The Daily Campus: April 1, 2011

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Woman mauled by chimp awaits transplant

NEW HAVEN (AP) — A Connecticut woman mauled and heavily disfigured by a chimpanzee two years ago can’t see, touch or smell and struggles to eat through a straw. She’s eagerly awaiting a donor who would enable her to undergo face and hand transplant surgery.

Charla Nash, who’s at a rehabilitation center near Boston, last month was deemed eligible for the surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston after passing numerous pre-operative tests and evaluations. The hospital, which performed the nation’s first

full face transplant earlier this month on a Texas construction worker injured in a power line accident, is working with the New England Organ Bank to find donors who match Nash’s tissue requirements.

“She keeps her spirits up,” one of her attorneys, Charles Willinger, said Wednesday.

“She’s just remarkable. Every day is a challenge for her.”

The 200-pound pet chimpanzee, named Travis, went berserk in February 2009 after its owner asked Nash to help lure it back into her house in Stamford, one of the state’s biggest cities. It ripped off

Nash’s hands, nose, lips and eyelids.

The Department of Defense would pay for the surgery through a contract it gave the hospital in 2009 to cover the cost of face transplants for veterans and some civilians, hospital officials said. Depending on donors, the hospital could wind up performing the first simultaneous hand and face transplant in the country.

The simultaneous surgery has been done only once before, in France in 2009, and that patient later died. Plastic surgeon Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, who will lead the team and

performed the earlier face transplant, said he has a larger team and designed the operation differently.

“We feel that it’s a perfectly feasible operation,” Pomahac told The Associated Press on Thursday. “I feel comfortable and confident that we can certainly perform it.”

The donor can be as much as 20 years younger or up to 10 years older than the recipient and must have the same blood type and similar skin color and texture. Time is of the essence when recovering facial tissue from a donor, so the donor must be located within a four-

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WALKER, TEXAS RANGER No. 3 seed UConn takes on Kentucky in Final Four.

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EDITORIAL: LOW TURNOUT AT WOMEN’S GAMES UNACCEPTABLE UConn fans need to quit watching games from the couch at home.

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INSIDE NEWS: UCONN POLICE TO CONDUCT DUI CHECKPOINTS Checkpoints will be conducted on Friday and Saturday.

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More than Malloy: Hogan and Austin

By Nicholas Rondinone Senior Staff Writer Former President Michael Hogan and Interim President Philip Austin are two of the 1,162 state employees who made more than the governor in 2010, according to data from Yankee Institute of Public Policy.

The presidents of the university both made more than the governor made in 2010, and the governor will make in 2011.

Former Gov. Jodi Rell made $148,276 during 2010 and Gov. Dannel Malloy will make $150,000 in 2011– the governor has not gotten a raise since 2003 when it was raised from $78,000.

The President of UConn serves as the Chief Executive officer for the university; his duties include carrying out and enforcing all policies and regulations adopted by the Board of Trustees for the operation of the university and is given authority requisite to that end, according to the university by-laws.

Michael Hogan served as the president for the first half of 2010, and Philip Austin has served as the interim president since June of that year.

In 2010, both former President Hogan and Interim President Austin made $777,526 combined, with Hogan making $403,225 and Austin making $374,301.

A UConn spokesperson could not be reached Thursday.

In 2010 both Austin and Hogan are within the top 40 highest paid employees in the state and did not

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Interim President Philip Austin in his office in January. Austin made $374,301 in 2010.

serve as president the full year.

Former President Hogan made $627,801, which is nearly $200,000 more than UMass President Jack M. Wilson made the same year.

During 2009 Wilson was paid $425,000 to serve as president of the university, according to a Boston Herald database.

Wilson, who has served as the president of UMass for since 2003, currently oversees a university with an enrollment of approximately 66,000 students over the five branches in 2009.

The total enrollment for UConn during 2009, which was less than half of UMass, was

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During the same year Hogan made nearly $400,000 more than University of Rhode Island president Robert Carothers.

Carothers was paid $231,143 for his services as the president of the University of Rhode Island, according to data from Rhode Island Monthly.

The University had an enrollment of approximately 16,000 in 2009 – Carothers only made about one-third that of Hogan but oversaw a university with more than half the students.

Both Hogan and Austin are the highest paid employees in the higher education system in the

state, and with the total wages paid to the two separate university presidents were higher than other state university presidents across the state.

The total wages for the two presidents were $360,323 more than Connecticut State University System Chancellor David G. Carter.

Carter, who made $417,203 in 2010, oversees four separate state universities that have a total of 36,000 students, with 93 percent of the students being in state.

Southern Connecticut State University had their president leave during 2010 as well with Dr. Stanley Battle replaced Dr. Cheryl Norton after she left spring semester.

In 2010 Norton was paid total $313,968 and Battle was paid $196,623, which totals to $510,591 paid in presidential wages in 2010 at SCSU. The total amount paid at SCSU is more than $250,000 dollars less than the total paid at UConn during 2010.

The Board voted last year to hire Susan Herbst as UConn’s 15th president, her starting salary will be $500,000, adding another UConn employee that will make more than Malloy.

All state employee wage information comes from a database created by Yankee Institute for Public Policy on their website, www.ctsunlight.org.

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hour travel radius of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, hospital officials said.

The Cleveland Clinic, which in 2008 performed the nation’s first partial face transplant but has not done hand transplants, said last year that Nash, 57, would not be a candidate for a face and hand transplant, citing the complexity of her injuries.

The surgery will “profoundly” change Nash’s life, restoring her sense of smell and touch, making it easier for her to eat and allowing her more independence, Pomahac said, adding that Nash is excited about it.

Farmers advised to check out land use rules

SOUTH WINDSOR (AP) — Connecticut farmers feeling squeezed by housing developments and shopping centers got a few lessons Thursday about how to navigate a maze of land use rules to make zoning work for them.

About 100 farmers and local officials turned out for the forum, organized by the Connecticut Farm Bureau, where agriculture officials and lawyers explained zoning laws that vary among Connecticut’s 169 towns.

Doug Dubitsky, an agriculture lawyer from North Windham, told farmers that some towns are hostile to farming and use zoning to ban farms.

“They think you smell, they think you make too much noise, they think you put too much manure on the roads,” he said.

“You’ve got people in one- and two-acre lots that are complaining all the time, your tractors are always blocking up the roads.

They look at the regulations and say, ‘Well, that guy’s not allowed to do that. Get him out of here.’”

Dubitsky advised farmers to research rules and laws and not take the word of local zoning enforcement officials.

“Do not take the ZEO’s word for anything,” he said. “Find out yourself. Look at the regulations. Get help.”

He said Connecticut towns are taking particular aim at pig farms.

“Frankly, if you’re a pig farmer in this state, I have all the sympathy for you because so many towns are trying to zone pig farming out of their town,” he said.

Thomas R. Dexter, who raises pigs at his Southington farm, told Dubitsky he appreciated his comments. He complained that farmers are forced to deal with outdated rules against odors that were imposed when farmers fed pigs with smelly garbage more than a century ago.

“And we have to still live with that,” he told Dubitsky.

“They point that like a gun.”

Agriculture Commissioner Steven K. Reviczky said local officials should follow state laws defining farming and agriculture. In particular, he said odors from manure or fertilizers and noise from equipment are generally accepted agricultural practices and are not nuisances under the law.

“All too often local boards and commissions feel that they can come up with a better definition of farming and agriculture and I don’t think there’s a better definition than what we can find in the state statutes currently,” he said.

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UConn police to conduct DUI checkpoints

The UConn Police Department will be conducting D.U.I. checkpoints on campus this evening.

The checkponts will be in operation during this evening and into the early hours of tomorrow morning, according to a release from the deparment.

The checkpoints will be conducted to apprehend D.U.I. violators, identify seatbelt violations, and other motor vehicle violations, according to the release.

The statement said addition D.U.I. and alcohol enforcement patrols will continue in the coming weeks.

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State says state’s recession ended in Jan. 2010

HARTFORD (AP) — The state Department of Labor says the deepest recession in decades measured by job losses ended in Connecticut in January 2010.

The agency said Wednesday that new revised and adjusted employment data show that January 2010 was the bottom of the downturn, one month later than initially calculated.

During the 22 months of the recession, 119,200 jobs were lost, or 7 percent. That was worse than a 3.7 percent loss from 2000-2003, but not as bad as a 9.3 percent job loss from 1989-1992.

The National Bureau of Economic Research, a panel of economists in Cambridge, Mass., said in September 2010 that the longest recession in the U.S. since World War II ended in June 2009.

However, a state labor research analyst says Connecticut’s calculation focuses only on jobs.

Pratt & Whitney head says State employment steady

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The president of jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney says he expects employment in Connecticut to remain stable.

David Hess says overall employment at the East Hartford-based company will continue to grow. He projected revenues for the company would double by 2020.

Hess didn’t promise gains in the Connecticut-based workforce, but said he expected it to hold steady. He said the company is currently hiring hundreds of engineers, “many of whom will be based in Connecticut.”

Pratt & Whitney previously said it would shutter two engine repair plants in Connecticut. Hess said in January that the state needs to revamp its regulations and tax system to be more competitive and attract business.

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Mass. DA shows evidence in Craigslist killing

BOSTON (AP) — Amid the thousands of pieces of evidence released Thursday in the case of a medical student accused of killing a masseuse he met through Craigslist, one stands out as a grisly reminder of the brutality of the crime: a pair of brown leather shoes stained with her blood.

Prosecutors said Philip Markoff was wearing the shoes when he fatally shot the New York City masseuse, Julissa Brisman, on April 14, 2009, after she agreed to meet him in her room at a Boston hotel.

Markoff, who also was accused of robbing two other women in hotels in Boston and Warwick, R.I., took his own life in jail last year as he awaited trial in Brisman’s death.

Authorities say Markoff beat Brisman, 25, when she resisted his attempt to rob her, then shot her three times. Six days later, they say, he was wearing the blood-stained shoes when he was arrested.

Alabama inmate William Glenn Boyd executed

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — A prisoner condemned for the 1986 slayings of a couple in Calhoun County has been put to death.

William Glenn Boyd was pronounced dead at 6:23 p.m. CDT at Holman Prison. The 45-year-old Boyd was put to death by lethal injection. When asked if he had any last words, he said no.

In an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, Boyd had argued that the judge violated state and federal rules when he imposed a death sentence after the jury recommended a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.

Boyd and Robert Milstead were convicted in the kidnapping and shooting deaths of Fred and Evelyn Blackmon in Calhoun County.

Milstead testified against Boyd in exchange for avoiding the death penalty. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole

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Pardon unlikely for sisters awaiting kidney transplant

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told The Associated Press on Thursday he doesn’t plan to pardon two sisters he released from prison earlier this year on the condition that one donates a kidney to the other.

Barbour, a potential 2012 presidential candidate, was asked what he’ll say to a pardon request that the attorney for Jamie and Gladys Scott plans to file Friday.

“I wouldn’t hold my breath,” Barbour responded.

Asked to elaborate on the possibility of a pardon, Barbour told the AP: “Tell ‘em don’t save any space in the newspaper for that to be announced.”

Supporters had hoped the governor’s presidential ambitions would make him more inclined to pardon the women because of the effect it could have on his image.

The Scott sisters’ attorney, Chokwe Lumumba, is sponsoring a rally Friday outside the Governor’s Mansion and state Capitol to seek support for a full pardon for the women. Lumumba said a full pardon would help them find jobs. Both sisters plan to attend the rally.

Told about Barbour’s comments Thursday, Lumumba responded: “We don’t intend to hold back our outrage at injustice and we don’t intend to stop fighting for justice.”

The women served nearly 16 years of life sentences for an armed robbery they say they didn’t commit. Jamie Scott suffers from kidney failure, and Gladys Scott offered to donate a kidney to her.

They’re living with relatives in Florida and their surgery has not yet been scheduled, Lumumba

said Thursday. For now, their doctors won’t even test them for compatibility until both lose weight and Gladys Scott quits her heavy smoking.

Reached Thursday in Florida, Jamie Scott had little reaction to Barbour’s comments.

“We will see, won’t we?”

Jamie Scott said before referring questions to Lumumba.

The Scott sisters’ case became a cause celebre on the Internet before their release, with Lumumba and other supporters saying the two black women were victims of an unfair justice system.

Civil rights advocates had called for the sisters’ freedom for years, saying their sentences were too harsh for the crime.

They were convicted in 1994 of participating in the robbery of two men on Christmas Eve in 1993. Prosecutors said the women led two men into an ambush. Court records say the robbery netted between $11 and $200.

Barbour was not governor when they were convicted.

As he prepares for a possible White House run, Barbour has faced criticism for remarks that critics said downplayed Mississippi’s history of racial strife. In an article in the Weekly Standard magazine in December, Barbour recalled his own upbringing in Yazoo City and said he didn’t recall the state’s civil rights era as “being that bad.”

Lumumba said this past Friday he thought Barbour’s possible presidential aspirations might boost the Scotts’ chance for a pardon.

“I guess if I was running for president of the United States, I would not someone to think

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In this Jan. 7 file photo, Jamie Scott, left, and her sister. Gladys Scott answer questions during a news conference in Jackson, Miss.

that I pardoned five people for murder and then we have two young ladies who’ve been in jail for 16 years and they were allegedly involved in a scheme to get $11 and I didn’t pardon them,” Lumumba said.

In 2008, Barbour pardoned four inmate trusties who had worked at the Governor’s Mansion and were already out of prison on parole or had been given suspended sentences by a previous Mississippi governor.

Three had been convicted of murder and the other was in prison for manslaughter and aggravated assault.

Barbour in 2008 also suspend-

ed the sentence of an inmate who had worked at the mansion while Barbour was governor.

The inmate was serving a life sentence for murdering his exwife in 1989.

The Scott sisters never worked at the Governor’s Mansion.

In late December, Barbour said the Mississippi Parole Board had reviewed the Scott sisters’ case and recommended he neither pardon them nor commute their sentence.

Barbour spokeswoman Laura Hipp said the governor “has not granted pardons to anyone who does not admit their guilt and express remorse.”

101st says six were killed in ongoing Afghanistan battle

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — A tough battle continues in eastern Afghanistan’s most volatile area where six U.S. soldiers died on Tuesday, said Maj. Gen. John F. Campbell, commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division.

Campbell spoke to reporters at Fort Campbell on the Tennessee-Kentucky state line during a video conference from his headquarters in Bagram on Thursday and said that 117 members of the 101st have died in Afghanistan since last March.

All six soldiers were from the 1st Brigade Combat Team.

The latest deaths came during ongoing combat to clear insurgents from eastern Afghanistan.

Campbell said he couldn’t discuss details because the operation was ongoing but called it a joint mission involving NATO forces, the Afghan National Army and border police in Kunar province.

“There were a significant number of insurgents killed in this operation, several large caches found and this operation is still ongoing,” he said.

Campbell said the province that sits along the border with Pakistan is one of the most active places for insurgents

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This undated photo undated photo made available by the U.S. Army shows Staff Sgt. Frank E. Adamski III, 26, of Moosup, Conn., one of six U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Campbell who were killed in battle in Afghanistan Tuesday, March 29, 2011.

in the eastern region of the country and he expects that it will be one of the last areas to be transitioned to Afghan security control.

“We knew that we would get a fight in there,” he said. “We do expect that the enemy, over the course of the spring, will try to surge back. We believe we have

done some significant damage to the insurgents in Regional Command East over the last 10 months or so.”

Attacks on coalition forces have remained high even over the winter months during this deployment, Campbell said.

Attacks since October were up 21 percent over last winter,

but he said their effectiveness is lower.

“Some of them leave and then come back out of Pakistan,” Campbell said. “Many have stayed and fought throughout the winter.”

He said morale remains high for the troops from the storied division, who have suffered their deadliest year in combat since Vietnam.

“They’ve been able to look over the last 10 months and look at the accomplishments they have had, the difference they have made in the lives of the Afghan people,” he said.

Campbell said the entire Fort Campbell community was grieving the loss of the six soldiers and gave his condolences to their families. The Pentagon released the names of the six soldiers on Thursday.

They were Staff Sgt. Bryan A. Burgess, 29, of Cleburne, Texas; Pfc. Dustin J. Feldhaus, 20, of Glendale, Ariz.; Sgt. 1st Class Ofren Arrechaga, 28, of Hialeah, Fla.; Staff Sgt. Frank E. Adamski III, 26, of Moosup, Conn.; Spc. Jameson L. Lindskog, 23, of Pleasanton, Calif.; and Pvt. Jeremy P. Faulkner, 23, of Griffin, Ga.

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Ohio police, firefighters decry bargaining limits

CLEVELAND (AP) — Unlike Wisconsin’s high-profile effort to limit collective bargaining rights for public workers, Ohio’s includes police and firefighters — who say it threatens the safety of officers and the people they protect.

Opponents have vowed to put the issue on the November ballot, giving voters a chance to strike the law down. The firefighters’ union in Cleveland plans to hit the streets and help gather signatures.

Patrolman Michael Cox, a 15-year veteran of Cleveland’s police force, said Ohio overlooked the inherent risks of police and firefighting work when lawmakers included them in the bill, which passed the Legislature on Thursday.

“We don’t run from the house fire; we don’t run from the gunshot,” he said. “We’re the guys that got to say, ‘OK, we’re going to go fix this problem real fast.’”

Under the Ohio plan, police and firefighters won’t be able to bargain with cities over the number of people required to be on duty. That means they can’t negotiate the number of staff in fire trucks or police cars, for instance.

Supporters of the bargaining limits say decisions on how to equip police and fire departments should be in the hands of city officials, not union members.

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Cleveland firefighter Mike Norman is shown Thursday, March 31, in Cleveland. As Ohio Gov. John Kasich prepares to sign a bill that limits collective bargaining rights for 350,000 public workers across the state, police officers and firefighters are refusing to give up the fight to block the legislation.

who decides what’s safe and what’s not safe?” said state Rep. Joseph Uecker, who was a police officer in the Cincinnati area for 15 years. “Don’t you think they are the ones who should decide whether they should have one or two or three people in a car?

That’s what we call management rights.”

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Democrats have 90 days after Kasich signs the bill to gather more than 230,000 valid signatures to get it on the fall ballot.

Loomis believes that if Senate Bill 5 goes unchallenged, the two-man rule will be the first thing to go.

“They’re going to give up our safety for the illusion that there’s more police on the street,” Loomis said. “That’s horrifying.

Guys get killed.”

And equipment that police officers say is vital but that the city says is too expensive — like computers in patrol cars, a rarity in Cleveland — will be harder to get without the complete bargaining process, Loomis said.

State lawmakers did make last-minute changes to the measure in the House that allow police and fire officials to bargain for vests, shields and other safety gear.

Mike Norman, secretary for Cleveland’s local firefighters union, said that’s a cold comfort compared with what he called an “all-out assault” on the union.

“Changes to the game supersede the topics that we’re allowed to discuss,” he said. “This isn’t something that needed to be tweaked a little bit.”

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Low turnout at women’s games unacceptable

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he low turnout at the March 22 NCAA tournament game at Gampel Pavilion stirred some commotion in the media and led women’s coach Geno Auriemma to make several angry comments about the poor attendance. “We have a spoiled group of fans who assume we are going to win,” said Auriemma. “We should let some of the fans coach the team, maybe a guest coach every quarter.” He then suggested that UConn should refrain from bidding to host the NCAA first round for five years.

Coach Auriemma’s frustration is justified. More fans should have been at the game, especially since it was Laura Dixon and Maya Moore’s last home game. With 5,729 in attendance, just over half of the 10,027 seats were occupied. Such a small crowd is an embarrassment to the university and a black-eye to the women’s team.

UConn fans can do better. Yes, the games can be seen on CPTV, ESPN and CBS. But nothing can match seeing the game live, in Gampel, surrounded by hundreds of screaming fans pumped up with enthusiasm. Also, the women’s basketball team - and all UConn sports teams - are nothing without the support of the UConn community, especially students. The women’s basketball team represents UConn nationally; the community and the team cannot be separated. A win for the Huskies is a win for UConn. If students want to show America how much UConn loves its Huskies, students need to pack Gampel and be the loudest, most loyal, most enthusiastic fans in the country.

Small crowds hurt UConn’s chances at hosting NCAA tournament rounds. If attendance is continually low, UConn will not be chosen to host such big games. Nobody wants tons of empty seats to be shown to millions of people nationwide. If UConn students want their university to host important games, they have to be out displaying their Husky pride, at every game, for every camera to see.

Having said this, Coach Auriemma should have known better than to call UConn fans “spoiled” or to question their loyalty. UConn fans are some of the most intense, passionate fans in any college. Auriemma’s comments come across as an insult (for which he is forgiven because he is the best coach of the best women’s basketball team in the country). But even if Auriemma’s criticism is unnecessarily harsh, fans should use the criticism as a challenge.

Be there at the games. Be loud. Be Huskies.

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It’s...SNOW DAY. Rebecca Black, my song doesn’t even have a tune and it’s better than yours.

Who else is mad the snow wasn’t an April Fool’s joke?

I have skipped so many classes that when I went to take my exam I couldn’t remember what room the class was in. I love college.

Pledgecakes: When someone you know makes pancakes for breakfast, but instead of using Pam they accidentally spray the pan with Pledge.

“Sorry for asking you your name at the bar last night, I truly had no idea that you were Kemba Walker.”

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby > real NASCAR. Yesterday everyone was pissed it was supposed so snow... Today they’ll be pissed it didn’t snow enough to cancel class...

Came up with a devious, yet brilliant ploy: The next time someone decides to dump my freshly laundered clothes on the floor, I will steal half of their socks so that there are no matching pairs!

Who needs Spring Weekend when you have a Final Four Husky Hoops weekend to look forward to?

Does anyone else turn on their high beams in a snowstorm to make it look like light speed in “Star Wars?”

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If I were about to become a princess...

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hen I was in fourth grade, I did a book report on Prince William. I had memorized his birthday and knew his favorite color. I also learned that his newspapers were ironed in the morning so as not to smudge his fingertips with ink, which absolutely enthralled me. Basically, through the intensive research I conducted, I considered myself an expert on the royal family.

When you’re a kid, it’s common to have obsessions or quirks.

You know, weird things you really into that no one else is. Mine was

By Taylor Trudon princesses—and Commentary Editor because royalty does not run in my family, I was determined that I would be the first to set the standard. At an early age, I was obsessed with Princess Diana and her amazing hats.

I watched “The Princess Diaries” so frequently that I broke the VHS tape. When I was 10 years old, my family planned a trip to Norway for Christmas and I sent a letter to Princess Martha Louise telling her that I was traveling all the way from Connecticut to see her and would love to meet her. Her press secretary wrote me back and said that unfortunately, the princess’s busy schedule did not allow her to meet common folk like me. Whatever, I’m over it.

It’s easy to get over the princess of Norway’s rejection, but the news that Prince William is marrying commoner Kate Middleton? Not so much.

Here’s what we know about Kate Middleton:

she comes from an upper-middle class family, she met Will in college, she has perfect hair and she is marrying my first crush.

“Princesses actually have the power to do more than site around and look pretty.”

But as the soon-to-be princess of Wales (mark your calendars for April 29), Kate will have new responsibilities she will have to assume. Contrary to the stereotypes perpetuated in Disney movies, princesses actually have the power to do more than sit around and look pretty.

This got me thinking about the things that I would do if I had the power to rule (a scary thought, I know), which consequently resulted in this list of changes I would implement. Kate Middleton, watch out.

1.) Declare April 4 a national holiday. Why? Because it’s going to be the day that the men’s basketball team becomes national champs, that’s why. Heck, I’ll even make a national Kemba Walker Day too, while I’m at it. The basketball team is campus royalty anyway, so we might as well just make it official.

2.) Take on a civic responsibility. Kate could have a lot of fun with this. For example, if I had Kate’s power, I would consider it my civic responsibility to ensure that there was always an abundant amount of macaroon cookies at the Student Union and that people walking 2 mph on the treadmills at the gym would be kicked off in favor of the people who actually want to burn more than five calories.

3.) Make up ridiculous rules. For example, there would be no classes on Mondays, Wednesdays or Friday. Make that Tuesdays and

Thursdays too, actually. Oh, and that girls can only wear two of the three following articles of clothing together: leggings, UGG bootss and a North Face jackets. Wearing more than two of these items at once could result in severe punishment.

4.) Support a charity. Lucky for everyone, I took an investigative journalism class last semester where we researched sketchy charities that stole money from people. So instead of worrying about which charity I would endorse, I would just solve that problem by creating my own. It would be called the Charlie Sheen Charity Fund. Cash only, no checks.

5.) Keep liquor stores open past 9 p.m. for obvious reasons.

6.) I would knight people, too. Well, technically the queen can only do this, but Kate will achieve that status eventually. I would grant knightly-status to Jay Hickey, though it may be difficult to actually track him down first to do so.

7.) I would rip down Arjona and Monteith and make a student parking lot that had 10 levels. Although my little journalism heart has a soft spot for the 350-degree rooms located on the fourth floor of Arjona, I love having parking more. This garage would have fancy elevator that would only play Ke$ha music.

8.) Speaking of music, I would also recruit Rebecca Black to perform at the Spring Weekend concert. Then, I would make her sing “Friday” in Spanish and then backwards while standing on her head. I think the concert would sell out.

Questions, concerns or general inquiries?

Send them to my press secretary.

Commentary Editor Taylor Trudon is an 8thsemester journalism major. She can be reached at Taylor.Trudon@UConn.edu.

The increasing difficulty of living in the moment

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e’ve all got that one annoying friend, the one who has to bring a camera with them everywhere they go.

That friend who insists that every little mundane action falls under the category of “precious memories.”

By Tyler McCarthy This is usually Staff Columnist the same friend who changes his or her Facebook and Twitter status upwards of a dozen times a day in order to give people real time updates as to what they are up to. The worst part about this friend is that we’re all starting to become just like them.

Everyone knows that the Internet is the greatest thing since sliced bread, The Beatles or chocolate covered pretzels.

However, if there is one downfall to the age of the web it is that it’s morphing us into a society that puts more emphasis and value on documentation over actual experience. We’ve become, as a generation, afraid to leave a concert or party with just memories to remember it by. We have this strange compulsion to ensure that we have gathered adequate proof that we’ve attended the event at all. This proof usually

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comes in the form of a new Facebook photo album, Tweets or a Foursquare Check-In. Thanks to all of these online extensions of ourselves, our natural human instincts are kicking in and making us feel competitive. A person’s value is now demonstrated by how great one’s life looks to fellow online users.

We’re allowing our online personas to take control of what our actual lives feel like and the direction that they go in. I mean, how many break-up fights have been won or lost because one of the partners have pictures of themselves flirting at a party?

“...it’s time for people to start respecting the fact that video games have reached the level of a true storytelling medium.”

We’re no longer able to look at events as being either fun or not fun. Instead we’ve begun to be more conscious of how our presence at a social gathering will make us look or what it will say about us to the rest of our friends

and followers.

The youth and society of today has submitted to being robbed of any true enjoyment from our own lives. The entertainment value or fun seem to be an afterthought once we’ve finished snapping photos of each other next to distinct land marks so that no one can deny that we’ve done cool things with our Saturday night.

In 2009, at the Inaugural Youth Ball for President Barack Obama, a group of teens got a chance to see the 44th leader of our country.

However, none of them seemed interested in looking at him. Say what you want about the president’s policies but meeting the most powerful man in the world is something worth experiencing.

Unfortunately, almost none of the audience members were looking at the president. Instead, they were looking at the backs of their digital cameras or cell phones trying to make sure that they got copious amounts of picture and video evidence of the moment.

Some would argue that I’m being too harsh. That they are not conceited enough to turn social interaction into a competition and that it’s simply a matter of wanting to have memories to look back on years from now. To be able to have a record of who they were, how they acted and

what they did.

Perhaps they truly are building a memory, but am I the only one who can recall a time when I could remember something without needing to document it?

Has the recent availability of cameras and social media really destroyed our memories and sense of experience this quickly and this completely? Or are we simply allowing ourselves to get greedy and letting this need for proof take us over?

The Internet and all it brings are undeniably great and good for us. However, we need to all take a collective mental step backwards and realize when we’ve warped aspects of something good into something damaging to our society. We need to understand what is and is not a benefit to our lives. Needless to say, using this recent boom in camera availability, picture sharing, location sharing and tweets to define our own self-worth while simultaneously robbing us of any value in the physical world is a terrible thing for our generation and its future.

Staff Columnist Tyler McCarthy is a 4th-semester journalism major. He can be reached at Tyler.McCarthy@ UConn.edu

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Before it’s too late, know when to just walk away

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ohn W. Lomax III will serve 18 years in jail for the murder of UConn student and football player Jasper Howard. My first reaction was: only 18 years? I never knew Howard, or “Jazz” as he is more commonly known, but his violent murder had a great effect on me. I experienced the initial shock that something so awful could happen on my campus, a place that should be a safe haven.

By Grace Malloy And then, as I learned about the kind of person Staff Columnist Jazz was and the family he left behind, I felt very sad. I couldn’t believe how unfair it was that a young man with a bright future wouldn’t be able to experience the life he should have lived, all because of a single, evil act.

So, about a year-and-a-half later, upon seeing that the man who took Jazz’s life would only spend 18 years in jail, I was in disbelief.

But then I thought, while it’s true that perhaps Lomax should have gotten a longer sentence, is that really the most important thing? A Hartford Courant article I read on the sentencing allowed me to see the larger picture.

“Howard’s death could have been avoided had Lomax not taken a knife with him that

night, not gotten involved in a fight that did not concern him and simply left when he returned to his car rather than retrieve the knife he used to kill Howard,” the judge said during the sentencing, according to the article.

“Lomax knows his life is over.

In situations like these, there are no second chances.”

The crucial lesson to be learned is how important it is to not let your anger take over you when you’re in a heated argument. It’s tempting to not back down, to prove yourself, and to win. But, it is a better show of character to just walk away from those types of situations. It could mean the difference between life and death.

In that moment of rage, when Lomax decided to plunge a knife into an innocent man, a mother lost her son, a man lost his step-son, two girls lost their brother, a woman lost her boyfriend, a team lost their teammate, a coach lost his player, an unborn baby lost her father

and a campus lost a fellow student. One stupid, thoughtless decision caused horrific pain for so many people.

Lomax sobbed as Jazz’s stepfather told him that he could never forgive him, the Courant article reported. Lomax knows his life is over.

In situations like these, there are no second chances. If only he had just walked away.

That thought will likely haunt him for the rest of his life.

Most of us are not capable of murder and wouldn’t do what Lomax did, no matter how angry we got. But the “just walk away” rule of thumb still applies in many situations.

Have you ever gotten angry at someone and punched them or said the meanest thing that came to your mind? Have you ever tried to get revenge? Most of us would probably answer yes to one or both of those. You never know how pain, whether physical or emotional, will affect someone. We all have times when we’re consumed with anger and we want to confront another person or get revenge. But no matter what, that is a bad decision.

A friend’s Facebook status recently read “The one you just called fat? She has been starving herself and has lost over 30lbs. The one you just called stupid? She has a learning

disability and studies over four hours a night.

The one you just called ugly? She spends hours putting makeup on hoping people will like her. The one you just tripped? She is abused enough at home. There’s more to people than you think.”

Your words and actions toward someone in moments of anger may not lead to their death, but it could ruin someone’s day, week, month or year. We never know the consequences of rash decisions until it’s too late. It’s best to simply walk away from situations before you do something you’ll regret.

“Why did it have to get that bad – to take his life from him?” Jazz’s mother asked at the sentencing, according to the article.

What breaks my heart is that it didn’t have to get that bad. It just didn’t.

I hope they get The Daily Campus up in heaven, because Jazz should know that something can be learned from what happened to him. And if even one person heeds these words, he did not die in vain. RIP No. 6.

Staff columnist Grace Malloy is a 6th-semester journalism and political science double major. He can be contacted at Grace.Malloy@UConn.edu.

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What’s the best April Fool’s prank you’ve ever done or fallen for?

– By Wynne Hamerman

“I made cookies for my family and used salt instead of sugar.”

“Put eggs in a lotion bottle, shake it and let someone use the lotion.”

“Last year I got my roommate a mail-order bride named David.”

Lindsay Milster, 6th-semester communications major

Christopher Bailey, 9th-semester psychology major

Josh Ritchie, 6th-semester sports promotion and media major

“I changed all the clocks in my house to be an hour earlier so my dad was super early for work” Meghan Kelly, 6th-semester communications and international studies major

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Microsoft skewers Google Hispanic families urge Obama to in EU antitrust complaint

BRUSSELS (AP) — Microsoft Corp. escalated its attack on Google Inc. by complaining to European regulators Thursday that its fiercest rival is an Internet bully that abuses its dominance of online search and advertising.

The allegations against Google crystallize the piecemeal gripes that Microsoft has been making about Google’s business practices for the past few years. It’s also an ironic twist for Microsoft, whose control over how software operates on most personal computers has made it a frequent target of the types of complaints it’s now making against Google.

This marks the first time that Microsoft has lodged a formal antitrust complaint with a government agency against one of its own rivals.

In doing so, Microsoft hopes to encourage the European Commission to dig deeper into an investigation opened four months ago into Google’s business practices.

The European inquiry was spurred by complaints made by several smaller websites. They contended Google was unfairly burying them in search results and highlighting the company’s own services instead.

The sites behind the initial complaints included Ciao, an online-shopping site owned by Microsoft, and Foundem, a pricecomparison site that belongs to a technology trade association backed by Microsoft.

Given that, Google said Microsoft’s latest complaint was unsurprising.

“We continue to discuss the case with the European Commission, and we’re happy to explain to anyone how our business works,” Google spokesman Al Verney said.

Although the specifics of Thursday’s European complaint were confidential, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith outlined the basics in a blog posting.

Microsoft has made most of these accusations before in public statements or forums.

It contends Google is making it difficult for mobile phones that rely on its Windows software to access Google’s YouTube video site. Google is promoting its own phones software, Android, and has been accommodating with Apple Inc.’s iPhone, according to Microsoft. Google CEO Eric

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In this Nov. 10, 2010 file photo, the company logo is displayed is at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.

Schmidt was on Apple’s board when the iPhone was introduced in 2007.

Microsoft also accused Google of making it difficult for advertisers to transfer their data used to manage online marketing campaigns to rival search engines.

And Microsoft said Google has programmed its search formulas in ways that drive up prices that its rivals have to spend to buy ads shown alongside Google’s search results.

The complaint also paints Google as a hypocrite. Microsoft says Google has made it increasingly difficult for Microsoft’s Bing and other search engines to index the videos on YouTube, an apparent contradiction to Google’s crusade to make content openly accessible.

Google has been particularly critical of Facebook’s refusal to open up data within its social network. Microsoft owns a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook, and Bing has been granted better access to Facebook profiles.

“Unfortunately, Google has engaged in a broadening pattern of walling off access to content and data that competitors need to provide search results to consum-

ers and to attract advertisers,” Smith wrote in his blog post.

Microsoft has a business incentive to undermine Google, which processes about two out of three every search requests in the U.S. and an even higher ratio in other parts of the world, including many countries in Europe.

After investing billions in its search technology during the past few years, Microsoft is desperate to close the market gap. Toward the end, Microsoft teamed up with Yahoo Inc. last year and, together, they now have nearly 30 percent of the U.S. market.

To protect its search engine, Google previously has complained about the way Microsoft had set up its market-leading Web browser, Internet Explorer, to make it less likely that people would install software known as toolbars from competitors.

“Antitrust has become a competitive weapon used by both companies,” said Boston University law professor Keith Hylton, who specializes in antitrust issues. “This is troubling because you never know quite what to make of the complaints.”

Previous complaints against Microsoft had thrust that company into a court battle with the U.S. Justice Department in the late 1990s. European regulators have imposed heavy fines for anticompetitive practices involving its Windows operating system and Internet Explorer.

Google has been fined in France and admonished in Canada for inadequate privacy controls but so far hasn’t been penalized in an antitrust investigation. If European regulators conclude Google engaged in anticompetitive behavior, it could fine the company up to 10 percent of annual revenue, which is expected to surpass $35 billion this year.

Microsoft’s move could exacerbate the legal and publicrelations troubles already facing Google, which is based in Mountain View, Calif.

The filing comes a week after a federal judge rejected a proposed legal settlement that would have given Google the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books. The judge concluded the agreement would have walled off its Internet search rivals from valuable content.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hispanic families and immigrant advocates criticized President Barack Obama on Thursday for failing to keep campaign promises to change the U.S. immigration system.

The critics questioned Obama’s recent comment that he could not use his executive order powers to suspend deportations because doing so “would not conform with my appropriate role as president.” Obama made the comment at a question-and-answer session organized by Univision TV network.

The statement has received a lot of attention in immigrant and some Latino communities.

Hispanics voted heavily for Obama in 2008 and some have felt he has let Latino supporters down by failing to move an immigration bill providing legal status to some illegal immigrants, while deporting record numbers of immigrants, many of them Hispanics.

Eva Millona, executive director of Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Coalition, cited Obama’s campaign promise made on July 13, 2008, at a National Council of La Raza conference.

“When communities are terrorized by ... immigration raids, when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel, when all that is happening, the system just isn’t working and we need to change it,” Obama said in the speech at the 2008 NCLR conference and is captured in video on the YouTube page of his campaign arm, Organizing for America.

The administration argues that it has focused on arresting, detaining and deporting immigrants who are serious criminals and cannot ignore people who are in the country illegally when Immigration and Customs Enforcement encounters them.

Cecilia Munoz, a White House deputy assistant to the president, said in a conference call with reporters that the White House does not believe the broken immigration system allows the president to choose not to enforce certain laws.

There always will be unfortu-

nate examples of families being separated and painful events in immigrant communities, but administrative solutions are not feasible or doable on a large scale, she said.

“At end of day we feel the answer to this problem is a legislative answer and we are working every day to reach the day when the president can sign an immigration reform that can fix this problem,” Munoz said.

On that call, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis announced her agency and the Homeland Security Department have signed an agreement that essentially says Immigration and Customs Enforcement will refrain from conducting raids or doing other immigration enforcement activities at most workplaces if the Labor Department is investigating the business.

The issue of children who are U.S. citizens being separated from parents has come into sharper focus in recent weeks after a young New York girl was forced to leave the country with her grandfather. They had been in Guatemala and were returning when the grandfather was detained at an airport and denied entry to the U.S. because of a decades-old violation on his record. Her parents were waiting for the 4-year-old in New York but she was made to leave rather than be united with her parents. She was recently reunited with her parents.

Maria Bolanos said at the news conference she called Prince George’s County, Maryland, law officers after a fight with her husband hoping for help.

Instead they turned her over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and now she is fighting a deportation order.

“I don’t want to be separated from my daughter,” Bolanos said.

Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez said the president “is only looking at one aspect of the law” by choosing not to suspend deportations by directing his administration to find ways to postpone deportations.

“We are asking for balance and for consideration of immigrants with deep, long-term equities in this country and for temporary relief until we are able to get legislation passed and implemented,” Gutierrez said.

Italy ships migrants to mainland, asks EU for help

ROME (AP) — Italy shipped more than 2,000 migrants to detention camps on its mainland Thursday, relieving pressure on a tiny island off Sicily which has been overwhelmed by a relentless stream of boats full of illegal arrivals from North African shores.

Lampedusa — a clear-watered fishing and tourist island with a population of 5,000 — ran out of shelters days ago when migrant numbers peaked at over 6,000, forcing many of the Tunisians and others to sleep in the open air on docksides and in fields.

Human rights advocacy group Amnesty International has added its voice to local concern, saying that migrants had been left to fend for themselves in “appalling” conditions.

On Thursday, soldiers, ordered in by the national government, joined local sanitation workers in ridding the island of piles of rubbish left by the departing migrants.

There was also concern about the minors among the migrants, which a Save the Children representative on the island, Filippo Ungaro, estimated number about 350. Under international conventions, the minors cannot be deported and should be put into temporary foster homes while asylum paperwork is processed, Ungaro told Sky TG24 TV. The government, at a Cabinet meeting Thursday, authorized funding for unaccompanied minors so they could be placed in temporary homes.

Premier Silvio Berlusconi, pressured by anti-immigrant coalition allies, promised while touring the island Wednesday that all of the migrants would be either deported to Tunisia or transferred to mainland deten-

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Migrants wait to board a ferry in Lampedusa, Italy, Wednesday. A Navy ship and a commercial ferry arrived in the morning, and at least three more are expected throughout the day.

tion centers within two to three days. Most of the arrivals are Tunisians who fled unrest in their homeland in the hope of finding family members or jobs in France.

Berlusconi said Thursday that Tunisia should have stopped the boats from setting out from its waters and planned to travel Monday to Tunis to raise the issue in person, his office said.

Foreign Minister Franco Frattini has voiced frustration that other European Union countries have done little or nothing to help relieve Rome of the migrant burden.

The illegal arrivals “must be deported either to Tunisia or be spread around to other European

countries,” Frattini told an Italian TV news show Thursday. “It’s stunning that there is no solidarity from any of the European countries, including those which many Tunisians would want to reach... France.”

Italian TV has added fuel to his argument by running video footage of Tunisians being sent back from Italy’s border with France, near the Italian seaside town of Ventimiglia. On Thursday, local workers set up a temporary 100-bed shelter with toilets and showers in an empty barracks in Ventimiglia for Tunisians flocking to the town.

Eighty Tunisians crossed the border into France Tuesday night and were caught by the

French police, said Geraldine Soulier, spokeswoman for the regional administration on the French Riviera.

The regional administration says some 600 Tunisians had been caught so far this month at the border. Their whereabouts weren’t clear.

Lampedusa Mayor Bernardino De Rubeis said that before dawn 690 migrants were shipped on a chartered ferry to the region of Puglia, with another 600 transported hours later. A tent camp for some 4,000 migrants was being hastily set up in the town of Manduria in the southeastern Italian region. Other ships, including a naval vessel, were anchored off Lampedusa’s ports,

waiting for the seas to calm to pick up more migrants for transfer to the mainland.

While the Italian government has called on towns throughout the country to accept some of the migrants while they are processed for deportation or asylum, some southern politicians have protested that they are bearing the brunt of the arrivals, while they charge towns in the north — where anti-immigrant Berlusconi ally the Northern League is based — have done little to help.

Italian news reports said both the mayor of Manduria and an undersecretary in Berlusconi’s Cabinet had handed in their resignation to protest what they

said was an unfair number of migrants being sent to the south.

Migrants have also protested their treatment and the conditions they’ve been forced to endure as they await relocation.

Dozens of Tunisians marched through the streets of Lampedusa Thursday demanding they be taken off the island.

“Ten days with no shower,” said Faycel Mannai, 27, from Krib Siliana, Tunisia. “I’m not eating good. Sleeping outside, sleeping in the street. It’s cold and everybody is very tired here.”

Italian news agency ANSA reported that a group of Eritreans, who were rescued in their boat a few days earlier and escorted to another tiny island, Linosa, had barricaded themselves in their detention center on Sicily following their transfer. More than 250 people from Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia had originally set sail from Libya on the boat.

Some 2,000 refugees, most of them from Somalia or Eritrea, have arrived so far on boats that set out from Libya, and officials were looking for places to house them, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told reporters.

Prior to the outbreak of a revolt against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, an ItalianLibyan treaty saw Tripoli cracking down on smugglers’ boats transporting migrants from its shores to Italy in exchange for Italian aid. But chaos has effectively ended any enforcement of the deal, and Berlusconi’s government has warned that tens of thousands of migrants, many of them from the Horn of Africa or elsewhere on the continent, may soon be on their way.

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Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in prison for leading the Nazis’ unsuccessful “Beer Hall Putsch” in the German state of Bavaria.

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A plie by any other name would still be a plie Could this get any sweeter?

To tip or not to tip

By Amy Schellenbaum Associate Managing Editor When you Google “artificial sweeteners,” or worse, “aspartame,” you get some very scary claims. Did you know aspartame causes multiple sclerosis, cancer, seizures, anxiety attacks, irritability, as well as a loss of hearing, vision and taste and can ultimately lead to death?

Well, here’s the thing: It doesn’t lead to any of these things. And this is no April Fool’s joke.

Artificial sweeteners, like any other consumable, can have negative effects on certain people.

Artificial sweeteners, like any other FDA-approved food additive, undergo massive amounts of testing before they can be marketed. Over the years, aspartame has been reevaluated over 40 times – 40 times! – without reporting any significant negative side effects, according to a lecture by my allied health professor, Valerie Duffy.

Furthermore, the maximum amount of the calorie-free sweet stuff the government says you should consume is equal to nearly 100 packets, or about 20 diet sodas, in a single day.

According to the lecture, the actual intake of aspartame averages out to less than 6 percent of the acceptable daily intake for an individual. What’s even crazier is that this maximum amount is actually 1/100 of the amount needed to see substantial negative effects in animals.

I understand that this position may get me a lot of angry emails from people who believe that the government knows nothing or that the FDA is conspiring against us all, but the truth is that these sweeteners, whether they’re the blue, pink, yellow or green packets, have not been shown through scientific research to cause harm.

Any website using scare tactics to convince you that artificial sweeteners are the devil should be treated with the same attitude you have with the woman with no front teeth in the subway station screams that the world is going to end.

Personally, I don’t drink a lot of diet soda at school. I don’t like the fountains – the bubble to syrup ratio is never right.

I’m not gung-ho for any of the sweeteners – Equal (aspartame), Splenda (sucralose) , Sweet’N Low (saccharin) or Truvia (stevia plant).

I am just sick of people

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The Russian National Ballet Theatre performed the timeless love story of Romeo and Juliet in the Jorgensen Center for Performing Arts on Thursday evening.

By Ariel Brand Campus Correspondent What happens when Russians and ballet merge? Utter virtuosity. There is something humbling about watching dancers splay their bodies before you something too beautiful to express in words. The Russian Ballet National Theatre imbued their performance at the Jorgensen Center for Performing Arts Thursday evening with sweeping lyricism. Hailed for their incredible finesse, the troupe, with over 50 accomplished dancers, staged Mikhail Fokine’s Chopiniana along with the timeless love story of Romeo and Juliet, set to music

by Tchaikovsky and choreographed by Petipa.

The Russian National Ballet Theatre, founded and comprised of graduates from the upper ranks of Russian dance conservatories and companies, was established in Moscow during the transitional period of Perestroika in the late 1980s, when several of the nation’s finest dancers and choreographers were exercising their newfound innovative freedom. At

this time, many new and exciting companies emerged, fusing modern elements in dance from across the globe with the classical tradition of Russian ballet.

Selected to be The Company’s first artistic director in 1994, legendary Bolshoi principal dancer Elena Radchenko has developed a repertoire of nearly all of Petipa’s masterful productions such as Don Quixote, Swan Lake and Coppelia.

The evening commenced with the 1907 ballet, Chopiniana, a piece that arose out of Chopin’s Seventh Waltz. An homage to Romanticism and a favorite of its creator, Mikhail Fokine, the production has been performed by various top-notch ballet troupes. Lacking any storyline, the work does not adhere to the conventional ballet script and instead showcases choreography with the dancers moving to the splendid music of Frederic Chopin. Chopiniana embraces the abstract in its delineation of the “Young Man’s dream,” highlighting the talents of one male dancer and a flock of nymphs dressed in white tulle.

In the adagio movements, the women floated on stage like ethereal butterflies, spreading

out and freezing in their original positions, while the allegro movements contained more spins, arabesques and lifts. The strength of the piece lay in the principal male dancer’s astonishing vigor, contrasted with the fluid wave-like movements of the female dancers.

Enamored by their stylistic excellence, audience member Lynn Castelli, a trained professional ballet dancer and former dance instructor and choreographer from Mansfield Center, said “The Company did a marvelous job inhibiting simple choreography. The male lead had a fantastic ability to jump high. The female soloists had tremendous control and stability. Overall, they had a wonderful ability to project themselves personally into the performance.”

Following the intermission, the second half of the program featured The Company’s abridged rendition of Romeo and Juliet, which enthralled the crowd with their vibrant costumes and emotive movements.

The production opens with the glorious celebration hosted by the Capulets. Amidst the joy, the Montagues, the Capulet’s deepseated adversaries, don masks

and raid the festivity. There, Romeo and Juliet first meet and the two immediately fall for each other. Trouble erupts into pandemonium and a death in each rival group follows. As the two star-crossed lovers are prohibited from mingling in public, they have another rendezvous, saturated with a sense of longing and fervor, to confess their mutual affection and propose a future together. Of course, as misunderstandings ensue, woe fills the air with Romeo and Juliet lying dead on stage, collapsed over each other in enduring love.

Katharina von Hammerstein from Mansfield expressed her preference for the final piece.

“The passion between Romeo and Juliet really transpired. I liked the mean Montague. His performance was elegant,” she said.

Despite some overall complaints about the sound system, audience members that braved the wintery mix and awful cold left Jorgensen feeling fortunate to have seen such an accomplished troupe as The Russian National Ballet Theatre.

Ariel.Brand@UConn.edu

A celebration of creative non-fiction

By Thomas Teixeira Campus Correspondent

The UConn Creative Writing Program’s Event Series presented the Aetna Celebration of Creative NonFiction Thursday night in Konover Auditorium.

The event began with readings by student award winners in Aetna’s undergraduate and graduate writing contests in the genre of creative non-fiction. Student winners were announced to a sizable audience of about a hundred before reading passages from their short non-fiction essays.

The pieces discussed a variety of topics, ranging from intimate

reflections on family and death, to a satirical critique of organic beauty products, a gripping tale of a teenager’s struggle with anorexia and a characterization of a teenage boy standing at trial for rape and murder.

Ryan O’Connell took first place in the undergraduate contest for his piece “Standing Order.” Kerri Brown and Dante Gonzalez won second and third respectively for their pieces “Food For Thought” and “A Moment in Time.” Matt Salyer was first prize winner in the graduate category while Jeanette Zissel walked away with second place.

After the student presentations, Meredith Hall, author

of numerous essays in creative non-fiction and the New York Times’ bestselling memoirs “Without A Map” shared her memoirs and read meaningful passages from her book. Hall presented a chapter of her book that told of her transformation from a straight edge, straight-A student growing up in a conservative rural New Hampshire town in the 1960s to a social deviant upon becoming pregnant at the age of 16. Hall shared painful memories of being expelled from school, shunned by society and abandoned by a mother she previously believed was both loving and supportive. Hall’s

life had changed so dramatically over the course of a few months that she became an entirely different person. Her reading was both emotional and thought provoking.

Though acknowledging the “suffering of that girl,” Hall lives today full of pride, joy and grace. In her question and answer session, she affirmed that she is grateful to have lived such a great life, is proud of the woman she is and feels blessed to have been given a “golden opportunity” to share her innermost thoughts, feelings, and experiences through writing.

Jacob LaBelle, a 4th-semester political science major said that Hall’s story was “fascinating”

and commented that “the student’s work was impressive in its craftsmanship and presentation. All of their stories were both powerful and interesting.”

Kerri Brown, an 8th-semester English major and undergraduate award winner in the night’s contest praised the creative nonfiction genre as “a way of honing and crafting your own voice as a writer, a way of telling your own unique story.” Her lauding of the contest was endless, calling it “important in bringing creative non-fiction to students.

It’s a genre open to all that not a lot of people know about,” she said, “They should.”

Thomas.Teixeira@UConn.edu

Many of you will read this column in a coffee shop, but for those of you who aren’t, think back to the last time you got your caffeine fix. Did you tip your cashier?

Most of us don’t even remember if and when we tip, or couldn’t say how much, even if we are sure we did. As busy students, we’re on auto-pilot a lot of the time. But if we don’t pay attention to our tipping habits, they can become particularly problematic. You may be throwing money down the drain in situations that don’t dictate a tip or you could be offending a bunch of people too.

With a little consciousness and some basic tipping knowhow, you can be a smarter tipper in no time.

The first thing to do is to get an idea of your tipping habits, since few of us pay very close attention. Without consciously altering your actions, keep track of how and when well you tip for, say, a week and try to come up with a “tipper’s profile” that includes who you tip, how often, how much and any other trends you notice.

Some questions worth considering: Do you tip the same for men and women or do you show a preference? Do you always throw your change into tip jars regardless of the amount or do you have a threshold? Does the amount vary if you are distracted, stressed, hungry, rushed or sad? Do you tip more or less often when you pay with your debit or credit card? Do your tips ride with the temperature or if the person who helps you is attractive?

All of these can be contributing factors. Once you know your habits, you can try to stop bad tipping habits, like emptying your change purse into any tip jar or forgetting to tip on your busy Mondays and Wednesdays.

There is such thing as a happy medium.

So here’s the good news: tipping is never a requirement, and there is no law that says you must tip in certain situations. Technically, you’re never wrong.

But here’s the bad news: Not tipping is really frowned upon in many situations and you will look like a cheap jerk if you don’t leave a tip.

But how do you know when to tip and when to offer a smile in return for good service?

A tip is intended as a “thank you” for good service, or an even bigger “thank you” for fantastic service, no matter the setting. If you’ve had notably good service, even if you’re not at a restaurant, a tip is probably appropriate. It’s always better to err on the side of a small tip if you are unsure.

If you find yourself trying to decide whether or not to tip with any of the following services, you should err on the side of generosity and leave something: restaurants, food delivery drivers, beauty salons, barbers or hairdressers, taxis, bartenders, gas station attendants, coffee shops, catering workers, movers or furniture and newspaper deliverers.

Not tipping when you use any of the above services generally sends the strong message that the service was far below average, or entirely unsatisfactory.

Unless that is the case, leaving even a small tip is a safe bet.

With any of these next locations and services, and many others, you can forgo the tip

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Develop judgment for giving tips

Living the good life, without a map

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in favor of a smile and a verbal “thank you” or a compliment to a manager in the case of exceptional service: flowery delivery person, grocery store clerk, cashier, store associate, fitting room assistant, janitor or cleaner, package delivery person, mailman and more. These are not assumed tipped services, so you can forgo the monetary tip unless someone goes above and beyond the call of duty.

Always use your judgment when deciding whether or not to tip and how much to leave, even if it takes more time. It’s true; we’ve got more important things to worry about than tipping, like figuring out exactly which problems we need to go over for our exam later or how we can get into the Instant Daily before we graduate. But taking a second to think about it can help you avoid awkward situations and emptying your wallet unnecessarily.

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Best-selling author Meredith Hall gives the keynote address at the UConn Creative Writing Program’s celebration of creative non-fiction in Konover Auditorium.

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Radio shines in 2010 Peabody Award winners ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — The winners of the 2010 Peabody Awards announced Thursday include some of the biggest names in television, but the age-old medium of radio shined in this year's competition with eight awards.

Winners announced by the University of Georgia include "The Moth Radio Hour," which celebrates storytelling in a weekly series, and WNYC's series "Radiolab," a scientific exploration show. Others include "Trafficked," a Youth Radio investigation into child sex-trafficking with vivid firstperson accounts.

National Public Radio garnered three awards with coverage of Pakistan, the bail bond

system in the U.S. and rapes on college campuses.

The awards, the oldest in broadcasting, recognize achievement and public service by TV and radio stations, networks, producing organizations, individuals and the Internet. UGA's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication has administered the Peabodys in Athens since the program's inception in 1940.

UGA handed out a record 39 Peabodys this year.

"The Peabody Awards were established with deep respect for the critical role played by electronic media in contemporary society and culture," said Horace Newcomb, director of the Peabodys. "The annual announce-

ment of the recipients continues in that spirit to recognize work that sets the highest standards for the media industries."

TV winners include HBO's "The Pacific," TNT's midlife comedy-drama "Men of a Certain Age," and FX's "Justified." Award-winning HBO movie "Temple Grandin," starring Claire Danes, also got a nod, as did CBS' "The Good Wife."

News station winners include: WTHR-TV in Indiana for an investigation into inflated jobcreation statistics by state officials; KSTP-TV's investigation into the accidental electrocution of a Minnesota sailor in Iraq; and WFAA-TV in Dallas for a probe into government-

funded "career" schools that don't pass muster. WILL-TV in Champaign, Ill., got an award for a documentary on the landmark court case establishing the separation of church and state in public schools.

C-Span's Video Library, a free website with every program the channel has aired since 1987, was honored, as was CNN for its coverage of last year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

International award winners include Hong Kong's Phoenix InfoNews Channel for a report on challenges facing workers from rural China moving to the city and a BBC Four secretlyfilmed documentary about the horrible living conditions for Zimbabwe's children.

Two American Masters documentaries snagged awards: LennonNYC, a documentary about John Lennon's life and work in his adopted home city, and a Martin Scorsese homage to theater and film director Elia Kazan. Spike Lee's "If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise," a documentary about New Orleans' ongoing recovery from 2005's Hurricane Katrina, also won an award.

The winners are chosen by the 16-member Peabody Board, composed of TV critics, industry professionals and experts in culture and the arts. All entries are made a permanent part of UGA's Peabody Archive, the nation's oldest and largest moving-image archive.

‘The Kennedys’ paints a flattering portrait NEW YORK (AP) — “The Kennedys” opens on the eve of Election Day 1960 with John F. Kennedy voicing high hopes to supporters as a long presidential race comes to an end.

These sequences are intercut with the weary-looking candidate peering in his bathroom mirror at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Mass., the next morning. Selfreflectively, he pops one pill after another for his multiple ailments and to get himself started.

So this is how this show’s going to go, the wary viewer may be thinking: build him up, then tear him down.

“The Kennedys” arrives in a cloud of such suspicion.

Grandly announced last spring by cable’s History channel, the eight-part, $30 million miniseries was abruptly dropped by the network in January amid reports that the real-life Kennedy camp, having gotten wind of an early script, was unhappy about the project.

One warning sign: A key producer and writer of the film is Joel Surnow, who, though bestknown as a creator of the action series “24,” is also known to be politically conservative. Was he out to get the Kennedys?

After a few weeks in limbo, this hot potato landed at ReelzChannel, where the first two episodes premiere Sunday at 8 p.m. EDT. (Subsequent segments debut April 5-8, with the two-hour conclusion airing April 10.)

Surprise! Despite the bumpy road that got it here, and the stigma attached, “The Kennedys” turns out to be a solidly entertaining portrait.

A cautionary note to those who may have feared (or hoped) this docudrama would engage in Kennedy-bashing: “The Kennedys” is a flatter-

ing, even affectionate portrayal. Whatever creative license the film has taken in its storytelling, its subjects seem to be the beneficiaries as, even when it dwells on the family’s deficits, it does so with a sympathetic touch.

Yes, Jack’s physical problems are showcased. On Election Day, Jackie is seen strapping him into a back brace and, as he descends a staircase, he must take one painful, halting step at a time. At another point, he needs help rising from his chair in the Oval Office.

“My body’s breaking down,” he tells Jackie. “I can’t stand for more than 20 minutes. I can’t sit for more than five. If the public knew the shape I was in, they’d boot me out of here.”

But in this film, the battles Jack wages with his health humanize, not diminish, him.

So does his womanizing, which is an ongoing issue in his marriage, but displayed onscreen very sparingly. His dalliances are mostly talked about.

“Bobby, I’m not a kid anymore, but I keep acting like one,” Jack tells his brother mournfully after Jackie, discovering his latest tryst, has fled to Camp David. “I think she’s finished with me.”

But she’s not, of course. She returns with the kids to the White House, where Kennedy is busy tackling the Cuban Missile Crisis and “saving the world,” as Jackie tells little Caroline.

And a year later, on that fateful flight to Dallas in November 1963, Jack and Jackie declare their love for each other anew.

“The Kennedys” is, if anything, a tribute to this family — its accomplishments, its vision and the awful price exacted for its outsized ambition.

The film’s biggest problem

AP

In this publicity image released by ReelzChannel, Katie Holmes portrays Jacqueline Kennedy in a scene from the eight-part movie, “The Kennedys,” premiering Sunday, April 3, on cable’s ReelzChannel network.

is its cast. Tom Wilkinson is fine as Joseph P. Kennedy, capturing the family patriarch’s ruthless drive and harsh authority, while Barry Pepper is credible as Robert F. Kennedy, Jack’s sensitive and fiercely loyal sidekick.

But Greg Kinnear serves as the latest reminder that no actor has yet copied Jack Kennedy’s magnetism. Kinnear makes JFK likable and earnest. But this Jack has no sex appeal, nor any chemistry with Jackie.

In the equally daunting challenge of portraying the First Lady, Katie Holmes seldom gets no closer to her character than being an attractive, slim brunette.

What saves “The Kennedys” is its writing and the lush production values that give it form.

The time frame of the miniseries starts on Nov. 8, 1960 — when voters chose Kennedy over his Republican rival, Richard M. Nixon — and follows the saga through Robert Kennedy’s assassination in

1968 during his own campaign for president.

But along the way there are frequent, gracefully interwoven flashbacks, looping back as far as the 1930s for background on Joe Sr., as well as sons Joe Jr. (targeted for great things until his death in World War II) and Jack (from whom little was expected with Joe the shining star).

In a scene from 1937, the father dispenses sagely cynical advice to these two lads: “It’s not what you are. It’s what people think you are. And with the right amount of money, you can make ‘em think whatever you want.”

With that sort of creed, Joe Sr. runs things with an iron hand — not least, Jack’s 15-year push for the White House.

A dirty trick masterminded by Joe clinches Jack’s first political race, for Congress. Years later, Joe makes the necessary, um, arrangements to guarantee that all-important Illinois will be in Jack’s column in his presidential

bid — a nasty piece of business about which, according to the film, neither Jack nor Bobby had any knowledge.

It is Joe who — over the objection of both the presidentelect and his brother, who was ready to leave politics — insists on Bobby as Jack’s choice for attorney general.

Early in the Kennedy presidency, both Jack and Bobby seem innocents buffeted by circumstances beyond their control (the Bay of Pigs disaster, for example), magnified by their father’s intrusions. Then, in a defining moment, they assert their independence and respectfully send their father on his way.

Like most of what happens on “The Kennedys,” it’s a nice twist in the narrative and, however it may clash with the truth, only burnishes the family legend. The fun, sexiness and magic of Camelot is absent from “The Kennedys,” but this is no sliming. So what was all the fuss about?

How sweet it is to love sweetened food from COULD, page 7

telling me I’m going to get cancer when I put Splenda on my Rice Krispies.

To oversimplify it: aspartame is two amino acids, the “building blocks” of proteins, sucralose is table sugar with some bits of the molecule swapped out for chloride, Truvia comes from a plant primarily found in South America and saccharin, discovered in the 1800s, is an indigestible molecule that happens to taste sweet.

Fake sugars are great for diabetics, and the American Diabetics Association approves of the sweeteners I’ve referenced. Fake sugars open up a world to diabetics that were previously unavailable.

Whether or not artificial sweeteners promote weight loss is a completely separate issue.

Studies have shown that if nothing else in a diet is changed except changing from regular soda to diet soda, there will be a modest weight loss. This would be expected, as you are undeniably consuming fewer calories.

But zero-calorie sweeteners may not, and in my extremely humble opinion probably do not, promote weight loss. I know from personal experience that I often crave something sweet after drinking a Diet Coke, but that’s not the point I’m trying to make. The idea I’m trying to get across is that eating sugar-free chocolate pudding or sugar-free Jello is not going to make you drop dead.

Undoubtedly, it would be better if nobody craved things that were sweet. It’s basic human evolution that we desire sweet things even after we’re full. Sweetness (and fattiness) are signals that the food we’re eating is high in calories and will more effectively get us through periods of famine. These tastes may have saved our pre-historic ancestors, but that sweet tooth is killing us now, when an industrial economy and social structure proliferates a culture of obesity and diabetes.

People are going to crave sweets, and it’s not a bad thing to have safe alternatives for those who don’t want to consume all their excretionary calories on refined sugars.

If you’re a no-calorie sweetener hater, that’s fine. Just don’t look at me condescendingly when I use a little yellow packet for my coffee.

Amy.Schellenbaum@UConn.edu

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Coulter brings conservative rebuttal to Wyoming LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Ann Coulter was bringing her edgy brand of conservatism to the University of Wyoming Thursday, a year after the school drew widespread criticism for its handling of an appearance by Bill Ayers, a Vietnam-era radical who is now a professor.

Coulter is known for her biting criticism of liberals through her television appearances. Her speech topic Thursday night: “Why the liberals are wrong about everything!”

An anonymous donor upset with Ayers’ April 2010 appearance in Laramie paid for half of Coulter’s $20,000 speaking fee. UW’s College Republicans and the Young America’s Foundation, a Virginia-based group that promotes conservative ideas on college campuses, were paying the remainder and other expenses.

The university’s handling of the visit by Ayers, a professor at the University of IllinoisChicago, generated criticism from all sides. The university invited him, then canceled his speech because many residents and UW alumni threatened to withhold contributions to the school.

Ayers co-founded the Weather Underground, an antiwar group that claimed responsibility for a series of bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol.

He was a fugitive for years but surrendered in 1980. Charges were dropped because of prosecutorial misconduct.

In Casper, U.S. District Chief Judge William Downes ordered the university to let Ayers speak. As a Vietnam veteran, Downes said he could “scarcely swallow the bile” of his contempt for the Weather Underground, but added a free society must guarantee free speech.

Ayers ultimately dealt mostly with education issues in his speech.

His past briefly became an issue during the 2008 presidential race because he once served with Barack Obama on the board of a Chicago charity.

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin accused Obama of “palling around with terrorists.”

UW students opposed to Coulter’s views were holding a fundraiser Thursday for gays, lesbians and advocates of people with alternative lifestyles. Pledge amounts were being taken on a per-minute basis based on the length of Coulter’s talk.

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Prince William’s 5 Browns dad gets at least hairline is fading fast 10 years in abuse case

AP

In this Tuesday, March 8, 2011 photo, Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton prepare to flip pancake at a display by the Northern Ireland Cancer Fund for Children.

LONDON (AP) — Prince William looks like someone who has it all: royal status, a charming fiancee, good health, and an easy touch with his future subjects. But there is one thing he lacks: a full head of hair.

Casual observers who have not paid much attention to Britain’s future king in the years before his recent engagement to Kate Middleton have been surprised by the extent of the 28-year-old’s hair loss.

William still cuts a tall, imposing figure, but his bald spot has been spreading as his hairline recedes.

It’s even more apparent since his 26-year-old brother Prince Harry still sports a luxuriant supply of tousled red hair.

The British tabloids have been merciless in their coverage, constantly punning the “hair to the throne” theme, and comparing his hair loss to that of his father, Prince Charles, and the follically challenged prime minister, David Cameron.

William keeps his hair short, as befits a Royal Air Force helicopter rescue pilot, but the military look only emphasizes the way his hairline has changed.

Is hair loss dampening William’s appeal? Jennifer Engelhart, a 19-year-old student,

doesn’t think he should worry.

“He’s got the prince appeal and I don’t think ... the lack of hair can ever take that away,” she said.

Zoe Robinson, another student, also doesn’t see a problem with the thinning hair: “It’s just kind of a part of him, isn’t it?”

William’s receding hairline has a genetic link. His father, Charles, and his grandfather, Prince Philip, also experienced it, although at a slower pace.

Dr. Bessam Farjo, a British hair restoration surgeon who has treated patients as young as 14, said William should take steps now to keep as much hair as possible.

“Considering his young age and the unpredictability of where his hair loss is going to end, his main priority should be to stabilize his situation,” Farjo said. “Some medications certainly have a track record of stopping the hair loss so long as the person continues to use (them).”

Farjo said it has become socially acceptable over the last decade for men to intervene to prevent hair loss.

There is a simpler solution: William could just follow in his grandmother’s footsteps and develop a fondness for hats.

PROVO, Utah (AP) — Declaring him "a danger to society," a judge on Thursday called the father of the renowned piano group The 5 Browns a pedophile and sentenced him to at least 10 years in prison on charges that he sexually abused his three daughters when they were children.

Keith S. Brown, 55, pleaded guilty in February to one felony count of sodomy of a child and two felony counts of sexual abuse of a child.

Fourth District Judge David Mortensen sentenced Brown to 10 years to life on the first count, and 15 years to life for each of the others. The sentences will run concurrently, but Brown will have to serve at least 10 years under the plea agreement.

"I do believe, sir, that you are a pedophile, and I do believe that you are a danger to society," Mortensen said before handing down the sentence.

Brown had been free pending the sentencing but was led away by a bailiff after Thursday's hearing to be taken to the Utah State Prison.

Brown's three daughters Desirae, 32, Deondra, 30, and Melody, 26, and two sons make up The 5 Browns, whose albums have topped the classical music charts and who have appeared

on "Oprah," ''60 Minutes" and other programs.

Keith Brown once served as manager of his children's group, but they severed their professional relationship with him in 2008.

The Brown sisters remain estranged from their father.

They reported the abuse to Lone Peak police last year after learning that their father planned to begin working with other young musicians.

The Associated Press does not generally identify people who say they were sexually abused, but the Brown sisters have chosen to be identified.

Kimball Thomson, a spokesman for group, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that sisters weren't in court Thursday because they are on tour. All three wrote letters to the judge expressing their feelings about the case, Thomson said. The letters are not public.

"The girls don't want to make any statements about the case right now," Thomson said.

Deputy Utah County Attorney David Sturgill on Thursday called Brown's daughters courageous and said he was satisfied with the negotiated plea and the sentence. Sturgill has said the three charges don't reflected the yearlong pattern of abuse suffered by Brown's children.

"To say whether 10 years, 15, 20 years in jail or prison is enough for he's done, I don't know," Sturgill said. "Whether it's good or bad, he has changed the course of their lives, and I don't know if there's any price he could possibly pay that would make up for that."

Court documents state the allegations stem from separate events between November 1990 and March 1998 in Utah County. There are no statutes of limitation in Utah that prevent prosecutors from filing such sex crime charges.

After the hearing, defense attorney Steven Shapiro said Brown is remorseful and had expressed his apologies to the court, his family and the community in a letter to the judge rather than speaking in open court.

"I think every step that he has taken in this process has been geared towards taking responsibility for what he's done," Shapiro said.

That the judge called Brown a pedophile "probably fits with the statutory definition of what that is," he said.

Brown chose to enter the plea to bring a quick resolution to the case and did not want to "exacerbate the harm" by dragging out the proceedings, Shapiro has said.

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Comics

Classic JELLY!

by Elise Domyan 41 Volcanic fluid 42 Perjurer’s admission 44 “Melrose Place” actor 46 Explosive initials 47 __ judicata: decided case 48 Some alarm respondents: Abbr.

Classic Dismiss the Cynics

by Victor Preato

25 Canadian young adult fiction author McClintock 26 Nice summers 28 Numbers in a corner, often 29 Texters’ amused syllables 31 Mexican bread 32 What an asterisk may indicate 33 Lotion additive 34 City WSW of Sacramento 35 Lays eyes on 36 Armchair partner 37 Hall of Fame defensive back Mel 38 Like hell 39 “Edda” author __ Sturluson 40 Coat opening?

by Andrew Prestwich

Down 1 Bud 2 First name in tyranny 3 Checkup charges 4 Inviting words before “Want to come over?”

5 Mystical decks 6 Vacant 7 Dangerous snake 8 Darn 9 Mendes of “Hitch” 10 It may be a scoop 11 Hitched 12 Plots 13 Words to live by 14 “The Merry Widow” operettist 18 Latin term usually abbreviated 21 Window part 22 Early Chinese dynasty

Jason and the Rhedosaurus

Across 1 Lexington and Concord fighters 11 XXXV years after the creation of the original Magna Carta 15 Apple consumers?

16 River through Lake Brienz 17 Start of an aptly expressed linguistic observation 19 Duplicated 20 Roma road 21 Word with sharp or trouble 23 Hand 24 Leagues: Abbr.

25 Like performances by the Wallendas 27 Place to build 28 Flying need 30 Is down with 31 Observation, part 2 32 Source of support 35 It’s about 325 miles east of Texas’s H-Town, with “the” 36 “Return of the Jedi” dancer 37 Like Cologne and vicinity 39 Condescend 40 Fowl with a showy mate 41 Herbal drink 43 “Bewitched” witch 44 Place with swinging doors 45 End of the observation 49 Abbr. on folk song sheet music 50 Listed 51 They have their pluses and minuses 52 Fabled tortoise’s trait

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Horoscopes

Toast

by Tom Dilling

Aries - Don’t take yourself or others too seriously today. Not only is it April Fools’ Day, but the moon is in your twelfth house, and there’s a tendency to overthink everything.

Taurus - You may find yourself moderating a clash between normally gentle souls. Maybe a joke backfires. Remind them of their friendship. Avoid risks today, and celebrate foolishness.

Gemini - Who do you want to be? What role (and what costume) do you most want to wear? Who would you most like to impact? Daydream it, and then notice any roadblocks.

By Michael Mepham

Cancer - All of a sudden, everything looks possible ... and it is. An adventure is calling.

Don’t take off before the job is complete. Plan the trip well to avoid complications.

Leo - Visualize a future that really lights you up. First, choose an exciting game (without gambling). Instead, invest in a direction that helps people. Save up for it.

Virgo - Don’t believe everything you see or hear in your head.

Don’t take yourself too seriously.

It’s all about fun, remember? Let an idealist lead you.

Libra - Don’t allow the work to overwhelm you. There’s always going to be something to do, and that’s great. Take one step at a time, and you’ll go far more quickly than you think.

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by Jackson Lautier

Scorpio - Devote more attention to love. Spend some time painting or doing a creative project, preferably with kids or for a cause you love.

Your volunteer efforts are appreciated.

Sagittarius - Enjoy your time at home. Reminisce about the past with a loved one.

Take on a home-improvement project. Embrace your roots. Do something just for yourself.

Capricorn - Start the month by writing that communication you’ve been putting off. Be open to new experiences. There’s so much to learn. Don’t be afraid to play the fool.

Aquarius - Money comes in.

Resist the urge to splurge. Don’t be fooled by the glitter of pyrite: it’s fool’s gold. Enjoy how pretty it is, and leave it where it lies.

Pisces - Who’s the fool now?

You’re on top of your game and there’s no stopping you today.

Others say good things about you and laugh with you, not at you.

Pundles

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Sad Hamster

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Friday, April 1, 2011

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Sports

Lacrosse hosts nationally ranked Georgetown

By Matt Stypulkoski Campus Correspondent The UConn lacrosse team will host No. 17 Georgetown Hoyas on Friday afternoon in a crucial game for the Huskies.

Coming in with a 6-2 record, but an 0-1 record in Big East play so far, the Huskies will have an opportunity to come up with a statement win and pull back to .500 in conference play against the Hoyas. According to junior M.E. Lapham, “Friday’s game is a huge opportunity to prove to ourselves and everyone else that we can compete in the Big East. Most people don’t

think we can win this game their game plan,” Lapham said, “so but we have all the potential we are aware of their tendencies. in the world and just as much We know what we need to do, we of an opportunity as just have to execute.”

Georgetown”.

In addition to the Lapham also chance of picking believes that in addiup a win against a vs. tion to their talent, ranked opponent, the Huskies’ game Georgetown this weekend could plan will be key to prove memorable for 4 p.m. determining the outLapham in another come of the contest. regard, as she is Sherman She said that the team quickly approaching Complex and its coaches have a career milestone. picked up on some With 96 goals on things about Georgetown’s her career, the junior could style of play, and will look to potentially reach the 100-goal take advantage. milestone – she has already “We have noticed that had two four-goal games and Georgetown doesn’t stray from two five-goal games this year

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– with another solid effort in a big game against Georgetown.

Other than a big effort from Lapham, the Huskies will rely on freshman Lauren Kahn and junior Kiersten Tupper for more offensive production against the Hoyas. On the defensive side, sophomore Brittney Testa will be crucial in the net for UConn and the rest of the team’s defense will look to help her out as they try to stifle a potent Georgetown attack, which features five players who have tallied double-digit points on the season already.

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UConn will try to knock off ranked opponent Georgetown.

» NBA

Celtics snap out of funk, knock off spurs 107-97

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Rajon Rondo had 22 points and 14 assists, Paul Pierce scored 21 and the Boston Celtics stopped slipping further from first in the Eastern Conference, beating the slumping San Antonio Spurs 107-97 on Thursday night.

Kevin Garnett added 20 points and the Celtics, winning for just the second time in five games, moved within two games of Chicago for the No. 1 playoff seed in the East.

The Spurs remained stuck in an untimely tailspin, losing their

fifth straight. The NBA's winningest team is in danger of falling out of first place after comfortably being No. 1 in the West all season.

Tony Parker led the Spurs with 23 points and Tim Duncan, playing for the first time in five games after spraining his ankle last week, had 20 points and 13 rebounds.

The Celtics celebrated the return of their own big man: center Jermaine O'Neal. The 14-year veteran played for the first time since January after having arthroscopic surgery on

his left knee. He scored 5 points in 11 minutes and hit his only two shots.

"We need him back," said Celtics coach Doc Rivers before the game, alluding to his depleted frontcourt that is still without Shaquille O'Neal. "And we need the minutes."

Pierce also had 11 rebounds and Glen Davis scored 16 points as Boston had four players in double figures.

The Celtics broke open a tie game at halftime behind a 12-0 run in the third quarter. The Spurs

never got closer than six after that.

The Celtics arrived in San Antonio after losing to Indiana, Charlotte and Memphis in three of their last four games. Two weeks ago, Boston (52-22) was tied for first place in the East.

Miami has also crawled back into contention for first, sitting a half-game behind Boston, but a big win against the toughest opponent they've seen in weeks kept the Celtics ahead of the Heat.

Then again, the Spurs aren't looking so tough lately.

San Antonio (57-18) didn't

panic after losing four games with Duncan sidelined. But not even its starting five back and healthy could help the Spurs stop their season-worst skid.

The Spurs had nine losses at the All-Star break. They've dropped more than half that number of games in the past week alone.

"It happens to everybody.

And this is about the worst time it could happen, at the end of the year," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said before tipoff. "If it has to happen, you want it to happen 30 games in so you can

get back and recover. So we got to step on it."

They better.

San Antonio's woes have renewed hopes the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas have of taking the No. 1 seed. The Lakers were 3 games back and hosted the Mavericks — who were 3½ games behind the Spurs — later Thursday night.

Manu Ginobili, who sat out Monday's loss against Portland with a left quad contusion, had nine points on just 4-of-13 shooting.

Richard Jefferson added 14 points.

UEFA Champions League Quarterfinals puts Chelsea with Man U.

By Miles DeGrazia Campus Correspondent Internazionale Milano v Schalke 04 Defending champions Inter Milan look to be the first team to retain the European Cup since their neighbors AC Milan did so in 1990. After a tumultuous start to the 2011 campaign Inter have closed the gap in Serie A and look to do damage in Europe.

Handed perhaps the most intriguing round of 16 match up, a repeat of the 2010 Final vs. Bayern Munich, Inter who were down 3-1 stormed back through Wesley Sneijder and Goran Pandev to level the tie at 3-3 and go through on away goals (3-1). Inter have strong players all over the pitch, from Júlio César, the goalkeeper, a back line with Javier Zanetti,

Lúcio, Maicon and an attack featuring Sneijder, Pandev, Giampaolo Pazzini, Samuel Eto’o and Diego Milito.

Inter’s weakness at this point could be the lack of experience from their head coach Leonardo.

What he lacks in managerial experience, however, he makes up for in energy.

The defending champions will be facing Schalke.

The German club has had a solid Champions League campaign only losing one of eight matches so far­ – an away match vs. Olympique Lyon. Schalke have struggled in the Bundesliga, sitting in 11th place, leaving them with the task of winning the Champions League to qualify for European competition.

A trio of forwards, Raúl, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (both exReal Madrid) and Jefferson

Farfán has been the bright spot for Schalke along with German No. 1 keeper Manuel Neuer. It is difficult to see how Schalke can compete, but if Neuer keeps Inter scoreless, perhaps a Schalke forward can fire the team into the Semi-Finals.

Chelsea vs. Manchester United This tie had everyone talking. Between these two teams are the last six Premiership titles, and this will be the first time they meet in Europe since the classic 2008 Champions League Final in Moscow. During that meeting, Manchester United won 6-5 on penalties.

Chelsea dispatched their round of 16 opponents FC København fairly easily and weren’t really tested in the group stages. Domestically,

Chelsea hit a rough patch in November that lasted through December set them too far back to mount a legitimate title challenge. For all of the domestic success Chelsea has had the last decade, the thing Roman Abramovich really wants has always eluded him, the European Cup. Abramovich brought in £71 million worth of talent in the winter transfer window, the gem being Fernando Torres for £50 million.

Chelsea has struggled recently to find a formation that fits their squad. Do they play Torres with Drogba in a 4-42, or throw Anelka in as well in a 4-3-3 and have no width?

They do have strong players everywhere, at the back Goalie Petr Čech, defenders John Terry as well as Ashley Cole give the team a solid

base with Michael Essien and Frank Lampard dictating the game in midfield.

It almost seems inevitable seeing Manchester United in the Quarter Finals of the Champions League, they have done so in the last five seasons. Perhaps a different type of Red Devils team than in recent history, this team has grinded their way to No. 1 in the Premier League, an FA Cup Semi-Final and a Quarterfinal in the European Cup. Wayne Rooney has had a rollercoaster season, with Dimitar Berbatov has stepped up into a more prominent role.

Playing a 4-3-3 during away matches and 4-4-2 at home United has a large squad that can almost all get the job done. The trio of stars in the twilight of their career, Edwin van der Sar, Paul Scholes

and Ryan Giggs all hope to lift a third European Cup in London. If United hope to win this tie against Chelsea, they will need Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidić to keep the Chelsea strikers quiet.

The draw has thrown up some extremely intriguing match ups with Real v Tottenham and Chelsea vs.

Manchester United headlining the list. All of the teams that have made it this far are multi-dimensional and can change their style of play depending on circumstance.

I expect every game to be decided by just one or two goals or maybe even penalties. I just hope for John Terry’s sake, it’s not raining in Manchester.

Miles.DeGrazia@UConn.edu

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Friday, April 1, 2011

Sports

UConn loses 7-3, second game cancelled

By Michael Ferraro Campus Correspondent The Huskies only played the first game of their doubleheader against Quinnipiac – a game that resulted in a 7-3 loss. The second game of the doubleheader was cancelled due to weather.

The Huskies jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the second inning as Amy Vaughan hit a bases-loaded double in the bottom of the second inning. The Huskies had runners on second and third with no outs, but they failed to score another run that inning. In the top of the third inning, the Bobcats took the lead after a bases-loaded

walk and then two singles which scored a run apiece to put the Bobcats up 3-2.

In the bottom of third inning, Andrea Huelsenbeck hit a twoout solo home run to left field to tie the game 3-3. This is Huelsenbeck’s third home run of the season, one behind team leader Julianne Towers.

The Huskies’ offense went silent the rest of the game as they were held scoreless for the rest of the game. Quinnipiac took the lead for good in the 5th inning after a bunt single scored a run, which made it 4-3 Quinnipiac. The Bobcats would add another run on a RBI single a couple of batters later to make 5-3 Quinnipiac. The Huskies had

runners in scoring position in the fifth inning but failed to score any runs. In the sixth the Huskies had the bases loaded but Jennifer Ward struck out to end the inning.

In the seventh inning the Bobcats got some insurance runs as they scored two unearned runs to make 7-3 Bobcats.

Again in the bottom of the 7th the Huskies loaded the bases, but failed to get the timely hit.

With the loss, the Huskies drop to 11-14 and 1-2 at home this season. Quinnipiac improves to 16-13 on the season.

Originally, there was a game scheduled at 5 p.m., but the game was cancelled due to rain/ snow mix that was steadily coming down during the first game.

The Huskies will next face Big East rival Rutgers for a threegame weekend series. The Scarlet Knights are currently 10-19 on the season and are 0-3 in Big East play. The Scarlet Knights are currently on a 10-game losing streak, while the Huskies have lost three of their last four games.

The Huskies take on the Scarlet Knights in a doubleheader on Sat. April 2. The games start at 12 p.m. and 2 p.m., respectively. The Huskies then close out the weekend series against Rutgers on Sunday at 12 p.m. All games will be at the Connecticut Softball Field.

Michael.Ferarro@UConn.edu

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UConn lost to Quinnipiac before Game 2 was postponed due to inclement weather.

Huskies host key Big East series against St. John's

By Danielle Ennis Staff Writer The Huskies host their second Big East opponent this weekend with three games against St. Johns.

Weekend play begins on Friday at J.O. Christian Field at 3 p.m. Saturday’s game will take place at 1 p.m. and the last game is scheduled for noon, weather bearing.

UConn enters the weekend with a overall record of 11-10-1 and 2-1 in conference play. The Red Storm (13-9) is currently the only Big East team 3-0 in conference play with a sweep of Cincinnati.

Mike Nemeth leads the Junior Ryan Fuller looks to Huskies with 32 hits, 16 runs, 15 carry over the same techniques RBIs and a .344 batting average. from the Pittsburgh wins into “We need to do the same this conference matchup. sort of thing as we did against “We need to stick to the same Hartford – focus approach we had last on clutch hitting, weekend against Pitt being aggressive at and come out right at the plate, and letSt. John’s,” said Fuller. ting our team speed vs. St. John's “Anytime you can pick help us win games,” up wins against a Big Today, said Nemeth.

East opponent, especial3 p.m.

George Springer is ly a rival like St. John’s, leading the team in J.O. Christian you have to take advanRBI with 22, while tage of the situation.”

Field Matt Barnes comThe last matchup mands the mound between the Huskies with a 4-2 record, 0.99 ERA. and the Red Storm was in May Barnes has also pitched two of the 2010 season where St. complete shutouts and struck Johns defeated UConn 3-0 in out 42 batters. the Big East Championship.

BASEBALL

“We did a good job of staying with what was working over the weekend and the pitchers did a great job of throwing strikes and letting the defense make plays,” Fuller said. “If we can continue to stay aggressive at the plate, pitchers throw strikes, and make the routine plays, we should be in a great position at the end of the weekend,” says Fuller.

Joe Panik leads the Red Storm with 34 hits, 20 runs and 22 RBI. “The biggest thing is just relaxing, having confidence in the moment and letting the success happen instead of forcing it and trying to make it happen,” Nemeth said.

Danielle.Ennis@UConn.edu

LILIAN DUREY/The Daily Campus

UConn can improve its Big East record this weekend against the Red Storm in Storrs.

Rowing hosts meet at Coventry Lake Huskies head down south to LSU

By James Onofrio Campus Correspondent

unfavorable with strong winds and two boats caught boatstopping crabs. Conditions are expected to be better this week, The UConn women’s rowing with the impending nor’easter team will host a pair of meets likely to have left the area by this weekend at Coventry Saturday morning.

Lake, facing Trinity Coach Jen College, US Coast S a n f o r d - We n d r y Guard Academy and hopes that the team Marist College on vs. Trinity, will improve their Saturday, as well as times this week.

Marist and LaSalle Coast Guard, “We have had a University on Sunday. very positive week Marist, This will be the team’s of practice on the LaSalle only home meet of the water this week season. The team suf- Coventry Lake and have picked fered from a lack of up speed in all the practice time during this long crews,” she said. Citing a high winter and struggled at a meet team fitness level she seemed in Rhode Island last weekend. confident that the team would Conditions at that meet were continue to improve its times

ROWING

despite the shortage of preseason practice time. “We are confident that across the board are ready to fight hard,” she said of her expectations for the upcoming meets.

Racing will be from 7:30 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. both days.

UConn will race a Varsity 8, 2nd Varsity 8, two Varsity 4’s, a novice 8, and a novice 4.

Those interested in attending the race should go to Patriots Park in Coventry, off of Lake Street, to view the finish of the races.

James.Onofrio@UConn.edu

By Mike McCurry Campus Correspondent After a three-week break, the UConn men’s track and field team returns to action this weekend at the LSU Invitational in Baton Rouge, La. Saturday’s allday meet will be the first of the outdoor season for some athletes.

The LSU Invitational will be a great measuring stick of where UConn stands in comparison to some of the best athletes in the country. Only six teams will be at the competition, including two top-five schools. Texas A&M is ranked No. 2 according to the preseason rankings, while the hosting LSU Tigers

are No. 5.

Senior captain Mike Rutt, an AllAmerican in the winter, is looking forward to the trip down South.

“This coming weekend should be fun more than anything else,” Rutt said. “There will be some bigname teams there, and it will be a good opportunity for us to evaluate where we stand at this point compared to some of the best athletes in the nation.” Rutt is looking to carry over the momentum from the indoor NCAA Championships, where he finished second overall in the 800-meter race.

The first meet of the spring was nearly three weeks ago on the campus of South Florida.

UConn used the USF Open as more of a tune-up, yet

still came away with three first-place showings in Tim Bennatan (1500 meter race), Mike Alleman (shot put) and Cody Unger (javelin).

Even though his career at UConn to this point has been nothing short of spectacular, Mike Rutt is as hungry as ever and still has some unfinished business to take care of.

“I find the motivation to continue to compete at a high level because there are still championships to be won this outdoor season. With one last shot at an NCAA title, I know that I need to give it all I have to make a good run at it,” Rutt said.

Michael.McCurry@UConn.edu

Calhoun's Huskies vy for title Huskies will try to beat Notre Dame for fouth time of season from WALKER, page 14 Calhoun told the AP. “I think about the joy of being able to coach, the joy of going to a Final Four.”

Calhoun hopes that joy would culminate with a championship Monday night. But after the Huskies (30-9) defeated Arizona 65-63 in the Elite Eight, UConn will have to get through another group of Wildcats on Saturday.

Kentucky, like the Huskies, came on late in the season. The Wildcats (29-8) have won 10 straight and were victorious in the SEC tournament.

Freshmen Brandon Knight, Terrence Jones and Doron Lamb average double figures in scoring, with Knight, a coveted UConn recruit along with Lamb last season, and Jones’ averages exceeding 17 points per game. Junior Darius Miller averages 12.6 points and Jones grabs nine rebounds a game.

DeAndre Liggins also contributes off the bench, and the emergence of senior big man Josh Harrellson has helped Kentucky become an elite team. Although the Wildcats struggled in the first weekend of the tournament, narrowly defeating Princeton then opening the lead against West Virginia, wins over Ohio State and North Carolina to get to Houston proved they are one of the hottest teams in the country.

When the two teams met Nov. 24 in the Maui Invitational championship, UConn dominated No. 9 Kentucky. Jones and Miller were the only Kentucky players to reach double-figures as Knight shot 3-for-15 and 0-for-8 from downtown. Kemba Walker scored 29 points, Niels Giffey added 14 and Napier dropped 10. Alex Oriakhi added 18 points and 11 boards as the unranked Huskies claimed the title 84-67 after leading 50-29 at

the half. Calhoun defeated his arch nemesis, coach John Calipari.

This meeting, however, has higher stakes. Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy wagered UConn Dairy Bar ice cream against a country ham with Kentucky’s Gov., Steve Beshear, on the game.

The amount of ice cream has not been negotiated, according to Malloy spokesman David Bednarz in an AP report. Malloy may do the same with Indiana’s governor for the women’s Final Four.

The women’s basketball team defeated Duke on Tuesday to make it to the semifinals, but only after celebrating the men’s win on Saturday.

“We were screaming in the hallways, high-fiving, chest-bumping,” Maya Moore told the AP. “It was awesome to see how our men are shocking the world. It’s really fun to watch. We’re extremely excited and proud of them. It’s giving us a little extra motivation to play even better.”

With the win over the Blue Devils, UConn became the first school ever to make a BCS Bowl and both Final Fours, coming along way.

“I remember watching those buses in 1999 driving down Interstate 84, with people hanging over the overpasses, and thinking to myself, this is happening in Storrs, Connecticut,” Howie Dickenman, who was an assistant coach at UConn from 1982 to 1996, and now coaches at Central Connecticut State, told the AP. “I mean this wasn’t UCLA, this was Storrs, Connecticut. Where Jim Calhoun has brought this place, people just don’t understand.”

Matthew.McDonough@UConn.edu

from UCONN, page 14 UConn but it was her assist to Kelly Faris that stole the show. With 14 seconds left, Faris took the bullet pass and laid the ball up for her 19th and 20th points of the game.

After numerous lead changes and momentum swings, the game was finally clinched with a pair of clutch Dolson free throws, 79-76.

“Probably the biggest key to how this team goes down the road is going to be how Kelly plays,” Geno Auriemma said afterwards. “When she’s in a groove like she was today, that kid is really, really good.

I wouldn’t trade her for anybody, anyone in the league.”

One month later back at Gampel, there was a different

freshman dishing out defeat, as point guard Bria Hartley played her best game of the season. Hartley cashed in for a season-high 29 while the Huskies rebounded from an early Notre Dame lead to churn out an eventual 78-57 victory.

First Team All-Big East guard Skylar Diggins opened the game with seventeen points for the Irish but was held to five in the second half.

Diggins, the focal point of the Notre Dame offense, was forced into one of her worst performances of the season in the Big East championship, a 73-64 UConn victory. The sophomore guard shot an ugly 5-16 from the floor en route to a total of 14 points.

“The Big East is great for getting us ready for the tour-

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nament. This is like a Final Four game,” Diggins told the AP. “We’ll take this momentum and see where we are at and get ready for the (NCAA) tournament, which is going to be very competitive.”

Since then, Diggins has carried her team to a real Final Four against Connecticut.

When everyone had already pegged a UConn-Tennessee semifinal reunion, the Irish shattered those plans with a dominant performance from their leader.

After that contest, Diggins drew high praise from volunteer head coach Pat Summit for being the best guard on the floor. She will likely receive similar acclaim from another Hall of Famer should her team pull off another historic upset

against Connecticut, though it would take a monumental effort; an effort the Irish have yet to put together.

Tip-off is tentatively scheduled for 9:30 p.m. Sunday night and a full broadcast can be heard on UConn’s student radio station, 91.7 FM, or streamed online at whus.org.

Andrew.J.Callahan@UConn.edu

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“He always seems to get it right.”

– UConn’s Kemba Walker on his coach, Jim Calhoun.

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Kemba Walker

» Pic of the day

The Holy Grail

Sunday Notre Dame, NCAA Final Four 9:30 p.m.

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

Tomorrow 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) Today Georgetown 4 p.m.

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

Men’s Track and Field Tomorrow LSU Invitational All Day

April 6 Texas Relays All Day

AP

Workers put up a panel on some windows outside Reliant Stadium as teams practice for a men’s NCAA Final Four semifinal college basketball games Thursday, March 31, 2011, in Houston.

Women’s Track and Field Tomorrow UConn Select Invitational All Day

April 9 UConn All-Regional Invitational All Day

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

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.

Heninger returned from injury to take first place in the 5000-meter race at last weekend’s Yellow Jacket The UConn women’s track Invitational. “She has come a and field team continues its long way,” Grove-McDonough outdoor season this week- said, with a personal record end when the Huskies head broken by 30 seconds.

McMillian and Cunningham to Smithfield, R.I. to comalso took first place in pete in the Bryant events at last week’s Invitational. invitational.

“These early seaThe Huskies were son meets provide scheduled to compete a great opportunity in an on-campus inviBryant for athletes to post tational this weekend; qualifying times Invitational but canceled due to a for the bigger meets 3 p.m. lack of commitment. that occur later in Only Quinnipiac the year,” distance Smithfield, University and two coach AndreaR.I. Division III schools Grove McDonough had intended to parsaid.

“A lot of athletes have already posted ticipate in the meet. Both the qualifying times during the Huskies and the Quinnipiac indoor season, allowing them Bobcats will head to the Bryant to get some rest or step out of Invitational on April 2 instead. their comfort zones and compete in different events.”

One meet into the outdoors season and the Huskies have already benefited from the resurgence of key seniors, Brittany Heninger, Meghan Cunningham Cory.LeBihan@UConn.edu and Tynisha McMillian.

WOMEN’S TRACK

Men’s Tennis

April 8 Marquette Noon

April 10 West Virginia 10 a.m.

April 13 Rutgers 1 p.m.

April 15 Seton Hall 2 p.m.

Still-sharp Calhoun leads Huskies to Final Four

HOUSTON (AP) — A lei draped around his neck and the Pacific Ocean crashing behind, Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun sat on the dais at the Maui Invitational, joking that not only did not know what to expect from his team, he was still trying to learn their names.

Four months after that moment of self deprecation, the 68-year-old coach has hustled the young Huskies into the Final Four with a mix of guile, gut instincts and nimble string-pulling in what might be the best coaching job of his 25 seasons at UConn.

“He always seems to get it right,” said Kemba Walker, Calhoun’s star player and shoulder to lean on.

He certainly has this season.

Just a year ago, Calhoun was hearing calls for his job after a that-can’t-happen-here 18-16 season that kept UConn out of the NCAA tournament after reaching the Final Four the season before.

The Huskies and their grizzled coach went into this season without many expectations, the roster full of underclassmen picked to finish 10th in the Big East and left out of the preseason polls.

Connecticut (30-9) had its breakout moment in paradise, fighting past Wichita State, thenNo. 2 Michigan State, eighth-ranked Kentucky and an earthquake to win the Maui Invitational.

The Huskies kept rolling for a while, hit a funk, then went on an almost-unthinkable run through the Big East tournament into the NCAAs, a ninewins-in-19-days stretch that sent them to the Final Four for a rematch against the Wildcats on Saturday at Houston’s Reliant Stadium.

Walker has gotten a lot of the credit, lifting the Huskies, sometimes single-handedly, to a place few even in Storrs could have imagined.

Calhoun has been the wily puppet master, pulling a string here to give a player a spark, another there to get just the right matchups, even tugging on his star Walker to make sure he’s in the right frame of mind.

He’s tinkered with playing time, switched matchups based on his gut, sat back and watched.

Calhoun has pulled guard Shabazz Napier, sent him back out, pulled him again when he didn’t like what he saw, sent the freshman back out a third time and finally got what he wanted.

He gave Jeremy Lamb some hard, sit-on-thebench lessons early in the season, and the freshman guard responded in March by hitting some of UConn’s biggest shots of the season.

Against Cincinnati in the third round of the NCAA tournament, Calhoun went looking for a spark and brought in sophomore forward Jamal Coombs-McDaniel just 14 seconds into the game. Coombs-McDaniel got 10 key points in 20 minutes to help lead the Huskies.

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Tomorrow Kentucky, NCAA Final Four 8:49 p.m.

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By Matt McDonough Associate Sports Editor

Storrs Side Games to watch: Final Fours Three out of the four Final Fours the UConn men’s basketball team has made have come with something extra: a women’s Final Four as well. UConn, the first school to ever make a Bowl Championship Series game and both Final Fours in the same academic year since the BCS was formed, will be on full display this weekend.

The men tipoff at 8:49 p.m.

Saturday against Kentucky in Houston on CBS. With a win, the Huskies will play for the national title Monday night against the winner of the Butler-VCU semifinal at Reliant Stadium.

The women will try to defeat Big East rival Notre Dame for the fourth time this season, taking on the Fighting Irish at 9:30 p.m.

Sunday in Indianapolis on ESPN. A win would send them to Tuesday’s championship at Conseco

Fieldhouse against the winner of Texas A&M and Stanford.

Games to attend: Baseball vs. St. John’s

After taking two of three from Pittsburgh last weekend, the Huskies look to continue their recent success, playing a threegame series against St. John’s this weekend. The Red Storm, who defeated UConn in the Big East championship game last season, are in first place of the conference at 3-0. The Huskies, 11-10-1 and 2-1 in the Big East, will look to avenge that loss. UConn beat Hartford 11-0 Tuesday.

Pro Side As usual, this space is devoted to the NBA Friday night. The sliding Boston Celtics will head to Atlanta to take on the Hawks at 8 p.m. on ESPN. Let’s hope Dominique Wilkins doesn’t get attacked in this rematch of the 2008 first round. The Los Angeles Lakers and Utah Jazz follow at 10:30 p.m.

Matthew.McDonough@UConn.edu

» INSIDE SPORTS TODAY P.13: Calhoun leads UConn into Final Four. / P.12: Softball falls to Quinnipiac. / P.11: Rondo, Celtics beat Spurs in San Antonio.

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Why CT loves the Huskies

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No. 3 seed UConn takes on Kentucky in Final Four

By Matt McDonough Associate Sports Editor

Russell Blair I’m not a big Bill Simmons fan, but when I heard that he mentioned UConn in his podcast this week, I had to tune in. What I heard was one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever come across. No, it wasn’t something Simmons said, but rather one of his guests who uttered some of the most unintelligent things I’ve ever heard.

The guest, who lived and worked in Connecticut, wasn’t a UConn fan. All right, so that’s not so bad, but what’s worse is that he was complaining about how people in Connecticut all root for the Huskies.

“How can you cheer for the team from a school you didn’t even go to,” the guest said. “I went to Holy Cross; my favorite college basketball team is the Holy Cross Crusaders.”

Newsflash – there aren’t any professional sports teams in Connecticut. People in the Nutmeg State bleed blue and white. Nearly everybody in Connecticut either went to UConn, or knows someone who went to UConn. It’s not unheard of for fans to cheer for a school they didn’t go to. Do you think all of the 100,000-plus fans who fill the Horseshoe in Columbus went to Ohio State? Do you think that everyone who is a diehard Jayhawks fan spent four years in Lawrence? No. The next statement to come out of his mouth may have been even more appalling.

“I don’t like how when I come into work, everybody asks me if I watched ‘the game’ last night,” he added. “There were a lot of games on TV last night.”

This honestly makes no sense at all. Does he think that if he were to work and live in Boston that Celtics fans wouldn’t refer to the C’s game last night as “the game?” Does he think that if he lived in New York that the talk around the water cooler the next day wouldn’t be about Joba Chamberlin or Eli Manning? What kind of fantasy world is he living in?

National pundits love to talk about UConn basketball, and it’s a source of pride for the state. Hell, before the Huskies won the championship in 1999, how many kids could even spell Connecticut? How many people across the nation would even know UConn existed if not for its stellar basketball team? You never hear people talking about Vermont, Maine or New Hampshire. You know why? Because they don’t have a big-time athletics program.

You can argue up and down about the merits of a state university pumping millions of dollars into its athletic programs, but one thing is undeniable: Jim Calhoun and Geno Auriemma put UConn on the map, and as a result, many Americans probably can point to Connecticut on a map.

This guy is fighting an uphill battle. The Huskies are sacred in Connecticut. His statements are the equivalent to walking into Fenway Park with a Yankees jersey on, all the while shouting how much the Red Sox suck. It doesn’t make any sense.

Sure, I may be a bit biased because I actually do attend UConn and therefore am following his rule of cheering for your alma mater, but I was a UConn fan before I came here, and regardless of where I ended up going to college, I can assure you I’d be just as big of a Husky fan as I am today.

You don’t have to be a Husky fan to live in Connecticut. But to openly come out and bash the thousands of Husky fans who do live in Connecticut is just in poor taste.

So, Bill Simmon’s guest, why don’t you give me a call when the Holy Cross basketball team makes the Final Four. Just don’t expect anybody to be talking about that around the water cooler.

Russell.Blair@UConn.edu

For the second time in three seasons, the UConn men’s basketball team will take the court in a national semifinal.

“I don’t think anybody could tell them anything right now,” Walker told the AP, saying he doesn’t want this year’s team to get overwhelmed as he did in 2009. “They’re on top of the world right now. They’re playing great basketball, each and every one of them.

We’re going to need these guys big time for 30-9 us. They got us where we are now, so hopefully they can keep it up.”

Eighty minutes away from a title, the No. 3-seed out of the West Regional, UConn, will play No. 4-seed Kentucky, win29-8 ner of the East bracket, night at 8:49 Sat., 8:49 p.m., tomorrow p.m. in Houston’s Reliant Stadium. In 2009’s loss to CBS State, Walker Reliant Stadium Michigan finished with five points on 1-of-5 from the field and 3-for-9 from the free throw line, after scoring 23 points in the Elite Eight win over Missouri.

This year’s freshmen class reflects their coach’s tenacity and grit.

“We don’t let down from a fight,” Shabazz Napier told the Associated Press. “We’re willing to battle anytime, and that’s the type of person he is.”

Reporters asked Calhoun about his future following this Final Four earlier this week. He said he wouldn’t discuss his future plans until after the season.

“I think about my grandchildren, I think about my wife. I think about friends who I’ve lost

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Kemba Walker goes up for a layup in UConn’s Sweet 16 win over San Diego State on March 24. Walker and the Huskies will try to beat Kentucky and make the third national championship game in school history.

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UConn fights familiar foe Sunday in the Final Four

By Andrew Callahan Staff Writer The first one was a nail-biter. The second one, the home team went into cruise control.

The third resulted in another Big East championship brought to Storrs. Now, in their fourth meeting of the season, No. 1 overall seed UConn and No. 2 seed Notre Dame will battle for a national championship berth.

Led by First Team AllAmerican Maya Moore, the Huskies are currently preparing for their third tournament matchup with an opponent they’ve previously met in the regular season. It’s the second time in this year’s NCAA tournament that two teams have met for a fourth time, as Texas A&M battled Baylor in the Elite Eight matchup on Tuesday. The Aggies took down the Lady Bears for their first win in four tries.

Speaking to reporters last The senior was awarded the Wednesday, Notre Big East’s defenDame head coach sive player of the Muffet McGraw year award and mentioned she had will have to battle kept tabs on the perhaps the mostAggies upset. improved big man “We definitely will in the country, reference the Texas Stefanie Dolson.

A&M team’s fourth Peters was forced time’s the charm – I to the sit out much 36-1 think that’s the motto of the team’s for this one,” McGraw first two matchtold the Hartford ups with multiple Courant. “It’s difficult, early fouls.

I hope, to beat a team Back on Jan. 8 four times, and we at the Joyce Center can take all the good in South Bend, the things from the first Irish missed their three games and try closest shot thus 30-7 to do a few of those Sun., 9:30 p.m., far at the Huskies a little bit differently.” as Peters finished ESPN Something the with a doubleIrish would love to Canseco Fieldhouse double. Moore taltry differently is how lied 31 points for they handle their foul situation, particularly with » HUSKIES, page 12 star center Devereaux Peters.

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Maya Moore drives to the hoop during UConn’s win against Duke on March 29.

UConn women have illustrious Final Four history

By Colin McDonough Senior Staff Writer As the UConn women’s basketball team celebrated its 12th Final Four and fourth consecutive trip to the national semifinals on Tuesday night in Philadelphia, it was the completion of a circle for coach Geno Auriemma and his program.

A year after the men’s basketball team had its dream season, the women had its own. In 1991, the Huskies made their first trip to the Final Four by beating N.C. State and Clemson at the regionals in Philadelphia.

“A couple things that ran through my mind in the beginning and I was telling the players that in 1991, it was the very first regional that our basketball program had ever been to and

we went to the Final Four,” Auriemma said. “So here we are now, 20 years later, and that team was pretty special, because no one ever expected them to do something like that.”

The 1991 UConn team lost in the Final Four to No. 1 seed Virginia. But the Huskies would make it back four years later and cap an undefeated season by beating Tennessee in the national championship. Led by Rebecca Lobo and Jennifer Rizzotti, UConn finished 35-0 after beating the Lady Volunteers 70-64 in Minneapolis.

Before getting a second national title, the Huskies endured four seasons with no Final Four until Shea Ralph and Svetlana Abrosimova brought UConn back to Philly. In the semis, they dismissed Penn State and then beat Tennessee for the championship 71-52.

In Diana Taurasi’s freshman

year, a national championship was in jeopardy after injuries to Ralph and Abrosimova. But the Huskies still led Notre Dame by 16 points in the Final Four. UConn blew the lead and the eventual national champion at the Fighting Irish ended the Huskies’ season in St. Louis.

Taurasi wouldn’t let another tournament loss happen during her career in Storrs.

UConn pulled off a threepeat in Taurasi’s last three years as a Husky. In 2002, a stacked team romped the Lady Volunteers in the semifinals and then beat Oklahoma 82-70 to finish off a 39-0 season. Along with Taurasi, that team boasted a roster with Swin Cash, Sue Bird, Maria Conlon and Asjha Jones.

Although UConn had no seniors on the 2003 team, it didn’t matter. In the Final Four in

Atlanta, the Huskies beat Texas and then Tennessee to win the program’s fourth championship.

In 2004, UConn became the first school to win both the men’s and women’s basketball national championships in the same season. Although both teams were No. 2 seeds, they were No. 1 after the first week in April. After beating Minnesota, the Huskies again faced the rival Lady Vols for the title. Taurasi and Conlon would celebrate in New Orleans the night after Taliek Brown and Emeka Okafor did in San Antonio.

After a short “drought,” UConn made it back to the Final Four in 2008. The top seed was upset by Stanford in Maya Moore’s freshman season. The loss started a 90-game winning streak over the next three seasons. In 2009, Moore, Renee

Montgomery and Tina Charles would not be denied from redeeming themselves, beating the Lady Cardinal in the Final Four and blowing out Louisville to win the title in St. Louis. After Montgomery graduated, Charles and Moore made sure the Huskies would repeat. In San Antonio, UConn beat Baylor and then Stanford again to win the program’s seventh national title and send Charles out a winner.

After beating Duke on Tuesday, the Huskies have made it back to the Final Four. After next Tuesday, it’ll be decided whether Moore goes out on top and UConn wins its eighth national championship.

Colin.McDonough@UConn.edu