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Monday, November 29, 2010

While many students headed home for the Thanksgiving Break Friday, a few students stayed behind to join the South-Asian graduate student association in their celebration of Diwali.

Diwali, also known as the festival of lights, is a fiveday celebration for people of the Hindu, Jain Dharma and Sikh faiths.

“Diwali is the religious New Year, where we call friends

and family and wish them good luck and good health,” said Deepa Mavani, a 7thsemester biology major.

People of all different backgrounds gathered in the St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel Hall to celebrate the night and watch different performances including dancing, singing, homemade Indian food and Hindustani music.

The guest of honor included Barry Feldman, UConn’s vice president and chief operating officer, as well as John Saddlemire, the vice president of student affairs. Both

men were presented with a gift, following tradition.

“I had never been to a Diwali celebration before,” said Caitlyn Schultz, a 5thsemester accounting major.

“My roommate asked me to come with her, and I thought it was beautiful.”

This was the 10th year the association has sponsored the celebration, and this year a new event was added to the celebration. For the first time ever, there was a fashion show.

Called Ada, the show featured the bridal col-

ors of India. It featured various bridal costumes for both the bride and the groom from several different regions of India. This new addition seemed to be a crowd favorite.

“I really enjoyed the fashion show,” Schultz said. “I got to experience the different cultures and values of each state of India.”

Ornately decorated outfits are commonly worn by both men and women at the celebration – not only those participating in the fashion show.

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“Woman usually wear gorgeous new clothes, called a sari or Ghagra choli, during Diwali,” Mavani said.

In addition to the outfits, the hall was extensively decorated. Candles were lining the stage and seating area while lights and flowers decorated the hall wherever possible.

“The students really made the hall into a festival of lights, and I am very glad to have experienced it,” Schultz said.

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With the holidays approaching, the Brothers of Alpha Kappa Psi hosted a ‘Stuff a Brother’s Car’ drive two weeks ago to collect nonperishable food items.

Conn. governor transition planning began in summer HARTFORD (AP) — Even before he won the Democratic primary, Dan Malloy planned for his possible transition as Connecticut’s next governor.

Aware that developing a new administration is more involved than hiring some new people, the former mayor of Stamford tapped Chris Cooney — a longtime friend and former campaign aide now living in Florida — to come up with a pre-transition guidebook.

“Creating that government administration virtually overnight in a matter of less than 60 days is a pretty tall order.

Dan knew back then he wanted to get his arms around it,” said Cooney, who embarked on his volunteer project over the summer, more than 1,000 miles from the hotly contested election in Connecticut.

Malloy is set to be sworn in on Jan. 5 as the state’s 88th governor. As the first Democrat to hold the job since William O’Neill left office in 1991, Malloy is creating the first entirely new administration in 16 years.

When M. Jodi Rell, then lieutenant governor, became governor in 2004 after John G. Rowland abruptly resigned amid a corruption scandal, she didn’t have time to craft a new administration. Instead, the new Republican governor issued a blanket resignation request to

about 60 commissioners, deputy commissioners, agency heads and the president of a quasipublic business group.

Rell spent her initial days interviewing members of Rowland’s administration, deciding who would stay and who would go.

She eventually accepted the resignations of four commissioners and announced the retirement of a fifth, saying she had addressed the state’s “immediate needs” with those changes.

Cooney, who interviewed former governors and chiefs of staffs, said he learned that it made sense for a new administration to begin the transition planning early, even though Malloy was not assured of a victory in the primary, let alone the general election.

Cooney recalled speaking to one former governor who admitted to not giving the transition much thought until after he won the election. That governor appointed 68 people to a transition team, an unwieldy group that handled the hiring.

“It was a circus,” said Cooney, adding how some of the 68 griped to the media when they didn’t get their way. “It was a bumpy transition.”

Besides picking a chief of staff and a budget director — two tasks he’s completed — and various commissioners, Malloy faces the daunting task of crafting a new two-year

state budget to present to the General Assembly in February.

The state’s fiscal year budget beginning July 1 has been estimated to be in deficit by as much as $3.67 billion, which represents about 18 percent of estimated spending.

Other issues on the to-do list include reconfiguring the executive branch staffing levels after taking into account Malloy’s campaign promise of a 15 percent reduction, meeting with Rell and her administration to get up to speed on issues facing the state, handling the transition for the lieutenant governor, planning the inaugural ceremonies and moving Malloy’s family into the executive residence in Hartford.

Tim Bannon, co-chairman of Malloy’s transition team and his pick for chief of staff, had also volunteered to help with the transition planning before Election Day. Bannon, who worked in O’Neill’s administration and was on hand for then-Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr.’s transition into the office, now works out of a fourth floor office in the state Capitol, spending much of his time piecing together the Malloy administration.

Using Cooney’s pre-transition plan and a binder filled with policy commitments Malloy made during the campaign, Bannon has been interviewing job seekers with an eye toward

Malloy’s goals as governor, such as improving the economic climate to foster job growth while making sure there’s a safety net available for the needy.

At the same time, he said those core commitments Malloy made will be part of the budget document and policy initiatives the governor-elect will offer when the General Assembly returns to Hartford. Malloy has already announced a steering committee, which Bannon and Lt-Gov.-elect Nancy Wyman will co-chair, as well as personnel and policy committees that seek out qualified candidates and vet various policy ideas.

The transition team launched a website Friday where jobseekers can apply to work in the new administration and where residents can offer suggestions and ideas for Malloy and Wyman.

While the task appears to be daunting, Bannon said Malloy has given it a lot of consideration.

“The beauty of this is, you’ve got a governor-elect who’s been thinking about this stuff for a long,k long time, so he didn’t wake up the morning after the election and begin thinking about how to fix what’s broken in Connecticut,” Bannon said. “He’s been thinking about it a lot and he fixed what was broken in Stamford, so he is up to speed and ready to go.”

Many students may have taken note of the recent power outages throughout campus, news of which was disseminated through email alerts, text messages and on official UConn websites.

Electricity was first shut off on Nov. 17 because of a “small explosion in a high voltage piece of equipment,” said Michael Kirk, the university’s spokesperson. The power remained off while the fire was extinguished and the transformer was repaired by Connecticut Light and Power, the school’s provider.

This mostly affected Wood Hall, Storrs Hall, the Jorgensen, Student Health. Services and the Old Warehouse. Afternoon classes were cancelled in Wood Hall and Storrs Hall.

The second power outage occurred on Nov. 21 after a tree fell and took a wire with it. Work crews were called in immediately and had the situation fixed the same day.

“We were fortunate over the weekend that many students, not all, had left over the weekend for Thanksgiving break,” Kirk said.

Steve Kremer, Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs, said that his staff “reached out to students as they reached out to them.”

Some flashlights were distributed to students who remained on campus. There was not much Residential Life could do, especially because its staff is very small on the weekends.

“It’s one of those events that you don’t foresee,” said Kirk.

Kirk’s advice to students during power outages is to pay attention to the emergency alerts the UConn team sends out to students. He urges students to sign up for the text message alert system in the event that they are not able to access their computers without electricity.

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Online Silent Auction by the Community School of the Arts All Day

Blood Drive 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Alumni Center, Great Hall

UConn’s Community School of the Arts will be holding a silent auction online at www.csa.uconn.edu/auction.

Stop by the Alumni Center to give blood at the drive, hosted by the Red Cross Club.

Commuter Student Association Meeting 1 – 2 p.m.

Student Union Room 312 All commuter students are welcome to attend the meeting and share their ideas on future events.

My Pride My Soul gathering 9 – 10 p.m.

Rainbow Center My Pride My Soul – UConn will host a meeting for the LGBT community.

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Conn. panel to mull ideas on cutting paper bills

HARTFORD (AP) — A state committee is meeting to discuss ways to reduce the Connecticut legislature’s paperwork costs without creating problems for the public.

The Task Force to Study Converting Legislative Paper Documents to Electronic Form is scheduled to meet Wednesday. It’s set to discuss how to cover a recent $625,000 cut to the Office of Legislative Management’s printing account.

The office, which overseas operations at the state Capitol complex, is planning to eliminate much of the General Assembly’s paperwork, including printed bills and printed transcriptions of legislative hearings.

But there’s been an outcry from judges who rely on the transcripts to determine legislative intent of laws and lobbyists and others who say public access to the information will be hindered.

Conn. employers to offer new dental plan

HARTFORD (AP) — Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield is offering dental insurance for the first time to employees of 40,000 businesses through local chambers of commerce in Connecticut.

Steve Glick, administrator of the Chamber Insurance Trust, said dental insurance is the second-most sought after benefit, following health care insurance.

As many as 400,000 employees plus their spouses and family members are eligible for the program, which is set to start Jan. 1.

Members can pay $18 to $19 a month depending on age and location and up to $50 to $80 a month for plans that pay for implants and other costly work.

Christopher Condon, specialty sales manager at Anthem, said Connecticut employers typically pay two-thirds of health care costs.

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NJ school district: No D-grades policy a success

MOUNT OLIVE TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey school district that eliminated the “D’’ grade for students says the change has been a success.

The new policy in Mount Olive took effect in September. It raised the failure score to anything under a 70 instead of 65.

Superintendent Larrie Reynolds told the Daily Record that the number of failing grades for middle and high school students dropped 42.5 percent in the first quarter. And more students earned A’s and B’s.

Reynolds had proposed the policy last summer, saying he was tired of kids getting credit for not learning.

But some school officials and teachers say it’s too early to declare the policy a success.

They note the new policy allows students to retake exams and redo assignments after initial failing grades, often bringing up their scores.

Ohioans raise cash for kids of victims put in tree

HOWARD, Ohio (AP) — Residents in a small Ohio community devastated after the bodies of two women and an 11-year-old boy were found in a tree are raising money for the victims’ families.

A restaurant called the Breezy Bay in Howard is hosting an auction Sunday. The general manager says people have donated bicycles, tools and an antique gas pump to be put up for sale.

The proceeds will benefit Sarah Maynard, who was found bound and gagged in the basement of an unemployed tree-cutter days before the bodies of her mother, Tina Herrmann; brother, Kody Maynard; and family friend, Stephanie Sprang, were found in garbage bags inside a hollow tree. The money will also go to Sprang’s children.

The tree-trimmer has been charged with one count of kidnapping.

He’s also suspected in the murders.

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Guatemalan pro football player found chopped up

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Police in Guatemala have found the body of a professional football player chopped up and left in five plastic bags in a rural area.

National Civil Police spokesman Donald Gonzalez says the remains were found Sunday with a message saying the player was killed for “messing with other women.”

The spokesman says investigators are trying to determine whether that was the real reason for the slaying of Carlos Mercedes Vasquez, who played for Malacateco in Guatemala’s first-division football league.

Gonzalez says the body was found in the rural community of Malcatan a day after the 27-yeard-old Mercedes Vasquez was kidnapped while driving with two friends.

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Sudanese war orphans journey to US voting sites GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Tut Gatyiel didn’t have a choice when he fled his home in Southern Sudan as a boy because of civil war.

He had no choice but to walk 1,000 perilous miles through the desert for three months to a refugee camp in Ethiopia, and he had no power to save the lives of his parents and other family members killed during the war.

Now for the first time in his life, Gatyiel has a choice about affairs in Southern Sudan.

Gatyiel and hundreds of other survivors of the war now living in the U.S. are registering to vote to decide whether Southern Sudan secedes from the north in the northeastern African nation.

The Jan. 9 vote could see the creation of the world’s newest country and give Southern Sudan independence.

“It’s very important that we decide our fate,” said Gatyiel, who now lives in Phoenix and is acting as an assistant chairman for the city’s voting station.

“It’s been a long struggle for our nation, for our people.”

Predominantly Christian southerners fought a 21-year civil war against the Muslim northern government in which 2 million people died and more than 1 million headed north to escape the fighting. About 3,800 war orphans known as the Lost Boys of Sudan resettled in the U.S. The 2005 peace agreement that ended the war allowed Southern Sudan to share power in the national government, gave it a measure of autonomy and provided for an independence referendum at the end of the deal’s transition period.

Voter registration in the U.S. is under way at three sites in Glendale, Ariz., Omaha, Neb., and Alexandria, Va. until Dec. 8. Five more sites are expected to open within the next week in Dallas, Chicago, Boston, Seattle

and Nashville, Tenn., and other survivors who have resettled across the globe are registering to vote in Canada, Australia, Egypt and Great Britain, among other countries.

Hundreds of Lost Boys already have traveled in caravans to Phoenix from California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and other Western states to register.

They will have to make the trip again the week of Jan. 9 to cast votes, the results of which will be sent to the Southern Sudanese government. They’ll be added to votes cast by people living in Southern Sudan.

“This is just one of those defining moments that’s so critical in the future for their people and their country,” said Ann Wheat, founder of the Arizona Lost Boys Center in Phoenix, where 600 Lost Boys have resettled.

“It’s beyond just having the chance to vote,” Wheat said. “It’s about putting a whole structure in place and demanding that right to vote and being able to say, ‘Alright, we’re over here in the U.S., but we’re going to help be part of this, get the word out and make sure people have a say.’”

Dozens of poll workers and observers from the Southern Sudanese government and the Atlanta-based Carter Center staff the Glendale church where Lost Boys and some women who also survived the war are registering.

A prospective voter gets a laminated registration card after providing identification and a fingerprint. If they don’t have proper identification, they are interviewed by trained “identifiers” who verify whether the person is from Southern Sudan based on physical characteristics, language and other factors.

After receiving a registration card, the voter must then dip their left index finger in a blue dye that lasts for two weeks — a measure meant to prevent

BEIJING (AP) — China quickened its diplomatic efforts to ease tensions between North and South Korea, calling for an emergency meeting of envoys to North Korean nuclear disarmament talks.

Chinese envoy Wu Dawei said chief negotiators to the six-nation talks are being asked to come to Beijing in early December for the emergency session “to exchange views on major issues of concern to the parties at present.”

“I want to stress that a series of complicated factors have recently emerged on the Korean peninsula,” Wu said Sunday in a statement he read to reporters in Beijing.

“The international community, particularly the members of the six-party talks, is deeply concerned.”

The talks would bring together the main regional powers — the United States, Japan and Russia as well as China and the two Koreas — that have tried fitfully for seven years to persuade North Korea to relinquish its nuclear programs.

Wu’s appeal is China’s most

public diplomatic intervention since its ally North Korea pummeled a South Korean island with an artillery barrage last Tuesday, aggravating already high tensions on the peninsula. At first slow to react, Beijing has been under pressure by the United States to use its historically strong relations with North Korea to defuse the crisis.

U.S. Sen. John McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, on Sunday criticized China for not doing more to rein in its unpredictable neighbor.

“They could bring the North Korean economy to its knees if they wanted to,” McCain said during an interview with CNN. “And I cannot believe that the Chinese should, in a mature fashion, not find it in their interest to restrain North Korea. So far, they are not.”

The barb came as Beijing was quickening the pace of its diplomacy with a flurry of meetings and phone calls.

State Councilor Dai Bingguo, China’s highest-level foreign policy official, met Sunday with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in Seoul, and

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In this Nov. 26 photo, Chuol John Riek, a 30-year-old Lost Boy who lives in Phoenix, shows his voter registration card to poll workers inside a voter registration facility in Glendale, Ariz. Hundreds of survivors of Sudan’s civil war now living in the U.S. are registering to vote to decide whether Southern Sudan secedes from the north in the northeastern African nation. The Jan. 9 vote could see the creation of the world’s newest country and give Southern Sudan independence.

the same person from registering twice. They must bring the registration card back when they vote in January.

“It feels amazing,” said James Chuong Chan, a 30-year-old Lost Boy who lives in Phoenix and registered to vote on Friday. “We now live in the United States and it’s a free country. That’s what I want for Southern Sudan — freedom for my country.”

Chan’s family still lives in Southern Sudan, and he said achieving independence will make their lives better.

Gatyiel, who is helping to register Sudanese voters in Phoenix, said some are so eager that they

are waiting outside when he arrives in the morning.

“This is a historical event, big time,” he said.

Gatyiel’s parents were killed during the civil war — his mother from water poisoned by a chemical bomb and his father while he was moving to escape the conflict. Gatyiel’s nine brothers and sisters still live in Southern Sudan.

He said he is voting for independence so his siblings can know peace and to honor his parents.

“We’re deciding not only for those who are alive, but also for those who are dead,” he said.

later spoke by telephone with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Underscoring Beijing’s concern about the latest clash between the Koreas, its diplomatic initiatives come as the U.S. and South Korean military are conducting war games in the Yellow Sea. Beijing vehemently opposed such exercises four months ago during a previous spike in tensions between the Koreas, but has issued only pro forma objections this time.

Wu did not specify a date in early December for when the six nations would meet. He said they need “to exchange views on these major issues and make due contribution to maintaining peace and stability on the peninsula and easing the tension in Northeast Asia.”

Wu said China hoped the meeting would also help relaunch nuclear disarmament negotiations.

The six-nation talks have been largely moribund for the past two years. In that time, North Korea tested a longrange rocket and exploded its second nuclear device, leaving the Obama administra-

tion questioning whether the North is interested in disarmament. South Korea also pulled back engagement with the North, especially after the sinking of a South Korean navy ship. Seoul says the vessel was hit by a North Korean torpedo, while the North denies involvement.

The U.S. envoy to the talks, Stephen Bosworth, made hurried visits to Seoul, Tokyo and Beijing last week after an American scientist reported being shown a new, sophisticated uranium enrichment facility in North Korea.

Bosworth, however, played down any sense that the talks were urgent.

The emergency session proposed by China would mark new ground. The six-nation talks’ senior envoys have not used the group to address broader security issues beyond North Korea’s nuclear programs, though they have been discussed by lower-level officials. That potentially could help the group transform into a more full-bodied security forum for Northeast Asia — something some participants have advocated.

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Jordan Hegel did not invite members of the administration or law enforcement community to his USG constituency meeting at Brien McMahon Hall, contrary to what was reported in the Friday, Nov. 19 edition of The Daily Campus.

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Holiday sales encouraging, but are shoppers done?

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In this file photo, shoppers carry their bags as they walk in downtown Seattle. Holiday spending appears to be off to a respectable start, with shoppers crowding stores and malls in bigger numbers than last year on Friday and steady traffic the rest of the weekend. Add in strong spending earlier in the month and robust sales online, and retailers are feeling encouraged.

NEW YORK (AP) — Holiday spending appears to be off to a respectable start, with shoppers crowding stores and malls in bigger numbers than last year on Friday and steady traffic the rest of the weekend.

Add in strong spending earlier in the month and robust sales online, and retailers are feeling encouraged. That’s particularly true because shoppers also scooped up fashion and other items for themselves, though mostly where they saw bargains.

The question remains how many dollars shoppers are prepared to

spend before Dec. 24 in an economy that’s still bumpy.

Discounts, particularly earlymorning specials, were deep enough that many shoppers say they scooped up more than they had planned. But some say that means they’re done, and they spent less than last year.

“I started Thursday, and I’m finished,” said Tyler Jones, 34, of Manhattan, clutching packages at the Manhattan Mall on Saturday.

She said she started shopping online on Thanksgiving, grabbing deals on LCD TVs at Walmart. com, as well as clothing at Gap

and Old Navy throughout the night and into Friday. Then she went to the mall. She figures she spent $1,000 on holiday gifts, $500 less than last year.

Sharon Collins, 57, of Wilmington, N.C., said she had aimed to stagger her holiday shopping, but she found a lot of good buys on Black Friday at Target and Kohl’s. By Saturday she had spent about $1,000, reaping savings of about 50 percent.

She said she’d budgeted $2,000 but won’t need it.

“I am completely done.”

Collins said. “Unless it is some-

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss voters on Sunday approved a plan to automatically deport foreigners who commit serious crimes or benefit fraud, in a significant victory for the nationalist party that pushed the proposal against the will of the government.

Some 52.9 percent of voters backed the proposal put forward by the nationalist Swiss People’s Party. The plan was opposed by 47.1 percent of voters.

A government-backed counterproposal failed. It would have required case-by-case review by a judge before an individual was deported.

The government will now have to draft a law requiring automatic expulsion of foreigners found guilty of crimes such as murder, rape, drug dealing or benefit fraud.

“The majority of voters have sent a clear signal that they consider foreign criminality to be a serious problem,” Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga said in a statement. “The Federal Council respects the will of the

people and will set to work on putting the task confided in it into practice.”

Under Switzerland’s unique political system, any group wanting to change the law can collect 100,000 signatures to force a referendum. Last year the country drew international condemnation after voters defied a government recommendation and approved a law to ban the construction of minarets.

Concern about a perceived rise in crime led a majority of voters to approve the deportation plan in Sunday’s referendum.

“I’m totally for it,” said Emma Link after casting her vote in Geneva. The 86-yearold said she had recently been robbed on her way home from a nearby store.

But legal experts say the law could breach offenders’ human rights.

Marcelo Kohen, a professor of international law at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, said people who had lived all their life in Switzerland, mar-

ried Swiss citizens and had children, but never obtained Swiss passports, would be unusually hard hit by expulsion.

Kohen predicted the law would be challenged before the European Court of Human Rights.

Likewise, the European Union — with which Switzerland has signed a bilateral treaty guaranteeing freedom of movement — would probably object to its citizens being automatically deported without the chance of judicial review, he said.

During the run-up to the vote, anti-racism groups bemoaned that the People’s Party’s posters showed white sheep kicking black sheep off a Swiss flag, saying it played on stereotypical images of foreigners as criminals.

Virginie Studemann voted against the plan. “I think it’s sad for our country,” she said outside a polling station in the center of Geneva. “It’s part of a concerted attack against foreigners.”

Also Sunday, voters rejected a proposal to revise the country’s tax system.

thing I really need, I am not going back.”

The heavy discounting and lower prices on certain types of times, particularly LCD TVs, held down overall spending. Retailers at shopping malls eked out a 0.3 percent increase to $10.69 billion, according to preliminary figures from ShopperTrak, a research firm that tracks sales at 70,000 stores.

TV prices are falling almost twice as fast as they did earlier this year amid a glut. They’re selling for anywhere from 15 to 20 percent lower than Christmas 2009.

Earlier buying in November also stole some sales away from the day, said ShopperTrak cofounder Bill Martin. But 2.2 percent more customers came into stores on Black Friday compared with the same day last year.

The research firm tracks sales at stores in shopping malls, not big discounters like Wal-Mart and Target, which draw much Black Friday spending.

The National Retail Federation trade group estimated on Sunday that 212 million shoppers visited stores and Website over Black Friday weekend, up from 195 million last year, according to a survey it conducts.

A fuller picture on spending will come Thursday when retailers report November revenue figures.

Online, spending rose more than 14 percent from Thanksgiving Day through Saturday, according to IBM’s Coremetrics. The average order rose 14 percent and the number of items per order 15 percent, fueled by shoppers taking advantage of deals on Black Friday.

Clearly, shoppers’ approach to the holidays has shifted, shaped

by the stores themselves. While Black Friday is expected to be the busiest day of the year, more spending was pulled forward as stores from Best Buy to Sears promoted discounts on holiday items earlier in the month, often pitching them as “Black Friday doorbusters” weeks before the real thing. More stores opened on Thanksgiving, too.

“You are going to have to look at the overall month, instead of just Black Friday,” said Laura Gurski, retail practice leader at A.T. Kearney.

Lauren Beckley, a 28-year-old retail co-manager in Cincinnati, said she got a promotion at work this year but still plans to cut her holiday spending by 50 percent.

This year, rather than scrambling at the last minute, she started shopping in July, taking advantage of “Christmas in July” promotions that were embraced by more retailers this year.

“I think I am bargain hunting a little more,” said Beckley while browsing for DVDs at a Best Buy in suburban Cincinnati on Saturday.

Stores hope to keep shoppers coming back with continuous deals and early-morning events on weekends. But some analysts question whether the lull between Thanksgiving weekend and the days before Christmas will be even more pronounced than usual.

“I believe customers will be waiting for the next round of deals,” Gurski added.

Stifel Nicolaus analyst Richard Jaffe described the weekend as a “success.”

“I think retailers have won the battle of driving customers into the stores, but have they won the war? We won’t know until

January,” he said.

Retail executives offered an upbeat assessment on Sunday.

Amy Adoniz, general store manager at Best Buy’s Union Square store in Manhattan, reported steady traffic through the weekend after the frenzy Friday. The best sellers have been TVs and laptops, but shoppers are also throwing in a few extra items like Blu-ray players and cables that they hadn’t planned, she said. They’re also springing for more expensive items, she said.

Mall operators including Taubman Centers Inc. and Macerich Co. both reported sales and traffic gains compared with last year, and traffic has remained steady through the weekend. Both reported that shoppers’ buying for themselves remained strong. Footwear and clothing were key big sellers.

Analysts are also closely watching stores’ inventory levels. Earlier this fall, many retailers worried they’d ordered too much holiday merchandise in the spring when the economic recovery looked like it was gaining steam.

There was scattered evidence those worries continue. Gap, for example, offered 50 percent discounts throughout the entire store until 10 a.m. Friday, rather than just discounting specific items to draw shoppers.

Dana Telsey, CEO of Telsey Advisory Group, said Sunday that she believed that inventories were appropriate and retailer profits aren’t in danger yet.

Dec. 15-25, which accounts for 40 percent of holiday business, will tell the tale.

“It’s the crux of the season,” she said.

Swiss voters approve foreigner deportation plan

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Only time will tell if firm is worth $4 million

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Conn’s Board of Trustees recently approved the hiring of McKinsey & Co., a consulting firm based in Washington D.C., for $3.9 million. According to UConn Spokesman Michael Kirk, McKinsey will be proposing both cost-saving and revenue-generating measures.

While some may complain about UConn spending nearly $4 million in an effort to save money, and others may laud the decision as a great investment, only time will tell if the McKinsey consultants are worth the money they’re being paid.

The company will utilize two phases of operation. First, an onsite team will examine UConn’s operations and compare them to other top-notch institutions. Then, McKinsey will develop plans of action to aid UConn in saving and generating money.

It is important to note that tuition and student fees will not be included in the investigation into strategies to raise revenue.

The firm will be focusing on information technology, facilities operations, public safety, procurement, financial operations and administration, human resources, student affairs and athletics. McKinsey will not be looking into academics and cutting classes or academic programs in order to save money, though it will investigate services and resources that support academics, Kirk said. But McKinsey must keep in mind that UConn is a research university and wantonly cutting research grants will impede our contributions to academia.

According to Kirk, McKinsey will be following up on work done by the Cost, Operations and Revenue Efficiencies (CORE) group, which was made up of UConn administrators, students, staff and faculty, and has saved UConn roughly $7 million per year since it was formed in 2008.

While this group’s efforts are commendable, the decision to take such an endeavor out of the hands of interested parties and place it on the desk of an outside company was a good one.

For the amount of money McKinsey is projected to save and generate for the university ($50 million, according to Board of Trustees chair Larry McHugh, as reported in UConn Today), it is only natural that any in-house operation will be affected by unintentional, and possibly intentional, biases.

People representing one portion of the university may see a cost-cutting measure as unfair toward their area of expertise, while others may view it as a necessary action.

By placing this responsibility on a party unaffiliated with the university, it provides an objective look into UConn’s operations, one that may not be fully achieved if done internally.

Of course, the $50 million is still only projected potential savings and additional revenue. If, for example, by the time McKinsey’s contract ends in summer 2011, UConn has only saved $5 million, this will have been a waste of time and money. Ultimately, the goal is efficacy and maintaining our university’s prestige as a research university, while still cleaning up our finances.

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

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Mind misconceptions of domestic violence

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et’s start by saying that domestic violence is a serious issue, no matter the gender of the perpetrator. But understanding of domestic violence committed by women against men requires some clarification.

Female-on-male violence is usually sensationalized, or even used to justify violence against women. A common perspective is that female-on-male violence is a direct consequence of women seeking equality. But the fact of the matter is that this skewed sense of “gender equity” is inaccurate. There exists a misconception that women have now achieved what

By Cindy Luo they wanted - that Associate Commentary Editor is to say, equal opportunities to abuse men. That is categorically false, however, on two counts.

The first is that there is any desire for this perverse sense of equality. There is no goal in feminism to equalize rates of domestic violence. It’s to eradicate it entirely. The second is that women abuse men at the same rate as men abuse women. This is also false.

The Bureau of Justice’s figures show that intimate partner homicide has decreased by 75 percent from 1976 to 2005 for male victims, but has decreased 25 percent from the same time period for female victims. From 2001 to 2005, women age 12 and up were also nearly six times more likely to be the target of nonfatal intimate partner violence than men in the same age group. These facts

in no way downplay the violence that men may face, but rather indicate disproportionate media attention.

Contrary to popular belief, domestic violence isn’t caused by a generation gap. Women between the ages of 20 and 24 are at the greatest risk of nonfatal domestic violence, and even women between the ages of 35 and 49 were at a greater risk than older women.

“The solution isn’t to raise the rates of female batterers, but to lower the rates of male ones” All forms of domestic violence, including that which occurs in same-sex relationships, are abhorrent. But not all forms of domestic violence have the same origins or are a result of the same behaviors. Meda Chesney-Lind, a criminologist and professor of women’s studies at the University of Hawaii, explains in a piece by Lynn Harris in Salon, “Men will often use the excuse, ‘She hit me first’ to justify decking her or throwing her against a wall. She slaps him, and that’s used as a pretext to beat the crap out of her. She’s the one who winds up in the hospital.”

The fuss about recent “trends” of female violence tends to be alarmist. Female violence isn’t a result of feminist brainwashing. Rather, it is often retaliatory. Additionally, women are still more likely to fear future instances of violence, as men are more likely to engage in extended abuse, often known as “battery.”

I did not enjoy the Saturday Night Live skit using Tiger Woods as the brunt of a domestic violence dispute. I do not find alle-

gations of assault amusing. Nor do I condone the behavior of Amber Portwood, one of the young women featured on the MTV show “Teen Mom,” who was recently arrested on charges of intimate partner violence. But now the backlash claims that these examples are indicative of a greater culture of female intimate partner violence instigators, which is not the case. Violence is, unfortunately, deeply ingrained in our culture – and it is still gendered.

Female-on-male violence is still plastered on the news either as a joke, or blown out of proportion to indicate a greater tendency of violent women. The two perspectives are so stratified that it’s difficult to reconcile the two.

Looking at the numbers, it is clear that female-on-male domestic violence does exist.

And that it’s not a laughing matter. But one can also conclude that paranoia about a growing rate of female batterers is overblown, and that is not skyrocketing because of the desire for social equality.

And what about male batterers? They are still the majority of perpetrators, with their rates of violence holding steady throughout the years. Men still harm women more than women harm men. The solution to this, however, isn’t to raise the rates of female batterers, but to lower the rates of male ones.

What really should be the purpose then is to look to end all instances of intimate partner violence. It requires examining violence seriously and not constructing a straw man that will discourage gender equality.

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.

UConn should consider more fee-for-service

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very student pays mandatory fees every semester. These fees benefit some students, who take advantage of more services than they pay for, while others end up with the short end of the stick. But not all fees are mandatory. UConn PIRG fees can be waived each semester and are as easy to waive as Googling “waive UConn PIRG fee.” This raises the question, what if UConn

By Tom Dilling replaced its current system Staff Columnist with per-service charges?

Take the $70 annual transportation fee as an example. Every student pays this fee to maintain UConn’s busses. Not all students ride the buses, yet all people must pay the same amount regardless. Some may say the solution would be for those who use the busses less to simply use busses more. But taking someone’s money, spending it for them on something they do not use, and then telling the person they are at fault for not using is like blaming the victim.

The same would apply to our laundry services. While we don’t pay a separate laundry fee, the cost of running the service is accounted for in the money collected by ResLife. According to the Hartford Courant, prior to installation of 540 washers and

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dryers this year, the average student paid $50 to $75 per semester on laundry to a private company. Assuming ResLife was not propping up a monopoly for all those years, and assuming ResLife was not subsidizing the supplier’s profits with studentfinanced water and electricity, this price would roughly reflect the cost of the service. This cost has become a hidden fee, which is in some respects worse than the more transparent fees that we pay.

It would be fairer for everyone if UConn’s busses and washing machines served as any other bus service or Laundromat, and charged people based on their utilization of services instead of a one-size-fits-all utility fee.

This option would not negate the ability for students to subscribe to an unlimited bus or laundry plan, like the one we have now.

It would simply make that subscription optional, guaranteeing that a student’s education is not contingent on his or her willingness to pay for non-educational expenses that the student doesn’t necessarily utilize.

There are several other benefits to changing the fee structure.

Currently, there is nothing preventing non-students who haven’t paid for these programs from using the services. According to Transportation Services, 5-10

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percent of passengers are nonstudents and commuters utilize busses more to get to lots, despite paying no additional charge.

“It would be fairer if UConn’s busses and washing machines... charged people based on their utilization of services...”

There are both environmental and health benefits to fee-per-service as well. If students don’t have unlimited bus usage, they have more incentive to walk or bike. If students don’t have unlimited laundry usage, they have more incentive to use less of our limited resources. Convenience will also increase in some respects, as there will be more seats and more washing machines available on demand.

Some against reforming student fees may argue that if students have the ability to opt out, not enough students will volunteer their funds to maintain the services. But the evidence shows the contrary.

According to paperwork submit-

ted to the Service Fee Advisory Committee, UConnPIRG only has 20-30 students directly involved in the core of the organization. Despite only a small fraction of students actively participating in UConn PIRG, UConn’s Government Relations Office reported that 85 percent of students chose not to waive their PIRG fee.

Others may be led to a false slippery slope conclusion of “if we make more campus services optional, where will it end?” Reforming the funding of some services does not imply that all fees need be restructured. Just because you support paying for laundry by the load does not mean you must also support paying for french fries on a per fry basis in the dining hall.

Finally, I am not suggesting that students will be able to eliminate their student loans by making more fees waivable and replaced with fee-per-service.

While students would potentially be able to save several hundred dollars, the objective is to allow students the ability to spend their money on what they individually value most.

Staff Columnist Tom Dilling is a 5th-semester biology major. He can be reached at Thomas.

Dilling@UConn.edu.

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Tax break for employer health plans a target again

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Jobbased health care benefits could wind up on the chopping block if President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans get serious about cutting the deficit.

Budget proposals from leaders in both parties have urged shrinking or eliminating tax breaks that help make employer health insurance the leading source of coverage in the nation and a middle-class mainstay.

The idea isn’t to just raise revenue, economists say, but finally to turn Americans into frugal health care consumers by having them face the full costs of their medical decisions.

Such a re-engineering was rejected by Democrats only a few months ago, at the height of the health care overhaul debate. But Washington has changed, with Republicans back in power and widespread fears that the burden of government debt may drag down the economy.

“There is no short-term prospect of enactment,” former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a leading Democratic adviser on health care. “However, in a tax reform (and) deficit reducing context in the long term, the prospects are much better,” said Daschle. He opposes repealing the tax break by itself, but says he would be “willing to look” at it with other changes that improve access to quality health care while reducing costs.

Labor unions believed they had squelched any such talk.

Now, they’re preparing for

another fight.

Tampering with health care tax breaks is “a terrible step in the wrong direction,” said Mary Kay Henry, the new president of the Service Employees International Union, which represents many hospital workers. “We want the middle class stabilized, not destabilized.”

Employer-provided health insurance is part of a worker’s compensation. Unlike wages, it isn’t subject to income and payroll taxes.

Repealing the tax break would raise several hundred billion dollars a year, depending on how it’s done. Many economists believe employers would boost pay if they didn’t provide health care.

Proponents of repeal usually call for a tax credit to offset part of the cost of individually purchasing coverage.

The leaders of Obama’s deficit commission — Democrat Erskine Bowles, a former Clinton White House chief of staff, and Alan Simpson, a former GOP senator from Wyoming — have proposed to limit the tax break or eliminate it along with other cherished deductions, such as the one for mortgage interest. That would allow for a big cut in tax rates.

The commission is supposed to report its plan on Wednesday. It’s unclear if leaders have the votes to back their sweeping changes.

A separate group, the Bipartisan Policy Center, is proposing to cap the health care tax break in 2018 and eliminate it over the next

More Vermont families seek food assistance

ENOSBURG FALLS, Vt. (AP) — When the Enosburg Food Shelf opened three years ago in this farm country town, organizers expected to serve 60 families a month, at most.

Now, an average of 160 take advantage of it.

Food shelf treasurer Suzanne Hull-Parent says the resources of lower middle-class familes are drying up as the economy continues to wobble.

A new federal report on hunger issued Nov. 15 found that Vermont and Alabama have had the highest increase in “food insecurity” during the last 10 years.

Between 2008 and 2009, the share of households in Vermont that at times don’t have enough nutritious food rose from 12.1 percent to 13.6 percent. In Alabama, the rate rose from 13.8 percent to 15 percent in the same period. Tthe Department of Agriculture, which also takes into account population size and other factors, says the states are tied in having had the biggest increase in the last decade.

“The choices that families have to make when it comes to meeting their basic needs are heartbreaking. Choosing between heat and food or housing and food are decisions that people just shouldn’t have to make,” said Marissa Parisi, executive director of the Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger.

A monthly box of food — juice, bread, meat, cereal, cans of fruit — from the food shelf helps Kyle Thompson, 25, his girlfriend and their 2-year-old son. All three live with Thompson’s mother in Franklin.

“It really takes out spending for food so we can afford other things like electricity, saving to move out or getting the car fixed,” said Thompson, who works at a Champlain Farms convenience store in Swanton and has been denied food stamps.

“You just got to cut where you gotta cut,” he said.

In the last three years, the Vermont FoodBank — a statewide anti-hunger organization — has seen a 40 percent increase in the number of people seeking help from its network of food shelves, meal sites, homeless shelters and senior centers

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around the state.

And donations are not keeping up with the increased need.

Last year, the Vermont Foodbank distributed 7.6 million pounds of food to as many as 86,000 Vermonters in need, said Executive Director John Sayles. The amount of food has risen every year for the last decade, he said.

The food shelf in Enosburg, like others, has been pressed as the economy has soured.

Plagued by a drop in donations, it wasn’t going to give out turkeys this year for Thanksgiving. Then a local business association pulled through, raising more than $3,000, including its own $750 donation.

Not only did the food shelf hand out turkeys and Thanksgiving baskets, it was able to surpass its cutoff of 150 households, reaching all 170 families in need.

“If it wasn’t for the food shelf, we wouldn’t have been able to have a Thanksgiving this year,” said Carlene Adams, 40, who was laid off from her convenience store job in October.

The food shelf is seeing more working poor and extended families, who aren’t eligible for food stamps, said Kathy Gaston, one of its founders.

Since May, the number of households coming into the food shelf has grown from 124, or 293 individuals, to 165 households or 394 people

by October, Gaston said.

To meet the need, organizers hold monthly fundraising meetings, and volunteers from the community and the high school show up to distribute food, cook for fundraising dinners or collect donations during a Labor Day coin drop.

Megan Paradis, 23, who works as a cashier, was grateful to get a turkey a week before Thanksgiving because she didn’t have any more food stamps to buy one for herself, her 3-year-old and boyfriend.

She also brought in a friend, who got on the waiting list for a turkey, and signed up for the monthly food supply.

Paradis said the food she gets from the food shelf ensures that she doesn’t run out.

“This kind of makes the last ending of the month, where it works,” she said.

10 years. That’s part of a deficit reduction strategy from Democrat Alice Rivlin, a former Federal Reserve vice chairman, and former Sen. Pete Domenici, R-NM., who once led the Senate Budget Committee.

“The problem of rising debt is so serious that Republicans and Democrats are going to have go back and look at almost everything to see how we solve this,” said Rivlin.

Simpson calls the health care tax break a “tax earmark.” He said that “you cannot get anything done in this game unless you deal with every single aspect of the federal budget, and the biggest thing to wrap our arms around is health care.”

Democrats struggled with proposals to curb the tax break during the health care debate, but strong opposition from organized labor won out.

The compromise was a tax on high-cost health insurance plans, which won’t go into effect until 2018.

In a twist, the health care law eventually may make it easier to pry people away from employer insurance, a system that dates to World War II and has sustained three generations.

Starting in 2014, new insurance markets will make it easier for people to buy coverage on their own. These state-based “exchanges” would work like the federal employee health plan. Taxpayer subsidies will help individuals and families with low to moderate incomes

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Erskine Bowles, left, watches former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, co-chairman of President Barack Obama’s bipartisan deficit commission, speak at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Job-based health care benefits could wind up on the chopping block if President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans get serious about cutting the federal deficit. Major budget proposals from leaders on both sides of the political aisle have recently urged downsizing or eliminating tax breaks that help make employer health insurance the leading source of coverage in the nation, a middle-class mainstay.

pay premiums.

“Before health reform, a declining role for employers would have raised concerns,” Rivlin and Domenici said in their proposal. But well-run exchanges “will provide a viable — perhaps even superior — alternative.”

One Democratic member of Obama’s deficit commission

is wrestling with the idea.

California Rep. Xavier Becerra says it’s a very different situation from the health care debate. Back then, policymakers were looking for money to pay for covering the uninsured.

Now, they’re looking at rebalancing the role of government in the economy.

He’s not considering health care tax breaks in isolation.

“What we are saying is that we are going to examine every tax earmark,” Becerra said. “They are all on the table. If you want to keep one, then show us how you are going to come up with the money. That’s where you really have to put your money where your mouth is.”

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By Joe Pentecost Campus Correspondent

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In his new autobiography entitled “Decoded,” rapper Shawn Carter – better known as Jay-Z – discusses his everything in his life from his childhood to the hardships of being one of the best rappers of all time.

Rapper’s newly penned biography discusses his opinions, lifestyle and rise to the top

The rapper spends many chapters discussing the effects that drug dealing had on his existence as a juvenile and Shawn Carter, popularly adult. “Rapping and hustling known as Jay-Z, is a platinum live through each other,” he hit artist, a business entrepre- writes. Jay-Z believes that neur, a music mogul and now a the hustling life is a “story of notable author. In his new auto- struggle” and that it should be biography “Decoded,” Jay-Z defined as the “ultimate human outlines his rise to stardom. story.” Therefore, he says that He begins on the threaten- the purpose of hip-hop is to ing streets of Brooklyn, where create a medium for underhe grew up in a single-parent standing and analogy with a home and became a hustler. global audience. But the probJay-Z sold cocaine to the privi- lem with Jay-Z’s definition is leged college kids and the low- that it is incredibly specific. lifes in the projects, carried a Hip-hop is not just about gun whenever he rode the sub- the young hustler and it’s not way and had close encounters just about “Black America.” with gang bangers.

The rapper fails to recognize He would also write when- this distinction in his book, ever he got a chance and wher- instead dedicating a third of it ever he found a flat surface. He to describing how hustlers are carried around a notebook that the sole symbols of hip-hop. he guarded intensely. He also An interesting feature in made sure to write very small “Decoded” is that, at the end so that no one could steal his of each chapter, there is a rhymes from him. collection of annotated Jay-Z

By Purbita Saha Staff Writer

lyrics. Most of the songs that are dissected come from the rapper’s earlier albums, such as “Reasonable Doubt” and “The Blueprint.”

The songs aren’t explained to a full extent. Instead, they are laid out with footnotes that translate some of the more obscure references. The lyrics are a dry read but they prove to be a good reference for fans who want to interpret the songs as they listen to them.

Next, Jay-Z tells the story of how his chicken scratch rhymes earned him a record deal. He talks about the bad men who tried to bootleg his work and the good men who inspired him. His list of inspirations is of course a celebrity-studded affair. It includes Tupac, Biggie, Bono, Quincy Adams, Lauryn Hill and Michael Jordan.

Subsequently, Jay-Z continues to preach about the cultural impact of rap. According to him, Cristal became the hottest

thing to drink in clubs after he used the champagne as a prop for a music video. “This wasn’t because of anything Cristal had done,” Jay-Z explains. “It was because of what we’d done.

We were going to impose our sense of what was hot in the world around us.”

The preconceived notion that society has about rap is a real caveat for Jay-Z. His displeasure with hip-hop stereotypes is one of the prevalent themes of “Decoded,” as is his fascination with the powerful capability of words and music.

The author covers a lot of As “Decoded” begins to ground in his first autobiogwind down, the author brings raphy. He makes a strong some new ideas to the table. argument for the use of the In the book’s epilogue, he dis- n-word in songs, as he says cusses his first conversation that change comes through with Oprah. He says that she “conversation, not censorwas wary of rap and was taken ship.” He also puts his career aback when she found out that into perspective by considerhe was a cultured and well- ing the global impact of his informed individual. In the work. While “Decoded” lacks end, she admitted that she had flow and becomes incredibly thought that rap was a source redundant at times, Jay-Z’s of violence and not a form narrative tone is both admiof pure artistic expression. rable and captivating. His According to Jay-Z, the rea- writing excels in the literary son to why hip-hop has such a world as well as in the world negative reputation is because of music. “so many people don’t even know how to listen to music.” Purbita.Saha@UConn.edu

‘30 Rock’ aims for the college crowd

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A screenshot from the episode, “College” of 30 Rock. NBC’s hit series continues to stay strong as it heads through its fifth season.

By Harrison Paup Campus Correspondent Liz Lemon, despite the warnings of both Tracy and Jenna, begins this week’s epi-

sode of “30 Rock” by entering a lottery between the employees of lower rank at TGS. As Tracy and Jenna feared, Liz wins, to the collective disappointment and irritation of

those employees under her.

Liz decides to put the money into a bar tab for the lottery losers, desperate to relive her college glory days (in her first two weeks of college,

she was popular thanks to an extra large dorm room).

Unsuccessfully trying to accommodate reformed alcoholics and sensitive digestion, Liz eventually gives up and embraces her innate “RA” identity.

A dispute of how to pronounce words like “schedule” and “vase” draws the attention of the weekly meeting to Pronouncify.com, a website which offers audio samples of how to properly pronounce English words. Liz and company recognize the voice as Jack’s - a product of his work-study efforts to fund his undergraduate Princeton education.

Jack’s transition from the GE dynasty to the hierarchy of Kabletown is uncomfortable, prompting him to reminisce about his glory days as a young executive. The microwave department is honored for the year, (rather than Jack) and he takes his frustration out on a new microwave model that uses his voice.

Eventually both characters are forced to confront the things they fear. Liz comes to accept that she is not “cool,”

and Jack finds peace of mind regarding his impending transition. Jenna and Tracy serve as reminders to Liz throughout the episode of her inevitable fall from favor as she fundamentally doesn’t have what it takes to be cool. Kenneth tries to help Jack deal with moving on, “briefly dying” while Jack tries to destroy the microwave prototype. Throughout, the recordings of Jack’s voice provide consistent entertainment. They are utilized in an office prank and supplement other jokes (the microwave repeats “over,” while Jack is accepting his eventual departure from GE).

This episode was funny and simple – despite that nothing was developed beyond Liz’s lovably lame character and Jack’s reconciliation. By far the best joke was when Jenna revealed her alma mater, the Royal Tampa Academy of Dramatic Tricks.

Jenna’s college pride and the characters’ collective nostalgia about their “glory days” made this episode particularly pertinent to college students.

Harrison.Paup@UConn.edu

It wasn’t until last week that the craft beer scene finally got some serious recognition on national TV through the Discovery Channel’s new series: “Brewmasters.”

The hour-long show features Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, showing insight into the world of craft beer through the innovation and uniqueness of Dogfish’s crafty concoctions.

But what will this newfound exposure mean for the craft beer world?

The first episode of Brewmasters featured Sam Calagione, founder and owner of Dogfish Head, on a journey to create a new beer for the 40th anniversary of Miles Davis’ revolutionary jazz album, Bitches Brew. After an adventure into traditional African ingredients, Sam and the brewing team at Dogfish decided to brew a beer which was a blend of an imperial stout and a traditional African Tej beverage—symbolic of the blend of musical styles present on the legendary jazz fusion record. The African Tej is not actually a beer, but more similar to mead. It’s a fermented beverage made with honey and bittered with gesho root instead of hops, providing an earthiness to complement the sweetness of the honey. This Tej-style beer was blended with an imperial stout and ultimately was produced in the 750-milliliter bottle format. Its release coincided with the re-release of the album.

In addition to the recipe formulation and production of Bitches Brew, the pilot episode of Brewmasters also gave consumers a more general insight into the beer brewing process and what it really takes to make breweries function successfully. While this education was aimed at the novice beer drinker, there was still enough detail of the brewing process to keep even the most savvy beer drinker interested. Equally as entertaining as the technical banter of the show was the manner in which Dogfish Head Brewery was portrayed—a group of fun-loving, passionate employees who truly love their job and look forward to coming into work every single day. Though some critics of Brewmasters had an issue with the lax depiction of brewery work, exemplified by the scene where Sam is seen freestyle rapping, it is exactly this kind of spontaneous attitude and passion for innovation that is translated to the unique beers of Dogfish. It takes innovative, slightly crazy, minds like these to be able to explore the world of beer and continue to push the limits and uses of obscure ingredients in beer like Dogfish has been able to over the years.

The publicity and boost in sales that Dogfish will receive from the series is to be anticipated, but the increase in sales will be felt throughout all of the craft beer community. This type of exposure is beneficial

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goal of the show was to make the public aware of a lifestyle that is widely shielded from society. If ratings have any say in the matter, it appears that this goal has been met and surpassed. It remains popular and continues to air.

I hope that everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving break, eating lots of good food and catching up on your favorite TV shows. I know that I procrastinated writing papers and studying for exams by instead sitting down on my comfy couch to watch reruns of “Friends” and old seasons of “Gossip Girl.”

I was actually looking for a new show to get addicted to over break, so my sister introduced me to the hilarious comedy “How I Met Your Mother.” I usually prefer drama and action-oriented TV shows, but this comedy is worth watching if you are in the mood for a good laugh.

Created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays, “How I Met Your Mother” is currently in its sixth season. The show begins in the year 2030 and consists of a series of flashbacks as Ted Mosby describes to his daughter how he met her mother.

The majority of characters in the show are based on real individuals. For example, Ted is loosely based on Bays and the characters Marshall and Lily are based on Thomas and his wife.

The story of how Ted met his wife begins in 2005, when he is a single architect living with his two best friends Lily and Marshall. He witnesses the special connection that Marshall and Lily have, and soon begins a mission to find his soul mate. The next few seasons show Ted’s various relationships. It is almost tormenting at times as viewers try to guess who Ted’s wife is. In season five, it is finally revealed that Ted’s wife is the roommate of his current girlfriend, Cindy.

The show is currently in its sixth season and continues to follow Ted’s journey to find his soul mate.

As I was watching this show, I realized that “How I Met Your Mother” is very similar to other family comedies. There are many shows on air now that have a common theme of family. The word “family” in these programs includes not only blood relatives, but also friends accumulated over the years.

“Brothers and Sisters” is another family-based comedy that viewers would enjoy if they like “How I Met Your Mother.” “Brothers and Sisters” is a drama that centers on the lives of the Walker family members in Pasadena, Calif.

The Walker family consists of the mom, Nora, and her children Sarah, Kitty, Tommy, Kevin and Justin.

The show begins with the death of William Walker (the father) during Kitty’s birthday party. His death reveals many secrets he had kept hidden that eventually impact his family. “Brothers and Sisters” is like a modern day “Seventh Heaven,” in which viewers get a taste of the Walker family’s problems.

Both of these shows emphasize the importance of family values and the changing ideals of modern society.

Stephanie.Ratty@UConn.edu

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What I’m watching “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” The newest clan of overlypampered housewives hail from Beverly Hills, and they take bickering about minutia to a whole new level. Throw Kelsey Grammar’s young, vain wife into the mix and you’ve got yourself trash television at its finest as these teenagers-stuck-in-grownwomen’s-bodies party, rear their bratty children and bat their eyelashes at their loaded husbands.

Whether Camille (Grammar’s much younger wife) is talking about how charitable she’s feeling that day, Lisa is flaunting how intellectual and posh she is or Kyle is establishing herself as the only “real” woman in a town full of phonies, the drama and conflict will keep anyone entertained.

Take these women for what they are – which is ridiculous and completely unrealistic – and you’re bound to enjoy yourself watching this show.

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‘Futurama’ makes a return after season end for special holiday episode

By Jason Bogdan Staff Writer The latest season may have ended months ago, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for a new holiday special. After airing a fantastic season of episodes reprising the series’ glory, “Futurama” had a great holiday-centric episode to close out the year on Nov. 21.

Interestingly enough, this episode isn’t like the previous two Christmas themed episodes, which both focused on a futuristic Christmas with a crazily violent Robot Santa.

This special is more akin to the “Treehouse of Horror”

episodes of “The Simpsons,” with three non-canon segments related to the season.

The three segments focus on three winter holidays: Christmas, Robanukah (Bender’s made-up holiday to get out of work) and Kwanzaa.

Each has a specific adventure for the Planet Express crew including Fry’s desire to have a real pine tree, the Robanukah tradition of having enough petroleum oil to last six and a half weeks and the necessity of candles made of bees wax for Kwanzaa.

There’s been worry from the decent-at-best DVD movies that the show has been losing its spark, but thankfully this

episode is a fine reassurance that “Futurama” still knows how to generate laughs. There were plenty of great moments in this episode, from the barking snakes, the return of Bender in a bee suit and the subliminal advertising of Gunderson’s Unshelled Nuts to bring together a superb half hour of comedy. I won’t spoil how each segment ends, but each had me floored all the same.

Each holiday here also has their own song, each of which are catchy and hilarious. Whether it was Robot Santa singing about his holiday destruction, Bender’s quips about how Robanukah is totally not just Hanukkah

for robots or Kwanzaa-bot voiced by Coolio explaining the phrases of the holiday.

If you’ve missed out on the premiere there will be plenty of reruns as the days get closer to Christmas. But speaking of Christmas, Volume 5 of “Futurama” containing the thirteen episodes this year including this great holiday episode - will be available on Blu-Ray and DVD on Dec. 21. It’s the perfect gift for anyone who wants some great sci-fi comedy with the triumphant return of Fry and the rest of the hilarious Planet Express crew.

Jason.Bogdan@UConn.edu

TLC’s depiction of Mormon lifestyle stirs up controversy

By Stephanie Ratty Campus Correspondent

“Sister Wives,” a reality show chronicling the daily routine of a polygamous family in Utah, is a controversial member of TLC’s fall lineup.

The show gives an unprecedented look into the lifestyle of patriarch Kody Brown, who has thirteen children with his three wives, Meri, Janelle and Christine. The four live together in a specially designed house in Utah that provides for separate, yet parallel lives. The wives each play a respective role in maintaining the household and raising the children.

Meri, Kody’s first and only legally recognized wife, is portrayed as the “jealous one” – always competing for more time and attention from her husband while Janelle, Kody’s second wife, appears to be easygoing and quiet.

She cares for her six children and the others without causing much commotion.

Cody’s third wife Christine is outspoken and energetic.

With a “the more the merrier” mentality, she encourages Kody to continue his

polygamous lifestyle.

“Sister Wives” is a term that signifies the marriage of multiple wives not only to their husband, but also to each other. The women of the show habitually consult one another on parenting advice and suggestions to improve their relationships with Kody.

The “sisterly” bond came into play even more when the program followed Kody’s newest venture: adding a fourth wife.

TLC documented the courtship and eventual marriage of his youngest spouse, 31-yearold Robyn. Plenty of debate was aroused among the sister wives when the betrothal was announced, which meant the addition of not just another woman to share Kody with, but also her three children from a previous relationship.

Even more surprising was the uproar that occurred after the credits rolled. Not long after the premiere of the show in September, Utah police announced an investigation into the lives of Kody and his wives. Despite the fact his marriages to Janelle, Christine and Robyn are

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The Brown Family, including Kody and his three wives, Meri (left), Christine (middle) and Janelle (right) before the addition of his fourth wife, Robyn.

each considered “spiritual,” the spouses faced potential charges of bigamy, punishable by significant jail time for each participant.

As of yet, the investigation has yielded little other than additional viewership to the TLC hit reality show.

According to the Browns, the

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‘The Office’ doesn’t disappoint

By Jason Wong Campus Correspondent

Episodes six through nine of the seventh season of “The Office” are as idiosyncratically funny as ever - just as we’ve come to adore and expect.

In the sixth episode “Costume Contest,” a Halloween costume contest in the office has employees vying for the grand prize, a coupon book. Michael freaks out when Darryl goes over his head by taking an idea to corporate, and Pam tries to get the truth from Danny about their dating history. The episode ends with Michael and Darryl apologizing for their respective faults, and Jim coming into the office wearing a Popeye costume, carrying Cece (dressed as Swee’Pea), much to Pam’s delight. At the end of the episode, Oscar, who chose to wear regular work clothing, is declared the winner of the contest.

The seventh episode “Christening,” features Pam and Jim preparing for Cece’s baptism but when Cece goes missing, Jim fears Angela has taken her. Michael and Andy are inspired to go to Mexico to help build a school for underprivileged children with the church’s youth ministry, but ultimately realize their mistake and have Erin drive them home. Near the end of the episode, Toby, having been hesitant throughout the episode

to enter the church, finally enters, and asks of a crucifix, “Why do you have to be so mean to me?”

“Viewing Party” features Michael trying to sabotage Gabe’s viewing party out of frustration with Kevin when he refers to Gabe as his boss.

Meanwhile, Pam has a hard time getting Cece to go to

sleep, so Dwight picks her up and surprisingly calms her instantly. Andy grows increasingly jealous of Gabe’s relationship with Erin, and he imbibes a large amount of Chinese virility treatment, which initially works, but eventually makes him sick.

Erin catches Michael sabotaging the party, but the con-

(AP) - Alicia Keys and Lady Gaga take charity work seriously, and they’re going offline to prove it.

Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Usher and other celebrities have joined a new campaign called Digital Life Sacrifice on behalf of Keys’ charity, Keep a Child Alive. The entertainers plan to sign off of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday, which is World AIDS Day. The participants will sign back on when the charity raises $1 million.

“It’s really important and super-cool to use mediums that we naturally are on,” Keys said in a phone interview from New York last week.

For the campaign – which also includes Jennifer Hudson, Ryan Seacrest, Kim and Khloe Kardashian, Elijah Wood, Serena Williams, Janelle Monae and Keys’ husband, Swizz Beatz – celebrities have filmed “last tweet and testament” videos and will appear in ads showing them lying in coffins to represent what the campaign calls their digital deaths.

“It’s so important to shock

you to the point of waking up,” Keys said. “It’s not that people don’t care or it’s not that people don’t want to do something, it’s that they never thought of it quite like that.”

The campaign, she said, puts the disease in perspective.

“This is such a direct and instantly emotional way and a little sarcastic, you know, of a way to get people to pay attention,” said Keys, who has more than 2.6 million followers on Twitter.

The foundation, which began in 2003, will accept donations through text messages and barcode technology, which is featured in the charity’s Buy Life campaign. Raised efforts support families affected by HIV/ AIDS in Africa and India.

“We’re trying to sort of make the remark: Why do we care so much about the death of one celebrity as opposed to millions and millions of people dying in the place that we’re all from?” said Leigh Blake, the president and co-founder of Keep a Child Alive.

“It’s about love and respect and human dignity,” she added.

Keys said recruiting celebrities was difficult because of scheduling, but “once I got

people on the phone and I was able to paint the concept for them, everybody was in.”

Not one person said no, Keys recalled.

“I have a feeling that Gaga is going to raise it all by herself,” Blake said. Lady Gaga has more than 7.2 million followers on Twitter, and nearly 24 million fans on Facebook.

“She’s got a very, very mobilized fan base and that’s beautiful to watch I think (and) she’s able to draw their attention to these issues that are very important, you know, and that people follow it and act.”

Keys is hoping more people – both famous folks and noncelebs – get involved once the new initiative launches: “It just doesn’t have to be just because you’re a celebrity or something like that. It can be anybody.”

Keys, 29, married rapper-producer Swizz Beatz in July. The two had their first son, Egypt, last month. The Grammy winner said that though her life’s getting busier, being a mother and wife makes her want to help others even more.

“As a human being, you deserve to have a chance at life,” she said.

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frontation results in a sweet moment between them.

Finally, in “WUPHF.com” Ryan gets the office invested in his internet start-up company, WUPHF.com. Dwight creates a hay festival in the parking lot for the Thanksgiving holiday, and Angela cancels their sexual contract. Jim makes a huge sale, but is horrified to

learn that a commissions cap exists, and so, with no incentive to work, spends the rest of the episode doing menial tasks, and finally, he finds Jo’s audio autobiography, tweaks it with his computer, and sets Gabe up so he is forced to listen to the entire work.

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U.S. singer Alicia Keys performs on stage at the Festhalle in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Willie Nelson charged with pot T.R. Knight, Brendan Fraser possession in Texas bow out on Broadway

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NEW YORK (AP) – T.R. Knight, Brendan Fraser, Patrick Stewart, David Hyde Pierce and Mark Rylance are among the high-profile actors whose Broadway season has ended rather abruptly.

Those are the early casualties after poor box-office results, weak reviews or a combination of both shortened the runs of the plays “Elling,” ‘’La Bete” and “A Life in the Theatre.”

The fastest failure was “Elling,” a play about two recently released mental patients in Norway that marked Fraser’s Broadway debut. It opened last Sunday and had hoped to run until March, but will now will close on Sunday after just 22 previews and nine regular performances.

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winner Denis O’Hare, who was largely praised for his performance, “Elling” was widely considered to be too intimate a play for a big Broadway theater. It made only about $145,000 during eight performances last week, well short of its $882,000 potential.

“What a world what a world,” O’Hare tweeted after the Thanksgiving Day parade in New York. “Got to be on CBS for the parade and oh, they are shutting down the play.

One door shut, another window opens.”

The revival of “La Bete,” starring Rylance, Joanna Lumley and Pierce, as well as David Mamet’s “A Life in the Theatre,” with Stewart and Knight, have also not done well financially this season on Broadway.

“Life” will close Sunday, well short of its original Jan. 2 intended end. The Neil Pepedirected play, which focuses on the relationship between two thespians over the course of several dozen small scenes, was considered well acted but too light and insubstantial a work.

And “La Bete” will close Jan. 9 after struggling through about 100 regular performances, despite critical acclaim for Tony winner Rylance and his astonishing 20-minute soliloquy in Act 1. The revival will have lasted only a little longer than the 25 performances it played on Broadway when it first debuted in 1991.

The theaters for “La Bete” and “Life” were both less than half-filled last week.

SIERRA BLANCA, Texas (AP) – A U.S. Border Patrol spokesman says country singer Willie Nelson was charged with marijuana possession after 6 ounces was found aboard his tour bus in Texas.

Patrol spokesman Bill Brooks says the bus pulled into the Sierra Blanca, Texas, checkpoint about 9 a.m.

Friday. Brooks says an officer smelled pot when a door was opened and a search turned up marijuana.

Brooks says the Hudspeth County sheriff was contacted and Nelson was among three people arrested.

Sheriff Arvin West didn’t immediately return a phone message left at his home Friday, but he told the El Paso Times that Nelson claimed the marijuana was his. The singer was held briefly a $2,500 bond before being released.

Nelson spokeswoman Elaine Schock declined to comment when contacted via e-mail by The Associated Press.

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Willie Nelson performs before the start of the NASCAR AAA.

for the entire industry—and a brewery like Dogfish is perfect to exemplify the passion and quality of product that is available all over the country. Even Sam Calagione encouraged viewers of the pilot episode to “drink something really local to where you’re at when you watch it.”

Ultimately, it is this mentality within the industry that helps propagate the success of craft brewers.

Thanks to Discovery Channel and Dogfish Head, the true essence of the craft beer scene will finally be hitting the mainstream, resulting in monumental exposure for the industry. Brewmasters airs every Sunday Night at 10 on Discovery, a perfect time to relax with your favorite brew and tune in for some craft beer knowledge. Cheers!

Joseph.Pentecost@UConn.edu

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Dinosaur exhibit premiers in Ohio

CINCINNATI (AP) — A fossilized nest of eggs laid by an unknown species of dinosaur is part of an exhibit that makes its world premiere Friday at an Ohio museum.

The exhibit at the Cincinnati Museum Center will feature fossils found by Chinese paleontologists, digging in the north-central region of their country. They include a rib more than 9-feet long from a species of the titanosaur family. Paleontologists believe the rib came from an animal probably close to 100feet long and weighing 32 to 87 tons.

Some of the exhibit bones are from two species that lived 89 million to 100 million years ago, museum officials said.

“These fossils represent some of the latest fossil discoveries from China,” Glenn Storrs, the museum’s curator of vertebrate paleontology, said Wednesday.

Discovery of the fossils from the titanosaur family was important to the field of paleontology, enabling identification of two new species of titanosaur, he said.

Canada-based dinosaur exhibition company, Dinosaurs Unearthed Corp., developed the exhibit in partnership with the museum and the Henan Geological Museum in China. The Henan museum owns the fossils.

Most of the fossils in the “Dinosaur Bones: Titans of the Ruyang” exhibit were found in the village of Shaping — commonly referred to as “Dragon Village” — in the Ruyang area of the Henan province.

Researchers found that villagers had been digging up bones for years, believing them to be the remains of dragons. The villagers would grind the bones up for medicine, believing it would heal ailments including epilepsy and dysentery.

A few of the fossils went on exhibit at the museum earlier this year in preparation for the larger exhibition.

The new exhibit also features three roaring, moving animatronic dinosaurs and a periscope that museum officials say will allow visitors a “dinosaur-eye view” of their surroundings. The exhibit runs through Jan. 2. Tentative plans call for it to tour the United States before moving to Canada in 2012.

Yoko Ono interviews son for 'Day of Listening'

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WASHINGTON (AP) – Yoko Ono and her son, Sean Lennon, are joining a national oral history project that urges people to take time the day after Thanksgiving for a National Day of Listening with their friends and loved ones.

The recorded conversation between mother and son about their lives will be broadcast Friday as part of the StoryCorps segment on NPR’s “Morning Edition.” Organizers said Ono and her son find similarities between their childhoods.

This is the third year for the National Day of Listening, a project that encourages people to record interviews with friends or family members about their lives. New participants this year also include U.S. Olympic athletes and staff at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian as part of Native American Heritage Day on Friday.

KJ Jacks, 29, who has worked in special events since the museum opened in 2004, said it was a chance to talk about the diversity among Native Americans, including her own experience grow-

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ing up near Denver. She said it’s important for people to know Native people are part of everyday life and that “we don’t all walk around wearing buckskin dresses.”

“My father is full-blood Cherokee. I didn’t meet him until I was 16 years old. So my mom tried to get me interested in Indian culture when I was young, and I wasn’t having any of it – I was rebelling,” she said in her interview with a co-worker.

Jacks explained that she grew up with a single mother of Irish decent. It wasn’t until she came to work for the museum that she wanted to learn more about her Cherokee heritage and reconnect with her father.

“I feel like I have a very different background than a lot of people who work in the museum, a lot of the Native people, because I didn’t grow up in it,” she said after her story was recorded. “I think it will be a good way to just understand how people work.”

Free interview guides and sample questions are available online or through an iPhone app from the New York-based

StoryCorps project.

Former President George W. Bush helped jump-start the Day of Listening in 2008 before leaving the White House by sitting down for an interview with his sister, Dorothy Walker Bush Koch.

Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected more than 30,000 interviews across the country.

The recordings are archived at the Library of Congress.

Founder Dave Isay said that during a time of much political and cultural division, listening to one another can remind people “how much more unites us than divides us.”

Curators at the American Indian museum may consider a larger oral history effort and are encouraging indigenous people to record their stories.

The museum wants to have Native American communities more involved in developing its content to help redefine how they are represented, director Kevin Gover said in an interview he recorded for StoryCorps.

He also showed how the interviews can reveal very personal details. Gover, who is of Pawnee decent, spoke about his life growing up with an alcohol-

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Yoko Ono, right, performs alongside her son Sean Lennon during the “Yoko Ono: We Are Plastic Ono Band” concert at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles.

ic father and his own struggles with alcoholism.

“In my career as a drinker,

I still have memories that I shudder over, things that I did, and I just wish I could take

them back,” he said. “So that’s reason enough for me never to drink again.”

‘Harry Potter’ leads holiday weekend with $50.3M

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In this film publcity image released by Warner Bros. Pictures, Ralph Fiennes is shown in a scene from “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.”

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A fairy-tale princess gave young wizard Harry Potter a run for his money at the weekend box office.

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” remained the No. 1 movie with $50.3 million over Thanksgiving weekend, closely followed by the animated musical “Tangled” with $49.1 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The next-to-last “Harry Potter” movie raised its domestic total to $220.4 million after just 10 days in the-

aters, according to distributor Warner Bros. The film also has taken in $389.2 million overseas, giving it a worldwide total of $609.6 million.

“Tangled” is the latest Disney cartoon musical, with Mandy Moore providing the voice of fairy-tale princess Rapunzel. The movie raised its five-day total to $69 million since opening the day before Thanksgiving.

While “Deathly Hallows” continued to work box-office magic, Disney’s “Tangled” far exceeded industry expectations, delivering the second-biggest

Thanksgiving debut ever behind “Toy Story 2,” which had a $57.4 million opening.

Disney head of distribution Chuck Viane said the studio would have been happy if “Tangled” had matched the $34 million debut of its hit “Enchanted” over Thanksgiving 2007. “Tangled” not only shot past that mark but also challenged “Harry Potter” for the No. 1 spot.

“That was the last thing we were thinking of, but it sure is nice to be even thought of in that situation,” Viane said.

“’Potter’ is such a huge hit. To be that close, it was amazing.”

Three other new wide releases had so-so openings, led by Christina Aguilera and Cher’s song-and-dance tale “Burlesque” at No. 4 with $11.8 million for the weekend and a five-day total of $17.2 million since premiering Wednesday.

Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway’s romance “Love & Other Drugs” debuted at No. 6 with a three-day haul of $9.9 million and a total of $14 million since opening Wednesday.

Dwayne Johnson’s action tale “Faster” opened at No. 7 with $8.7 million for the weekend and $12.2 million since its Wednesday debut.

With a $125 million opening weekend, “Deathly Hallows” had the biggest start yet for the franchise about the young wizard. Its 10-day total also surpasses the previous high of $201 million set by “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” and last year’s “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” according to Warner Bros.

“That kind of tells you how big the last ‘Potter’ is going to be,” said Jeff Goldstein, general sales manager for Warner Bros.

“If you look at films like ‘Lord of the Rings,’ when you get to the last one, anticipation is just overwhelming.”

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” the final installment, hits theaters next July.

Despite big business for

“Harry Potter” and “Tangled,” Hollywood fell short of the Thanksgiving revenue record set last year, when “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” and “The Blind Side” led the box office.

According to box-office tracker Hollywood.com, revenues from Wednesday to Sunday last Thanksgiving totaled $273 million, compared to $267 million this season.

“This one was really close. I thought we might eke out a record,” said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com.

Other than “Tangled,” the new wide releases did not draw huge crowds, each catering to a segment of the audience.

Sony’s “Burlesque,” with Aguilera as a waitress seeking stardom at a Hollywood musical club, drew women; 20th Century Fox’s “Love and Other Drugs,” with Gyllenhaal as a pharmaceutical salesman who falls for an ailing woman (Hathaway), brought in date crowds; and CBS Films’ “Faster,” starring Johnson as an ex-con out for revenge, attracted male action fans.

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» NCAA FOOTBALL

Oregon, Auburn likely to play for Championship

By Miles DeGrazia NCAA Football Columnist

With only one week left in the college football regular season, the last and most important phase still remains: bowl season.

The bowl season has lost some of its luster since it began to expand, including teams that many felt had not earned a right to participate in post-season play.

Many bowl games are between mediocre teams without huge fan bases that take place hundreds of miles away. Who wants to watch Middle Tennessee face off against Southern Miss or Wyoming play Fresno State? Despite the obvious cash grab of having 35 bowl games in 2010-2011, the biggest five games still remain as prestigious as ever. I’m talking about the BCS Bowl games.

The first BCS game in 2011 will take place in beautiful Pasadena on New Years Day. The Rose Bowl is typically a Big Ten vs. Pac 10 match up, but this season, with a Non-FBS conference team in the BCS Top 4, it looks as if Texas Christian University, more commonly known as TCU will participate. Figuring out TCU’s opponent is a much more difficult task. A Big Ten team will undoubtedly be involved in this game, but the question is, which one? With three teams with only one defeat, we are looking at a situation similar to the Big 12 in 2008. The tiebreaker will be the BCS standings, and at this point it looks as if the Wisconsin Badgers will be representing the Big Ten and playing in the Rose Bowl.

The next BSC bowl game will take place mere hours after the Rose Bowl in Glendale, Arizona.

The Tostitos Fiesta Bowl is typically one of the most exciting

Bowl games, and hopefully this year’s contest won’t disappoint. As of now, it looks as if Stanford will play the Big 12 Champ - either Oklahoma State or Nebraska. Of these two, I think Nebraska will come out on top.

The next BCS bowl will be the Discover Orange bowl in Miami on Jan. 3. This game is typically the Big East Champs versus the ACC Champs.Both of these bids are still up for grabs, with UConn, West Virginia and Pittsburg all still in the running for the Big East title. UConn’s destiny is in its hands. The team only needs a win at USF to secure the Big East crown. In the ACC, the champ will be either Florida State or Virginia Tech. After all the dust has settled in both conferences, predict that UConn will play Virginia Tech for the Orange Bowl Title.

On Jan. 4, New Orleans will host the Allstate Sugar Bowl. This game should be one of the best bowls, with two huge schools going head to head. The BCS selection committee will find it very difficult to pass up on Ohio State, who finished joint top of the Big Ten. The other team could be one of many, but in the end I see the Arkansas Razorbacks ending up close to home in Louisiana.

This game would be a joy to watch just for the fans of both sides. Each team has a considerable fan base.

Oddly enough, the 2011 Tostitos BCS National Championship Game is may be the easiest to predict the outcome. Auburn, led by Heisman hopeful Cameron Newton, must win the SEC title game to end up with a shot at the National Title.

Oregon will be a stone cold lock to end up in this game looking for its first National Championship.

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ATLANTA (AP)—Don’t even mention a third had plenty of distance as it hooked slightly but straight winning season to the Atlanta Falcons. stayed several feet inside the left upright.

Their goals are so much bigger than that.

“Pressure is what you feel when you’re not The Falcons stayed atop the NFC when Matt prepared,” Bryant said. “I’ve been preparing for Bryant kicked a 47-yard field goal with 9 seconds that since I was 6 years old. Was there a little bit remaining Sunday for a 20-17 victory over the of pressure? Yeah. But I was prepared.”

Green Bay Packers, one of the teams trying to His do-over capped a game between playoff chase down Atlanta in the conference standings. contenders that lived up to all the hype: a bruisMake no mistake. The Falcons (9-2) were ing defensive struggle filled with huge fourthvery much aware of the possible ramifications down plays and one very important kickoff this game might have beyond the return by Eric Weems. regular season.

After Aaron Rodgers threw a “I have no plans of going to 10-yard touchdown pass to Jordy 20 Nelson with 56 seconds remaining Lambeau Field in January,” Atlanta Atlanta receiver Roddy White said. “I plan on Green Bay 17 to tie the game for Green Bay (7-4), staying right here and sleeping in my Weems broke loose up the middle and own bed in the playoffs.” was dragged down by Matt Wilhelm The Falcons have won five in a row for their with a flagrant facemask tackle. The Falcons longest streak since the 1998 season, when the took over at the Green Bay 49, Matt Ryan team reached its only Super Bowl. Also assured completed four straight short passes and Bryant is a third consecutive winning record—not too made the winning kick. shabby, considering the franchise had never The Falcons weren’t concerned after Green even had two in a row before this run.

Bay scored, especially with Ryan at quarterYet that’s just an afterthought for these guys, back. He completed 24 of 28 for 198 yards, who have won six straight games decided by including a 4-yarder to Tony Gonzalez for a touchdown or less after losing the opener to Atlanta’s first TD. Pittsburgh in overtime.

“We’ve got Matty Ice,” White said. “Ice cold.

“It’s great to get a winning season,” coach He just keeps moving the sticks.”

Green Bay thought it had forced overtime Mike Smith said. “But the expectations and when Rodgers directed a 16-play, 90-yard goals we talk about are a lot higher than that.”

Bryant had to make his winning kick twice. drive for the tying score. He improvised two The Packers called a timeout just before he huge plays on fourth down, beginning with a knocked his first attempt right down the middle. scrambling, backhanded flip of a pass to James No problem. The 35-year-old had already made Jones for an 18-yard gain on fourth-and-1 at two game-winning kicks this season, and No. 3 the 21.

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Maya Moore readies to take a shot during the Huskies’ 81-51 win over LSU.

from MOORE, page 14 half. The Tigers began the game on a 5-0 run, but the Huskies used double-digit first half efforts from Moore and Hartley to take the lead. With 8:58 left in the first half, the Huskies got the lead to 14 points. The Tigers fought back to cut it to seven with less than six minutes left.

At halftime UConn pushed the lead back to double digits and led 46-36 at the break.

In the second half, the Huskies outscored LSU 35-15 to cruise to the victory.

“The game in the second half got really, really physical,” said LSU coach Van Chancellor.

“They just denied the ball and got every rebound.”

Stefanie Dolson contributed with 11 points in 17 minutes and helped UConn bury the Tigers.

“Stefanie was good today,” Auriemma said. “She was actually kind of involved in the game. We need a presence in there.”

With 5:10 left, UConn pushed its lead to 77-46 after a pass from Dolson to Moore, in which Moore caught the ball

in mid air and laid it in the basket with her left hand. The crowd erupted and Moore ran back down court with a smile on her face.

“It’s not just a great play,” Moore said. “It’s just everything going into that play comes out.”

“When she caught that it was such excitement,” Dolson said.

“When she made that lay up I was going crazy. I was excited to be a part of that play.”

LSU competed with the Huskies, but in the end the No. 1 team was too much for its SEC foe. Chancellor said that UConn is still a force to be reckoned with.

“If they don’t instill fear you’re an idiot,” Chancellor said.

Prior to the final against LSU, the Huskies marched through their first two opponents with ease. The Huskies blew out Howard and Lehigh, respectively. Saturday night, UConn dismantled the Mountain Hawks 81-38 behind 29 points from Moore. Hayes nearly earned a double-double with 14 points and nine rebounds. The Huskies shot 53.2 percent from the floor as

a team in their second contest of the World Vision Challenge.

On Friday, UConn dominated from start to finish against Howard. The Huskies started the game on an 18-2 run and holding the Bison to nine points in the second half, in a 86-25 win. Moore led all scorers with 20 points and Stefanie Dolson registered a careerhigh 13 points. Hartley also added 16 points and six assists in the easy victory.

Prior to the tournament in Storrs, UConn got its first road win of the season on Nov. 21 in Atlanta. The Huskies defeated Georgia Tech 71-51 in Moore’s return to her home state. The Lawrenceville, Ga. native scored 30 points in front of 7,325, the largest crowd for a women’s basketball game in the Yellow Jackets’ history.

The only other UConn player in double figures was Hartley, who dropped 15 points in her first collegiate away game.

The Huskies’ next game is Thursday Dec. 2 at South Florida in the Sun Dome.

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Football finishes season with perfect 6-0 home record from FOOTBALL, page 14 answered back with a 36-yard drive and a Todman touchdown.

Blidi Wreh-Wilson picked off Collaros on Cincinnati’s last gasp and returned it 53 yards to set up Todman’s 14th touchdown of the season and put the capper on the win.

The win gave the Huskies’ a 6-0 mark at home and their first undefeated record at home since 2007, when they shared the Big East championship with West Virginia.

“I want to thank the fans for being out there and showing the support they did today,” Edsall said. “It really makes a difference as you can see from us being undefeated at home. If we continue to sell out it can help us create something special.”

The loss knocked the Bearcats out of bowl contention.

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UConn defensive end Kendall Reyes runs with the ball following an interception.

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» FOOTBALL

BCS dreams nearly a reality

By Mac Cerullo Sports Editor

On top of that, the team’s quarterback situation was a complete disaster. Cody Endres had just been kicked off the team, Zach Frazer had fallen EAST HARTFORD – By taking to No. 3 on the depth chart, and Mike care of business over Thanksgiving Box wound up getting concussed durBreak, the Huskies now stand one ing the Louisville game. win away from their first BCS bowl With their backs against the wall, bid in school history. the Huskies had two choices: they Having improved to 7-4 overall, could have packed it in and accepted and more importantly, 4-2 in the their fate as a failure, or they could Big East, the Huskies are now in have refocused and fought back. a three-way tie for first place in “I think they understood what they the conference with West needed to do in order to Virginia and Pittsburgh. win ball games,” Edsall Because the Huskies beat said. “They finally lisboth teams head-to-head, tened to some of the things they would win any tieI was telling them that we breaker if they finished the had to do.” year with the same record, The Louisville game becoming the Big East wound up being a turning Notebook point for the team. Edsall champion the Big East’s representative in the BCS. said on Saturday that the As a result, the situation UConn team had been dealing with many finds itself in is the simplest and distractions up until that point, but most desirable one they could have once the distractions were gone after asked for – win and they’re in. the Louisville game, the team was This is all the more incredible able to focus and practice better than given that a month ago, UConn’s they had before. Following a week current four-game winning streak of intense practice, UConn defeated and the possibility of a BCS berth West Virginia for the first time in seemed like a wishful fantasy. The program history. The fans rushed Huskies started the year with blow- the field, and the tone of the seaout losses to Michigan and Temple, son abruptly changed. The Huskies and then opened the Big East sched- haven’t lost since. ule with two bad losses to Rutgers “It’s a whole new team,” said running and Louisville – two of the bottom back Jordan Todman. “Everything’s dwellers in the standings. switched attitude, the work ethic, and

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it really started at practice. We’ve just been on a roll, we love to win and winning is addictive.”

The distraction that Edsall referred to was most likely Cody Endres, who was suspended before the season for a violation of team rules, eventually leaving the team after a second suspension. Both suspensions were reportedly due to failed drug tests.

It’s no surprise that after the Louisville game, once Frazer was reestablished as the starting quarterback and the rest of the depth chart became fully established, the Huskies finally began to play to their potential.

Now, thanks to West Virginia’s win over Pittsburgh on Friday, the only thing that stands between UConn and their first BCS bowl bid is South Florida, who are coming off an overtime win over the Miami Hurricanes.

“Our whole focus is on South Florida,” Edsall said. “It’s going to be hard. South Florida beat Miami today in overtime. It’s going to be hard, it’s on the road, but you know what? It’s what you want. This is why you play the game.”

Seniors say goodbye to The Rent Prior to the start of Saturday’s game, the Huskies honored their 14 seniors who were set to play the final home game of their career.

The seniors were each introduced and presented with a framed jersey

during the Senior Day ceremonies before the opening kickoff. A jersey was also presented to the family of Jasper Howard, who attended the game. Saturday would have been the last home game of Howard’s career.

Howard was also heavily featured in a halftime montage shown on the big screen. The montage highlighted the seniors and the memorable moments of their careers as Kenny Chesney’s “Boys of Fall” played in the background.

The game proved to be a memorable one for many of the seniors.

Most notably, senior fullback and captain Anthony Sherman recorded the first touchdown of his career.

Early in the game, the Huskies drove into the red zone, and Frazer found Sherman open near the goal line. Sherman made the catch, broke a tackle, and then stretched the ball into the endzone as he was brought down.

“It’s about time,” Edsall said. “It’s great for Anthony. Anthony’s done a lot – for him to get that on Senior Day was great.”

Edsall also joked that he wished Sherman had been stopped a halfyard short so Todman could have ran it in at Sherman’s expense.

The catch gave the Huskies an early 7-0 lead, a lead they would not relinquish en route to a comfortable 38-17 win.

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Walker scores 29 in rout of Kentucky from HUSKIES, page 14

The Huskies pose for a team picture after beating Kentucky 84-67 in the Maui Invitational final.

Young Husky team grows up before our eyes in Maui

By Mac Cerullo Sports Editor

the tournament. Walker scored 29 second-half points after early foul trouble held him to two in two in the first vs.

Wichita State. The junior point guard followed that performance with another outpouring of points against the second ranked Spartans. Walker finished with 30 points on 10-of19 shooting, including four 3-pointers. Walker was 6-for-7 from the free throw line in his third straight game with 30 points or more. He scored 42 against the Catamounts.

“We just showed the world we can play,” Walker, the MVP, told ESPN after the three-point victory.

In the blowout win over the Wildcats, he came up one point shy of the 30-point mark, ending with 29 points on 10-of17 shooting. He was a perfect 6-for-6 from the line and hit three out of four 3-pointers.

Walker finished with 90 points in three games, just three away from the Maui Invite record.

“We wanted to show the world that we’re still UConn,” Walker added.

Oriakhi comes home with trophy Oriakhi, who suffered a broken nose in preseason, ditched his face mask after the Vermont game, wanting people to see his face.

After his performance in Maui,

people now know his name.

Oriakhi provided the Huskies with a flurry of offense in the championship’s first half and finished the game with 18 points and 11 boards. He was 7-for-10 from the field. It was his second double-double of the tournament. Oriakhi had 15 points and 17 rebounds against Michigan State, bettering his 12-point, seven-rebound performance from the day before.

The sophomore center was a question mark on the offensive end heading into the season, but against tough opponents played well on the post. Oriakhi said prior to the tournament that Hawaii would be a fun destination but the visit to paradise was a business trip.

“People don’t think we’re that good and I love it,” Oriakhi said of the team’s underdog role heading into the tournament, the opposite of UConn’s 2005 trip when they also won the title.

“I’m definitely here for basketball,” Oriakhi continued.

“I’m flying 10 hours to come back with a trophy. It’s fun going to Hawaii and all but we’re going for basketball.”

After a 20-hour round trip and three games in paradise, Walker, Oriakhi and the rest of the youthful Huskies came back with the trophy.

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Kemba Walker holds the Maui Invitational MVP trophy after UConn’s 84-67 win over Kentucky.

Record Over.

Unlike in the Wichita St. game, Walker played for nearly the entire game, but this time he didn’t have to carry the team like he had in the second half against the Shockers. From start to finish, the Huskies held Before leaving for Maui, the men’s basketball their own against the Spartans, never allowing them team was a young and unproven bunch who to gain control of the game. Defensively the Huskies weren’t expected to do much this season. With a were great, holding Michigan State’s Kalin Lucas to regular rotation consisting of five freshmen and just ten points, and offensively they were bolstered two sophomores, coach Jim Calhoun even joked by an outstanding performance by Alex Oriakhi, before the tournament that he was still learning the who stepped up in the big game to score 15 points players’ names. and grab 17 rebounds.

This past week, however, UConn overcame its With time winding down, however, the Huskies youth and inexperience to win the Maui looked to their leader, and Walker didn’t Invitational. In doing so the Huskies disappoint, draining a key jumper with defeated three great teams who each had 52 seconds left to give UConn the lead a considerable advantage over them in for good. size, experience, talent or some combina“This is an absolutely tremendous team UConn 83 win,” tion of the three. coach Jim Calhoun told the AP after UConn won each game differently, and Wichita St 79 the game. with each successive win it seemed as By beating the No. 2 team in the counMonday if the Huskies had learned from their try, UConn made a major statement to the mistakes from the past game. They col- UConn 70 rest of the country. The team didn’t let up, lectively improved every game, and delivered an even stronger statement 67 and from the team’s early struggles against MSU the next night.

Wichita State to its complete domination The Huskies overwhelmed No. 8 Tuesday against No. 8 Kentucky, it seemed like Kentucky with their ferocious drive, 84 youthful exuberance and their will to win. the Huskies were growing up right before UConn our eyes.

Kentucky 67 Kentucky had the talent, but they didn’t Look no further than how the tournaan answer when UConn ended the Wednesday have ment started. first half on a 21-2 run in which the The Wichita St. game was an impresHuskies scored at will in any fashion they sive win, but the result only solidified one thing: the chose. It wasn’t the dominance that left the mark, importance of Kemba Walker. but the team’s reaction to the dominance. They were UConn would not have beaten Wichita St. without fired up. Walker started shouting “I’m a beast” to no him. The team held their own in the first half without one in particular. The team showed a passion and him – he sat most of the half due to foul trouble – enthusiasm that last year’s disappointing team was and even went into the break with a one point lead sorely lacking. thanks to a deep buzzer beating three pointer by When the new polls are released later today, Roscoe Smith.

UConn will almost certainly leap into the rankings, But in the second half, the Shockers’ size and and possibly wind up being ranked reasonably high experience began to overwhelm the Huskies, and too. If that happens, then it will be a deserving recogthat’s when Walker took over. Walker scored 29 nition of a job well done, but what can’t be forgotten points in the second half, compared to just two in the is that there is still plenty of basketball left to be first half, carrying the Huskies to victory. played. This past week was monumentally encourIt was a big win for the team, but it ultimately aging, but a Maui Invitational championship won’t raised questions about how good the team was as mean anything if the team gets ahead of themselves a whole. Sure UConn could beat a good team if and loses the drive to win that served them so well Walker was on his game, but could they do it with- in Maui. out him? The Wichita St. game indicated no. How If there’s anything we can take away from this about a great team like Michigan State? Even with week, it’s this: we now know they have it in them.

Walker playing well, would it be enough?

Considering how little we knew before, that’s monuBoth of those questions were answered the next mentally encouraging. day, when UConn met No. 2 Michigan State for the first time since their Final Four meeting in 2009.

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in three games, three short of the record set by Chaminade’s George Gilmore in 1991.

And when the Wildcats tried to roar back to start the second half, Walker gave them a shhh! scoring on an acrobatic lefthander in the lane, smiling at the crowd as he ran back after a 3-pointer.

“I was having a lot of fun,” Walker said.

So was just about everyone else at the Maui Invitational.

After a so-so 2009 run, the prestigious island tournament regained its mojo this year with great teams and wellplayed games that had fans enjoying the inside of Lahaina Civic Center as much as those majestic views of crystal blue waters and majestic neighboring islands outside.

Except for a few of the loser’s bracket games, the high schoolsized gym was packed to the rafters with rowdy fans who made it feel like a March tournament, not pre-Thanksgiving.

The title game had some extra juice to it, the mass of Kentucky blue louder than ever, UConn’s smallbut-proud contingent tried to make itself heard by stomping, screaming and booing.

“That tiny little gym was as noisy as Madison Square Garden or any other place,” Calhoun said.

The players were on their game, too.

Jones delivered the first big blow, flying in for a slam over two UConn defenders.

Oriakhi answered seconds later, soaring in for a twohanded alley-oop.

UConn kept it going the rest of the first half. The Wildcats didn’t.

Jones, after scoring Kentucky’s first 10 points, had to spend the final 9:01 of the half on the bench with two fouls, Calipari afraid to put him back in. Three other players had two fouls and had limited playing time.

It didn’t seem to matter who was on the floor.

Stubbornly challenging UConn’s size inside, Kentucky played too much 1-on-1 instead of kicking out to shooters and kept coming away empty, hitting just nine of 30 shots in the first half.

And that was the good part.

Connecticut, led by the alwayscool Walker, couldn’t seem to miss against Kentucky’s slow-to-getback defense.

Hitting 3s, scoring in transition, powering inside—the Huskies seemed to do what they wanted whenever they wanted, going on 21-2 run to close the first half against a supposedly-better team.

“They came out with a viscousness and toughness we couldn’t match, from the start of the game,” Calipari said.

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The Daily Question Q: What was the biggest sports story over Thanksgiving break?

A: “Definitely UConn beating the stuffing out of Kentucky.”

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Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin, right, dunks over New York Knicks center Timofey Mozgov of Russia during the second half of their Nov. 20 matchup.

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NFL: San Francisco 49ers at Arizona Cardinals

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The San Francisco 49ers and Arizona Cardinals each look to avoid falling to 3-8 as they face off on Monday Night Football.

Tied for last in the NFC West, both teams have had disappointing first halves of the year, but remain in the hunt for the NFC West crown given that the Seattle Seahawks and St. Louis Rams lead the division, each holding an unimpressive 5-6 record.

Arizona will start Derek Anderson at quarterback, while the 49ers will stick with backup Troy Smith.

The UConn men’s soccer team seemed to be on the cusp of a championship run during the regular season. But for the second straight season, the Huskies’ fate was another NCAA tournament shortcoming.

UConn tied Brown 1-1 on Sunday Nov. 21 but fell 7-6 in penalty kicks and was ousted in the NCAA tournament second round before 2,719 at Morrone Stadium in Storrs.

The Huskies received a first-round bye after being Brown 2 ranked in the country’s Top 1 5 for most of the season. UConn Last season UConn lost at Monmouth in penalty kicks in the first round of the national tournament.

Taylor Gorman’s goal from Sean Rosa gave the Bears an early lead eight minutes into the match. The Huskies would not answer until the game’s 87th minute as Mamadou Doudou Diouf scored an unassisted goal, his sixth of the season. Brown goalie Paul Grandstrand and UConn goalkeeper Josh Ford both held off the offenses during the two overtime periods. Ford finished with four saves in his final college game.

Ford was substituted for backup goalie Matt Sangeloty in the shootout period. Sangeloty, also playing in his last collegiate contest, stopped one penalty shot, but Jay Hayward’s goal gave the Bears the victory after Max Wasserman’s miss. Carlos Alvarez, Tony Cascio, Diouf, Alan Ponce, Thomas Wharf and Juho Karppinen all capitalized on their penalty shots. Wasserman and Stephane Diop were unable to.

The Huskies finished the 2010 season with a 12-2-6 overall record and the Bears improved to 12-3-4 with the win. UConn did not look good in shootouts heading into the match as the team fell at Cincinnati in penalty kicks in the Big East quarterfinals prior to last Sunday’s seasonending loss.

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Game of the Week: UConn Men’s Football vs. Cincinnati The Huskies beat up the Bearcats 38-17 on Saturday behind junior tailback Jordan Todman’s three rushing touchdowns. The Huskies improve to 7-4 overall, 4-2 in the Big East, and are a perfect 5-0 at home. Aside from the three rushing touchdowns, Todman also had 175 rushing yards.

Senior quarterback Zach Frazer threw for 121 yards and had a passing touchdown on senior day to fellow senior, fullback Anthony Sherman, for a 16 yard score. The Huskies will play again Next Saturday at the University of South Florida. If they win next week, the Huskies will become eligible for a BCS Bowl Game.

Dominating Performance: UConn Women’s Hockey vs.

Sacred Heart The Huskies trounced the Pioneers 11-0 yesterday. The 11 goal victory in the conso-

lation game of the Nutmeg Classic gives the Huskies a 6-8-1 record on the season, a great redemption win after losing 5-2 against Yale the day before. Freshman forward Taylor Gross recorded a hat trick on the day, with two of her three goals coming in the game’s first period.

Freshman goaltender Nicole Paniccia tied her career-high with 21 saves yesterday. The Huskies went up 5-0 after the first period, which proved to be more than enough to hold off the Pioneers. Their next game is this Saturday against Boston University.

Number of the Week: 30 Junior point guard Kemba Walker is averaging 30 points per game through the Huskies’ first four games this season. The Huskies are now a perfect 5-0 through the season after winning the EA Sports Maui Invitational.

Their next game is tomorrow against New Hampshire at Gampel Pavilion.

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THE Pro Side Bears hand Vick first interception since 2006 in win over Eagles

By Aaron Kasmanoff-Dick Campus Correspondent Game of the Week: Bears vs. Eagles The Chicago Bears surprised everyone this Sunday with an upset victory over the Philadelphia Eagles, a team that looked almost unbeatable this season. Bears’ quarterback Jay Cutler threw four touchdown passes in a game that had him looking like the elite quarterback everyone hoped he would be, first in Denver, and then again with Chicago. The Bears have won four straight games. With a 8-3 record and the lead of the NFC North conference, the Bears just might be a reasonable Super Bowl contender this year.

Chicago free safety Chris Harris helped deflate the Eagles’ machine like quarterback Michael Vick with an interception in the end zone late in the first half, ending a four year stretch in which the quarterback had not thrown an interception. Vick has been perfect this year as the

on-again-off-again starter, and attempted 212 throws without an interception this season. Vick threw for 333 yards and two touchdowns in the Eagles’ losing effort.

The team fell to 7-4, in this 31-26 loss.

Wish we Were There: Giants vs. Jaguars The New York Giants perhaps saved a season that was in decline with a key victory over Jacksonville this Sunday. Quarterback Eli Manning connected with tight end Kevin boss for a 32-yard score with 3:15 left in the 4th quarter to win the game. Defensive end Justin Tuck sparked the Giants (7-4) locker room with a simple charge: The team needs to stop playing like “garbage.”

The Giants answered the pronouncement by executing well in the second half. Due to Philadelphia’s loss to Chicago on Sunday, the Giants tied for 1st in the NFC East.

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» INSIDE SPORTS TODAY P.13: Men’s soccer falls in NCAA tournament. / P.12: UConn football bowl projections. / P.12: Young team grows up in Maui.

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Football one win away from BCS berth

By Colin McDonough Senior Staff Writer

EAST HARTFORD – One more win and the Huskies are in.

The UConn football team (7-4, 4-2) defeated Cincinnati 38-17 on Senior Day at Rentschler Field in front of 40,000 to move within one win of the program’s first BCS berth. The Huskies used 175 yards and three touchdowns from Jordan Todman to put away the Bearcats (4-7, 2-4) and give themselves a chance to clinch the Big East championship Saturday at South Florida.

“Great team victory today, the kids gutted it out,” said coach Randy Edsall. “I’m so proud of the players and assistant coaches for the job they’ve done.

Sometimes people think winning is easy, it’s really hard.

We’ll end up with a winning

season. It’s not like its happened halftime advantage. The junior a lot around here.” tailback will need one more big With UConn holding a 17-10 performance to lead UConn to lead and Cincinnati driving, the BCS. Kendall Reyes batted a Zach “We did take a crazy route, Collaros pass in the air, and but the route was worth it, and reeled it in himself. Reyes ran I’m happy to be where we’re down the sideline 79 at right now,” Todman yards for the touchsaid. “Our goal is down, but an illegal ‘let’s make history.’ block on Lawrence UConn 23 Pretty close to doing Wilson brought one game away 6 that, the ball back to the Syracuse and time will tell.”

15-yard line.

Edsall said the Nov. 20 “When Kendall Huskies need to focus 38 on the task at hand to took that ball back, UConn that was the turning Cincinnati 17 close out the conferpoint of the game,” ence championship.

Saturday said Moe Petrus.

“What we’ve done Todman, who is put ourselves in injured his arm in the first quar- position,” Edsall said. “It’s not ter, returned to the game and where you start it’s where you picked up a crucial fourth down, finish and these kids have put then scored a touchdown with themselves in position to finish four seconds left in the half at the top.” to give the Huskies a 24-10 Todman shared the load

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with Robbie Frey, who rushed the ball 15 times for 48 yards and 1 touchdown. The Husky defense also stepped up against the Bearcats, who scored 47 points on UConn in last season’s meeting. In the first quarter, Lawrence Wilson forced a fumble recovered by Alex Polito at midfield that led to the Huskies’ second score. Although UConn held a 14-3 lead, it took all four quarters to put away the twotime defending Big East champion Bearcats.

After a scoreless third quarter, Collaros drove Cincinnati 88 yards in eight plays. The Bearcats benefitted from threepass interference penalties on Dwayne Gratz, as Collaros punched it in on a three-yard run to bring the score to 24-17 with 8:41 left. The Huskies

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Jordan Todman runs with the ball during the Huskies’ 38-17 win at home over Cincinnati.

HUSKIES WIN MAUI INVITATIONAL

UConn beats two Top 10 teams en route to Maui Invite Championship LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP)— The Connecticut Huskies leave Hawaii with a big trophy and bigger expectations.

King Kemba took them down the pipeline.

Finishing off a dominating tournament, Kemba Walker scored 29 points and Connecticut beat a Top 10 team for the second straight day, knocking off No. 8 Kentucky with an 84-67 rout to win the Maui Tournament on Wednesday night.

“We wanted to show the world that we’re still UConn,” Walker said.

There was little doubt after this rollover.

Connecticut (5-0) eked out its first Maui title over Gonzaga in 2005. The Huskies simply beat up Kentucky for their second one.

After wearing down secondranked Michigan State in the semifinals, UConn steamrolled the Wildcats in the title game, dominating during a massive firsthalf run and squashing any hope of a comeback.

Alex Oriakhi had 18 points and 11 rebounds, and the Huskies shot 57 percent against one of the nation’s best teams to leave Hawaii with a much clearer picture of who they are.

Coming off a disappointing 2009-10 season, UConn is clearly back.

“This is a great step for us,”

UConn coach Jim Calhoun said. “It’s letting people know that we are Connecticut, have been Connecticut for the past 20-something years and we think we’re a pretty good basketball team.”

So do the Wildcats.

Kentucky (4-1), despite all those young stars-in-waiting, didn’t have an answer when UConn started pouring it on during its big first half run.

Instead of making a comeback in the second half, the Wildcats fell father behind, their inexperience overcoming their talent for once.

Freshman phenom Terrence Jones got off to a great start, spent a good chunk of the first half on the bench with two fouls and finished with 24 points.

Darius Miller added 15 points.

The rest of the starters? They went a combined 6-for26 and the team shot 36 percent.

“That was a shellacking,” Kentucky coach John Calipari said. “We were outplayed, outcoached, out-everythinged.”

Walker was the difference from the start.

The tournament MVP almost toyed with the young Wildcats, flipping in runners, 3-pointers and layups to score 90 points

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The UConn men’s basketball team poses after defeating Kentucky in the finals of the EA Sports Maui Invitational by a score of 84-67 on Nov. 24.

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Moore keys sweep of Walker’s performance sparks early World Vision Challenge Player of the Year speculation

By Colin McDonough Senior Staff Writer

the 12:19 mark in the first half, Moore made history. The senior forward became the fourth player in program hisThe World Vision tory to bring in 1,000 Challenge wasn’t career rebounds. much of a challenge “In the first half, I for the UConn womdidn’t think we’d be en’s basketball team. able to guard them,” 86 said coach Geno The No. 1 Huskies’ UConn 3-0 march during Howard 25 Auriemma. “It seemed the last three days at like every time we Friday Gampel Pavilion was didn’t get through a capped off with a UConn screen they scored. I 81 81-51 win over LSU thought our defense 38 was unbelievable in last night in front of Lehigh 8,120 in Storrs. The the second half. We Saturday win moved UConn’s were very active – we 81 were all swarming to record to 6-0 and UConn improved its winning LSU ball and got out in 51 the streak to 84 games. transition.”

Sunday Maya Moore Although the final scored 26 points and score was a blowout, grabbed 12 rebounds, while LSU put up a fight in the first Tiffany Hayes scored 20 and Bria Hartley added 15. At » BIG, page 11

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By Matt McDonough Associate Sports Editor

freshmen in the title game, a 84-67 win over No. 9 Kentucky, notching 14 points on 5-of-6 The UConn men’s basketball shooting. Point guard Shabazz team’s roster is sprinkled with Napier wasn’t far behind with 12 youth, including five freshmen points and four assists. Napier in the 10-man rotation. After handled the point guard duties the Huskies’ win during most of his over Vermont Nov. minutes in the tour17 that boosted their nament. Giffey startrecord to 2-0, sophed all three games omore center Alex in Maui, along with Oriakhi said the fellow freshman team had no choice Jeremy Lamb. but to be ready for Lamb had seven stiff competition it points and eight would face in the rebounds in the Notebook EA Sports Maui opening round Invitational. UConn 83-79 win over was ready, as the freshmen grew Wichita State, his best game of up over three games, and tour- the tournament. Roscoe Smith ney MVP Kemba Walker car- and Napier both totaled 10 points ried the team to the title. in the contest. The Huskies Freshman guard Niels Giffey defeated No. 2 Michigan State in made the most impact of the the semifinals 70-67.

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It wasn’t Walker taking the final shot before the half against the Wheat Shockers and Spartans, it was Smith and Napier. Walker brought the ball down the court with five seconds remaining but could not penetrate the Shocker defense. He dished the ball to Smith, who banked a long straightaway 3-pointer and gave UConn a 33-32 lead at the half against Wichita State. The next day, Walker was double-teamed at the top of the key and found Napier, who hit a 3-pointer as time ran out to tie Michigan State at 34 heading into halftime.

Tourney MVP Walker relishes national stage Aside from the freshmen, it was the usual suspect, Walker, who led the team for much of ROCHELLE BAROSS/The Daily Campus

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Kemba Walker.