he did not try to fight Johnson off.

Finally, the prosecutor, played

by Cindy Luo, a 6th semester linguistics/philosophy, English and Classics and Mediterranean studeies triple major an associate Commentary editor of The Daily Campus, closed off the exhibition by stating that Johnson should be punished because he had “violated the bodily integrity and dignity” of the victim.

By Alessandra Petrino Campus Correspondent

involved with “The Miracle Chase” for Hill has been getting to meet her readers and hear their stories. It is not surprising that people want to share their stories with Hill.

She encourages her readers to engage with her. She also invites readers to visit her website (www.themiraclechase.com) to tell their “miracle stories” and read about other peoples’ experiences.

Maggie Bahre, a 2nd-semester communications disorders major, said that she has never experienced a miracle but found Hill’s talk to be “eye-opening” and is excited to read her book.

Ana Cerda, a 6th-semester biology and psychology major, agreed, calling Hill’s tales, “stories that help a person grow.”

If you’ve ever been in a major city, you’ve likely seen street vendors selling knock-offs like sunglasses, jewelry, and most notably, purses.

If you know what you’re doing and where you’re going, sometimes you can find a vendor with really great knockoffs. Ones that, aside from the tag on the inside, nobody would know that your Coach bag really came from a vendor in China Town for $30.

But, like cities themselves, sometimes its not what’s inside the bag that counts.

Appearances can be deceiving.

To an outsider, New York City is rarely seen as anything less than beautiful. However, to someone who lives in or frequents the city, the beauty of it is often combated with the not-so-lovely aspects of any city. Rent prices, crime and air pollution are just some of the inner workings of the beautiful New York City.

Yet, like a $30 knock-off bag that looks remarkably similar to the $300 Coach purse, the inner workings of a city can be overlooked even by a Manhattanite.

Sometimes the outer beauty can outweigh whatever may be on the inside, at least when it comes to bags and cities.

But what about men?

When it comes to bags, men or cities is it really what’s outside that counts?

If you’re an avid reader of this column (first, thank you) then you may remember last semester’s “The Power Of Beauty,” in which I spoke about the emphasis humans put on beauty. This column may sound similar, but it will strictly concentrate on the male specimen (both the entirety of a male and his unique appendages).

To both women and men themselves, if there is a lack of emotion, personality or charisma in a man, but he looks damn good in nothing but boxer-briefs, does everything he may be lacking become obsolete?

“I like to work out to keep myself in good health. I don’t do it for the biddies, but they do enjoy it,” said Joe Prainito, a 2nd-semester mechanical engineering major.

So, perhaps the incentive for a man having a great-looking body isn’t centrally about getting the attention of women, but it seems to be a plus.

Why does the outward appearance of a man seem to matter just as much to females as the outward appearance of females matters to males?

“Women want sex just as much as men do, that’s why,” Prainito said.

His older brother Anthony Prainito, an 8th-semester mechanical engineering major agreed.

“Girls are just as infatuated with sex as guys are,” Prainito said.

While on the topic of sex, let us take a moment to speak about another seemingly important outward aspect of a man.

Last week, a male friend asked me the legendary question: does size really matter?

I’d really like to say no, size doesn’t matter, but that would be a tad bit of a lie. Of course size matters, and therefore, if a man is lacking in that department there may be an issue.

Now, before I give the wrong idea, let me say that it is also true that it’s what a man does with his, let us say, talent, that truly matters. However, if a man’s member isn’t at least a certain size, there will be no sensation for a woman during sex, just as if a man’s package is too large, it doesn’t aid in the performance as a woman loses sensation inside after reaching a certain point.

So, perhaps sometimes, like bags and cities, it is really what’s on the outside that counts. Well, at least until you’re looking for that whole soulmate aspect of life.

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‘No Witness,’ a play performed by the Violence Against Women’s Prevention Program, encouraged audience participation and helped raise awareness about the issues that arise in court cases concerning rape and consent.

“Rape is not about sex. Rape is about power,” Koenigsmark said. She said that consent is automatically moot if the individual giving it is under the influence. She also said that a victim should never have to prevent rape from happening.

Therefore, what an individual is wearing or doing when he or she is raped doesn’t matter. One audience member shared a personal story. She said that when she was younger she was raped, but she wasn’t able to fight back because she was in shock.

The interactive discussion was beneficial for the people in the audience because it made them “take ownership of their opinions and try to justify and articulate their ideas,” said

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A hero’s welcome for the Huskies

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UConn cheerleaders perform on the floor of Gampel Pavilion while students await the return of the men’s basketball team, the 2011 NCAA champions, from Houston. Students gathered in Gampel just as many of them had Monday night for the showing of the championship game.

UConn, do you believe in miracles?

By Erin O’Brien Campus Correspondent

As a response to the general public’s preference for science, rather than religion, to explain anomalies, Joan Hill, class of ’77, along with Katie Mahon and Mary Beth “Meb” Phillips, tried to gain a better understanding of miracles. The result was the book “The Miracle Chase,” which came out in November 2010, almost 11 years after the three friends began to discuss their ideas about miracles and their experiences.

But what motivated these three women to devote a decade of their lives to what Hill called the “illusive quest?”

This is what Hill addressed at her talk, entitled “Do You Believe in Miracles?” at the Co-Op on Tuesday.

After receiving her masters in human development and family studies at UConn, Hill would go on to have a career in healthcare for 25 years, while also doing work in inner-city Catholic education. The idea of miracles first took hold of Hill when her 13-year-old son was diagnosed with a rare heart condition after complaining of chest pain one afternoon at school. Hill said that she would have accepted the doctor’s diagnosis of a pulled chest muscle had she not been at her son’s school that day and seen him herself. Hill was reluctant to dismiss the mysterious chest pains so easily, and her son was later diagnosed with a congenital heart defect that doctors had never seen before in a living patient and had no idea how to treat. However, her son underwent surgery to correct the defect and he even went

on to swim competitively at the college level.

As a result of this ordeal, Hill became even closer with Phillips and Mahon. It wasn’t long before Hill found out that Phillips and Mahon had experienced miracles of their own. Phillips was told that her daughter was not going to make it after being violently shaken by a babysitter, but her daughter survived and has gone on to lead a fulfilling life, despite being permanently blind after the attack. Mahon narrowly escaped an encounter at a hotel with serial killer Ted Bundy. Inspired by these experiences, the three set off to research how miracles are addressed in different cultures and religions.

Throughout what Hill likes to think of as a “journey of friendship, faith and survival,” in which the three friends

learned to “appreciate each other and the view along the way,” Hill, Phillips and Mahon found that people don’t always like to talk about miracles, as they prefer to try to rationalize things rather than believe that their “lives intersected with divine providence.”

Hill’s talk incorporated a strong religious or spiritual sentiment.

Raised a Catholic, Hill has gone through periods of time in which she questioned the existence of God, but has never blamed God for any of the hardships she’s faced. She smiled, and said that she believes that “miracles are God’s way of connecting with people anonymously.” However, she was quick to add that one doesn’t have to believe in God or be a Christian to enjoy “The Miracle Chase.”

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There’s a reason why the three Pilotwings games have only come out at the launch line-up. The beginning of every new system sets in a motion of patience for every new owner, who has to play whatever “good” is available before things get into full-throttle. And that’s exactly what Pilotwings was on the SNES, N64, and now, the 3DS. They’re simply “good” games to help ease the lack of variety in the starting stages of those Nintendo systems, before the ongoing wave of greats appear. Nothing more, and nothing less.

And to Nintendo’s credit here with Pilotwings Resort, they don’t even sugarcoat the player’s initial expectations for a compelling package.

From the get-go they just go out and say, “Here’s the game where you can fly some flying machines on the Wii Sports Resort Island with stereoscopic 3D. Make your profile

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This is a screenshot from Pilotwings Resort, a new game for Nintendo’s 3DS that offers players the chance to fly around using an airplane, jet pack or hang glider. The game benefits from the device’s new stereoscopic 3D technology, but still may not be worth the $40 price tag.

and have fun!” So unless you despise riding a plane, jet-pack or hang glider, there is literally nothing for you here.

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Super Meat Boy (PC) Last year’s brilliant downloadable game Super Meat Boy is getting a special “Ultra Edition” on PC this week. It’s a physical release that includes all sorts of goodies like a cool poster and a soundtrack containing the incredible tunes from the game, making it easily worth the $20. I’m going to buy the game again for the free stuff, but any opportunity to play this masterpiece again is also reason enough. 2D platformers are already numerous on the download marketplace, but SMB managed to stand out above the rest for being especially well-designed, along with being insanely difficult.

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The Good

- When you have the 3D slider at its best position, the stereoscopic 3D actually makes flying around more aesthetically pleasing - There are only three flying machines to deal with, but the airplane, jet-pack and hang glider are each fun to fly in their own ways

The Bad

- With no multiplayer, Play Coin support, and not so much in the single player department, Pilotwings Resort doesn’t have as much value as a $40 game should

up for flying planes with the great circle pad, you’ll definitely find value here. It makes sense why they would use the same island as their previous “Resort” game; the challenges here are presented just like Wii Sports. Each “medal” has threeto-four challenges for each aircraft, with the conversion from training to platinum levels getting increasingly more difficult.

Like Wii Sports Resort, there’s also a “free flight mode” where you can play around to your fancy and collect some hidden balloons, but that’s the main gist of what you have access to in this game.

Since the 3DS needs to show off its stereoscopic 3D as skillfully as possible, Pilotwings Resort is actually a good place to start. I wouldn’t say that I got incredibly more skilled with the added depth, but I was able to get a better sense of my distance, making it easier to

the button layout for the 360 controller isn’t bad at all, though it doesn’t provide the option to swap weapons like I read was in the original version. I never played the PC version, so I can’t personally compare the framerate quality, but on the Xbox you’ll definitely find noticeable slowdown when the action gets heavy. Though, thankfully, it never becomes dreadful enough to be unplayable.

The game certainly made sacrifices, including the lackluster story quality and the fact that this game is exclusively single-player on both platforms, but Torchlight is still highly recommended for people looking for a good loot-grind. Dungeon crawlers will always be a recipe for repetition, but a game like this definitely shows that it can still a blast to play when it’s done right.

After spending as much time as I could playing my 3DS for the past week, I can definitely say that playing games in 3D hasn’t gotten old for me yet. I mean, gimmicky as the format is (like in movie theatres), it’s incredibly cool to be able to play games with pop-out graphics while on the go and without glasses. But the more I keep checking the system out, the more I keep asking myself if the added depth actually makes the game play experience “better.”

After all, adding 3D games isn’t the “rare new mechanic” than it is for movies. There have been countless iterations from the analog-stick, the jump from 2D to (non-stereoscopic) 3D and the recent motion control that makes the presentation of video games so evolved with each decade. It’s the very reason why playing a N64 controller now is like going back to the Stone Age. Unfortunately, this also causes the effect of gamers (including yours truly) becoming incredibly critical of whatever new format that will take over what we’ve been used to for years.

Being able to play games on the touch screen or with a gyroscopic remote has the appeal of being not-so-hardcore, because it’s new and approachable, but it’s a whole different story for the stay-up-all-night video game players. Unless tapping the iPhone screen or using the Wii remote like a light-gun ever has the precision of a controller button, then there will continue to be complaints about it. In other words, the gaming community can only accept stereoscopic 3D with open arms if it stands alongside, or improves upon, the way we give kill shots.

With that in mind, do I personally think it could be “approved” like the trigger button? Well…it’s partly because it’s still too early, but I will say “not exactly, but there is potential.” But I’m hardly the only person who’s hesitant to feel this way, especially when the best launch game right now, Street Fighter IV 3D, has the screen depth as sheer novelty. Those hadokens and special moves look very impressive with it, but even in the new perspective mode added to this version, I still suck at it in 3D as much as I do in 2D. But just like how the Wii showed hope in motion control by having Wii Sports amongst the “waggle-fests,” faith in the view perspective can be had in Nintendo’s Pilotwings Resort.

Like what I said in my review, the added depth helps give a greater sense of distance that’s very important for a flight-based game.

With the added aesthetics, I’m able to get a greater sense of how soon I should brake for the landing pad, all thanks to that “gimmicky” pop-out 3D. It certainly didn’t have the wow-factor like the analog-stick in Mario 64, but it’s a small taste of the potential it can have to make games more fun. But depending on just how developers work with that “potential,” the true answer will show if it’s to be cheered or jeered.

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tell the distance between me and the checkmark points. It’s great, but I strongly recommend that the 3D slider be only one-fourth of the way up.

Maybe it’s the grandness of the environment, but it becomes a complete visual mess when that perspective is being the most strained for human eyes.

Sadly, with the lack of any multiplayer or any of the Play Coins, Streetpass or other 3DS extras, Pilotwings Resort is a package without much of a lifespan. But that’s pretty much the sob story for all the Pilotwings games. It’s most playable when the system’s game options are slim, but once the “big games” start showing up, it’ll be long forgotten by most people who know its existence before you know it.

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Torchlight makes a successful move from the PC to X360

By Jason Bogdan Staff Writer There are few other video game genres out there that demands a high level of polish to become playable quite like the dungeon crawler. As a long lasting type of action RPG, there’s only so much fun you could have going from floor to floor, fighting countless enemies and collecting loot before the whole process feels monotonous and boring. And yet, even though times have certainly changed since Diablo was a phenomenon on PCs, the developers at Runic Games made this dated genre addicting all over again when they released Torchlight for PC in late 2009. And now, for people like me who play games mostly on controllers instead of keyboards, the game is available on Xbox Live Arcade.

You’d be surprised at how

easy it is to get into Torchlight.

After you choose between three different character types and your pet, you end up in one town that leads to one very long dungeon. This lack of atmosphere also carries onto the storyline, where it’s told primarily by (occasionally) voiced text screens with nothing else going for it.

But it’s clear that all the development effort was spent fine-tuning the quest itself around the barely existing plot.

The item management is easy to control, the bevy of weapons and spells for your character to use is plentiful and the game is just constantly rewarding with all the new armor, weapons and treasure you’ll find to make your warrior powerful enough to make it through the countless number of floors.

Even your animal pet is a great addition as you can send it to town to sell your disposable loot while you’re busy fight-

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The Good

- You’ll literally just forget where time went with all the hours of addicting gameplay that this dungeon crawler holds - As far as PC-to-console ports go, Torchlight is still playable and fun on the Xbox 360

The Bad

- A lifeless story and virtually no multiplayer show how much needs to be improved for Torchlight 2 - There’s some noticeable slowdown when there’s a lot of action in the battles ing, instead of just occasionally dealing damage to foes.

The process of porting PC games to consoles has always been, let’s say, mixed to say the least. But even for a very point-and-click kind of game,

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Above, a screen capture from the new X360 version of a formerly just-for-PC game, Torchlight. The game proves to be just as addicting as its PC predecessor, but could use additional story development.

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Photos document ‘Brief Encounters with the Dead’

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Photographer Herb Greene photographed many bands during his career, but compares his relationship with The Grateful Dead to that of a tight-knit family. ‘Brief Encounters with the Dead’ is a display of photos documenting that time (right).

By Aaron Burstein Campus Correspondent Photographer Herb Greene visited the UConn on Sunday to discuss his photography and his exhibit on The Grateful Dead. “Brief Encounters with the Dead” is on display in the Stevens Gallery in Level B of Homer Babbidge Library until June 10. The exhibit documents the legendary rock band throughout the decades.

Greene photographed a number of artists over the

course of his career, including Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana, Rod Stewart, Sly Stone, Bob Dylan and Jefferson Airplane (most notably the cover to the band’s “Surrealistic Pillow” album).

But, the band that he has always been the most involved with from their inception to the present day is The Grateful Dead, Greene said.

He described his relationship with The Grateful Dead as being a part of a very tight-knit community. He sought to capture the musicians as they were,

and yet capture them at their best. To him, photographing the members of the band was a very intuitive process, which he likened to The Dead’s own performances: “Them improvising music, it’s the same thing,” Greene said. As a photographer, he was simply another fixture of the scene.

There was a great emphasis on his friendship with the members of The Grateful Dead. The collection of photographs spans four decades, and yet Greene described a real sense of constancy with-

in the group dynamic. “I’ve been part of the family for all those years, and it’s the same,” he said. His ability to photograph the band the way he did was largely a product of that friendship.

That’s not to say that Greene’s relationship with the band wasn’t a part of a delicate process. All the shots he took were planned and setup. He stated that he never could take snapshots. “I can’t intrude. Some people do it. I can’t,” Greene said. He noted the importance of not over-

staying his welcome. Trust, respect and friendship between him and The Grateful Dead members were some of his greatest benefits as a photographer. Therefore, measures were taken in order to maintain that relationship.

The exhibit attracted a number of students, as well as a number of long-time fans of The Grateful Dead and Herbie Greene’s work. “It’s a really good collection of the span of their existence,” said Andrew Lyons, a 4th-semester natural resources major.

Greene has published three pictorial books on The Grateful Dead: “Book of the Dead,” “Dead Days: A Grateful Dead Illustrated” and “Sunshine Dreams: A Grateful Dead Journal.” He continues to travel and photograph with the band Further, formed by former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Phil Lesh. His photography can also been seen at www. herbgreenefoto.com.

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Alumni Center hosts annual Gerson Irish Reading

By Kim Halpin Staff Writer The annual Gerson Irish Reading was held Tuesday night in the Alumni Center, featuring Geraldine Mills and Lisa Taylor.

Though the past 13 readers since the program’s inception have given solo performances, the pair this year was chosen for its collaborative efforts on “The Other Side of Longing,” which debuted just last week.

It is a collection of poetry by the two women inspired by their weeklong stay in a remote stone cottage in Carna, Ireland.

“Collaborations are not new,” said Mills. “If Watson and Crick didn’t work together, we wouldn’t know about DNA, and the men wouldn’t have had a victory last night,” she added, referring to UConn’s NCAA Championship win on Monday night.

Mills, an Ireland native, and Taylor, an American, produced poems that focus on the differences and uniqueness of each other’s landscapes, cultures and experiences coming from their respective backgrounds. Their collaboration, they explained, “was not like 1920s parlor games where each poet wrote one line.”

Instead, Mills and Taylor emphasized that they were able to retain their individu-

al voices by utilizing a call and response method. In the beginning of the reading the poets started with “What I Will Bring” by Taylor and “Receiving” by Mills to reiterate this point.

Switching back and forth, the pair worked their way through their new collection, allowing audience members to see the connection between the works. Printed in the book, the poems can seem detached because they are published in separate sections. Hearing the inspiration for each poem and its response helped to flesh out the understanding of the work.

Common themes in their work included childhood backgrounds, the landscape and physical features of their world and boundaries of nations.

Taylor explained that their common metaphor throughout the work is the Atlantic Ocean, and its presence was well felt at the reading.

The title of the book, “The Other Side of Longing” came from one of Taylor’s poems focusing on how there is always somewhere the other is longing for. Mills had a very similar response poem.

Each wanted to fully grasp the other’s environment so just as Taylor visited Ireland, Mills visited the Storrs area in autumn to experience the foliage. In one of Mills’ poems, titled “Stanzaberry,” she specifically mentions Horsebarn

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Geraldine Mills and Lisa Taylor paired up to present for the annual Gerson Irish Reading in the Alumni Center Tuesday night.

Hill and other landscape features audience members were acquainted with living in Storrs.

After the reading, the floor was opened for questions, many of which focused on their creative process, which was kept separate but cohesive through their discussions

and walks.

Emily Flood, a 4th-semester English and communications major, wondered if the project “created a deeper appreciation for each other’s own landscape.”

The poets agreed that it forced them to see their own landscape, not differently, but

through different eyes.

“They were really enjoyable to watch,” said 6th-semester history major Anna Abalyan.

“I liked their unique style, the way the traveled to each other’s countries and their resulting collaboration.”

Mills and Taylor were able to recreate the setting for their

work and give listeners an idea as to how they produced the work. Their book tour will continue throughout New England and Ireland in the coming weeks.

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Game apps lack complexity and responsiveness to rival other platforms

By Lucas Ma Campus Correspondent When the iTouch first came out, I didn’t think much of it.

I just figured it was yet another overpriced music player made by Apple. It was the same with the iPad: lacking essential features such as a CD drive as well as USB and ethernet ports, I figured most people wouldn’t pay $400 for an oversized touch

screen. I also never thought people would begin treating them like legitimate gaming platforms, especially with the types of games that are released on the two.

Now, with the embarrassing amount of money a game like Angry Birds brought in, one might say that I was wrong, but I still don’t see them as anything but gadgets using gimmicks as their selling point. Of course, it’s certainly not a dumb move. After

all, look at how successful Nintendo’s been.

Let’s take a closer look at what kind of game Angry Birds is: a simple game that requires one finger to play.

Simple execution with even simpler gameplay. Just flick and watch.

I won’t deny that a game like this isn’t suitable for things like a brief car trip, but when I see people actually settling down to play, hunched over that tiny screen,

I get confused. First off, it’s a clone of the flash game Crush the Castle, which can be played for free online and has also been around for quite some time before Angry Birds. That being said, how did it go under the radar when it was available to virtually the entire world while Angry Birds started out exclusive to the Apple store?

It’s not just Angry Birds. iTouch games, in general, are all mindless time-wasters

where you play either by dragging your finger across the screen or tilting the machine left and right. Yes, I am aware of the “hardcore” games where they assign areas of the screen to function like actual buttons, but it just isn’t the same, nor has it ever worked well.

It doesn’t matter how pretty the game looks: if it’s got unresponsive and awkward controls, it’s impossible to enjoy any aspects of what it has to offer. I’m certainly not

going to pay $200 (more if you were suckered into buying an iPad) just so I could play a game where I plop candy into a frog’s mouth.

Playing games on either Apple product have the same entertainment value as poking a bobble-head, but looking at the sales charts for the app store, apparently I’m alone in this statement.

Lucas.Ma@UConn.edu

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Kevin Spacey calls for arts funding in Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) — Kevin Spacey performed some impromptu “street theater” Tuesday to ask Congress for continued funding of the National Endowment for the Arts amid calls for deep budget cuts.

Spacey was supposed to testify in the House during a hearing that was canceled at the last minute for budget negotiations to avoid a government shutdown. Instead, he performed a version of his testimony for arts supporters.

“Let’s pretend,” he said, introducing himself to a packed crowd that included a few lawmakers before reading his prepared testimony.

The Academy Awardwinning actor said a theater workshop led by the great actor Jack Lemmon when Spacey was 13 gave him a big boost into theater. When it came time to perform a scene for Lemmon, Spacey spoke in a shaky voice with little self-esteem.

“Now that was a touch of terrific,” Lemmon told Spacey.

“He saw something in me — a potential — that even I hadn’t recognized,” Spacey said. “That moment shaped me, and it shaped my life.”

Spacey — who won Oscars for his roles in “American Beauty” and “The Usual Suspects” and was executive producer of last year’s “The Social Network” — said he’s worried fewer kids will have opportunities in the arts.

Funding cuts in the 1990s and similar notions now threaten the grants provided by the arts endowment for local theaters and arts groups, he said.

“To me, it is important just to absolutely embrace arts

Painting hit by museum visitor back on display WASHINGTON (AP) — A Paul Gauguin painting that was attacked by a visitor to the National Gallery of Art in Washington is back on exhibition.

The painting, “Two Tahitian Women,” went back on display Tuesday. Conservators determined that the $80 million painting, which was covered by Plexiglas, sustained no damage after a visitor attempted to pull it off the wall and hit it Friday.

The woman charged in the attack, Susan Burns of Alexandria, Va., is expected to appear in D.C. Superior Court on Wednesday.

According to court documents, Burns said she believed Gauguin was evil and objected to nudity in the painting.

Staged mock trial exposes power of consent from SO WHAT’S, page 7 Theresa Govert, a 4th semester psychology major. After the conversation died out, the jury was brought back in to deliver their verdict. They decided that Johnson was guilty of sexual abuse. Subsequently, the audience was invited to ask the court members questions about their opinions and experiences.

Parag Bhuva, a 6th semester anthropology major, played Willis’s part during the trial.

He said that to prepare for the performance he put himself into the shoes of his character and thought about the stories that he has heard from various rape victims. He also said that “No Witness” was influential in that it “got the conversation started about what the definition of sexual consent is and raised awareness.”

The individual who played the bailiff in the play had a similar mind set. He said, “as long as there are people who don’t know the definition of consent, it’s worth it to have programs like these.”

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and culture and the creative industries and what they bring to our nation,” Spacey told The Associated Press. “It is the single greatest export we exchange around the world.”

Alec Baldwin and Hill Harper of TV’s “CSI: NY,” who was a law school friend of President Barack Obama, spoke later on Capitol Hill, also urging lawmakers to shield the arts from drastic cuts.

House Republicans have passed a $40 million cut this year to the relatively small $168 million annual budget of the arts endowment, though the cut is subject to Senate negotiations. Others want to cut off funding entirely in 2012, including Sarah Palin, who recently called such government spending “frivolous.”

Obama’s proposed budget for 2012 calls for a $22 million reduction due to pressure to cut spending.

Several state arts agencies also are facing severe cuts.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback called for eliminating the state arts commission but met resistance in the state Senate.

Cuts have been proposed in Washington state and New Hampshire as well.

Grants from arts agencies are used as leverage to draw donations from corporations and philanthropists for substantial projects. Spacey said an NEA grant is a “stamp of approval” for small arts groups.

Robert Lynch, president of the lobbying group Americans for the Arts, said many new lawmakers in a rush to cut budgets fail to see the jobs and economic boost that arts organizations provide as

‘Duh, Winning’: Sheen moves to trademark

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Not everyone may have Charlie Sheen’s “Adonis DNA” but people may soon be able to wear it, chew on it, drink it and experience it in a videogame.

Within two weeks of Sheen’s firing from television’s top-rated comedy, a company with ties to the actor applied to trademark 22 of his catchphrases, including “Duh, Winning,” “Vatican Assassin,” “Tiger Blood” and “Rock Star From Mars.”

The former “Two and a Half Men” star introduced the world to many of the phrases during a media blitz in February and early March that Sheen dubbed a “Media Tsunami.” That trademark is still up-for-grabs, but the applications point to a possible merchandising blitz.

The phrase, “I’m not bi-polar, I am bi-winning,” could end up on cell phones, in comic books, on wallets, purses, stickers and pens and pencils. Other potential items where the phrases may be emblazoned include bras, pens and pencils, pet foods and even alcoholic drinks.

There may even be something for gamblers — “Winning” could end up on slot machines.

Sheen’s spokesman, Larry Solters, said Tuesday that how the trademarks are used if they are approved will be determined later.

Records show Hyro-gliff, a California company formed last month, filed trademark applications between March 19 and 22.

In filings, the company lists its address as the offices of Sheen’s attorney, Marty Singer, who is pursuing a $100 million lawsuit against Warner Bros. and “Men” creator Chuck Lorre.

The company also applied to trademark Sheen’s name and signature, as well as his nicknames for his home (Sober Valley Lodge) and his girlfriends (Sheen’s Goddesses.)

A pair of applications cover the title of the actor’s current stage show, seeking protection for the phrases “Violent Torpedo of Truth” and “Defeat is Not an Option.”

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Actor Kevin Spacey attends an event on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 5, held by Americans for the Arts in conjunction with the Congressional Arts Caucus , calling for Congress to preserve arts funding.

small businesses. The $166 billion nonprofit arts sector includes 5.7 million jobs and generates nearly $30 billion in tax revenue, he said.

“Without a lot of time to understand what this sector means and how it can contribute, it’s lumped along with everything else that can be cut to make a smaller government,” Lynch said, adding that many arts supporters have left Congress. Still, he said, “I’m one of the last optimists in Washington.”

The arts group plans to hold its first-ever White House briefing Tuesday to press for support from Obama’s staff.

Republican Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho, chairman of the House subcommittee that funds the arts, told supporters he believes a majority in Congress supports preserving funding. Still, some believe the government simply shouldn’t fund the arts at all.

Democratic Rep. James Moran of Virginia said the

government is buying fighter jets that each cost as much as the annual budget of the National Endowment for the Arts. The F-22 costs $412 million each, and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter costs $126 million each. The government is buying hundreds of them.

“We are not a poor country.

We are a wealthy country, but our real power comes from the power of our ideas,” he said “This is not about saving money. This is ideological.”

Spacey also has publicly opposed a recently announced 30 percent cut to arts funding in Britain, where he serves as artistic director of London’s Old Vic Theatre. He said the cuts taking full effect by 2015 would devastate hundreds of arts groups.

The British government should change its tax laws, Spacey said, and use the U.S. model of providing tax breaks for charitable donations to help fill the gap left by cuts in public funding.

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UConn takes on McDonough: Team and fans did Eagles in Storrs their part, now school's turn from HUSKIES, page 14

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said after Sunday’s loss. “It’s always a concern when you have performances that fluctuate like that and that lack of consistency. It continues to be a concern.”

My 2011 national championship hat will be hung on my wall in the place where my 2012 graduation mortarboard and tassel was supposed to go.

Sure, CBS thought our fans

“Anyone can play well once in a while, but great teams play well everyday.”

– Karen Mullins UConn softball coach Mullins said that if Saveriano needs relief on Wednesday, Adelman will be the first to receive the call.

The bullpen is not the only aspect of the game that the Huskies have been plagued with inconsistency as it has also affected them offensively and defensively. A perfect example is the weekend series with Rutgers. In a doubleheader on Saturday, the Huskies outscored the Scarlet Knights by a combined score of 16-5. The following day ,they allowed themselves to play down to the level of Rutgers, setting the stage for the final inning meltdown.

“The difference between a good team and an average team is that they come in and play well every day,” Mullins said.

“Anyone can play well once in a while but great teams play well everyday. That’s been the challenge for us and that continues to be the challenge for us is playing well everyday and bringing our A-game through thick and thin.”

Peter.Logue@UConn.edu

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were embarrassing, but who cares?

No embarrassment, only pride, can come from what Calhoun, the players and we as a campus accomplished the last 27 days.

Matthew.McDonough@UConn.edu

“The best students in America” – Jim Calhoun

“The best sports section in America” – The Daily Campus

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Husky fans celebrate across the world Grenada, Spain

Capetown, South Africa

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Twenty-three UConn students who are studying abroad in Spain stop celebrating at a bar to pose for a picture following UConn's triumph over Butler in the national championship on Monday.

Sixteen students studying abroad gather around for a picture at 5:46 a.m. in Capetown, South Africa, following UConn's win over Butler in the national championship.

Students celebrate in Storrs Gampel Pavilion

Fairfield Way

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Students celebrate on the Gampel Pavilion floor following the final buzzer of the Huskies 53-41 win over the Butler Bulldogs Monday night. UConn was voted No. 1 in the coaches' poll on Tuesday.

The party continued to the streets of Storrs. Students celebrate the UConn men's basketball team's first national championship since 2004 by filing onto Fairfield Way.

Zielinski: Nuggets and 76ers following trend

McDonough: I was walking on a dream this weekend thanks to this team

from NCAA, page 14 recently rectified this trend, notably defeating the Houston Rockets and the Chicago Bulls. Led by veteran coach Doug Collins, the 76ers will have no shortage of coaching support throughout the playoffs. Leadership will also stem from Elton Brand and Andre Iguodala. Both players have accumulated significant experience within the NBA, as well as some international experience. Brand and Iguodala lead by example, averaging double-digit points, with Brand leading the team in rebounding and blocks and Iguodala leading in assists and steals.

Equally important to the 76ers is the energy provided by the team’s youth. Leading the youth movement for the 76ers are Jrue Holiday and Jodie Meeks. Holiday and Meeks have both started more than 50 games and are not afraid to take big shots, especially Meeks who shoots 42 percent from behind the arc. Finally, the 76ers play solid team defense and make free throws, something that is often lost in today’s game, only to rear its ugly head in the playoffs. All in all, the 76ers, with its veteran leadership and energy from the team’s youth, are guaran-

teed to make some noise this postseason. Just imagine if Evan Turner could remember how to play basketball one of these days.

Western Conference Denver Nuggets- Many experts pegged the Nuggets to have a lackluster finish to the season following the Carmelo Anthony trade. Boy, were they wrong. The Nuggets’ recent performance has been borderline inspirational, creating great enthusiasm surrounding the team’s future.

Fortunately for the Nuggets, the future might not be too far away. Similar to the 76ers, the Nuggets are driven by George Karl’s strong coaching. Karl’s efforts seem to parallel the recent efforts of UConn’s Jim Calhoun, as both have overcome great adversity in the form of illness, family issues, and other miscellaneous off-court issues to achieve great success.

Moreover, the Nuggets are a very complete team, even with an abundance of new parts. The Nuggets’ frontcourt, led by Nene, may not be overpowering, but is consistent. Solid support comes from Chris Anderson and Kenyon Martin, who continue to prove they can do more than get great tattoos. Both provide great defensive energy and rebounding to the team.

Turning to the backcourt, the Nuggets have a great tandem of point guards in Felton and Lawson. Hailing from North Carolina, Felton and Lawson give the Nuggets a balance of scoring, passing and leadership essential for success at the point guard position.

No Nuggets analysis would be complete without mention of J.R. Smith, who for all of his off-court drama, can catch fire like no other. With great range and an ability to get to the rim, Smith provides the Nuggets with instant offense.

Recognition is also due to Wilson Chandler and Danilo Galinari, who both average better than 30 minutes a game, and provide outside shooting and rebounding to the team.

Altogether, the Nuggets are far from a finished project, but the postseason often has a tendency to accelerate the development of young teams (Oklahoma City, anyone?).

The Nuggets should epitomize this trend, and with its combination of coaching and talent, they will be a tough matchup for any team.

Christopher.Zielinski@UConn.edu

from RUNNING, page 14 short of pulling off a three-peat.

2:30 a.m. to 5 a.m.: I slept.

What else? And I took a cab to the airport to leave for Houston.

A nice fellow drove me the 20-minute commute. His only problem was his obsession with Matt Howard. He kept telling me “how great a pro he’ll be” and that we “better watch out for him in the championship.”

Howard scored seven points on one of 12 shooting. Stick to driving people to the airport, not telling the future.

6:35 a.m. to 1:25 p.m.: Two flights, more sleep. Apparently my second flight, from Chicago to Houston, was delayed on the runway and ran into bad weather during midflight. You could’ve fooled me, as I fell asleep before takeoff and woke up after we landed. It wasn’t a complete waste though. I met a beautiful Butler brunette in the airport. But don’t fret UConn

fans. I never considered sleeping with the enemy. She had a boyfriend anyway.

2:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.: After taking the airport shuttle with Butler fans to the Crowne Plaza near Reliant Stadium, I finally felt at home with Husky nation. Sports Editor Mac Cerullo, Associate Sports Editor Matthew McDonough and I, as well as a group of friends, “laid out” by the pool for a few hours.

It wasn’t that relaxing, however, as my stomach lay unsettled in preparation for one of the biggest nights of all of our lives.

7:28 p.m.: I walked into Reliant Stadium and caught a glimpse of the court for the first time.

8:23 p.m.: Tipoff for the Huskies and Bulldogs.

10:24 p.m.: (approximately): UConn won the national championship.

Tuesday, 5 a.m.: I arrived at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, scheduled

to arrive in Windsor Locks at 4:45 p.m. with a chance to welcome the champions home.

11:45 p.m.: Two of my flights were delayed, forcing me to miss two of my connections. I didn’t arrive back at the best sports school in the nation until late Tuesday night.

I was exhausted, but I had to think of the national champions. The greatest postseason run in college basketball history had ended, so I had to keep my Kemba jersey on and stay positive. Once I finally arrived back in Connecticut, I’m afraid to say that the trip ended how it started: with me asleep.

During my trip to the women and men’s Final Fours, I slept pretty much every second besides the games. But perhaps the reason I did so much was because I felt like I was living the dream.

Colin.McDonough@UConn.edu

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Home game

Away game Gampel Pavilion, XL Center

Baseball (13-10-1) (5-1) Today UMass 6 p.m.

The Daily Question what are you going to watch now that the Huskies’ streak Q : “So, is done?”

A : “Gossip Girls.”

– Samie Ahmed, 6th-semester allied health scienes and biology major.

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Tomorrow April 7 Boston Coll. Rhode Island 3:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m.

April 9 Hartford 1 p.m.

April 13 Louisville 12 p.m.

Kemba Walker

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Already home

April 23 Louisville Noon

April 29 Villanova 6 p.m.

Lacrosse (6-4) (0-2) April 8 Syracuse 4 p.m.

April 16 Notre Dame Noon

April 21 Cincinatti 4 p.m.

Men’s Track and Field April 9 Tomorrow April 7 April 8 April 9 UConn Texas Relays Texas Relays Texas Relays Texas Relays Invitational All Day All Day All Day All Day All Day

Women’s Track and Field April 9 UConn Invitational All Day

April 16 Mt. Sac Relays All Day

April 23 April 28 April 29 UTech Penn Relays Penn Relays Invitational All Day All Day All Day AP

Connecticut head coach Jim Calhoun, left, walks with junior Kemba Walker as they arrive for a rally at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks.

THE Storrs Side

Golf April 9 New England’s All Day

April 10 New England’s All Day

April 17 April 18 April 19 Big East Big East Big East Invitational Invitational Invitational All Day All Day All Day

Men’s Tennis April 12 April 16 April 10 St. Francis Boston Coll. Villanova 3 p.m.

Noon 10 a.m.

April 22 Syracuse 10 a.m.

April 28 Big East Invitational TBA

April 13 Rutgers 1 p.m.

April 15 Seton Hall 2 p.m.

Women’s Tennis Tomorrow St. John’s 2:30 p.m.

April 8 Marquette Noon

April 10 West Virginia 10 a.m.

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“Every kid wants his jersey or his number to be retired and this is pretty special.“ – UConn star Kemba Walker after he was inducted into the Huskies Ring of Honor.

April 8 April 9 April 10 April 14 Notre Dame Notre Dame Notre Dame Brown 5:35 p.m. 2 p.m. 1:05 p.m. 3:30 p.m.

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Knicks rout Raptors, pull closer to 6th place

NEW YORK (AP) — Toney Douglas scored 28 points, Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire each added 23, and the New York Knicks closed within a half-game of sixth place in the Eastern Conference by routing the Toronto Raptors 131-118 on Tuesday night for their fourth straight victory.

Chauncey Billups had 13 points and nine assists for the Knicks, who can move ahead of the 76ers for the No. 6 seed when they travel to Philadelphia on Wednesday. It’s a rare big game in the springtime for the Knicks, usually long out of contention by now but headed back to the postseason for the first time since 2004.

The Knicks rang up 78 points in their highestscoring first half of the season, shot 58 percent overall and coasted to their fourth victory over Toronto this season, sweeping the season series for the first time since 2001-02.

New York improved to 39-38 and moved back above .500, where it spent most of the season before nine losses in 10 games last month dropped the Knicks three games under.

The Knicks were in sixth place for months before that slump dropped them to the No. 7 spot. With Boston and Miami tied for second, New York may not know until next week which team it would play in its return to the playoffs.

DeMar DeRozan had 36 points and 10 rebounds for the Raptors, who played without Jose Calderon (strained left hamstring), Leandro Barbosa (sore right pinky finger), or much fight in the first half.

Two days after knocking off Orlando to snap a sixgame losing streak, the Raptors never led and trailed by as many as 29.

Rookie Ed Davis had a season-high 22 points and grabbed 13 rebounds for the Raptors, who got only 8 minutes from injured leading scorer Andrea Bargnani before he shut it down for the night with a sore right ankle.

The Knicks put it away early, racing to a 13-0 lead after consecutive 3-pointers by Anthony. They scored 39 in the first quarter — two fewer than Butler managed in the whole game in its NCAA championship game loss to Connecticut on Monday — and met even less resistance in the second period.

The Knicks made 14 of 19 shots (74 percent) in the second, with Bill Walker getting some of the easiest. Douglas drove into the lane and threw a behind-the-back pass to a slashing Walker for a three-point play that made it 57-30 with 7:42 remaining. Less than a minute later, there was no Toronto player anywhere near Walker for at least 3 seconds as he stood along the wing, so Billups fired the ball downcourt to him and he drove for a layup.

Anthony, Billups and Anthony hit consecutive 3-pointers for the Knicks late in the half, with Anthony shrugging his shoulders similar to Michael Jordan against Portland in the 1992 NBA finals after improving to 5 for 5 from beyond the arc before missing his next one.

THE Pro Side

Eastern Conference’s race for Although UConn students got final playoff spot heats up raw end of deal, team is supreme

By Colin McDonough Senior Staff Writer HOUSTON — Sitting in the UConn student section to watch the Huskies beat Butler in the NCAA championship is something I will never forget. If I was in Storrs at Gampel Pavilion and rushing onto Fairfield Way after the victory, I’m sure it would be just as sweet. But with our school’s third title in men’s basketball in hand, maybe next time the school will do a better job of getting kids to the Final Four.

VCU had an enormous fanbase down in Houston as most of the students took advantage of a deal set forth by their school. Rams students said that for $25 they were provided transportation, lodging and game tickets.

VCU also canceled school Monday and Tuesday. Now I know we’ve been there before and will make it back again, and the Rams were a new Cinderella who had a great postseason run of their own, but it would be better if

UConn helped more students get to the big games.

Houston and Rice students were allowed entry into the Huskies’ section to fill it up for television purposes.

Although I thought our students did a great job cheering on UConn in Houston and celebrating in Storrs, a basketball team with three national championships should probably do a better job of filling its ticket allotment.

The $25 game tickets were unbeatable prices, and I’m not sure if the next Final Four the men’s team makes that the university can provide more money to costs of transportation for students.

But maybe the school can do something so there are more Husky fans to celebrate the championship with instead of VCU students.

We may not have had the most students in the Houston this past weekend, but it doesn’t matter. We had the best team.

Colin.McDonough@UConn.edu

By Dan Agabiti Staff Writer The Eastern Conference might be collectively weaker than the Western Conference this year, but the race for the last playoff spot could still be a thrill to watch play out.

Seven out of the eight spots have already been clinched but the final spot remains up for grabs.

Currently sitting in that last spot is the Indiana Pacers with a 35-43 record. The Pacers are led by fifth year small forward Danny Granger, who is averaging just over 20 points per game.

The Pacers’ strong point this year has been their team rebounding. They rank fifth in the league, averaging fewer than 44 rebounds per game. Five players on the team are averaging five or more rebounds a game and if anything it is going to help them down the stretch, it is going to be there presence under the boards.

Indiana takes the court today against a struggling Washington Wizards team in Indianapolis.

In the ninth spot, just on the outside and looking in is the Charlotte Bobcats. The Bobcats

are a very young team led scoringwise by Stephen Jackson, who is averaging close to 19 points per game.

In spite of the Bobcats’ lack of a prolific scorer, they can spread the ball around. Five players in their lineup are averaging doubledigit points per game.

The Bobcats traveled to Cleveland to take on a struggling Cavaliers team, but will be without Jackson for the third consecutive game.

Charlotte has six games to play and Indiana has only four, the race for eighth is going to be close.

Three out of four of the Pacers’ remaining games are against teams that have clinched a playoff spot—Atlanta, New York and Orlando—but two of those games are at home.

Charlotte has a relatively easy streak to end the season. Three out of their remaining six games are against the bottom five teams in the Eastern Conference. If they can win the games they should and then catch one of the better teams off guard, they could find themselves in the playoffs.

Daniel.Agabiti@UConn.edu

» INSIDE SPORTS TODAY

P.13: Knicks rout Raptors. / P.12: UConn students celebrate across globe. / P.11: Softball looks to bring A-game against B.C.

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Running Huskies hope to overcome inconsistency for the Thrill of it SOFTBALL

By Peter Logue Campus Correspondent

Colin McDonough HOUSTON — So, in an attempt to upstage the epic and improbable run by the No. 1 UConn men’s basketball team, I went on a little journey of my own this past weekend.

After covering the UConn women’s Final Four loss in Indianapolis, I boarded a plane to Texas in time to witness one of the greatest thrills of my life: the Huskies winning the national championship. Here are a few highlights and quirks from my trip from Storrs to Indy to Houston to Storrs. Note: The time zones change.

Sunday, 6:05 a.m.: The Daily Campus photographer Ashley Pospisil picked me up and drove me from Busby to Bradley. After a night of rioting and mobbing with fellow students on campus after UConn beat Kentucky in the Final Four, I was pretty tired. I fell asleep in the car.

7:35 a.m. to 5 p.m.: I fell asleep on the plane from Hartford to Cleveland. I slept for an hour in the terminal, then boarded a short flight from Ohio to Indy and slept the entire way. After checking into the Sheraton in downtown, I decided to take a nap. After waking up and putting on my face, I walked to Conseco Fieldhouse for the women’s Final Four.

6:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.: Texas A&M upset Stanford and it may have been a bad omen. The No. 1 seed Huskies couldn’t beat Notre Dame for a fourth time, ending their season without capturing their eighth national title. Maya Moore’s outstanding career came to a premature conclusion, falling a game

After Tuesday’s game at UMass was postponed due to rain, the UConn softball team will finally have a chance to put a demoralizing defeat on Sunday afternoon behind them when they take on Boston College in Storrs at 3:30 on Wednesday afternoon.

On Sunday, the Huskies collapsed in the top of the seventh inning against Rutgers,

allowing nine runs to fall by a Mullins. “It is always a comscore of 13-9. petitive battle. Their top hitter Boston College is off to a slow is Brittany Wilkins who hits start out of the ACC, for power and averas they will enter the age.” game with a 9-19 Wilkins currentrecord, including 5-3 in vs. Boston ly is batting .352 conference. However, with 11 home runs.

College they are coming off of UConn will counter a two game sweep of 3:30 p.m. this game with a star North Carolina State player of their own Softball on Sunday and are led in Julianne Towers. by one of the top playThe senior is having Stadium ers on the East Coast. a remarkable season, “We play BC every year,” leading the team in batting said UConn head coach Karen average (.386), runs (23),

hits (34), home runs (7), runs batted in (26) and virtually every other offensive category.

Doing all of this out of the leadoff whole, Towers is the catalyst for the entire team.

Any time that a team gives up nine runs in the final inning of a game, especially when they enter the inning three outs away from a victory, the bullpen is going to become a primary concern.

Such has been the case of late for Mullins and the Huskies.

Although Kiki Saveriano has

been solid as the number one starter for UConn, her team has lacked a reliable presence behind her in the bullpen. The duties have been split between Ali Adelman and Katelyn Callahan but both have posted ERAs greater than 4.5. It was Callahan who relinquished 4 runs in only two-thirds of an inning on Sunday.

“The inconsistency (in the bullpen) is there and has been there all season,” Mullins

»UCONN, page 11

BEV BRINGS HOME THE HARDWARE

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Connecticut senior Donnell Beverly greets fans at a rally at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks Tuesday.

» MCDONOUGH, page 12

NCAA tourney provides insight on NBA

Student fans need more support from university

By Chris Zielinski NBA Columnist Recognition is due to the UConn men’s basketball team, for completely redefining postseason history. Butler and VCU are equally deserving of praise for reaffirming the notion that sleeper teams not only exist, but are dangerous when playing focused and inspired basketball. Identifying sleeper teams, or so-called “Cinderellas,” has become an obsession during tournament time.

Although slightly less ambiguity and surprise is created by the smaller size of the NBA postseason, sleeper teams do exist. Luckily for excited NBA fans, this postseason contains a few.

The notion of being a sleeper team in the NBA is not entirely the same as in college. To create adjusted criteria, a sleeper team in the NBA will refer to a team ranked lower than a No. 3 seed with an ability to not only create a first-round matchup problem, but also compete in the latter stages of the playoffs for a championship as well.

Overall, the NBA postseason contains a few potential sleeper teams, but two soundly exhibit sleeper potential.

Eastern Conference Philadelphia 76ers- The 76ers have been somewhat of an enigma this year, often fluctuating in their performance.

However, the 76ers have

»ZIELINSKI, page 12

Matt McDonough All is right in the world again, as UConn coach Jim Calhoun pulled off one of the best coaching jobs of all time, at the tender age of 68, to crown the scenic state land grant of Storrs the capital of the college basketball universe.

Although the inept offense of the title game may be viewed as an ugly end to an exciting season in the nation’s eyes, nothing was more beautiful to the state of Connecticut than Butler bricking shot after shot. Not to overshadow the Huskies’ accomplishments by any means, but at the request of some students, as well as various posts on Facebook and Twitter, something needs to be said.

The empty chairs that dominated the 884-seat UConn student section were sad. So sad, in fact, that Reliant Stadium personnel told me that for the national championship game, Rice and University of Houston student-athletes were given tickets in the section to make it look full and respectable for television. A sign in the Butler section read that the school in Indianapolis was one-fifth the size, but had five times the heart.

I’ve never read anything so untrue in my life. There is no heart larger than that of a Husky. For proof, just look at the team.

Unfortunately for UConn students, however, the other three schools’ administrations helped

them get down to Houston. There was no real travel package for UConn students. Aside from the $25 ticket, no buses or reduced airfare were provided. Hence, the empty seats in the semifinal.

Virginia Commonwealth didn’t have that problem. From talking to a lot of their fans, who are about the nicest people you could ever meet, by the way, VCU provided a lottery that gave 200 students a free bus ride, hotel room and ticket. The other 664 paid only $25 for a hotel through Monday night and game tickets. They had to find their own transportation though.

All in all, that sounds like a pretty sweet deal. And the Rams fans cherished the experience, supporting UConn in the national championship. VCU kids even snuck in our student section to support us.

I even let them borrow a couple Husky jerseys for the game so they’d look the part. And they returned them to me.

Athletic Director Jeff Hathaway is a nice guy. I know his plate is full right now, but a plan should be in place for next April in New Orleans. A cheap bus or some kind of transportation should be provided so anyone who wants to go to the Final Four will be able to do so. Make it a humanitarian effort. Coordinate a relief trip on that Sunday. Students can help out people still suffering the effects of Hurricane Katrina at day and celebrate on Bourbon Street Monday night.

The UConn students cannot be held accountable for the attendance shortcoming. How is it their fault? A college student’s budget is small to begin with, and one can’t blame a peer for staying in Storrs and partying after the national

AP

Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, center, speaks at a rally for the Connecticut men’s basketball team at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks on Tuesday.

championship game. Aside from that, classes should have been cancelled. When Alabama won the national title in football a couple years ago, classes were cancelled for a week. Granted, Alabama didn’t get as many snow days as we did, but the Huskies winning the national championship has only happened three times.

Furthermore, some professors didn’t excuse students from class. Most of the kids I talked to were excused, and props to those professors. But it’s unfortunate when a professor lets his

or her ego get in the way, and won’t let a student make up an assignment or exam because they went to Houston to support the school. Newsflash: This ever-lasting Big Dance will be remembered forever. A 50-minute class won’t. It was refreshing to hear of many understanding professors who took a memo from this extraordinary team and acted selflessly.

I hope everyone on campus knows how truly special this is.

Speaking with UConn alums, the first question I always ask isn’t

what subject they earned their degree in, but rather if they saw a national championship. Forget what Nike says about a certain NBA player who can’t win a single championship. We are the real witnesses. We can take this one with us forever. And I don’t mean to keep saying we. I don’t believe I logged a single minute this season.

But this is our championship. The players will be the first ones to tell you that this is for all of us. And I thank them for that.

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