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Monday, November 1, 2010
ELECTION 2010: CANDIDATES SPEAK
Brien Buckman explains inspiration behind running
Jason Ortiz discusses initial start in politics
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In this file photo, Brien Buckman, a 5th-semester political science major, speaks at the UConn Foundation.
By Kendra Neives Campus Correspondent
MOUNTAIN-SIZED WIN FOR THE HUSKIES UConn defeats West Virginia for first time in progra history SPORTS/ page 14 EDITORIAL: TECHNOLOGY CAN’T REPLACE QUALITY TEACHING Advancements are only supplementary in education. COMMENTARY/page 4
DC: What inspired you to run for state representative? Brien Buckman: Fundamentally, our community is facing a lot of issues right now. We have rising tuition, rising property taxes, a K-12 system that needs reform, and we need to invest in jobs and small businesses in the state. The best way to do that is at the state level, which is why I am running for a state position. DC: What is the biggest change you would like to make if elected? Buckman: I think the one change that is very important to me is changing how
our state budgets. Right now, we do not use generally accepted accounting principles. If elected, I would ask that the legislature uses that. But that is just one issue, you can’t just choose one issue and run as a one-issue candidate because our state is facing so many problems. Small businesses, jobs and education are all extremely important. They are all things that our state representative is going to have to deal with. DC: What affect do you believe your campaign has had on the overall UConn campus? Do you think a student running for office will encourage students to get out and vote?
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Joe Courtney talks about issues relating to students
In this file photo, Jason Ortiz, an 8th-semester public and community engagement major, speaks at a USG meeting during the swearing in of new senators.
By Joseph Adinolfi News Editor DC: How did you first get your start in politics? Jason Ortiz: Well actually I first got my start in politics with the Green Party. Once I got out of graphic design school I wanted to get involved with something and the Green Party was the first organization to get back to me. That was when Cliff Thornton was running for governor. Cliff is a great guy. He’s very interested and very energetic and it was good to meet people who actually had a passion for politics. From there I decided to go to
UConn and it has been an interesting journey ever since. DC: How do you think UConn holds up to other school’s terms of political involvement? Ortiz: When I first came here I thought there was going to be a lot of confrontation between conservatives and liberals, but when I got here there was actually a lot of nothing going on. But I’ve noticed as we go to different conferences across the country that UConn activists are some of the most organized. While we may not have the numbers that a school like Berkeley has, we have a lot of highly trained and polished folks
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Janet Peckinpaugh speaks about family life
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DC: Some credit UConn students to being the vital swing demographic in your victory over Rob Simmons in 2006. How did you get students to vote? Courtney: Well if you go back to that time period we had a congress which was completely ignoring the crises and costs and the higher education and the pell grant program had been essentially frozen for five consecutive years. The interest rate for the federal student loan program had increased to 6.8 percent, tuition was going up at a faster clip even than health care.
We had an increase of 10 fold in terms of turnout on campus from 2002 to 2006. It was our best precinct in the district. When you win by 83 votes, you can do the math. It shows that it was a very significant part of our victory if you look at some of the stories that came in the wake of that election. DC: How many college campuses are in your district? Courtney: We have three community colleges: Naugatuck, Quinnabog and Three Rivers, there are two others that really border the district, Middlesex and Manchester, that get a lot of 2nd District kids and adults, Connecticut College,
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Republican candidate Janet Peckinpaugh speaks during the 2nd Congressional debate at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic. on Thursday Oct. 21.
By Joseph Adinolfi News Editor DC: When did you first decide to take an interest in politics? Peckinpaugh: I worked in the United States Senate as a young person out of college, so 35 years ago I was interested in it. I worked for three years in the U.S Senate, it just was a little bit different than it is now and I really kind of stumbled into my career while I was working in Washington for this senator. I became an intern for NBC news then I covered capital hill and the White House for public works. I left television news four years ago and started my own small business.
It was really this year that I became interested because I became upset with Washington. I said I’m going to step forward as a concerned citizen and get involved with the process. DC: How long have you identified as Republican? Peckinpaugh: Well, I grew up n a Republican family. I grew up in Ohio and my father was very active in the Republican party. When I realized this year that I wanted to get involved, it was pretty easy. I am fiscally conservative in my views but I’m socially moderate. If there was another party, you could call me a centrist. I’m very down
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DAILY BRIEFING Buckman discusses intended plans for office if elected from BRIEN, page 1
» STATE
Connecticut seeks ideas for time capsule
HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut officials are asking residents for ideas on items to include in a time capsule to celebrate the state’s 375th anniversary. Gov. M. Jodi Rell says the small steel vault will be buried on state property sometime before the end of the year to share tangible reminders of 2010 with future generations. The small vault is 18 inches square, so organizers ask that suggested items are relatively small to save space. The location and time of the vault’s burial will be announced in a few weeks. It’s intended to be unearthed as part of the state’s 400th anniversary in 2035. People can submit their suggestions before Monday through an e-mail link on the 375th Anniversary Committee’s website at www.ct375.com.
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Obama agenda faces prospect of more GOP senators
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats’ Senate majority faces a midterm shrinkage Tuesday, a further complication for President Barack Obama’s agenda, even if Republicans fall short of seizing control of the 100-member chamber. Republicans must pick up 10 seats to regain the majority they lost four years ago. Analysts in both parties consider that a tough task. The GOP would have to win every toss-up race, plus score upsets in California, Washington or perhaps Connecticut; Obama coasted in those states in 2008. Republicans seem almost certain to pick up Senate seats in North Dakota and Indiana — where veteran Democrats are retiring — and in Arkansas, where two-term Sen. Blanche Lincoln consistently has trailed Republican John Boozman in polls. Obama lost Arkansas by 20 percentage points in 2008. These races could have long-term implications because Democrats may have trouble retaking those Senate seats six years and 12 years from now. Democrats privately acknowledge they have slim chances of winning any GOP-held seats this year, despite earlier hopes in Ohio, New Hampshire, Missouri and Kentucky. Republicans are reveling in their good fortunes. “At the start of this election cycle, most political experts were predicting additional gains in the Senate by the Democrats,” said GOP spokesman Brian Walsh.
Shooting at Oakland Halloween party injures 9
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A gunman suspected of taking part in a Halloween party shooting that injured nine people in downtown Oakland is the subject of a police search, authorities said Sunday. Officers who responded early Sunday saw several hundred people fleeing Sweet’s Ballroom, where a party called the first annual Fright Fest was being held, Oakland police Lt. Rick Hassna said. People dove for cover and began running out of the building when the shots were fired, a ballroom employee told the Oakland Tribune. The party, which cost $15 to attend and featured DJs and live music, was advertised online as the “biggest Halloween college party in the Bay Area.” Students at local colleges and universities were encouraged to attend. The event had 16 security guards, and the ballroom employee said there had been one small fight before the shooting and that all of those people had already left the party. A man who was wounded in the back is believed to have been the target. Most of the victims were women who ranged in age from 18 to 29 and were hit by stray bullets, Hassna said. None of the injuries appeared to be life threatening, Oakland police said. No one has been arrested.
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Saudi clerics endorse ban on female cashiers
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s top governmentsanctioned board of senior Islamic clerics has endorsed a fatwa that calls for a ban on female vendors because it violates the kingdom’s strict segregation of the sexes. The powerful committee said in its ruling Sunday that the mixing of sexes is forbidden and women should not seek jobs where they could encounter men. The decision comes after a conservative preacher was reprimanded in August for violating a government-mandated restriction on fatwas by calling for a boycott of supermarkets employing female cashiers. Saudi King Abdullah has been trying to clamp down on ultraconservative ideology as part of his bid to modernize the kingdom. But his efforts appear to be challenged by the influential religious scholars, who play a key role in the monarch’s legitimacy.
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Buckman: Hopefully students are getting out and voting. However, I am not running as a student candidate, I am running as a candidate who happens to be a student. The UConn community is part of the Mansfield community and part of the 54th District, so I certainly hope that students are taking an interest in what happens in this community. I have been involved, not only at the university level, but at the town level as well. I hope that other students do the same because the decisions that are made at the university level, at the town level and at the state level directly affect our lives as residents of Mansfield, whether we be temporary residents or not. DC: As a college student, I’m sure you can relate to the high financial burden most college students carry. If elected, what actions do you plan on taking to lower state tuition and the need for student loans? Buckman: I don’t believe I can do too much to change the need for student loans if a family needs it. One thing the state can do is renew its commitment to public higher education. That means pledging to not decrease the amount of money budgeted to the University of Connecticut. It means increasing that support, it means realizing that an investment in the University of Connecticut is really a long and short term investment for state. There are thousands of jobs created from the University of Connecticut, the state gets a 500 percent return on the investment from the university. Small businesses and an incredible amount of research come out of the university, through faculty and students. There is really no reason why the state should be cutting any investment into this university. DC: How difficult has it been trying to run a campaign on a tight $1,000 budget? Or do you see the budget as a way to show how homegrown and real you are?
Buckman: From the very beginning of this election, I pledged to spend less than a thousand dollars because I truly believe we need to be talking about the issues and possible solutions as a community. Quite frankly, I’ve heard people are very annoyed about all the mailers they are getting and all the advertisements they see. They just want to see a candidate who understands the issues, who has solutions and who is willing to have face-to-face conversations with members of the community. It is that level of interaction that I have done during my campaign. Going door-to-door or making phone calls do not require more than a thousand dollars. The fact of the matter is, I do not want to run under the pretense that I won because I outspent my opponent. It is a matter of principle, and it is something I am proud of. DC: What was your reaction to the statement made by Christopher Paulhus: “I think there are really only two candidates here: me and Greg.” Buckman: Chris is a good guy, I don’t really understand where that statement came from. I’m not sure if it is what he actually believes, or if it’s just his way to politicize. However, the fact of the matter is that everyone on that stage earned the right to be there. Regardless of our employment status or our educational status, there are four candidates on stage and four individuals running for state representative. I have worked hard on my campaign to try and get my message across that there are serious issues we need to be talking about. I’ve tried to avoid personal attacks and partisan bickering, and I hope that the next state representative can realize that and bring it to Hartford. DC: Specifically, what are your plans for decreasing Connecticut’s near budget deficit? Buckman: There are certainly state agencies that can be slimmed down. We have already seen cuts,
at, for instance, the DMV, and we can look into that more across state agencies. But fundamentally, we need to find a way to revitalize our state’s economy. That is what is going to turn around this state’s deficit. The sooner we increase the number of small businesses in the state, the sooner we increase those job opportunities, the more revenue our state and municipalities will receive. We also need to bring back and increase our population here in the state. One of the biggest preventers of new business in Connecticut is high energy rates. We have double the national average when it comes to energy rates, that needs to be our priority, we need to be increasing competition in the energy marketplace. Right now, our state government has really focused on some of those things, but unfortunately the legislature and the executive branch has seemingly been pushing the ball down the road. The early retirement program didn’t solve our budget deficit, it merely pushed it down the road and we are going to have to realize those costs later on. It is about dealing with the issues now and finding long-term solutions. That is the only way we are going to turn our state financial problems around. DC: Currently, 9.3 percent of Connecticut residents are unemployed. If elected, what actions do you plan on taking to decrease this percentage and stretch the number of available jobs? Buckman: The focus needs to be supporting small businesses. We need to not just financially support developing businesses, but administratively as well. We need to actively participate in the growth of our community businesses. Small business jobs cannot be shipped out of state, small business jobs can’t be shipped overseas. So if we are going to encourage people to stay in the state, we need to encourage long term sustainable growth when it comes to our economy. We need to be focusing on small businesses.
My involvement in the downtown project currently, my work as a consultant for various startups in this community have given me important experience for that. On the UConn foundation, we have a wholly owned for-profit subsidiary whose focus is to take the research coming out of this university and to turn it into something commercial. That type of development and growth is needed with the support of the state. DC: Do you have a plan for energy? Buckman: Absolutely, energy rates are some of the highest in the country here in Connecticut. We need to be focusing on alternative energy sources, and we need to create a lot more competition in the energy marketplace. I think there is a definite need for us to work to lower energy rates in Connecticut, not only is it affecting the businesses and job growth here in the state, but it is also affecting families. Locally, certain towns have formed an energy pact to lock in low energy rates for their communities. We need to be doing that on a larger scale. We need to be encouraging communities who would like to lower their energy costs to form coalition to do that. DC: Any last words before Election Day? Buckman: There are a lot of issues we face as a community, and I have lived in the area all of my life. I believe my experiences have enabled me to see what issues we are dealing with as a community and understand what we need to do for the future. I am not looking to politicize issues, and I am not looking to continue the partisan bickering that we have seen at the state and federal levels. I am looking to solve the issues we face, and that is something that I would like to do as state representative.
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Ortiz: ‘Education is the number one priority for me’ from JASON, page 1 DC: There was a swelling of college age students voting in the 2008 election. Do you think a similar increase will occur this election cycle? Ortiz: I think that there are folks who are very disenchanted with the political process. They were very passionate for Barack Obama, it was something they had a lot of hope for but it’s a very different thing form campaigning to actually governing. I think we had a lot of hope and we had a lot of promises made that were really difficult to actually follow through on. People are seeing the reality of politics and they’re seeing that there really needs to be some more substance and not such high lofty promises. People just don’t really believe it anymore. I think quality substantial candidates are going to do well this election and I think folks who go the typical status quo route are not going to do well. DC: What are some of your top campaign issues? Ortiz: Education is the number one priority for me and obviously it affects UConn, but it affects the whole state when we have schools cosing but we’re building more prisons. I think our priorities are a little out of whack. It’s something that parents believe in, its something that young
folks believe in, folks that actually know how to keep a state functioning believe that education is very important. We need to educate our way out of this economic downturn. If we’re ever going to get out of this, we need a strong education sector. I think they’re feeling it more than ever. Where before education was something that was taken for granted, a lot of students that are on the cusp can see that whoever gets elected makes a huge difference for UConn. When folks decide where to go to cut from the budget they are going to think about who they are going to hear from. Students are finally seeing that their voice matters DC: What areas of our state government are in most need of reform? Ortiz: Absolutely the education system. From pre-k to higher education, the way we structure education, we are putting a lot of money into the system but not getting the results we want which are competent, educated members of society that can turn their skills to actually producing things. We really tied our teachers hands with standardized testing and we need more interaction within the classroom among students but also with th students and their community members it’s really hard for students to apply the education they get
if they don’t understand the context of how what they’re learning in class relates to the outside world. Another one of my priorities is encouraging a sustainable economy in connecticut. Too often we look to corporations to bring jobs instead of providing residents the support they need to start a home grown business right here that will keep money in our community. DC: Can you give me some examples of how we can do this? Ortiz: By offering internships and other incentives to students to work in their local community, we can take better advantage of our school systems and give local business access to skill sets such as digital media, website design and other technology that will allow local businesses to open up to a broader marketplace and also gain the skills necessary to start their own business some day. DC: You’re a member of Students for a Sensible Drug Policy’s national board of directors. How will this affect your priorities as a legislator? Ortiz: My experience in SSDP taught me just how much money we waste incarcerating young people. I would take that experience that a very simple reform to our drug policy could net plenty of money - especially money that is needed for
our education system. It’s a reform that we can make that is easy for the legislature considering our budget crisis. It is something that has passed the Connecticut legislature before. Implementing more sensible drug policies will not only protect our young people from unnecessary incarceration, but it will also free up the budget for other programs including those that help people who have been to prison return back to society. It also is a moral issue for me. I think it’s wrong to be sending young people to prison for their personal choices and its destroying our inner cities. DC: What did your fight for lower tuition rates last Spring teach you about how government works? Ortiz: I learned how money does not always go where its most needed within the education system I believe with greater transparency and a stronger hand over upper level paychecks we can have a better understanding of where our money can be best used and make sure that every dollar is spent to enhance the education of students in Connecticut. I also learned that there are a lot of legislators that are very supportive of keeping our education system strong and I feel there would be a lot of support for this issue if I am elected.
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Peckinpaugh discusses Courtney speaks about the student loan industry, main issues facing students relationship with UConn from JOE, page 1 Mitchell College, the Coast Guard Academy and The Lyme Art Academy down in Old Lyme, UConn and Eastern. DC: How important is it for your campaign to win the student vote? Courtney: Again, it’s a huge part of the district and my experience taught me that it’s always critical. Again in 2002, there were under 200 kids voting on campus in an election which I lost. Like I said, you can do the math. DC: President Obama passed student loan legislation back in March with the Healthcare bill. Did you support it? Would you fight for more regulation and reform in the student loan industry? Courtney: The answer is I was a cosponsor of SAFRA. The Education and Labor Committee reported the bill out in early 2009 and it’s unfortunate the senate took so long to take it up as part of the reconciliation bill in March 2010, because frankly, I think we would’ve gotten more bang for the buck if we implemented it earlier. DC: You helped pass the College Cost Reduction Act back in 2007, which was funded by cutting subsidies to the student loan industry. Do you think the legislature can afford to do more to help students? Courtney: That’s the challenge. Both of those measures, SAFRA and the College Cost Reduction Act were passed within the context of pay as you go budget rules, which is the budget reform ghat the Democrats enacted in 2007, which says that new spending has to be offset by reductions in other parts of the budget. It’s very challenging if you’re proposing a new spending program - another
boost to Pell or some other program fro community colleges - you’ve got to go and find somewhere to get the money. That’s a threshold that you have to clear, and what it does is it really sharpens the healthy debate of what are your priorities and what’s important in terms of the country’s goals. Every program has somebody who wants it - it wouldn’t be there if it didn’t have somebody pushing for it. It’ll come as no great surprise to you that the bank lobbyists were spreading out all over capital hill to stop it. To me, the college board report that came out in July is a profound warning to this country that our competitive position in the world is really highly doubtful if we’re twelfth in terms of graduating kids from a post-high school program. The president announced his goal to get back to number one by 2020, I fully support that and, to me it’s not optional. It’s not about being nice to kids or helping families, this is where the country will have a fighting chance to succeed in the future and we have critical work force needs that are not being matched up in terms of the number of college graduates and the mixture of where those graduates are being produced. Right now, we actually have a mismatch in terms of workforce needs and what is being produced by our higher education system. The Minneapolis Federal Reserve Board believes that you could lower the unemployment rate by a point or a point and a half if we had a better match up with peoples skills and job needs. One of the things that I think is a positive development is that enrollment is
off the charts. We have made great strides in terms of helping people get access to higher education and people, obviously with the economy that we are in right now, are much more aware of the need to reinvent themselves with new skills. Naugatuck Quinnabog, the Norwich bulletin did a story recently about how they’re shattering all their records in terms of enrollment. It’s a huge priority for our country and that’s what people are sent to congress to do is to sort that out and find the sweet spot in terms of what’s really important. DC: Connecticut didn’t
“I know firsthand the value of a strong, robust public institution to really transforming peoples’ lives.” – Joe Courtney qualify for the Obama Administration’s race to the top education funding program. Do you agree or disagree with the administration’s strategy of using competitive funding to spur improvement? Courtney: As a one shot, yes, as an ongoing approach to federal support for K - 12 funding, no. I think it’s too destabilizing to have a competitive approach one year to the next. I don’t know how a superintendent can possibly budget within a horizon if they don’t know whether or not they’re going to qualify.
As a one shot, it had a salutory affect in terms of states enacting education reforms just like Connecticut did, and you have to tip your hat to him that that really did create some real change. DC: In your seven years as a state legislator, what was your relationship with UConn like? Courtney: I was chairman of the Public Health committee. I also sat on the Appropriations committee and was a strong supporter of the state’s budget commitment to UConn at a very difficult time, the early 1990s. That was the last recession that we went to. As a graduate of the University of Connecticut Law School, I know firsthand the value of a strong, robust public institution to really transforming peoples lives. DC: About how much time do you spend in Connecticut each year? Courtney: After the last vote of every week I head for the exit to come home. I come home every weekend. I did go up to Maine for a week in the summer of 2009, but other than that every district break I’ve been home with the exception of a trip to Iraq and the two trade missions for Connecticut companies, one to Brussels in 2009 and another to Israel in April of this year. DC: You’re a member of the armed services committee, what is your position on the injunction to end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?” Courtney: The house passed in its defense authorization bill a repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” which I voted in favor of. It’s time to turn the page on that policy and allow people who are gay and lesbian to wear the uniform of this country. I would have repealed the 1993 act and given the military the tools to implement a transition to ending that type of discrimination which is exactly what happened in the 1940s when president Truman abolished racial discrimination.
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the middle as far as where I stand on my views. DC: What do you feel are some of the biggest issues that the next congress needs to deal with? Peckinpaugh: Well the biggest issue we have right now is getting Americans back to work. Finding jobs for Americans, that is our biggest issue and the way to do that in my way of thinking is to get spending under control. We bring in 2.4 trillion in taxes to the government but we’re spending 3.7 trillion. There’s no way anyone can run their household or their business that way, you can’t spend that much more than you make and expect it to work. Once we begin to do that, we’ll begin to create jobs again. Small businesses aren’t creating jobs because they’re concerned about the economy. As far as large corporations are concerned, they’re sitting on lots of capital right now but they’re unsure. It’s paralyzing the private sector it’s paralyzing small and large businesses and certainly manufacturing companies. DC: Who did you vote for in the second district last election? Peckingpaugh: That’s kind of a private question, but since you asked, I voted for Shawn Sullivan. DC: Acting, journalism, politics – what are your other interests? Peckinpaugh: Being a mother. I have a 22 year-old in college. I’ve been a single working mother. I’m really interested in reading, cooking and I just got involved in community theater in my area in Essex because my son went away to school and I had a lot of time on my hands at night.
Kaine said. “The first thing that’s important is in these federal races...you want to keep a team in place to kind of work on progress.” Kaine said there is a very “sharp distinction” between the senatorial candidates running in Connecticut for the two major parties. Kaine described attorney general and Democratic senate candidate Dick Blumenthal’s Republican opponent, former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon, as having a “dubious record with professional wrestling,” but didn’t elaborate any further. “We want to make sure the Senate stays in Democratic hands,” Kaine said.
Kaine feels the race for governor is important as well. “Governors touch people every day...Having a guy like Dan Malloy, former mayor of Stamford, he’s dealt with all these issues,” Kaine said. Kaine said that governors do not get “on the job training,” so Malloy already has the experience. The Democrats have overseen the “biggest expansion of the student loan system,” according to Kaine. He also said that health care reform and enrollment are two issues that should give students cause to vote for Democrats. When asked why Obama would come to Connecticut, where the Democratic candidates appear to be facing less com-
DC: Where does your son go? He’s a junior at Harvard. DC: What do you think are some of the biggest problems facing today’s college students? Peckinpaugh: Well the biggest problem I see is that I fear that when you all get out of school, it’s not only going to be hard to find a job in Connecticut if you’re from Connecticut but it’s going to be hard to find a job in this country. People who are having the most trouble finding employment are people my age and people just out of college. We need to become more global. We are a global society but they’re not getting involved in the dialogue in other countries. We need to have immigration reform so we can address this issue. We force the best and brightest who are being educated in our country to go back to their country. I think that’s one of the biggest things we’re facing. We are losing our best and brightest, our future, our children. Other countries are going to come and grab you and treat you better than the U.S. can right now. We need to lower our corporate tax rate to somewhere in the low 20s and we need to allow companies in other countries to open business in our country so we won’t be losing all our companies overseas. One of the biggest reasons we’re losing companies is because of the tax rate. Once we fix that problem, we’re going to see companies from other countries moving here and companies from our country stop leaving. That’s one of the biggest problem I see right now.
Chairman of Democratic National Committee emphasizes the importance of Conn. elections By Brian Zahn Senior Staff Writer
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In this image released by NBC Democratic National Committee Chairman, and former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine talks on NBC’s Meet the Press in Washington Sunday.
President Barack Obama is making his way around the country, visiting the Nutmeg State on Saturday afternoon, at The Arena at Harbor Yard, where he rallied in support of Connecticut Democratic candidates. Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and former governor of Virginia, Tim Kaine, said that he viewed this event as something that would benefit students in the state of Connecticut. “[The Connecticut midterm elections] are very important, because the stakes are high and the choices are clear,”
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Technology can’t replace quality teaching
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s we as a nation become more technologically advanced, so do our classrooms. Whether it’s as simple as PowerPoint presentations or overhead projectors, teachers rely on technology to teach. Just as equally, students depend upon technology to learn. Nevertheless, while the use of technology has no doubt become a crucial component of our educational system, it is important that it remains a supplement to learning, and not a replacement. According to The Huffington Post, the U.S. Department of Education has poured in more than $7 million to technologybased learning programs, compared to $300,000 last year. Support has been shown from Bill and Melinda Gates, who have recently given away $20 million to ignite a “tech revolution in education.” But even with the most high-tech gadgets and stateof-the-art equipment, Slate also reports that the best classrooms in the world can function with as little as a chalkboard. If we were to envision the ultimate 21st century classroom, for many of us, it may very likely resemble an Apple store, complete with iPads and a sleek Mac laptop for every student. While having technology at your fingertips is powerful, studies are proving that it does not compensate for traditional teaching. Korea, a country that boasts some of the highest-achieving students, is more focused on equipping classrooms with the basics, such as a projector and chalkboard, and is succeeding in producing the test scores that U.S. students are lacking. While the Korean education system may be more grueling compared to countries like the U.S., where students can attend school for up to nine hours per day, countries like Finland are showing that highpressure environments and long schools days do not always lead to excellent test scores. Finnish students tend to start school later than Americans and take fewer standardized tests, but when the numbers are lined up, the U.S. ranked 25th in math and 21st in science in 2006, compared to Finland, which ranked first. As the Slate article points out, while the world of technology is constantly evolving and becoming more attractive in all aspects of life, “even in the United States, the best schools are not the most tricked-out ones.” Technology is not the problem, but its not necessarily the solution for boosting test scores either. Sometimes, though technology is convenient, simpler methords are better and can prove to be more effective. The use of technology should be encouraged in the classroom, but should be used as a tool and not as a substitute. The Daily Campus editorial is the official opinion of the newspaper and its editorial board. Commentary columns express opinions held solely by the author and do not in any way reflect the official opinion of The Daily Campus.
I think West Virginia just fumbled again. My friend was Ke$ha for Halloween...He drank half a bottle of Jack then took off all his clothes. There were way too many wild Snookies this weekend... There’s nothing more frightening than a teletubby getting a lapdance. Last night the yellow Teletubby hit on me...and I liked it. Two things inside me died this weekend: my liver and my dignity. “See friendship?” Really Facebook? That’s one extra click to get my creep on! When all the band kids get on the blue line it’s like the nematodes from that episode of “SpongeBob.” I found Waldo!!!...twice. If I follow the path of squished candy corn along 195, will it lead me to the gingerbread house? Having Halloween in October is great, but imagine the costumes we’d see if it was in September and just that much warmer... The worst part of getting locked out of my room was knowing that my Chinese food was locked inside it. I quietly took all the candy from my parents’ basket, so when neighborhood little kids show up, all that’s left are pencils. They don’t need more sugar. I got midterms.
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Prescription birth control should be free
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egardless of how one feels about the quality of the current health care system, prescription birth control should qualify as preventative services, and thus be covered under the Affordable Care Act. This would mean that co-pays for prescription birth control would be eliminated, resulting in no out-of-pocket costs for women seeking these methods. Instead, birth control will be covered by insurance – as it should, for contraceptives by definition help prevent pregnancy. Of course, it would be great if we could also push for healthBy Cindy Luo care reform that Associate Commentary Editor guarantees coverage to everyone, regardless of ability to pay – otherwise, subsidized contraception still doesn’t help as many as it should. It’s not enough to just push for birth control for those privileged enough to have insurance. Women who can’t afford insurance or birth control would not be able to afford having a child either. Sex isn’t something that should be restricted only to those who can afford birth control. Even if one is against premarital sex, there are plenty of married couples who have difficulty affording contraceptives. Planned Parenthood states that currently, co-pays for various methods of contraceptive medications, depending on the type and brand, can range anywhere from $10 to $50 a month – a cost which makes it prohibitive to many women. Ironically,
methods such as an IUD cost less in the long run, but tend to have a much higher upfront cost. According to the Planned Parenthood website, it can cost anywhere from $500 to $1,000 for insertion, but it lasts for up to 12 years. Yet to ask someone to pay for that straight away, out of pocket, is very difficult.
“Pregnancy and childrearing together form one of the most expensive conditions someone can face.” In a survey by Hart Research for Planned Parenthood, 48 percent of women voters earning less than $40,000 a year and 55 percent of young women voters (ages 18-34) said that prescription birth control was difficult for them to afford and use regularly. And it’s precisely these kinds of birth control that require regular usage in order to remain effective. Missing a cycle of pills can and does result in pregnancy, and due to our woefully inadequate sexual education system, many men and women are unaware of this fact. Currently, only 27 states mandate insurers to cover birth control, but that’s not enough. This still could result in exorbitantly high co-pays and still leaves out women who have to pay for everything out of pocket. One of the most common arguments against this type of reform is that people don’t want to pay for what they personally don’t use. However, preventing unwanted pregnancies is far better than the alternative, which is paying to raise a child.
Any prescription birth control is better than an unplanned pregnancy. Pregnancy and childrearing together form one of the most expensive conditions someone can face. According to a Consumer Reports post, raising a child born in 2009 for 17 years will cost anywhere from $205,960 to $475,680, which includes various direct expenses, such as housing, food, health and child care, clothing and so on, but not college or money spent on these children once they are past the age of 17. Not to mention that whether one is pro or anti-choice, it’s pretty obvious that there is at least one thing free prescription birth control will guarantee: fewer unplanned pregnancies, and consequently, fewer abortions. No one should be forced to have or abort a baby she cannot afford. It’s only logical that providing contraception in the first place would drastically lower the rate of these decisions. There is also a need for greater education about, and access to, birth control. We should strive to teach our youth to make educated decisions and provide them with the resources to stay safe even as they reach adulthood. Young women, who do not or cannot use their parents’ insurance, are especially at risk. Providing free prescription birth control to everyone is what we should ultimately aim for. As for coverage under the Affordable Care Act, the final decision regarding this initiative will be made by the Department of Health and Human Services secretary and is expected for next summer.
Associate Commentary Editor Cindy Luo is a 5thsemester linguistics/philosophy and classics and ancient Mediterranean studies double major. She can be reached at Shuyang.Luo@UConn.edu.
Healthcare mandates: higher cost, less choice
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his past Saturday, as Stewart and Colbert rallied for “sanity and/or fear” in D.C., President Obama traveled to Connecticut for the third time this campaign season in an effort to rally Democrat party loyalists, who waited in line before dawn to secure their glimpse of him. Surprisingly not on the agenda was any By Thomas Dilling m e n t i o n that it was Staff Columnist the sevenmonth mark of the President signing his health care agenda, sometimes known as “Obamacare,” into law. With the State Insurance Commisioner currently citing “Obamacare” as the cause of up to 47 percent rate hikes in Connecticut health insurance plans, this omission was more likely meant to avoid drawing attention to the health care overhaul that one in four Democrats nationwide are running with the position of repealing. How exactly did “Obamacare” raise these rates? A litany of new mandates on insurers was to be enacted on Sept. 23. Among these were restrictions on plans with spending caps (with the goal of prohibiting spending caps altogether), prohibitions on insurer’s rights to drop policyholders, the prohibition of pre-existing condition exclusions for children under 19, and
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the requirement that insurers allow children to remain on their parents’ insurance until they’re 26. While most people may think highly of these mandates as beneficial to consumers, they often don’t realize the cost of enacting these mandates. This cost will ultimately be paid by consumers through increased premiums. Furthermore, these requirements create a decline in consumer choice when purchasing insurance. The ratehikes were on plans that included spending caps. Plans with spending caps exist for people who cannot afford, do not want, or otherwise do not see a cost-benefit in greater coverage. They require the availability of low-cost insurance plans. When Obama mandates the elimination of plans with spending caps, the necessary outcome is that people with these plans will pay skyrocketing premium increases, making healthcare less affordable, not more affordable, as promised by “Obamacare’s” official title, “The Affordable Care Act.” In a letter to U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Thomas Sullivan, Connecticut’s state insurance commissioner, defended the increases as necessary to maintain solvency. He included one example of a plan where prescription drug benefits were capped at $500 per year. Obama’s mandates require that cap be raised to $750,000. This
alone resulted in a 23 percent premium increase on policyholders of the plan, even if they do not want or do not need greater drug benefits. Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the state’s largest insurer, is taking heat for the rate hikes. The state insurance commissioner
“The cost will ultimately be paid by consumers through increased premiums.” is taking a bit of heat as well for approving the hikes, but the blame must be placed on the cause: the federal government. Anthem is being mandated with higher costs, while hospitals, such as Hartford Hospital, are demanding higher payouts. The ultimate result is a higher cost burden on consumers. Furthermore, this comes just weeks after insurers, not only in Connecticut, but nationwide, were forced to end child-only plans because of the “Obamacare” mandate on pre-existing conditions for children. Ending child-only plans was a necessary consequence, since there is no legal requirement for children to have an insurance policy, but there is a legal requirement for insurers to provide cover-
age. Thus, if child-only plans were to exist, children would be able to stay uninsured, avoiding premiums, up until the point when care is needed, effectively undermining the premise of insurance. Other downfalls of Obama’s health care plan have been expressed in the last couple months, including an unprecedented “Alternative Report” by Medicare’s chief actuary, calling the expected 30 percent decreases in doctor payouts an “unreasonable” and “implausible” attempt to bend the cost curve. Just last week, the chief actuary also wrote that Medicare Advantage patients should expect to see out-of-pocket costs increase $346 per year in 2011, peaking at $923 in 2017. Furthermore, by the year’s end, those using Health Savings Accounts will be unable to use their medical savings to buy over-the-counter medications due to “Obamacare.” Still, as we head into elections tomorrow, many politicians are calling “Obamacare “a step in the right direction. But if this is the direction it is heading, antithetical to the promise of more affordable care, I strongly contend that we are on the wrong path.
Staff Columnist Thomas Dilling is a 5th-semester biology major. He can be reached at Thomas.Dilling@UConn.edu.
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Aries - Your attention is on others today. This could be good if you maximize the opportunities that come your way while attending to other people’s concerns. Taurus - Spending time with a partner or associate opens up opportunities everywhere. Early in the day, a creative idea gets you started on a new track.
Cancer - Stay close to home and work on creative projects today. Do some research. Take care of details from the weekend before moving on to the next task.
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Gemini - Most of your energy is directed at others. Work requires research before you tackle a project. Consider the long-term ramifications in your calculations.
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Leo - Stay close to home today. Opportunities arise for completing tasks and organizing space. A trip to the hardware store is in order. Make a list before you go. Virgo - You fall into a discussion about a creative plan and how it fits with your emotional needs. Others play a practical part with suggestions and committed listening. Libra - Imagine it to accomplish it now. Multiple opportunities for increasing both bank balance and self-esteem come with no strings attached. Choose.
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Scorpio - At last, you and a partner reconnect. Recent stress has kept you apart, but now you get to play together and enjoy the magic. Sagittarius - Focus your attentions on research behind the scenes to discover what will work when you go public. You want it all neat and tidy when you present. Capricorn - Attention to philosophical motives helps relationships grow. Listen to a woman who’s researched a group goal. Her information opens opportunities for all. Aquarius - Today can really be fun. Enjoy the details, and practical problem solving. Social contacts up the ante, inviting you to present your skills. You’re up to it. Pisces - Your attention is on abstract problems or communication with distant associates. Don’t expect instant results. Work closely with a partner.
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Physical Activities Week begins UConn remembers Ben Bleszinski at Student Recreational Facility
By Victoria Smey Senior Staff Writer
Today marks the beginning of Physical Activities Week, a program run by Natural High that encourages students to get active and rewards them for utilizing the recreational services on campus. When students take BodyWise classes, use the gym, participate in UConn Outdoors or do an intramural activity, they can collect silver coins to be redeemed for prizes. The program will run through Dec. 3. “[P.A.W.] is a fun way to reward students for making a healthy choice and they really like the tangible aspect of collecting the silver coins. It also serves as a great promotion for our facility and activities,” said
Mike D’Alfonso, the coordinator of fitness and wellness at the Department of Recreational Services. P.A.W., which began in 1997, hardly had 100 participants the first year. Now thousands of students take part in the program, according to D’Alfonso. Students can only take part in P.A.W. if they register at the front desk of the Student Recreational Facility. After that, they must collect their coins only at the time of participation. Each activity is worth one coin, and students can collect more than one coin per day as long as they do not take part in the same type of activity twice. Prizes for participation, including t-shirts, hats and water bottles in multiple colors can be bought when students have earned 20 coins.
Students run against ‘biasness’
By Brian Zahn Senior Staff Writer
The advent of Halloween didn’t deter the participants of the Second Annual Run Against Biasness from arriving at the Putnam Refractory at 10 a.m. on Saturday. Terrence Abney, coach of Run UC, a club sport at UConn, organized the first event last semester, because he was interested in “using sports as an avenue to talk about the social issues.” Abney, who helped organize the 2.85-mile run for a second time, was interested in combining sports with a “cultural component.” “We use sports to take things off our minds,” said Abney. “Sports is a social construct.” Steph Boykin, hall director of Mansfield Apartments, Husky Village and Northwoods Apartments, was part of the committee that helped organize the event. “It really is an opportunity to come together. There’s unity in numbers,” Boykn said. Boykin was invited to speak at the event last semester. He also brought his son to the event both years, because he wanted to expose him to the positive environment. “I just love it any time
students get together for a cause,” Boykin said. The students registered from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and began stretching after they wrote on a poster a cause they were running for. Issues included women’s equality in sports and gays in the military. John Landock, a 3rdsemester business major, was the first place finisher in the previous event. He chose to run for children’s rights. “Children don’t really have a say in our political system,” Landock said. “Obviously, they can’t stand up for themselves.” Abney discussed what the race meant to the runners before they began. “A lot of things in sports echo society,” he said. “The run is kind of symbolic of running for change.” Abney, who acknowledged that “biasness” is not a word recognized by the dictionary, wanted to do the race so that the runners could describe all the “isms” that exist in the world. Each runner took a racing bib that outlined the six steps that one should take in order to speak up against “everyday biasness.”
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“In the past we have had gym bags, mugs, even co-op gift certificates,” D’Alfonso said. More than one prize can be collected per semester until Dec. 10 at the P. A . W. s t o r e . How do students feel about receiving prizes for being active? “I like BodyWise because when you go to class you know you’re going to get a good workout and it’s worth your time,” said Kelsey Rose-Sinclair, a 3rd-semester pre-communications major. “That being said, it takes more than a free T-shirt get me motivated when I’m trying to decide between a nap and the gym during a long school week.” On the contrary, Claire Hampsey likes the idea of the program and the prizes. “It’s great that this pro-
gram rewards people for getting active. It gives people more reasons to take a break from studying and do something good for themselves,” said Hampsey, a 3rd-semester pre-kinesiology major. This mindset coincides with D’Alfonso’s goal for the program. “I have heard many students with only a few coins left to go before their prize say they need to come back for another workout, or intramural game, or get to another BodyWise class to reach their goal of 20 coins,” he said. “If that little incentive is enough to push them to come back and participate and get active, then I consider the program a success.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the U.S., thanks to the new health care law. That could start a shift toward more reliable — and expensive — forms of birth control that are gaining acceptance in other developed countries. But first, look for a fight over social mores. A panel of experts advising the government meets in November to begin considering what kind of preventive care for women should be covered at no cost to the patient, as required under President Barack Obama’s overhaul. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., author of the women’s health amendment, says the clear intent was to include family planning But is birth control preventive medicine? Conflicting answers frame what could be the next clash over moral values and a health law that passed only after a difficult compromise restricting the use of public money for abortions. For many medical and public health experts, there’s no debate. “There is clear and incontrovertible evidence that family planning saves lives and improves health,” said obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. David Grimes, an international family planning expert who teaches medicine at the University of North Carolina. “Contraception rivals
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demic achievement. Lorin Charanian, a site based supervisor for the Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters program that Bleszinski participated in for two years.. described how Bleszinski was able to make a difference in the life of his assigned brother. Bleszinski, lost basketball to him – albeit unintentionally – and was a strong male figure in the child’s life she said. She gave Bleszinski’s family a picture that his mentee had drawn for him after learning of his death, which depicted them playing basketball together. Peterson, who took a poetry course in high school with Bleszinski, wrote a poem for him which he read aloud. Wings Over Storrs and Sergeant Pepperoni’s Pizza donated food to the memorial service.
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Friends and family of Ben Bleszinski, a UConn student who died this past summer, gathered in the Bishop Center on Sunday at 1 p.m. Bleszinski’s roommate during his freshman year, and a former high school friend, Chris Peterson, a 5thsemester health care management major, described most of the people in the room as “Glastonburyites.” Despite that, he said that he would not have met many of the people without Bleszinski. Aaditya Vyas, a 5th-semester chemical engineering and German studies major, described Bleszinski as having a “magnetic personality.” “Ben was always Switzerland,” Vyas said about Bleszinski’s role in a group dynamic. “He was the concrete.” Dean of CLAS, Jeremy Teitelbaum, awarded Bleszinski’s family with a certificate of aca-
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immunization in dollars saved for every dollar invested. Spacing out children allows for optimal pregnancies and optimal child rearing. Contraception is a prototype of preventive medicine.” But U.S. Catholic bishops say pregnancy is a healthy condition, not an illness. In comments filed with the Department of Health and Human Services, the bishops say they oppose any requirement to cover contraceptives or sterilization as preventive care. “We don’t consider it to be health care, but a lifestyle choice,” said John Haas, president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, a Philadelphia think tank whose work reflects church teachings. “We think there are other ways to avoid having children than by ingesting chemicals paid for by health insurance.” So far, most other religious conservatives have stayed out of the debate, though that could change. Some say they are concerned about any requirement that might include the morning-after pill. The Food and Drug Administration classifies it as birth control; some religious conservatives see it as an abortion drug. Jeanne Monahan, a health policy expert at the conservative Family Research Council, said her group would oppose any mandate that lacks a conscience exemption for moral and religious reasons. She said there’s “great suspicion” that a major abortion provider, Planned
Parenthood, is leading the push for free birth control. As recently as the 1990s, many health insurance plans didn’t even cover birth control. Protests, court cases, and new state laws led to dramatic changes. Today, almost all plans now cover prescription contraceptives. So does Medicaid, the health care program for lowincome people. The use of birth control is “virtually universal” in the U.S., according to a government report this summer from the National Center for Health Statistics. Nearly 93 million prescriptions for contraceptives were dispensed in 2009, according to IMS Health, a market analysis firm. Generic versions of the pill are available at Walmart stores, for example, for $9 a month. Still, about half of all pregnancies are unplanned, and many occur among women using some form of contraception. The government says the problem is rarely the birth control method, but “inconsistent or incorrect use,” such as forgetting to take a pill. Advocates say free birth control would begin to address the problem. “We can look at other countries where birth control is available for no cost, and what we see are lower pregnancy rates, lower abortion rates and lower teen pregnancy,” said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood. It would remove a cost barrier that
may be keeping women away from more reliable long-acting birth control, and also affects those who don’t do well on inexpensive generics. A major research study now taking place in St. Louis provides a glimpse of how things might change. The Contraceptive CHOICE Project is providing free birth control to as many as 10,000 women, tracking their decisions and the results. About 70 percent have chosen longacting contraceptives such as IUDs (intrauterine devices) or implants, which are reversible and have a much lower failure rate than pills or condoms. The proportion of U.S. women using such methods remains low; part of the reason seems to be higher upfront cost. “The shift we need to see in the United States is a shift away from methods like the pill and condoms to the most effective methods, like implants and IUDs,” said Dr. Jeffrey Peipert, a principal investigator on the study. “And we’ll only see that shift if somebody is willing to pay for it.” How the Obama administration will apply the law remains to be seen. It could allow insurance plans wide discretion on meeting the coverage requirement. A panel convened by the Institute of Medicine will hold its first meeting Nov. 16 to begin work on recommendations to HHS. The department has until next August to make its decision.
Contraception could be free under health care law
Republicans may have House within their grasp
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are positioned to wrest control of the House in this week’s elections, the wind at their backs as they reach to capture the 40 seats they need to claim the majority — and potentially many more. Democratic candidates face a poisonous cocktail of public disenchantment with the economy, disappointment in President Barack Obama and tea party-fueled grassroots anger at government. Few Democratic incumbents feel safe, least of all the 55 who seized GOP seats during the past two elections, as Republicans seek to catch a historic wave. As many as 100 races were competitive as the balloting approached, fewer than a dozen of them for seats now held by Republicans. “We’ll get to the majority, and if a wave materializes, then this is a hurricane, tornado, tsunami all in one — with a cyclone to top it off,” said Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon, the No. 2 Republican in charge of House campaigns. “The winds have never been stronger.” Republicans, he said, are telling candidates in scores of tight contests throughout the country, “Don’t let up.” Democrats were in crisis-control mode, struggling to limit what all acknowledged were inevitable losses. They were bracing for grim confirmation of history’s traditional midterm election curse: The party in power usually loses congressional seats, and prospects this year were made even worse by the sour economy. “It’s a very challenging environ-
going to be a challenging environment, and anytime you have a soft economy it’s very difficult,” said Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the Democratic House campaign chief. Still, Hollen said he held out hope that Democrats could hang onto power, if only narrowly. “We will retain the majority,” Van Hollen said, citing “promising” early voting results he argued were evidence that his party’s supporters were turning out in larger-than-expected numbers, and polls suggesting that others could still be swayed to vote Democratic. Democratic candidates were being instructed to make a last pitch to persuade voters not to turn the reins over to Republicans. “We’re telling them to be everywhere in their districts, talking to voters about that very clear choice ... between continuing the progress we’re making or returning to the days when the bigmoneyed special interests had their way in Washington at the expense of average Americans,” Van Hollen said. Strategists in both parties predicted privately that the GOP had already essentially won nearly two dozen Democratic seats, while fewer than a handful of GOP jobs appeared to be lost. It was shaping up as a stunning turnabout from 2008, when Obama helped propel Democrats to big gains in their House majority only two years after the 2006 wave that swept them to control. It was the first time in more than 50 years that a party rode waves to bigger
tions in a row. This year, many operatives and analysts expect Republican gains to rival or exceed the party’s 1994 win, when the GOP captured 52 seats and broke Democrats’ fourdecade grip on Congress. All 435 seats are up for grabs. The Democratic lawmakers seen as most at risk of losing their seats include Steve Driehaus and Mary Jo Kilroy of Ohio; Alan Grayson and Suzanne Kosmas of Florida; Betsy Markey of Colorado; Kathy Dahlkemper of Pennsylvania; and Debbie Halvorson of Illinois. All are freshmen who were elected with Obama and voted for key elements of his agenda. House veterans, too, are in serious jeopardy, from Rep. Ike Skelton in Missouri, the House Armed Services Committee chairman, to Rep. Earl Pomeroy in North Dakota and Rep. John Spratt in South Carolina, the House Budget Committee chairman. Some three-dozen Democratic incumbents were in peril in dead-even races from Arizona to Maryland, including firstterm Reps. John Boccieri of Ohio, Patrick Murphy of Pennsylvania, and Tom Perriello of Virginia. Yet another nearly 30 Democrats once considered fairly secure were at risk, including Rep. Mike McIntyre of North Carolina and Connecticut Reps. Jim Himes and Chris Murphy. Even veteran lawmakers who usually coast to re-election by wide margins, such as 15-term Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the House Financial Services
longest-serving Democrat, Rep. John Dingell of Michigan, were feeling the heat in closer-thananticipated races. Democratic departures gave the GOP still more targets, and Republicans appeared likely to pick up open seats in Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, two in Tennessee, and a New York seat left vacant when Rep. Eric Massa resigned in March amid an investigation into whether he sexually harassed male staffers. There were a couple of bright spots for Democrats. Republicans privately conceded that Democrat Cedric Richmond would likely win his bid to unseat GOP Rep. Joseph Cao in his New Orleans, La.-based district. And Democrat John Carney was expected to claim Delaware’s lone House seat left open by GOP Rep. Mike Castle’s unsuccessful Senate run. Democrats also were mounting a solid bid to unseat Hawaii Rep. Charles Djou, and pressing to pick up seats left open by Republican retirements in Miami and the Chicago suburbs. Amid an economic downturn, both parties and their candidates were spending eye-popping sums to get their messages out to voters. Van Hollen’s Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee have spent $144 million while the National Republican Congressional Committee have shelled out $121 million. Those sums were dwarfed by the amounts House candidates had spent through
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Rep. John Boehner speaks to the crowd at a rally for Jim Renacci, right, in Canton, Ohio, Saturday, Oct. 30.
$421.5 million and Republicans, $419 million. But the seeming equality in spending among the party committees and candidates belied a stark imbalance in spending by
outside groups that don’t have to disclose donors. Organizations backing Republicans spent $185 million, compared to $88 million in spending by organizations supporting Democrats.
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The What Cheer? Brigade performs at the annual “Mischief after Dark” concert hosted by WHUS Radio. This 19-piece brass band from Providence is known for performing among the crowd and for playing upbeat, carnival-style music.
WHUS Radio’s second annual ‘Mischief After Dark’ concert comes to UConn
By John Tyczkowski Staff Writer Friday night was WHUS’s largest live music event of the semester, the secondannual Mischief after Dark Concert, in the Student Union Ballroom. The concert proper commenced shortly after 8, and ran until about midnight. More than 100 people were in attendance that evening, with many arriving early and staying for the entire five-band show. Sofx, a local punk band, started the night, playing a short set between 7:15 and 7:30 p.m. for the crowd of 80 or so that had already gathered. The trio, bassist, guitarist and drummer with an occasional vocalist, presented a raw, extremely aggressive sound
often featuring chromatic runs and dissonant chord progressions underneath a massive wall of distortion. Then The What Cheer? Brigade suddenly and unexpectedly paraded onto the ballroom floor, in costume as well. This 19-piece brass band from Providence is known for performing among the people in the crowd and bringing the audience into their performance. After the first song, an upbeat Carnival-type march, they settled down in the corner of the ballroom and switched to a Spanishsounding tune, heavy on the trumpets. Everyone, including the percussionists, continued to jump around the floor. The Brigade’s music was always upbeat and danceable, ranging from New Orleansstyle street marches, to stan-
dard brass band oom-pahs, to Bollywood-inspired Indian romps. A large portion of the audience joined in with the dancing during their songs as well. In keeping with the miscellaneous theme of the night thus far, the next band to perform was chiptune punk band Anamanaguchi, whose music featured a synthesizer running off the sound chip from an old Nintendo Entertainment System. There was also the traditional guitar, bass and drums set-up to supplement the classic video game sounds. A number of all-instrumental rock songs with prominent 1980s video game music melody lines characterised the band’s line-up, while changing, colorful patterns were projected onto the wall behind
them. The band performed its own version of Weezer’s “Buddy Holly,” its only song featuring vocals. A shift in tone occurred with A Sunny Day in Glasgow, a dream-pop group hailing from Philadelphia. The band had a wide range of synthesizers to go along with the usual guitar, bass, and drums. They too, appeared in costume for their performance. The band’s songs were all characterized by mesmerizing vamps based around attention-grabbing, but not overpowering, drums, with some sequenced synth loops and a driving bassline, as well as some flourishes on electric guitar. Dual vocals from the two female lead singers were usually present, sometimes with words and sometimes without. A few songs were of a
Finishing up my costume (Justin Bieber, of course) and then I’m heading out to Carriage! 9:15 p.m. - Scrapping the Biebs. Going as a sexy vampire, so I’m just wearing regular clothes, and I covered myself with sparkles. Girls love that, right? 10:12 p.m. - Just walked past a group of sexy everything on the walk over. Sure is a popular costume this year. My favorite was Sexy Jim Calhoun; that must have taken a LOT of time. 10:16 p.m. - Walked past a really tall dude wearing a UConn basketball jersey as his costume. Oh. Nevermind. It’s just Mandeldove. 10:31 - p.m. Quail-Man, Deadmau5 and the Teletubbies are taking a walk together. I
forgot how great this night can be. 11:15 - p.m. And the winner for “Most Offensive Costume” is… the guy who’s pretending to be gay! I could have sworn people have killed themselves because of jokes like that in the past month. 11:57 p.m. Headed into a house on Carriage. Let’s hope this is fun.
12:21 a.m. - Heard the following froms ome girls behind me coming back from Carriage from some girls behind me, about me: “Long hair, don’t care.” I’m fighting off tears. That one hurt. 12:46 a.m. - Pizza. Sleep. Tired. 7:30 p.m. - All right, Halloween take two. Tonight, I think I’ll be… whatever sports jersey I see in my closet first…. Tom Brady it is. It’s a good thing I had that Bieber wig from last night to complete the costume. 10:31 p.m. - Passed by Tobias Funke, who had just blued himself. I think he’s made a huge mistake. 11:17 p.m. - Made out with a sexy Jonathan The Husky. I’m not sure if I can see him in the same light again.
more conventional pop music verse/chorus format, but all featured an unmistakable laid back, ethereal and effectsheavy wall of sound. As it was Halloween weekend, many concert-goers came dressed in a wide range of costumes, and there was a costume competition right before the last set. The audience served as judges, their applause naming the winner. From a large group on stage including notables such as Link from The Legend of Zelda video games, a Na’vi from “Avatar”, and Canadian musician Deadmau5, it was the Eleventh Doctor, from the “Doctor Who” TV series, who won the crowd’s approval. The Doctor raised his sonic screwdriver high as he accepted a trophy.
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A typical UConn Halloween
By Joe O’Leary Staff Writer Whether you’re a freshman or in your last few semesters, the typical Halloween weekend can be summed up and applied to nearly everyone. From the wacky costumes to the more scandalous ones, some things just apply to everyone on this night of mayhem and trickery. The following is a timeline of the general experience over the course of three days. Maybe it doesn’t apply to everyone, but at least some aspects are definitely relatable. FRIDAY 7:00 p.m. - Aw man! I can’t wait for tonight, this is amazing!
SATURDAY 12:03 - a.m. OH GOD. CAN’T BREATHE. WHY? 12:05 a.m. Fought my way outside through a sea of sexy everythings again. I can’t believe how packed that party was. 12:16 a.m. - Group vote means it’s time for Sgt. Pep’s.
SUNDAY 1:13 a.m. - Hello, cop and RA. No, nothing is happening in my room. Those sounds you hear? It’s just my roommate snoring. The nine people in here are definitely not doing anything in this room, that’s for sure. Have a good night! 2:28 a.m. - My buddy Tom is trying to have a conversation. Excerpt: “What’s my last name?” “Tom!” “What’s my last name? LAST name!” “TOM!” 3:30 a.m. - Wings time. 12:20 p.m. - It’s actually Halloween now, but if I go out again tonight my liver may go on strike. Happy Halloween, UConn!
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In a world full of materialism and cynicism, it’s refreshing to learn about a new product with a genuine message behind it. A message that hits home for young people and sparks both the feeling of nostalgia and optimism for the future. The product I’m talking about, of course, is beer. But not just any brewer’s beer. I’m talking about the beer of Half Full Brewery. Last week, I caught up with Conor Horrigan, an MBA candidate here at UConn. We discussed his life journey through beer and how he began the process of drafting a business plan for the Connecticut-based microbrewery. Conor graduated from Notre Dame in 2004, majoring in finance with a minor in beer, prompted by his trip to study abroad in London and his penchant for traveling internationally. After spending some time on Wall Street, Horrigan decided he needed to be elsewhere – a place where he could apply his business knowledge and be passionate about a new career. After brainstorming with close friends, the idea of a brewery was born. Horrigan’s experience traveling abroad in Europe, South America and, most recently, Australia, has exposed him to various styles and types of beer. But more important were the people he was with, the weather, the aromas and the entire aura around the experience. Half Full Brewery is founded on this philosophy of the inherent social connection of the beverage: a beer symbolizing both where you’re from and where you’re going. The slogan, “We craft the beer, you craft the moment,” couldn’t be more appropriate, aligning perfectly with Horrigan’s reminder to always “look forward to more.” As if the upward battle of opening a business in this economy weren’t enough, Horrigan is up against even more. Connecticut has some of the highest utility costs and beer taxes out of any state, resulting in higher production costs for the brewery. But Horrigan’s motivation to keep his beer artisanal and cultural should persevere. He aims to launch with two flagship beers, an American Pale Ale hopped to 40 IBUs with Amarillo, Williamette, Centennial and Cascade hops. The second beer, the recipe not which formulated, was inspired by a beer he had while traveling in Australia, an Australian Blonde Ale, coming across as a more citrusy version of an American Blonde Ale. Horrigan plans to produce approachable brews that young people can relate to and enjoy. Through the use of a small pilot system, more experimental beers will be produced and reviewed through a polling group composed of friends, family and beer geeks. Through the use of these focus groups, polls on his website (www.halffullbrewery.com), and the use of social networking on facebook (www.faceboook.com/ halffullbrewery) and twitter (@halffullbrewery), Horrigan
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engaged Janet and Brad; Mercedes rocks the part of Dr. Frank-N-Furter typically played by a male and Kurt plays creepy servant Riff Raff. Rounding out the outstanding cast, Santana, Brittany, Tina and Quinn perform back-up vocals and dance numbers. While the plotline of the story has not grown very much this season (yes, we all know that Will is in love with Emma), this episode was by far the best performance-wise. When Will decides that Sam is too uncomfortable playing Rocky and that he must take over, Will enlists the help of Emma to learn what may be the most sexual song in the musical, “Touch-a, Touch-a, Photos courtesy of thegreat70s.com and buddytv.com Touch Me.” The pair performs A special Halloween epsidoe of “Glee,” pictured below featured the cast reenacting the cult with a sensual, shirtless, sex- classic, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” pictured above. ual tension-filled air, potentially foreshadowing what happens in the rest of the season. Sue Sylvester puts her cynical finishing touches on the episode, going undercover to reveal the inappropriateness of performing “Rocky Horror” in a high school. While it seems “Glee” has outdone itself this time, the show takes another weeklong break and comes back on Nov. 9, when Puck returns from his unexplained stint in juvie and New Directions takes on “Livin’ on a Prayer.”
As I was sitting in my cell biology class last week, I couldn’t help but overhear two students talking about how they could not wait to be doctors after watching the popular medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy.” This got me thinking about how realistic medical shows are. “Grey’s Anatomy” is currently in its seventh season and follows the lives of interns and residents at Seattle Grace Hospital. Over the past few seasons, viewers got a taste of the highs and lows of doctors trying to keep their personal lives in check. Titled “Grey’s Anatomy” after the medical textbook, and a reference to the last name of two characters, Meredith and Lexi, the show mostly focuses on the rigors of being surgical interns. The interns first introduced in the show are Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), Alex Karev (Justin Chambers), George O’Malley (T.R. Knight), Izzie Stevens (Katherine Heigl) and Christina Yang (Sandra Oh). Season 1 began with Meredith sleeping with Derek (Patrick Dempsey) before her first day of starting the surgical internship. Derek turns out to be one of Meredith’s mentors at the hospital and their rocky relationship continues into the next couple of seasons. The show then went on to focus on the relationships that form and break among the other interns and medical staff. Grey’s Anatomy is a feelgood-show that makes you wish that you were a surgeon working at Seattle Grace. One of the best lines in the show is in the first episode when Richard, the chief resident, says to the interns, “A month ago you were in med school being taught by doctors. Today you are the doctors.” Phrases like this get viewers excited about wanting to be a doctor, but they are also deceiving. In order to become a surgical intern, people need to perform well in rigorous undergraduate courses, ace their Medical College Admission Test and survive four years of medical school and board exams. Other popular medical dramas that show only one side of working in a hospital include “Scrubs”, “Private Practice” and “House”. These series show some of the positives of being a doctor, such as helping individuals in ways that other professions cannot, but they lack the reality of what it takes to be a doctor. Also, in many of these shows there are relationships that form between the doctors. This is unrealistic because when most individuals finish medical school they often are already married or in serious relationships. On the other hand, “Boston Med” is a series that shows the realities of what it is to be a doctor. The show is a documentary that follows the lives of real doctors in prestigious hospitals like Massachusetts General, Brigham and Women’s and Children’s Hospital Boston. Unlike other medical dramas, the show focuses more on the lives of doctors in the hospital as opposed to their outside relationships.
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CWTV’s cast of social elite keeps rating high and drama juicy 1. Yankees-Rangers 6 (TBSC) 11,863 2. Yankees-Rangers 4 (TBSC) 9,846 3. Titans/Jaguars (ESPN) 9,666 4. Yankees-Rangers 3 (TSBC) 8,214 5. Yankees-Rangers 5 - 6,107 6. Jersey Shore 2 (MTV) - 6,068 7. Boy Who Cried Werewolf (NICK) - 5,819 8. Boy Who Cried Wolf (NAN) 4,986 9. Inside the MLB (TBSC) 4,761 10. Boy Who Cried Werewolf (NICK) - 4,650 Numbers from TVbytheNumbers.com Week ending Oct. 24 (Numbers of viewers x 1000)
What I’m watching Hey Arnold! 1996-2004 Whenever this show comes onto Nickelodeon, it immediately takes me back to my childhood of sitting around watching the antics of Football Head and Gerald. Whether he’s getting stuck in a tree with Eugene, saving an abused turtle at the zoo with his grandma or busting out 1970s dance moves with Gerald to impress the 5th-grade girls, the cast made me wish I had friends with odd-shaped heads. Not only was the dialogue simple enough for a little 10-year-old like me, but even adults could be entertained by the more sophisticated references. For example, one episode is a reenacted version of the play, “Carmen,” complete with the same tunes of the song from the play with new words to fit the show. It had something for everyone. -Becky Radolf
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By Nicole Green Campus Correspondent After last season’s unexpected plot twist in the BlairChuck love saga and Jenny Humphrey’s banishment from Manhattan, the Upper East Side finds itself in turmoil when Little J returns to New York. In the beginning of the season, Blair succeeded in ruining Chuck’s relationship with Eva, and Chuck vowed to do everything he could to tear Blair to pieces. He calls in a favor to get Jenny back to the city, and suddenly Blair’s world is falling apart around her. Here’s a quick recap of the Season 3 finale: Chuck waits at the top of the Empire State
Building to propose to Blair. She tries to deny their compatibility, though ultimately she decides to go see him. Dorota’s water breaks by then, making Blair late. Chuck has already left, and as he drinks himself into a stupor, Jenny arrives at the apartment Chuck shares with Nate. When she sees that Nate isn’t there, she accepts a drink from Chuck and they have sex. Jenny confesses to Eric and Dan, and when Blair finds Chuck, she doesn’t know that he has taken Jenny’s virginity. Dan punches Chuck, and when Blair realizes what has happened, she wants nothing to with him. The season ends with Chuck in Prague, lying on the ground, shot and pre-
sumably dead. Save for Jenny, Blair, Chuck, Dan and Eric, no one on the Upper East Side knows what happened between Chuck and Jenny, and Blair knows both her and Chuck’s reputations are on the line should anyone find out. At the end of the episode, Jenny sends a Gossip Girl blast about that night, finally getting to Blair’s level and causing just as much destruction as the Queen B. This season has also seen the arrival of Nate’s new love interest, Juliet, whose brother is in prison for a mysterious crime apparently involving our favorite Upper East Siders. She’s spent most of the season plot-
ting against Serena and lying to Nate, but the audience has no idea what her real intentions are. Meanwhile, Serena spent the night with the cab stealer Colin, although she insists they didn’t sleep together. She later finds out that he is one of her professors, and he convinces her to drop his class for a semester so they can spend time together in a casual environment. “Gossip Girl” is staying strong this season, with ratings just as high as previous seasons. Next week, things are heating up between Blair and Chuck (again) and also with Serena and her professorturned-love -interest.
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Rocky horror raunchiness reenacted on ‘Glee’
By Nicole Green Campus Correspondent
With Halloween right around the corner, the highly anticipated fifth episode of the second season of “Glee” paid tribute to the upcoming spooky holiday and the even spookier 1973 musical, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” The episode opens with the kids of New Directions performing a number from “Rocky Horror,” when John Stamos, playing Emma’s new boyfriend Carl, appears on stage accusing Will of “messing with his woman.” Will then remembers the week prior when Emma told him that she and Carl saw “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Trying to impress her and win her back, Will tells Emma that he was planning to perform the musical for the entire school with the Glee Club. For those unfamiliar with “Rocky Horror,” the risqué musical follows a couple stranded by a storm one night when they come across the house of mad scientist and transvestite Dr. Frank-N-Furter. The doctor has created an Adonis-like creature named Rocky, who wears nothing but tight gold shorts for the entire movie. New kid Sam plays Rocky, showing off his amazing abs throughout most of the episode and helping Finn with his apparent body image issues. Finn and Rachel play newly
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When low-ranking
shows get the boot
It happens every year. With all the new TV shows that premiere year after year, the stations showing them have only a few hours each night to fill, leaving the lowest-ranked shows out in the cold. Yes, cancellation is an unfortunate thing, but it happens. Cult favorites like “Firefly,” “Arrested Development” and “Pushing Daisies” have been cut down in their prime in the past decade alone. In case you’re wondering about your favorite show’s chances of continuing, here are some updates on each station’s progression this year, and which shows might get the short end of the stick.
the pace for the other networks with the first cancellation of the year. “Lonestar,” a critically-hailed show about a con man, was wiped from the schedule after two weeks way back in September. Also on the chopping block due to low ratings: “The Good Guys,” a cop comedy that debuted over the summer, and “Running Wilde,” a follow up from “Arrested Development” creator Mitch Hurwitz about a billionaire oil tycoon. Finally, the network has an interesting scenario; both “Fringe” and “Lie to Me” are battling for the final open slot on the schedule. Right now “Fringe” has the upper hand, so expect the axe to fall on the Tim Roth drama. All other shows should be fine.
FOX Fox, like in most years, set
ABC Right behind Fox, ABC had
CBS CBS has renewed all five new shows from this year, not much is changing on the No. 1 network. The only show to end this year will be the longrunning “Medium.” CBS still maintains it’s strong primetime lineup.
NEW YORK (AP) – The red bow tie is back. The white chunky loafers are, too. So is that too-tight gray suit. The Secret Word today is: Comeback. Pee-wee has returned from exile. Paul Reubens, who virtually abandoned the cult character he created nearly two decades ago following scandal, is making his Broadway debut with a reworking of the same theatrical show that started Pee-wee’s career in the late 1980s. “I think it’s full circle. I view it even a little fuller, I guess. I feel that it’s full circle in that I can come back around to a really good place where I was. As opposed to having my career end on this really sour note,” says Reubens during an interview before a recent rehearsal. “I absolutely feel like I want to redeem myself to a degree and this seemed like a really pure way to do it.” Reubens, now 58, has been soaking up the attention this time around. He has donned his Pee-wee suit and popped up all over New York to drum up attention for “The Pee-wee Herman Show,” which officially opens Nov. 11. Everywhere he goes, people say: “Welcome back!” and “Glad you’re back.” “I really just never got any of this the first time around,” he
says, getting a little teary. “I feel really lucky and really blessed right now. I just feel like it’s my time right now. The stars are aligning for me.” Reubens, who is as quiet and thoughtful in real life as Peewee is zany and high-pitched, is still slim and boyish. He’s dressed for California on this chilly New York day – jacketless in jeans, a plaid shirt and a clunky digital watch. He’s pressed for time – so much of it has been lost. “I wasn’t feeling it for a long time. And then all of a sudden it became a long time. All of a sudden I was like, ‘Wow. How do you come back now out of this?’ And you know what the answer was? You just do it,” he says. “I didn’t feel like I needed anyone’s permission to come back. And what do I have to lose? Nothing really.” Much of Pee-wee’s exile has been self-imposed since Reubens’ July 1991 arrest for indecent exposure in an adultmovie house in Sarasota, Fla. He was handed a small fine but the damage to the character was incalculable. “When I was arrested in 1991, offers poured in,” he says. “All kinds. I mean, some of those offers weren’t things that I wanted to do and were taking advantage of the luridness of my situation, but I haven’t really had trouble working or existing or having a career. It just changed. Everything changed.” For a performer who had spent a long time and a lot of energy tying to make people think Peewee was real, Reubens watched
as the public unmasking (he also pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor obscenity charge in 2004) put a cloud over his best-known alter ego. “It was one thing to say, ‘Paul Reubens, he’s this or that.’ Or yuck or ick or whatever you wanted to say. But to move that into this work that I loved and that I thought was special, and that I thought was important – that was extreme to me. That was something that the second it happened, I went, ‘Wow, that is so sad.’ And I can’t do anything about it.” Reubens continued to act, playing characters other than Pee-wee and scoring successes in “Batman Returns” in 1992 and a 1995 Emmy nomination for a recurring guest role on “Murphy Brown.” He has also been on “30 Rock” and had prominent roles in the films “Nailed” and “Life During Wartime.” In the years since the arrest, some could argue that Reubens got a raw deal, at least in comparison to other public figures who have almost instantly jumped back from controversy. Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, brought down in a prostitution scandal in 2008, is on CNN. Don Imus, accused of racism in 2007, was back on the radio within a few months. Reubens’ crime hurt no one but himself. “I’ve become wise and mature. Not Pee-wee, but me. I’m absolutely a different person,” he says. “All those cliches about what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger? Somehow, I wound up being this evolved,
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its own early cancellation; the drama “My Generation” was pulled off after two weeks of low ratings. Lawyer show “The Whole Truth” was also pulled last season. ABC is still reeling after losing the ratings of “LOST” last year, and its attempts to fill that hole aren’t going well. “V” should only get a few more episodes in the winter before getting cut, “FlashForward” was canceled despite decent ratings, and new show “No Ordinary Family” is quickly falling out of favor with the network.
NBC NBC’s “Outlaw” is the final early cancellation of this past season. The show, doomed by a Friday premiere, was gone after two weeks. “Chuck” seems to be walking the ratings tightrope with ratings as low as ever, but is getting help from “Undercovers” and “Chase,” both of which are falling below it in the ratings. “The Event” and “Parenthood” are also in trouble at this point. Interestingly, the network has five comedies in its popular Thursday night for four programming slots; the full-season order the network gave “Outsourced” means that one of their other four shows, “Community,” “Parks and Recreation,” “The Office” and “30 Rock” won’t make it past the spring.
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Jim Loach’s debut film deals with child abuse
ROME (AP) — The first feature film by Jim Loach looks at the true story of the deportation of thousands of children from Britain to Australia and the abuse they suffered. The director said he sees it as a tale of survival and the indomitable human spirit. Loach, English director Ken Loach’s son, told The Associated Press on Sunday that he was fascinated by the woman who uncovered the scandal and is at the center of the movie: a social worker who worked doggedly to reunite families and bring authorities to account. He became fascinated by the personalities of the former child migrants, some of whom he met, and questions of identity. Ultimately, he felt the story needed to be told. “The story itself was shocking and appalling and amazing,” Loach said at the Rome film festival, where “Oranges and
Sunshine” was presented. “We couldn’t believe that it had happened and we were amazed that so little had been said about it.” Under the program, between 1920 to 1960s, an estimated 150,000 British children were sent to Australia and other distant colonies. The program was intended to ease pressure on British social services and provide the children with a fresh start (“oranges and sunshine”), but many of them ended up in institutions where they were physically and sexually abused, or were sent to work as farm laborers. Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said this year that he sorry for the “shameful” and “misguided” program. In Australia, Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd called the caretakers in Australia “a ring of pedophiles” as he apologized last year for his country’s role in the scheme.
Paul Reubens’ Pee-wee is enjoying his second act wise person.” Even in exile, he and Peewee had unfinished business. Reubens, who says he has several TV and movie scripts in his head starring his quirky nerd, wanted to bring him back. “I didn’t see any reason to put Peewee away,” he says. So he went back to the beginning: a live show based on the “The Pee-wee Herman Show” that debuted in Los Angeles in 1981 and was a success with both kids during matinees and adults at a midnight show. It inspired Tim Burton’s feature “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” in 1985 and another film, “Big Top Pee-wee,” three years later. His television series, “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” ran for five seasons, earned 22 Emmys and attracted not only children but adults to Saturday-morning TV. Both silly and subversive and championing nonconformity, the Pee-wee universe is a trippy place, populated by things such as a talking armchair and a friendly pterodactyl. The host, who is fond of secret words and loves fruit salad so much he once married it, is prone to lines like, “I know you are, but what am I?” and “Why don’t you take a picture; it’ll last longer?” The act was a hit because it worked on multiple levels, even though Reubens insists that wasn’t the plan. “It’s for kids,” says Reubens. “People have tried to get me for years to go, ‘It wasn’t really for kids, right?’ Even the original show was for kids. I always censored myself to have it be kid-friendly.
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In this photo, Paul Reubens, in character as Pee-wee Herman, poses on stage after a performance of “The Pee-wee Herman Show” on Broadway in New York.
Connecticut brewery has passion for product from BREWING, page 7 encourages people to get involved. He begins the fundraising stage over winter break, and in the meantime hopes to get friends and family interested and excited about this philosophy behind the product, to think more about the beer they drink and get behind a product with a unique message. This very philosophy is what sets Half Full apart from other breweries – great beer with a great message. With craft beer on
the rise in Connecticut, the passion and drive behind Half Full are sure to result in a great product for beer drinkers statewide. For more information and to learn about how to get involved, check out Horrigan’s website, Facebook, or send him an email: conor@halffullbrewery.com. Meanwhile, be sure to take his advice to “wake up, seize the day, and grab a beer and talk about how you plan to do so again tomorrow.” Cheers!
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Supreme Court to hear violent video game case
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In election’s shadow, rally draws laughs and activism
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) – Before picking up any Wii games or downloading apps on her iPhone for her two daughters, Lillian Quintero does her homework. She’ll first read reviews online and in magazines, then try them out for herself. If she thinks the games are engaging and educational enough, 4-year-old Isabella and 2-year-old Sophia are free to play. “I know there’s going to be a point where they get these things on their own,” said the 35-yearold mother from Long Beach, Calif. “We’re not going to be there to monitor everything. That’s why the most important thing is communication, instilling morals and values in them and helping them to understand certain boundaries. There’s only so much you can do.” Quintero and her husband, Jorge, are some of the parents who support a California law that seeks to ban the sale and rental of violent games to children. The law, which has bounced around the legal system like a game of “Pong” since Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger first signed it in 2005, was declared unconstitutional last year by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday about the federal court’s decision to throw out California’s ban on violent games, marking the first time a case involving the interactive medium itself has gone before the Supreme Court. It’s another sign that the $20 billiona-year industry, long considered to be just child’s play, is now all grown up. California’s measure would have regulated games more like pornography than movies, prohibiting the sale or rental of games that give players the option of “killing, maiming, dismembering, or sexually assaulting an image of a human being” to anyone under the age of 18. Only retailers would be punished with fines of up to $1,000 for each infraction. The federal court said the law violated minors’ constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth amendments and the state lacked enough evidence to prove violent games cause physical and psychological harm to minors. Courts in six other states, including Michigan and Illinois, have reached similar conclusions, striking down parallel violent game bans. Under California’s law, only adults would be able to purchase games like “Postal 2,” the firstperson shooter by developer Running With Scissors that features the ability to light unarmed bystanders on fire, and “Grand Theft Auto IV,” the popular third-person shoot-’em-up from Rockstar Games that allows gamers to portray carjacking, gun-toting gangsters. The Quinteros, like most sup-
porters, believe the law will protect children from buying such violent titles, while gamers and free speech advocates think California’s ban could lead to strict federal regulation on the content of games and other media. All agree, however, that the graphically rich medium has come a long way from 8-bit tennis matches. The average age of gamers is 34, according to the Entertainment Software Association, and many are paying close attention to the Supreme Court case. The Entertainment Consumers Association, which lobbies on behalf of gamers, is organizing a rally outside the Supreme Court building Tuesday as “a way of sending a strong message and uniting gamers.” “It’s not so much a video game case as a First Amendment case,” said George Rose, chief public policy officer at Activision Blizzard Inc., the Santa Monica, Calif.-based publisher of the popular “Call of Duty” and “Guitar Hero” gaming franchises. The gamemaker filed a friend-of-the-court brief opposing California’s ban, which was never enforced. Other allies in the fight include Xbox manufacturer Microsoft Corp., “Star Wars” publisher LucasArts, The Recording Academy, Motion Picture Association of America, as well as the Entertainment Merchants Association and Entertainment Software Association, which sued to block California’s ban, calling it “unnecessary, unwarranted and unconstitutional.” Opponents of the ban have called the measure unnecessary because virtually all major game publishers and retailers employ a universal voluntary
rating system, much like movie studios and theaters, that assigns one of eight age-specific ratings to games, then blocks the sale of games that are rated M for “mature” and AO for “adults only” to children. The gaming industry has actually done a better job of preventing minors from buying entertainment not intended for their age group than the music and film industries, according to the Federal Trade Commission. In a report released last year, the FTC found that 20 percent of minors were able to buy M-rated games, down from 42 percent three years earlier. In contrast, 72 percent of minors were able buy music CDs with explicit content warnings, 50 percent were sold R-rated and unrated DVDs and 28 percent purchased tickets to R-rated movies. The FTC noted there were gaps in enforcement of age-based sales restrictions, specifically with the use of gift cards in online purchases and unrestricted mobile games. The Parents Television Council, which supports California’s ban on violent games, conducted its own secret shopper campaign this year with children between the ages of 12 and 16 attempting to buy M-rated games at 109 stores in 14 states. The group found 21 instances of retailers, including Target, Kmart, Sears and Best Buy, selling M-rated games to minors. Leland Yee, the Democratic state senator and child psychologist who originally authored the law, contends the gaming industry’s rating system is not effective because of the sweeping scope of games, which are longer and more intricate than
movies. Yee said he believes violent games are more harmful to children because of the medium’s interactive nature. “This isn’t an attack on the First Amendment,” said Yee. “I’m a supporter of the First Amendment. This is about not making ultra violent video games available to children. Within the bill, the definition of a violent video game is so narrowly tailored because of my respect for the First Amendment. This isn’t to stop the creation of violent video games.” Yee’s position hasn’t stopped the Entertainment Software Association’s Video Game Voters Network from targeting him. The group has asked gamers to write “I believe in the First Amendment” on old or broken controllers and send them to Yee. When asked about the joystick campaign, the senator scoffed and said that any gifts he received would be returned. The Quinteros, who practice yoga poses in their living room during rounds of “Wii Fit,” won’t be sending their Wii Balance Board to Yee. While they believe it’s ultimately up to parents to police what games their children play, Lillian and Jorge agree that they would feel more comfortable if violent games were legally off limits from being sold to kids. “It’s one less way for children to have access to it,” said Jorge, a 35-year-old middle school teacher who recently bought an iPad. “It’s common sense. You don’t pick a weenie off the grill with your hands because you know your hand will get burned. We shouldn’t let children buy something violent that they don’t think will affect them.”
WASHINGTON (AP) – In the shadow of the Capitol and the election, comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert entertained a huge throng Saturday at a “sanity” rally poking fun at the nation’s ill-tempered politics, fear-mongers and doomsayers. “We live now in hard times,” Stewart said after all the shtick. “Not end times.” Part comedy show, part pep talk, the rally drew together tens of thousands stretched across an expanse of the National Mall, a festive congregation of the goofy and the politically disenchanted. People carried signs merrily protesting the existence of protest signs. Some dressed like bananas, wizards, Martians and Uncle Sam. Stewart, a satirist who makes his living skewering the famous, came to play nice. He decried the “extensive effort it takes to hate” and declared “we can have animus and not be enemies.” Screens showed a variety of pundits and politicians from the left and right, engaged in divisive rhetoric. Prominently shown: Glenn Beck, whose conservative Restoring Honor rally in Washington in August was part of the motivation for the Stewart and Colbert event, called the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. It appeared to rival Beck’s rally in attendance. Colbert, who poses as an ultraconservative on his show, played the personification of fear at the rally. He arrived on stage in a capsule like a rescued Chilean miner, from a supposed underground bunker. He pretended to distrust all Muslims until one of his heroes, basketball great Kareem AbdulJabbar, who is Muslim, came on the stage. “Maybe I need to be more discerning,” Colbert mused. He told Stewart: “Your reasonableness is poisoning my fear.” As part of the comedic routine, Stewart and his associates asked some in the audience to identify themselves by category, eliciting answers such as “half-Mexican, half-white,” ‘’American woman single” and “Asian-American from Taiwan.” “It’s a perfect demographic sampling of the American people,” Stewart cracked to a crowd filled with mostly younger whites. “As you know, if you have too many white people at a rally, your cause is racist. If you have too many people of color, then you must be asking for something – special rights, like eating at restaurants or piggy back rides.” With critical congressional elections looming Tuesday, Stewart and Colbert refrained from taking political sides on stage, even as many in the crowd wore T-shirts that read “StewartColbert 2012” and left-leaning advocacy groups set up shop on the periphery, hoping to draw people to their causes of gay rights, marijuana legalization,
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Psychokiller Jigsaw has come back to life at the box office. Lionsgate’s “Saw 3D,” billed as the final installment in the series about Jigsaw’s legacy of bloody terror, debuted as the Halloween weekend’s No. 1 movie with $24.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. That was $10 million more than the debut of last year’s “Saw VI,” the first dud in the annual horror franchise. “Last year, a lot of people said, ‘OK, that’s it. Put a fork in it, it’s done,’” said David Spitz, head of distribution for Lionsgate. “The following week, we were all disappointed and thought, what can we do to reinvigorate the franchise? So we shot the movie in 3-D and said this is the final chapter.” It paid off, though “Saw 3D” still brought a modest return compared to earlier chapters in the “Saw” series, whose second, third, fourth and fifth movies all topped $30 million over open-
ing weekend. “Saw 3D” also had a soft debut compared to the previous weekend’s No. 1 movie, Paramount’s “Paranormal Activity 2,” a newer fright franchise that opened with $40.7 million. “Paranormal Activity 2” slipped to No. 2 this weekend, raising its total to $65.7 million. “Seven years into it, obviously, that’s a long time for one franchise to hold up year after year,” said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. “Other types of horror movies have come into vogue. ‘Saw’ is part of that whole torture-porn genre, which has gone from great success to lesser success. But they’ve had a good run. There’s nothing to complain about here.” “Saw 3D” also had the benefit of premium prices for 3-D screenings, which cost a few dollars more than tickets for 2-D movies. According to Lionsgate, 3-D projection accounted for roughly 77 percent of “Saw 3D” screenings but 92 percent of the
movie’s revenues. Summit Entertainment’s action comedy “Red” continued to hold up well, finishing at No. 3 with $10.8 million and lifting its total to $58.9 million. Another franchise playing in 3-D for the first time, Paramount’s “Jackass 3D,” crossed the $100 million mark, coming in at No. 4 with $8.4 million. The stunt and prank comedy raised its haul to $101.6 million. In narrower release, Fox Searchlight’s legal drama “Conviction” broke into the top-10 after two weeks in a handful of theaters. Starring Hilary Swank in the real-life story of a woman who put herself through law school to free her brother on a murder rap, “Conviction” was No. 10 with $1.8 million, playing in 565 theaters and averaging a modest $3,230 a cinema. That compared to an $8,618 average in 2,808 theaters for “Saw 3D.”
Also in narrower release, Music Box Films had solid results for “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,” which follows “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and “The Girl Who Played With Fire” to finish the trilogy based on late author Stieg Larsson’s bestselling thrillers. “Hornet’s Nest” took in $735,000 in 121 theaters, averaging $6,074 a cinema. The Swedish-language film has Larsson’s troubled savant Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) targeted by ruthless conspirators. Director David Fincher is shooting Sony Pictures’ English-language remake of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” starring Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig. The movie is due in theaters in December 2011. Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Final figures will be released Monday.
In this film publicity image released by Lionsgate Entertainment, Gina Holden is shown in a scene from, “Saw 3D.”
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In this May 4 photo, Jennifer Dibean and her daughter, Ashley, 6, shop for video games at Game Hits Gamestore in Lansing, Mich.
abortion rights and more. Organizing for America, Obama’s political operation based at Democratic National Committee headquarters, was mounting a “Phone Bank for Sanity” to urge people to vote Tuesday. Stewart sang along as Jeff Tweedy sang that America “is the greatest, strongest country in the world. There is no one more American than we.” Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow also performed, singing if “I can’t change the world to make it better, the least I can do is care.” Ozzy Osbourne and Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, engaged in something of a battle of the bands as the heavy-metal rocker barged in on the folkie’s hit, “Peace Train,” in a mock clash of music and cultures. Tony Bennett closed the show by singing “America the Beautiful.” The idea was to provide a counterweight to all the shouting and flying insults of these polarized times. But there were political undertones, too, pushing back against conservatives ahead of Tuesday’s election. Slogans urged people to “relax.” But also: “Righties, don’t stomp on my head,” a reference to a Republican rally in Kentucky at which a liberal activist was pulled to the ground and stepped on. And, “I wouldn’t care if the president was Muslim.” Shannon Escobar, 31, of Bangor, Pa., came with a group of 400 people on buses chartered in New York. A supporter of President Barack Obama in 2008, she said she’s tired of nasty rhetoric from both sides and disenchanted with lack of progress in Washington. “I want to see real change – not Obama change,” she said. “We need a clean slate and start over with people really working together.” A regular viewer of Stewart’s “The Daily Show,” she said she had a dream that he ran for political office, but got “corrupt and dirty.” “I need him to stay pure,” she said, deadpan. Stewart is popular with Democrats and independents, a Pew Research Center poll found. The stage featured entertainers associated with Democratic causes or Obama’s 2008 campaign, but no political sermons from them. Stewart said the day was about toning down anger, partisan division and shouting. “If we amplify everything,” he said, “we hear nothing.” Many of the attendees, sporting stickers that read “Vote Sanity,” said they enjoyed the rally’s positive message, even if the program ultimately stuck mostly to entertainment. In the days leading to the event, organizers had refused to release a full schedule of speakers, leaving fans uncertain about what to expect.
‘Saw 3D’ takes top box-office slice with $24.2M
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Without baseball, New York now turns toward other sports By Michael Ferraro Tri-State Sports Columnist With the New York Yankees eliminated from the playoffs by the Texas Rangers, New York sports fans will look for football as their solace. The Yankees were absolutely outplayed and outmatched in their ALCS series against the Rangers. Cliff Lee made the Yankees look like a high school junior varsity squad, but the Yankees re-signed their manager Joe Girardi for three years. The Giants and Jets are both having great seasons so far. The Giants’ defense has been on a rampage throughout the whole season. They have knocked out five quarterbacks so far this season, starting in Week One when they knocked out Carolina Panthers’ quarterback Matt Moore. The onslaught continued against
the Bears, where they knocked out Jay Cutler with a concussion after nine first-half sacks and knocked out the backup Todd Collins. Two weeks ago, the Giants broke the arm of the Lions backup quarterback Shaun Hill. The Giants then put the final nail in the coffin of the Dallas Cowboys’ season when they broke the left collarbone of Tony Romo. In the Giants’ win against Dallas, Eli Manning shredded the Dallas pass defense for four touchdowns after throwing two early interceptions. Everyone on the Giants looked back to form in the game against Dallas, but that isn’t saying much seeing how the Cowboys are a lowly 1-6 on the season. With the win, the Giants move into sole possession of first place with a 5-2 record. The Giants will next travel to Seattle to play
a surprising Seahawks team. The Jets were 5-1, after their bye last week, where they hosted the injuryplagued Green Bay Packers. Since their opening week loss to the Baltimore Ravens, the Jets offense had been playing superb until today. In an ugly 9-0 shutout lost to the Green Bay Packers, the Jets offense never got going. The turning point in the game came when the Jets tried a fake punt attempt on a fourth and 18 from their own 20-yard line. After the failed attempt, the Packers were left in prime field position. The result of the attempt cost the Jets a field goal. The Jets were sloppy all game long, with Mark Sanchez throwing two interceptions and kicker Nick Folk missing a 37-yard field goal which would have tied the game. Numerous mistakes
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Huskies win 2 out of 3 this weekend
By Carmine Colangelo Campus Correspondent
The UConn women’s swimming and diving picked up where they left off, winning two out of their three meets this weekend at the Big East Four Team Invitational. In the two-day event, which ran on Friday and Saturday, the Huskies beat Georgetown 25796, lost to Villanova 200-153 and beat Rutgers by a score of 224-129. The first day of the event in Piscataway, N.J. was all preliminary events and the scoring was done on Saturday. The meets were the first dual scoring events for the Huskies this season. Junior Caitlin Gallagher led the way for the Huskies again winning a pair of events this weekend. Gallagher won both the 200-yard individual medley and the 400-yard individual medley with times of 2:06.39 and 4:25.83 respectively. She
also had a second place finish in the 100-yard backstroke. Gallagher was also a big winner last weekend, winning three events at the Husky Invitational. This event also had diving,
SWIMMING & DIVING Notebook in addition to swimming, for the first time this season for the Huskies. Sophomore Danielle Cecco won the women’s onemeter dive with a score of 248.30. She also came in second place in the three meter dive with a score of 269.35, missing first place by .15 to Jennifer Betz of Rutgers. Some other notable perfor-
mances by the Huskies were freshman Kaitlin Kyle, who came in second place at 100-yard backstroke with a time of 57.64, and junior Erin Devinney, who also came in second at the 200yard butterfly. The Huskies won the 200-yard freestyle relay with junior Ye Ling, freshman Katie Dobler, sophomore Isabelle Nat and senior Sophie Stakiewicz. The men also won their events this weekend against Georgetown and Villanova, with scores of 224-127 and 263-90 respectively. After both teams swept the Husky Invitational last weekend, their great play seems to continue as they were successful in the pool over the weekend against some very qualified opponents. The Huskies will return to action this coming Saturday Nov. 6 against Army at 1 p.m. in the Wolff-Zackin Natatorium.
and turnovers left the Jets at 5-2, and shutout for the first time since losing to the Chicago Bears at home 10-0 on Nov. 19, 2006. The Jets will travel to Detroit next week where they will play the Lions who won earlier today against the Washington Redskins. That game will be no easy task for the Jets as the Lions are a tough 2-5 football team, especially at home. I forgot to mention the Buffalo Bills in the last column, but it’s hard not to blame me, considering they are the NFL’s lone winless team with a record of 0-7. Even though they have been awful, they have played the Ravens and Chiefs tough, losing in the last seconds of overtime on a Ryan Succop field goal for a 13-10 Chiefs win. In the NBA, the New York Knicks have started the season 1-2 but they have
played the Trail Blazers and Boston Celtics tough in their two losses. The Knicks so far seem to have improved from last season, but really they could only go up from where they have been. The New Jersey Nets are playing good basketball; already having two wins, something they didn’t do until December of last season, so the Nets are already having a much better season than last year. Look for this basketball season to be a lot more interesting with the Knicks and Nets both playing better basketball. In the NHL, all the New York and New Jersey teams are in the cellar of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference. After a hot start, the Islanders have lost four straight and now sit in fourth place with 10 points, behind the Flyers, Penguins and Rangers. The Rangers have 11
points and are only two points out of first place. The Devils, however, have just been awful, with an NHL-worst seven points. While the Rangers and Islanders have some hope this season, the Devils might be a lost cause, especially after benching their star left winger Ilya Kovalchuk, who signed a 15-year $100 million contract. New York fans have a lot to look forward this season in football with the Giants and Jets both having stellar years and fighting for division titles. Bills fans have to look forward to a possible No.1 pick in next year’s draft, but they have company with the Carolina Panthers and Dallas Cowboys both at 1-6. Basketball and hockey seasons are in their infancy, but it should be an interesting season for both.
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Celebration at Rentschler
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An aerial view of UConn students rushing the field Friday night after the Huskies' win over West Virginia.
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Boston College and UConn come to draw at Freitas By Dan Agabiti Staff Writer
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Junior defenseman Rebecca Hewitt moves the puck up the ice in search of a teammate during Saturday’s game against Boston College.
Because of three hardfought periods and an overtime Saturday, the UConn women’s hockey team tied a Boston College team that ranks in the top 10 in the nation. After a three-game stretch during which they were outscored 19-1, the Huskies looked like they would be a heavy underdog going into Saturday’s match against a team with two Canadian Olympians. But two early goals were enough to bring match against a talented Eagles’ squad to a draw. Both teams came out hungry to put the other away early in the game. UConn came out pressing hard trying to gain some confidence in addition to an early lead, while Boston College did the same, trying to bury a young UConn squad before its confidence could increase. The Huskies’ efforts were
successful and with 4:43 remaining in the 1st period, freshman Stephanie Raithby’s second goal of the season off a pass from freshman Taylor Gross gave the Huskies the 1-0 lead. Just under three minutes later, the Huskies struck again. With 1:52 remaining, sophomore Maude Blain scored off a pass from freshman UConn Jenna Welch to put the Huskies up 2-0. BC While the first period went well for UConn, Boston College dominated the final two periods. Just over five minutes into the second period, Boston College’s Kelli Stack scored her eighth goal of the season off a face-off. For the rest of the period, it seemed as if UConn was content with a small lead and played on their heels while Boston College
dominated the puck with a continuous attack. The Eagles tied the match 7:32 into the third period with Melisssa Bizzari’s third goal of the season. In the final two periods while almost totally controlling possession, the Eagles outshot the Huskies 26-5. While she admits the statistic is decent gauge of her 2 team’s effort, coach Heather Linstad 2 said that as long as the opponent didn’t score more than they did, statistics don’t matter. “I still think we are a young team without much play in the league. We were a lot more relaxed in the first period with the lead, but later on we started to worry about giving up goals rather than getting a third goal. We’re still learning that in order to win, we have to score three goals a game...we need to
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» NFL
Patriots defeat Vikings 28-18; Favre knocked out
Brett Favre is tended to by the Vikings’ training staff during the fourth quarter of their game against the Patriots. Favre left the game and did not return.
Broken play. Quarterback scrambles away from the rush, spins to elude another defender and chucks it downfield. Not Brett Favre: Tom Brady. The Patriots quarterback showed he can sling it like the ol’ gunslinger, connecting with Brandon Tate for a 65-yard touchdown on a broken play as New England beat the Minnesota Vikings 28-18 on Sunday and knocked Favre out of the game in the process. “I really can’t complain, although I probably should,” said Favre, who left in the fourth quarter with a cut on his chin that he said needed eight stitches. “I have a broken foot. I have eight stitches in my chin. I’ve had tendinitis in my elbow, but I threw it as well as I have all season.” Backup Tarvaris Jackson threw for a touchdown on his first play and a 2-point conversion on his second, but he didn’t get the ball back until the twominute warning had sounded and the Vikings trailed by 10. Favre was 22 for 32 for 259 yards, throwing an interception on a tipped ball and taking two intentional grounding penalties
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when he tried to avoid sacks. Favre, who has started an NFL-record 292 consecutive game, said he expected to play next week against Arizona. “I hope Favre’s OK,” Brady said. BenJarvus Green-Ellis scored two touchdowns—the first multitouchdown game of his career— getting his first on a 13-yard run to make it 21-10. Favre then drove Minnesota (2-5) to the New England 3 yard-line before he was flattened by defensive lineman Myron Pryor. Jackson relieved him and threw a 1-yard touchdown pass to Naufahu Tahi on the first play, then hit Percy Harvin for the 2-point conversion that made it 21-18. But Brady engineered a 13-play, 80-yard drive, with Green-Ellis getting cartwheeled into the end zone to make it 28-18 with just 1:56 left. Green-Ellis ran 17 times for 112 yards to give the Patriots (6-1) their fifth straight victory. Brady completed 16 of 27 passes for 240 yards, including an ad-libbed touchdown pass to Tate that gave New England the lead for good with 8 minutes left in the third quarter.
Final night for UConn seniors Stopping Eagles’ star power key to tie
By Ryan Tepperman Staff Writer
As the final seconds ticked away in UConn’s game against Rutgers, the last of the regular season, it was a bittersweet moment in the decorated career of senior Melissa Gonzalez. “You come in fascinated with the program, and go out feeling the same way,” Gonzalez said after the Huskies toppled the Scarlet Knights 6-0 Saturday afternoon. “I love this team. I loved all four teams I played for, and it’s great when you get to see all the hard work you put in pay off.” UConn honored Gonzalez, who was an All-American and the Big East Defense Player of the Year in 2009, along with forwards Robin Kleine and Anna Easty and backup goalkeeper Allison Karpiak – who hasn’t surrendered a goal in nearly 90 minutes of action this season – before the start of the game against Rutgers. Sophomore Allison Angulo sang the National Anthem as a special tribute to her teammates. In total, this year’s senior class has compiled a 72-14 record, good for a .837 winning percentage. They have also been to three NCAA tournaments, a Final Four and boast a combined five Big East
regular season and tournament championships, the most recent of which came in last year’s conference tournament. “Their class has left its mark on the program,” said coach Nancy Stevens. “And now they’re gonna make a run at a national championship. The goal is to make sure the season goes on as long as possible.”
FIELD HOCKEY Notebook But first things first: the Huskies have their 2009 Big East Tournament title to defend. With the win over Rutgers, UConn secured the No. 3 seed in next weekend’s conference tourney, pitting them in a rematch with No. 10 Louisville. The Cardinals won a 3-2 overtime decision when the teams met in Louisville, Ky. earlier this year. This time, however, the game will be played on the friendly confines of the George J. Sherman Family Sports Complex, the same venue where the Huskies have posted a perfect 8-0 record on the season.
No. 7 Syracuse, who is the co-regular season champs with Louisville, will face Rutgers in the other semifinal matchup. The two winners will then square off for the Big East Tournament title on Sunday. Honoring the ’85 Huskies
With athletic director Jeff Hathaway on hand, UConn celebrated the 25th anniversary of the 1985 NCAA championship team during halftime of the Rutgers game. The ‘85 Huskies went 19-2 before defeating Old Dominion 3-2 in the NCAA tournament finals. “It felt like it was yesterday,” said former head coach Diane Wright about the ’85 season. “Some of [the players] I haven’t seen for 25 years… It’s great to see the journey in everyone’s lives, their families and how they’re all doing such meaningful things with their lives.” Several members of the ‘85 team returned to UConn for the presentation, and they all received commemoratory field hockey sticks. The team was also honored at halftime of the West Virginia football game Friday night at Rentschler Field.
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unassisted goal by Stack in the second period. “Our goal is always to play In an interview a few days prior good defense and obviously we to the UConn women’s ice hockey don’t want one or two people to showdown with Boston College on capitalize on that,” Linstad said. Saturday, coach Heather Linstad “Defensively, I thought we played stated her concern with the Husky really well one-on-one against football team’s early season woes. them. We did a good job.” Perhaps the biggest issue “We only do well when the footplaguing the Huskies thus far, ball team does well,” she said. This statement turned out to who moved to 1-6-1 on the be nearly prophetic, as the day season with the tie, has been a after the UConn football team lack of offensive production. shocked West Virginia in over- But they scored two goals in the first period time, the hockey against Boston team took the No. 6 College, one more team in the country, than the total numBoston College, to ber of goals they had overtime. But the produced in their women’s hockey last three games, all team was unable losses. The Huskies to capitalize in were able to put 11 overtime the way Notebook shots on goal during that kicker Dave an impressive first Teggart had for the football team on Friday night, and 20 minutes of the game, but only mustered seven over the were forced to settle for a 2-2 tie. Going into the matchup, a next two periods. “We had more of a relaxed key to the game for the Huskies was to limit the star power of atmosphere in the first period, just the Eagles. Boston College fea- going out and playing,” Linstad tures two of the most prolif- said. “Once we got the lead we ic offensive players in all of got back on our heels and were Hockey East, Kelli Stack and more worried about giving up Taylor Wasylk. Stack is a for- a goal than getting a third one. mer Olympian and the 2009 That’s something that we need to TPI Hockey East Player of the hammer home” The Huskies had a rematch with Year, while Wasylk, just a freshman, has made an immediate Boston College on Sunday, this impact for her team. She leads time in Chestnut Hill, Mass., and Boston College in points with were unable to build off of the 12 and has accumulated three momentum gained by tying one consecutive Hockey East Pro of the top teams in the counAmbitions Rookie of the Week try. The offensive woes from the honors. Entering Saturday’s second, third and overtime perigame against UConn, Stack and ods on Saturday carried over to Wasylk combined to average just the rematch on Sunday, with the less than four points per game. Huskies falling 3-0. But the Huskies were able to hold them to just one point, an Peter.Logue@UConn.edu
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capitalize more than we did,” Linstad said. In spite of having four power play opportunities, the Eagles were unable to capitalize on any of them, which Linstad was pleased about. “Our goal is always to play good defense and I think we did that pretty well...They didn’t score on them, they have a solid power play and for them not to get on the board that way was big for us and we did a good job defensively. But we still have them too many opportunities to score,” Linstad said. In the overtime period with less than a minute remaining, junior Sami Evelyn caught a fast-break opportunity that would have given the Huskies the win. But, Boston College goalie, Molly Schaus stopped her shot, causing the game to end in a 2-2 tie.
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With a record of 4-4 overall, and a 1-2 record in the Big East, the Huskies’ now stand in a five way tie for fourth in the conference. The team’s next big challenge comes after a week off on Nov. 11, when Big East leading Pittsburgh comes to Rentschler Field. SNY available on campus starting Monday
SNY, which became the official television home of UConn athletics over the summer, will be available on campus starting today on Channel 33. The addition of SNY to the UConn campus cable lineup comes just in time for basketball season, which begins on Friday, Nov. 12 when the men’s team takes on Stony Brook in the season opener. That game, along with at least 12 other men’s games and at least one women’s game, will be broadcast on SNY over the course of the season. SNY will also broadcast over 100 live Big East games from throughout the conference as well. Students on campus will also have access to the networks football coverage, which includes select live games, interviews with the players and Edsall’s weekly press conference.
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UConn came back from a 10-point deficit after Brad Starks took an option pitch from Smith 53 yards for a touchdown less than four minutes into the contest. Tyler Bitancurt added a 36-yard field goal with 4:03 left in the first quarter. West Virginia dominated the first quarter, outgaining the Huskies 168-25. In the second quarter, Moore sparked UConn by taking the ball right out of Noel Devine’s hands with 11:38 remaining. When the Huskies took over, Frazer ran for UConn’s first first down of the night, but the drive stalled. The Huskies would finally break through with one second left in the first half. After a 12-play 63-yard drive, Teggart hit the first of three field goals from 39-yards out to cut the lead to a touchdown before the half. Todman tied the game at 10 with a 24-yard touchdown run with 6:17 left in the third quarter. Prior to that, Frazer found tight end Ryan Griffin on fourth and three to continue the drive. The loss drops West Virginia to 5-3 and 1-2 in Big East play. The Huskies are now in a five-team tie for fourth place in the conference.
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UConn students storm the field after a last-second field goal was made to give the Huskies the win against West Virginia Friday night.
THE Storrs Side Big win over West Virginia, redemption over Rutgers, early No. 1 By Carmine Colangelo Campus Correspondent Game of the Week: UConn Football vs. West Virginia. The Huskies defeated the Mountaineers 16-13 in overtime on Friday, the first time in seven years. After coming back in the fourth quarter to tie at 13, the Huskies forced overtime. In overtime, West Virginia had the ball on the one-yard line but senior linebacker Lawrence Wilson kept UConn’s hopes alive by recovering his second fumble of the game. The Huskies marched up the field on the ensuing possession and won the game with a 27-yard field goal by junior kicker Dave Teggart. Junior tailback Jordan Todman also had 33 carries for 113 yards. The Huskies, who improved to 4-4, will return to action in two weeks when they host the Pittsburgh Panthers. Number of the Week: 1. On Friday, the AP preseason
women’s basketball poll was released, with the two-time defending national champion UConn Huskies ranked at No. 1. The Huskies received 39 of the 40 first place votes and will begin their quest for their third championship Nov. 14 against Holy Cross. Redemption Game: UConn Women’s Field Hockey vs. Rutgers. After losing to Syracuse in double overtime last weekend, the Huskies redeemed themselves with a 6-0 win over Rutgers. The attack was lead by freshman forward Anne Jeute and back Jestine Angelini, who each had two goals and an assist. The No. 4 Huskies end their season 14-4 and were 4-2 in Big East play. The Huskies will begin the Big East Tournament next weekend, Nov. 6, as they play Louisvile in their journey to defend their title as Big East champions.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP)—Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig gave his strongest indication yet that two extra wild-card teams will be added to the playoffs for 2012. “I like it enough, so we’ll seriously consider it,” he said Sunday night before Game 4 of the World Series. “Is eight out of 30 enough? Is that fair? And that’s the basic question here, at least for me.” Asked his opinion of 10 playoff teams, Selig responded: “It’s more fair than eight.” “Two more would give us 10, and 10 out of 30 I still think is a rational mix,” he said. “But then the next question is how do you do it and what form does it take?” “We studied this three or four years ago, and I was really quite convinced we need two more and became unconvinced the more we talked,” he said. Any change in the playoff format would be subject to agreement with the players’ association, and union head Michael Weiner said last week players were open to considering a larger postseason. Selig said his staff will start examining more wild-card teams in mid-November and wasn’t sure there was time to get a plan in place to expand the postseason for 2011. He also said the 162-game regular season will not change. Clubs do not want to lose ticket money and broadcast revenue from regular-season games. “You can be assured the clubs do not want a shorter season. No sense misleading each other about all that,” he said. “I’m a devotee of a shorter season, but they’re not, and I understand it. Especially as global television ratings have gone up, you’re talking about a lot of money.” If each league had two wild cards, they could meet in either a one-game or best-of-three playoff to advance to the division series. There is sentiment against a one-game playoff, but Selig is worried about the postseason extending toward Thanksgiving. “I’ve had some managers tell me we can’t play 162 games, wind up in a playoff for one game,” Selig said. “So you’re going to get both sides of the argument, and they’re very strong in that opinion, by the way.” Selig did not sound as if he favored expanding the division series from best-of-five to best-of-seven. “There’s something about a five-game as opposed to seven, where there’s more tension. There’s more drama,” he said. On other topics, Selig said: — He is not upset by those who don’t believe him when he says he intends to retire at the end of 2012. “I have owners calling me all the time telling me the same thing. I thank them for calling, and that’s the end of the call.”
THE Pro Side Moss stifled by Vikings and Giants face off against Rangers By Aaron Kasmanoff-Dick Campus Correspondent Number of the week: 1 Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Randy Moss was held to only one catch in Sunday afternoon’s return to Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass. Moss’ return to what was until recently his home field was an “emotional rollercoaster” for the sometimes controversial and always outspoken athlete. “I leave coach Belichick and those guys with a salute: `I love you guys. I miss you. I’m out,” Moss said. Moss had one reception for eight yards early in the third quarter. The receiver enjoyed tight, double coverage from the Patriots for the entire game. Even with a lack of catches, Moss was able to contribute to the offensive effort by drawing two penalty flags from the Patriot defense. Despite the efforts of Moss and the rest of the team, the Vikings lost 28-18. Dropping to 2-5 for the sea-
son isn’t the only blow to a team that had serious postseason hopes this year, veteran quarterback Brett Favre suffered a cut to the face that resulted in eight stitches. “I really can’t complain, although I probably should,” said the 41 year-old Favre, “I have a broken foot. I have eight stitches in my chin. I’ve had tendinitis in my elbow, but I threw it as well as I have all season.” Favre holds the record for longest streak of continuous starts in the NFL at 292, and plans to extend that streak. Also, for the record books, Tom Brady has now won 25 straight home games at Gillette Stadium, tying the all-time record with none other than Favre. Around the world of sports: The Texas Rangers are tied with the San Francisco Giants 2-2 in the World Series. The Rangers upset the New York Yankees on their way to the Series.
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Mountain-sized win for the Huskies UConn defeats West Virginia for first time in program history By Colin McDonough Senior Staff Writer Dave Teggart’s 27-yard field goal stayed true through the uprights, the UConn football team and their fans poured onto the Rentschler Field grass and the Huskies finally beat West Virginia, 16-13 in overtime Friday night. For the first time in school history, UConn beat the Mountaineers, ending a six-game losing streak against West Virginia dating back to 2004. The Huskies improved their record to 4-4 and 1-2 in the Big East, ending a two-game losing streak. Sio Moore made 17 tackles and forced two fumbles and Jordan Todman rushed for 113 yards and a touchdown, as UConn came back from a 10-0 first-half deficit to stun the Mountaineers. “It was a big win,” Todman said. “To make history by beating West Virginia is huge for us.” The game-winning kick was Teggart’s second in his career. He made a 42-yard field goal at the buzzer to beat USF Dec. 6 last season. “It was a short kick,” Teggart said. “The defense put us in great position. As soon as I saw the ball down it was like an extra point.” After Teggart’s kick, players mobbed him, and the student
section and other fans rushed the field in celebration. “I’m just extremely happy and proud of the players and the assistant coaches,” said coach Randy Edsall. “It was a total team effort. It feels good to beat West Virginia for the first time in seven years. Now we’ve beaten every team in the league so we don’t have that monkey on our backs, and I thought the fans were great tonight.” UConn won the toss to start overtime and elected to play defense. After West Virginia moved the ball to the 1-yard line, Lawrence Wilson recovered a fumble on first down. On the Huskies’ drive starting from the 25-yard line, UConn fed it to Todman, who ran it four times to the 9-yard line to set up Teggart. The Huskies forced overtime on a 26-yard field goal by Teggart with 10:48 left. With West Virginia driving, Moore stripped Geno Smith and Wilson recovered. On the next play, Zach Frazer dropped a 40-yard pass to Kashif Moore. Frazer was 18 of 29 for 166 yards with no touchdowns or interceptions. Frazer was starting for the first time since Sept. 25. “It was a nice team win,” Frazer said. “We needed this as a team. We pulled it out in the end and go what we wanted.”
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Huskies’ junior running back Jordan Todman fights to gain extra yards as a Mountaneer defender tries to drag him down durng Friday night’s game at Rentschler Field.
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Last-second field goal lifts UConn By Mac Cerullo Sports Editor As Dave Teggart’s game-winning field goal sailed through the uprights, Rentschler Field exploded into a scene of unabated joy. Fans flooded onto the field to celebrate with the team. Teggart was mobbed by teammates and fans alike following his kick that delivered the UConn football program its first ever win over Big East rival West Virginia. Among the more colorful characters that made it onto the field: a pair of gorillas, several bananas, a cowboy, a penguin, and a Teletubby. Such a scene seemed unimaginable mere hours before, after the Huskies recorded five straight three-and-outs to start the game on offense, while allowing a 53-yard touchdown run in the first quarter, the kind of big play that has sunk the team all season. Once West Virginia was ahead 10-0 after
the first quarter, it appeared Moore said. “I knew we would that a repeat performance of get it done.” the Huskies’ 26-0 beating from After the game, however, Louisville less than a week ear- Edsall refused to praise his linelier was imminent. backer’s efforts despite Moore’s And then, the team stepped up. performance, saying that “he Sophomore linecan’t handle it.” backer Sio Moore “Lets not give Sio too had an inspired much credit,” Edsall performance, maksaid. “He might have ing play after had a lot of tackles but play to keep West he’s still got a lot of Virginia out of the work to do.” endzone, and occaMoore said that he Notebook wasn’t bothered by sionally, off the field. He finished Edsall’s comments, the day with 17 tackles, two and that they motivated him to forced fumbles, two recov- get better. ered fumbles and three tackles “It just makes me work for a loss. harder,” Moore said. “That’s Most importantly, Moore all it is.” forced the critical West Virginia Running back Jordan Todman fumble in overtime that kept the led the charge on offense, which Mountaineers off the board, set- began to move the ball more effiting up Teggart’s game-winning ciently once the team moved to field goal. a more up-tempo pace. Todman “We knew we had to come finished the game with 113 up with a big play and that’s yards rushing on 31 attempts, what the game came down to,” including a key 24-yard touch-
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down rush in the third quarter that tied the game 10-10. A season-saving win The Huskies’ came into the game against West Virginia mired in a two-game losing streak to start Big East play. In a season that began with high hopes, the Huskies’ were dead last in the conference at 0-2, and a loss to West Virginia would have all but sunk the team’s remaining bowl prospects. The fact that UConn had never beaten West Virginia since joining the Big East in 2004 didn’t make things look any more promising. But, by finally beating West Virginia, the Huskies found a way to get their first win in the Big East and save their season. “It was big, we needed this win,” Todman said.
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Starting quarterback Zach Frazier scrambles while being pursued by a West Virginia defender during Friday night’s game.
A solid shutout on Senior Day By Danielle Ennis Staff Writer
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Junior Ali Blankmeyer moves the ball up-field during UConn’s 6-0 win over Rutgers. The win brings the Huskies to 14-4 heading into the Big East Tournament.
Junior Alison Angulo started the game singing the national anthem in front of a crowd of parents, friends and the 1985 national championship team. Moments later, the Huskies put their first of six goals on the board. At the 30:22 mark, Junior Jestine Angelini was assisted by sophomore Alicia Angelini and Junior Kim Kryzk. Less than 3 minutes later, the huskies replicated that same goal. Off a penalty corner, Angelini scored again, assisted by her sister and Kryzk again. Freshman. Anna Jeute scored
shortly after, making the huskies championship only four years ear3-3 on penalty corners to start the lier, was awarded with a plaque. game. They dominated the half, “The sport is really different the ball in their offensive for nearly now. They play on turf, we played the entirety of the 35 minutes. on grass. The rules are always The half ended with the changing. But they have Huskies up 3-0. great ball control. And “We are playing our they play well together. best hockey of the seaThey know what each son. We score a lot of set are going to do. UConn 6 other pieces so we challenged That’s what we did. 0 The team played well the team to score from Rutgers the field. And in the sectogether and we won ond half we did. You a national championbecome more dangerous to defend ship,” Wright said. when you’re multi-dimensional,” Jeute started the second half the Coach Nancy Stevens said. same way she ended the first— At half-time the 1985 national with a goal. championship team was honored. Cara Silverman and Bethany Former head coach Diane Wright, Semlear both scored to give the who led her team to a national Huskies a 6-0 win.
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“Coming off the Syracuse loss, it was good to get the win. Rutgers would have gotten a bid to the tournament if they beat us. So we came out playing strong and hard,” senior Melissa Gonzalez said. “We also challenged the team to a shutout. And they got it,” Stevens said. The Huskies will play Louisville in the Big East tournament on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. UConn is the No. 3 seed heading into the tournament, with Syracuse as No. 1. The tournament will be played both Saturday and Sunday at George J. Sherman Family Sports Complex.
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