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Water conservation measures lifted

By Matt Nanci Campus Correspondent

Due to the recent rains, the mandatory water conservation measures instituted by the university on Aug. 13 have been lifted.

The Fenton River has been

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recovering, but has still not reached normal levels for this time of year. Due to this ongoing recovery, the university will continue to remain at a Stage 1A Water Conservation Alert and is asking that students and faculty continue to conserve water.

The water system is able to

keep up with the demands for the foreseeable future. But the use of the supply wells might increase the amount of stress put on the local rivers that have been affected by the drought.

The university is expecting to stay in a Water Conservation Alert until the Fenton River can

maintain a stream flow of over three cubic feet per second.

A number of suggestions have been presented to help conserve water. They advise taking shorter showers, using water for multiple purposes rather than pouring it down the drain, reporting any fixture leaking in UConn build-

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a haunting in connecticut Frazer, UConn look for first win aganist West Virginia.

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Christine Hur, a 5th-semester education major, pies 3rd-semester psychology major Tony Vilaysane in the face as business management graduate student Tom Chen looks on during a fundraiser for Pi Delta Psi Thursday on Fairfield Way Thursday.

COMMENTARY/page 4 INSIDE NEWS: FRENCH PROTESTS WEAKEN BUT STILL DRISRUPT FLIGHTS Many flights at Paris airports are cancelled due to labor strikes.

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Vince McMahon defends WWE, wife Linda

HARTFORD (AP) — Wrestling impresario Vince McMahon — who has largely avoided the role of political spouse and whose World Wrestling Entertainment alter ego has been on hiatus during his wife’s Senate campaign in Connecticut — has emerged from ringside in the contest’s final days, defending a business empire he says has been trashed because of politics.

Democrats call his actions a late tag-team effort to boost Republican Linda McMahon’s campaign as she trails in the polls.

Fed up with what he called “malicious and misleading attacks,” the bombastic 65-year-old McMahon recently launched an Internet campaign called “Stand up for WWE,” whose past policies and programming have been attacked by his

wife’s opponents.

He also filed a federal lawsuit this week against the top state election official for suggesting that WWE fans who come to the polls cover up their wrestling clothing or paraphernalia, given Linda McMahon’s ties to the company. A judge Wednesday ruled in McMahon’s favor.

And on Saturday, the WWE is

staging a fan appreciation event in Hartford just three days before Linda McMahon hopes to rally enough voters to defeat Democrat Richard Blumenthal for the seat being vacated by Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd. WWE announced Thursday it will hand out free merchandise near selected polling places on Election Day “celebrate” its success in the suit.

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There’s no justification for equating Muslims with terrorists.

ings to facilities and running dishwashers only when full.

The university previously sent out an e-mail regarding the drought on Sept. 13. At the time, they were advancing to a Stage III Drought Advisory.

Gregg Haddad, (D), 54th District State House

By Jay Polansky Associate News Editor The Daily Campus recently sat down for an interview with Gregory Haddad (D), a UConn alum and a candidate for the 54th District state representative seat. Here is an abridged transcription of the interview: DC: Why should students vote in this election?

GH: There’s so much at stake for UConn. UConn is a state institution: It gets a lot of support through the state legislature and the governor.

And I think we need to select a governor that is as committed to UConn as we all are – I think that’s Dan Malloy. I think that we need to

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Gregg Haddad speaks at a Democratic rally in the Student Union on Oct. 27.

make sure that the legislature hears about the importance of UConn loud and clear.

And the only way to do that is I think is for all these groups – staff, faculty, stu-

dents – to vote.

DC: When you were at UConn did you vote?

I did vote when I was in college. I was one of those who registered in my hometown. It wasn’t that far. I mean I grew up in Wilimantic. So I was able to go home to vote.

But sure in 1984 when I turned 18 years-old, I voted in that presidential election. It was very exciting. I voted in subsequent elections too.

And again because I think its your civic obligation if you care a lot about the institution you’re going to, if you care about the future of the state – it’s important to have your say.

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On Oct. 23, Gov. M. Jodi Rell revealed a new financing partnership that will benefit Connecticut employers by helping them with their export business.

The Connecticut Development Authority (CDA) will now be able to supply international trade financing to small businesses due to a partnership with the ExportImport Bank of the United States (Ex-Im).

“This City-State partnership – Ex-Im Bank’s first in Connecticut – will give us the opportunity to provide many more small businesses with competitive financing tools they need to successfully compete in the global marketplace, and create Connecticut jobs,” said Diane Farrell, a member of Ex-Im Bank’s Board of Directors.

Earlier this year, the CDA and Ex-Im Bank formed a City/State Partnership Agreement that advertises Ex-Im Bank’s services to small businesses in Connecticut.

“Our City/State partnership brings Connecticut’s small businesses and community banks face-to-face with international trade experts as a first step in understanding and assessing overseas markets,” said John P. Kearny, the vice president of CDA’s Commercial Lending Group. “CDA remains committed to helping Connecticut businesses compete and prosper in the global economy.”

Ex-Im Bank has declared CDA to be a “Designated Authority Lender,” which allows CDA to make credit decisions and give up to $1 million in international trade financing to eligible exporters.

“This is tremendous news for our small exporters in need of lines of credit to sustain and grow their businesses,” Rell said.

“Connecticut exports have been a traditional bright spot in our economy and this will allow us to build on that success. Connecticut companies are some of the most innovative in the world. Increasing our exports and giving employers more access to export financing will strengthen our hold in the global marketplace while creating jobs at home.”

The CDA is a member of Connecticut’s economic development team. This company stimulates investment in commercial and industrial businesses and works to retain and create jobs, thereby bolstering the state’s economy, technology base, intellectual capital and infrastructure.

Ex-Im is an independent, self-sustaining federal agency that works toward creating and sustaining jobs by filling gaps in export financing and improving the competitiveness of U.S. exports. The bank uses a variety of financing mechanisms, such as export-credit insurance to protect against lack of payment from foreign customers.

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Student Union Ballroom UConn’s student radio station, WHUS, hosts its annual “Mischief After Dark” Halloween concert.

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Report: Many students not ready for college

French protests weaken but still disrupt flights

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HARTFORD (AP) — A new report says the vast majority of Connecticut’s high school graduates are academically unprepared when they enroll in the state’s community colleges and four smaller state universities.

The report says at least 72 percent of those attending community colleges and 65 percent of students at Central, Western, Southern and Eastern Connecticut state universities require remedial or developmental math or English.

The study was compiled for a 44-member group of business, philanthropic and education officials led by state Education Commissioner Mark McQuillan and Commissioner of Higher Education Michael Meotti.

Meotti tells The Courant that the readiness gap threatens the state’s ability to replenish the workforce.

Testimony continues in home invasion case

NEW HAVEN (AP) — A psychiatrist is expected to take the stand again as lawyers for a Connecticut man convicted of a deadly home invasion try to persuade a jury to spare him the death penalty.

The jury in New Haven Superior Court is hearing testimony before it decides whether Steven Hayes should get a death sentence or life in prison.

He was convicted of killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela, at their Cheshire home in 2007.

Dr. Eric Goldsmith is expected to continue testifying Thursday. He said Wednesday that Hayes told him his co-defendant, Joshua Komisarjevsky (koh-mih-sar-JEV’-skee), proposed the home invasion.

» WORLD

DomRep on watch for cholera from Haiti

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A deadly cholera outbreak in Haiti is worrying tourism officials in neighboring Dominican Republic and prompting glittery seaside resorts to beef up sanitation measures, officials said Thursday.

The Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti and borders the central plateau where new cholera cases are being found in an epidemic that has claimed more than 300 lives and hospitalized 4,700 others.

Dominican officials have already stepped up military patrols on the border with Haiti and announced that all people crossing must wash their hands and complete a medical form. Now, tourism and health officials have extended health measures to the nation’s east and north, where numerous beach resorts are popular with foreign tourists.

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Muslim source turned in terror suspect

WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement officials say a source inside the Muslim community provided the first tip that a Pakistani-born man in suburban Washington was trying to join a terrorist group.

That tip in early January led to an elaborate ruse in which authorities say Farooque Ahmed began helping plan a purported attack on the Washington subway system. As part of an FBI-managed sting, Ahmed met repeatedly with undercover law enforcement officials and videotaped train stations looking for the deadliest places to plant a bomb.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

Tests warned of cement troubles before BP blowout

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tests performed before the deadly blowout of BP’s oil well in the Gulf of Mexico should have raised doubts about the cement used to seal the well, but the company and its cementing contractor used it anyway, investigators with the president’s oil spill commission said Thursday.

It’s the first finding from the commission looking into the causes of the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers and led to the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. And it appears to conflict with statements made by Halliburton Co., which has said its tests showed the cement mix was stable. The company instead has said BP’s well design and operations were responsible for the disaster.

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French riot police officer pushes a protestor blocking the exit from where the tank trucks leave full of gasoline at the Grandpuits refinery in eastern Paris. France’s parliament is expected to grant final approval Wednesday to a bill raising the retirement age to 62, a reform that has infuriated the country’s powerful unions and touched off weeks of protests and strikes.

PARIS (AP) — Strikes caused hassles for air travelers in France on Thursday, but nationwide street protests over a plan to raise the retirement age to 62 failed to draw the massive crowds of weeks’ past — a sign of slackening resolve among the bill’s opponents.

Parliament has already approved raising the retirement age from 60 to 62, but union leaders insist they will not give up their fight until conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy actually signs the bill. Still, fewer protesters followed them into the streets this time, and strikes by train and oil workers have been tapering off in recent days.

In Paris, demonstrators waved union flags and set off flares, while in southern Marseille, they beat drums and blew whistles. Past demonstrations have drawn more than a million protesters into the streets: This

time, the Interior Ministry put the figure at 560,000 nationwide. The hard-line CGT union contested that number, putting turnout at 2 million.

“It’s true you could say the anti-reform movement is slowing down, but you need to ask why,” Serba Germain, a 67-year-old retired police officer marching in Marseille, told Associated Press Television News. “People are disappointed, they are frustrated” because the government hasn’t listened.

Unions and opposition parties urged Sarkozy not to sign the law, which polls show is unpopular. He is expected to do so by mid-November, after it is cleared by France’s constitutional watchdog.

Socialist leader Martine Aubry urged Sarkozy to listen to the people. “We will fight until the end,” she said.

But Sarkozy has refused to back down, even amid two

weeks of strikes that canceled trains, shut down oil refineries and left drivers struggling to find gasoline.

A small number of trains were canceled Thursday, but the problem was bigger for airlines. A third of flights at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport and half of those at the city’s smaller Orly were canceled. Flights were expected to run as normal Friday.

Though the strikes are tapering off, the fuel shortages they caused lingered because of refinery strikes. Some 85 percent of gas stations are now open, the government said Thursday night, but added that the Paris region and central France continued to face some difficulties. Seven of the nation’s 12 refineries have voted to return to work.

Special measures, like keeping 90 percent of fuel depots open, were being put in place to

ensure there supplies through the coming long weekend when the French return en masse from a fall vacation, said a statement

by Energy and Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo.

Striking dock workers have exacerbated the shortages.

Oil tankers are lined up by the dozens in the Mediterranean off the port of Marseille, waiting to unload. The Normandy port of Le Havre faces a similar situation. Dock workers have been protesting for a month, partly over the pension plan, though their central concern is port reform.

Unions see retirement at 60 as a cornerstone of France’s generous social benefit system, but the government says the entire pension system is in jeopardy without the reform because French people are living longer — an average of nearly 85 years for women and 78 for men.

AP: US sees higher tuition costs College tuition costs shot up again this fall, and students and their families are leaning more on the federal government to make higher education more affordable in tough economic times, according to two reports issued Thursday.

At public four-year schools, many of them ravaged by state budget cuts, average instate tuition and fees this fall rose 7.9 percent, or $555, to $7,605, according to the College Board’s “Trends in College Pricing.” The average sticker price at private nonprofit colleges increased 4.5 percent, or $1,164, to $27,293.

Massive government subsidies and aid from schools helped keep in check the actual price many students pay.

But experts caution that federal aid can only do so much and that even higher tuition is likely unless state appropriations rebound or colleges drastically cut costs.

“Just when Americans need

college the most, many are finding it increasingly difficult to afford,” said Molly Corbett Broad, president of the American Council on Education.

When adjusted for inflation, the tuition increases this fall amount to 6.6 percent at public four-year colleges and 3.2 percent at private ones, according to the College Board.

Many students are finding relief in expanded federal aid, including tax credits, veterans’ benefits and a record expansion of the Pell Grant program for low-income students. In 2009-10, 7.7 million students received $28.2 billion in Pell Grants - an increase of almost $10 billion from the year before, according to a companion College Board report, “Trends in Student Aid.” Even so, the maximum Pell grant covers just 34 percent of the average cost of attending a public four-year college, down from 45 percent two decades ago.

For now, government subsidies and aid from schools are helping hold down net tuition and fees — the actual cost students pay when grants and tax breaks are factored in

“Just when Americans need college the most, many are finding it increasingly difficult to afford...”

–Molly Corbett Broad, American Council on Education’s president Estimated average net tuition and fees this fall at public fouryear colleges were $1,540, while

at private colleges they were $11,320. Both are up from last year, but below what students paid five years ago.

“Despite the fact sticker prices have gone way up, there is so much grant aid out there that many students are really paying less than they did before,” said Sandy Baum, a senior policy analyst for the College Board and a Skidmore College economics professor.

That’s also contributed to a growing gap between those who receive aid and the onethird of full-time students who pay full freight for college, the report says.

Patrick Callan, president of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, said it’s important to note that tuition is climbing after a decade in which family income did not rise for 90 percent of Americans, and at a time when many areas of the country face high unemployment.

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Haddad: We need to increase UConn’s funding

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Gregg Haddad, right, speaks at the 54th District State House Candidates’ Night at E.O. Smith High School on Oct. 19, while Brien Buckman, left, looks on. Buckman and Haddad are two of the four candidates running for the Mansfield-Chalpin General Assembly seat.

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DC: In April...you said the biggest issue for the state is the economy. Do you think that’s the most important issue right now?

I do. And I think that the economy and the meltdown on Wall Street has had enormously negative impacts on UConn, on the state budget and on students. It’s tough to afford a college education right now. The state is having difficulty maintaining its own budget, and UConn’s funding in the future is at risk. As a result, the economic slowdown has trickled down and is really affecting everybody in a way that is quite serious and it needs to be addressed.

Obviously as we fight to balance the budget, we need to prioritize UConn’s funding and I think that we need to act to improve the economy.

Specifically, we can do things to help small business, which are the backbone of any plan to create new jobs, and we can leverage the university’s own activities to help create a new economy in Connecticut.

Twenty years ago when I was a student, there was a plan to build a research and technology park north of cam-

pus. That’s still a viable plan.

And the university has the funding to complete the road.

They are in the final permitting processes for completing the road – it’ll stretch out to Route 44 and when that road is completed we can attract businesses to Mansfield to colocate with the university and build off of the research that’s happening at UConn and create new companies and/or take advantage of some of the research that’s going on at the university to create markets for some technological innovations, particularly in the area of bio science and green energy technology like fuel cells and animal science.

DC: CT News Junkie reported that one of your opponents [Christopher Paulhus (R)] said, “I think there are really only two candidates here: me and Greg.

We’ve both been on the Town Council for a while.” How do see competition from student candidates?

I thought that Chris’s comment was unfortunate. Both Jason and Brien have qualified for the ballot, and I think that they’ve equipped themselves well during their campaigns.

It’s a positive campaign and I hope it stays that way through to the end.

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And I think that they bring a lot of ideas to the table. We have very liberal ballot access laws in Connecticut. It takes 88 signatures to get on the ballot. The reason why this state has chosen to go that route is because a vigorous debate is always helpful.

I disagreed with Chris’s statement. I felt like there were four candidates on stage, each presenting their views to the public.

We’ll see how the chips fall on election day, but I think the debate has been quite good.

I was not reluctant at all to share the stage on candidates’ night with three opponents rather than just one and they’re welcome on the ballot as well. People can make their choice.

DC: So right now what do you think is the biggest issue facing UConn, and, if elected, what would you do to help solve that problem?

I think it’s really important that we make sure UConn stays an affordable place to get a great education, and we need to do that through a couple of things. We need to make sure the legislature continues to fund UConn at an appropriate level and makes improvements. That’s really difficult in a budget year that

looks as tough as what next year is going to be with 3.5 billion dollar deficit. But we need to fight hard to make sure state funding for UConn remains.

I think we need to fully fund CAPS, which is the state’s need based scholarship program that makes sure if you’re accepted to UConn that you can afford to come here even if you come from a moderate income family.

And I think that we need to stand behind students and parents when they get student loans that are co-singed by parents who become unemployed. A lot of student loans require a cosigner. In this tough economy, a lot of folks are losing their jobs. If a cosigning payment loses their job, I think the state should step up an guarantee that the loan should stay in place for the student.If some unfortunate circumstance falls on a family, they shouldn’t have to leave because they lost their college loan.

So those are three things we can do to make sure UConn stays affordable.

And I think wee need a state legislator whose ready to make sure we can accomplish those goals.

DC: How do you see ways

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to save money for the state without reducing the educational benefit that the state receives from UConn?

It’s going to be a very difficult road, but it’s all about choosing priorities and fighting for your priorities.

The state does face a 3.5 billion deficit next year. That has to be closed one way or another. But I think we need to protect investments that will help us climb out of this economic recession. UConn certainly – and the other state universities – certainly fall into that category.

This is how we will rebuild our economy... by research.

Let’s increase the research that’s going at UConn. Let’s build off of that to attract companies here and create more taxpayers. That’s vitally important.

So I would look at other areas on the budget to make tough decisions. We spent a lot of money on – the state’s largest program is a program that provides nursing home care for seniors. There’s a recent report that came out that said if we increase the level of service to folks who are still in their homes that they can stay at home longer where they want to be – these are frail, elderly people

– and we can avoid paying for premature entry into nursing homes. This particular report I’m talking about said that in 15 years if we achieve goals of balance that has already been achieved in in other states like Oregon and Washington, we can save 900 million just by increasing home and community care options.

That’s a smart choice to make. It saves us hundreds of millions of dollars and we need people who understand how to provide services and to do it in a cost-effective way.

I’ve been the deputy mayor for the town of Mansfield for 11 years. We’ve got 11 years of a balanced budget.

Last year’s budget was lower than years before. We did that while still maintaining a strong commitment to public schools and to other schools.

I’m not going to say that there hasn’t been a loss of services...but what’s critically important is that you’re able to make difficult decisions.

You really need to prioritize to help put yourself in a position for the future. And that’s what we’ve done here in Mansfield.

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Islamophobia is just unfair prejudice

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slamophobia is steadily becoming more prevalent in the news, yet little is being done to denounce it. The existence of prejudices doesn’t justify them. The type of racial profiling that Muslims are subjected to is heinous and dangerous, and we as a nation need to stop condoning these beliefs as “natural.”

Recently, Juan Williams was fired from NPR for making the statement on “The O’Reilly Factor” that, “I’m not a bigot…But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.” As a news analyst, Williams’ remarks garnered considerable attention. Since he had credibility as a long-time analyst for NPR, people watching him may have used his opinion to justify their own.

But no credibility should be granted to unfair prejudices. There is no justification for equating Muslims with terrorists.

This isn’t about political correctness. This is about stereotyping and racism. Clothing is only one part of a person. People who wear jeans and what’s seen as typical Western clothing, aren’t identifying themselves first and foremost as any ethnic or religious group.

They’re just wearing clothes. Williams’ vague insinuations about “Muslim garb” are generalizing and undermine the real issue. Attire does not indicate one’s terrorist tendencies, or lack thereof.

Plenty of people identify themselves as both Muslim and American.

Their clothing choice should not be a foundation for judgment.

Although Williams continued to mention that he doesn’t believe in generalizing Muslims as terrorists, his first statement implies that this is a natural feeling that people have. It’s not. Profiling Muslims is not and should not be any more acceptable than any other type of profiling.

Nor is Williams the only one to recently express Islamophobia as “normal.”

Danielle Crittenden wrote in The Huffington Post about her own experience in “terrorist profiling” on a flight in 2004. Having noticed two young men, whom she described as appearing to be of Arab descent, Crittenden assumed that they might be terrorists and refused to fly on the same plane as them.

Nothing happened on the flight, but she still attempts to justify her remarks by adding, “Maybe that’s what we should call it: not ‘racial’ profiling but ‘terrorist’ profiling, because the two are completely different. The latter does not arise out of irrational prejudice.” Yet her alleged “terrorist” profiling has no difference from racial profiling.

Not once does she use any justification further than the way these men looked. And to write a column saying that she has a reasonable, viable “profiling” theory is absolutely wrong.

The more that people falsely believe that “Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims,” as stated by Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, the more vulnerable we will be to non-Muslim terrorists, and the more harm will come to our entire community.

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Fingers crossed for Proposition 19. Yes We Cannabis!

This year the weather is dressing up like summer for Halloween.

I just wrote “figure out my life” on my to-do list.

University web designers have lower standards than last call at Huskies.

Direct quote from my prof today: “It’s not my job to entertain you guys, I usually leave that up to a combination of sex, alcohol, Xbox and ‘The Daily Show.”

Two more days until Halloween! That means three more days until it’s time for Christmas music!

I’ve decided I want to invent a cologne that makes it so when girls walk by me, they’ll turn to their friends and say, “Mmm he smells deliciousss.”

My best friend asked me what channel “TBA” was because she wanted to watch the football game.

To everyone in the rec pool: I don’t know if you figured it out, but yes we’re racing. I’m winning.

I’m dressing up as the Hamburglar for Halloween. I’m gonna walk into a McDonald’s Saturday night put a bag on the counter and hope for the best Four football players on the first floor of the library asked me how to get out...I’m very concerned.

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‘Glee’ covershoot outcry unjustified

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onfession: I do not watch “Glee.”

I don’t find high school heartthrob Finn Hudson particularly swoon-worthy (isn’t he, like, 28 years-old?), Rachel Berry needs a muscle relaxer and I don’t get that warm, fuzzy feeling when the entire Glee Club breaks out into a rousing, pitch-perfect rendition of “Don’t Stop Believin,’” after coming together for a Very Poignant Moment.

But before all of you self-professed Gleeks of UConn pounce on me faster than Sue Sylvester pounces on the weak, I actually write in defense of this

By Taylor Trudon favorite wholeCommentary Editor some family show – specifically, the recent GQ cover featuring Lea Michele, Cory Monteith and Dianna Agron.

The November issue of GQ has generated controversy for its photo shoot, where Michele and Agron don Victoria’s Secret bras, barely-there American Apparel underwear and pumps in a school setting – a far cry from the image that is projected on Tuesday night television screens. According to the Parents Television Council, the scandalous photo shoot “borders pedophilia.” The organization expressed their outrage by saying that the children who once loved “High School Musical” and now love “Glee,” are “being treated to seductive, in-your-face poses of

underwear-clad female characters posing in front of school lockers, one of them opting for a full-frontal crotch shot.”

“She is 24 years-old... she is allowed to take – dare I say – risqué photos without being crucified.”

Yes, the photos are scandalous. They are no doubt sexual. But let’s be honest here, this isn’t exactly “Highlights” magazine for kids. I mean, Michele is straddling a bench in a guy’s locker room. Following the uproar, even though she justified the photos, Agron blogged an apology, saying, “If you are hurt or these photos make you uncomfortable, it was never our intention.”

While it was a nice gesture for the mothers who are worried that their naïve pre-teens’ eyes have been scarred for life, Agron should not have apologized for the photos. She (like Michele) is 24 years-old, and while she may be a squeaky-clean role model in the eyes of millions of middle schoolers who hang on to her every word, she is allowed to take – dare I say – risqué photos without being crucified. This does not make her any less of a person, nor does it make her TV character (who isn’t exactly Miss Morals, either) any different. I have

seen snippets of several “Glee” episodes, and it would be hard to argue that “Glee” is not a sexual show (“Like A Virgin,” anyone?). To compare “Glee” to “High School Musical” is silly because they are not the same. I was never a fan of HSM, but I know for a fact that Vanessa Hudgens never danced in a nude bodysuit to Britney Spears’ “Toxic.” Just sayin’.

If parents are worried that their children have been corrupted by the GQ photo shoot, then that is a true testimony to their skills as parents, because what business does a pre-teen have reading GQ magazine? If your child does in fact happen to peruse an issue of GQ and is shocked to see “Rachel Berry” suggestively sucking a lollipop by the lockers, it is important to distinguish the difference between Berry and Michele for them. Rachel Berry is a high school junior who wears cardigan sweaters and pouts like a puppy. Lea Michele is a 24-year-old woman who has nine tattoos (gasp!) and probably leads an adult life far different from that of her character.

At the end of the day, you can pass judgment on the three GQ cover stars, but do so fairly. Judge them on how they act in the public eye, on how they treat others and on their performances as professionals.

Who Agron, Michele and Monteith are on Tuesday nights are not who they are in real life. They have earned the right to make adult decisions, and so long as they make responsible ones, don’t rain on their parade.

Commentary Editor Taylor Trudon is a 7th-semester journalism major. She can be reached at Taylor.Trudon@UConn.edu.

Be wary of ‘zombies’ all year round

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ombies are real, they are out to get you, and they aren’t rotting or moaning.

They probably look quite ordinary, in Ugg boots or sports jerseys, walking around campus at this very moment. These zombies also could feel equally at home wearing a blazer while teaching your chemistry class. The nearest zombie could be your friend, or it could even be you.

These zombies aren’t the undead of horBy Deepti Boddapati ror movStaff Columnist ies, but instead, “mindzombies.” They have relinquished their ability or willingness to think individually. They wear certain clothes because someone told them to, go to certain classes because someone thought it was a good idea and listen to certain music because everyone else does. An accurate description of these zombies isn’t going to be found in Max Brook’s “The Zombie Survival Guide.” Instead, look for them in Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall,” or Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead.”

These mental zombies have been slowing progress and infecting people for centuries. A sect of them can be found in parts of the Midwest. There, parents push for their children to be taught Creationism instead of Darwin’s

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theory of evolution. Despite the importance of religious beliefs, forcing public schools to teach Creationism is a violation of the separation of church and state.

And besides, when over 95 percent of scientists agree on an idea, not exposing a young learner to it is a horrible crime against his or her education.

Mental harm isn’t the only thing these zombies can cause if they infect you; there have been several examples of actual physical harm being caused by this disease of illogical thought.

The most blatant example is the virgin-AIDS cure myth. Although popularly connected to Africa, this belief can be found in many other places internationally. This myth claims that having sex with a virgin could possibly cure a sufferer of AIDS. This myth is ridiculous, yet, because of it, about 60 children are raped in South Africa every day. In this case of zombieism, a false belief propagated by superstition and dogma is actively spreading a deadly disease.

Our government isn’t free of these zombies, either. In fact, it’s so full of them that it has become embarrassingly inefficient. One of the most striking things about the zombies in the government is that they don’t do anything. In sharp contrast to our Jacksonian roots, zombified government leaders never actually take charge. All they are interested in is staying

in office and extending their party’s influence. As long as that happens, they won’t make any changes in legislation; it’s too much work. Not only are they uninterested in affecting change, they are controlled by big-budget lobbyists, not the populace which votes for them.

“Zombified government leaders never actually take charge. All they are interested in is staying in office.”

A good example of our zombified government is our fuel efficiency standards. America ranks last among major developed countries in this category. In Japan, cars have to meet a standard of 40 miles to the gallon. America’s fuel efficiency standard is only 27 miles to the gallon in comparison.

This 13-mile difference means we are paying about 36 more dollars per every thousand miles. Even China, one of the most polluted nations in the world, has a higher standard for its vehicles’ fuel efficiency at 35 miles to the gallon.

Why can’t Washington get with the program? Because it’s being

controlled by major car companies, not by us, the citizens.

How do we combat these zombies if the infection has spread all the way to the Capitol? First, we can’t become zombies ourselves, who are lulled into accepting information without scrutiny.

Although life seems easier when we simply accept things at face value, we need to remember that being a zombie isn’t actually living at all. Second, we need to be the wrench in the works, the problematic voice of reason that keeps others from remaining zombies as well. The biggest advantage we have against these zombies is that they can be cured through education and logic.

Everyone, especially children, should be taught to think for themselves and to examine new information with skepticism.

If zombies are shaken awake, forced to confront the fact that they can’t keep walking though life without actually living, they will be human again. It simply requires the habit of thinking.

And don’t take what I say for granted either. For all you know, I could be a zombie too. Think for yourself and decide: are you a human or a zombie?

Staff Columnist Deepti Boddapati is a 1st-semester mechanical engineering major. She can be reached at DeeBoddapati13@gmail.edu.

“New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has canceled a train tunnel between New York and New Jersey. As a result, New Yorkers will have to get to New Jersey the same as they always have – by accident.” – Jimmy Fallon

Friday, October 29, 2010

» LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Ortiz for State Representative

I am pleased to have the opportunity to endorse Jason Ortiz for State Representative to UConn faculty, students and friends.

Jason has a lot of accomplishments to be proud of. He is a leader in making institutional changes at UConn, including holding down tuition costs, and serving as UConn’s Undergraduate Student Government Comptroller.

Not your typical undergrad.

This Winter, Jason asked me for advice on how to make Spring Weekend more of a 3rd Thursday-type event.

Jason then presented a concrete, workable, less-expensive proposal to the Mansfield Town Council which included bands, food, activities. The Town Council, including his opponent Doug Haddad, were too entrenched in the status quo to see the possibility for creative change.

Doug Haddad will have a serious conflict of interest if elected as your State Representative because he is employed by Senator Don Williams. While Doug has been committed in his service on the Town Council, he should not be your Representative.

Could he ever vote against the Democratic agenda?

Mansfield and Chaplin will simply walk lock-step in guaranteed support of whatever Sen. Williams proposes.

I generally agree with Sen. Williams, but not 100% of the time. It will take a lot of courage for Doug to vote against his boss in opposition to what you, the voters, might ask of him. Employees of State Senators and Representatives have an inherent conflict of interest and should not run for office.

Vote for Ortiz.

– Jean de Smet, former First Selectman of Willimantic and Windham

Mansfield State Representative

Jason Ortiz, an intelligent, insightful and passionate young man who has been working as an educator at Mystic Seaport, while working to complete several majors at the University of Connecticut, is running for State Representative for the Mansfield Area.

He has been active in a variety of human rights, peace, environmental and justice organizations in the community and at the university for the years he has lived in our community. I have come to know Jason, seen him speak, and discussed many different important issues with him.

I believe he has the heart, mind and compassion to solve many of our local and state problems. While Jason’s primary opponent, Greg Haddad, has many virtues and would serve the same office well, Jason would bring the vision and unrelenting determination that will lead our youth in eager, positive participation to make their visualizations

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Commentary of truth, justice and a sustainable world a reality.

– Miriam Kurland, Mansfield

Re: State Rep. Coverage Is Too Biased

In his letter criticizing the Daily Campus for its coverage of the 54th State Representative debate last week, Michael Daniels failed to identify himself as a paid consultant for Gregory Haddad’s campaign. In the interest of openness, he should have.

– David Haseltine, Mansfield

“Capitalism a dead end”

This is in response to Mr. Bullman’s deluded opinion piece “Capitalism a dead end for humanity.” He should get his facts in order and his emotions in check before he rants about the perceived flaws of free-market capitalism.

First, his attribution of federal bailouts to the capitalist system is comically erroneous. Government selectively supporting certain industries is inherently non-capitalist.

The word Mr. Bullman is looking for is “corporatism,” a system that true capitalists detest.

Next, he claims that the “war industry” receives more than half of our tax dollars. This is patently false. According to the Office of Management and Budget, defense spending in 2009 accounted for only 23 percent of federal outlays.

This pales in comparison to Bullman’s favorite social programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and the interest on our debt for those expenditures, which together sum over 40 percent of our federal budget. This seems to indicate that, contrary to the author’s claim, the government has in fact “lifted more than a single finger to help out working people.”

Bullman’s claim that capitalism leads to “war, racism, homophobia, exploitation and sexism” is ridiculous.

Capitalism is merely the term given to private ownership of capital, and has no relationship to foreign or social policy. The author’s willingness to attribute to capitalism every societal flaw, past or present, is irrational and immature.

Finally, the author’s statement that the Soviet Union and China were, or are, not socialist states, is absurd.

Socialism is, by definition, the government ownership and control of industry and those two states are posterchildren for the socialist system. About this there is no argument.

It seems that Mr. Bullman toils in an alternate version of reality where socialism is markedly different from the way it is in real life.

Socialism is the sociopolitical system that has led to massive discontent, violent oppression and the deaths of millions of innocent people worldwide.

Free-market capitalism, by

contrast, is the system that has led to the greatest individual freedom of any other economic system and one of the features that makes this the greatest nation on earth.

– Joseph Gasser, President, UConn College Republicans

Re: Using behavior drugs is not cheaing, but harmful

Dear Ms. Trudon, I recently read your article in the Commentary section of the Daily Campus entitled “Using behavior drugs is not cheating, but harmful”. In this piece, you assert that although the use of stimulants such as Adderall and Ritalin for academic performance enhancement is “unhealthy and potentially harmful, it should not be considered unethical.” While I concur with the former part of your argument (that such practices are unsafe), I believe that abusing prescription medications most certainly constitutes academic misconduct.

The article’s analogy likening prescription drug misuse to drinking coffee or Red Bull neglects the fact that these widely consumed substances provide nowhere near the same amount of cognitive enhancement as prescription stimulants. Caffeine may make an individual feel more alert, but this increase in concentration and energy is far surpassed by that which pharmaceuticals like amphetamine and methylphenidate can deliver. A far more appropriate analogy would be to compare prescription stimulant abuse in academia to the use of steroids in athletics. This pharmacological method of performance enhancement is almost universally condemned as both dangerous AND unethical.

An athlete who chooses to take steroids must still exert some effort (e.g. by working out) in order to achieve success. However, the assistance provided by the drugs is so great as to be deemed cheating by most knowledgeable individuals. Similarly, a student who uses prescription substances to gain an academic edge must continue to study if he/she wishes to do well. Does that mean that such drug use is permissible?

If this is the logic, why not allow the use of steroids in athletics? It is my opinion that just because some effort remains necessary, one should not regard the misuse of performance-enhancing medications as ethically acceptable.

Furthermore, publicly stating this behavior “should not be considered unethical” may have the regrettable consequence of encouraging it. I am therefore compelled to inform you of my dissent.

– Justin Wilde

“Blumenthal’s popularity based on misconceptions”

For the last 20 years, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has been standing up and fighting the toughest special interests for the

people and businesses of Connecticut. While there may be some people who disagree with some of the actions he’s taken, one thing is indisputable: he always puts the best interests of the people first. In cases large and small, public and private, he has fought for people when they can’t fight for themselves.

The recent article accusing him of frivolously suing now and asking questions later is just absurd. As the Attorney General has oftentimes said, his job is to enforce the law and he has done so admirably and aggressively throughout his tenure. He has been one of the nation’s leading attorneys general on anumber of causes including going after big tobacco companies who wrongfully marketed cigarettes to children.

He has never backed down from a fight and never will if Connecticut voters send him to Washington to serve in the U.S. Senate.

I was also fortunate enough to have attended his meet and greet a few weeks ago at the Student Union and found it refreshing to see a candidate who wasn’t afraid to go out and field questions from students. Attorney General Blumenthal was asked a number of questions by students, and I saw only graciousness and appreciation on the part of Mr. Blumenthal upon seeing so many actively engaged students in the crowd. I doubt that he called a concerned student a “stooge” for Linda McMahon.

In the end, Connecticut needs a voice in Washington that will stand up for them, and I believe that Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is the right person for the job. He has the dedication, drive and proven track record to make an excellent U.S. Senator.

– Mike Pellin

Crisis pregnancy centers response

For over 24 years the Care Net Pregnancy Center of NECT has been committed to serving our community with the utmost of care and integrity. We offer practical help and support to those facing an unplanned pregnancy. Our free services include pregnancy tests, material support, parenting, a post abortion recovery program and abstinence education. Part of being informed about a pregnancy decision is determining whether their pregnancy is viable and how far long they are. Care Net Pregnancy Center of NECT provides limited obstetrical ultrasounds(in our Danielson Center only) that help determine just that.

Our ultrasound services are provided only by trained and medical professionals and supervised by a licensed physician.When it comes to making a major health decision, women want to be well informed. We understand this and stand behind the information we provide. We share all the options with our clients, abortion, adoption and carrying her baby.

Care Net Pregnancy Center of NECT is also committed to ensuring that women facing

an unplanned pregnancy are accurately aware of our services. All of our advertising clearly communicates the services that we offer, and we are always up front and clear about the services that we don’t offer.

We hope that those who have raised concerns will take the opportunity to be more informed about our services that we offer, to hear from our former clients who wish to share their stories, and to get to know our volunteers.

We seek to be a welcoming place and to keep an open dialogue-whether you support our services or not. At the end of the day, everyone can agree that women facing unplanned pregnancies deserve excellent support and care.

I would like to share some interesting statics from Care Net National(from September 2010) They have over 1,120 Care Net Pregnancy Centers Affiliates in the U.S and Canada, 429,000 clients served every year, 329,000 pregnancy tests provided, 70,000 ultrasounds conducted, 305,000 clients received material resources such as maternity/baby clothes, layettes, 144,000 parents received parenting education, 23,000 women and men participated in post-abortion recovery programs, 1,000,000 individuals were educated about the benefits of abstinence outside of marriage and 29,000 volunteers helped at the centers, 97% of client exit survey’s that were overall positive about the client’s experience at the center. Less than 1%(.5%) clients who registered a complaint with the center. 96% of clients who indicated they would recommend the center to a friend.

Number 1 source of new clients among all other forms of advertising was word of mouth. Option Line, a contact center and website www.optionline.org has had 1 million contacts since its inception in 2003, 255,000 contacts to contact center via phone, email and instant messaging, 7.9% increased contact volume over 2008, 797,000 visits received to the option line website(English and Spanish), 3,403 text messages received at the option line center.

Care Net is deeply rooted in the Community for example: State Health Dept: 92% High School: 90% Colleges:60% Hospitals:68% Abortion Providers:28% other Non-Profits: 88% Physicians: 88% A final note, we here at Care Net Pregnancy Center of NECT want to take the opportunity to thank our many volunteers who have joined us in the work of simply helping a neighbor in need. Because of their support we have provided over 6,967 women facing an unplanned pregnancy with the help, hope and practical support. The support to women and families has had a ripple effect that has benefited our entire communities.

– Pati Adams, Executive Director, Care Net Pregnancy Center of NECT

New community solutions

On Tuesday, voters in Mansfield and Chaplin must choose a State Representative.

As an independent candidate, I ask that you vote Row H, “Buckman for Connecticut.”

All my life, I have lived in this area. Growing up in Coventry, I have learned that there are certain community issues that need attention, and certain things the state can do to help.

We need to reduce property taxes, not raise them.

This can be done by taking the burden of public education off the hands of municipalities. PreK-12 education needs renewed support from the state, so that students are prepared for post-secondary opportunities.

Creativity deserves the same priority in the classroom as literacy, and we need to revise our assessment methods of students and teachers to match this mission. As a state, we need renew our commitment to public higher education by supporting schools, like the University of Connecticut, so that additional financial burdens are not placed on students and their families.

When it comes to our state infrastructure, we have a lot of work to do. We need to stop stealing agency rainy day funds. We need to remain committed to supporting municipalities. We must reinvest our transportation revenue in transportation infrastructure. Part of budgeting and spending responsibly and transparently means using Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in our fiscal process.

Job creation must be a top priority. We need to offer administrative support to new and developing small businesses. Investing in an online filling system for the entire state will save resources. We must work to reduce energy costs in this state by encouraging competition and alternative energy sources.

Connecticut has some of the highest energy rates in the country, and it discourages business development and growth, and has a significant impact on family budgets.

The road ahead will be a tough one. Having served in many community organizations such as the UConn Foundation and the Mansfield Community Campus Partnership, having lived in the area all my life, and having not been in the current political system, I will bring a new perspectives and set of experiences to the problems our community faces. I invite you to join me by voting Brien Buckman on November 2nd, I look forward to working with you as we improve our community.

– Brien Buckman, candidate for 54th District State House

To submit a letter to the editor for publication visit www.dailycampus.com/letterto-the-editor and complete the form. Letters are printed in the Commentary section every Friday.

What are you being for Halloween?

– By Kevin Scheller

“Little Red Riding Hood, because of the nickname people gave me while wearing my red jacket.”

“I am going to be a cowboy. It has ass-less chaps, a sheriff’s badge, boots, a fake gun and a big hat.”

“I am going to be a cheetah. I wore it to the Halloween party last weekend.”

“I’m going to be a pimp, complete with a purple/leopard print suit and a white cane.”

Caroline Dunn, 3rd-semester English major.

Alex Anisimov, 1st-semester economics major.

Darlene Desir, 3rd-semester psychology major.

Rob McNaboe, 3rd-semester accounting major.

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Friday, October 29, 2010

News

» GITMO

Prisoner apologizes to soldier’s family

AP

In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, Canadian Omar Khadr, top third from left, listens to witness and forensic psychiatrist Dr. Michael Welner, top second from right, respond to a question by prosecutor Air Force Capt. Chris Eason, standing center, on the third day of his sentence trial on Wednesday at Camp Justice on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba.

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — A tearful but defiant Army widow addressed her husband’s killer Thursday, dismissing any suggestion that the actions of the former teenage al-Qaida militant should be excused because of his age.

Tabitha Speer spoke to Omar Khadr from the witness stand at the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal and said he made a choice to stay and fight at the al-Qaida compound in Afghanistan where her husband, a special forces medic, was mortally wounded by a grenade that the prisoner has admitted throwing during a four-hour firefight in 2002.

“My husband was a good man,” Speer said. “You will forever be a murderer in my eyes.”

Defenders of the Torontoborn Khadr, the last Western prisoner at the U.S. base in Cuba, argue that consideration should be given to the fact that he was only 15 at the time of his capture.

But the widow reminded Khadr, and the military jury considering his sentence, that he had an opportunity to escape the compound with other children and women who were permitted by U.S troops to leave at the start of the battle.

“You had your choice and you stayed,” she told him in an hour of often emotional testimony that left some audience members in tears as photos of her dead husband and his two young children were played on a screen in the front

of the courtroom.

Khadr bowed his head at the defense table and did not look up as the widow spoke to him. Later, he apologized to her in an unsworn statement, a maneuver that allowed him to address the court without having to face questions from the prosecution yet still make his most extensive public comments since his capture.

“I’m really, really sorry for the pain I’ve caused you and your family,” said Khadr, standing in the witness stand. “I wish I could do something that would take away your pain.”

As he spoke, Speer gripped the armrests of her chair and shook her head. After he stepped down, and the jury had left the room, she cried and hugged a victim’s representative who has accompa-

nied her to the court sessions.

Khadr has pleaded guilty to five war crimes charges, avoiding a trial that could have resulted in a life sentence and ending what has been one of the most heavily scrutinized Guantanamo war crimes cases.

The widow also spoke directly to the jury of seven military officers and urged them not to be swayed by arguments that Khadr, the son of an al-Qaida leader who was groomed for militancy from an early age, deserves special consideration.

“Everyone wants to say he’s the child, he’s the victim,” Speer said. “I don’t see that.

My children are the victims.”

Khadr, now 24, admitted killing her husband, Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher

Speer, as part of his plea deal. He also acknowledged placing 10 roadside bombs in Afghanistan and spying on U.S. convoys to assess the best ways to attack them.

Prosecutors said Khadr was a terrorist and war criminal — a claim challenged by critics of the tribunals — because he was not a legitimate soldier in the battle.

Terms of the plea agreement have not yet been released.

The jury has not been told the deal reportedly limits the sentence to eight more years in custody. Khadr’s sentence will be whichever is less — the jury’s verdict or the amount set in the agreement — and the U.S. has agreed to send him back to Canada after one more year in Guantanamo.

The U.N. representative for children and armed conflict urged the military tribunal to release Khadr and send him to a rehabilitation program in Canada, comparing him to other youths who have been recruited to fight by unscrupulous adults.

“In every sense Omar represents the classic child soldier narrative,” Radhika Coomaraswamy, a U.N. undersecretary-general, wrote in a letter circulated Thursday.

Jurors in military tribunals are permitted to submit written questions and one asked Speer if she would feel differently about the circumstances of her 28-year-old husband’s death had he been killed by a uniformed enemy soldier. Yes, she said, without elaborating.

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Comedienne wows crowd, uses puppets while doing so Autumnal foods and your health

By Amy Schellenbaum Associate Managing Editor

It’s the Friday before Halloween. And it’s time for the practically mandatory Halloween edition of HealthyU. Tonight, thousands of students will leave their dorms and apartments as monsters, or characters from a wide spectrum of obscure and popular culture, as a host of sexy and far-fetched professionals or maybe as the all-too-popular and incredibly lame “college student.”

Some have been working out for weeks so that they can be confident in that itty-bitty referee costume. It would be silly to completely abandon hard work and good habits after this one weekend. It’s fine to splurge with your friends every once and a while, but let’s face it: Baby Ruth and Captain Morgan is not a happy marriage. A pulsing headache, a rebelling stomach and a general “ick” feeling do not a happy Halloween make.

Don’t get me wrong, I love chocolate as much as the next person (if not more). But there are so many other options that are festive, yummy and more nutritious than Reese’s Pieces.

I have oatmeal for breakfast at least four times a week. It’s tasty, fast and sticks with me much longer than a bowl of cold cereal. When I have to get out of my snuggly cocoon in the morning, I look forward to the sweet, gooey goodness of maple and cinnamon oatmeal that warms me from the inside, although this gorgeous 69-degree weather is making the transition from bed to breakfast much easier.

I even bought a can of pumpkin to add to my oatmeal.

Though I have yet to open it (I haven’t got around to procuring a can opener), I know that putting some pumpkin, cinnamon and a bit of Splenda in plain oatmeal is divine. It’s so autumn-y. The peppy orange color of pumpkin comes from highly pigmented beta-carotene, the same antioxidant compound that allows carrots to tout their ability to promote eye health and combat signs of aging.

Pumpkin seeds are another great seasonal snack choice.

Not only are they soft and satisfyingly sweet and salty, they are also high in magnesium (which most Americans are deficient in, according to healthdiaries. com) and compounds called phytosterols. Phytosterols are amazing. These sneaky little devils look a lot like cholesterol, and studies have shown that they actually inhibit the body’s absorption of “bad cholesterol,” both the kind you eat and the kind your liver produces, according to mayoclinic.com.

I also like putting cinnamon in pretty much everything. The onslaught begins in September and continues just past the season of gingerbread cookies and winter spice coffee. Studies have shown cinnamon to be full of anti-inflammatory properties and a blood sugar regulator, according to the thehealthysnacksblog.com. Also, cinnamon has been shown to help with memory, so it wouldn’t hurt to have some the morning before an exam. If you are lucky enough to live somewhere with a kitchen, I highly recommend making cinnamon zucchini bread. It will make your kitchen smell like magic.

And apples. Now is the perfect time to admire them, just as they start to go out of season. I add extra cinnamon to store-bought applesauce (no sugar added is the way to go). Caramel apples

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SUBOG sponsored pupperteer and comedienne Lynn Trefzger, shown gripping a camel puppet that is part of her routine while performing for UConn students for free at the Student Union Theatre on Thursday night.

By Jason Wong Campus Correspondent Comedienne Lynn Trefzger reeled in the laughs at the Student Union Theatre Thursday night.

With her trunkful of crazy characters, Trefzger has performed with notable artists such as Jeff Foxworthy, Ray Romano, Drew Carey and Jeff Dunham.

Trefzger’s performance started with her camel puppet, aptly named Camelot. Camelot had a rather amusing, if inebriated, personality, with a lovably goofy voice to go along with it.

Although he claimed to be shy, he was something of a womanizer. Camelot was also quite

crude and vulgar, making jokes about the effects of alcohol (not so bad, as we can all attest from experience), but also the tried-and-true fart jokes that few comedic routines are without.

Following Camelot was a make-believe baby that found its way into the hands of an audience member, where it refused to be quieted by any means. This section of the routine was heavily reliant on comedic movement and funny noises.

After the infant came Simon, an extremed sassy puppet clothed in a dress shirt and khakis. For example, he compared Trefzger’s self-described job of “entertainer” to that of a strip-

per because both occupations work nights and entertain. When Trefzger interjected that she did comedy, Simon responded by saying that if she was a stripper, it would be funny. He also criticized SUBOG for not being able to afford a real brick wall.

Next came Emily, a Cathyesque puppet in terms of looks, but very flirtatious and also something of a cougar (“I like ‘em young,” she said). Her humor focused largely upon hitting on the men in the audience, and enlightening the audience on how every group of female friends has a “ho friend.”

Following Emily was Judd, an elderly puppet with a large

Educational and timely, corn maze provides clean fun

FILE PHOTO/The Daily Campus

A view of the Merrow Corn Maze located near Chuck’s Margarita Grill in Mansfield. The Corn Maze is operating for its 10th year.

By Matt McDonough Associate Sports Editor This weekend, before you slip into your Halloween costumes, there is another fall tradition down the street worth checking out.

The Merrow Corn Maze, on Merrow Road near Chuck’s Margarita Grill in Mansfield, is finishing its 10th year in business. The maze is run by Chris Kueffner, a 6th-grade math teacher at Bristow Middle School in West Hartford. For $6, customers can walk through the maze between noon and 5 p.m on weekends.

The maze is unique. Rather than making it a puzzle that participants have to find their way out of, Kueffner has injected an educational aspect into the equation. Participants are

given a 30-question pamphlet, and the answers are written on numbered polls placed in a non-conspicuous manner. All the questions revolve around a theme. This year, the theme is the Connecticut Arts. Questions range from, “Who is William Gillette?” to “Why did Mark Twain live in Connecticut?”

“It’s really my artistic outlet,” Kueffner said. “I certainly like running an enterprise.”

Past years’ themes have included the 2004 UConn men’s and women’s basketball championships, Connecticut Agriculture, Connecticut’s Trees and Forests, Connecticut’s Firsts, Connecticut Inventions, Made in Connecticut and Mansfield’s 300th Birthday. Attendance has fluctuated in the last decade.

“This is very weather-dependent,” Kueffner said. “It’s part of the deal. Any farming opera-

tion is far more weather determined than the public realizes.”

Kueffner said the correlation between the amount of customers and weather forecasts is “very interesting, yet very discouraging,” citing some years where profit was down because rain was in the weekend forecast. He said that even if it didn’t rain, people still wouldn’t have come.

“The weekends have been nice, so it’s been good this year,” Kueffner said. “The reaction I’ve seen has been very positive.”

Kueffner spends between 120 hours and 140 hours working on and preparing the maze. Labor goes into planning and preparing the field, drawing the maze design, researching the questions and making the signs. He is helped by his wife, Lynn

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forehead and nose. His cantankerous attitude was emphasized by his advice on dating and his corresponding anecdote. Judd had this to say: “You have to have something in common; my wife and I like to go on walks, so we were walking, and we saw a wishing well. She fell in. I didn’t know those things worked!” He also suggested that romantic surprises are nice, and relayed to the audience a story about how he came home one day to his wife dressed in Saran wrap, to which he responded, “Leftovers again?”

After Judd was Chloe, an adorable puppet of a little

4-year-old girl. With Chloe, Lynn made good use of the humor found in parenting, although Chloe did have hilarity of her own to contribute, saying, “I’m gonna marry Justin Bieber; he’s my size!”

Trefzger ended the show by using members of the audience as “puppets” and giving them ridiculous voices and personalities associated with interviews she had conducted with them earlier.

Trefzger was named the Funniest Female Performer of the Year by Campus Activities Magazine in 2006.

By Melanie Diezel Associate Focus Editor

or cash. Target, for example, usually sells holiday window clings in packs of 10 or 20 for just $1. You can pick up some ghosts, witches, bats and pumpkins for your windows to share the holiday spirit with passersby outside.

Window clings usually can be stuck to other surfaces too: mirrors, white boards, mini-fridges, doors and walls are all fair game. It’s probably a good idea to test with a single cling before you cover any surface – I have it on good authority that some of the colored clings may stain the white walls in North.

Construction paper can be your best friend this Halloween.

Cutting out bats, pumpkins and other festive shapes gives you the opportunity to create your own decorations. Get creative by combining colors and shapes to make jack-o-lanterns, candy corn or a witch flying in front of the moon.

If you’re crafty or like to color, print out some holiday coloring pages to turn into wall art. You can cut out and color fall leaves, pumpkins, scarecrows, witches, bats and more to make your door or wall into a fall holiday scene.

Print enough to hang on friends’ doors like Halloween cards, and write messages on the pages. You may feel like a five-year-old when you’re doing it, but you’ll probably end up smiling like one when you see the finished product.

If you’re short on time and cash, then go for some post-it notes in festive colors. You can write out the letters of “Happy Halloween,” one on each sticky, and then stick them up in an arc over a door. Or you can

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How to decorate your Halloween the right way

Going all-out when decorating for Halloween is really easy. As soon as fall rolls around, specialty stores start popping up out of nowhere in empty storefronts, former warehouses and other open stores. They sell almost everything you could want, from wall decorations and lifelike bats and spiders all the way up to entire animated graveyards just waiting to be installed in your yard.

Most of us lack the yards or the funds to animate them with the dead of years past. But we can still add some holiday flair to our living space. Whether you are throwing a huge Halloween party, looking to trounce your floor mates in the door decorating contest or you’re just trying to bring some holiday spirit into your room, decorating for Halloween can be a lot of fun.

There are a few Halloween staples that you can come by pretty easily. Fake cobwebs are high up on the list of favorite Halloween decorations. They usually come in large packs and don’t cost too much money, so they are a great place to start.

Little plastic spiders, often in the form of children’s rings, make great additions to the cobwebs quickly growing around your room.

Hanging decorations are usually the next big thing, such as a lifelike bat or an oversized spider dangling from ceiling fans or light fixtures. They may cost a little more, but the effect is worth the price.

Holiday window clings are another great way to spice up a room without too much effort

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Focus

Drink for Historical play toys with Biblical themes health, not holiday

By Loumarie Rodriguez Campus Correspondent

from AUTUMNAL, page 7 keep the fiber benefits but have a fun, candy-like bonus.

And finally, I suggest swapping a few of your alcoholic beverages for ones that are classier and more innocent. Having a warm cup of unspiked apple cider or a cup of hot cocoa with mini-marshmallows is pleasantly nostalgia-inducing.

A final note about Halloween health: Halloween is not just an excuse to get crazy drunk in silly outfits. Please be safe.

Please be, if not completely sober, at least in a state that will keep you from doing something unhealthy that you’ll regret. Try and remember what Halloween was like when you were a kid: dress up, laugh with friends, eat some candy and a caramel apple and go to sleep and wake up feeling good.

Amy.Schellenbaum@UConn.edu

Decorating your room for Halloween from HOW TO, page 7 draw little ghosts, candy corns, pumpkins, bats and witches and stick them around the room instead. If you don’t want to draw, you can just make a border around the top of the wall, a doorway, a mirror or other objects. It won’t be the most beautiful or elaborately decorated room on the floor, but at least it will have some color and some holiday spirit.

Melanie.Deziel@UConn.edu

Corn maze remains ongoing tradition from EDUCATIONAL, page 7 Stoddard. Kueffner said the hours of planning are decreasing with each passing fall.

Kueffner loves Connecticut history and believes the way the maze is set up is entertaining. But at the same time, the educational aspect also makes it appropriate for college students. With each theme having a Connecticut connection, the maze is a place for college students to have fun with friends, go on a date or learn about the state.

Moonlight Maze Nights also sets the Merrow Corn Maze apart. Through a group appointment (call 860-805-3276 for rates), students can roam the maze under the moonlight. Most participants use cell phones for light, as Kueffner does not supply flash lights since there is enough ambient light to find the way though the maze, according to Kueffner. The UConn Psychology Club came at night for several years straight.

“It’s a completely different experience coming at night than during the day,” Kueffner said. “It just has a different feel to it.”

The maze has been open since Sept. 4 and will close this Sunday. Halloween will be the last chance to experience a fun and unique New England tradition that has become a passion for Kueffner.

“It’s a hobby where I try not to lose money,” Kueffner said.

“The response I get from people who come is really rewarding.

The education side of it is very important to me.”

The Merrow Corn Maze will be returning next autumn for its 11th year. As for the theme, Kueffner is still deciding.

“I’m still thinking about several ideas and I’m always open to ideas,” Kueffner said.

Colin McDonough and Maximilian Kort contributed on reporting this article.

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The Connecticut Repertory Studio Theatre once again produced a thought-provoking play that had the studio stage filled with an assortment of audience members. “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot” is a play with modern twists, portraying Satan (played by James M. K. Turner) as a pretty boy and Pontius Pilate (played by Darrell Hollens) as a hot shot. One surprise is the fact that the actors playing Jesus and Judas will switch roles every other night.

The play takes place in Purgatory as a modern, but unsure, environment in which many citizens question whether they will end up in Heaven or Hell. With that, the court case of Judas Iscariot, the man who betrayed Jesus, is put on trial to determine whether he should be sent to Heaven or Hell. His defender, Fabiana Aziza Cunningham (played

by Brittany Green), fights for Judas and demands that he be allowed access to Heaven. But Yusef El-Fayoumy (played by Jack Fellows), a rather eccentric prosecutor, proposes why Judas should go to Hell instead.

The play continued with an assortment of historical religious figures who were called as witnesses, including the deaf Mother Teresa (played by Laura A. Zabbo), Caiaphas the Elder (played by Desmond Thorne) and even Sigmund Freud (played

by Harrison Greene).

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Saint Monica (Elizabeth McKnight) comforts Judas Iscariot (Aaron Lloyd) in Connecticut Repertory Theatre’s production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot playing in the Studio Theatre Oct. 28 – Nov. 7.

The play had many comical moments, as well as serious ones, such as when Jesus (played by Bryan Swormstedt) and Judas (played by Aaron Lloyd) “talk it out.” But in the long run, the play ended with many thought-provoking questions on religion and the nature of the human condition.

Kwame Tucker, a 5thsemester design tech theater major, said, “I think the story line of the play is great and especially the way it was executed. The sound and lighting that were incorporated in the show was effective.”

Another student, Drew Camputaro, a 7th-semester

theater studio major, said, “It was fantastic, riveting and very energetic. The play was very ground breaking with an amazing script and the actors performed perfectly.”

Kate McDonough, an alumni from the class of 2006, added, “The play was very interesting and with a great perspective.”

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WASHINGTON (AP) – Explaining her vision for the newest theater in the nation’s capital, artistic director Molly Smith showed architects the cup of her hands. Four years later, they have delivered a unique oval-shaped home for new works at Arena Stage.

The newest of three stages within Arena’s $135-million Mead Center for American Theater is not the typical black-box theater hidden in a basement.

Instead, it’s a centerpiece of Arena’s reopening after a major renovation and marks a new chapter in a trailblazing history that began with its 1950 opening by founders who believed good theater could happen well beyond Broadway’s lights.

Starting in November with the world premiere of the Marcus Gardley play “Every Tongue Confess” – starring Phylicia Rashad – this 200-seat “cradle” theater for new work will be key in recasting the 60-year-old theater as a leading creator of new American plays.

Arena – located on Washington’s southwest waterfront – was the nation’s first theater with an integrated acting

company, the first in Washington with an integrated audience and the first regional theater to send a play to Broadway.

Now it’s striving to make an even greater impact beyond the theater capital of New York.

“I had this realization that Washington, D.C., is the crossroads for American work,” Smith said, noting the city’s history and many museums.

“People come here to learn about the culture.”

One of Smith’s most visible innovations is a new, three-year residency for playwrights who will be paid a living wage and benefits while they carry out their work.

Such a concept is almost unheard of, except for New York’s Public Theater, which has a similar residency. Arena is giving the playwrights a budget and free range to guide projects to the stage.

“We all know there’s a huge problem in the theater,” Smith said. “Our best writers are going to television ... because the theater can’t afford them a living salary.”

Five resident playwrights are moving to Washington for the

program funded by a $1.1 million gift from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Eventually, at least one of their new plays will come to life at Arena.

The first playwright to join the staff, Washington-based Karen Zacarias, said the city’s “cool factor” already is rising as it draws writers from San Francisco, Memphis and elsewhere.

Arena has secured a Capitol Hill row house where resident playwrights can live and share ideas. Zacarias said she’s thrilled by the residency and the new “gem” of a building with its basket-woven walls in the theater for new works.

“We can dream much bigger than we have in the past,” she said, hopeful that other theaters could follow Arena’s lead in employing playwrights. “I think it’s going to have a huge ripple effect on the quantity, but more importantly, the quality of plays coming out in the next 10 years.”

Arena’s founders are credited with starting a resident theater movement that now numbers 1,900 theaters nationwide – a network Arena can tap to highlight new work.

Smith arrived 12 years ago from the Perseverance Theatre in Alaska, which she founded. She has narrowed Arena’s focus to working exclusively with American artists and American writers. That led to presenting more plays from other theaters – and greater focus on fostering new works and theatrical study with university students.

“Even more than anything they put on stage, Arena’s work in developing new plays and the conversation around them is what really impresses me,” said National Endowment for the Arts chairman Rocco Landesman, a longtime Broadway producer.

Arena is known for its theater-in-the-round space, which is its largest theater and was kept during the overhaul. It opens this week with the musical “Oklahoma!” That theater’s original 1960s architecture also was retained within a contemporary glass case that now holds the facility’s three stages.

Vancouver-based architect Bing Thom calls his creation “three jewels in a jewel box.”

Everything is housed on site – costume shops, set shops and

rehearsal halls – with paths flowing back to the theater.

“When a theater works well, it’s a river,” Smith explained.

“The way it’s been designed, all the tributaries move into the river.”

New space and lofty goals mean Arena must increase fundraising. A budget of between $13 million and $14 million will have to grow closer to $20 million, and an eight-month season in the past will likely become yearround, Managing Director Edgar Dobie said.

That will require more individual donors, foundation support and corporate sponsors.

A terrace off the glass lobby and other spaces with views of the Washington Monument can be rented by private groups.

There’s even a cafe by celebrity chef Jose Andres of TV’s “Iron Chef America.”

The center will partner with the National Endowment for the Arts New Play Development Program to broaden its reach beyond Washington.

In January, it will showcase seven new works funded by the program.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – Rocker and celebrity hunter Ted Nugent may have run afoul of South Dakota game laws by shooting pheasants after some of his hunting privileges were revoked in California.

Nugent’s loss of his California deer hunting license through June 2012 allows 34 other states to revoke the same privilege under the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact, though each state can interpret and enforce the agreement differently.

South Dakota honors other states’ license revocations through both the compact and a state law that doesn’t differentiate between large game such as deer and small game such as pheasant, said Andy Alban, law enforcement administrator for the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department.

Alban wouldn’t confirm or deny whether the agency was investigating Nugent, but said: “In South Dakota, if a person had any hunting privileges revoked elsewhere, all of their hunting privileges would be revoked here.”

Nugent, famed for his 1977 hit “Cat Scratch Fever,” was hunting pheasants with his black Labrador retriever, Gonzo, at Dakota Hills Shooting Preserve on Oct. 16

in the southwest South Dakota town of Oral, according to Nugent’s Twitter posts and published reports.

A spokeswoman for the 61-year-old singer-guitarist said he was afield Thursday and she was trying to reach him for a statement.

California revoked Nugent’s deer hunting license on Aug. 13 after he pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of deer-baiting and not having a properly signed tag, said Dana Michaels, spokeswoman for the California Department of Fish and Game.

The California deer-baiting charge was filed earlier this year after game wardens said they saw Nugent kill an immature buck on an episode of his Outdoor Channel television show “Spirit of the Wild.”

Investigators found that the deer had been eating bait called “C’mere Deer.” Baiting wildlife is legal in some states but illegal in California. Nugent originally faced 11 charges, but his attorney entered the two no-contest pleas as part of a deal with Yuba County prosecutors.

“I should have been better informed, more aware and I take full responsibility,” Nugent said in a statement after the plea. “The honorable hunting lifestyle is my deep-

est passion.”

The Outdoor Channel announced Monday that it had entered into an exclusive multiyear endorsement agreement with Nugent that is set to start in January.

The Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact allows 35 states, including South Dakota and California, to share information about fishing, hunting and trapping violations. It obligates members to report wildlife violation convictions to member states, giving them the capability to honor each other’s suspensions.

In recent Twitter posts, Nugent also talked about hunting in Wisconsin and Michigan.

Wisconsin was notified of California’s revocation, and he would not be allowed to purchase a deer license there through June 2012, although he is licensed to shoot small game and waterfowl, said Laurel Steffes, a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman.

“We would honor it and not sell him the deer license,” she said, noting that he would not need a license to archery hunt on private licensed deer farms in Wisconsin.

Nugent can still legally hunt in Michigan, where he has bought several types of licens-

The play will continue from Oct. 29 through Nov. 7.

For tickets and information on this or other shows, visit the Connecticut Reperatory Theatre’s website at www.. ct.uconn.edu.

DC’s Arena Stage opens $135M home with big plans

Nugent’s SD pheasant hunt may be afoul of game law

AP

Rocker and celebrity hunter Ted Nugent holds up a rooster pheasant he shot at the Dakota Hills Shooting Preserve in Oral, South Dakota.

es for 2010, state game officials said.

Although a compact member, Michigan doesn’t have a parallel charge to the one that got Nugent in trouble in California, said Mary Dettloff, spokeswoman for the Michigan Department of

Natural Resources. The violation in California would not have resulted in a mandatory license suspension if it had happened in Michigan.

Nugent – known as the “Motor City Madman” – lived in Michigan most of his life before moving to Texas in 2003.

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Focus

Jury convicts Smith’s psychiatrist, boyfriend

LOS ANGELES (AP) – A jury on Thursday convicted Anna Nicole Smith’s psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich and boyfriend Howard K. Stern of conspiracy counts but acquitted the doctor who prescribed drugs for the former Playboy model of all charges.

Prosecutors contended during the nine-week trial that the defendants were dazzled by Smith’s glamor and filled her demands for prescription drugs to protect their insider status in her personal life and her celebrity world.

The jury deliberated about 58 hours after being asked to decide if the three defendants were trying to relieve Smith’s emotional and physical pain or were feeding her addiction to prescription drugs.

The only conviction against Stern was for giving false names and acting by fraud to obtain prescriptions. Eroshevich was also convicted of unlawfully prescribing Vicodin by fraud.

The jury acquitted defendant Dr. Sandeep Kapoor of all charges. The jury found the prosecution did not present enough evidence to convict Kapoor of six charges that he provided excessive prescription drugs to Smith.

The defendants were charged with conspiracy, excessive prescribing of opiates and sedatives to an addict, and fraudulently obtaining drugs by using false names.

The defendants were not charged in Smith’s 2007 accidental overdose death in Florida.

Stern, 41, had been Smith’s lawyer, manager, lover and friend since they met in 2001.

Testimony showed they were inseparable, even when she was involved with other men.

In 2006, Smith donned a wedding gown, and she and Stern had a commitment ceremony on a catamaran off the Bahamas.

They exchanged rings and vows but were never legally married.

At the heart of the drug case was the question of whether

Smith became dependent on opiates and sedatives after being diagnosed and treated for chronic pain syndrome and illnesses including seizures, migraines and spinal pain.

Superior Court Judge Robert Perry told the jury of six women and six men that a doctor who has a good faith belief that a patient is in pain is not guilty of a crime for prescribing controlled substances to relieve suffering.

While presenting their case, prosecutors displayed multiple prescriptions to Smith for heavy painkillers such as Dilaudid, Demarol, Vicodin and Methadone, as well as anti-anxiety drugs and sedatives including Ambien, Xanax, Valium and Chloral Hydrate. In one month, they said, Smith received 1,500 pills.

The judge, however, warned that numbers of pills were not the measure of addiction.

“To violate (the law) a defendant must willfully and knowingly prescribe, administer or dispense a controlled substance to an addict for a non-therapeutic purpose,” Perry instructed the jury.

Each defendant faced a possible maximum sentence of four years in prison if convicted of all the charges. They also could lose their professional licenses.

The story of Smith’s final years stretched from Los Angeles to the Bahamas with stops along the way in South Carolina and Florida, where her overdose death at the age of 39 was ruled accidental.

The two doctors also were close to Smith during her final years, and their lawyers portrayed them as angels of mercy trying to help her before and after she gave birth to her daughter by cesarean then quickly lost her 20-year-old son, Daniel, to a drug overdose.

He died in her hospital room after coming to visit his new half-sister on Sept. 10, 2006.

Smith later named the baby Dannielynn in his memory.

Stern initially claimed the

baby was his until DNA tests made clear the father was photographer Larry Birkhead, who now has custody of the child.

Defense attorney Steve Sadow, who represents Stern, said Smith was the love of his client’s life and he would never harm her. He also stressed that Stern was not a doctor and was relying on medical professionals to do the right thing for Smith.

Stern’s name was on a number of prescriptions which prosecutors said were intended for Smith.

Kapoor, 42, who was Smith’s internist, wrote numerous prescriptions for opiates and sedatives during the period he treated her.

His lawyer, Ellyn Garafalo, said he followed a drug regimen originated by Smith’s previous doctor who sold his practice to Kapoor.

Prosecutors Renee Rose and David Barkhurst argued that Kapoor blurred the line between patient and doctor when he was photographed kissing her at a party. They also pointed to a diary in which Kapoor discussed the “mesmerizing” experience of riding with her in a gay pride parade and wondered: “Can she ruin me?”

Eroshevich, 63, was Smith’s neighbor and friend before treating her as a psychiatrist.

Prosecutors claimed the friendship was a violation of professional ethics and called a pharmacist who testified the amount of drugs Eroshevich requested for Smith at one point would have amounted to pharmaceutical suicide.

The pharmacist refused to fill the request, and prosecutors showed Eroshevich used other pharmacies to get most of the drugs and took them to Smith in the Bahamas.

They also showed jurors photos of Eroshevich naked in a bathtub with Smith as they contended the doctor also lost her objectivity about treatment.

Attorney Brad Brunon, who represents Eroshevich, said prosecutors were trying to prejudice jurors with something irrelevant.

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Comics

I Hate Everything

by Carin Powell

www.happydancecomics.wordpress.com

Down 1 Trouble 2 Cook with waves 3 Oxford campus 4 TV screen meas.

5 Ultimatum end 6 Concerns for jrs. and srs.

7 “... draw you __?”

8 Package directive 9 Sea change with farreaching effects 10 Two shakes, with “a” 11 Pep up 12 It helps prevent stumbling 13 Original Dungeons & Dragons co.

15 Kaffiyeh wearer

20 Corp. boss 21 One on a beat 22 “The Big Bang Theory” character from India 25 Soap component 27 __-en-Provence 28 Rubble creator 29 First NHL defenseman to score 40 goals in a season 30 Maryland’s Fort __ 31 Sign of summer 35 What can turn one into many?

36 Campaign weaponry?

37 Product at a stand 38 Nikkei 225 unit 39 Actress Charisse 40 Taken down a notch 41 Rookie’s initiation 43 By doing whatever it takes

44 Scary magazine holder 45 Explorer initials 47 Beliefs 48 Single 49 Raw material 53 Piedmont product 55 Merrie __ England 56 Atlantic flier 57 What musicians take between sets?

58 Austin Powers’ nemesis Dr. __ 59 It’s a loch 60 Northern Eur. land 62 Cellular messenger 63 Amer. capital

Super Glitch

by John Lawson

66 Beats 1-0, say 67 Film holders 68 Mess of dough

JELLY!

by Elise Domyan

Across 1 Type of pigment used in artists’ paints 4 Cul-__ 9 Panic button 14 1989 Peace Prize winner 16 Blanket-toting toon 17 Met notable 18 One often working on Sun. 19 Designed for ancient sorcerers?

21 Digs 23 Sonoma prefix 24 Batman after Michael 26 Western treaty gp.

27 Pranks at the Bohr Institute?

32 Late party attire 33 Dealing with 34 “The Neverending Story” author 35 Sandwich request, and a literal hint to how the answers at 19-, 27-, 46- and 54-Across are formed 39 USN officers 42 “C’mon, man!”

43 Do a little math 46 Genesis baking ingredient?

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51 Former Vietnam area mostly S. of the 17th parallel 52 Co-producer of U2’s “Achtung Baby” 53 Exile of 1979 54 Banning CFC production, e.g.?

60 Stadium entrance 61 Like some windows 64 George of “Cheers” 65 Foresees

Happy Dance

by Sarah Parsons

The Daily Crossword

Horoscopes

Poop

by Michael Badulak

Aries - You find yourself deeply involved with your own feelings today. Don’t try to talk yourself out of them. Instead, face them squarely. This brings peace.

Taurus - You achieve balance between social obligations and personal desire for travel. The two may combine in a natural way. Enjoy the trip!

Cancer - Productivity gets a boost when you allow yourself to chase your passion. Take advantage of the circumstances to make hay while the sun shines.

Dissmiss the Cynics

by Victor Preato

Gemini - You love the passionate response that you get from your favorite people when you share an idea. It’s not time yet to put the plan into action.

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Nothing Extraordinary

by Thomas Feldtmose

Leo - Your week comes to conclusion on a most satisfying note. Go out and celebrate your success with good food and good friends. Record this day for the future.

Virgo - As you look forward to the weekend, handle small tasks as you go. That way you free up time for everyone to do something fun together.

Libra - Nurture your own social position by bringing something unusual to the plans. A male handles the invitations, while you focus on refreshments.

Bucephalus

by K.X. Ellia

Scorpio - Everything gets accomplished that you need to do today. Oddly, your enthusiasm isn’t as important as consistent effort. Tease others into compliance.

Sagittarius - It’s easy to stay on track today with major changes.

Just take the next step. You already have a great plan and the necessary energy.

Capricorn - Keep yourself focused on what’s on your desk. Don’t get distracted by associates and chatter. You want to get home to something more fun.

Aquarius - Enjoy every moment shared with associates.

Everyone seems alive, thriving and working at their optimal level. You see success ahead.

Pisces - Plan on spending a lot of time in public situations today.

Circumstances require your presence. Clear your schedule and remain flexible.

Pundles and Droodles

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Why the long Face

by Jackson Lautier

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Sports

» WOMEN'S HOCKEY

Huskies look to stop skid in home and home with BC

run and gun with them.”

Crucial to UConn’s success this weekend will be their ability to contain After a tough weekend Boston College’s star playtrip to the University of ers. The team features two Minnesota-Duluth, of the top playin which the UConn ers in Hockey women’s hockey East, Taylor team was outscored Wasylk and Kelli by the No. 3 team Stack. Wasylk, in the country 12-0 a freshman forover the span of two ward, leads the games, the Huskies team with 12 will look to bounce points and has back against another been named the 1-6, 0-1 top-10 team. They Hockey East host No. 8 Boston Pro Ambitions College on Saturday, Rookie of the Oct. 30 and travel to Week for the Chestnut Hill, Mass. past three conon Sunday. secutive weeks.

The Huskies, now Stack, a senior 1-6 for the season, captain, is one of 5-0-1, 2-0 will look to beat the the country’s elite Eagles at their own players. She won game and pull off an Saturday, 1 p.m. a silver medal upset against their Mark E. Freitas with Team USA Hockey East foe. at the Vancouver Ice Forum “Boston College Winter Olympics is a speedy, fast and was named team,” said coach Heather the TPS Hockey East Player of Linstad. “They’ve got pure the Year last year. To slow down goal scorers on their team. the dynamic duo, Linstad is They are gonna try to run and counting on her defense to take gun and try to go up and down away the middle of the rink. the ice. They are kind of like “They want to get Taylor and a no-huddle offense. They Kelli out in transition," Linstad want to keep the puck going said. "They want to fly past the on the offense as quickly as ‘D’ and score. We need to keep they can. We’ve changed our them to the outside.” tactics and are going to try to Although the Huskies are

By Peter Logue Campus Correspondent

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

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off to a slow start, the goal of winning the Hockey East Championship is still very much intact. They have only played one conference game thus far, a season-opening 2-1 loss to New Hampshire on Oct. 2. The winner of the Hockey East gets an automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament, an achievement that the Huskies came agonizingly close to in 2009. They fell 2-1 in overtime to Boston University in the Hockey East Championship game.

“Our goal has always been Hockey East," Linstad said.

"We’ve only played one conference game this year. Our goal is still the same, and we haven’t lost track of that.

That’s what we’re playing for.

We have to take every conference game and go as hard as we can.”

The Huskies will host Boston College on Saturday, with the puck dropping at the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum at 1 p.m. They will then travel to Boston College on Sunday for another 1 p.m. showdown.

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Senior defender Jody Sydor gathers the puck in UConn’s 3-1 win over Clarkson on Oct. 9.

» MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY

» WOMEN'S SWIMMING AND DIVING

Huskies head to Big East championship UConn starts diving

By Michael McCurry Campus Correspondent

For the UConn men’s crosscountry team, this season will only be deemed successful if they run well at the Big East Championship this weekend.

After barely cracking the top-10 at the event last year, the Huskies have put the past behind them and are trying to continue their recent hot streak. The eight-kilometer race, hosted by Syracuse University, begins at approximately 11:15 a.m. Saturday, at Jamesville Beach Park in New York.

Simply put, the upcoming con-

ference championship is a huge deal with giant implications.

“The Big East Championship is, by far, the most important meet,” said sophomore runner Nick Aguila. “The team goal is always to improve on the previous year’s finish. If you can strive and do well in the event, because it is such a high caliber meet, you will without question do well in the future.”

Aguila, who hails from West Hartford and is coach Rich Miller’s top runner, thought last season’s showing at the Big East finals was extremely disappointing.

“We wanted to easily break the top-ten, and individually more than half of the squad did not hit

their own goals.”

When asked about personal ambitions for this Saturday, UConn’s young star said he must improve on his 81st place finish.

The level of competition in this weekend’s race will be unlike anything the Huskies have seen this year. The Big East is arguably the best cross country conference in the nation, featuring five schools in the top 25. The team is clearly aware of this, and knows that this race is for all the marbles.

UConn’s Jordan Magath, a sophomore from Hillsborough, N.J., summed it up pretty well: “Every mile that my teammates and I have put in over the summer has been geared to prepare us for

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The UConn women's swimming and diving team will be back in the water this weekend when they take on of their conference rivals at the Big East Four Team event.

The Huskies will travel to New Brunswick, N.J. today for the two-day meet at Rutgers University. The event will feature four Big East teams; including the Huskies, the Scarlet Knights, the Georgetown Hoyas and the Villanova Wildcats.

Coming off a sweep of the Husky Invitational, the Huskies

By James Huang Campus Correspondent

I expect we will swim fast based on how well the guys are training,” Goldberg said.

“From the invite we really just want to build on our team confidence. We can be really good. We are looking to see how the freshmen react to a dual meet. This is their first.”

Judging by how well they swam in the invitational, the Huskies should already have a lot of confidence this Friday. Out of the 14 events that the men swam in the invitational, the only two events they didn’t get first

place in were the 100-yard butterfly and the 200-yard breaststroke. The team has a lot of depth, with a number of its members competing in more than one stroke.

Sophomore Jeremy Renshaw performed well with times of 21:26 in the 50-yard freestyle and 51:29 in the 100-yard backstroke. Other important contributors were newcomers. Freshman Zach Coleman posted a time of 4:53:54 in the 500-yard freestyle and freshman Ben Yacano earned a time of 1:58:23 in the 200-

yard butterfly.

“UConn should do pretty well. They beat both of them last year,” said Emily Luchansky, a women's swimmer, on the prospect of the men facing the Hoyas and the Wildcats.

The Hoyas come into this meet having won against Towson and lost against East Carolina University. They pose a threat in the form of Paul Quincy, who got a time of 9:44:21 in the 1,000-yard freestyle, and Victory LopezCantera, who got 54:58 in

the Big East Championship. Not only will this race be full of some of the top teams in the nation, but it will also ultimately gauge how successful we were at accomplishing our goals this season.”

According to Aguila, Miller’s team is amped and ready to go.

But some nerves are bound to hit on the trip to Jamesville.

“I have been in big events in high school, but nothing compares to this,” said freshman Daniel Francoeur. “I just have to concentrate on running, because getting nervous does not do any good at all,” said freshman Daniel Francoeur.

By Carmine Colangelo Campus Correspondent

will look to continue their dominance in the pool. The event saw great individual performances from junior’s Caitlin Gallagher and Erin DeVinney, who won a total of five races.

The event will also include diving for the first time this season, allowing head diving coach John Bransfield to show off his squad.

Following this weekend’s event, UConn won’t return to action until next Saturday when the Huskies host Army.

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Men’s swimming and diving treks to N.J.

The UConn men's swimming and diving team heads to New Jersey to compete in the Big East Four Team Meet. The Huskies will face conference foes Rutgers, Georgetown and Villanova on Friday and Saturday.

After sweeping the Husky Invitational last Saturday, coach Robert Goldberg and his team hopes to maintain this momentum.

“We are training hard, but

the 1000-yard backstroke and 51:84 in the 100-yard butterfly.

As for the Wildcats, they come in having only won the 500-yard freestyle event in matches against La Salle and Syracuse. Despite this, they have a strong team, with swimmers Scott Thiele posting a time of 4:45:17 in the 500-yard freestyle and Braden Clarke getting 1:57:88 in the 200-yard backstroke in their last meet.

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Sports

UConn hosts Rutgers on Senior Day, honors ‘85 team

By Ryan Tepperman Staff Writer The No. 4 Huskies (13-4-0) look to rebound from last weekend’s double-overtime loss to Syracuse when they host conference foe Rutgers at 1 p.m. tomorrow.

UConn currently sits in third place in the conference standings with a 3-2 record, while the Scarlet Knights (8-10-0) enter the weekend at 2-3, tied for fourth with the Villanova Wildcats. The Huskies are 7-0 so far in games played at the George J. Sherman Family Sports Complex, the same venue where the Big East Tournament will be held next weekend. UConn, the defending tourney champs, would secure the third seed with a win over Rutgers.

Last Saturday, the Huskies dropped a 1-0 decision to No. 8 Syracuse, despite outshooting the Orange in both halves and in the first OT. After the game stayed scoreless heading into the second sudden-death overtime, Syracuse

was awarded a penalty corner in Stevens said that execution off the 91st minute. The Orange took penalty corners and controlling advantage, as freshman midfield- tempo will be the keys to the er Leonnie Geyer found junior Huskies getting on track against Martina Loncarica, Rutgers, who has shutwho delivered the outs in back-to-back game winner. games for the first time Syracuse goalkeepthis season. er Leann Stiver stifled “We’re doing all the vs. Rutgers right things, now it’s the UConn offense with a career day.

Sat., 1 p.m. just a matter of picking “Sometimes you up our tempo,” Stevens Sherman have to give credit said. “We just need to to our opponent, Family Sports increase the tempo of and their goalkeeper our play to make that an Complex in particular had 11 advantage, and to make saves,” head coach it more difficult for our Nancy Stevens said about Stiver, opponents to guard against.” who stopped four shots in the first Freshman goalie Sarah Stuby overtime alone. “That ended up stopped four shots in Rutgers’ being the difference in the game.” 3-0 victory over Bucknell last Freshman forward Anne Jetue Sunday, marking her third shuthad a team-high five shots for out of the season. Junior forthe UConn offense, which was ward Nicole Gentile will pose shutout for just the second time the biggest threat to the UConn this season. Junior back Jestine defense. Gentile, who has a Angelini was active in the contest team-best 10 goals, finished as well, landing three of her four one of her two shot attempts in shots on target. the win against Bucknell.

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UConn will honor its four seniors – forwards Robin Kleine and Anna Easty, backup goalie Allison Karpiak and All-American midfielder Melissa Gonzalez – prior to the start of Saturday’s matchup with Rutgers. There will also be a presentation celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 1985 championship team during halftime of the game. The ’85 UConn team, under the guidance of former head coach Diane Wright, compiled a 19-2 record en route to beating Old Dominion in the NCAA title game.

Stevens said that having the 1985 Huskies on hand should provide her team with some added motivation.

“When you have the national champions in the house, you want to play well and make them proud [to be] alums,” Stevens said.

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Junior back Rayell Heistand carries the ball in UConn’s 4-2 win against Princeton on Oct. 17 at the Sherman Family Sports Complex.

» WOMEN’S ROWING

Huskies complete season at Saratoga Richards leads Huskies to Notre Dame

Varsity Eight finished fifth in last week’s event. “That crew hasn’t been able to row its lineup all week, but I am The UConn women’s row- confident that they will race ing team is putting their boats well and finish in the top end in the water for the last time of the Second Varsity Eight event.” this season, as the The team did, Huskies compete in however, receive the Head of the Fish a bit of good news this Saturday. recently.

The Huskies will “We got a new travel to Saratoga, Head of the boat yesterday that N.Y. for the Head of Fish Regatta the Varsity Eight the Fish Regatta on Saturday rowed this mornSaturday. Coming ing,” Sanford said. off their all-time Saratoga, “We are very excited best finishes at the N.Y. about how the crew Head of the Charles, rowed in it. We feel the Huskies will look to continue their suc- very strongly that it will give cess, but it won’t be an easy us a little extra speed and are looking forward to seetask.

“We have been fighting ing how we match up against some sickness this week, spe- some crews we see in the cifically in the Second Varsity spring.”

Not only is Sanford excited Eight,” said coach Jennifer Sanford-Wendry. The Second about the new boat, but she

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was also pleased with what she saw in practice this week.

“Our varsity fours have been showing equal speed to one another this week, and I am confident that both crews will be very competitive in the field,” Sanford said. “Not only will they be racing other schools, but I’m sure they will be racing each other for bragging rights on who is considered the A boat, and who is the B boat.”

With a new boat and a new competitive edge on the team, the Huskies will be put to the test this weekend at the Head of the Fish Regatta.

“Medals are awarded to the top three crews in each event,” Sanford said. “We are feeling confident that the Huskies will come home with some hardware.”

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early on in the season, and it was great to give us the spark that we needed. As a team, we just needed something to get us going, and that goal was a start,” Shufelt said.

Then, with only five seconds to go in the half, the Huskies added their second goal. After a pass from Meghan Cunningham, Elise Fugowski delivered a shot from the top of the box that went through goalkeeper Taylor Vancil’s hands and into the left side of the net.

The second half contained more of the same domination by the Huskies. As a team, they continued

With Box out with head injury, Huskies will try to win first Big East game of season with Frazer at QB

from A HAUNTING, page 14 “That was one of the biggest things that helped Syracuse. I thought the biggest thing was that they were able to get turnovers. We’re going to do things that we think we can do well, that we think can help us win the game. Hopefully we can go out and execute and be able to get that done.”

Besides trying to beat West Virginia on the field, the Huskies have faced off-thefield issues. Starting quarterback Cody Endres was kicked off the team before last week’s 26-0 loss at Louisville. Redshirt freshman Mike Box started at quarterback versus the Cardinals, but was taken out because of a mild concussion.

Although Edsall and

Box said that the freshman would start on Tuesday, it was announced in the injury report that Box was out with a head injury, and senior Zach Frazer would return to No. 1 on the depth chart for tonight’s game. On Tuesday, Box said he was looking forward to his first start at home and to facing the West Virginia defense, which leads the conference is both scoring defense and total defense.

“We will adapt to whatever they do and throw at us,” Box said.

Unfortunately for Box, he will have to sit out and pass the job of going against the vaunted Mountaineers defense to Frazer this week.

The Huskies have to put their slow start behind them and focus on finishing the

season strong.

“Mentally you have to put it behind you,” Edsall said.

“You can’t let last week affect this week. They have to put it behind them and move forward. I think it’s a team that’s upset, and knows they can play better than we’re playing.”

Last season UConn was 4-5 after nine games and had a three-game losing streak. The Huskies rallied together to win their final four games, including wins at Notre Dame and versus South Carolina in the Papajohns.com Bowl.

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The current high level of confidence also stems from their resounding thumping of Louisville, which was lopsided from the beginning, including a 26-5 differential in shots. But shots should be hard to come by against the Irish, who boast a top-ranked, stonewall defense.

Constant pressure and well orchestrated opportunities, which were keys to the Louisville game, will have to return against Irish goalkeeper Nicki Weiss, who’s allowed an average of one goal every two games.

“I’m really excited and we’re definitely going to enjoy this one,” said senior captain Kacey

Richards. “But our focus now is on Notre Dame and how to prepare for them. They’re a very good team, but we can win.”

In addition to acting as the Huskies’ captain, Richards is also the backbone of a UConn defense that has seen a multitude of high and low points this season. She and her teammates know that one of those low points cannot be afforded against Notre Dame, whose star forward, Melissa Henderson, owns an astounding 35 points.

Two weeks ago, she put home the lone Irish goal at Morrone Stadium and overall she has scored on better than one out of every five shots.

When the clock read zeroes across the board yesterday afternoon, it became increasingly clear

that the Huskies had just put on their best performance of the year.

Prior to the Louisville game, it had been their game in the pouring rain against the Irish that took that title.

On Sunday, the UConn players may have their last chance to accomplish their goal of a playing a complete 90 minutes up to their potential. But there isn’t a shroud of doubt that they’ll be working their hardest to do so.

“We always try to play a full 90-minute game,” Richards said.

“Today was the closest we’ve been all season and was definitely our best game. Hopefully we’ll keep it up on Sunday.”

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to keep the ball in the Louisville half of the field, and did not allow the Cardinals to establish any sort of rhythm in their passing game.

While the Huskies only scored one goal in the second half, Tsantiris insisted it was their betterplayed half.

“In the second half, I saw us create more good opportunities for ourselves. Even though we only scored one goal, the chances were there. The chances were all over the field for us,” Tsantiris said.

In the 87th minute, the Huskies added their third and final goal, which was the result of continual pressure in the box. Devin Prendergast recovered a ball that

had been bouncing around in the box to deliver a shot from 10 yards out into the lower right corner.

Tsantiris is not at all surprised to see his team play so well and win a game in such convincing fashion.

“As a team, we played two very good halves and our play was very consistent throughout. This is a good team we have, this is a top-20 team and today we played like it...

When you look at the games we’ve played this season, there are four games where we outplayed our opponents but just didn’t win the game. The kids know how to play and today they did,” Tsantiris said.

No. 10 in the nation and had seven consecutive shutouts.

This year’s Panthers are 1-5-2 in the Big East and 6-8-2 overall.

Pittsburgh currently sits in secondto-last place in the Blue Division in front of Seton Hall. The Seton Hall Pirates defeated the Panthers earlier this month, 4-0. The Panthers’ only Big East win came in a match against Rutgers, the last-place

team in the Red Division.

Despite its low ranking, Pittsburgh still has a chance of making it to the postseason. If the Panthers beat the Huskies and Marquette loses to Seton Hall, Pittsburgh will advance to the Big East playoffs in the final spot of the Blue Division.

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Men’s soccer can knock Pitt out of Big East Tourney from HUSKIES, page 14 If the Fighting Irish conquer the Hoyas, then they will remain in second place, while a loss or tie by the Irish would result in UConn moving back into second.

In last year’s meeting with Pittsburgh, the Huskies defeated the Panthers 2-0 at Morrone Stadium. UConn was then-ranked

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Blair: ‘Nothing to see here’ about UConn looks to start charge spying ‘problem’ Demons, the team will then jourBy Matt Stypulkoski

» VOLLEYBALL Campus Correspondent

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Sophomore setter Angela Roidt sets the ball on Oct. 3 against Cincinatti.

Less than a week after snapping their losing streak, the UConn volleyball team will return to action this weekend with games at DePaul and Notre Dame.

The win against Rutgers on Sunday afternoon broke a 16-game skid for the Huskies, who look to begin a charge towards making the Big East tournament. Currently sitting at 3-16 and 1-7 in the Big East, UConn will need to win most, if not all, of its remaining six games to have a shot at the postseason. Only the top eight teams in the league qualify for the tourney.

The Huskies’ first chance to continue their winning ways will come Saturday afternoon in Chicago against an equally-struggling DePaul. The Blue Demons come into the matchup tied for last in the conference with UConn at 1-8, and are 4-21 overall. Unlike the Huskies, however, DePaul ranks in the bottom third in nearly every major statistical category, coming in dead last in the kills by opponents category, which should spell good news for the Connecticut attack.

After their match with the Blue

ney to South Bend, Ind. for their match against the Fighting Irish on Sunday. Notre Dame should present a solid challenge for the Huskies, as they head into this weekend’s play sitting at 13-10 and 6-3 in conference, good for a fourth-place tie in the Big East.

But, despite their fairly comfortable position in the standings, the Irish should still be battling hard.

With only a game and a half currently separating them from the cut line, their spot in the Big East tournament is by no means secure.

If recent history is any indication, the matchup with the Fighting Irish should be a tough one for the Huskies, as they are 1-3 against Notre Dame dating back to the 2007-2008 season. But the past should also give the Huskies some confidence this weekend, as they are 3-0 against DePaul in the last three seasons with sweeps in all three contests.

After the road trip, the UConn women will return to campus for their final homestand of the season next weekend with games against Georgetown and South Florida.

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East has changed a bit since then. I wonder what the solution is? A There was also a seemingly 50-foot curtain to raise in front of ludicrous comment about how Bill those dorms during practice?”

I really hope the 50-foot curtain Belichick’s son had transferred to comment was a joke. And honUConn from Rutgers, and that spying must run in the family. estly? You’ve really been thinking Some people in Connecticut must for the last 10 years that someone from BC might break into Garrigus just really hate the Patriots.

Also online, a commenter and spy on our football practice? asked mets1090 to “write for This is hardly a “real problem.”

The Daily Campus if he wants to Let’s face the facts, there’s really report on the football team.” Well, nothing to see here. The “incrimimets1090, we can’t offer you the nating” evidence has since been football beat this season, but feel removed from the Internet and we free to stop by a sports depart- can all go on with our lives while ment meeting. They’re Monday’s Edsall and the team prepare for at 8:30 p.m. Just come up the back Friday night. Besides, the informastairs; the door is propped open tion that West Virginia may have been able to obtain doesn’t matter with a cinderblock.

Oh, and let’s not forget the anymore, since Mike Box isn’t comments about the location of even starting on Friday.

Oh wait, what’s that? Hold on.

Garrigus Suites.

“So all of the outdoor prac- My friend that lives in Garrigus tices are visible from a dorm? just told me you can also see the In all seriousness that seems like practice football field from the top of the South Parking Garage. a real problem.”

“Not surprised. From the first I’d better leave now if I want day I saw those dorms I figured to see Johnny McEntee run the it was a matter of time before triple option, or that goal line there was a spying issue, and those package where they put Mike dorms are probably 10 years old Ryan in at fullback. now. Back then, I figured it would be a BC spy. Apparently the Big Russell.Blair@UConn.edu

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Sports

The Daily Question Q: Will the football team beat West Virginia on Friday?

A: “Can you tell the McDonough twins apart?”

Monday’s Question:

Halfway through the season, who is the most impressive NFL team?

Lindsay Pennella, 5th-semester communications major

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“It would mean a lot.”

Football (3-4) Today West Virginia 8:00 p.m.

» MLB

Nov. 11 Pittsburgh 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 20 Syracuse TBA

Nov. 27 Cincinnati TBA

Dec. 4 USF TBA

Tomorrow Pittsburgh 1:00 p.m.

- Former San Francisco Giants’ slugger Barry Bonds on the possibilty of the Giants winning the team’s first World Series since moving to San Francisco.

Wakefield presented Clemente Award

Barry Bonds

» Pic of the day

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield is the recipient of the 2010 Roberto Clemente Award, given annually to a major league player who gives back through community service and also excels on the field.

Wakefield was presented the award by commissioner Bud Selig and Vera Clemente, Roberto’s widow, before Game 2 of the World Series on Thursday night at AT&T Park.

Since 2004, Wakefield has been actively involved with the nonprofit “Pitching in for Kids,” which provides grants to improve the lives of children across the New England region and encourages kids to participate in special events to learn important life skills and the spirit of helping others in a community. Fundraisers co-hosted by Wakefield have helped raise nearly $1 million.

The 44-year-old Wakefield, who went 4-10 with a 5.34 ERA this year in his 18th major league season, also supports the Space Coast Early Intervention Center in his hometown of Melbourne, Fla. New York Yankees captain Derek Jeter won last year’s award. Other Roberto Clemente Award winners include 13 Hall of Famers—with Tony Gwynn, Cal Ripken Jr. and Ozzie Smith among that group. St. Louis slugger Albert Pujols won in 2008.

Still Smiling

Men’s Soccer (10-1-4) Nov. 3 Big East Tournament TBA

Women’s Soccer (8-8-3) Sunday Big East Tournament Quarterfinals at Notre Dame 1 p.m.

Field Hockey (13-4) Nov. 6 Big East Tournament TBA

Tomorrow Rutgers 1:00 p.m.

» NFL Saints RB Thomas on crutches after practice

Volleyball (3-16) Tomorrow DePaul 3:00 p.m.

Oct. 31 Nov. 13 Nov. 5 Nov. 7 Notre Pittsburgh Georgetown USF Dame 7:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m.

Men’s Hockey (1-1-1) Nov. 5 Canisius 7:05 p.m.

Nov. 6 Canisius 7:05 p.m.

Nov. 12 RIT 7:05 p.m.

Nov. 13 RIT 7:05 p.m.

Nov. 19 Bentley 7:05 p.m.

Women’s Hockey (1-6-0) Tomorrow Boston College 1:00 p.m.

E-mail your answers, along with your name, semester standing and major, to sports@dailycampus.com. The best answer will appear in tomorrow’s paper.

Sunday Boston College 1:00 p.m.

Nov. 6 Maine 1:00 p.m.

Nov. 13 UNH 2:00 p.m.

AP

Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington laughs before Game 2 of baseball’s World Series against the San Francisco Giants Thursday, in San Francisco.

Nov. 14 UNH 1:00 p.m.

Friday Night Lights: Football vs.

West Virginia, Men’s soccer on road

Men’s Tennis Today Conn. College Championships TBA

By Matt McDonough Associate Sports Editor

Men’s Cross Country Nov. 13 Nov. 20 Tomorrow Regional IC4A Big East Championship Championship Championship 11:45 a.m.

TBA

Nov. 22 NCAA Championship TBA

Women’s Cross Country Tomorrow Nov. 20 Big East Regional Championships Championship Syracuse, NY All Day

Nov. 22 NCAA Championship All Day

Rowing Sunday Head of the Fish All Day

THE Storrs Side

The games to attend: Football vs. West Virginia, Fri. 8 p.m.

This is a make-or-break game for UConn if there ever was one. If the Huskies, 0-2 in the Big East, want to keep their miniscule conference championship hopes alive, then they must win. West Virginia, coming off a home loss to Syracuse, has never lost to UConn.

History is not on the Huskies’ side. Three wins away from bowl eligibility, UConn will turn to quarterback Zach Frazer to right the ship. Frazer steps in for redshirt freshman Michael Box, who is out with a head injury. This game against the Mountaineers is a mustwin and a filled Rentschler Field would sure make for a home-field advantage.

At the very least, attending the game will give students a chance to show off their Halloween costumes in front of the ESPN2 cameras.

Field Hockey vs. Rutgers,

Sat. 1 p.m.

While a Big East regular season championship is no longer a possibility following last week’s loss at Syracuse, UConn will look to end the regular season on a high note on Senior Day against the Scarlet Knights. The 1985 national championship team will be honored at the game.

Women’s Hockey vs.

Boston College, Sat. 1 p.m.

The Huskies look to snap a five-game skid against a conference rival. It’s UConn’s first home contest in three weeks and the first game of a homeand-home with the Eagles this weekend.

The game to follow up on: Men’s Soccer at Pittsburg, Sat. 1 p.m.

UConn closes out the regular season against the lowly Panthers. The Huskies are fighting for positioning in the Big East Blue Division, and this Saturday matinee will have conference tournament ramifications.

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METAIRIE, La. (AP)—Pierre Thomashobbled into the Saints’ locker room on crutches Thursday, keeping weight off his sprained left ankle and sounding perplexed about why his recovery is going so much slower than he’d hoped.

“I really don’t know what’s the whole problem. Everybody keeps saying it’s a sprain or maybe a little tear there,” Thomas said. “I don’t know for sure if that’s true. I’m hearing so many different stories. I don’t know what to believe.”

Thomas, the Saints’ leading rusher in 2009, accounted for 280 total yards from scrimmage and one touchdown rushing in the Saints’ first three games of this season. His injury occurred while he was being tackled late in the fourth quarter of a Week 3 overtime loss to Atlanta. Thomas returned for the extra period in that game and gained 23 yards on a screen.

He even returned to practice on a limited basis three days before New Orleans’ Week 4 loss at Arizona.

THE Pro Side

Knicks vs. Celtics highlight NBA action, World Series continues

By Mac Cerullo Sports Editor NBA: New York Knicks vs.

Boston Celtics, Fri. 7:30 p.m., CSNE Amar’e Stoudemire and the Knicks take on the Celtics in the first meeting between the two teams this season.

The Knicks won their first game of the year on Wednesday, beating the Toronto Raptors by a score of 98-93. Stoudemire scored 19 points, but also recorded nine turnovers in the game.

The Celtics, meanwhile, are 1-1 this year after two games.

After beating the new-look Miami Heat in one of the most highly anticipated regular season openers in NBA history, the Celtics fell to LeBron James’ old team, the Cavaliers, by a score of 95-87.

MLB: World Series Game 3, San Francisco Giants vs.

Texas Rangers, Sat. 6:57 p.m., FOX The Rangers look to get back on track as the World Series shifts to Texas on Saturday

night.

The Giants took Game 2 behind a lights-out pitching performance by Matt Cain, and now hold a 2-0 lead in the series. The Rangers are now facing a must win situation in Game 3 if they hope to avoid falling into a 3-0 hole.

Colby Lewis will take the hill in Game 3 for the Rangers, and Jonathan Sanchez will start for the Giants.

NFL: Minnesota Vikings vs. New England Patriots, Sun. 4:15 p.m., FOX The Minnesota Vikings look to straighten out their season this Sunday as they head up to Foxboro to take on the 5-1 New England Patriots.

The game marks Randy Moss’ first game back in New England since he was traded earlier this season. It may also mark the end of Brett Favre’s legendary streak of consecutive-games played, as he is questionable with two ankle fractures.

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» INSIDE SPORTS TODAY

P.13: Wakefield awarded Clemente Award. / P.12: Field Hockey hosts Rutgers on Senior Day. / P.11: Women’s hockey faces BC at home.

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A HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT Frazer, UConn look for first win against West Virginia

By Colin McDonough Senior Staff Writer

Russell Blair

During a teleconference Wednesday, UConn football coach Randy Edsall mentioned the team was moving practice indoors not only because of the rain, but because “we’ve got an issue where we have somebody that wants to write everything we do from the dorm room, so we have to look at that now.”

The culprit? A UConn student who goes by mets1090 on the Boneyard, a UConn fan forum, where he posted snippets of what he could see going on during the Huskies’ practice from his room in Garrigus Suites.

So I ask you this question: is this really news? The story was picked up by The Hartford Courant, the Associated Press and ESPN.com, to name a few. Really? It’s not like this is Grade A intelligence from the CIA here. What could UConn possibly be hiding up its sleeve that we haven’t already seen this season? Edsall and the team had two weeks to prepare for Louisville and got shutout 26-0, their first shutout loss since Nov. 12, 2005 against Pittsburgh. I’m not blaming the media for reporting the story.

What’s appalling are some of the comments from fellow fans on the Boneyard: One member, gioff23, writes, “Mets Fan, you might want to read that Student Handbook you signed, as my guess is this will not go quietly within the U.” Come on. What mets1090 did is not a violation of the Student Handbook, and it’s ludicrous to speculate that he’ll receive any repercussions from the university. If anything, the fans and the media alike are upset that they got scooped. But what can I say, this whole “spygate” debacle has made for an interesting week in UConn football. Here are some of my favorite tidbits from the last few days: The slug on The Hartford Courant website for the story? hc-espionage-uconn-football.

Espionage? I think that’s giving mets1090 a little too much credit.

An interesting side story developed where a commenter on The Hartford Courant blog blamed Aaron Bagsby’s dad, a well-known poster on the Boneyard, for leaking the information to Edsall. Mr. Bagsby’s response? “I did not call RE or e-mail him about ‘Deep Throat.’” As a journalist, I’m inclined to give Mr. Bagsby props for the Watergate reference.

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The UConn football team will try to stop a twogame losing streak tonight against a team they’ve never beaten in school history. The Huskies welcome West Virginia to Rentschler Field at 8 p.m.

“We’ve got a very tough opponent in West Virginia, a team that’s very skillful,” said coach Randy Edsall.

“Offensively very skilled people, [with] running backs Noel Devine, Jock Sander and Tate Austin.

They’re just a very sound, solid football team, one that’s given us issues over the years.”

The Mountaineers 3-4, 0-2 (5-2, 1-1) have been the biggest thorn in UConn’s side since moving up to FBS football. The Huskies are 0-6 versus West Virginia since 2004. Although UConn is coming off two straight losses, and 1-2, 0-0 is 0-2 and in last place of the conference (and Fri., 8 p.m., and is 3-4 overall), the Rentschler Field Mountaineers are also ESPN2 fresh off defeat. Last Saturday, Syracuse traveled to Morgantown and beat West Virginia 19-14. The Orange are in the midst of a program-building season and upset the Mountaineers with three interceptions and big plays on defense. Edsall said UConn is going to stick to its own game plan rather than try to emulate Syracuse against West Virginia.

“Syracuse got three turnovers,” Edsall said.

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Running back Jordan Todman evades a defender in UConn’s win over Vanderbilt on Oct. 2. Todman and the Huskies will look to eanr thier first Big East win tonight.

Huskies end regular season at Pitt

By John Shevchuk Staff Writer

game. Two of UConn’s shots came from Mamadou Doudou Diouf, who returned to the field after serving his one-game susGeorgetown clinched the pension, a result of a red card Big East Regular Season against West Virginia.

Championship Thursday with The Huskies had two oppora win 1-0 over the tunities that were No. 6 ranked Huskies. cut short by whistles The loss was UConn’s from the refs. The second of the seafirst came when son and first in conNickardo Blake was ference play, and it at Pittsburgh called for a handbumped the Huskies in the box after Sat., 1 p.m. ball to third place below Carlos Alvarez delivNorth the Hoyas and the ered a cross off a free Fighting Irish. Had In the second Allegheny kick.

UConn beaten Notre half, Alvarez made a High School pass to Diouf inside Dame in its final home game of the the 18-yard box but regular season, the was called offside.

Huskies would still The Hoyas picked be in second place in the Blue up their one-and-only goal Division. in the 74th minute when Ian UConn was outshot 10-3 over Christianson threw the ball into the course of the game, which the 18, where Steve Neumann was a factor in the Huskies’ headed the ball past goalkeeper inability to score, consider- Josh Ford. Two minutes later, ing they average 14 shots per Diouf delivered a goal-bound

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shot, only to be saved by the Georgetown keeper.

Neumann’s goal was the first scored against the Huskies since Oct. 5 when UConn picked up its first loss of the season against Maryland.

On Sunday, the Huskies will head to western Pennsylvania to take on Pittsburgh University in their final game of the regular season. The game was originally scheduled for Saturday, but it was moved by officials to Sunday to accommodate UConn’s travel schedule. The conference matchup gives the Huskies one last chance to collect points and climb up the Blue Division ranks.

Notre Dame, the team that currently sits in second place ahead of the Huskies, plays Georgetown on Sunday. If the Huskies win, the GeorgetownNotre Dame game will decide who finishes in second place.

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Sophomore Jossimar Sanchez heads upfield afainst Notre Dame on Oct. 22.

UConn bests Cards Women’s soccer South Bend in Big East Tourney bound after win over L’Ville

By Dan Agabiti Staff Writer

ever, for those chances to result in goals. In the 22nd minute, Anjelika Johansson Yesterday, the UConn had a good chance right in women’s soccer team took front of the goal, but the the field for its first game of striker skied her shot.

Finally, in the 36th minute, the Big East tournament. The result was a dominating 3-0 junior forward Jessica Shufelt provided the spark win over Louisville. that the team was From the start of looking for. After the game, UConn a well-placed lob dominated pospass from teammate session. In total, Richards, Louisville had just UConn 3 Kacey Shufelt delivered a five shots compared Louisville 0 perfect strike from to UConn’s 26. the right side of the It almost seemed 18-yard box into the as though the Huskies were playing at a dif- left netting.

It was Shufelt’s first goal in ferent game speed than their several weeks, and it came at opponent.

“We disorganized their the perfect time.

“The goal felt really good defense and created plenty of opportunities for ourselves,” for me. I haven’t scored since said coach Len Tsantiris.

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Sophomore forward Jessica Shufelt and the Huskies defeated Louisville 3-0.

seeded Fighting Irish. UConn managed a 1-1 tie with the Fighting Irish earlier this year in what had been their best As the final minutes waned game up to that point. Come in the Huskies’ 3-0 win over Sunday, the pressure will be Louisville, so did the atten- on tenfold as the Huskies face a win-or-go-home tion paid to the situation in the Cardinal players harshest environon the field. While ment in Big East highly unusual for women’s soccer. an ongoing game, “Preparation for such a shift in focus Notre Dame will is often a product be done in the of either blowoutsame way,” said induced boredom head coach Len or a heavyweight Tsantiris. “Going opponent waiting Notebook to their place, ahead. Yesterday, it we’ll have to be was both.

With a convincing defeat of very composed and well-orgathe Louisville Cardinals in the nized defensively, but we have first round of the Big East confidence from that tie and can tournament, the Huskies are really play with anyone.” now headed to South Bend, » RICHARDS, page 12 Ind. to take on the No. 1

By Andrew Callahan Staff Writer

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