The Daily Campus: March 31

Volume CXVIII No. 129

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Coach Pasqualoni holds meet and greet

By John Shevchuk Staff Writer

HIT ME BABY ONE MORE TIME In light of Spears’ new album, a retrospective on her rise, fall, comeback.

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Thursday, March 31, 2011

On Jan. 3 just two days after the Fiesta Bowl, the UConn community was notified that head coach Randy Edsall had signed a contract to coach the University of Maryland. Just ten days later Connecticut native Paul Pasqualoni took the role as the new coach.

For the past five seasons, Pasqualoni has worked for the Dallas Cowboys under Jerry Jones and was most recently the defensive line coach for the Miami Dolphins. Pasqualoni

previously led a successful coaching career at Syracuse.

Last night, Pasqualoni participated in a meet and greet where the student body was able to ask questions and meet the new coach at a personal level. Pasqualoni showed his enthusiasm for the position right from the get-go.

“I have always greatly admired UConn, they always handle situations in a first class manner,” Pasqualoni said.

After recent years in the NFL, he expressed his excitement to be back in a college community.

One student began the con-

versation with a question about the incoming freshman.

Pasqualoni explained how four freshmen are already practicing with the team. He commended them for their academic credentials and working with the team while high school is still in session.

Pasqualoni was asked about his opinion on the current BCS system. He was quick to point out the benefits of the system, but saw room for improvement too.

“I have been in so many

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Paul Pasqualoni fields questions asked by students at a meet and greet on Wednesday.

USG Senate discusses committee changes

TERRIERS TOP DOGS THIS TIME Softball falls to Boston University at home, 1-0 SPORTS/ page 11

EDITORIAL: STUDENTS MUST FIX ATTITUDE TO COMPETE INTERNATIONALLY Students have a sense of entitlement evidenced by rude behavior.

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INSIDE NEWS: BOMB THREAT FOUND AT HOMER BABBIDGE LIBRARY Employees allowed to stay home.

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USG Vice President Clive Richards speaks at the Senate meeting on Wednesday. The meeting addressed new propositions for departments, committees and members.

Haggerty proposes eliminating one, creating two new committees

By Kimberly Wilson Staff Writer The Undergraduate Student Senate (USG) met yesterday to discuss constitutional change recommendations for the new administration.

The meeting did not cover legislation, but rather focused on how to utilize USG departments, committees and members.

USG President Tom Haggerty began the meeting by proposing the elimination of the Promotions and Recruitment

Committee. In place of this committee, Haggerty proposed the formation of two separate committees, a Recruitment and Retention Committee and an Events Promotion Committee.

Haggerty discussed the problems the Promotions and Recruitment Committee has faced and how the next administration can change it.

“In the past, the Promotions and Recruitment Committee has had trouble determining when they should focus on promotions, and when they should focus

on recruitment,” Haggerty said.

According to Haggerty, by separating the Promotions and Recruitment Committee into two separate committees, their efficiency can be maximized.

Haggerty also proposed the development of a Communications Department, which would be overseen by the communications director and would oversee the proposed Event Promotions Committee.

The success of the campus cleanup held

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Journalism department offers new scholarship

By Melanie Deziel Associate Focus Editor The UConn Journalism Department is offering the annual Charles Litsky Memorial Scholarship for the first time this spring, and all UConn journalism majors are reminded to submit their applications by Friday’s 4 p.m. deadline.

The award was established in honor of Charles Litsky, a successful BMX racer, passionate announcer and well-respected promoter of BMX racing, who died in 1993 at the age of 33.

Frank Litsky, Charles’ father, wanted to honor his son and do something beneficial for

UConn’s journalism department. Though the journalism department did not yet exist, Frank graduated from UConn in 1946 with a major in government and a minor in history and went on to become a wellknown former sports editor and writer for The New York Times.

Paper applications are available in Arjona 428, the Journalism Resource Room. The two-page application requires only basic contact information and a listing of completed journalism classes, relevant work experience and extracurricular activities. Students should attach a copy of their transcript and an essay no longer than 500 words before returning the packet to Arjona 422 by 4 p.m. on

Friday, April 1.

The department’s award committee will review the applications and announce the winner or winners of the award on April 8.

Selections will be based largely on “academic achievement and rigor of academic program,” according to the application, but financial need and non-academic achievements or activities will also be considered.

The award includes a total of $8,000, but it has not been determined yet whether the money will be awarded to one individual or to multiple applicants. This decision will depend on the number of applicants and the discretion of the committee.

An award ceremony will

be held Friday, April 15, at 4 p.m. in the Class of 1947 of the Homer Babbidge Library. Frank Litsky will be there to present the winner(s) with their awards, which will include a certificate in addition to the monetary prize.

Litsky, a native of Waterbury, has visited UConn before to speak to a magazine writing class in the fall of 2009 and a sports writing class in fall 2010.

“We just want everyone to come out April 15,” said Robert Wyss, the acting journalism department chair.

Wyss says the department has been more aggressive in advertising the Charles Litsky Memorial

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Venezuelan workers caught up in Conn.

Ponzi scheme

HARTFORD (AP) — The fallout from the biggest whitecollar federal prosecution in Connecticut is being felt a continent away in Venezuela, where hundreds of millions of dollars from a state oil workers’ pension fund were invested with a now disgraced financier.

U.S. prosecutors say Francisco Illarramendi, a VenezuelanAmerican, used unregistered hedge funds in Stamford, Conn., as cover for a massive Ponzi scheme with exclusively overseas clients.

Venezuela’s government is taking steps to recover what it can from the employee retirement fund for Petroleos de Venezuela, or PDVSA, which contributed about 90 percent of the total investment. The South American country’s oil minister, Rafael Ramirez, said the government is sending lawyers to join proceedings in the U.S. “Our primary action has to do with salvaging the funds from what is there and supporting our workers,” Ramirez said in a TV interview over the weekend.

He said the oil company would make up any of the pension fund’s losses.

Authorities have not put a dollar figure on the scale of the fraud, but the federal Securities and Exchange Commission said in its complaint that the gap between the funds’ liabilities and assets could reach hundreds of millions of dollars. During the SEC investigation, it said, Illarramendi provided a false letter from an accountant in Venezuela in an attempt to verify $275 million in assets that did not exist.

The attorney assigned to unravel the fraud is still reviewing how much is lost.

The court-appointed receiver said in a request for assistance last week that it needs to review 350,000 pages of documents from the computers of Illarramendi’s holding company, the Michael Kenwood Group, and 86 boxes of files.

“We are focused on recovering and safeguarding all available assets for the benefit of the stakeholders of the Receivership Estate,” said the receiver, John Carney of the New York law firm Baker & Hostetler, who declined to comment further.

Illarramendi, 42, of New Canaan, Conn., faces up to 70 years in prison after pleading guilty on March 7 to criminal charges including several counts of fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Prosecutors say he transferred money among investment accounts without telling clients and falsified documents to deceive investors, creditors and the SEC.

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UConn Softball 3:30 to 6:30 Connecticut Softball Stadium Come out to cheer on your Huskies as they go head-to-head with Quinnipiac.

Teale Lecture 4 to 5 p.m.

Dodd Center, Konover Ruth S. DeFries of the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology at Columbia University will present her lecture called “Tropical Forests, Climate Mitigation, And Agricultural Production.”

Deaf Awareness Day 6:30 to 9 p.m.

Student Union Ballroom Learn about deaf culture by watching attending this event, which includes a performance by a deaf comedian, CJ Jones.

Innocence Project 7 to 8:30 p.m.

CUE, 122 In a series of film screenings and panel discussions, former prison inmates will speak about their experiences of being wrongly incarcerated.

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Bomb threat found at Homer Babbidge Library Student employees of Homer Babbidge Library said they were given the opportunity to stay home from work Monday after a bomb threat scribbled on a table was found nearly a week ago.

“Last Tuesday, I was told to keep an eye out because a bomb threat was found on a table,” said one student worker who was unsure of whether or not he was allowed to talk to the press.

“They brought the table out, and I was told the police were analyzing it.”

“I also kind of felt it was morally wrong,” he added, referring to the library’s failure to notify students and how a similar threat on UConn’s Hartford campus in October was made public.

Another supervisor at the library sent an email to her staff, alerting them of the threat.

“The library received a bomb threat for Monday, March 28.

UConn Police are working with the State Police Bomb Squad to investigate,” she wrote. “If you are not comfortable reporting for work that day, please let me know.”

Vice Provost of the University Library Brinley Franklin had no statement. No alerts have been sent to the campuswide email system, and student employees of the library have received no update on the status of the investigation.

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Firm “regrets” not telling Malloy about violations

NEWINGTON (AP) — The parent company of a Newington manufacturing plant says it regrets not informing Gov. Dannel P. Malloy of alleged federal safety violations which were publicly announced at the same time he was visiting the facility.

Volvo Group North America spokeswoman Marjorie Meyers said in an email sent Wednesday evening that the company “found it to be quite unfortunate” that the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration chose to release news of the 17 alleged safety violations when Malloy was touring the Volvo Aero plant Tuesday. The facility manufactures aircraft engine components.

OSHA has said the timing was a coincidence.

Volvo says the company takes the safety violation allegations very seriously and has acted swiftly to correct all issues.

Vote on Conn. gender identity bill postponed HARTFORD (AP) — A planned vote on a bill that would provide protections from gender identity discrimination in Connecticut has been delayed.

The General Assembly’s Judiciary Committee ran out of time Wednesday to act on the legislation. A new date for a committee vote, one of the first steps in the legislative process, has not yet been scheduled.

The bill would include “gender identity or expression” as a protected characteristic along with race, national origin, sex and other attributes in current state laws.

The Family Institute of Connecticut is actively opposing the bill.

The group claims sexual predators could misuse the legal protections provided to transgendered people and would expose students to teachers who change their gender.

Advocates say the bill will help those who face discrimination on a daily basis.

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Ohio House panel OKs anti-abortion Heartbeat Bill COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A state House committee on Wednesday narrowly approved a bill that would impose the strictest abortion limit in the nation, outlawing the procedure at the first detectable fetal heartbeat.

The Health Committee voted 12-11 to approve the so-called Heartbeat Bill. The bill would need to be approved by the House, where its future is uncertain.

Supporters led by Janet Folger Porter, the director of the Faith2Action network of pro-family groups and a former legislative director of the anti-abortion group Ohio Right to Life, have hoped aloud that the bill sparks a legal challenge to the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion.

“What I want to tell you is, this is our moment to do what we’ve been working for, praying for, hoping for, for 38 years,” Porter told the committee in a final impassioned plea for the bill’s passage.

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Speaker offers knowledge about building scholarly LGBT database

By John Sherman Staff Writer Librarian and archivist Shawnta Smith led an information workshop focused on LGBT research Wednesday afternoon at the Rainbow Center. The enthusiastic Smith offered her knowledge on how to research correctly and how to build a greater database of LGBT information.

“Queer scholarship is right and perfect for being a new author of information. There is not a lot out there,” Smith said, addressing the petite field of LGBT scholarly articles.

“Many things can be taken in a queer angle,” she added. “A lot of information really isn’t there. So it is about making it there. You have the ability to do that as a scholar.”

Some have written off Smith’s claims as a stretch, saying the librarian is trying to incorporate sexual orientation in places where it simply is not present.

But, Smith retorts by claiming there was just as much gay in the world several years ago as there is today.

“We already existed everywhere already. It’s just a matter of finding it now,” Smith said.

Smith joked that in past math

classes she wrote papers about how the golden rectangle was a phallic representation. She also offered a hypothetical interpretation of the literary classic “Beowulf,” in which the character Wiglaf is either a woman or a very feminine man.

“I may have gone over the top a few times, but I think there is legitimacy in many cases,” Smith said.

Smith pointed out that information is not as clear-cut as people think. Other people created it, and those people may be wrong. Information doesn’t come from any omnipotent source, the librarian noted. It comes from people.

“What you read is from other people,” Smith said. “It is somebody like you who wrote something. You can disagree.”

But even though she encourages a fresh opinion and fresh information, Smith said it is important to know exactly how information comes about. It is important to know the difference between information and what is less evolved – that which is just data.

“Everything that exists in the world is data,” Smith said. “That data has to be put in context and managed, and be assessed for it to become information.”

“You have to understand where things sit on this spec-

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Shawnta Smith speaks at the Rainbow Center on Wednesday about researching LGBT information, which is usually hard to find.

trum,” she added.

After a comprehensive breakdown of how to research properly and responsibly, Smith said, “It’s now about making infor-

mation ‘queer.’”

“You have the world in your hands,” she added.

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Pasqualoni promises quarterback candidates are being coached hard from COACH, page 1 bowl games and I see benefits to the current system but it is not perfect,” Pasqualoni said. “It allows for another 15 practices and the programs get better as a result.”

When Pasqualoni first came to UConn, there were only two or three weeks left in the recruiting system. In this time frame he visited many prospects and finalized commitments. UConn is currently in the third week of spring practice. UConn is using an entirely new system under not only a new head coach but new offensive, defensive and special teams coordinators.

“Everyone has to get on the same page, and we have

been having lots of meetings to get there,” Pasqualoni said. “Recruiting also continues throughout the season. Prospects are with us all the time. In fact, we have around 400 coaches here on Saturday,” Pasqualoni said.

Helping a team transition to a new coach is difficult on both parties. A member of the audience asked how Pasqualoni would keep the team where it is if not take it to a new level.

“I need to figure out the specific talents of each player and help them be used to the best of their ability,” Pasqualoni said.

“That is how we are developing the playbook.”

One question was asked which addressed the weakness

Department working to gather funds for second new scholarship from JOURNALISM, page 1 Scholarship than they have been with other awards because it is so new.

The department has sent out listserv emails to journalism majors and hung bright pink flyers around the fourth floor of Arjona, where the department’s main office is located, in an effort to notify students of the available opportunity.

The department is also working on creating an additional award, The Evan Hill Fund for Excellence. Wyss says they have collected more than $8,000 for that award as well, despite the economic downturn. He hopes that they will continue to “revamp” the scholarship program to make it a larger presence in the department.

“While this is the first awards

program we’ve had,” Wyss said of the April 15 ceremony, “we want to build it and do more.”

Wyss talked of creating an awards wall once the department is relocated to the new building under construction at the center of campus. Some of the other awards currently offered by the department, like The Donald and Jewell Friedman Award for Outstanding Coverage of Governmental Affairs and The Michael J. Whalen Award for Integrity and Excellence, include the distribution of plaques.

“We want to redesign everything and make sure all recipients for all years are prominently displayed in the new building,” he said. The Friedman Award has been given out since 1979 and the Whalen award started in 1980.

“We’re expecting a lot of names.”

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in the quarterback position in recent years. Pasqualoni

“I need to figure out the specific talents of each player and help them be used to the best of their ability.”

– Paul Pasqualoni pointed out a general trend in

his coaching career. In college he did not get the elite recruits, but developed players like Donovan McNabb.

“When I went to the cowboys they told me we haven’t had a good quarterback since Troy Aikman,” Pasqualoni said. When I went to the Dolphins they told me we haven’t had a good quarterback since Dan Marino. When I come to UConn I run into the same problem.”

But Pasqualoni sees a good number of quarterback candidates on campus and promises they are being coached hard.

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USG planning to promote safety education for Spring Weekend from USG, page 1 last Sunday was also discussed at the meeting, and future plans for a town-wide cleanup are being considered. Scheduling the cleanup following spring weekend is a priority.

Connor Bergen, chairperson of Student Affairs, discussed plans to promote safety education. Bergen brought up how this Spring Weekend will be different and how USG is vamping up the normal educational steps they take on safety awareness during spring weekend in the student body.

“If we do this right, it will be one of the most influential things USG has ever done,” Bergen said.

The meeting also focused on budget issues and funding, ultimately voting to fund events

“If we do it right it will be one of the most influential things USG has ever done.”

– Connor Bergen Chairperson of Student Affairs

planned for various campus organizations and clubs.

Students are strongly encouraged to vote in USG elections, which end today at 5 p.m.

Students can vote online at the USG website.

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Virginia Tech fined $55K for response to shootings RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Nearly four years after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, victims’ family members and campus safety advocates say it isn’t the fine amount of $55,000 Virginia Tech faces that matters, but that the school finally will pay for the mistakes it made during the rampage.

The U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday fined the school for waiting too long to notify students about the shootings on April 16, 2007.

“The bottom line is just having a monetary amount points out what they did was wrong.

There’s really no way you can replace 32 people, or even seek to equate that with money,” said Andrew Goddard, whose son Colin was shot but survived.

“Even if they charged them a dollar, it would have done the same thing.”

Department of Education officials wrote in a letter to the school that the sanction should have been greater for the school’s slow response when student Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 students and faculty and then himself. The amount was the most the department could levy for Tech’s two violations of the federal Clery Act, which requires timely reporting of crimes on campus.

“While Virginia Tech’s violations warrant a fine far in excess of what is currently permissible under the statute, the Department’s fine authority is limited,” wrote Mary Gust, director of a department panel that dictated what punishment

the school would receive for the violation.

The university avoided the potentially devastating punishment of losing some or all of its $98 million in federal student aid. While that’s possible for a Clery Act violation, the department has never taken that step and a department official said it was never considered for Virginia Tech.

University officials have always maintained their innocence and said they would appeal the fine, even though it’s a relatively small sum for a school of more than 30,000 full-time students and an annual budget of $1.1 billion. The amount would cover tuition and fees for one Virginia undergraduate student for four years, or two years for an out-of-state undergrad.

“I don’t think any amount of money would ever be enough, because it’s not about that,” said S. Daniel Carter, director of public policy for Security On Campus, a nonprofit organization that monitors the Clery Act. “It’s about accountability, and it’s about making sure students at Virginia Tech and across the country are kept are safe.”

Only about 40 schools have come under review for Clery Act violations in the 20 years the law has been in place. The largest fine to be levied was $350,000 against Eastern Michigan University for failing to report the rape and murder of a student in a dormitory in 2006.

Carter said it’s “a shame” the department had only really began fining schools for non-

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Kevin Sterne is carried out of Norris Hall at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., in this April 16, 2007, file photo, after a shooting incident. A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom on the campus, killing 33 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history.

compliance in 2005.

“If the Department of Education had sent a stronger message about having to follow the law and that something faster would be expected sooner, the shootings at Virginia Tech may have never happened,” Carter said.

The Clery Act requires colleges and universities that get federal student financial aid to report crimes and security policies and provide warning of campus threats. It is named after Jeanne Ann Clery, a 19-year-old university freshman who was

raped and murdered in her dormitory in 1986. Her parents later learned that dozens of violent crimes had been committed on the campus in the three years before her death.

The education department in its final report in December said Virginia Tech failed to issue a timely warning to the Blacksburg campus after Cho shot and killed two students in a dormitory early that morning. The university sent out an email to the campus more than two hours later, about the time Cho was chaining shut the doors to a classroom building

where he killed 30 more students and faculty and himself.

That email was too vague, the department said, because it referred only to a “shooting incident” but did not mention anyone had died. By the time a second, more explicit warning was sent, Cho was near the end of his shooting spree.

“Had an appropriate timely warning been sent earlier to the campus community, more individuals could have acted on the information and made decisions about their own safety,” the department said in its letter.

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A state commission that investigated the shootings also found that the university erred by failing to notify the campus sooner. The state reached an $11 million settlement with many of the victims’ families.

Two families have sued and are seeking $10 million in damages from university officials. That case is set for trial this fall.

Virginia Tech argues that, relying on campus police, it first thought the shootings were domestic and that a suspect had been identified so there was no threat to campus.

The university argued that the Department of Education didn’t define “timely” until 2009, when it added regulations because of the Virginia Tech shootings.

University spokesman Larry Hincker outlined six other serious cases at other college campuses before and after the Virginia Tech shootings in which notifications were not given for hours, or in some instances the next day, and the schools were not punished.

“The only reason we want to appeal this is that it gives us the process to explain how a notice given on one campus can be OK if it’s this long, and a notice given on another campus is not OK if it’s this short a time period,” he said. “As best we can tell, it’s whatever DOE decides after the fact.”

The education department rebuffed that argument, saying officials should have treated it as a threat because the shooter was on the loose.

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Students must fix attitude to compete internationally

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he American education system has been marred in recent years by a troubling trend. Test scores indicate that students are falling behind in science and math, weakening our country’s ability to maintain a competitive intellectual edge. It is no secret that the American education system is in desperate need of reform.

But our test scores are not the only thing in need of improvement – student attitudes can also use a tune up.

In a commentary piece written for The Chronicle of Higher Education, New England college professor Elayne Clift calls for an attitude adjustment among students. Clift has taught at Ivy League institutions and community colleges. She remembers her “semester from hell,” when a group of graduate students lamented the syllabus on the first night of class, complaining that it called for too much work. The professor said she felt disrespected for their passive-aggressive behavior and shocked that at the graduate level, they could not write in coherent sentences. She was “accosted” with “hostile emails” after critiquing papers – even when she discovered evidence of plagiarism. Her observations led her to the following conclusion: students have a sense of entitlement, evidenced by rude behavior and a lack of academic motivation.

Clift makes an important point. All too often, students show up to class having not bothered to even do the reading, write papers riddled with questionable sources like Wikipedia. Many students are only willing to do enough work to pass classes and move on. If we earn a poor grade on an essay or fail an exam, it’s not our fault; rather, the professor is to blame. Not only is there a lack of accountability concerning our academic performances, but also for our education at large.

As Clift insinuates in her piece, the first step in education reform begins with us. We as students voluntarily attend college because we want to challenge ourselves and to achieve the highest standard of education that we can. In accepting that, we also need to accept that professors do not owe us anything beyond quality instruction. From the assignments listed on the syllabus to the grades that we earn, we are not entitled to pass classes for less than mediocre work, or entitled to dictate the way a class should be taught, even if we disagree. A degree isn’t just a diploma that’s given to you when you cross the stage at graduation—it should be something that is earned.

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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Sorry USG Candidates. I’ll be doing what I do every year, writing in Hasheem Thabeet for every position.

I never believed people actually bought the buffalo chicken sushi until today--I saw it. My boyfriend bought it. For breakfast.

Who else thinks that this storm on Friday is just an elaborate April Fool’s prank by all the weather forecasters?

East is notorious for flannel, dreadlocks and Birkenstocks, yet, somehow, I was still surprised to see a hookah in the dining hall today.

Is it bad that I was reading a news article and read the word “patron” as “Patron”?

I vote for a campus-wide game of Red Rover or Duck-Duck-Goose. Who’s with me?

My friend just compared a C-section to getting a tumor removed.

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Firing Northwestern professor was right choice

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orthwestern University recently made headlines for the firing of professor David Protess. His story is worth repeating, both for the fascinating elements of the case and the larger themes the story speaks to.

Protess, in addition to teaching an investigative journalism course, served as director of the Medill Innocence Project.

This organization, associated with the university, is described as giving

By Jesse Rifkin “undergraduate stuStaff Columnist dents firsthand experience in investigating wrongful convictions.” The course, which cointains eight students this semester, has conducted the Project’s investigations since its founding in 1999. It has exonerated 12 innocent people who had been scheduled to receive the death penalty in Illinois.

The most recent case occurred only a few weeks ago: Eric Caine had been serving a life sentence for a double homicide he did not commit, and was released from maximum security prison.

However, according to a recent report in The Daily Northwestern, prosecutors last fall found “evidence that Innocence Project students may have illegally recorded a witness without consent while investigating the case of Anthony McKinney, who was sentenced to life in prison for murder in 1981.” Protess, while remaining director of the Project, was removed by the university from his position teaching the course.

This was the right course of action for Northwestern to take. Should this evidence prove true, it would stain Northwestern’s reputation. Obviously, no university wants a faculty

member knowingly overseeing illegal activity. When confronted with such a situation, the appropriate decision is not a reprimand or a warning – the person was breaking the law, after all. It is only appropriate to remove that faculty member from their teaching position.

As Northwestern spokesperson Al Cubbage explained, “The work of Professor Protess and the Medill Innocence Project has gained national recognition and brought credit to Northwestern and Medill. More importantly, that work has helped free wrongfully-convicted individuals from prison. However, the laudable goal of the Innocence Project would not justify any improper actions that may have been taken by Professor Protess.” I completely agree.

“No university wants a faculty member knowingly overseeing illegal activity.”

However, there is still a more important case lingering: that of Stanley Wrice and Matthew Echevarria. Both men are currently behind bars, and it is possible – some say likely – that they are innocent. Both the Project as well as the class were scheduled to work on those two cases during this semester. The cause of freeing innocent prisoners is too significant to neglect, whether these cases are carried out by the Project or some other organization.

The eight students wrote a petition to the Senior Director of Undergraduate Education Michele Bitoun, requesting that Protess be given his job back. The students threatened to quit the course, despite the fact that another journalism professor, Alec Klein, has been assigned to take over teaching duties for the remainder of the

semester. In the petition, the students referenced the pending cases of Wrice and Echevarria as the primary reason for bringing Protess back.

They wrote, “If removing Protess is part of an effort by the university to discipline him for defending the integrity of the Innocence Project to which he and decades of students have given so much, please know that you are not punishing Professor Protess half as much as you are… the two men still sitting behind bars.”

In fact, according to the petition, both cases have been advancing with vital steps toward exoneration, making it a particularly catastrophic time to halt the work the class has been making. “In the past month, one reporting team acquired an eyewitness’s recantation, only the second time in the course’s history that a recantation was made in a case’s first quarter of reporting. This groundbreaking work was guided by Protess and puts us within reach of obtaining justice for Stanley Wrice, currently serving a 100year prison sentence.”

Let there be no doubt that the Medill Innocence Project is an admirable and praiseworthy campaign. In a country whose judicial system is based upon the principle “Innocent until proven guilty,” there should be no tolerance for law-obeying civilians being thrown in jail for any period of time – much less a 100year sentence.

However, the evidence indicates that Protess supervised a recording of a witness without consent, which is clearly and undeniably against the law. It would taint the legitimacy of the campaign to exonerate the two remaining innocent men if the professor in the class undertaking the work was perceived as not innocent himself.

Staff columnist Jesse Rifkin is a 2nd-semester political science and communications double. He can be reached at Jesse.Rifkin@UConn.edu.

Culture glorifies abusive men, disregards women

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nother season of MTV’s “Jersey Shore” has come and gone, and what do we have to show for it? For me: indigestion and a bit of shame from watching a dozen hour-long episodes chronicling an abusive relationship all in the name of entertainment.

By Ryan Gilbert Unfortunately, there’s no Staff Columnist simulated Pepto-Bismol to alleviate the discomfort of knowing that there’s only more where that came from.

Watching the ups and downs (very low downs) of Sammi and Ronnie’s relationship over the last several weeks has been a nightmare in its own right, as we’ve watched them hurl both venomous words and fists at one another.

But it has also been an exercise in just how unconcerned or, at the very worst, unfazed we are by battered women while simultaneously being charmed and even titillated by their male assailants.

Ronnie continues to be famous and well-paid for his role on “Jersey Shore,” as well as his endorsement deals with the weight-loss supplement Xenadrine and the Nintendo Wii game “Just Dance 2.” There are life-size cardboard cutouts of Ronnie, posters for sale at Spencer

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Gifts and you can even order his signature drink, “Ron-Ron Juice,” at some bars in Seaside Heights and Miami Beach. According to fellow cast mate DJ Pauly D, Ronnie’s cocktail of choice is the “root of all evil” and helps you “beat up the beat.” Maybe we’re supposed to find this comparison cute and funny. I find it frighteningly prophetic.

Ronnie isn’t the only misogynistic oaf we’ve recently celebrated and rewarded in response to his obnoxious and destructive attitude and actions toward women. Let’s take a look at a couple of the other “winners,” shall we?

Man of the Year nominee No. 1: Charlie Sheen. Sheen has notoriously been accused of alcohol, drug, verbal and physical abuse by his ex-wives and ex-girlfriends and yet, up until a few weeks ago, he was the highest-paid actor on television for his role in America’s highest-rated sitcom. Currently, he has over 3 million followers on Twitter and he is about to embark on a cross-country tour, adequately called “Charlie Sheen LIVE: My Violent Torpedo of Truth.” Let’s give him a hand!

Man of the Year nominee No. 2: Chris Brown. Brown memorably beat up then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009 and since his arrest for battery, he has slowly but surely

been earning back our hearts and dollars. Last week, he took time out of his busy schedule promoting his new album, “F.A.M.E.,” to trash a dressing room on the set of “Good Morning America,” after host Robin Roberts asked him questions regarding his violent assault on the pop princess. But all is well in Chris Brown land because he (sort of) apologized for his acts of violence. His album of baby-makin’ music is the top downloaded album on iTunes and the title stands for “Forgiving All My Enemies.”

“We are [unfazed] by battered women while simultaneously being charmed...by their male assailants.”

Some of you probably feel that this derision a bit much, but seriously, how on earth do we justify our amused support of these guys?

How did we arrive at this point of blessing men like Ronnie, Sheen and Brown with our forgiveness, attention and funds? On the other hand, maybe we didn’t just arrive

at this point. Maybe we’ve been on the same unfortunate path for far too long.

We have to finally admit that our cold and numb acceptance of the despicable things these men, and others like them, have done to the women they claim to love, respect and cherish only further the absurd and offensive notion of “female inferiority.”

By handsomely rewarding their violent and unapologetic behavior, we are essentially saying, “That’s OK, guys. You know what? Those ladies of yours are ‘cray cray,’ and they probably deserved it. Here, let me help you through these tough times by buying your crap!”

I’m aware that there’s probably a not-so-small faction of people who think that these men have apologized enough or paid their dues.

But until we make the effort to turn off programs like “Jersey Shore,” ignore tours like Sheen’s and shun albums like Brown’s, we’re nothing but active participants or ignorant bystanders in demoralizing the women who should mean so much to us. I owe more to my mother, sisters and best friend.

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

“President Obama said the United States has clear and focused goals in Libya. He said he would share those goals with us as soon as Hillary shares them with him.” – Jimmy Fallon

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54 Quarterback Dawson 55 “Super!”

Classic Monkey Business

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costumes 2 A good while back 3 Crime of betrayal 4 Stylish waves 5 Cad 6 “How peculiar” 7 Tishby of “The Island” 8 Head M.D.?

9 Horse warming up, say 10 Bridge opener, briefly 11 Take for a chump 12 Chemical bonding number 13 Winning numbers 14 Flights that often span two days 20 LAX posting 22 Chest ripple 23 Transform eerily, in sci-fi 24 __ to one’s neck 25 Link with

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21 Genesis outcast 22 Go by 23 *2008 Republican hopeful 27 Focus of some trips 28 Justice Sotomayor 29 Unsatisfactory marks?

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Irregardless Lindsey Dunlap

Aries - Art gives you access to strong emotions today.

When was the last time you surrounded yourself with art?

Close your eyes and visualize beauty. Create some, maybe.

Taurus - Get together with friends somewhere gorgeous to consider future goals, dreams and magic wishes. What would it take to make your passions pay you?

Gemini - You’re well known for your ability to create an atmosphere of elegant tranquility. A new direction provokes emotion. This peacefulness soothes, and all gets resolved.

By Michael Mepham

Cancer - This adventure holds beauty, peace and tranquility. A new possibility entices. Utilize your professional expertise, and savor the elegance you find.

Leo - In your core, you crave the simple things in life. Your surroundings may or may not reflect that. If not, make a few changes in that direction.

Virgo - There’s peace in the group today, and excitement to discover. Something new develops that rouses emotion.

Use your professional skills.

Libra - You possess a gift for creating an ambiance of serenity and elegance. Apply this in your work for powerful results. Address changes with that same balance.

Scorpio - In the arena of fun, a creative change beckons.

Challenge your artistic skills to make something beautiful that you can enjoy with your friends and family.

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Sagittarius - Use your shrewd business ability to surround yourself with art, simplicity and comfortable settings for nurturing yourself and others.

Capricorn - Consider learning a new art, something you’ve always been curious about.

Surround yourself with an environment that pleases your aesthetic sense.

Aquarius - You find creative new ways of making money, or you find money hidden in creative places. Did you check the pockets of an old jacket? Be open to change (not just coins).

Pisces - Today’s your chance to rule your world. Will you be an authoritarian dictator? A meek public servant? A magnanimous king or queen, perhaps? Play by the rules.

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Uganda says it would welcome Libya’s Gadhafi

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The list of countries where Moammar Gadhafi might spend a comfortable life in exile is a lot shorter today than it would have been in years past because of global monetary sanctions and possible trial at the International Criminal Court.

Uganda’s deposed dictator, Idi Amin, found refuge first in Libya and eventually in Saudi Arabia in 1980, living in his own villa with female companionship, food and drink.

That kind of good life may not be likely for Gadhafi.

In a twist of fate, Uganda said Wednesday it would accept Libya’s leader, the first country to publicly volunteer to give him a home.

Of course, Gadhafi may never leave Libya unless overbearing military power forces him to, although world leaders are hoping the strongman will go, and there are indications that his aides are seeking an exit for a man who has held power for more than 40 years.

The Uganda president’s spokesman justified the offer of refuge, saying that Ugandans were given asylum in neighboring countries during the rule of Amin, who killed tens of thousands of his countrymen in the 1970s.

“So we have soft spots for asylum seekers. Gadhafi would be allowed to live here if he chooses to do so,” spokesman Tamale Mirundi told The Associated Press.

Other countries on a list of potential landing points are the African nations of Chad, Mali, Niger, Eritrea and Sudan, although the first three are members of the ICC and would, in theory, be obliged to arrest Gadhafi if he is charged.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has a long friendship with Gadhafi and has called for mediation in the conflict, said Wednesday that he has spoken with Gadhafi recently and that the Libyan leader has no plans to seek refuge in another country.

“He has said on different occasions that he isn’t going to leave Libya,” Chavez said at a news

AP

A man holding a placard shouts slogans in support of Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi, at the Pan African Freedom Square, in Uganda capital Kampala on Tuesday. Police in Uganda say they stopped supporters of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi from marching toward and possibly attacking U.S. and other embassies in Kampala.

conference in Uruguay, where he was asked whether Venezuela would welcome Gadhafi as an exile. “I think Gadhafi is doing what he has to do, no? Resisting against an imperial attack.”

Besides Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua have been openly supportive of Gadhafi, said Mark Palmer, a former U.S. ambassador and an expert on dictators.

Because the Libyan leader has a large ego, he is more likely to accept going to one of those countries than a smaller African nation like Eritrea.

Saudi Arabia is an outside pos-

sibility, as is Belarus, which is led by Europe’s last dictator and was accused of sending weapons to Gadhafi until an international arms embargo kicked in.

Some experts cast doubt on whether Gadhafi would ever leave Libya.

“I don’t think Gadhafi’s going to go anywhere,” said Adam Habib, a political scientist at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. “I think he’s happy to die there.”

Italy has been pushing for the African Union to come up with a possible place for exile, but

Brahan Khellaf – the special assistant to AU commissioner for peace and security Ramtane Lamamra – said Wednesday that the topic of Gadhafi’s exile has not been discussed “at all.”

Palmer, like many analysts, said he doesn’t believe Gadhafi will leave Libya voluntarily and instead must face heavy military pressure and be given a guarantee he won’t end up before the International Criminal Court, which opened in 2002.

“He obviously believes he is Libya, and his family is deeply entrenched in the power struc-

ture and the wealth of the country. So I’m sure his family is also saying ‘Don’t go, don’t go,’“ said Palmer, the author of “Breaking the Real Axis of Evil: How to Oust the World’s Last Dictators by 2025.”

Palmer said that while Gadhafi “richly deserves” to face the ICC, an international guarantee that he won’t face the court is a small price to pay to let Libya proceed in peace.

British Prime Minister David Cameron’s spokesman, Steve Field, insisted there was no dispute between those nations that

hoped Gadhafi would quickly flee into exile and those which have demanded he stand trial.

He said Britain believed Gadhafi could face a reckoning for his actions, even if he finds a haven outside Libya.

“I don’t actually think that precludes anyone being held accountable by the International Criminal Court,” Field told reporters Wednesday.

If Gadhafi is granted exile, he might choose a country that does not recognize the court, which is investigating him for possible crimes against humanity committed in the early days of his crackdown on anti-government rebels.

Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo is expected to decide by May whether to indict Gadhafi and other senior members of his regime.

Because the U.N. Security Council ordered the ICC’s investigation into Libya, any U.N. member state would be obliged to execute an arrest warrant. However, Sudanese President Omar alBashir also has been indicted, for crimes including genocide in Darfur, following a Security Council-mandated probe and has traveled to friendly nations several times without arrest.

Gadhafi may also want to take into account the case of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who went into voluntary exile in Nigeria after being indicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone in 2003. Taylor was arrested in 2006 while trying to cross from Nigeria to Cameroon shortly after Nigeria agreed, under international pressure, that he should stand trial.

The Sierra Leone court’s thenprosecutor, Desmond De Silva, said Taylor’s arrest sent a “clear message that no matter how rich, powerful or feared people may be, the law is above them.”

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said negotiations on securing Gadhafi’s exit were being conducted with “absolute discretion” and that there were options on the table that hadn’t yet been formalized. Libya’s foreign minister traveled to neighboring Tunisia on Tuesday, then left for London. The purpose of the trips wasn’t clear.

First Mercury images in Book drive to benefit women orbit show lots of craters at York Correctional Institute

By Courtney Robishaw Campus Correspondent

AP

This image provided by NASA was photographed by the spacecraft Messenger, the first ever images made from a spacecraft while in orbit around the planet. It shows Mercury’s horizon as the spacecraft was moving northward along the first orbit during which MDIS was turned on.

NEW YORK (AP) — Think the moon has many craters?

New photos from the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury show the tiny inner planet has far more impressive battle scars from regular high-speed peltings by space rocks.

NASA’s Messenger spacecraft, which began orbiting the planet less than two weeks ago, reveals a pock-marked planet full of craters from pieces of asteroids and comets.

“Mercury has had an exposed surface for at least 3.5 to 4 billion years and some of those surfaces are extremely cratered to the point where there are so many craters they start to obscure one another,” said mission chief scientist Sean Solomon.

He said it was surprising how many secondary craters there are. Those are craters created by the falling soil kicked up from space rock collisions.

Those initial space rock crashes “throw out a lot of material in the explosive process,” Solomon said.

One area of the far north of

Mercury had never been seen by previous spacecraft on mere fly-bys. The new images show scatterings of secondary craters, almost like a loaded pizza, but not the primary crater that was first carved out. The region is also so far north that the sun barely gets above the horizon and casts long shadows.

“It’s heavily cratered,” Solomon said Wednesday. “It may have happened on a particularly bad day.”

The secondary craters usually are six miles wide but can be as much as 15 miles wide, much larger than secondary craters on the moon, Solomon said.

He said that could be because the chunks of asteroids and comets are moving faster as they get closer to the gravitational pull of the sun so they smack Mercury harder, causing the soil to bounce higher and make bigger secondary craters. The fact that Mercury, unlike the moon, is shrinking and has a magnetic field could be another factor.

Mercury is also darker and

appears more weather-beaten than the moon, because of “the constant bombardment of the surface by dust particles and small meteoroids,” Solomon said.

Messenger has been circling Mercury only since March 17.

In its first day of photo transmission, the space probe sent back 224 pictures, Solomon said. By the end of this week, NASA will have received more than 15,000 pictures from the $446 million spacecraft.

The first imaged offered a glimpse of the planet’s dark, frigid south pole, where scientists think there may be ice. But the photo isn’t close enough to tell if radar images from Earth that hint at ice are correct, Solomon said. Photos of the poles are scheduled for later in the mission.

Messenger will spend at least a year circling Mercury and start mapping the planet on Monday, eventually crashing into the planet when the mission is over.

Mercury and Messenger are about 66 million miles from Earth.

La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity Inc., Lambda Theta Alpha, Latin Sorority Inc. and the Puerto Rican Latino Studies Institute are hosting a book drive for the women of the York Correctional Institute.

The York Correctional Institute is the only institution for female offenders in the state of Connecticut. The facility provides rehabilitation programs for the 1,031 interns with the goal of assisting them in their reintegration into society.

Some programs that the York Correctional Institute hosts for the women include speaking at local schools and organiza-

tions, as well as volunteering with local at-risk youth.

According to Aaron AguirreCastillo, a 9th- semester civil engineering major and president of La Unidad Latina, his fraternity believes that “the York Correctional Institute is setting a precedent for the various treatment centers around the state and the nation.”

He emphasized the importance of the interns’ opportunity to share their individual experiences with the community and how these experiences have affected their lives.

“The institute is providing an outlet for self-reflection and education,” he added.

The purpose of the book drive is to educate the women of the York Correctional Institute on diverse subjects to aid in their goal of improving their lives,

Aguirre-Castillo said.

“By providing a diverse array of books to the institute, we believe that they will use these to their advantage and ideally incorporate them into the various treatment units,” he said.

Books in fair or better condition can be dropped off at the cultural centers in the Student Union or at the Puerto Rican and Latino Studies Institute, located in Beach Hall room 416.

The book drive will run until April 15.

Any questions or concerns can be directed to Kenneth Dortche, the brother of La Unidad Latina running the book drive, at Kenneth.

Dortche@Launidadlatina.org.

through comedy. Organizers hope that the event will draw the largest audience yet.

same time, was fun because we got to put on a play and bring to UConn one of the most famous Deaf comedians,” said Chris O’Rourke, one of the event’s organizers who will also be starring in of the plays, acting out the role of the handsome prince who humorously fails at rescuing Rapunzel.

Besides Rapunzel, variants of the Three Little Pigs, and The Ugly Duckling will also be performed. Expected viewers are already excited about tonight’s event.

“I get an opportunity to see a comedy show in an unconventional way, while also witnessing Deaf culture,” said Sarah Kodel, a 6th-semester art and psychology double major who is planning to attend the event.

There is no admission and refreshments will be provided.

ASL Club sponsors sixth Deaf Awareness Day

By Nate Nadeau Campus Correspondent

The American Sign Language Club and the American Sign Language Four class is bringing deaf comedian CJ Jones to campus Thursday night. Starting at 6:30 in the ballroom at the Student Union, Jones’s performance will begin UConn’s sixth annual Deaf Awareness Day. Following the performance, members of an American Sign Language class will be perform a skit that puts a twist on several classic fairytales.

Each performance will be interpreted and voiced so that audience members who do not know ASL can still understand the performance.

Event organizers hope to attract a large hearing audience to help educate people about Deaf culture. In the past, as this year, the event hopes to educate

“I get the opportunity to see a comedy show in an unconventional way.”

– Sarah Kodel UConn student Planning the event took a lot of time and effort.

“It was very hard to start organizing the event and get everyone situated, but at the

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Hit me baby one more time How far will you go to go green?

By Becky Radolf Staff Writer

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Clockwise from top left: An 18-year-old Britney Spears in 2000, just after the release of ‘Oops...I did it again;’ Spears performing for MTV’s ‘Cool Christmas’ show in Tokyo in 2003; Spears in 2010 as a guest star on the ‘Glee’ episode, ‘Britney Britney.’ The Princess of Pop’s latest album, ‘Femme Fatale,’ dropped Tuesday.

In light of Spears’ new album, a retrospective on her rise, fall, comeback

By Loumarie Rodriguez Campus Correspondent Most people tend to see Britney Spears as the crazy pop star that somehow managed a huge comeback despite numerous, very public breakdowns, including shaving her head.

Her career today continues to flourish, producing continuous chart-topping songs. Britney Spears has enjoyed undiminished success, in spite of many personal issues and paparazzi watching her every move. Her career has extended for almost two decades.

Looking back, there is a lot Spears has managed to accomplish in this period of time.

1990s –Spears began her career at an early age by auditioning for the Mickey Mouse Club, in which she co-starred with other popular celebrities such as Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera and JC Chasez. The show was canceled after two seasons. Only a few years later,

Spears would be signed to Jive Records.

1997 – Spears started off by joining a female singing group, but shortly afterward she went solo. Almost a year later she recorded her first CD. In order to promote her CD, Spears did mall tours and opened for pop sensation ’N Sync.

1999 – Spears’ debut album “...Baby One More Time” was released in January and hit No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200, going double platinum after only one month. It topped the charts in 15 different countries and sold over ten million copies within the year. However, it wasn’t long before controversy arose, as Spears received criticism for wearing racy outfits during her concerts.

2000 – Spears released her new studio album “Oops!... I Did it Again,” which quickly reached top of the charts. The album sold 20 million copies worldwide and received two Grammy nominations.

It was during this time that Spears began her very public relationship with ’NSync star Justin Timberlake.

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2001 – Spears signed a $7-8 million promotional deal with Pepsi, which included starring in commercials. In November she released her self-titled third album and reached the top five on the Billboard 200. That same year, at the

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New ‘Star Wars’ MMO may reach World of Warcraft’s popularity level

By Jason Wong Campus Correspondent For those familiar with computer gaming, the term “MMO” brings to mind the famously addictive “World of Warcraft.” For the many years that it has held its title as Best MMO, people have been wondering if any company is capable of knocking Blizzard off its high horse.

Though no release date has yet been set, BioWare’s “Star Wars: The Old Republic” (SWTOR) seems to be the first worthy challenger to step up to the plate.

First off, BioWare has a reputation for making excellent RPGs (role-playing games), including the Knights of the Old Republic, Dragon Age and Mass Effect series. They have promised that SWTOR will live up to that reputation. For gamers like me that’s important because story is every-

thing. In order to make the story as immersive as possible, SWTOR will be the first ever fully-voiced MMO – that is, every non-player character you interact with in-game will have a voice, something “World of Warcraft” can’t boast about.

Additionally, as in “World of Warcraft,” players will have classes, races and allegiances to choose from in gameplay.

These classes are as follows.

The Republic will be split into the Trooper, the Jedi Knight, the Scoundrel and the Jedi Consular. The Sith Empire will be split into the Bounty Hunter, the Sith Warrior, the Imperial Agent and the Sith Inquisitor. BioWare has announced that each class will have its own unique storyline, as well as highly customizable skills and abilities.

For gamers looking for PvP play, all of the classes are capable of fitting MMO archetypes like tank or healer in interesting capacity. For exam-

ple, the Scoundrel (think Han Solo) is capable of skills that would make him an excellent healer on the battlefield. But the game also offers something for more RPG minded players – BioWare has said that the majority of the game can be played alone.

In addition, perhaps the most exciting aspect of cooperative play, SWTOR will feature flashpoints: story-relevant missions for a small group of players to play through together. Compared to the movies, a flashpoint might be Luke, Han and Obi-Wan rescuing Leia from the Death Star.

Completing flashpoints will give players access to advanced equipment in-game, and flashpoints will be re-playable.

Taking all of that novelty into consideration, I’d watch out if I was Blizzard. “World of Warcraft” might just be toppled

by BioWare’s newcomer.

Jason.Wong@UConn.edu

MTV Music Video Awards, she had her famous performance in which an albino python was draped around her neck.

2002 – Spears went on tour, which became the second-highest grossing tour for a female artist. Later that year she starred in the movie “Crossroads.”

2003 – Spears opened the MTV Music Video Awards with Madonna and Christina Aguilera, where they performed “Like a Virgin” and shared a kiss on stage. In November she released her fourth studio album, “In the Zone.”

She was the first female artist of the era to have four consecutive albums reach No. 1.

2004 – It was around this time that Spear’s life began a downward spiral, starting with her spontaneous marriage in a Las Vegas chapel, which she had annulled 55 days later. Three months later, she announced her engagement to Kevin Federline, a dancer who, at the

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Russian National Ballet Theater to perform at Jorgensen tonight

By Focus Staff Critics have called the Russian National Ballet Theatre, directed by the legendary Bolshoi principal dancer Elena Radchenko, “the real thing.” Combine that with Tchaikovsky’s version of Romeo and Juliet, the classic story of love nipped in the bud, and you have a night of passionate dance on stage at UConn’s newly renovated Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, on tonight at 7:30 p.m. Regular tickets are $25, $27 and $30.

The beloved story of “Romeo and Juliet” begins when Romeo and his gang of friends and Montagues don masks and crash the off-limits Capulet ball. He meets and falls immediately for young Juliet. But trouble breaks out at the party, ending in a death in each rival clan. The young couple is torn asunder in pub-

lic but will meet again in private to profess their mutual devotion and plan a future together, despite the odds.

“Chopiniana,” which premiered in 1907 in St. Petersburg, grew out of Chopin’s Seventh Waltz. The favorite work of its creator, Mikhail Fokine, it has now become standard repertoire for many of the world’s leading ballet companies. “Chopiniana” does not have a traditional plot.

Fokine incorporated the cultural experiences of the past and the blossoming ideas of the present, thus saturating the work with universal significance. It is not the characters in the ballet that develop, but rather the themes, moods, and feelings.

The Russian National Ballet Theatre was formed in Moscow during the Perestroika period in the late 1980s, when the nation’s great dancers and choreographers were exercising a new creative freedom.

Many people out there are willing to do things to be eco-friendly that others would consider outrageous.

They’ll dig through the trash to find recycling, protest outside animal-testing labs, or endure the constant smell of French fries so they can power their cars with vegetable oil.

Most people make, at the very least, a moderate effort to “stay green” by recycling and wasting less. But, everyone has their limits, and that’s the mission I set out for myself: Find out how far people are willing to go for sustainability.

Much like the quiz I conducted a few weeks ago to determine how much people knew about being eco-friendly, I asked two different students how far they’d be willing to go to go green.

Eileen Stewart, a 6th-semester secondary education major, and Kate White, a 6th-semester animal science major, were the subjects of the experiment.

The first question was whether or not they’d be willing to spend at least 20 minutes separating their recyclables if they had to.

White was the first to respond, and she was adamant about her beliefs.

“No way!” she said strongly, laughing at such a preposterous question. “Realistically, I’d only spend five, tops.”

“Twenty minutes is a stretch,” Stewart said. “I’d definitely spend 10 to 15 minutes, though.”

I ordered the questions so that they’d be progressively more labor-intensive on the sustainability scale, so based on the reaction to the first question, I didn’t expect people on campus to be ecofriendly at all. But, when I asked if they’d take the time to print on both sides of a paper, they both said they tried the best they could.

“I always recycle my paper anyway, so I only use one side,” Stewart said.

“I would, but my professors ask for one-sided papers, so I blame them,” White said. ’Atta girl.

I turned the conversation to beauty regimens, a topic that girls are usually willing to give little leeway to for any reason, let alone going green. I asked if they’d be willing to wash their hair every two or three days to save water.

“Sure, I’d do that. I don’t love showering and I just want to be dry anyway,” Stewart said. One point for sustainability.

“I’d rather wash my hair in a lake somewhere than skip a shower,” White said.

“That opens up a whole new pollution problem,” Stewart said. At least White was honest.

When I asked if they would give up their favorite beauty product if they found out the company tested on animals, both wholeheartedly agreed that they would. If you’re like Stewart and White and would also be willing to give up your favorite foundation or shampoo, you can do a quick Google search to see which brands are animal-safe and which aren’t.

My final question was, in my opinion, the most extreme case of sustainability out of all the other scenarios I gave. I asked if either would be willing to go “dumpster diving,” which means rummaging through trash cans to find recyclables, useful items or anything else you

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1. “21,” Adele 2. “Endgame,” Rise Against 3. “Lasers,” Lupe Fiasco 4. “Glee: The Music, Vol. 5,” Glee Cast 5. “Sigh No More,” Mumford & Sons 6. “Never Say Never: The Remixes,” Justin Bieber 7. “Goodbye Lullaby,” Avril Lavigne 8. “NOW 37,” Various Artists 9. “Give the Drummer Some,” Travis Barker 10. “Late Nights & Early Mornings,” Marsha Ambrosius

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Week of April 2, 2011

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In her latest album ‘Femme Fatale,’ Britney Spears tries to combine the new - Auto Tune - with the old - lyrics like ‘...Baby one more time’ - to sub-par results.

Britney ekes out another average album rife with club beats

By Julie Bartoli Staff Writer It’s safe to say that since K-Fed, Britney’s most intimate relationship has been with Auto Tune. In her seventh studio album, “Femme Fatale,” Spears takes that relationship to the next level, dishing out 12 tracks of production-saturated club beats designed specifically for

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dance floors and treadmills.

Released March 29, Spears is currently riding on what could be this year’s best-selling dance album and worst artistic compilation.

Appropriately co-written

by Ke$ha, the opening number, “Till the World Ends” is a repetitive, unoriginal pop piece with a vocal line so anonymous, it’s hard to recognize Spears as the singer.

The next song follows this

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This Day in Music 1995 During a post-Bonham set with Robert Plant, a concert attendee attempted to assassinate Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page.

The attendee was 23-year-old Lance Alworth Cunningham, who claimed to be an ex-Zeppelin fan.

He came to the show at The Palace of Auburn Hills with a Swiss Army knife and a plan to assassinate Page based on his so-called satanic music. The second the band kicked into their 1975 hit “Kashmir,” he advanced toward the stage, weapon in hand. Fans and security got ahold of Cunningham 50 feet from the stage and ushered him out of the concert.

Throughout the scene, Page played “Kashmir” unperturbed. He and Plant worked through their encore, neither one knowing about the attack until after the concert.

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vocal chameleon suit, which is barely redeemed by track three, “Inside Out.” In addition to rhyming “down” with “down,” Spears cries out “So, come on” before the chorus, which sounds like a call-back to “…Baby One More Time.”

“Big Fat Bass,” featuring will.i.am is the album’s worst piece, featuring the world’s most annoying refrain while breaking the record for how many times “bass” can be said in a five-minute period.

Coming in a close second would be “Trip to Your Heart,” with the Spears machine insisting, “Pull me close/Strip me down/Hold me tight” with the same enthusiasm as a checkout girl asking, “Paper or plastic?”

One song that does stand out is “How I Roll,” a Go! Team meets Sleigh Bells sugary dubstep number backed by static bursts and sonic pops. If

you ignore the cheesy lyrics and focus on the very un-Britney electro underpinnings, there is something undeniably promising about the song and the idea that Spears could have her hand in something so sleek and modern.

Though the album is cohesive, it’s not on target. Britney went into this with tunnel vision, and her interest in creating a great club album overrode any artistic inclination to sound like herself. Spears’ voice is dead, she’s anonymous on her own album, and though we’ll be dancing to these songs for the next couple years, it’s going to take a few seconds to remember who’s singing them.

This is not the same girl who won us over with schoolgirl outfits and genuine talent. “Femme Fatale” is what’s left of her.

Julie.Bartoli@UConn.edu

Unique Khalifa rises above the hip-hop mold

By Tom Teixeira Campus Correspondent Many critics and listeners will say that Wiz Khalifa’s debut album “Rolling Papers” sounds over-produced with its electric, spacey sound. Others will complain that Khalifa’s lyrics lack depth in their content. Still more will find fault in his use of repeated lines, slant rhymes, and vocals that

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range from rap to song to a hybridized combination of both. All of these assertions about his new album are valid, yet “Rolling Papers” is a success.

“Rolling Papers” fulfills expectations for Wiz Khalifa’s first studio album.

It is a fresh album perfect for a good listen while either riding around on summer nights or lounging with friends.

Though more commercial than his mix tapes, as the single “Black and Yellow” would suggest, the first studio album from the Taylor Gang star keeps up with previous work in that its totally unique. No other artist in hiphop sounds like Khalifa.

As a body of work, “Rolling Papers” consistently gives a relaxed sound and lyrics that in their content and delivery are relaxed, fun and cool. His ability to make slant rhymes, utilize irregular line lengths, and rhyme multiple times within the same line, with seemingly effortless delivery, gives “Papers” a signature ‘Wiz Khalifa’ feel. Khalifa’s album isn’t complicated, his lyrics aren’t complex and the production isn’t exactly groundbreaking. If judged by the tangible factors, Khalifa’s work is noth-

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Wiz Khalifa hangs out with some fans in Florida.

ing special. The unmeasurable, intangible, sensed qualities of his music make it so popular and give it a place next to the genre’s major artists.

Wiz Khalifa is still having fun making his music, and it shows. Carrying over from “Kush and OJ” is the freshness, energy and youthful exuberance in his music that makes both his music and character irresistible. Wiz’s music stays as cool and upbeat as his personality and these qualities alone carry “Rolling Papers,” making it a fun listen and cementing Khalifa as a relevant figure in the hip-hop world as

well as in the hearts and minds of his young fans.

“Black and Yellow,” “Roll Up” and “On My Level” have already been released as singles, though none are among the best on “Rolling Papers.” “Fly Solo” showcases a totally new sound for Khalifa, whereas “Hopes and Dreams” and “No Sleep” are more classic. Currensy provides a solid guest appearance on “Roof Tops” while solo efforts with “The Race,” “Fly Solo,” and “No Sleep” are personal favorites.

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We all know that Dr. Dre makes great headphones – his signature red, gray and white Beats have taken our campus by storm. But now, the rapper is going back to what he does best: creating real-live beats in the recording studio.

Dre’s third and final album was supposed to be on shelves by 2004. Then its release date was pushed to 2010. Currently, “Detox” is slated to be unveiled sometime in 2011.

Of course, it’s hard to take Dre’s word for it, considering that he’s been talking about the record since 2001. Yet, he dropped the album’s first single “Kush” in December and second single “I Need a Doctor” in February, so there’s a good chance that “Detox” will finally be demystified by the end of the year.

The last time Dre released an EP, people were feeling extremely paranoid about Y2K. “2001” was highly respected by both music critics and rappers, and is still frequently cited in pop culture today. For example, mash-up artist DJ D.Veloped recently made a dynamic mix with “Forgot About Dre” and Edward Maya’s “Stereo Love.”

The dualism between Dre and Eminem on the track is epic, as Eminem’s fast and harsh rap complements Dre’s sparse and fiery verses.

Eminem is one of Dre’s most loyal rapping partners.

He takes charge of some of the most valuable parts in “I Need a Doctor” – there aren’t very many – and salutes Dre in a lot of his own music. This reverence seems to be logical, as Dre helped Eminem achieve international stardom. As the owner of Death Row Records and the CEO of Aftermath Entertainment, Dre has helped many rappers, such as 50 Cent, become popular and iconic musicians. As a producer, Dre has made a lot of money for himself. But at the same time, he has almost single-handedly reconstructed the modern music industry.

And while Dre was busy being the executive of a major recording company and producing songs for Gwen Stefani, his own album was stuck on the back burner.

The “Detox” singles that have been released so far have been well below everyone’s expectations. “Kush” is a weak depiction of the rich and dangerous lives of rappers. Dre’s references to marijuana are less inspiring than Wiz Khalifa’s and less entertaining than Kid Cudi’s.

Plus, Akon’s contributions to the song are worthless. “I Need a Doctor” is much more agreeable to Dre’s synth-driven style. Still, the single is not as exceptional as some of the rapper’s previous hits, such as “Let Me Ride” and “Lyrical Gangbang.”

“Detox” is bound to have an all-star lineup of guest musicians. It will have plenty of embellishments too. The $750,000 Ferrari that a stuntman crashed during the making of the music video for “I Need a Doctor” is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to expenditures for this album.

But “Detox” also needs to be a mosaic of brilliant music. If this album is Dre’s final overture, then he needs to make sure that it grants us a shell-

Purbita.Saha@UConn.edu

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‘Star Wars’ creator Lucas says 3-D will rule films LAS VEGAS (AP) – “Star Wars” creator George Lucas predicts 3-D filmmaking eventually will take over at the movies the way color replaced black and white.

But Lucas and fellow technology pioneers James Cameron, the maker of “Avatar,” and DreamWorks Animation boss Jeffrey Katzenberg said Wednesday that digital filmmaking is only in its infancy and will bring vast improvements to how movies are made and seen.

Digital technology in general is revolutionizing filmmaking the way sound did in the 1920s, Lucas said. The new digital 3-D craze has had hits and misses but should one day become the big-screen standard over 2-D presentation, he said.

“So now when you’re watching a movie and it’s not in 3-D, it’s like watching in black and white,” Lucas told a crowd of theater owners at their

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CinemaCon convention. “It’s a better way of looking at a film. ... I totally believe now that 3-D will completely take over just like color did.”

Lucas spoke at a digital-film panel alongside Cameron and Katzenberg. The hour-long discussion touched on new filmmaking tools, enhancements to theater sound, and how badly

presented 3-D movies can sour audiences on digital 3-D films in general.

Such bad 3-D experiences generally have resulted when studios took movies shot in only two dimensions and did hasty conversions to give them the illusion of depth so they could charge the extra few dollars that 3-D tickets cost.

“You disappoint our audiences once, OK, great we fooled them. Do it twice, shame on us,” said Katzenberg, who decided years ago that all DreamWorks Animation movies, such as last year’s “How to Train Your Dragon” and this summer’s “Kung Fu Panda 2,” would be in 3-D. Cameron, who shot “Avatar” in 3-D and plans to do its two sequels that way also, is converting his blockbuster “Titanic” to 3-D for release next year. Lucas is doing the same with all six of his “Star Wars” films.

Pains remain genuine, even as the band aims to be more pop

By Julie Bartoli Staff Writer Once upon a time in 2009, a New York City tween pop outfit named precariously after an unpublished children’s book became underground superstars.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s self-titled debut climbed alternative charts and became an instant indie Cinderella story.

So, it’s safe to assume the cuteas-a-button shoe-gazing quintet would stick to their fuzzed-out teen-Morrissey musical formula on their sophomore album.

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India state bans book hinting Gandhi had gay lover – which is said is about Gandhi’s struggle for social justice and the evolution of his social values – is available both in the U.S. and as an e-book download.

“It should not be hard for anyone to determine what it actually says,” Lelyveld wrote.

“It’s a pious hope, but I’d say someone might take the trouble to look at it before it’s banned.”

Several reviews of “Great Soul” detailed its sections on Gandhi’s relationship with Kallenbach.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Andrew Roberts said that the only portrait on the mantelpiece opposite Gandhi’s bed was of Kallenbach.

“How completely you have taken possession of my body,” reads one widely quoted letter from Gandhi to Kallenbach. “This is slavery with a vengeance.”

Britain’s Daily Mail ran an article under the blaring headline: “Gandhi ‘left his wife to live with a male lover’ new book claims.”

The Mumbai Mirror on Tuesday ran a front page story under the headline “Book claims German man was Gandhi’s secret love,” which quoted the same passages as Roberts.

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Sudhir Kakar, a psychoanalyst who has written about Gandhi’s sexuality and reviewed some of his correspondence with Kallenbach, said he does not believe the two men were lovers.

“It is quite a wrong interpretation,” he said.

Gandhi’s great goals were nonviolence, celibacy and truth, he said.

“The Hindu idea is that sexuality has this elemental energy which gets dissipated,” Kakar

“Belong,” the Pains’ second studio album is 10 tracks of tighter, more cohesive radio-friendly pieces. Released March 29, the album was produced by ‘90s rock pioneers Flood and Alan Moulder (Nine Inch Nails and Smashing Pumpkins), who helped the Pains drop their noise-pop distortion and adopt a tamer sound.

The record opens with a title track devoted to the trials and tribulations of rebound relationships, explained over Naidus’ catchy bass hook. Following close behind is “Heart in Your Heartbreak,” a jangly teen break-up number with an ostentatious guitar solo that Christoph Hochheim would

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MUMBAI, India (AP) – A state in western India banned Pulitzer-Prize winner Joseph Lelyveld’s new book about Mahatma Gandhi on Wednesday after reviews saying it hints that the father of India’s independence had a homosexual relationship. The author says his work is being misinterpreted.

More bans have been proposed in India, where homosexuality was illegal until 2009 and still carries social stigma.

Gujarat’s state assembly voted unanimously Wednesday to immediately ban “Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India.”

The furor was sparked by local media reports, based on early reviews out of the U.S. and U.K., some of which emphasized passages in the book suggesting Gandhi had an intimate relationship with a German man named Hermann Kallenbach.

“Great Soul” has not yet been released in India, so few here have actually read Lelyveld’s writings.

“The book does not say that Gandhi was bisexual or homosexual,” Lelyveld wrote in an email. “It says that he was celibate and deeply attached to Kallenbach. This is not news.”

He noted that his book

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said. “If it can be sublimated and contained it can give you spiritual power. Gandhi felt his political power really came from his celibacy, from his spiritual power.”

He said Gandhi often filled his letters, including those to female associates, with strong love language, but that did not lead to physical intimacy.

“Nothing happened,” he said.

“He is telling his feelings, but they are platonic. They are not put into action. That would have been terrible for him.”

Politicians in the state of Maharashtra, home to India’s financial capital Mumbai, have also called for a ban on the book and, along with Gujarat’s chief minister Narendra Modi, have asked the central government to bar publication nationwide.

Modi said Lelyveld should apologize publicly for “hurting the sentiments of millions of people.”

“It has become a fashion to tarnish the image of great Indian leaders for self publicity and sale of books,” said Sanjay Dutt, spokesman for the ruling Congress Party in Maharashtra.

“The government should invoke a law to severely punish anyone who tarnishes the image of the father of the nation.”

have never gotten to utilize on the Pain’s first album.

Track seven, “My Terrible Friend,” is an obvious nod to the Cure’s “In Between Days.” The songs share a theme along with identical synth lines. The Pains finish their set with “Strange,” an Arcade Fire-esque turn with a swelling wall of sound that seems almost impossible for five New York 20-somethings to conjure on their own, but somehow they pull it off flawlessly.

So, yes, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart have become more commercial. But somehow, the switch seems genuine.

“Belong” isn’t a money-making scheme, it’s a hyper-talented band’s attempt to tap into a sound they can call their own.

For those who still challenge the Pains’ intentions, Berman slipped a line into his title track explaining the situation: “Among the fakes you knew the Pains.”

Julie.Bartoli@UConn.edu

Spears: From mental breakdown to surprising comeback from HIT, page 7 time was expecting a second kid with actress Shar Jackson. The two got married in October and Spears recorded a few singles.

2005 – In September, Spears gave birth to her first son, Sean Preston. Another studio album, however, was canceled for unknown reasons.

2006 – Early in the year, pictures surfaced of Spears driving with baby Sean Preston on her lap. She claimed she was trying to get away from paparazzi.

After the incident she gave birth to her second child, Jayden. A short time later Spears filed for divorce with Federline.

2007 – A few months later, Spears suffered a mental breakdown when in February she went to her salon and shaved her head. At the time she claimed she didn’t know what to do with her hair. Shortly afterward Spears checked herself into a month-long treatment facility.

She later wrote on her website that “She truly hit rock bottom.” To make matters worse, she lost physical custody of her children until she was better. A short time later she released her fifth studio album, “Black Out,” which sold over 3.1 million copies worldwide.

2008-2011 – Her problems continued to increase in early 2008, when Federline was granted full custody of their children. She was committed to the psychiatric ward at a medical center, but was soon released. Only a month later she slowly started to make her full comeback, appearing on the show “How I Met Your Mother” and releasing her sixth studio album, “Circus.” The album became an instant success, with popular songs like“Womanizer.”

Her songs were later featured on the hit show “Glee.” Her songs attracted its second-largest audience in the show’s run.

Britney Spears has had a long career and it appears she won’t be slowing down anytime soon. Spears has gone through a series of events that has been closely scrutinized by the media and her fans, but has still managed to be successful through it all. Her mental breakdowns and the intense public scrutiny have not slowed her career. Her seventh studio album, “Femme Fatale,” cames out Tuesday.Despite all the criticism of her unusual antics, Spears will be busy with her chart-topping hits.

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might want that came from a trash can.

To my surprise and elation, Stewart said she would.

“I would if they gave me an adequate suit…of armor,” White said. “Just kidding, I totally would.”

The conclusion I reached from my two-person survey is that, if being eco-friendly isn’t convenient, then people probably aren’t willing to do it. That isn’t to say that society is to blame. In fact, it’s the exact opposite. It’s not completely up to the consumer to live sustainably, but rather, the producer who originally presented the nation with products that weren’t eco-friendly to begin with.

Since conglomerates are the ones who convince us of the things we need, they are the ones who have the power to change the national mindset, and people jump on board only when going green is a reasonable commitment.

Rebecca.Radolf@UConn.edu

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Congo artists exhibit work in South Africa JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A sculptural bust made of discarded bullet cartridges has a protruding belly with a hole in it. Another bust encased in a large glass case has holes in its heart, belly and thigh.

“The hole represents life,” Freddy Tsimba, 43, said of the busts he made using tens of thousands of bullet cartridges he has collected over more than 10 years of war in his native Congo.

Tsimba and 10 other renowned Congolese artists exhibited work in South Africa’s commercial hub on Tuesday for “Art for Peace,” a show whose proceeds will support victims of sexual violence in eastern Congo.

“Through the arts we hope to contribute to the healing process,” said South African Minister of Arts and Culture Paul Mashatile. “We reach out to the women and children of eastern (Congo) who have been scarred and whose scars will last a lifetime.”

Exhibitors said the money will benefit a hospital in Bukavu, a large city in eastern Congo. Panzi Hospital specializes in the treatment of reproductive trauma and trauma from sexual violence.

Violence is reaching new levels of savagery in this corner of Congo, where competition for control of mineral resources has drawn in several armed groups, including the Congolese army.

Various groups of fighters there have used rape as a strategy to intimidate, punish and control the population.

The United Nations says hundreds of thousands of people have been raped or sexually abused in Congo. The pervasiveness of rape in the Congo is part of what makes it so horrifying — one-third of Congo’s rapes involve children, and 13 percent of victims are children under the age of 10.

The biggest U.N. peacekeeping force in the world of 18,000 troops has been unable to end

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The hand gun that once allegedly belonged to mobster Bugsy Siegel is seen on display at the Mob Experience at the Tropicana in Las Vegas on Monday.

Las Vegas embraces mob roots with new attractions

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Congolese artist Freddy Tsimba poses for a photo in front of one of his three busts made of tens of thousands of bullet cartridges he has collected from over more than 10 years of wars in his home country, at the opening of an art exhibition by 10 renowned Congolese artists in Johannesburg.

the violence in Congo. At least 8,300 rapes were reported in 2009, but aid workers say the true toll is much higher.

Survivors of sexual assault in eastern Congo face many challenges getting help because of displacement, political insecurity and a lack of facilities.

Asa Runstrom, a spokeswoman for Panzi Hospital, said they give free treatment to all victims of sexual violence. She said contributions would help them continue their work and help victims when they return home.

“We are not here to cry but to look at the strength of these women,” said Willy Yav, who helped curate the exhibit with The Pygma Group, an Africabased consulting group.

The works, chosen by the 11 all-male artists, ranged from pastoral to shocking.

Painter Doudou Mbemba Lumbu said his work depicts life as it should be. One piece shows four colorfully dressed women in conversation and at ease, carrying fruit bowls on

their heads.

Sculptor Alfred Liyolo, 68, said his art depicts human relations.

“I am an artist of calm, of peace and sensuality,” he said, showing off his sculpture of a woman carrying a child. His work, modern with smooth lines and minimalist detail, evokes movement through the space it carves out.

Other works drew mixed reactions from the crowd, such as a painting by Mavinga Ma N’Kondo Ngwala that depicts a priest reading a pornographic magazine. Next to the priest sits a Bible and a vase with a cross on it.

Another painting by Ngwala depicts a harsh image of life in Congo: three men on a street, one passed out on a table, another haggard and sitting on the ground. A third man bears a blank expression, with a cigarette in his mouth. Nearby, children play with a worn-out soccer ball on a dirt field.

Marang Setshwaelo, who

helped set up the exhibition for public relations firm Dreamcatcher, said the firm hopes the show will tour southern African nations and receive support.

“It is a daily struggle at the hospital and every bit helps,” she said.

In Johannesburg, the show will continue through April 8 at Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton.

Houston Maludi’s work in black and white presents a puzzle. From afar, one piece shows a simple image of two figures.

But look closer, and within the lines and shades are violent images of guns, and words such as “insecurite” and “U.N.” Papy Malambu Dibandi’s work represents working men, though his painting is absent of women. He said his work shows that men should serve others.

“My work is about responsibility,” he said, putting his hand to his heart. “In the man, there is the woman.”

» MUSIC

Little Steven snares Boss for radio show

NEW YORK (AP) – With old friend Bruce Springsteen stopping by to swap music stories for the ninth anniversary of Steven Van Zandt’s rock radio show, Van Zandt laughed at the notion that he’d set the bar pretty high for the tenth year.

“It’s been an open invitation,” said Van Zandt, guitarist in Springsteen’s E Street Band. “He just finally got around to it.”

Their reminiscences take up three episodes of “Little Steven’s Underground Garage” over three weeks, starting Friday. If it sounds like two old friends talking about glory

days, it’s because that’s precisely what it was: Springsteen and Van Zandt grew up playing in New Jersey-area bands in the wake of the Beatles’ arrival with “I Want to Hold Your Hand.”

“What’d ya think?” asked Van Zandt about when Springsteen first heard the song.

“My world changed,” Springsteen replied.

He described being driven to a bowling alley – his house didn’t have a phone – to use the pay phone and call his girlfriend to talk about it.

Springsteen tried to stump his buddy, bringing in a laptop to call up a vintage song

that Van Zandt hadn’t heard by Darwin’s Theory.

Van Zandt said in an interview that he thought it would be instructive to fans to talk in depth about Springsteen’s formative years musically, a topic that doesn’t come up much in serious interviews.

He couldn’t recall the exact time they met. The two formed a kinship through their love of rock ‘n’ roll because at the time, people seriously pursuing it were considered freaks, he said.

“He was a very important friend,” Van Zandt said.

“When you are a freak by yourself it’s one thing. But

if there’s someone else, you don’t feel as freaky. It’s a big deal to have someone feel the same way you do.”

Van Zandt has had Keith Richards, Brian Wilson, Ringo Starr and Ray Davies as guests on his show, syndicated in more than 200 markets in five countries. He hopes the radio format will be an enduring legacy.

“I started doing it because I felt there was a gap, and I think the gap is still there,” he said. “Nobody is playing 60 years of rock ‘n’ roll in one place, and nobody is playing new rock ‘n’ roll.”

LAS VEGAS (AP) – Speakeasies, bootleggers, gunwielding crime bosses and tough-guy accents pay homage to Las Vegas’ mob roots in a pair of new attractions showcasing Sin City’s criminal history.

An interactive attraction featuring gangster memorabilia and commentary from film mobsters James Caan, Mickey Rourke and Frank Vincent opens Wednesday on the Las Vegas Strip. And Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, a former mob defense lawyer, plans to launch his Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement later this year.

For Las Vegas, the attractions represent an unprecedented embrace of its infamous founders.

“What differentiates us from any other city is our history,” Goodman said. “This is the story of America.”

The desert oasis made famous by scantily-clad showgirls, ubiquitous slot machines and 24-hour happy hours has long celebrated its reputation as a haven of vice, but its relationship with the mob has taken a few hits in recent years. The city that once proudly boasted of its ties to organized crime –Goodman played himself in the 1995 mob movie “Casino”–

has instead promoted its familyfriendly restaurants and Broadway shows for the past decade.

No more.

The Tropicana casino and hotel, a one-time hangout for organized crime now more known for its bargain-counter room rates, celebrated its new “Mob Experience” attraction Tuesday night with a red carpet party attended by “Baywatch” siren Pamela Anderson and comedian Rita Rudner, as well as a handful of mob heirs, including the son of Tony “The Ant” Spilotro, the inspiration for the bloodthirsty Joe Pesci character in “Casino.”

The sprawling casino attraction features the diary of mobster Meyer Lansky, Spilotro’s gun and family photos and home movies from other infamous criminals. Visitors are greeted by life-size holograms of chatty gangsters and a chance to get “made.”

The publicly-funded mob museum, meanwhile, is slated to open in December at a downtown Las Vegas courthouse where a detailed mob hearing that helped expose organized crime to ordinary Americans was held in 1950.

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DeGrazia: Shakhtar Donetsk has a shot at downing the mighty Barca from UEFA, page 14 have laughed in your face.

This is a side that was down 3-0 to BSC Young Boys in 26 minutes in the Champions League play-off round and fought back to win the tie 6-3. It has been an amazing journey for Spurs, one which they hope they will culminate in a Champions League final in London. Spurs are led by a trio of attacking stars in Gareth Bale, Luka Modrić and Rafael van der Vaart. Despite being known as an attacking team, Spurs showed many critics (myself included) that they could adjust to the continental style of keeping men behind the ball and keeping possession. Playing a 4-4-1-1 with van der Vaart just behind Peter Crouch at striker, Spurs play the “little man–big man” game to perfection. On the other side of the pitch will be Real Madrid, the nine-time European Cup champions.

Armed with a seemingly unlimited transfer budget, Los Blancos are led by some of the biggest names in world football. With a world-class player at every position sometimes two - Madrid has a squad that would strike fear into any team. Playing a 4-23-1, Real mimics the successful Spanish National team by deploying two defensive mid-

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fielders in Sami Khedira and Xabi Alonso. The front four may differ match to match, but it tends to be Ángel di María wide right, Ronaldo wide left and Mesut Özil in and No. 10 getting the nod ahead of Kaká. Striker has been Real’s only issue the entire season with Gonzalo Higuaín going down in December with a back injury, leaving misfiring Karim Benzema as the main man. Benzema struggled for a period leading to a classic José Mourinho quote, “If I can’t hunt with a dog, I will hunt with a cat.” But Benzema has rebounded, scoring eight goals in his last five matches. If you’re neutral, this is without a doubt the match you should watch. With two attacking teams that want to play the beautiful way, this tie should be a classic.

Barcelona v. Shakhtar Donetsk With the opportunity to face the Real v. Spurs winner in the Semi-Final, Barca will do all they can to assure they will be the ones stopping their hated Spanish neighbors, should they progress. Barcelona have undoubtedly set the bar for all of football, being hailed as perhaps the greatest club ever.

With the likes of Lionel Messi, Xavi, Andrés Iniesta, David Villa and Dani Alves, Barca could almost be a World 11.

Barcelona has made the SemiFinals the last five seasons, an amazing accomplishment, and are poised to make it six.

Playing a 4-3-3 with Sergio Busquets, Xavi and Iniesta in midfield with Villa, Lionel Messi and Pedro in attack, the Barca style is known for its ball retention and fluent passing spells. Attempting to stop the Barca juggernaut are Ukrainian Champions Shakhtar Donetsk.

Shakhtar have been steadily improving, winning two of the last three Ukrainian titles, and are running away with the title this season. Shakhtar also have European experience winning the 2009 UEFA Cup over Werder Bremen. A Ukrainian squad with a distinct Brazilian flair have allowed Shakhtar to progress this far with ex-Arsenal player Eduardo, Dmytro Chygrynskiy, Darijo Srna and Brazilian wonder kid Douglas Costa. Shakhtar have relied on their amazing form in the Donbass Arena, where they have not lost to anyone since October 22, 2008. Shakhtar do have experience playing in the Camp Nou, where they went in 2008 and won 3-2.

Don’t get me wrong: this is the most lopsided of the four Quarter-Finals, but if Shakhtar can knick and away goal in Barcelona and give up only one

Miles.DeGrazia@UConn.edu

Softball shut out by Boston Terriers, 1-0

from TERRIERS, page 14

runner advancing to third on a single. Vaughan’s defense continued to shine, throwing out a runner trying to score from first on a double. The Huskies only managed to muster a walk in the bottom of the third inning.

In the fourth, an error by Towers allowed another Terrier to get on base, but no damage was done as the runner was called out on the next play for leaving the base too early. If this hadn’t happened then it would have been interesting to see if BU would send the runner home, considering the aggressive run-game had failed earlier. The

Huskies offensive continued to struggle as they went in order in the bottom half of the fourth.

“We didn’t commit to the short game, didn’t have timely hits and a couple times we needed to get a bunt down and I don’t think we really committed to making it happen,” Mullins said.

In the fifth, Saveriano retired BU in order for the first time in the game. The bottom of the fifth was another wasted opportunity for the Huskies as they left another two runners on base.

“We just didn’t finish opportunities. We had people in scoring position but so many times it’s not about the hit but about the timely hit and

I think today we were minus the timely hit,” Mullins said.

Saveriano was dominant in the last two innings, only allowing one base runner for the rest of the game. Saveriano had four strikeouts and three walks. With the loss, her record falls to 6-9. The Huskies were only able to manage one base runner in the final two innings and game end with ground out and with Towers on deck.

The Huskies will be back in action tomorrow against Quinnipiac in a doubleheader, which starts at 3 p.m. The games will be played the softball field and admission is free.

Michael.Ferraro@UConn.edu

Cerullo: UConn could finish with one of the greatest seasons of all time from WHAT, page 14 it, Pitt needed to go. They’ve always found a way to lose in the postseason anyway, and Butler deserved a second chance. Can’t lie though, the way it played out, you kind of had to feel bat for Pitt, what a way to lose.

Then there was VCU vs.

Kansas. The only people who actually wanted Kansas to win that game were people from there. The parallel between that game and the infamous UConn vs. George Mason game were striking, but I guess the grass is greener on the other side, and this time UConn fans got to appreciate the monumental upset for what it was, a historic and incredible accomplishment by a team that nearly missed the tournament entirely.

Ohio State losing was pretty incredible too, but that one wasn’t as fun because it had to

be Kentucky who beat them. I guess every good party has that one kid who shows up uninvited and steals all the beer.

Regardless, the Final Four has set itself up perfectly to produce the “good vs. evil” storyline that the national media loves to exploit when it’s there for the taking. A college basketball powerhouse (UConn or Kentucky) vs. the unlikely contender (Butler or VCU). Cue the drama and the “David vs.

Goliath” comparisons!

This is going to be a great Final Four, but if I have one thing to say before it gets underway on Saturday: it’s this. UConn is not a Goliath, and neither is Kentucky. By that same token, you can’t call Butler a David either – VCU maybe – but I still wouldn’t bet against them at this point.

UConn came into the year

with no expectations, and after finishing the year on a 4-out-of-5 loss skid, expectations going into the postseason weren’t great either. Kentucky had problems of their own, but both teams have rallied and surpassed all expectations. And Butler, for goodness sakes, they played in the National Championship game last year.

But however you look at the last four standing, one thing I can say with confidence is that nobody predicted things to shake down the way they did.

But UConn is in the Final Four, and they could cap off an amazing season with one of the most amazing finishes in college basketball history. So if you’re still clutching your bracket, let it go.

Follow Mac Cerullo on Twitter at @MacCerullo.

Michael.Cerullo@UConn.edu

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» CLUB SPORTS

» MEN'S TENNIS

Huskies face Red Foxes today Club volleyball on top of Division 3

By Quenton Narcisse Campus Correspondent

The UConn men’s tennis team is looking to rebound against Marist in Storrs Thursday. This is the second of seven straight matches UConn will play at home over the next month.

The Huskies have hit a slight skid as they’ve lost their last

two matches, and they’re coming off a close 4-3 loss to Georgetown last Saturday.

Despite the defeat, there were plenty of positives to take away as a whole for the Huskies. Wei Lin, Scott Warden and Ricardo Cardona are all playing well coming down the home stretch of the season, and the Huskies as a whole are consistently winning the singles matches.

The main focus for UConn is winning the doubles points, which has evaded them over the last two matches.

With only six matches left in the season, the Huskies look to take advantage and build momentum going into the Big East Championships.

UConn’s opponents over the next couple weeks include Boston University and St. Francis, as well as their con-

ference opponents St. Johns and Villanova.

Marist is coming off wins in consecutive games with 7-0 victories against Fordham yesterday and Siena Tuesday.

They have a 7-2 record during this spring season.

The opening serve is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m.

Quenton.Narcisse@UConn.edu

Will the Sox or Yanks win the AL East

from WHO, page 14

Darryl: The point here was that such an injury prone team is bound to have at the very least some more injury problems.

As for the Yankees so called “holes,” I was merely pointing out that they are holes if you forget that fact that the Yanks almost had two 20-win producing pitchers last year. Lackey is not going to just magically go back to being an ace all of a sudden, but I will give you that their rotation is solid. However, your bullpen outside of Bard leaves a lot to be desired, especially with Papelbon blowing eight saves last year while only recording 37 saves. Not much of a closer.

The Yanks offense is also back in a big way this year. Their run production was simply better, as they boasted three players with above 100 RBIs while the Sox only had two players barely breach the mark with 102, and the rest of the team not even close. Not to mention, A-Rod has been talking about being in the best shape of his life and he is doing nothing short of proving it in spring training. Add that to Texiera probably having another 30 HR/100 RBI season and Cano being a lock for hitting above .300 and you’ve got yourself a pretty intimidating lineup.

Mac: Did you completely

AP

David Ortiz slides back into second as Eduardo Nunez aits for the throw on a pickoff attempt in the second inning of a spring training baseball game in Fort Myers, Fla., Monday, March 14.

forget that the Red Sox added Adrien Gonzalez and Carl Crawford in the offseason? And that Dustin Pedroia and Kevin Youkilis missed more than half the season? Come on Darryl, you can look to last season all you want, but it means nothing going into the new year. The team is healthy, and until the whole team falls apart again, you need to look at what the Red Sox are going to put on the field.

Crawford, Pedroia, Youkilis, Gonzalez, Ortiz, Drew and Ellsbury. The Yankees lineup is good, I’ll give you that, but you can’t look at that lineup and tell me that run production is going to be an issue for the Red Sox.

Darryl: Ok, the cat is out of the bag. You said it: “Until the whole team falls apart...” After all, they are the Red Sox, and while that doesn’t present a very concrete point, it just seems like every year something happens to this team that neither fans nor experts anticipated prior to opening day.

Now all that aside, maybe you’re right. Run production won’t be a problem for either team, but to win the AL East you have to be an elite run scoring team. Pound for pound, the Yankees simply have a better lineup than the Red Sox. Defensively the Yankees are much better too. They finished second in the MLB in fielding percentage, while the

Sox were not even close at 20th.

You can’t blame all that on injuries. The Yanks bullpen is better, especially since Rivera is a never-aging machine. The only area the Sox trump the Yankees in is starting pitching. So with all that being said, I just don’t see how the Red Sox are the best team in the AL East.

Mac: You’re going to be sorely disappointed if you honestly believe the Red Sox are going to be hit as hard as they were last year by injuries. That argument is entirely subjective, so here are the facts. The Yankees and Red Sox both have great lineups, and they both have great bullpens (Red Sox have Papelbon in a contract year, Bard, Jenks and Wheeler, Yankees Rivera, Soriano, and Joba). What seperates these two teams? Starting pitching. You acknowledged that the Yankees are thin behind Sabathia and Hughes yourself, while the Red Sox have six starters who can be counted on to win a game, and four of whom are currently or were once bona fide aces. Pitching wins championships and division titles, and pitching is what seperates the Red Sox from the Yankees. But we’ll just have to see how this season turns out Darryl, so ultimately by October we’ll know which one of us was right. May the best team win.

By Aaron Kasmanoff-Dick Campus Correspondent

The UConn club volleyball team is on the move. The team has not been historically dominant. In fact, a second-place finish in the conference in 2008 is the team’s best so far.

The team competes at a very high level, and with Division I volleyball scholarships a rarity, many high-quality female athletes choose to compete at the club level in college.

The team competes in the Northeast Women’s Volleyball Club League, which is divided into two divisions, a “Red” division and a “Blue” division. Going into the League’s Championships, UConn was ranked No. 1 in the Red division. The team is coached

by Jung Park, in his 14th season with UConn and the 2007 National Intramural and Recreational Sports Association Coach of the Year. Coach Park also serves as the commissioner for the NWVCL, and the men’s version the NECVL. Additionally, Park coaches at Choate, where his team won the 2009 New England Boy’s Prep title.

Currently, there are 14 members of the team. In addition to competing in the NWCVL, the team attends the National Intramural and Recreational Sports Association’s national tournament each season.

The team’s highest finish

was 21st in 1998-1999 at the Division 1 level. The team competed in Division 2 this past season and finished ninth. This season, UConn is currently ranked No. 1 among NWCVL teams. With 970 total points, the team is leading their next closest rival, Cornell, by 40 points.

The top 10 teams qualify for the NWCVL Championships, which were held this weekend at Boston University.

The team finished third.

Club volleyball at UConn does not offer scholarships to athletes, but still competes at a high level. The team is open to any athlete on campus who is willing to try out, and while experience is preferred, it is not a requirement. In the past 10 years, UConn has had more than 12 former All-state High school volleyball players on its squads. The club competes year-round. The fall season goes from early September to the last week in December.

The spring season goes from January to the NIRSA national tournament, usually held the second weekend in April. The team practices twice a week for two hours at a stretch, sometimes very early or late in the day. The team competes in four to five tournaments in the fall and six to seven in the Spring with other members of the NWVCL.

Aaron.Dick@UConn.edu

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The Daily Question has a better gameface, Kendrick Perkins of the Thunder or Q : “Who UConn’s Jeremy Lamb?”

A : “Jeremy Lamb. You can never tell what he’s thinking.”

Dave Epstein, 4th–semester philosophy and political science major

» That’s what he said

Men’s Basketball (30-9) (9-9) – Heat forward LeBron James on who should lead the NBA MVP conversation.

Saturday Kentucky, NCAA Tournament 8:49 p.m.

Lebron James

VICTORY!

Sunday Notre Dame, NCAA Tournament T.B.A.

Baseball (10-10-1) (2-1) Today St. John’s 3 p.m.

April 2 St. John’s 1 p.m.

April 3 St. John’s Noon

April 5 UMass 3 p.m.

April 6 UMass Noon

April 2 Rutgers 2 p.m.

April 3 Rutgers 12 p.m.

April 21 Cincinatti 4 p.m.

April 23 Louisville Noon

Softball (11-12) (1-0) Today Quinnipiac 3 p.m.

Today Quinnipiac 5 p.m.

April 2 Rutgers Noon

Lacrosse (6-3) (0-1) Tomorrow Georgetown 4 p.m.

April 16 April 8 Syracuse Notre Dame Noon 4 p.m.

Men’s Track and Field April 2 LSU Invitational All Day

April 6 Texas Relays All Day

AP

India’s Sachin Tendulkar leaps in the air as he celebrates his team’s win by 29 runs during the Cricket World Cup semifinal match between India and Pakistan in Mohali, India, Wednesday.

Women’s Track and Field April 2 UConn Select Invitational All Day

April 9 UConn All-Regional Invitational All Day

Golf April 9 New England’s All Day

April 10 New England’s All Day

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

Men’s Tennis April 3 St. John’s Noon

April 12 April 16 April 10 St. Francis Boston Coll. Villanova 3 p.m.

Noon 10 a.m.

April 20 Boston Univ.

3 p.m.

Women’s Tennis April 6 St. John’s 2:30 p.m.

April 8 Marquette Noon

April 10 West Virginia 10 a.m.

April 13 Rutgers 1 p.m.

April 15 Seton Hall 2 p.m.

Email your answers, along with your name, semester standing and major, to sports@dailycampus.com. The best answer will appear in the next paper.

» MEN’S BASKETBALL AP

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Women’s Basketball (36-1) (16-0)

“Is the ‘Lamb Shake,’ viewable on YouTube, the greatest move since the ‘Moonwalk’?”

The Daily Roundup

“I think [it’s] Derrick Rose.”

Away game Gampel Pavilion, XL Center

Next Paper’s Question:

UConn’s reversal of fortune takes just one month

STORRS, Conn. (AP)—Heading into the postseason at the end of February, Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun had lost his battle with the NCAA, his sister-in-law to cancer, and four of five basketball games.

He’s had a better March.

Star guard Kemba Walker said it was tough to watch Calhoun go through those hard times, and one of the best parts of UConn’s run to the Final Four had been seeing a smile return to his face.

“I heard guys say he lost it, you know his coaching ability, something like that,” Walker said. “So, for us to be in the Final Four, especially being a team that was picked to be 10th in the Big East…it’s special after all this program has been through.”

On Feb. 22, Calhoun was cited by the NCAA for failing to create an atmosphere of compliance within his program and was suspended for the first three Big East games during the 2011-12 season.

The NCAA also hit UConn with scholarship reductions for three academic years, recruiting restrictions, permanent disassociation of a booster and three years probation for recruiting violations.

Calhoun missed the next game at Marquette to attend the funeral of his wife’s sister. The Huskies lost that game and two of the next three to end the regular season.

Calhoun said he began to see the team getting down on itself. So, after losing to Notre Dame 70-67 on senior night, a loss that dropped the Huskies to the ninth seed in the Big East tournament, Calhoun put them through one of the hardest practices of the season.

“It’s a young team, 21-9 wasn’t a bad ending,” he said. “We were going to the NCAA tournament. But damn it, we weren’t going to put our shoulders down and we were going to play.”

He said that’s exactly what they decided to do.

“These kids were going to give it everything they had, leave it on the Madison Square Garden floor,” he said. “And five days later, they actually took something from Madison Square Garden.”

That would be the championship trophy. They then continued the roll into the NCAA tournament, and haven’t looked back.

UConn guard Shabazz Napier said he thinks the team has taken on the personality of its coach.

“We don’t let down from a fight,” he said.

“We’re willing to battle anytime, and that’s the type of person he is.”

Calhoun has spent a lot of time since the Huskies’ win over Arizona in the West final being introspective.

He has acknowledged making mistakes over the past two seasons. But he also told reporters that he is content right now—of course, the winning helps— because he feels he has been true to himself, to his family, to God and to his players.

Okafor: Final Four “fantasyland” Okafor: I’ve seen him jumping - he probably has even more now. I see him jumping on the sidelines and he’s full of energy Emeka Okafor is one of the and passion and that’s the Calhoun best representatives of UConn on I remember. and off the basketball court. Not D.C.: Obviously there are a only did he graduate in three years lot of NBA players who went to with a degree in finance and a 3.8 UConn. Can you talk about the GPA, but he was also the National UConn fraternity in the NBA? Player of the Year and AllOkafor: I think we’re right American and Most Outstanding there. If we don’t have the most, Player of the 2004 tournament. we’re close to the most active His junior season, the Huskies NBA players who went to the won the Big East and same college. Every NCAA title. Okafor time we see each won Big East Player other, we acknowlof the Year that seaedge each other. I son, and was inductthink last year there ed into the Huskies were five or six of us Ring of Honor in playing at the same 2007. Okafor won a time (Pistons vs. bronze medal on the Grizzlies). We are 2004 U.S. Olympic well aware of everyteam and was draftbody’s success and ed No. 2 overall we always have that behind Orlando’s UConn bond.

A multi-part series Dwight Howard by D.C.: You were the Bobcats. His five able to graduate in seasons with Charlotte included three years. They honored you on winning Rookie of the Year and Senior Day and they did that with earning All-Rookie First team Kemba Walker this year. With him honors in 2005. Okafor was traded most likely getting his degree this to New Orleans and is in his sec- May, does it make the decision, ond season with the Hornets. from your experience, easier makD.C.: Does coach Jim Calhoun ing the leap to the NBA? have the same energy as he did Okafor: It does. When you’re in 2004? having a great year, and you have

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

your degree and you’ve accomplished all that you wanted to accomplish, you don’t feel like you left anything behind or unfinished. Especially in my case, I was fortunate to win the championship, as well. I guess my college bucket list was complete.

D.C.: Any words for Kemba if you’re going to be seeing him next year?

Okafor: Just keep playing hard.

Keep working and never be satisfied.

D.C.: That shot you made a couple nights ago (a buzzer beater at the end of regulation to send a March 24 game between the Hornets and Jazz into overtime), your celebration looked eerily similar to you celerating after making the game-clinching free throw in the 2004 semifinal against Duke. Can you talk about the shot and your NCAA tournament experience?

Okafor: [laughs]. As far as the shot, I had fouled Paul Millsap. I had just came in the game, fouled Millsap and I was like, ‘Aw man, he made both free throws,’ so I’m thinking, ‘golly I came in and freaking lost the game.’ And then the ball gets thrown in, I was running down, saw the ball bounce, I shot it, it went in, and I’m like, ‘Redemption.’ As far as the tournament experience, that Final Four experience, that’s one

AP

Connecticut’s Emeka Okafor celebrates the Hiskies’ 79-78 win over Duke in their NCAA Final Four semifinal game Saturday, April 3, 2004, in San Antonio.

of the best – no, that’s the best experience you’ll have as a college basketball athlete. Just the energy, that’s what you strive for.

Final Four, Final Four, Final Four, it’s just ingrained in your head so when you’re there it’s like, ‘Wow, I’m here.’ It’s like basketball fantasyland, you know? So to walk away with the prize is unreal.”

D.C.: What do you think Kemba’s chances at being great at the next level are?

Emeka: Great. He’s a go-getter. All you need in the NBA is heart, and that’s it, and he has plenty of that.”

Matthew.McDonough@UConn.edu

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What a month

Softball falls to Boston University at home, 1-0

By Michael Ferraro Campus Correspondent

Mac Cerullo My bracket is busted.

Right now I’m No. 23 overall in the Daily Campus Pick’em Tournament. Not bad, but that number is only going to go down because I have no teams left going any further.

Ohio State, Pittsburgh, Kansas, nope.

By nature, I’m an extremely competitive person, and in years past, this situation would have really gotten on my nerves. But this year, something’s different.

Look at the way this tournament has played out. Has there ever been a more exciting and interesting field? Especially the Final Four – it couldn’t have turned out better. On one side, you have UConn’s amazing return to glory going up against John Calipari’s newest band of freshman phenoms.

And on the other side, Butler: Part II and George Mason – The Sequel.

Are you kidding me?

I stopped giving a damn about my bracket the moment it seemed possible that Butler might be able to pull off the upset against Pittsburgh.

When it was close late, screw

Inconsistent hitting and scoring did the Huskies in today, as they lost to the Boston University Terriers 1-0.

In the first inning, the Terriers were threatening to break the game open early, but Kiki Saveriano retired the first two batters before allowing the next three batters to reach base by a single and two walks before forcing a line out to end the inning. In the bottom half of the first, Julianne Towers began the game with a single, but that would be her lone hit of the day. It looked as if the Huskies might take an early lead after a single by Amy DeLuca, but Towers and DeLuca were stranded until end the inning.

The lone run of the game happened when the leadoff hitter for BU hit a solo home run to leftfield. Saveriano then struck out the next batter, but the Terriers advanced to third and the next batter singled. Saveriano survived the inning by loading the bases with one out. The Huskies then had a 1-2-3 inning, and it was back to the mound for Saveriano.

Coach Karen Mullins was pleased with the pitching performance of Saveriano. “I thought Kiki had a solid outing. She really got herself out of a lot of jams, they are good hitting ball club, so overall it was a very solid outing,” Mullins said.

The Huskies defense was inconsistent in the third inning, first because of a fielding error

by Towers, then Amy Vaughan threw out the

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Junior outfielder Jennifer Ward swings at a pitch during UConn’s 1-0 loss to Boston University at home.

Lack of execution dooms Huskies

By Miles DeGrazia Fútbol Columnist

By Michael Ferraro Campus Correspondent

The draw has concluded and the last eight in Europe’s premier club competition have been set.

Among the last eight are some of the biggest names in world football: Real Madrid, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Manchester United and Chelsea. But three surprise teams still remain: Tottenham Hotspur, Shakhtar Donetsk and Schalke. At this point, every team has earned the right to be in the last eight and each team believes they can lift “big ears” in Wembely.

While the 1-0 score may indicate otherwise, UConn’s loss Wednesday night to Boston University was full of missed opportunities and plenty of base runners. Kiki Saveriano battled through several difficult jams for the Huskies before settling down and cruising through the second half of the game, but her team was unable to generate anything offensively against Saveriano’s counterpart, Holly Floetker.

Saveriano allowed only six hits in her complete game effort, but she had to truly dig deep on several occasions to keep the game from being blown wide open.

Her troubles started in the first inning, when after getting two quick outs, she allowed a single sandwiched by a pair of walks to load the bases. However, match-

Real Madrid v. Tottenham Hotspur If you had told any Spurs supporter they would be facing the mighty Real Madrid in a Champions League Quarter Final last season, they would

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ing the theme of the afternoon for Unfortunately for the Huskies, Saveriano, she was able to bail the offense was unable to contribherself out by inducing a weak ute anything to Saveriano’s gutsy pop fly to first base. After a solo effort. This was due in large home run that would part to the Huskies prove to be the gameinability to advance winner, Saveriano base runners, largely again had to claw her in the form of bunting. way out of a basesOn two promising loaded, two-out jam. innings, the first and After falling behind 3-0 the fifth, the Huskies to BU’s Chelsea Kerr, had any hopes of geta mound visit from » Notebook ting on the scoreboard assistant coach Tory diminished by the lack Yamaguchi was able to reinstate of execution with bunting. the confidence of UConn’s ace “It’s disappointing,” said and she worked out of the jam via Mullins, who is currently in a harmless pop fly to shortstop. her 29th season of the Huskies BU stranded nine total run- head coach. “I don’t think we ners on base, with only one in committed to the short game. the final three innings.

A couple of times we needed “I felt Kiki had a solid out- to get a bunt down and I don’t ing,” said coach Karen Mullins. think we really committed “She really got herself out of to making it happen. We just some jams. It was a good hitting didn’t finish opportunities.” ballclub that she pitched well UConn will have little time to against. Overall, a very solid mope about, being on the short outing.” end of Wednesday’s pitchers’

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A UConn softball player swings at a ball during UConn’s 12-0 win over Fairfield at home.

duel, as they will host in-state rival Quinnipiac on Thursday for a doubleheader beginning at 3 p.m. The Bobcats are off to a solid 15-13 start in the Northeast Conference, behind a sensational season thus far from pitcher Heather Schwartzburg. Although her record is only 8-6, the junior has posted a dazzling 1.72 earned run average with 137 strikeouts in 101.2 innings.

“Everyday is a new day,” Mullins said. “We expect Quinnipiac to be a scrappy team and we’ve got to come back and turn it around to go into the weekend and gain a little momentum.

We are looking to get back in the saddle and get after them and turn things around.”

Michael.Ferraro@UConn.edu

Who will win the American League East this season?

New York Yankees

By Darryl Blain Campus Correspondent The New York Yankees will win the AL East this season. They have one of the strongest lineups in baseball, led by heavy hitters Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira and MVP candidate Robinson Cano, and their top two starters, CC Sabathia and Phil Hughes, combined for 39 wins last season.

Plus, at the end of games, the Yankees have the superior bullpen, with the ageless wonder Mariano Rivera still waiting at the end of the game to shut the door on opposing teams.

Robinson Cano is an MVP candidate...

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» POINT/COUNTERPOINT Darryl Blain: The Yankees beat the Red Sox out in the division last year by six games, and while Sox fans will claim that it was due to injury, that’s part of the game. If your team can’t stay on the field don’t expect to win a whole lot. At the same time, the Sox faithfully will attempt to belittle the Yankees pitching staff, pointing out tons of possible holes.

What they are forgetting is that Hughes and Sabathia combined for a monster 39 wins last season, and Burnett was way more sub-par than he could possibly be again. Lackey was overrated last year with an average looking record and a 4.40 ERA, and Matsuzaka, Wakefield and Becket are unreliable.

Mac Cerullo: Alright, so we’ve established that the Red Sox were hampered by injuries

last year and still finished with 89 wins. They’re healthy now, so there’s a start. Then we’ve also established that the Yankees have a strong front end of the rotation with “tons of possible holes” after Hughes. How does this help the Yankees case exactly? Look, I don’t want to blatantly trumpet the Red Sox’s offseason acquisitions, but the bottom line is that the Red Sox got a lot stronger and the Yankees didn’t. And as far as pitching goes, Matsuzaka, Beckett and Wakefield all have had success in the past, and Lackey was a bona fide ace in Anaheim, he can’t possibly be as average again this year. But the thing is, he doesn’t have to be an ace, if he’s a solid No. 3 or 4 behind Lester and Buchholz, then the Sox will be in great shape.

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Boston Red Sox

By Mac Cerullo Sports Editor

Last year, the Red Sox kept themselves in contention despite being decimated by injuries. This year’s team is now healthy, and has seen the addition of Carl Crawford and Adrien Gonzalez to bolster what should be a potent offense. On top of that, the Red Sox boast one of the deepest and most dangerous starting rotations in the American League to go along with a retooled bullpen. The Sox are a complete ballclub, and they have all the tools to beat out the Yankees as the top team in the AL East this season.

Michael.Cerullo@UConn.edu

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... but Adrian Gonzalez adds power to the Sox.