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Merrill: ‘Not enough people are voting’

By Megan Toombs Campus Correspondent

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As presidential candidates campaign across the country, who will actually show up on election day to fill out their ballots?

Denise Merrill, the Connecticut Secretary of State, brought up this question and the issue of getting more people to vote as she spoke to students Saturday evening at Lower Putnam Refractory Dining Hall.

“Having done some looking at some of the numbers in all this, about a third of the eligible citizens in this country today are not even registered to vote,” Merrill said.

The other two-thirds are voting irregularly, she said.

“Not enough people are voting,” Merrill said.

To get more people involved and actually voting, Merrill has made her focus the next generation of voters. She was especially focused on college students but said that the next generation of voters also includes anyone under the age of 40.

Merrill pointed out that all too often college students are catching up with the national

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In this Oct. 18, 2010 file photo, then candidate for Secretary of State Denise Merrill speaks at a UCount candidate forum on higher education.

news but don’t understand how it relates to them. She wants politics to be more relatable.

One way to do this is to use social media. Merrill stated this could be an effective way to

fulfill the need to reach out to younger generations. If eventually, registration could be done online, perhaps more people would be inclined to participate.

Many students, like freshman Emily Burns, agreed that politics can be hard to relate to.

“Our society is kind of turning into one that’s not so focused on voting and thinking

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“No advertisement is going to say you’re great,” he said.

“It’s going to prove that something is wrong with you and buying their product will fix it.”

Goodkind created the conference in response to the growing presence of the media in the lives of the youth at a younger and younger age.

Through education, youths can understand the messages they are bombarded by and weaken some of the negative effects of

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UConn offers Human Rights as second major

Last Friday, UConn presented a major only five other universities offer.

The Human Rights Institute, which is housed in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, held an info session on Friday about the new major.

This major requires 36 credits to complete and is unique in that it requires the graduate to complete a major in another field. This stipulation is due to the interdisciplinary nature of the subject. The human rights major offered here is similar to the one offered at Columbia, in that it focuses on scholarly research. The human rights student here will take another major and study it through the human rights perspective. This second major can only be one that CLAS offers.

Students in the major are required to take nine core credit courses. These courses are split into two categories of human rights: through the laws, institutions and movements as well as through the historical, cultural and theoretical frameworks. The final capstone course can either be a senior thesis or an internship.

For internships, the student is charged with finding and establishing first contact with the place they wish to intern at; the Human Rights Institute will not require them to pick from a list of chosen companies. These internships can be anywhere from Willimantic to overseas.

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that our voices aren’t going to be heard, when in reality, they are some of the most important,” Burns said.

Another student, freshman Rebecca Yalew, who is currently interning with the Connecticut Secretary of State, agreed.

“What they’re saying in Congress and what your legislator is saying in the office, that’s what’s going to later on affect you,” Yalew said.

Merrill urged students to register to vote. She spoke about the voting process and explained how to register.

Registering can be a complicated process if you do so at home, but are at school for the actual elections. To be able to vote, she explained, you have to re-register in that town. If you want to vote in your home town at a future election, you will again have to re-register.

Merrill ended her talk Saturday night by restating the importance of this next generation of voters.

“This country needs them and there are some very important elections going on,” Merrill said.

NEAG to host news literacy conference

By Katherine Tibedo Staff Writer

The U.S. State Department is sponsoring 20 international media literacy majors from all around the world in the Northeast Media Literacy Conference, which will be held at UConn on March 16, 2012.

The News Literacy in a Digital Media Age conference, now in it’s 10th year, is a oneday conference open to anyone interesting in the discussion on news literacy and the effects of

mass media on today’s youth.

This is the second consecutive year the State Department has sponsored international participants. Thomas Goodkind, Neag School of Education professor who created and coordinates the conference, said the international presence allows for the United States to see how other countries are addressing news literacy.

According to the conference brochure, media literacy is “the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, reflect upon and act with the information products that media dissemi-

nate.”

Goodkind said that the aim should be to teach students how to deconstruct the messages shown to them by the media.

He said media literacy education will “help kids, especially at a young age, to recognize the power in the media.” He cited the diet industry as an example; 80 percent of fourth graders, he said, believe they should be on a diet. Much of this comes from the diet industry, which in its advertising first convinces consumers something is wrong with them and then convinces them their

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Conn. goat to make visit to the Capitol

HARTFORD (AP) – A Connecticut goat that made headlines in 2006 after visiting the state Capitol on a mission to inform about nuclear radiation is returning for the last time.

Katie, a goat that was diagnosed with inoperable cancer after living near the Millstone Nuclear Power station, will be present at a Monday afternoon press conference on the Capitol lawn.

Organizers of the event say the news conference will be held in an effort to meet with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to share results of the goat’s milk samples. Previously, her milk has tested positive for potent carcinogens that are associated with bone cancer and leukemia.

The conference will mark the goat’s “farewell tour” that includes stops in Millstone and at the Indian Point Nuclear Power Station, located close to the Connecticut border.

Woman mauled by chimp hires 2 lobbyists

HARTFORD (AP) – A Stamford woman who was mauled and severely injured by an out-of-control chimpanzee has hired two lobbyists as she waits for a state official to decide if she can sue Connecticut for damages.

Hearst Connecticut Media Group and The Hartford Courant report that Kevin Reynolds and Anthony Householder will represent Charla Nash and her lawyer.

Nash wants to sue the state over allegations it failed in its duty to restrict the ownership of dangerous animals as pets and protect Connecticut residents from harm. Her case is pending with Claims Commissioner J. Paul Vance Jr. Reynolds has represented Amazon.com, CVS Caremark Corp. and Northeast Utilities. He also has been the lawyer for the state Democratic Party.

Waterbury records: US leadcontrol money misused

WATERBURY (AP) – A newspaper reports that Waterbury records show the city gave about $500,000 in federal lead-control grants to contractors violating federal and local purchasing rules.

The Republican-American reports that about one-third of the money was used to fund projects later found by an independent auditor was marred by unnecessary, incomplete or poor lead-reduction work.

Some contractors won grants without a public bid or despite not being the low bidder and were often repairing rental properties they owned under another name.

Mayor Neil M. O’Leary said Friday he will hire a private investigator and lead inspector to visit and test all grant-funded projects to make sure contractors haven’t cut corners.

2 lawmakers seek $1M to reopen Shakespeare theater

RATFORD (AP) – Two state legislators from Stratford are pushing for state money to help reopen the long-closed Shakespeare Theater.

The Connecticut Post reports that Republican Reps. Lawrence Miller and Laura Hoydick are sponsoring legislation that would authorize the state Bond Commission to issue up to $1 million help revitalization efforts at the theater.

They say reviving the theater, considered a cultural treasure in Stratford, would boost the local economy and draw tourists to Connecticut. Miller says Stratford doesn’t have money to do the job alone.

Stratford Councilman Matt Catalano estimates the theater needs about $25 million to open. He says the $1 million investment being considered by the General Assembly would be a great help.

Conn. students compete in design, marketing event HARTFORD (AP) – A student manufacturing contest will test high-tech design and marketing skills.

The Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ “Dream It! Do It! Manufacturing 4 the Future Student Challenge” is open to middle and high school students. The youngsters will work with local manufacturers to become familiar with the products they make and processes they use.

Final projects may take the form of a table-top display, a short presentation, a real or virtual 3D model or other formats.

Contest winners will receive a cash prize and a plaque for their school.

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Murphy targeted in Conn.

Democratic Senate debate NORWICH (AP)m– Democratic candidates for Connecticut’s open U.S. Senate seat used their first debate Saturday to lob criticism at U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, who leads the pack in fundraising and has sought to establish himself as the front runner.

Challenging Murphy for the party’s nomination, state Rep. William Tong and former Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz touted their own plans to foster economic recovery while attacking Murphy’s performance in Congress. They accused him of missing opportunities to help the middle class.

Murphy, who has said he would like to avoid a primary election, said he is the candidate to unite behind as the party prepares to face a Republican candidate that he anticipates will be Linda McMahon, a former wrestling executive who spent $50 million on her last Senate bid.

“What I believe is Linda McMahon is going to be the candidate, and she ultimately is going to have $50 million to spend, and it is incumbent on us to mount as early and ferocious a challenge to that as possible,” Murphy said.

The Democrats shared a stage at the Slater Museum auditorium at Norwich Free Academy.

The three are vying for the party endorsement to fill the seat being vacated by Sen. Joe

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In this June 15, 2009 file photo, U.S. Rep. Christopher Murphy, D-Conn., speaks at a news conference in Hartford.

Lieberman. The senator, an independent, is retiring. Both Bysiewicz and Tong say they plan to continue on to the Aug. 14 primary.

Meanwhile, several Republicans are seeking the GOP endorsement, including

Malloy’s school regionalization plan criticized

HARTFORD (AP) – Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s proposal to encourage small Connecticut school districts to regionalize or else risk losing some state aid is raising concerns among some local leaders who argue that their towns are being unfairly penalized for just being little.

The legislation, starting fiscal year 2016, cuts state education aid – ranging from about $100 to $500 per student – for school districts with fewer than 1,000 students and per-student costs that are at least 10 percent higher than the statewide average. Malloy’s revised $20 billion budget plan sets aside $300,000 to help the districts in the meantime come up with ideas for regional cooperation and efficiency.

The Democratic governor argues that his proposal is a common-sense approach to sharing expenses and reducing burdensome local property taxes, which help cover the lion’s share of local education costs in many small towns. Officials maintain they’ve already considered regionalization and it doesn’t always make sense.

“School districts already have an incentive to look for ways to consolidate and reduce costs because their budgets are stretched thin,” said Betsy Gara,

the public policy director for the Connecticut Council of Small Towns. “To penalize them simply for being a small school doesn’t make sense.”

Malloy’s proposal was tucked into his sweeping, 163-page public education overhaul bill unveiled last month. It has been largely overshadowed by more high-profile aspects of the legislation, such as revamping state teacher tenure rules.

In an interview on Friday with The Associated Press, Malloy read off a list of towns across the state he has identified with small student populations and well-paid school administrators.

In Norfolk, for example, he said there are 160 students, grades K-6, complete with a superintendent, principal and school board. Malloy estimated it costs about $19,000 a year to educate each child.

“Everyone’s complaining about property taxes and for a lot of the communities that we’re talking about, the biggest expense is education. And I’m trying to generate a discussion about this subject,” Malloy said. “What we’re saying is, we’ll give you money, we’re going to give you money to sit down and have some serious discussions about how you save taxpayers money.”

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former U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays and McMahon, who ran in 2010 for the U.S. Senate and lost to now-Sen. Richard Blumenthal.

Bysiewicz criticized Murphy for a 2010 vote against legislation that would have ended

a carried interest tax loophole, which favors executives of investment funds.

“Do you stand with middleclass families that are struggling or do you stand with Wall Street,” Bysiewicz said. “At that moment, you stood with Wall Street.”

Murphy said he opposes the loophole and voted many times to close it. He said it is an “egregious” element of a U.S. tax code that he says needs a complete overhaul.

Tong said Murphy was more productive as a state lawmaker than as a congressman. He said his own outsider status would also help him in a potential matchup with McMahon.

“She wants to run against Chris Murphy or Susan Bysiewicz. She wants to pick a fight with insiders and lobbyists,” he said. “She wants to run against Washington. She cannot do that to me.”

Murphy said he sees his public service as a strength and believes he has demonstrated an ability to push back against partisan rancor.

“I’m not going to be one of those you see on CNN or MSNBC at night. I’m going to be working across the aisle,” he said.

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the mass media.

This year’s conference will feature keynote speakers Kathleen Clarke-Pearson and Howard Schneider. ClarkePerson is a pediatrician and a media literacy leader for the American Academy of Pediatrics. She also has won recognition for developing an initative to limit the amount of television exposure young children receive. Schneider is the founding dean of the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University, he is also the creator of a “news literacy program seeking to have students across all disciplines become discerning news consumers.”

There will be four workshop sessions with a sampling of 15 workshops, some of which are taught by UConn graduate students. Tickets to the conference are $95 and $45 for students, which includes food and parking. Students who would like to go can look to their departments for sponsorship, as some departments may offer small scholarships to cover some of the cost of the ticket, according to Goodkind.

More information about the event can be found at the conference’s website at medialiteracy.education.uconn.edu.

of opportunities for learning.

There are 12 credits of related courses.

Richard Hiskies, the undergraduate director, said that the addition of this new major was crucial to UConn because “human rights has become associated with UConn already.

It’s become a signature program at the university.” Human rights have become more and more relevant to all topics of study, not only for students in CLAS. Several molecular and cell biology students attended the info session and several more have minors in human rights.

There is a lot of funding available for human rights majors and minors. There are travel grants for up to $5,000 for undergraduates to go to places like South Africa. There is a lot of funding for research and for graduate students.

Currently there are 36 professors who teach human rights courses and 2,100 students enrolled in the human rights minor.

Questions about the undergraduate human rights major can be addressed to Hiskes at richard.hiskes@uconn.edu.

More information can be found at humanrights.uconn.edu.

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Limbaugh’s comments overshadow GOP contest

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Intensifying debate over conservative social values — and Republican icon Rush Limbaugh — overshadowed the nation’s economic concerns Sunday as the Republican presidential campaign hurtled toward Super Tuesday contests that could re-shape the nomination battle and shift the direction of the Grand Old Party.

Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum distanced themselves from Limbaugh, who boasts a huge conservative following and recently apologized for calling a Georgetown University law student a “slut” and a “prostitute” on his nationally syndicated radio program. The woman testified at a congressional hearing in favor of an Obama administration mandate that employee health plans include free contraceptive coverage.

While religious institutions are exempt, their affiliates, such as hospitals and universities, were at first included in the requirement. Under harsh criticism from conservatives, President Barack Obama later said the affiliates could opt out, but insurers must pay for the coverage.

The GOP framed the issue as one of religious liberty. But Obama’s chief political strategist suggested the Limbaugh’s reaction — and Republicans slow repudiation of his comments — would benefit Democrats in the general election this fall.

“I think what Rush Limbaugh said about that young woman was not only vile and degrading to her, but to women across the country,” David Axelrod said on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday morning.

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OAK BROOK TERRACE, Illinois (AP) – For the first time in public, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy promised his department will never conduct blanket surveillance of Muslims like the New York Police Department did in Newark, New Jersey, when he was chief there.

McCarthy addressed hundreds of Muslims on Saturday at the annual banquet of the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Chicago, a civil rights organization. He said police would follow leads in criminal cases, but the department “does not and will not conduct blanket surveillance and profiling of any community in the city of Chicago.”

“We are deeply committed to respecting the civil rights of all Chicagoans,” McCarthy said.

McCarthy and Mayor Rahm Emanuel have tried to reassure Chicago-area Muslims since The Associated Press revealed the NYPD’s spying in Newark. The AP reported last month that in 2007, the NYPD’s secretive Demographics Unit fanned out across Newark, photographing mosques and eavesdropping on Muslim businesses. Earlier, the AP reported that the department was conducting similar surveillance in New York, building databases showing where Muslims live, shop and pray.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has vigorously defended the operations, saying police only follow up on allegations. But civil rights advocates and other critics say the NYPD’s 60-page report on the Newark operations showed Muslims were targeted solely because of their religion.

McCarthy, who was also a top officer in the NYPD at one point, told the AP that his former colleagues in New York notified him as a courtesy that they were sending plainclothes officers to Newark, but none of his officers participated in the operation. New York police say Newark leaders cooperated with the effort.

VaTech parents seek answers in trial 5 years later

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, speaks at a pancake breakfast at Brookwood High School in Brookwood, Ga., Sunday.

debate raged on national television, Newt Gingrich predicted a strong performance Tuesday would resurrect his fading candidacy. Romney and Santorum spent Sunday racing across Georgia, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Ohio, four of the ten states to host elections on Super Tuesday, the biggest single voting day of the 2012 cycle.

Campaigning in Alaska, Ron Paul conceded he’s a long shot.

“Do I believe I can win?

Yes. Do I believe the chances are slim? Yes, I do,” he said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

Super Tuesday’s defining contest may be Ohio, where Santorum and Romney have devoted tremendous time and resources in recent weeks.

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“This is a game of survival,” Santorum said while campaigning Sunday in Memphis, Tenn.

Preparing for the worst, Romney’s campaign began preparing for a possible loss in Ohio, where polls show the former Massachusetts governor locked in a dead heat with Santorum, a former senator from neighboring Pennsylvania.

“I don’t think any state is a must-win,” Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said. “I think the only must-do on a candidate’s check list is getting 1,144 delegates.”

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – The hours leading to the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history and the actions of Virginia Tech administrators will be replayed in a Christiansburg courtroom when the parents of two students slain in the April 2007 massacre press their legal effort to hold school officials accountable.

During the trial that begins Monday, Attorney Robert Hall said he’ll call Tech President Charles Steger and other top university officials to explain their actions the day 33 were killed on the Blacksburg campus, including the gunman. Hall said the parents want an apology for what he calls the university’s botched efforts after the two first killings occurred. He said he has new evidence that reveals further missteps.

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Melanie Deziel, Editor-in-Chief Ryan Gilbert, Commentary Editor Tyler McCarthy, Associate Commentary Editor Michelle Anjirbag, Weekly Columnist Christopher Kempf, Weekly Columnist Jesse Rifkin, Weekly Columnist

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No excuse for students not voting in Joint Elections

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ine o’clock this morning marks the start of 48 hours of online voting for UConn’s Spring 2012 Joint Elections.

From now until Wednesday at 9 a.m., students have an opportunity to play a vital part in decision making at UConn by placing their votes online at vote.uconn.edu. These elections put all students on equal footing for the opportunity to impact their experiences at UConn, and it is an opportunity that should be taken advantage of.

This year’s online election process combines elections for Undergraduate Student Government, Graduate Student Senate, the Co-op Board of Directors and the Graduate Student Representative for the Board of Trustees. Whereas each of these elections may have been held separately in the past, resulting in low voter turnout and copious amounts of duplicate advertising, the combination of these elections into one cohesive event makes it easier than ever for students to have their voices heard.

But the online elections are not only used for selecting a winner among candidates for USG, GSS, the Board of Trustees and the Co-op Board of Directors. The Joint Election is intended to combine these much-anticipated and highly advertised elections with often less-publicized referendums that require student input.

This year, there are three student fee referendums waiting for your vote. The Daily Campus is hoping for student support of a referendum for a $3 fee increase per semester to help cancel out deficits caused by rising expenses in a poor economy. Nutmeg Yearbook is looking for a $2-per-semester increase to take its annual book from partially black and white to full color, creating a more impressive reflection of seniors’ final year at UConn. USG is hoping for $5 more per semester to increase funding for a growing number of Tier II organizations. A $10 total increase per semester would support all three of these student organizations in their efforts, and that financial support would be returned to students in the form of a valued service or product.

Regardless of when you vote, which candidates you endorse and which referendums you ultimately choose to support, be sure that you make your decision with enough accurate information and after careful consideration.

The elections and all the information you need to be informed are online. The UConn Joint Elections website (elections.uconn. edu) contains written statements from candidates in every race, descriptions of open positions and written appeals and financial documents from those groups asking for fee increases. The UConn Joint Elections event page on Facebook contained recorded video statements from many of the candidates, PSAs and other helpful links. You can watch the USG debate on UCTV’s website at uctv. uconn.edu, through UCSPAN. Some candidates and groups have their own websites and social media pages explaining why they deserve your vote.

The facts you need to make an informed decision are out there and, since the elections are online, being informed is as simple as opening another tab in your web browser. Take advantage of this chance to have a voice in UConn’s governance by voting before Wednesday at 9 a.m. at vote.uconn.edu. Just be sure you’re ready for the responsibility first.

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To the person who wondered if I was talking about a shag carpet or my butt.... I was talking about my butt.

I like jeans. I’m wearing jeans, and my feet are in jeans.

I don’t care what any of you think, I am going places in these lobster jammies. Its just one of those days.

When is the Union going to be making the annual b-ball cookies?

Nope. Still no sore throat.

Yo McMahon dawg, I heard you like fences, so I put fences around your fences so you can barricade while you barricade.

Cat hair goes with any outfit.

Guys, people are going to start picking their housing.

This is REAL. If I find your student ID and send you an email, it might be in your best interest to send me a response so I can get it back to you. Unless you need your ID to get into your dorm and your computer is in your dorm. That’s rough.

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Problem? Don’t tweet about it

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onflict resolution is a major part of growing up. The ability to take an awkward or offensive situation and put an end to it is a skill that every well-minded human being should have. However, the recent generation seems to have not only lost this ability, but the means to regain it as well.

In the world of Facebook, Twitter, personal blogs and smartphones, people perpetually have an audience of hundreds of like-minded people waiting in their pocket for the next post or status update. This audience is careBy Tyler McCarthy fully selected by Associate Commentary Editor individuals to be the kind of people that they would call “friends,” however loose that term may be.

As a result, to some degree or another, these people understand you. This has given our culture a lot of wonderful things. The idea of an infinite level of connectivity is something that will continue to define this generation and the people growing up in it.

At what point do we become too reliant on the illusion that all of your followers “have your back?”

The average person would likely claim that if someone had a problem with them, that they’d approach them about the problem and solve it like adults. That’s not the case anymore. Any time people are

annoyed, offended or wronged in their everyday lives, they don’t look to solve the issue with a polite confrontation. Instead, they simply run to their cavalcade of likeminded followers for support and affirmation that their complaints are valid.

“This guy in the library won’t stop tapping his pen. What a jerk! #soannoying.”

“Any time people are annoyed, offended or wronged in their everyday life, they don’t look to solve the issue with a polite conversation.”

While this kind of post would make the writer feel better and probably earn him or her dozens of sympathetic or understanding responses from friends, the problem persists. The person who made the post has to listen to the pen and the person tapping the pen never learns how annoying he or she is being. Therefore, it’s useless. This is a classic example of the illusion of strength and a no-nonsense attitude. Unfortunately, in realistic terms, the person posting has done nothing but outsourced his or her valid feelings and complaints to the colossal “feelgood factory” that is social media.

It’s not as though we need to start personalizing every slight annoyance that we encounter in our day-to-day lives. Allowing people to be rude, impolite and just plain oblivious to their effects on other people doesn’t seem right. By only posting about their actions in a forum that they won’t

ever see does nothing for anyone. For such things to go unrecognized or unpunished seems like a very large step in the wrong direction for how our generation solves problems. Facebook, Twitter and personal blogs are a magnificent thing and the everincreasing ease of access to them is going to mean great things for the world. When it comes to conflict resolution, they’re a detriment, not an asset.

I am not one to question the validity of a viral campaign. If the Arab Spring taught the world anything, it is that there is great power in the unifying nature of the internet culture. Let’s dial back the scale and have a look at things on a much more practical level. A series of revolutions happens once in a lifetime, chances to exercise effective conflict resolution happen countless times a day. What will society be like if no one has the courage to tell the person lying down across three seats on the bus that they need to sit up? What if we all become so impotent to conflict that the best we can do is shy away and tap out a complaint on our phones?

The next time you find yourself annoyed, fight your first instinct to pick up your phone and complain about it to your friends on Facebook – they can’t help the situation.

Instead, act like a high-functioning human being, capable of good manners and tact, and find a way to solve the problem instead of just living with it. #problemsolved.

Weekly Columnist Tyler McCarthy is a 6th-semester journalism and English double major. He can be reached at Tyler.McCarthy@UConn.edu.

Affordable Health Care Act great for students

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n February 22, the UConn School of Pharmacy graciously hosted a forum with Rep. Joe Courtney about health care reform. Major components of the bill will create a significant first step in transforming how health care operates in the United States.

Signed in March 2010, the Affordable Care Act makes commendable efforts to mitigate major flaws in our nation’s health care system. Although the U.S. has a higher level of health spending per capita than any other country, the American life expecBy Nhi Tran tancy still lags behind Staff Columnist that of other countries. Our nation spent $7,538 per capita on health care in 2008, nearly double the average of all developed countries, but life expectancy still ranked only 28th in the world. This discrepancy warrants for more efficient methods of using health care dollars to yield better outcomes by improving the implementation of care.

Fortunately, the ACA strives to address the disparities in cost, access and quality of health care.

Most provisions in this reform bill start in 2014 and will be completed by 2019. By then, almost 34 million previously uninsured Americans will gain health care coverage, reducing the burden

of uncompensated care on physicians and hospitals. The bill also expands coverage with the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program for those retiring before the age of 65. By allowing older employees to leave the workforce, the ACA will create jobs for college graduates.

Most importantly, the ACA permits young adults to stay on their parents’ health insurance plan until age 26. Amid the struggling economy and bleak job outlook for graduates, this new provision will create a greater peaceof-mind. College degrees used to mean better career prospects after graduation, but with lower starting salaries and only about 50 percent of students garnering pertinent jobs, people now need to work harder for a stable profession. This may even include more education, and thus, more tuition to pay, so remaining on parents’ health plans will be a major cost-saving advantage.

An increased investment in prevention and wellness programs is yet another potential benefit outlined in the ACA. Shifting attention more toward prophylactic services and public health, rather than on treatment of advanced diseases, may reduce health care costs. Examples of these programs include “Million Hearts,” one that looks to prevent one million heart attacks and strokes in five years, and “Let’s Move,” a program aimed at preventing

childhood obesity. Above all, preventative services, such as blood pressure screenings, flu shots, HIV, cancer screenings and contraceptive services will have no additional fee. Instead of encouraging a society of sickness and over-medication, fostering health and well-being will be more cost-effective.

The main objective is for all Americans to lead healthier lives, and health care professionals, especially pharmacists, can have an indispensable role as well. Through Medication Therapy Management, pharmacists can use their clinical expertise to optimize therapeutic outcomes for patients taking multiple medications or suffering from chronic conditions.

Pharmacists can prevent injury by identifying, preventing and resolving drug-related issues to proactively help patients manage their therapies. Inappropriate use of medications accounts for billions of wasted health care dollars annually. By creating a therapeutic alliance with their pharmacists, people will also demonstrate greater adherence to their drug regimens and, thus, have better chances of reaching their treatment goals. In addition to MTM provisions in the ACA, pharmacists will also increase their abilities to deliver health education and disease prevention services. Pharmacists are an invaluable part of the medi-

cal team by helping to reduce cost and improve the quality and safety of health care.

The ACA addresses new models of providing coordinated, patient-centered care as well.

Considering their high level of training and qualified credentials, pharmacists should have a role in these “medical homes” by working collaboratively with other health professionals to optimize patient outcomes.

Collaborative Drug Therapy Management also describes a group-based approach to care in which pharmacists establish written agreements with physicians for the authority to manage patients’ drug therapy. Many states, including Connecticut, have approved this practice and recognize its value in saving patients’ lives and reducing unnecessary costs.

Though several provisions of the 2010 Affordable Care Act are still in progress and other changes remain on the horizon, health care reform still deserves favorable recognition. Encouraging a partnership for patients to deliver better care at lower costs, the ACA hopes to revolutionize health care practice in the U.S.

Staff Columnist Nhi Tran is an 8th-semester pharmacy major. She can be reached at Nhi.Tran@UConn.edu.

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by Carin Powell

Royalty Free Speech

by Ryan Kennedy

Side of Rice

by Laura Rice

Editor’s Choice

by Brendan Albetski

Horoscopes

by Brian Ingmanson To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- You can sell your concept now. It takesaction.Doagoodjob,andthere’s apotentialformoremoneytoflowin.If breakdownsoccur,youcanhandlethem.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 --Don’tletworriesaboutmoneyinterfere with love. With Venus in your sign, art, beautyandromanceareyours.Mightas welllisten,though...youmighthaveto compromise.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Changes higher up are to your benefit. Send off the paperwork for an increaseinfunding.Goforwhatyouwant incareerandromance:You’reluckywith love and money.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- You’re still learning, and your concentration’skeen.Youseenewways to prosper and are moved into action.

UsethatMidastouchatwork(andleave it there).

Mensch

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Procrastination Animation

by Michael McKiernan

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- It’s wise to be frugal. Anticipate overrunsofcost.Letothersbringfood.

Your friends are your inspiration. You canmakeitwork;teamworksolvesany puzzle.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Here comes a pleasant surprise.

Gather up as much as you can. Venus enters Taurus in your fifth house, influencingcreativity,romanceandfun.

Enjoy.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- For about three weeks, you’re especiallyvibrantandcharming.Givein tocreaturecomfortsandbeauty.Serve others with artistry.

One Thousand Demons

by Bill Elliott and Rachael Pelletti

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Have faith in your imagination and bringinthedough.Focusonprovidinga greatservice.Thinktwicebeforemaking a purchase. Do you really need it?

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- There’s no mountain high enough to keep you down. Pack the essentials and explore, even if it’s just metaphoricallyspeaking.Keepajournal for future reference.

Nothing Extraordinary

by Thomas Feldtmose

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 6 --You may feel like spending some quiet time, but don’t dismiss others who appreciate you. Take a moment to connect. Water seeds. Reveal your dreams.

Aquarius(Jan.20-Feb.18)--Todayisan 8--Yourimaginationrunswild,attracting brightnewideasandpotentialclients.

Newpartnershipsandresponsibilities lead to new rewards. Speculate.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 9--Hitthegroundrunningandgetbusy without delay. Even if you miss a few, you hit the mark more times than not.

You’re more powerful than you think.

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Saudi: Syrians have right to defend themselves

BEIRUT (AP) — Saudi Arabia said Sunday that Syrians have a right to take up arms to defend themselves against the regime and accused the Damascus government of “imposing itself by force,” as concerns mounted over a humanitarian crisis there.

In a rare televised news conference, Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said the kingdom welcomed international efforts to broker a ceasefire in Syria but added that they have “failed to stop the massacres.”

“Is there something greater than the right to defend oneself and to defend human rights,” he said, adding that the Syrian people want to defend themselves.

“The regime is not wanted by the people,” he said.

“The regime is insisting on imposing itself by force on the Syrian people,” he said.

Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been discussing military aid the to the Syrian opposition, but the U.S. and others have not advocated arming the rebels, in part out of fear it would create an even more bloody and prolonged conflict. Sunni Saudi Arabia is wary of the wave of Arab Spring uprisings, particularly in nearby Bahrain, where a Shiite majority is demanding greater rights from its Sunni rulers. However, the kingdom strongly backs the largely Sunni uprising in Syria.

On Sunday Red Cross teams handed out food, blankets and medical kits in central Homs province, but the government

AP

A man teaches Bilal, 11, how to use a toy rocket-propelled grenade in Idlib, north Syria, Sunday, March 4, 2012.

blocked access to the worst-hit district of Baba Amr. The humanitarian group was trying to help families who fled Baba Amr after a monthlong siege and took shelter in nearby villages, ICRC spokesman Hicham Hassan said in Geneva.

“The needs are so far mainly in the forms of food and also blankets because of the cold,” Hassan said.

Government forces have blocked humanitarian access to Baba Amr since Friday, the day

after troops seized it from rebels.

Opposition fighters had been in control of the neighborhood for several months, and a regime offensive on Homs that began in early February aimed to retake rebel-held neighborhoods inside the city.

Syrian troops managed to take control of Baba Amr after nearly a month of intense and relentless shelling, and activists say hundreds were killed in the daily bombardments that led up to the final battle on Thursday. Some

Hugo Chavez says new tumor was cancerous

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez revealed Sunday that a new tumor recently removed from his pelvic region was of the same type of cancer as a baseball-sized growth extracted from that part of his body about eight months ago.

In his first TV appearance in nine days, Chavez said the surgery and follow-up tests showed the tumor was “a recurrence of the initially diagnosed cancer.”

He said “the tumor was totally extracted” and noted “the absence of lesions suggestive of cancer neither locally, neither in nearby organs, neither far away ... neither metastasis, none of this thanks to God, to the diagnosis and rapid intervention.”

The 57-year-old president said he would spend several weeks recovering and then “we are going to do radiation treatment in the area ... without discarding other treatment options.”

“There isn’t fever nor any other sign, neither infection, hemorrhage,” he said. He called the post-surgery healing “perfect in relation to the time that’s passed, and we are already doing physical therapy.”

Chavez spoke firmly in footage recorded Saturday in Havana while accompanied by various government ministers and older brother Adan Chavez. The president said his recuperation has been “open, progressive and rapid” in the footage aired Sunday in Venezuela.

Chavez said “still it hasn’t been six days because the operation ended on the night of last Sunday.” He verified the date of the recording by displaying a Saturday copy of the Cuban government newspaper Granma and a similar copy of the Venezuelan government paper Correo del Orinoco.

“We are very optimistic,” he said while seated at an oval conference table. “There is a very favorable medical evolution, the vital signs very favorable.”

Chavez underwent several weeks of radiation treatment in 2011.

Chavez flew to Cuba for his most recent surgery on Feb. 24, and his absence from the public spotlight since then has sparked speculation about his health.

Chavez did phone into a show Friday on Venezuelan state television when he said he was recovering well.

Chavez hasn’t specified what kind of cancer he has or exactly where it’s located. But cancer

AP

In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office Sunday March 4, 2012, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez speaks during a televised speech.

specialists say that based on available information, Chavez appears to suffer from a relatively rare cancer known as sarcoma, which tends to reappear in the same location where related tumors are removed.

The president has taken pains to demonstrate unflagging energy in his public appearances as he faces a tough re-election battle this November.

“Everyone who has been operated on knows ... the impact of an operation of various hours,” Chavez said in the most recent footage. “And how, above all the first day when the body begins to awaken, the pains begin, the obstacles, after one goes step by step recovering the functions of the body, like I’m recovering.”

He added, “Since almost the second day, I began to walk. For this, I say thanks to God, to everybody.”

He spoke in a stark, whitewalled room, in front of paintings of Cuban independence leader Jose Marti and South American hero Simon Bolivar.

With no one taking over his duties in Venezuela, Chavez issued instructions to government ministers and approved the budgets of various stateowned companies.

As he has done in recent weeks, Chavez defended Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, who has tried to violently crush a popular revolt in much of the Middle Eastern country. Venezuela has at least twice sent shipments of diesel oil to Syria over the past months.

Baba Amr residents were killed when, in desperation, they dared to venture out of their homes to forage for food.

Activists have said residents face a humanitarian catastrophe in Baba Amr and other parts of Homs, Syria’s third-largest city with a population of 1 million. Electricity, water and communications have been cut off, and recent days have seen frigid temperatures and snowfall. Food was running low, and many are too scared to venture out.

» REP. OF CONGO

206 killed in Republic of Congo arms depot blasts

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) — Houses and buildings collapsed in the Congolese capital Sunday, entombing inhabitants after an arms depot exploded, killing at least 206 people, officials said, including dozens attending Mass in a church that buckled under the force of the blast.

The shock waves shattered windows in a three-mile (five-kilometer) radius surrounding the arms depot, including across the river that separates Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, from Kinshasa, the capital of the larger Central African nation of Congo.

“It’s like a tsunami passed through here,” said Christine Ibata, a student. “The quarter has practically collapsed, with roofs of houses blown off.”

A morgue in Brazzaville took in 136 bodies Sunday afternoon, as more continued to arrive. A local hospital reported at least 237 patients wounded in the blasts. President Denis Sassou-Nguesso toured two hospitals and a morgue as dozens of injured people were being brought in including a 4-year-old who had lost his leg. The president was visibly moved, but made no public comments.

It’s unclear what started the fire at the weapons depot, but an official at the president’s office said the depot is used to store wargrade weapons including mortars. The first blast went off at around 8 a.m., and several smaller blasts were heard throughout the morning.

Another major explosion went off at around 1 p.m.

Defense Minister Charles Zacharie Boawo appeared on national television to urge calm in Brazzaville and in the neighboring capital, Kinshasa.

“The explosions that you have heard don’t mean there is a war or a coup d’etat,” he said. “Nor does it mean there was a mutiny. It is an incident caused by a fire at the munitions depot.”

Didier Boutsindi, an official in the president’s office, said the explosion woke him “with the force of an earthquake.” Doors in his house, which is located several miles away from the arms depot, were thrown open and several windows cracked. He began making calls, and when he realized the origin of the blast, his first thought was his uncle, whose home is located just next to the depot.

“The house fell completely,” Boutsindi said. “He was sleeping. His wife was at church. His children — small children — were playing outside,” he said. “The neighbors dug out the body and brought him to the morgue.”

The body was among the countless others that were being brought in by car, on stretchers, and carried by shell-shocked residents. The death toll is likely to rise, Boutsindi said, as many more people remained trapped inside crushed structures, including the faithful of the St. Louis Church, who were attending Mass when the blasts began.

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By Joe Pentecost Campus Correspondent

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Lisa Beth Miller belts out a song at the Soprano concert at the Storrs Congregational Church on Friday night.

Von der Mehden Piano Recital on tune

By Joseph Kirschner Campus Correspondent Friday night’s piano recital in von der Mehden Recital Hall was one for the record books as the star of the show, Haein Kim, took the music department’s reputation of hosting great shows to another level.

Wearing a stunningly beautiful, all black evening gown, Kim took the stage with the lights beaming down on her and her accompanied singer Jeongcheol Cha, who used his bass-baritone voice to engage the crowd with the first piece by Hugo Wolf, “Drei Lieder nach Gedichten von Michelangelo,” which is German for “Tree settings of Poem by Michelangelo.”

Cha was wearing a suit jacket and matching pants with the top button of his shirt unbuttoned without a tie.

Second to accompany Kim was Sooyoung Park whose soprano voice enlightened the crowd’s intellect with awe-inspiring power of emotion as she sang.

Park, who was wearing a floor length half-white and half-black strapless evening gown showed her talent, which she did with ease as she sang in Russian several pieces by Sergei Rachmanioff.

After the brief intermissin, the show started the second half with Kim taking the stage again with Cha who sang in French during multiple pieces by Francis Poulenc. Then Park took the stage for the last time with Kim as she also sang in French, various pieces by Claude Debussy.

For the last and final part of the recital William Bolcom’s music was portrayed with enthusiasm by Cha who made the crowd laugh with Bolcom’s “Song of Black Max,” about a thin man who wore

all black and a big black hat who walked around a town and tipped his hat to people at various occasions. “George” was about a man who wanted to be called Georgia and was stabbed by someone he was singing for in the United States Navy.

The music that was portrayed on Friday night was called Art Song, which according to members of the audience Christina Quental, a 3rd-semester vocal performance major and her friend Caroline O’Dwyer, who graduated in May 2011 with her degree in vocal performance, said it is similar to opera but it is specifically composed for piano and voice recital purposes while being set to poetry. O’Dwyer, who is now studying for a Masters of Vocal Performance at Eastman School of Music said the show was “absolutely incredible. The singers were outstanding as was

the repertoire they chose.”

Quental said she likes the technique the singers used because it was flawless. She also said it was good to see performers with such talent especially as an undergrad.

O’Dwyer and Quental also noted that they were really inspired by both of the singers’ professionalism because you can tell that the performers really knew the rhythm of the foreign languages and not just the translations.

Professor Julie Rosenfeld attended the recital and really enjoyed the Bolcom pieces along with the rest of the show. Also in attendance was doctoral student Allan Ballinger who is working on his degree in cello. Ballinger stated that this show is a little bit different than what most people think of when they see a piano at a recital, because the piano usually accompanies another performer. Friday nights show was

just the opposite, however, and the spot light belonged to Haein Kim. Ballinger also noted that Kim was very sensitive to her performers needs on stage as Cha and Park interacted with Kim to make a fabulous show that was of professional quality.

These particular shows along with the rest of the UConn music programs seem to be underrepresented. O’Dwyer and Quental believe people are missing out on the whole experience. The members of the music program always perform for relatively small audiences and wish their talents were heard and seen by more members of the UConn community. Even though it was a relatively small crowd, the people still enjoyed the recital because of the talent that was showcased and the perfectly chosen pieces they performed.

Joseph.Kirschner@UConn.edu

Sorority hosts showcase ‘Pretty Little Liars’ gets closer

By Purbita Saha Focus Editor In the Student Union Ballroom on Saturday evening, the Kappa Chapter of Lambda Theta Alpha, Latin Sorority Incorporated hosted their fifth-annual Greek Showcase here at the University of Connecticut. With step, stroll and saluting performances, 13 different greek organizations comprising the Intercultural Greek Council and the National Pan-Hellenic council performed to a jam-packed Student Union Ballroom.

Hosted by Charlene Perez, a sister of Lambda Theta Alpha for 13 years, with a crowd of about 250 students every performance received tremendous rounds of applause. Dominique Meyers, a 2nd-semester sophomore and human development and family studies major described the event as “worthwhile and really exciting.

I was so excited to see my peers and all of the frats and sororities who performed.”

Students were dancing in their seats and singing along to songs they recognized. Between performances there were games played on stage, such as a remake of the popular “Don’t Forget the Lyrics.”

Lambda Theta Alpha hosted this event as a way of raising money to support their current philanthropy The Hole in The Wall Gang Camp – a no-fee camp for youth from ages seven to 15, with cancer and serious blood diseases that live in New England, New York or New Jersey. The fact that Lambda Theta

Alpha was holding this event to not only bring entertainment to the University but to also benefit a philanthropy was something that so many students were happy to see.

Amber Jones, a 2nd-semester English major and a sister of Lambda Theta Alpha stated “I was so glad to see the turnout and the Greek unity here at the showcase. We host this event as a way for each sorority and fraternity to express their love to their organizations.” Standing near the entrance as students exited the ballroom you heard nothing but positive reviews from the welcoming as students entered to the ballroom to the amount of gratitude Lambda Theta Alpha expressed as they closed the show.

Anna Corona, a 2nd-semester biology major said, “Oh my goodness! I loved every single part of it. It was nothing but excitement and no disappointments.”

With so many raving reviews and the amount of excitement in the room this event was very successful. This is only one of the many events that have been hosted on campus by “the lovely ladies” of Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority Incorporated. With such positive feedback, they look forward to keeping that positive energy with their next event – a Poetry Slam on April 11.

Purbita.Saha@UConn.edu

to the big reveal

By Loumarie Rodriguez Campus Correspondent Deceit, lies, and disaster, oh my! The Pretty Little Liars are slowly uncovering the truth, as they are steps closer to figuring out the identity of “A,” and according to commercials, there are only two episodes until from the big reveal.

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APoor, innocent Emily is still grief-stricken with her rebel girlfriend, Maya, who has run away at the threat of being sent back to the clinic to stop her marijuana habits.

No phone calls, text messages or any sign of where she could be or who with.

Luckily, her dad comes along to help her track her down.

Emily seems very determined to find someone who doesn’t want to be found.

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found on A’s phone the girls are extremely suspicious of Melissa and are ready to turn her in. Fortunately enough they let go of the accusations to Spencer’s relief, until they find real proof. Spencer did question her sister but as usual with this show, more answers leads to more questions.

Hanna’s and Aria’s mom have finally picked on the girl’s suspicious behavior of paranoia. How long did it

take them to finally realize that? A little too long, but Hanna’s mom does pay a visit to the over-friendly cop who is now helping because he can get fired if the police station finds out they got frisky.

As the girls continue to deal with the unfolding drama of figuring out “A,” there is a Father/Daughter dance, which should lead viewers to ask: “What kind of high school has a Father/Daughter

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With Spring Break approaching next week, it’s safe to say your plans away from Storrs are already solidified, but are your beer plans set in stone?

Depending on your destination, don’t forget that there’s always a great craft beer option within reach.

Even if you’re not planning to stay on the east coast, the number of new spring seasonal offerings will help to create the oasis of warmer weather. Sam Adams’ new spring seasonal, ‘Alpine Spring,’ is a nicely balanced 5.5 percent ABV lager featuring a subtle spiciness to contrast some citrusy notes in the aroma. For the hopheads out there, Sierra Nevada just released their Hoptimum Double IPA in four-packs. Clocking in at a monstrous 10.4 percent ABV, this hop bomb is dosed with whole cone hops for a huge aromatic punch.

If your travels take you to Mexico, you might be pleasantly surprised to learn that they are amidst a micro-brewing movement as well. If you can escape from the fizzy yellow beer, it will be worth your while to check out breweries such as Cossack.

Though initial offerings concentrated on time-tested recipes like porters and other Englishinfluenced styles, some new beers such as a cherry-infused amber ale or imperial stout push the envelope to compete with innovative American brewers.

But not so fast—Mexico’s craft beer scene still has a lot of catching up to do in order to reach the levels we have now in the U.S. The Brewer’s Association estimates that out of every 10,000 beers drank in Mexico, only eight of them are microbrews.

Unfortunately, this is somewhat of a function of the business practices by the large Mexican breweries that ensure exclusive service of Corona and Modelo brands in bars, making it much harder for upstarts to gain their footing. Look for unique offerings in smaller shops and boutiques as well as exclusive brewpubs.

Heading to Florida? Don’t worry, there’s plenty of craft beer there as well. While you may be reminded of home with the availability of New England Brewing Co.’s (Woodbridge, Conn.) canned offerings, local favorite Cigar City Brewing Co. brings the heat as well. A beer geek favorite since they opened in 2008, their offerings span the gamut of styles from mangoinfused IPAs to Imperial Stouts brewed with Peruvian cacao nibs, Ancho and Pasilla chilies, cinnamon and Madagascar vanilla beans (Yes, all that in one beer). A personal favorite is a take on their ‘Maduro’ brown ale, bumped up with the additions of oats, raisins and spices to create their “Oatmeal Raisin Cookie.” Clearly, a trip to their tasting room in Tampa would hold some unique offerings sure to please any craft beer skeptic.

Regardless of your Spring Break destination, one thing’s for sure: when Saturday the 17th rolls around, a friend will hand you a glass of green beer. Though it may not be craft brewed, accept it with pleasure and take part in the once-a-year festivities. With any of St. Patrick’s luck, you’ll recover and find a craft beer in your hand the following week.

Cheers!

Joseph.Pentecost@UConn.edu

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Photo courtesy of poptower.com The cast of NBC’s 30 Rock. This week’s episode “Alexis Goodlooking and the Case of the Missing Whiskey,” lacked the exciting plotlines and character personality of past episodes and seasons.

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What I’m watching “How I Met Your Mother” CBS Monday 8:00-8:30 p.m.

The beloved Barney Stinsson is the epitomy of awesome as “How I Met Your Mother” continues to spark interest in the minds of keepers of the” bro-code” everywhere. Jason Segal and his melodramatic humor adds a quirky touch. Accompanied by his clingy yet hilarious partner in marriage and crime, Allison Hannigan is an excellent addition to the already droll cast, not to mention she isn’t too bad to look at either. This week’s episode is sure to be filled with laughs, wild adventures, and of course more Barney!

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By Alexandra Ball Staff Writer In the latest installment of “30 Rock,” Liz Lemon finds herself inadvertently involved in a fake relationship with TGS writer Frank Rossitano.

He has told his dominating mother (guest star Patti LuPone) they are dating to hide that he is actually with a woman who is much older, an ex-con and his former teacher (Susan Sarandon).

Though Liz is initially horrified, she eventually agrees to play along as Mrs. Rossitano dotes on her and suplies her with homemade Italian food. However, Frank is unsure how long he can mask his true feelings.

Elsewhere in Rockefeller Center, Jack has secured Kenneth a job in Kabletown’s Standards Department.

There, an ambitious cowork- Jenna launches an investigaer soon targets Kenneth and tion. She and Tracy begin to attempts to destroy his career. interrogate the various susFollowing Jack’s advice, pects, but they soon discover Kenneth plots to take him that maybe the truth is better down first. Jack is meanwhile left unknown. reunited with an This season old business rival has been one of 30 Rock (Stanley Tucci) and highs and lows, NBC is forced to reevaland this week 8 p.m. uate his views on was unfortucorporate compenately one of tition. He worries the lows. The that he has ruined normally spotKenneth’s innoon references cence and tries to felt forced and stop him, but he awkward, and may be too late. the plot lacked the insane As all this is happening, pandemonium of the best Jenna and Tracy are up to episodes. Several characters, their usual shenanigans. This such as Jack’s daughter and time, a mystery has emerged Liz’s boyfriend Criss (James in the TGS writer’s room: Marsden), were thoughtlesssomeone has stolen Pete’s ly written off or completely whiskey. Using her experi- ignored. ence starring as Inspector Also, the main characters Alexis Goodlooking in the seemed to revert to the flat crime drama “Goodlooking,” personalities of earlier sea-

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sons; Liz exhibits none of her newly found confidence, and Jack appears as the corporate shark he was upon first arriving at TGS. There were still a few entertaining parts: Liz’s passion for food, Jenna’s flashbacks as a beautiful but troubled policewoman and Patti LuPone’s hilarious caricature of a doting Italian mother.

Overall, “Alexis Goodlooking and the Case of the Missing Whiskey” did not measure up to the funniest episodes of this season.

If Tina Fey does not provide viewers with more of the strange, nonsensical humor that has made her show a hit, “30 Rock” may begin the slow spiral to cancellation.

Alexandra.Ball@UConn.edu

‘The Simpsons’ continue to shine after 500

before panning out to reveal a large “500” mosaic. The main show begins with the Simpson It’s been more than 22 years family taking refuge in the cellar since America was first intro- due to a supposed nuclear attack duced to everyone’s favorite drill. The ever curious Lisa dysfunctional family. To put eventually leads the family outthat into perspective, when “The side to witness a large gathering Simpsons” first premiered, the of everyone else in town at city Soviet Union was still intact, hall discussing permanent banJohnny Carson was still the host ishment of the family (mostly of “The Tonight Show,” and due to the rampant chaos caused “The Cosby Show” was in the by Bart and Homer and also due to Lisa’s prolast of its five environmental activconsecutive seaities which although sons as the No. 1 THE SIMPSONS harmless are “pretty television show in FOX annoying”), a premAmerica. Suffice ise certainly fitting to say the world is such a prestigious a much different anniversary show. place today than Despite pleas from it was when “The Marge and the ever Simpsons” first began its journey on becom- noble Ned Flanders, the family ing the longest running scripted is banished. They wind up in prime-time series in the history “The Outlands,” an apocalypticof American television on Dec. looking run down lawless village. Here they meet their new 17, 1989.

Here we are more than 23 neighbor, who (in an amusing seasons later with the exact cameo) turns out to be Wikileaks same family we first saw all founder Julian Assange. The those years ago. “At Long Last family adjusts to their new Leave” is the 500th overall epi- life fairly quickly, happy to sode of “The Simpsons.” The be accepted for who they are. opening couch gag features a Homer and Marge return to nostalgic trip down memory Springfield in disguise for a lane by presenting a still frame night of various escapades, only of every single past couch gag to be caught and re-banished,

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In its 23rd season on television, The SImpsons continued its streak on T.V. with its 500th episode.

but not before Marge inspires many Springfield citizens seeking a fresh start to come to the Outlands. Gradually, the entire population of Springfield moves to the outlands rebuilding the city and leaving only Principal Skinner behind. Bart returns for him via helicopter only to smash him into every single obstacle in their path on the way to the “New Springfield.”

While this episode featured some pretty good gags, (the WikiLeaks building passcode is 1-2-3-4, and the brilliant episode- ending disclaimer that I won’t spoil here come to mind), overall I feel that the premise felt rushed. We’re barely introduced to the denizens of “The Outlands” before the action moves back to Springfield.

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Remember when you were young and you watched shows about college in anticipation of finally embarking on a journey to find yourself?

Maybe college hasn’t turned out exactly the way you envisioned it, but here are some TV shows about life in college that are sure to take you on a trip down memory lane.

“Saved by the Bell” is a classic that will hopefully still be remembered for years to come. The original American sitcom follows the lives of several teens and staff at the fictional Bayside High School. The show has a sequel: “Saved by the Bell: The College Years” which was highly amusing to watch, though it lased only one season. The sequel dealt with the college life of characters from the original series as they attended a fictionally based southern California university.

Upon first coming to college, I, like many other freshmen, had a preconceived idea about what Greek life would be like. I can mainly attribute this to the popular college drama “Greek.” As the title may suggest, “Greek” is an American comedy series that follows the lives of students at the fictional Cyprus-Rhodes University (CRU). The four seasons of the show focus on how Greek life dominates the lives of all students attending CRU. For seven seasons, “Gilmore Girls” captured the hearts of many teenagers and young adults. The series stars Lauren Graham, who plays single mother Lorelai Gilmore, and Alexis Bledel, Lorelai’s daughter “Rory.” The show focuses on the lives of these two Gilmore girls in the small town of Stars Hollow, Conn.

“Gilmore Girls” originally began when Rory was in high school but eventually went on to portray Rory’s life at Yale University. Rory’s interests in journalism and “The Yale Daily News” were a prominent theme in the latter episodes of the show.

A hilariously popular show about college is “Community.”

“Community” is a comedy series on NBC that focuses on the lives of a group of students at Greendale Community College in Greendale, Colo.

The series is currently in its third season and was created

by Dan Harmon, founder of the non-profit film festival Channel 101. “Community” stars disgraced lawyer Jeff Winger and the study group that he forms at Glendale Community College. Other members of the group include Troy Barnes, a once prominent quarterback, Britta Perry, a former radical, and Pierce Hawthorne, a millionaire seeking to find his niche in life. The series has had numerous positive reviews and is a must watch if you are looking for a good laugh.

Finally, “Felicity” is perhaps one of the best shows out there that to portray college life. The show revolves around a fictionally based New York University where Felicity Porter, a native of Palo Alto, Calif., is a freshman. The four seasons of the show depict Felicity’s four years at university as she tries to find herself amidst romance, overbearing parents and the stresses of college.

Hima.Mamillapalli@UConn.edu

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‘Life’s Too Short’ comes up a little short a Ewok in a Star Wars-themed wedding to being a source of “inspiration” to Johnny Depp Ricky Gervais and Stephen for a Rumplestiltskin film.

To enjoy the show without Merchant might not have invented the mockumentary genre, but thinking it as a mean-spirited he perfected it with the original depiction of those with achonUK version of “The Office.” droplasia, it’s best to keep in A flawless mesh of dry humor mind that Davis is actually one and comedic personalities in of the show’s creators and even a stagnant atmosphere, it still came up with the show’s quesremains the master of its influ- tionable title. The underlying ential craft. Unfortunately, their strength of the show is that Warwick’s optimism latest mockumenhere is one where tary piece, “Life’s he doesn’t let his LIFE’S TOO SHORT Too Short,” isn’t disability hold him nearly as brilUK back; his goofy foils liant as their are primarily just previous mashim using his marterpiece. Despite ginal celebrity status this, Gervais and to sell autographs Merchant can still like so many others make laughs out would. of realism here.

That isn’t to say this isn’t a “Life’s Too Short” is focused around the fictional life of dark comedy to ease controverreal-life actor, Warwick Davis. sy. Rather, it pushes the boundReferring to himself as “the UK’s ary on the audience “taking the go-to dwarf,” the series follows joke” with numerous, harshly the man finding whatever act- awkward moments. Sadly, these ing jobs he can with his celeb- uncomfortable moments are rity status while being an agent both plentiful and not funny at for other small person actors all, even ones that aren’t based for organization “Dwarves for around Davis’s disability. For Hire.” Throughout the first example, Johnny Depp’s egotwo episodes aired, Davis tries centrically cruel persona might to make ends meet in various be just an act, but his lashing ways from relieving his role as out at Gervais about the Golden

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Ricky Gervais unveiled his new mockumentary “Life’s Too Short” this week in the wake of Gervais’ previous hit UK comedy “The Office.”

Globe riffs are still unpleasant.

But are there moments that work? Absolutely. It’s hard to imagine any sci-fi fan not roaring with hilarity when seeing Davis’s Ewok costume at the themed wedding just being a hollowed-out stuffed bear. Liam Neeson painfully attempting comedy is one of the lengthy gags of the show that actually doesn’t overstay its welcome. I

should praise Warwick Davis’s high-spirited performance here as well as both Gervais and Merchant’s humorously melancholy cameos.

Ultimately though, the fact that this show only scores home runs from the jokes half the time makes it an average-at-best fare from what was seen so far.

Alexandra.Ball@UConn.edu

Gored Spanish bullfighter makes remarkable comeback OLIVENZA, Spain (AP) — A Spanish bullfighter who lost sight in one eye and has partial facial paralysis after a terrifying goring returned to the bullring Sunday, five months after his injury.

On Oct. 8, a bull’s horn ripped into Juan Jose Padilla’s lower jaw and caused his left eyeball to protrude as spectators screamed in horror. Padilla was seen getting up shouting, “I can’t see, I can’t see anything,” his face gushing blood as assistants distracted the bull.

Now, wearing an eye patch and speaking with a lisp, Padilla fulfilled what he describes as an unquenchable desire to once again face massive 1,100-pound (500-kilogram) fighting bulls with the aid of only a cape and sword.

The 38-year-old Padilla, the star attraction at the southwestern town of Olivenza’s annual taurine festival, said he was returning to the ring because of a need “to win, to triumph, to be a better man.”

A capacity crowd of about 5,400 people, including die-hard connoisseurs, fashion models and well-known personalities, had packed into this town’s historic bullring, which was built in 1854.

Paris fashion past, escapes present woes PARIS (AP) — Fashion delved into past times for inspiration on Saturday, conjuring up nostalgic ready-towear collections that journeyed back years to the structured gilding of the Restoration and the high collars of the 19th century via a splash of punk.

British fashion icon Vivienne Westwood, whose collection showcased some four centuries of English dressing, said that fashion “builds on the styles of the past in order to move forward.”

But since fashion is a commercially-minded industry, could imagining different times just be a way of escape from the present financial woes?

Danish design duo Viktor & Rolf looked at the midnight moon in a strong Victoriantinged homage to nighttime sensuality with lavish, highcollared furs.

Paris’ enfant terrible Jean Paul Gaultier, meanwhile, gave a polished offering that revisited the 1980s with a typical array of tongue-in-cheek humour.

Sunday, day 6 of the Paris ready-to-wear calendar, will include shows by Hermes and Givenchy.

VIVIENNE WESTWOOD “London,” the title of Vivienne Westwood’s costume-design inspired fallwinter collection, had it all: Elizabethan corsets, Sherlock Holmes tweed, scholars gowns and even a model cycling down the catwalk.

With such dizzying allusions it’s hard to know where to start in describing the rebellious ready-to-wear show. It was said to channel 17th century Britain but saw models stomp-

ing around some 400 years of fashion history — all in contemporary black moon boots.

The highly structured silhouettes included some rigid corset bustiers that recalled the embellished crinoline of the Restoration epoch.

Rectangles were also a motif, in small peplum lapels or as a flat patterned square Beefeater dress, whose shape resembled that of the poster boys that stand in London’s Leicester Square.

At times, there was an element of couture-meets-schoolplay as draped silks sported rough edges or theatrical embroidered beading.

If the show were a play, it would probably have been a Sherlock Holmes murder mystery with several tweed looks channeling the fashion of the fictional 19th century detective, in deconstructed coats with a flat cap.

When quizzed backstage, the 70-year-old designer, who often makes political statements in her work, said she looked to the past to get away from the current “terrible, crashing times.”

It’s an artistic escapism that many designers say they’ve taken up this fall be it in Paris, New York or Milan. But of all of them, Westwood has had the most fun: the fashion crowd giggled when a model nearly crashed riding a bike in 4-inch (10-centimeter) platforms.

Westwood quipped that she loves “to put women on a pedestal.”

VIKTOR & ROLF Victorian midnight was the theme in a romantic fall-winter ready-to-wear collection from Viktor & Rolf, strong on evening wear, high-collared furs

the action moves back to Springfield. The ending is rather abrupt and unsatisfying with the Skinner helicopter gag, not the “warm” ending one might expect from a milestone show.

These detractions, however, cannot take away from the charm of the gags and the wonderful amount of character cameos, such as a personal favorite, Sideshow Bob. Overall, it was not the best episode of this season but a solid effort nonetheless.

Fans and critics of “The Simpsons” are divided into two groups. First comprised of those who believe that “The Simpsons” has long outworn its stay and can never match the quality and wit of its earlier seasons. At this point, these people wish for

the show to end its run.

The second, however, is comprised of those who take a more perspective point of view. These people admit that while the show may forever bask in the shadow of its former glory, it does not take away from the fact that the current show is still a fantastic comedy program perhaps one of if not still the best regularly on the air today.

Rather than diminish its reputation, the show’s continued success and longevity stand as testament to its consistently enduring excellence and make the earlier seasons all the more revered for the remarkable genius and inspiration that they were.

I am proud to say that I stand amongst those in the second group. While “The Simpsons” of today may not

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Models wear creations by French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier as part of his presentation for Women’s Fall-Winter, ready-to-wear 2013 fashion collection, during Paris Fashion week, Saturday, March 3, 2012.

and even the odd “bed wear” piece.

A moon shone from the backdrop of human figurines — the doll is a recurrent motif in the Dutch designers’ repertoire — adding to the clothes’ darkly feminine and sleepy mood.

“We’re always trying to look for the unexpected,” said Rolf Snoeren backstage. Viktor Horsting cited the show’s “subtle juxtapositions.”

Surprises were certainly on display with fluid, metal-sheen silhouettes based on pajamas.

But in sumptuous printed satin-silk, it would be a waste to just wear them to hit the sack.

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The matador, who is also known by his professional name of “the Cyclone of Jerez,” wore a glittering matador’s “suit of lights” outfit that had been made for the occasion in gold braid and olive green, “for hope,” according to his tailor, Justo Algaba. Stitching on the suit traced the shape of laurel leaves because “they were used to crown the brows of audacious combatants and great heroes,” Algaba said.

Padilla was greeted with loud cheers and enthusiastic hand-clapping as he walked into the ring to the traditional “pasodoble” brass band music, before having two unaccompanied flamenco style “saeta” songs dedicated to him, an honor rarely accorded to bullfighters.

Despite lacking the twoeyed stereoscopic vision that allows people to judge distances and the speed of approaching objects accurately, Padilla had little trouble killing his first bull before dedicating the second beast to his tearful father, who embraced his son after the kill.

Padilla was awarded one ear for each of his two kills. The maximum accolade a matador can achieve is two ears and a tail for each bull slain.

always hit it out of the park with every new episode (this one included), it is still an absolute joy to watch, far from the chore many critics might make it out to be. President George H.W. Bush once said that Americans need to act more “like the ‘Waltons’ and a lot less like the ‘Simpsons.’”

For more than 22 years we’ve watched the family go through good times and bad, numerous triumphs and just as many failures, and the occasional controversy often distasteful but rarely immoral. Yet, the family has always remained together changing with our times as we’ve changed to theirs. To be honest, Mr. President, if that isn’t the very essence of the American family I don’t know what is.

Here’s to the next 500.

Alexander.Sferlazza@UConn.edu

An in-vogue Edwardian edge defined many evening wear looks with overgrownsleeved slip dresses, and feather-light tulle gowns paired up with glass embroidery and silk fringing. High-collared formfitting furs provided the sensuality, with a look that invited you to see what’s underneath.

It was a strong show. The design duo clearly upped its game after the Mattel-infused baby-doll offering last spring got a lukewarm reception.

JEAN PAUL GAULTIER Jean Paul Gaultier fused 1980s graffiti prints with the style of cult rock band Velvet Underground in his slickly

executed fall-winter offering Saturday.

To music by Lou Reed, the band’s most famous member, the designer sent down the catwalk revamped versions of the boxy bomber — once worn by the group — with bands, zippers and gothic hairstyling adding a punky vibe.

Graffiti-printing provided the fun. The fabric’s richness in one flowing silk jumpsuit contrasted with the decimation of an all-over print depicting a gruesome car pile-up.

“It was half humor in everything we saw today,” gushed Spanish actress Victoria Abril in the front row.

dance?” All the girls are hesitant to go, except for Emily, since each girl has a personal vendetta with their father, making things leading up to this dance a little complicated.

Spencer is suspicious of her father paying off Alison to keep her quiet; Aria is upset with her father because he is trying to send Ezra to another state and Hanna’s father simply bailed on her.

It’s obvious that this dance will be a disaster (and it was) and Spencer learns that her father used the money for a private investigator to follow Melissa. He was paranoid that she might have possibly murdered Alison after she kept sending her threatening text messages. As for Aria she can’t stand her father so she storms off. But before going home, she agreed to lie to Hanna’s mom. She claims she was the blackmailer in order to Hanna to stop investigating, but of course Hanna’s mom doesn’t believe a word of it.

The episode ends with Spencer’s dad discovering his gun is missing. The plot becomes more complicated as we go deeper into the mystery and possibly finally uncovering the truth of Alison’s murder. Tune in tonight to see “Pretty Little Liars” on ABC Family at 8 p.m.

Loumarie.Rodriguez@UConn.edu

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Reba reveals painful past, lessons in OWN special

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In this Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 , file photo, Reba McEntire speaks onstage during the 54th annual Grammy Awards on in Los Angeles.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) More than 20 years after a plane crash killed seven members of her band and her tour manager, Reba McEntire can still clearly see the hotel room she was in when she got the news.

The emotion comes flooding back when she revisits that tragic day in 1991 on "Oprah's Master Class" on the OWN network Sunday night. It's a rare break in composure from the queen of country music.

"I don't guess it ever quits hurting," she says on the show, recalling how she tearfully followed husband-manager Narvel Blackstock room to room as he called people to let them know.

"It's the worst thing that's ever happened in my life."

From that tragedy, she learned to make each day count and not to put anything off until tomorrow. However, McEntire said after the crash, she built up a wall so she would not get close to anybody, and it took time for her to open up to members of her touring family again. She accepted support from industry friends like Dolly Parton, who helped her put a new band together, and she took solace in her strong work ethic.

"I had a huge organization, and I needed to continue working, because that's their paycheck also," she told The Associated Press in a phone interview from just outside Dublin on Thursday.

"I had to take care of the people who are still here. So it wasn't a thing where I could quit. I had to go on with my life, my career for them, for my family, for my sanity."

Hard work is a defining theme in McEntire's life, and it has served her "tremendously" throughout her career. It's something she learned early on from her father, Clark, when she was put to work as a kid on the family's ranch in Oklahoma.

"If you do that in any job, if you can take direction, if you're coachable, and you give it all, you're going to be successful," she said on the phone.

McEntire is now a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and has sold more than 55 million albums worldwide. She also runs a successful fashion and merchandise line.

In 2001, she performed in the Broadway revival of "Annie Get Your Gun" and she starred in the hit TV show "Reba" for six seasons before it was taken

off the air.

"I didn't want to leave the sitcom business in the first place. Our show was canceled in December of 2006, not by our choice by any shape, form or fashion," she said. "We had a lot more stories to tell, and we were having a blast."

This year, McEntire is going back to television. ABC has picked up a pilot for the show "Malibu Country." McEntire plays a woman who divorces her rock-star husband and moves her three kids from Nashville to Malibu to resurrect her singing career.

"I thought it was very true to life," she said. "Kind of like 'The Beverly Hillbillies' once again, because it was very similar to Narvel, Shelby (their son) and myself moving to L.A. in 2001 to do the 'Reba' show.' So I really got a kick out of it."

As much as she's accomplished, McEntire believes she still has a lot to learn.

"No matter how old you are or what you've been doing in life, you can always learn either a better way of doing things or just a better way of treating people," she said.

Pitt, Clooney, Sheen headline How TV made heartthrob out of marriage rights play Monkees' Davy Jones

LOS ANGELES (AP) Martin Sheen commanded the stage with his impassioned portrayal of an attorney arguing for gay-marriage rights; Jane Lynch inspired instant response as a vehement samesex marriage opponent; Brad Pitt dazzled as a judge.

It was all part of the starstudded West Coast premiere of "8," a play about the 2010 federal court fight against Proposition 8, the gay-marriage ban that California voters approved in 2008.

The performance Saturday at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles also featured George Clooney, Kevin Bacon, Jamie Lee Curtis, Christine Lahti, George Takei, John C. Reilly, Chris Colfer, Matthew Morrison and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

The play by Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black made its Broadway debut last year in similar starry fashion.

Saturday's benefit performance was broadcast live on YouTube, where director Rob Reiner said it drew 200,000 viewers. He hopes it attracts more than a million before its weeklong online run ends.

The play will also be staged around the country with local actors at colleges and community theaters.

"We want as many people as possible to see what happened inside that courtroom," said Reiner, a founding member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which is funding the federal fight for mar-

riage equality.

Relying largely on transcripts from court proceedings, "8'' introduces viewers to the couples who challenged the California initiative, the attorneys who argued their case and a bumbling witness who spoke out against them.

One couple has two children together; the other wants to start a family; and a witness testifying in favor of the same-sex marriage ban said under oath that marriage equality was best for couples, kids and the country.

The real-life couples in the case — Sandy Stier (Curtis) and Kris Perry (Lahti), and Jeff Zarillo (Matt Bomer) and Paul Katami (Morrison) — and the attorneys — David Boies (Clooney) and Theodore B. Olson (Sheen) — were in the audience Saturday, along with director Brett Ratner, designer Diane Von Furstenberg and Clooney's girlfriend, Stacy Keibler.

"We did put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost," Olson said after Reiner brought him on stage.

Last month, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an earlier judge's decision that found California's proposed amendment banning same-sex marriage unconstitutional.

Reiner said he and Black decided to make a play and eventually a movie based on the Prop. 8 trial after proponents successfully petitioned to block cameras from the

courtroom.

Saturday's reading was held on a courtroom-like set, with eight chairs on each side and Pitt's judge's box in the center. Sheen and Clooney made for an impressive legal team, while Reilly cracked up the crowd as a verbose marriage expert.

"I knew that Martin Sheen was going to get a huge ovation after that speech because we applauded for him in rehearsal," said Ferguson, adding that he wanted to be in "8'' as soon as he heard about it. "John C. Reilly did a brilliant job with his role but I loved seeing Jane Lynch play such a villainous, homophobic creature. It really felt like she was sticking it to the man."

Reilly said he was moved by the material, and even more so by its message.

"I think America will be a better place and we can hold our chins up a little higher in this country when everyone is treated (equally)," he said.

"These aren't gay rights or special rights, they're basic rights that people who love each other should have."

Reilly was thrilled to participate in the play, and even took on a last-minute role change when Pitt signed on.

Reilly was to play the judge, but instead jumped into a role that Reiner originally was going to play.

Said the director: "I took one for the team."

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax" raked in all kinds of green, earning $70.7 million in its first weekend to score the biggest boxoffice debut of the year by far.

The 3-D animated family film from Universal Pictures, featuring the voices of Danny DeVito, Zac Efron and Taylor Swift, is based on Seuss' cautionary fable about the importance of preserving the environment. Of its opening haul, $5.4 million, or 8 percent, came from IMAX screens, which is on the high side for a family film.

Coming in second place with a strong debut of its own was the R-rated "Project X," about a trio of high school misfits who throw a raging party in hopes of becoming popular. The Warner Bros. comedy made about $20.8 million, according to Sunday studio estimates.

"The Lorax" comes from the makers of "Despicable Me," — Illumination Entertainment, led by producer Christopher Meledandri — and director

Chris Renaud. It actually had a bigger opening than that film, which debuted with $56.4 million in July 2010. It also scored the biggest opening for a Dr. Seuss adaptation, topping the $55.1 million that "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" made in 2000.

Before this, "The Vow" had the best debut of 2012 with $41.2 million.

"I was stunned from Friday," when "The Lorax" made $17.4 million, said Nikki Rocco, Universal's president of domestic distribution. It then made a huge leap on Saturday, earning $31.3 million. "Who would have expected a result like this?"

Rocco attributed the movie's success to "a combination of a) a great film, b) an incredible marketing campaign and b-plus) the need for another family film in the marketplace.

I think that has a lot to do with it. ...

"People love Dr. Seuss," she added, "and audiences now know about Illumination and

Chris Meledandri, what he delivers."

The strong showing for "The Lorax" continues a trend of movies overperforming so far this year, said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com.

Revenues are up 19 percent from this point in 2011.

"It's so different from what we were seeing last year and especially the end of last year.

Now it's like a box-office bonanza," Dergarabedian said.

"What a great turnaround from where we were last year with the down-trending week after week and the lowest attendance in 15 years. If we keep up this pace, we're going to be looking at a massive summer."

Some huge sequels are coming out this summer, Dergarabedian pointed out, including "The Avengers," ''The Dark Knight Rises" and "The Amazing Spider-Man." Dergarabedian had expected "The Lorax" would open somewhere in the $45-to-$50 million range and that "Project X," in

LOS ANGELES (AP) Before there was MTV, before "American Idol" made overnight stars of people you never heard of, there was "The Monkees," a band fronted by a diminutive singer named Davy Jones who was so boyishly good looking that teenage girls swooned the first time they ever saw him.

That was at the end of the summer of 1966, when Jones and his three Monkee cohorts, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork and Micky Dolenz, arrived on weekly television, portraying a carbon copy of another band called the Beatles.

Each Monday night for the next two years, people would tune into NBC to see the comical trials and tribulations of four young musicians who tooled around in a tricked-out car called the Monkeemobile. When they weren't introducing two or three new songs per show, they would be busy rescuing damsels in distress or being chased by bumbling outlaws in a comical display of slapstick that has sometimes been compared to the work of the Marx Brothers.

Although all four members handled the lead vocals during their music videos, it was Jones, the onetime child star of the British musical stage, who quickly became the group's heartthrob. With his boyish good looks and endearing British accent augmented by a strong, Broadway-trained singing

voice, it was a role he would play for the rest of his life.

Jones died Wednesday of a heart attack near his home in Indiantown, Fla., just months after he, Tork and Dolenz had completed a tour marking The Monkees' 45th anniversary. He was 66.

The Monkees had been created to cash in on the Beatles' popularity, and although they never came close to achieving the critical stature of their counterparts, they did carve out a permanent niche in music as what Rolling Stone's Encyclopedia of Rock 'n' Roll has called "the first and perhaps the best of the '60s and '70s prefabricated pop groups."

Their songs were melodid, catchy, and many have endured over the years. The first two they released, "Last Train to Clarksville" and "I'm a Believer," became No. 1 hits. So did "Daydream Believer," on which Jones sang the lead and which Dolenz told The Associated Press four years ago remains the Monkees' most requested song at concerts.

"Of the four actors they hired, Davy Jones was by far the most accomplished as a singer and as a performer.

He was really the perfect choice," said Rich Podolsky, author of a biography of Don Kirshner, who was "The Monkees" TV show's musical director.

Born in Manchester, England, on Dec. 30, 1945,

Jones had been a child star in his native country, appearing on television and stage, including a heralded role as "The Artful Dodger" in a London production of the play "Oliver."

When the show came to Broadway, he earned a Tony nomination at age 16 for the role, a success that brought him to the attention of Columbia Pictures/Screen Gems Television, which created "The Monkees."

Hundreds of musicianactors turned out for the auditions, but the young men who became the Monkees had no idea what ultimately awaited them.

"They had an ad in the newspaper," Jones recalled on NBC's "Today Show" last year, "and then we all showed up."

When they put him together with Tork, Dolenz and Nesmith, the chemistry was obvious.

"That's it," he recalled everyone around him saying: "Magic."

At 5-feet-3 inches, he was by far the shortest member of the group — a fact often made light of on the show. But he also was its dreamboat, mirroring Paul McCartney's role in the Beatles. And as the only Briton among the four, Jones was in some ways the Monkees' direct connection to the Beatlemania still strong in the U.S. when the TV show made its debut. .

Lorax cleans up at box office with $70.7M a bit of counter-programming, would end up in the high teens: "Warner Bros. perfectly put their R-rated, raunchy comedy right there in the same weekend as 'The Lorax' and both films did very well."

Last week's No. 1 movie, "Act of Valor," dropped to third place with $13.7 million. The action picture from Relativity Media, which stars real, activeduty U.S. Navy SEALs, has made over $45.2 million total.

This year's best-picture winner at the Academy Awards, the silent, black-and-white "The Artist," got a 34 percent bump from its victory last weekend.

The Weinstein Co. film made $3.9 million to come in 10th place and now has grossed over $37 million total.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are also included.

Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

AP

In this film image released by Universal Pictures, animated character Lorax, voiced by Danny Devito, is shown in a scene from "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax."

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Boston will miss the presence of Tek

By Willy Penfield New England Sports Columnist

In 1997, Dan Duquette and the Boston Red Sox completed one of the most lopsided trades in recent history. They sent Heathcliff Slocumb, a player of no real use to the team, to the Seattle Mariners in return for Derek Lowe and Jason Varitek.

Lowe played a key role in the success of the Red Sox until he was let go after the 2004 World Series, but the bigger get was Jason Varitek, the eventual captain of the two World Series Championship teams of 2004 and 2007.

After this past Thursday, we will never again see Varitek in a Red Sox uniform as a player. At Jet Blue Park in Fort Myers, Fla., Varitek retired from the game of baseball.

In his time in Boston, Varitek’s walk up music was “Superman” by 3 Doors Down.

In many ways he was the team’s Superman, but for those five minutes the captain spoke during his retirement press conference, Superman was human.

He showed emotion no one had ever seen before, wiping away tears during his last goodbye to Red Sox Nation.

He was the heart and soul of the Red Sox, despite his talents fading toward the end of his career.

He was the only player in baseball to wear the stitched

“C” on his jersey.

He was the man who took on Alex Rodriguez in a late summer game against the New York Yankees that sparked the eventual 2004 World Series Champions out of a dreary funk.

Most importantly, he was the man who was respected like no other by his teammates, coaches and peers.

“He’s the kind of person this organization needs to keep very close because this guy does nothing but add things, good things,” said David Ortiz to ESPN Boston last week. “It was an honor for me to be his teammate. I learned a lot of good things from Tek, but the most important was hard work.

His teammates really liked him. So much that every fifth day when Josh Beckett pitched, Varitek was behind the plate.

“I loved working with him,” Beckett told ESPN Boston last week. “I’ve never had a catcher before Tek, who cared about wanting me to be successful, even before he wanted to be successful.”

Former manager Terry Francona even went as far as saying that Varitek ran the clubhouse, strong words from the man who was supposed to run the clubhouse.

Varitek will go down in history as one of the greatest Red Sox players ever, and if not for Carlton Fisk, their best catcher ever.

He played 1,546 games for

the Red Sox, cumulating in a batting average of .256 with 193 home runs and 757 RBI. He was a two-time all-star. He also caught five no hitters, the most in major league history.

Varitek will not be headed to Cooperstown, unless it is to check out the exhibits, but he should be a Red Sox Hall of Famer.

The argument could also be made that the No. 33 should overlook the diamond in right field next to those of Bobby Doerr, Joe Cronin, Johnny Pesky, Carl Yastrzemski, Ted Williams, Jim Rice, Carlton Fisk and Jackie Robinson as the ninth retired number in the franchise’s storied history.

As great as he was, it was definitely time for him to retire. Not only did his skillset diminish greatly, especially at the plate, but it seemed as though he could no longer lead the clubhouse with so little playing time.

Despite his desire to play another year, he has more important things to attend to now, such as his new wife, Catherine, who is pregnant.

There will never be another Tek in Boston and Red Sox Nation owes him a big ‘thank you.’ So thanks Tek, you will be sorely missed.

AP

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Jason Varitek, the longtime captain of the Boston Red Sox, has recently announced his retirement from Major League Baseball.

Agabiti: It's the nature of the NFL beast Huskies finished strong to beat Pitt

from BOWEN, page 18

Bowen also said of Williams, “He is the best coach I’ve ever been around.” Bowen said that Williams created a culture on that team where players were going to go all out on every play and if it took a reward to do so, then that was a necessary evil.

They all bought into it; there was no hesitation.

“Your career exists in a short window, one that starts closing

the moment it opens,” Damon said in a column he wrote for the Chicago Tribune. “If making a play to impress a coach or win a game pushes that window up an inch before it slams back down on your fingers, then you do what has to be done.

“Some day, when my three sons grow up, I will make clear to them that this league isn’t for everyone. No doubt, it can be downright disgusting living by a win-at-all-costs mentality. It’s a fundamental part of the NFL’s

culture that isn’t talked about outside of team facilities.”

I totally agree that Williams and the players involved should be fined heavily for this, and they probably will. But let’s not act surprised by this. It’s the nature of the beast.

It’s awful that this is the way the game is run, but that’s just how things work in the NFL. “Win or else,” Damon said.

That’s the drill.”

Daniel.Agabiti@UConn.edu

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On the ensuing possession, Smith took a charge on Moore, a rarity for UConn teams that block more shots than take charges.

“One of the biggest plays of the game was the charge he took,” Blaney said. “That’s the first charge we’ve taken in six months, I think.”

While Smith was lying on the floor, Napier came over to celebrate.

“I just took advantage of the opportunity,” Smith said.

The Huskies took back control of the game after Napier hit a three-pointer to push the lead to 66-61 with 1:02 remaining.

“Usually we don’t stay together, but today we did,” Lamb said. “We definitely stayed together today and played hard.”

Napier said after losing to Marquette in Hartford that UConn responded to punches with pillows, but nobody

“This time we took the punch and punched back.”

Geore Blaney Associate Head Coach thought that on Saturday.

“This time we took the punch and punched back,” Blaney said.

Napier stretched the lead to 70-62 after a steal and a transition lay up with 36 seconds left.

After more free throws, UConn was able to celebrate with the home crowd in the final regular season game.

“This was the last game of the season in Gampel, great crowd out there, and to see Coach back, and just be able to get a win, it’s a real good feeling,” Lamb said.

The Huskies will play DePaul on Tuesday at noon at Madison Square Garden in the first round of the Big East tournament.

UConn will head to New York after a much-needed win.

“It was a lot of smiles, a lot of heads held up high,” Smith said of the locker room after the game.

Colin.McDonough@UConn.edu

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Coach and team confident they can go far in Atlantic Hockey playoffs

By Carmine Colangelo Staff Writer

Playoff pandemonium hit the Freitas Ice Forum as the UConn men’s hockey team opened first-round play at the Atlantic Hockey Association playoffs with a sweep of Canisius.

“It was a good team effort,” said goaltender Garrett Bartus.

“We set the bar of how we have to play for the rest of the playoffs.”

The Huskies, who earned the eighth seed in the AHA playoffs, hosted the ninthseeded Golden Griffins for a best of three games series. On Friday, the teams squared off for the opening game, which ended in exciting fashion.

In a back and forth contest, which was tied 3-3 at the end of two periods, neither team scored in third period, forcing overtime. At 7:52 in overtime, the Golden Griffins had a chance to end the game on a penalty shot as a UConn defenseman barreled into the crease and displaced the net.

Bartus saved the penalty shot with his left pad, which was one of his nine saves in overtime and one of the most important of his 36 saves on the night. The Huskies would earn a power play soon after

that and the No. 4 power play unit in the nation capitalized as defenseman Alex Gerke scored the game-winning goal.

“I like the way we came back,” said Huskies’ coach Bruce Marshall. “I like the way we kept competing.”

MEN'S HOCKEY

Notebook On Saturday the Huskies set the tone early as they scored two goals in the first period and never looked back.

They blanked the Golden Griffins 4-0, completing the sweep. Four different Huskies scored, including forward Cole Schneider, who now has 20 goals on the season. Bartus had 26 saves on the night en route to his fifth shutout of the season.

“I think we played one of our most complete games of the year tonight,” Marshall said.

Now the Huskies advance

to the quarterfinals, but their opponent will not be known until after Sunday night. The lowest remaining seed is supposed to play No. 1-seeded Air Force. It was assumed to be the Huskies, until Saturday night when the No. 11 seed Sacred Heard upset No. 6 seed Bentley 4-2.

Also on that night, the No. 10 seed American International defeated No. 7 seed Robert Morris 7-5. Both of those series became tied 1-1.

The Huskies are not sure who they will have to prepare for next weekend, but Marshall has decided that, regardless of who they play, the focus of this week’s practice will be on special teams.

The Huskies did not give up a goal on the penalty kill and went 2-4 on power play chances this weekend.

Until the rubber matches are decided, all the Huskies will know is that they will be traveling next weekend for a series with one of the top four seeds in the AHA, starting this Friday.

“If we play our game there is not a lot of teams in the league that can hang with us,” Bartus said.

Carmine.Colangelo@UConn.edu

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The Daily Question has a better chance of winning the Big East Tournament?

Q : “Who The women’s or men’s basketball team?” the women, but I still have faith that the men can win their A : “Probably 8th title. I ‘8elieve.’”

» That’s what he said – Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant on playing with a protective face mask.

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Last Night Rutgers Big East Tournament

Men’s Ice Hockey (15-17-4) March 9 March 10 March 16 Atlantic Hockey Atlantic Hockey Atlantic Hockey Quarterfinals Quarterfinals Semifinals

March 17 Atlantic Hockey Finals

Men’s Swimming & Diving March 9 NCAA Zone Diving All Day

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Baseball (4-6) March 9 Oklahoma 2 p.m.

March 10 Illinois 11 p.m.

March 10 Oregon St. 7 p.m.

March 11 Oregon 3 p.m.

March 12 Seattle 4 p.m.

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Lamb and Drummond honored, Baseball takes down Lipscomb

By Aaron Kasmanoff-Dick Campus Correspondent Men’s basketball players honored Jeremy Lamb has been named to the All-Big East First team. The sophomore guard has averaged 17.6 points, 4.8 rebounds and 1.3 steals a game for the Huskies. Lamb is the only sophomore named to the sixmember team. He’s had two 30 point and eight 20 point games this season, and has scored at least 10 points in every game except for three.

Andre Drummond, center, was named to the Big East All-Rookie team.

Drummond’s 53 percent field goal shooting leads all freshmen with at least 50 attempts.

Game of the Week: Baseball vs. Lipscomb The UConn baseball team came back from an eight inning deficit of 5-1 to win the game on an RBI from sophomore shortstop Tom Verdi.

Freshman left fielder Eric Yavarone ran in the game winner from third base,

completing a sweep of Lipscomb at the Mississippi State Tournament hosted by Mississippi state University.

The Huskies finished the weekend by advancing to 4-6 on the season.

Next weekend the team will be in Eugene, Oregon for the Nike showcase hosted

by Oregon and Oregon State.

Wish We Were There: Men’s Hockey vs. Canisus The men’s hockey team defeated Canisus College 4-0 Saturday to complete a two game sweep in the first round of the Atlantic Hockey Association.

The Huskies will move on to the second round to face an undetermined opponent, next weekend. UConn head coach Bruce Marshall said, “We played playoff type hockey and everyone did what they had to do tonight. Now we can’t rest on our laurels. This was just one step. The next step is to go on into the playoffs and do it again in the next round, wherever we go.”

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Rory McIlroy is the new face of golf

(AP) — For more months than we care to think about, the only real question in golf has been this: What’s wrong with Tiger?

Maybe now we should be asking what’s going so well with golf.

Plenty, if you judge from a Sunday afternoon in Florida, where a new star helped cement his claim to greatness even as he heard roars coming down the stretch that could only mean Tiger Woods was on the move.

No. 1 in the world was on the line for Rory McIlroy, but that wasn’t even the biggest subplot of the day. That was owned by a player in bright red whose game finally matched the brilliance of his shirt.

Woods’ 62 may not have put a scare into McIlroy, but it did put everyone on notice that he can still play golf. Doing it on Sunday after it’s been so long since he’s won a real tournament screamed out Woods was, indeed, back.

The only question is how much it still matters.

To the crowd count, yes, and maybe even to the count always in Woods’ head — the 18 majors won

by Jack Nicklaus.

But there’s a new attraction in golf, a curly haired 22-year-old from Northern Ireland who is just as much fun to watch as Woods in his prime and a lot more fun to be around. McIlroy’s boyish charm and obvious joy for the game are in stark contrast to Woods, and he seems so approachable that one fan on the 17th tee on Saturday asked him what kind of shampoo he uses.

But the way he stared down Woods in the final round may be what separates him from all the pretenders that came before.

McIlroy never backed off, even when Woods made eagle on the final hole to pull within one in the Honda Classic. He heard the roars from the 18th green, then stepped up and calmly knocked in a birdie putt on No. 13 on his way to a win that made him the youngest No. 1 player in the world since — you guessed it — Woods early in his career.

McIlroy may not be the next Woods, but that’s an unfair comparison. Woods in his prime was so dominant the odds are there will never be anyone like him again. And he showed Sunday that he’s not done yet, something that should sell tickets and spark TV ratings the rest of the year.

Still, there’s something about McIlroy that’s appealing to watch, something about him that oozes star power. We’ve known it since his runaway win at the U.S. Open last year, and he confirmed it on a breezy day made even better by the pressure from the still big footsteps of Woods. While Woods was magnificent, McIlroy was steady and that was all he needed to become the first No. 1 since Woods that casual golf fans actually care about.

THE Pro Side Celtics slip past New York, Kobe burns Heat in Los Angeles

By Darryl Blain Staff Writer Game of the week: Boston/ New York overtime showdown You get exactly what you expect nearly every time a pair of teams from these rival cities face off against each other-a tight and exciting game. This was no exception. To add to the entertainment, Celtic guard Rajon Rondo had a career day, finishing with 17 rebounds, 20 assists and 18 points. He also played a direct part in every single Celtic point in overtime.

Fellow guard Paul Pierce added 34 points of his own, including the game-tying three with 4.9 seconds in regulation. Carmelo Anthony contributed 25 points for the Knicks and sensation Jeremy Lin put in 14 on his own, but it wasn’t enough. Final score: Celtics 115, Knicks 111.

Big letdown: Former Saints coach Gregg Williams accused of placing bounties The Saints’ defensive coordinator from the Super Bowlwinning Saints team in 2009 was found by an NFL investigation to have been in charge of a “bounty pool,” which paid players

for causing injuries to specified opponents, which caused them to leave the game. Not only is the practice illegal, but the findings of Williams’ rewards for the act come at a time when player safety seems to be priority for the NFL, the evidence of which can be found in the recent rule changes. It has also been found that Williams was running a similar system as the Redskins coordinator from 2004-2007, further shedding negative light on the NFL. Wish we were there: Kobe’s 33 points lift Lakers past Heat In a game in which perhaps the NBA’s two biggest stars, LeBron James and Kobe Bryant, competed, there was a little bit extra on the line. In the NBA All-Star a week ago Heat guard Dwayne Wade broke the nose of Kobe Bryant through contact some deemed “unnecessary.” Although Wade insisted the contact was not intended to harm Bryant, there was speculation. Since then, Bryant has had some stellar performances, and last night was no exception. His 33 points and dominating performance were enough for the Lakers to beat the Heat in L.A. 93-83.

Darryl.Blain@UConn.edu

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PANTHERS TAKEN DOWN

Napier leads Huskies to regular season finale victory

By Colin McDonough Associate Sports Editor

Dan Agabiti Friday, a former New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator came clean, saying that he and players were running a bounty system where defensive players got paid for big hits on opponents.

The money came from players’ missteps throughout the week—players would pay a fine for things like showing up late to a meeting or missing an assignment during practice— and after each week’s game, it would be handed back out to players that made a hard hit on certain “targets,” or just made a big hit in general. Players were also awarded for injuring opponents or getting them carted off the field. These bonuses went as high as $1,500.

In other news, water is wet.

You can’t honestly expect me to be shocked about the fact that NFL athletes—grown men, often from rough backgrounds, playing one of the most physical sports on the planet at its highest level—want to hurt some of they guys they face.

That’s the game, like it or not.

We in America have this weird tendency to freak out whenever something in culture—be it music, movies, whatever—goes some way we think it shouldn’t. We sugarcoat what we love and create this absurd sunshine and rainbows image of it.

“Wait,” we say. “Actors, actresses and singers have drug addictions that they die from and some of them turn out to be abusive spouses? Really?

I thought they had it so easy, what with all that fame and money and all that stuff. They look like they have it made.”

The same goes for sports.

“You mean those guys that risk their bodies for an average career of just a few years in the hopes of a profitable career are under extreme pressure to win?

I thought they were just living out their childhood dream of being a football player.”

For a nation that prides itself on being educated, we can be morons in the common sense department.

Any fan of the NFL who is honestly surprised by this development has not been watching the same league that I have. The NFL is probably the most cutthroat business in America—behind maybe Hollywood and Wall Street.

Players, coaches and general managers have such a short window to perform, and if they don’t, then it’s on to the next guy.

“Just win baby, win” wasn’t just cited to Al Davis because DJ Khaled thought it would sound cool. It was Al Davis’s mantra and it is the sole premise on which the entire league is structured. You win or you go home. That’s the deal on the table when you consider the NFL as a career.

We as fans are a large part of that pressure to win. If guys don’t perform, we boo them, we call radio shows yelling about them, and tweet about how they should be fired. But if guys do well, we buy jerseys, pay ridiculously high prices for game tickets and make team logos our desktop photos. We idolize athletes and teams, that’s how it goes.

Former Washington Redskins defensive back Matt Bowen played under Williams from 2003-2005 when Williams was the defensive coordinator in Washington. Bowen said that the same system was in place when Williams coached there.

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Shabazz Napier dribbled straight toward coach Jim Calhoun as the clock expired on an emotional win, and a rollercoaster ride of a regular season for the UConn men’s basketball team.

“I needed the hug, I missed the guy so much,” Napier said on his coach’s return from an eight-game absence.

The Huskies beat Pittsburgh 74-65 on Senior Day at Gampel Pavilion in front of 10,167. The win improved UConn to 18-12 with an 8-10 Big East record. The loss dropped the Panthers to 16-15 and 5-13 in conference play. Napier had 23 points and six assists while Jeremy Lamb and Roscoe Smith each scored 14 points to pace the Huskies.

“We played great in the first half,” Blaney said. Calhoun was unavailable to the media due to exhaustion. ”We really had a terrific lead and then took a punch. This time we took the punch and then punched back. I thought we out-toughed them at the end.”

UConn led 36-22 at halftime. But one game after giving up a 14-point lead at Providence, the Huskies could not keep a lead in front of the home crowd. Pittsburgh took its first lead of the game with 2:51 left on a Tray Woodall 3-pointer. Andre Drummond tied the game at 61 on a free throw and after a turnover by J.R. Moore, Lamb found Smith along the baseline for a lay up to take back the lead with 2:06 left.

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UConn’s Shabazz Napier finishes a fast break late in Saturday’s game against Pittsburgh at Gampel Pavilion in Storrs. The Huskies won the regular season finale against the Panthers 74-65.

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Win over Pitt a big relief before Big East

By Matt McDonough Sports Editor

In coach Jim Calhoun’s return, Roscoe Smith stole the show.

The sophomore from Baltimore scored 14 points on 7-of-10 shooting and added seven rebounds in the UConn men’s basketball team’s 74-65 win over Pittsburgh before 10,167 at Gampel Pavilion on Saturday afternoon.

Smith, whose effort and energy pleased the crowd, brought Gampel Pavilion to its feet with 1:33 remaining in regulation. With the Huskies leading 63-61, J.R. Moore drove the lane and Smith was waiting to take a charge.

Following the foul call, Smith was piled on by his teammates.

“It came at the moment we

needed it … He got that charge charge set off a premature, yet and I couldn’t hold my emo- needed, moment of celebration. tions,” said Shabazz Napier.

“That’s one of the things we “It was a big-time play and decided to do, just go out and crucial play at that moment,” have fun out there,” Smith said.

Smith said.

Smith, who had trouble stay“One of the ing in the rotation biggest plays of earlier in the seathe game was the son, has been a key charge [Smith] cog for the Huskies took,” said assissince getting the tant coach George starting nod a few Blaney. games ago.

Napier hit a three “The biggest on the next possesthing is he’s getting sion to extend the minutes and consisNotebook lead to five and the tent minutes … last Panthers would not year he was a freshget within four points the rest man and you expect more from of the way. Smith’s hustle to a sophomore,” Blaney said of get in defensive position ignited Smith’s early-season struggles. a team that needed a spark.

“He’s hitting full stride right UConn had blown a 14-point now,” said Ryan Boatright. lead earlier in the game and the “He’s playing smart.”

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“Roscoe stepped up,” Napier said.

Thanks to Smith’s effort, there was a different feel in the locker room Saturday.

“There was a lot of smiles,” Smith said.

Off the Rim Senior walk-ons Kyle Bailey, Ben Stewart and P.J. Cochrane were honored prior to the game. Cochrane and Stewart are four-year players while Bailey is finishing his fifth season, getting a degree in engineering and marketing.

Calhoun showed emotion in his return, pumping his fist as the clock wound down and hugging Napier at the final buzzer.

“I feel like he brought the intensity to the locker room.

Everybody’s game stepped up,” Boatright said.

Blaney and the players said it was an emotional locker room and that Calhoun spoke with his surgeon after the game. Calhoun was too physically exhausted to do interviews after the game, but Napier, who missed Calhoun dearly, said the coach was back to himself Friday at practice.

“He was still wired,” Napier said.

Jeremy Lamb was named to the All-Big East first team on Sunday and Andre Drummond, who was voted as the conference’s preseason Rookie of the Year, was awarded a spot on the Big East All-Rookie team.

The quotable George Blaney “[Calhoun] is exhausted right now,” Blaney said.

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Men’s hockey sweeps Canisius to advance

By Tyler Morrissey Campus Correspondent The UConn men’s hockey team defeated Canisius in a dramatic 4-3 overtime victory on Friday and 4-0 victory on Saturday to advance to the Atlantic Hockey League Quarterfinals.

In Friday night’s contest, forward Cody Freeman got the Golden Griffins on the board first at the 4:34 mark on the first period. The Huskies would answer when sophomore Billy Latta scored on the power play for his ninth goal this season. UConn would tack on one more goal before the end of the first period when sophomore Brent Harris scored his 16th goal of the year.

Canisius would score two more goals in the second period to take a 3-2 lead. Sophomore forward Cole Schneider would net the equalizer at the 13:31 mark of the second period. Neither team could find the back of the net in the third period, which would send the teams to a 20-minute sudden- death overtime. At the

7:52 mark of the OT period, Canisius was awarded a penalty shot, however forward Tyler Wiseman could not beat UConn goaltender Garret Bartus. At the 11:11 mark of overtime junior defensemen Alex Gerke broke the tie on the power play with a onetimer that beat Canisius goalie Dan Morrison, giving the Huskies the 4-3 victory.

The two teams would return to the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum on Saturday for the allimportant second game of the three-game series. Early play in the first period would be back and forth until Schneider would get the Huskies on the board with his 20th goal of the season, becoming UConn’s first 20 goal scorer since the 2006-07 season. Just over two minutes later freshmen forward ripped a shot through the slot to score his fourth goal of the year. UConn would take their lead into the locker room at the end of the first period. Neither team would score in the second period as Bartus would make a key save with his team on the

penalty kill to preserve the 2-0 lead. “Sometimes, your goaltender has to be the best penalty killer out there,” said head coach Bruce Marshall.

Bartus would continue to come up big for the Huskies making a post to post save at the 9:57 mark of the third period. Sophomore forward Jordan Sims would add an insurance goal at 14:58 when he followed through on a rebound for his ninth goal of the year.

UConn would put the game out of reach for good when Harris scored an empty-net goal for his 17th of the year. Bartus made 26 saves in the 4-0 victory for his fifth shutout of the season, a school record. “It feels good to get the sweep and feels good as a team,” said Bartus.

The Huskies will now advance to the Atlantic Hockey Quarterfinals, where they will face the highest seeded team after the remaining series are completed.

Tyler.Morrissey@UConn.edu

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The UConn men’s hockey team celebrates a goal during their win over Canisius Saturday.