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UConn resolves issues with workers, but union still has concerns UConn has resolved its contention with the workers hired to build the new basketball facility, and construction on the facility is expected to be completed on schedule. Workers protested outside of Gampel Pavilion a few weeks ago because they were concerned that workplace violations, including under-thetable payments and employing undocumented workers, were continuing. When a stop work order was issued by the Department of Labor against Intext on Feb. 24, Enfield Builders, the subcontractor that hired Intext, hired Acoustics Inc. to fill in. But according to UConn spokesperson Stephanie Reitz, the workers’ concerns are resolved. “The university received a message on April 4 from a representative of the union who said he wished to express his thanks for UConn’s work to resolve the issues,” Reitz said. Once the stop work order was released, Intext was legally permitted to return
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Workers protested outside of Gampel Pavilion, shown above, over workplace concerns. UConn has since resolved the issues, but the workers union still has concerns.
to the site. The decision to bring back Intext was made by Enfield Builders, according to Reitz. The general contractor for this project selected subcon-
tractors who may then subcontract duties to other companies. But UConn’s contract is only with the general contractor, Daniel O’Connell’s Sons, and that contract has
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remained in effect. The lag in the building schedule has not affected the budget for the project, according to Reitz. “We remain confident in the
quality of work provided to us by both Intext and Acoustics Inc., and look forward to the project’s completion this summer,” Reitz said. Tim Sullivan, organizer for the New England Regional Council of Carpenters, said the situation with this specific contractor has been resolved, but they still have concerns. “We are concerned that without a clear policy affirming UConn will only use responsible contractors, there will be a repetition,” Sullivan said. But Sullivan said his organization does not believe it is fair to raise problems without solutions. The NERCC brought recommendations to the university, such as involving the community by using local workers for UConn construction jobs. “UConn is the flagship university of our state. We are all justifiably proud of the sport and scholastic achievements of the students,” Sullivan said. “A clear policy that is well thought out will help restore the focus to the great things UConn students do.”
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A YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
First paid UConn fire chief honored for 32 Old husky fades into memory years of service By Alban Murtishi Staff Writer
By Julia Werth Staff Writer
The University of Connecticut Fire Department honored its first paid fire chief, Chief Merrill Cummings, for his 32 years of service with the presentation of a Class A uniform at a ceremony Thursday. Cummings had not had such a uniform since his retirement in 1978 when he was ordered to turn it in. Ever since, Cummings has declined fire department functions because he lacked the appropriate uniform. UConn firefighters, past and present, worked together over the past months to raise $700, mostly in personal donations, to return Cummings’ regalia, according to Lieutenant Christopher Renshaw. Cummings’ uniform is decorated with the five bugles on the collar and five bands around the wrist that denote his rank of chief. “His breast badge bears the title of retired chief beneath the sheltering wings of an American bald eagle and upon the brim of his cap, rest the oak leaf embellishments worn only by the highest ranking officer,” Renshaw said. Cummings started work at
the UConn Fire Department in August of 1946 after serving in the United States army for four years during World War II. “Chief Cummings bore witness to horse trails becoming roads, pasture fields transforming to academic and research institutions, and Model T ‘chemical wagons’ transitioning to the modern firefighting apparatus you see in service before us today,” Renshaw said. Many of UConn’s current fire fighters view Cummings as a role model and hero. “Chief is a remarkable guy, and it is amazing to have such a piece of living history that we can talk with and hear old stories from,” Lieutenant Heidi Vaughan said. During Cummings’ time at UConn, his department expanded greatly. At the start of his career, the department was composed of volunteer deans and faculty. By the time he retired, he was in command of 30 highly trained professionals in not only fire rescue, but emergency medical services and specialized rescue and hazmat incidents as well.
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The vision of a white, fluffy husky gracing shirts and mugs has all but vanished from campus, and has been replaced by a new, sharp-blue Jonathan. That was one year ago today, which signals the anniversary of the new logo and Kyle Muncy’s vision of a unified UConn brand. Muncy, head of UConn trademark licensing and branding, approached student-athlete representatives to pitch a single sports logo that all athletic teams would use. “We had 24 sports teams and what seemed like 24 different brands,” Muncy said. “The focus wasn’t logo change, the focus was brand consistency.” The change coincided with a then-recent dual championship victory for the men and women’s basketball team, who appeared on television wearing noticeably different uniforms. “UConn didn’t look the same, and the teams didn’t look the same,” Muncy said. Muncy and studentathletes decided a logo change was needed to not only unify athletics, but also suggested a shift in what the logo represented. “Every student-athlete in that room said, ‘we are the UConn Huskies.’ They wanted to be one thing. They were relatively outspoken over the logo at the time because they felt it wasn’t something that represented the attributes of their athleticism,” Muncy said. However, after its inception, the angular and angrier rendition of Jonathan has been plagued with criticism. After sending out thousands of emails to students regarding the logo change, almost all of the 400 email replies he received were negative. With so much of the logo-based decisions taking place behind closed doors some members of the student body was largely left out of the
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By Nicholas Shigo Campus Correspondent
With the combination of increasing prevalence of e-readers and rising costs of textbooks, some students and teachers are moving away from printed textbooks and towards studying from electronic versions. Professor Richard Rockwell of the University of Connecticut sociology department exclusively uses the electronic editions of the textbooks required for his classes. Rockwell prefers this method because of the lower price point for students and the ability to access not only the textbook, but study aids and quizzes through the online provider. Even with the lower price, Rockwell has not found that students are more likely to purchase the e-book than the physical copy. “Not everybody has a high resolution laptop that can easily display what they need to read,” Rockwell said. Other professors adopting the e-book versions of textbooks have found similar results. According to Professor Mark DeAngelis of the UConn School of Business, only half of his students purchased the new e-book version of “The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business,” published by Flatworld Knowledge, even at the price of $40 instead of the $160 hard copy. DeAngelis switched to electronic copies because of the climbing prices of college textbooks. “It’s unconscionable what publishers charge for what kids get,” DeAngelis said. DeAngelis said that college students prefer not to buy textbooks and he thinks that the lower price and interactivity of e-books will change that. “I believe that the printed book is dead,” DeAngelis said. Many students prefer using e-books to hard copies for the lower price and the ease of carrying a small tablet instead of a heavy textbook. Gianna Duncan, a second semester speech, language and hearing studies major, uses her iPad for storing study materials. “If there were a lot of books in the course, then I would use the e-book,” Duncan said. However, students don’t find e-books favorable for certain circumstances. Duncan said she prefers to use her e-books for short readings because the iPad screen hurts to look at for long periods of time. Students also said that printed textbooks are favorable when the class requires note taking or highlighting material within the text. “If I’m writing something on the computer it’s easier to refer to a paper copy than a digital one,” said Nicolas McGarrahan, fourth semester psychology major. With online content and e-readers becoming more common in and outside the classroom students and teachers may find a bigger push towards digital media in the coming years.
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BOSTON (AP) — With efforts to repeal Massachusetts’ casino law underway, MGM Resorts International has asked state regulators to delay the collection of casino fees from the company even as it prepares to become the state’s first licensed casino operator. MGM Springfield President Michael Mathis said on Thursday that the Las Vegasbased company risks losing about $200 million in fees, deposits and other payments if a referendum to repeal the state’s 2011 casino law is put before voters in November and passes. “No corporation should be expected to subject itself to such risk,” Mathias said in a letter to the state Gaming Commission.
He said the commission could award the casino license for the state’s western region by June, as is now anticipated. But Mathis suggested the commission hold off on going forward with the process — which would, among other things, trigger the payment of an $85 million state licensing fee — until the repeal effort plays out. The proposed ballot question is pending before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Oral arguments are set for May 5, and the court is expected to rule by July. “Repeal the Casino Deal,” the group pushing for the anti-casino referendum, said MGM’s request signals that the “landscape for casinos has shifted” in Massachusetts.
“The $85 million application fee isn’t much to a company which earned nearly $1 billion off the backs of its customers last year,” John Ribeiro, the group’s chairman, said in a statement. “But it is telling that our grassroots movement has made them blink about this bad bet.” Delaying MGM’s licensing payments would affect state finances, at least in the short run. The state budget for the fiscal year ending June 30 anticipated $195 million in casino-related licensing fees, including $25 million from a slots parlor and $85 million for two new casino licenses, one in eastern Massachusetts and another in western Massachusetts. The state has received a
$25 million licensing fee for a recently licensed slots parlor in Plainville and had hoped for payment of the $85 million licensing fee for the western Massachusetts casino by June 30. Officials had already assumed the state would not see the eastern region casino’s licensing fee by the close of the fiscal year. That process has been delayed by Boston Mayor Martin Walsh’s bid to get the city designated as a host community for casinos proposed in Everett by Wynn Resorts and in Revere by Mohegan Sun. The hostcommunity status allows for citywide referendums on the proposals.
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discussion The logo was designed by Nike, an athletic partner of UConn that also designs and provides team uniforms. “I understand that there are some folks who feel that there wasn’t enough student input into the change,” Muncy said. “For licensing reasons, we needed to be secretive and discreet about the redesign.” But this, Muncy says, has had unseen positive effects for the school and the student body. With a unified and protected logo, UConn can exert much more control over what the Husky logo can be displayed on, according to Muncy. He added that this protects the integrity of the logo, and, by extension, the school. “The days of the husky logo just being slapped on everything are over, and it’s not a restrictive process, it’s a protective process.” he said. The new logo has almost com-
Boston Marathon makes room for more runners in this year’s race
BOSTON (AP) — More than 5,000 runners were still on the Boston Marathon course when the bombs went off on Boylston Street. Race organizers were eager to invite them back — to let them finish what they started — and aware of the message that would send. “The thought was: If those people, like so many others, wanted to have some physical expression of resilience and determination, it would probably be that many of them at least would want to run the whole race,” Boston Athletic Association president Tom Grilk said as he prepared for the 118th Boston Marathon. “Can we do that? We thought we’d like to do that.” Then there were the police and firefighters who helped at the site of the explosions; the doctors and nurses and volunteers and EMTs who tended to the wounded; the injured themselves, and friends and relatives who wanted to run in their honor or memory. After capping the field at 27,000 for about five years, race organizers quickly realized that would not be enough for Monday. But soon the effort to be more inclusive for what proves to be an emotional return to the streets ran into the reality of New England life: The roads built in a horse and buggy era weren’t made for tens of thousands of runners, nor the thousands of fans who cheer them on. “The streets, the roads are pretty much the same roads that were there in 1897. The starting line is still 39 feet wide,” Grilk said last week in an interview at the B.A.A. offices, less than two blocks from the finish line. “So we can’t create more space. We can use a little more time, so we can stretch it out.” To fit the additional runners — for a total field of 36,000 that will be the second-largest in the race’s history — organizers will rely again on a staggered start. From 10 to 11:25 a.m. on Monday, four waves of about 9,000 apiece will leave Hopkinton for the 26.2-mile
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In this photo taken Thursday, April 10, 2014, photo Boston Athletic Association president Tom Grilk speaks with an Associated Press reporter in his office in Boston. More than 5,000 runners were still on the Boston Marathon course when the bombs went off near the finish line in 2013, so the field was expanded for the 2014 marathon to accommodate them. “The thought was: If those people, like so many others, wanted to have some physical expression of resilience and determination, it would probably be that many of them at least would want to run the whole race,” Grilk said.
trek to Boston’s Copley Square. Grilk said the expansion was discussed with the eight cities and towns along the route, and all agreed that a smaller race this year was not an option. “Anything that looked like a reaction that showed fear or in any way giving in to the acts of cowardly terrorists would have been very unfavorably received,” he said. “And while there will be pressure and challenge for everybody, everybody welcomes the opportunity to rise to that challenge.” For decades, the field size of the Boston Marathon was limited by the sheer challenge of the distance. What started in Boston in 1897 with 18 men — and they were all men — grew slowly at first, still going off with fewer than 200 runners as late as 1960. But the milestones fell quickly
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after that: more than 1,000 in 1968 and nearly 8,000 by 1979. For the 100th edition of the race, in 1996, there were 38,708 entrants — at the time, the largest marathon in history. And with the crowds came new problems. The motto for Hopkinton is “It all starts here,” but the fact that the town of less than 15,000 happened to be about 26 miles from Boston has not always been considered good luck. As the marathon grew through the years, residents griped about the runners relieving themselves on their lawns or leaving behind piles of granola bar wrappers and empty water bottles when they departed for the Back Bay. Now, instead of 18 men hitching rides to the start, a fleet of buses shuttles runners to Hopkinton. Portable toilets are
trucked in and stationed along the route. Hundreds of volunteers are needed to hand out water, warming blankets and medals. Security, which for a century remained in the background, became a bigger issue after the Sept. 11 attacks and a primary concern in 2014. And, to squeeze all those runners over a 39-foot starting line — in the 100th race it took 31 minutes for the field to cross — the field was broken up into sections: two waves in 2006, and three starting in ‘11. Once the B.A.A. decided to invite back the runners who were stopped on the course, another full wave made sense. “If the field size were to remain at 27,000, then we’d have to take 5,000 slots away from largely qualified runners, and some charity runners or something, which we didn’t want to do,” Grilk said.
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“People work so hard to qualify for this you’d hate to say, ‘No, this year of all years, you can’t come do it because we’re bringing back some other people.’” After expanding to 38,000 in 1996, the marathon returned to about 10,000 the next year. It continued to grow until hitting the number of around 27,000 that the B.A.A. and the towns found manageable. Although the race is expected to return to that size next year, Grilk said no decisions have been made. “We never specifically limited it and said, ‘And then we will go back to exactly what happened before,’” he said. “After this year is over, then we’ll do what we do every year: have another set of conversations with everybody and listen.”
pletely eclipsed the older logo in apparel and product lines. Muncy cited strong sales of the new logo, especially since the recent dual NCAA championship wins, as a sign of acceptance by students and the UConn community. By far the largest criticism Muncy received through email and Twitter, which he also uses to track attitudes towards the logo, was that students feel their school identifies with the fluffy white Jonathan. “The perception was that the previous logo had been our logo for 100 years; it was our logo for 12 years, and the other one got changed in 12 years,” Muncy said. The new Jonathan has had a year for students to test run, and in terms of athletic unity, Muncy considers it as a success. “Before this there was no unified UConn brand and this was chance to hit the reset button.”
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Conn. enrolls total of 208,301 in health coverage
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut’s health insurance exchange announced Thursday it enrolled 208,301 people in health plans during the first open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act, more than double its original goal of 100,000. Access Health CT reported that 78,713 people signed up with private insurance carriers as of April 13. The rest enrolled in government-funded Medicaid. “Thanks to the hard work of AHCT, state agencies, community health centers and faith-based organizations, we far exceed our goal and as a result more people have access to more affordable health care,” Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said. When open enrollment ended March 31, Access Health CT had enrolled 197,878 people. But thousands of people left messages with Access Health CT saying they attempted to enroll in person or online but didn’t complete their applications. Over the past two weeks, Access Health CT has made follow-up calls with about 10,000 people to help them through the enrollment process, ultimately increasing the final total of completed open enrollment applications, said Kevin Counihan, CEO of Access Health CT. Of the 78,713 who signed up for private plans, 78 percent received tax subsidies. The next open enrollment begins on Nov. 14. Between now and then, residents will be able to shop for coverage through Access Health CT only under special circumstances, such as marriage, divorce, birth, adoption or loss of insurance coverage from an employer.
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Man said to be homesick for prison CHICAGO (AP) — An ex-con who spent most of his adult life in behind bars on Thursday got what he said he wanted for robbing a suburban Chicago bank. The 74-year-old gets to go back to the place he called home — prison. Telling Walter Unbehaun he frightened a teller by showing her a revolver tucked in his pants during the 2013 heist, a federal judge imposed a 3 1/2 year prison sentence, citing the man’s lengthy rap sheet that includes crimes from home invasion to kidnapping. “This is not the first time you’ve inspired fear,” Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman said, repeatedly scolding the highschool dropout and part-time bathtub repairman. As he had on the day he robbed the bank, Unbehaun gripped a cane as he hobbled to the podium to make a brief statement. He didn’t withdraw his wish to go to prison, though he said, “I don’t want to die in prison.” “My crime is bad, there ain’t no doubt,” he said in a strong voice. “I just wanna be like everybody else.” Boredom and loneliness, defense filings said, had partly led Unbehaun to conclude that a life on the inside was preferable to struggling to cope on the outside. No family or friends of Unbehaun attended Thursday’s hearing, and no letters of support were posted on his docket. Listening to the proceedings, Unbehaun fidgeted and rubbed his forearms, both of which sported tattoos. He occasionally nodded as his lawyer spoke.
On Feb. 9 of last year, he walked into the bank with a cane but no disguise, displayed a loaded revolver in his waistband and told the teller, “I don’t want to hurt you.” With $4,178 in loot shoved in his pocket, he drove to a nearby motel and waited for police to arrive. Confronted by authorities in the motel parking lot, the bald, portly Unbehaun dropped his cane, raised his hands and startled police by his apparent joy at getting nabbed. At his initial court appearance, he also bewildered his appointed lawyer. “His first words were, ‘I just want to go home,” that same attorney, Richard McLeese, told the court Thursday. For a minutes, McLeese recalled, he thought Unbehaun was saying he hoped to get bond. Then, it dawned on him what Unbehaun meant. “It is, without a doubt, one of the saddest and most disturbing cases I’ve dealt with,” he said. Lead prosecutor Sharon Fairley conceded the judge faced a dilemma: Sending Unbehaun to prison could be seen as more reward than punishment to him, but setting him free would risk him committing another serious crime. Unbehaun’s unusual case also raised broader societal questions, she said in one filing. “Did the system fail Mr. Unbehaun? Or was his inability to stay out of jail the result of his own free will?” she asked. “We may never know. But what we do know, clearly, is Mr. Unbehaun lacks the desire to lead a law-abiding life outside of prison walls.”
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Police: Student ate more pot than recommended Man jumped to his death after eating too much of a marijuana cookie DENVER (AP) — A Wyoming college student who jumped to his death at a Denver hotel had eaten more of a marijuana cookie than was recommended by a seller, police records show — a finding that comes amid increased concern about the strength of popular pot edibles after Colorado became the first state to legalize recreational marijuana. Levy Thamba Pongi, 19, consumed more than one cookie purchased by a friend — even though a store clerk told the friend to cut each cookie into six pieces and to eat just one piece at a time, said the reports obtained Thursday. Pongi began shaking, screaming and throwing things around a hotel room before he jumped over a fourth-floor railing into the hotel lobby March 11. An autopsy report listed marijuana intoxication as a “significant contributing factor” in the death. Marijuana cookies and other edibles have become increasingly popular since Colorado allowed people 21 and over to buy recreational marijuana this year at regulated stores. Federal authorities don’t regulate the edibles because marijuana remains illegal under federal law. After voters approved recreational pot, Colorado lawmakers tasked regulators with setting potency-testing guidelines to ensure consumers know how much pot they’re eating. Those guidelines are expected to be released next month. Lawmakers also required edible pot to be sold in serving sizes of 10 milligrams of THC, marijuana’s intoxicating chemical. The cannabis industry tries to educate consumers about
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Today's Birthday (04/18/14). Happiness lies abundantly along your path this year. Partnership and finances get a six-month boost from this month's eclipses. Travel cautiously and secure gains before May 20. Summer adventures delight. After August, fun with family and friends takes the spotlight. October's eclipses impact self-discovery and shared resources. Apply your creative talents to projects that contribute to the common good. Communicate love. 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 -- Abandon bickering and nattering and save time. Don't gamble or take risks (other than creatively). Travel could be enticing, to study a new view. Inspiration comes from dreams. Use it to create something of beauty. Friends want to play. Let another take the lead.
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Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Let a female do the talking. Women have extra power today. Accept help and advice from friends (including powerful women). You can create a breakthrough in shared finances. Take a bow, and stash it away, except what you need for a celebratory meal.
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Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Find a creative new way to express your love. Include beautiful elements. You're making an excellent impression. Let your partner make the first move. Previous plans come to fruition. Together you go farther and have more fun. Invite, acknowledge and give thanks. Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is a 7 -- A dream changes your waking direction. Creative work pays well and satisfies. Check your intuition by asking direct questions to get at the facts. Push beyond your old limits. Invest in your career. A female supports your agenda. Talk it over, and work together. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Teach as you learn. Counsel a visionary on reality. Dreams show the path, and careful steps avoid pitfalls. Ignore distractions. Encourage female participation for a breakthrough in the game. Explore new romantic ideas. Use some of the money you've been saving. Beautiful results flower. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Dispel an illusion at work. List problem areas. Control liquids in the workplace. Technology upgrades help. Listen to your partner's ideas, and collaborate. Complying with outrageous requests pays well. Clear clutter at home before your rendezvous. Consider crazy ideas. Enjoy mad romance. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- You're especially clever, and words come easily. Don't try to explain an unfinished project. Find innovative ways to cut costs. Personal magnetism works in your favor. You love the people you're meeting. Put your heart into your studies, and keep upgrading skills. Learn from everyone. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Invest in technology at work. An excellent bargain pops up. Take a giant step that leads to profits. Do the math to estimate payback time. Consider functionality and beauty. A loved one has a brilliant idea. Build romance, and spark some attraction. It's getting exciting. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- A trick you tried doesn't work. Question odd facts. Stick to practical solutions, and avoid long-shot ideas. Don't rely solely on logic. Think about alternative routes. Use your personal magnetism and charm. If necessary, you can call on friends for support. Relax with family. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 6 -- Consider options carefully, and make an amazing discovery. Double-check the data. Gain a treasure, and spend next to zero. Repay a favor. You and a partner collaborate for shared benefits backstage. Your past work speaks well for you. You're on fire. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 6 -- Postpone fantasies... ensure a solid foundation before adding on. Choose what you want to help create. You're on a roll... still, a moment of consideration saves hours of effort. With excellent party conditions, blowing off steam appeals. Give in to invitations with friends. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Choose the next topic of study. Follow through on an interesting suggestion, and provide what's needed. Abandon an old limitation to claim new freedom. Things are not always as expected. Get help from a female. Meditation soothes your spirit, mind and body.
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Rethinking globalization with a human rights and conflict approach
By Ellie Hudd Campus Correspondent
The UConn Human Rights Institute hosted the 2014 Economic and Social Rights Lecture, entitled “Dilemmas of the Alter-Globalization Movement,” on Thursday. The speaker, Dr. Immanuel Wallerstein, is a senior research scholar at Yale University. Wallerstein offered a refreshingly simple lecture; rather than relying on buzzwords, charts and infographics, Wallerstein wove together his expertise in economics and political science to explain the world’s history of uprisings and revolutionary movements on the national and social levels. His lecture served to historically and economically contextualize globalization and its oppositions, particularly the movement that has come to be known as “alterglobalization.” “Alterglobalization is how we’ve renamed antisystemic (movements),” Wallerstein said. “Because we’re not antiglobalization. We’re just looking for a different kind of globalization.” Wallerstein’s lecture reflected the interdisciplinary approach to human rights favored by the Institute as well as a number of scholars in the field. The scholar engaged his listeners by tracing the his-
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tory of economic, political and social revolution, and the structure of the global political economy from the 1800s all the way to the present. Wallerstein paid particular attention to the global order brought about by the end of the second world war, which he called “the beginning of the U.S. as a hegomonic power” that “could get its way on 95 percent of issues, 95 percent of the time.” He used this framework to illustrate how economic, political and cultural power interact on a global level. “It’s very innervating to be the country with the strongest military in the world,” he said of the U.S. in 1945. “But (that) has its costs.” Wallerstein also offered intriguing theoretical perspectives on how the economic and political behavior of the U.S. has been shaped by its responses to these various uprisings and shifts in the world order. He noted, for example, that the collapse of the Soviet Union was not the Western victory it is often touted as. Though Wallerstein noted that a country’s consistent use of a strong military eventually becomes unpopular with its constituents – he cited the Vietnam War as one such case. “The U.S. has been looking for an appropriate enemy (since the fall of the Soviet Union),” Wallerstein said.
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The Human Rights Institute offered a lecture on how to rethink globalization and how it plays out in the modern age after conflict and military intervention. The discussion brought up the topics of economic and social rights world wide.
“But they have not been able to find one.” Wallerstein looked to a recent scientific discovery as a metaphor for how the global population will affect changes to the current system. “Every flap of a butterfly’s wings affects the world climate,” he said. “Every moment, there are butterflies flapping their wings.” Wallerstein also noted the
By Ashley Maher Campus Correspondent
Thursday afternoon at the UConn Co-op Bookstore in the Storrs Center, Richard Brown and Doron S. Ben-Atar gave a talk on their co-written book, “Taming Lust: Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic.” The book covers the topic of bestiality in the colonies, and is a historical study of sexual crimes against animals in New England during the colonial period. Brown and Ben-Atar found many clusters of these crimes within the New England colonies, more specifically in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and particularly focused on two cases. One crime that put on trial and convicted two men in their eighties for bestiality and had them executed by hanging, and the other case, two teens were put on trial for the same offense. “This seemed to us,” said Brown, “to be a very strange situation that we hoped to explore further.” “This book is unusual in so many ways,” said Ben-Atar. “There is a great deal of uncomfortable air surrounding the topic of bestiality. But there is evidence of it everywhere. The issue became: ‘how do we explain this and give the reader as much information as possible?’” The two historians began by trying to get a broader understanding of this crime as a phenomenon. They found people who commit this crime “tend to take part in animal abuse, which leads to animal sadism,” said Ben-Atar. They closely studied the two trials. Looking at who took part on the juries,
By Alexandra Bell Campus Correspondent Over the years, H&M has suffered a string of unsettling style catastrophes. It has lead shoppers down a dark pit of confusion and cheap material, while repeatedly attempting to bring back all the worst trends from the past six to eight decades. Those brave enough to delve headlong into its bewildering battlefield of disturbing scraps from the depths of time have reaped few rewards. Its game plan seems to have been similar to that of Walmart, excessive quantity over even the slightest hint of quality. It was therefore an unparalleled relief to see its style choices had finally taken a turn for the stunning. At long last, thanks to its new exclusive collection, H&M has begun to redeem itself. The collection proudly sports Don Quixote jackets, feminine kneelength skirts, princess-seamed bodices, and unforgettable, tuilleentombed, Jane Austen-esque summer gowns. Nearly every article is a drool-worthy treasure worth spending for. The pieces are eye catching; most are soft pink, nude, black, grey, blue or white.
Some are subtly decorated with small gems or trim, others are clean-looking and without embellishment. Likely inspired by the growing number of period shows and films being produced, this new collection offers shoppers a refreshing opportunity to go back in time and dip a toe into a place where graceful, light, feminine beauty was a vision constantly sought after. Trying on the articles of clothing that make up this truly accomplished collection allows us girls to feel beautiful and special. This is an exciting prospect, especially in an era when such moments are exceptionally rare. The fact that this angelic collection was a product of H&M is a welcome surprise. It is rare that such beauty is made accessible to those who do not wish to spend obscene amounts of money in pursuit of a wardrobe they can be proud of. Although it is sadly unlikely that the retail store will manage to remain at this level of style excellence for long, it deserves thanks for a job well done — and congratulations for its radiant moment of glory.
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growing resistance to the status quo and the fact that “nonchange was normal.” “What is a revolution?” Wallerstein asked. “(It’s) something that goes around and comes back to the start. That’s the meaning of the word.” In a sense, the lecture itself was a small revolution, though hopefully not one confined to the literal meaning of the
word. David Richards, codirector of the HRI’s Research Program on Economic and Social Rights, expressed a similar sentiment. “We hope some seeds of thought, or doubt, or indecision about economic and social rights are left with you today,” Richards said.
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who played the parts of lawyers and who acted as witnesses or prosecutors. They were able to gain a great deal of specific trial information on the subject that gives the book much more depth on the trials themselves as well as the cultural reaction to them. The trials originally came about by witnesses who said to have had seen these acts taking place by particular offenders. In one of the cases there proved to be four separate witnesses who claimed to have seen one of the offenders commit the act on six separate occasions. “It became somewhat of a witch hunt,” said Brown. Many people came forward with accounts of people who had committed these acts. Sometimes the criminal’s own family members would be part of those to come forward. “Most of the animals that had been abused were domestic farm animals. Cows, turkeys, chickens, horses, dogs, etc,” said Brown. The talk was then opened to the audience for further questions posed towards the authors to further explain their findings on the puzzling subject matter. The audience, filled with many other professors of history as well as human development and family studies faculty posed interesting as well as challenging questions which the author’s answered with knowledge in their historical work as well as in great detail. There proved to be a great deal of knowledgeable discourse between the two authors and the audience that lead to a historical conversation that proved to be both shocking and enlightening. Although the subject is a historical taboo which is often left out of much of the historical conversation of this time, the two authors presented their work with a great deal of information and intelligence on the subject.
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Summer is right around the corner. With summer comes beach season, perhaps the time of the year when people care most about how they look. With this new focus on body image, people will often go to extremes to look ripped, tan or lean. You should always be aware of the risks of anything new you try, and I will try to highlight some of the biggest risks individuals take to make themselves “beach ready.” Tanning is a controversial modern trend. Tanning beds have come under fire because the UV radiation that you are exposing yourself to increases your risk of melanoma, the most common form of cancer in the U.S. Even the alternative, spray tanning, has been
“Tanning beds have come under fire because the UV radiation that you are exposing yourself to increases your risk of melanoma, the most common form of cancer in the U.S.”
scrutinized recently for the chemicals within the spray. When it comes to exposing yourself to the sun, you should keep it within the context of outdoor activities and always wear sunscreen. You can still get a tan with sunscreen, but it may help you avoid harmful side effects. Another common practice to get “beach ready” is the use of diet pills. Nearly everyone has seen the ads for Xenadrine or Hydroxycut. These pills are stimulants that increase your metabolism, but may have dangerous side effects. In fact, the active ingredients often mimic the effects of methamphetamines. These dangerous substances can lead to the development of cardiac problems. On the surface, working out may not seem like an unsafe practice to look good in a bathing suit. But some individuals who take exercise to the extreme, especially over a short period of time. When you try to become Hercules in a day, you risk severe muscle damage, or even a disease called rhabdomyolysis. Rhabdomyolysis causes parts of your muscle to enter your circulation and can become fatal. When you are looking to get in shape, you should gradually introduce exercises and increase intensity, allowing your body to adapt. The fact is, the occasional day at the beach is not worth your health later in life. When it comes to anything in health and fitness, there is no shortterm fix that doesn’t have its consequences.
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Medical Humanitarian Society raises money for cancer
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Student musicians performed at the Medical Humanitarian Society’s fundraiser, Tunes and Treats for Treatments, at the Benton for Lucy’s Love Bus, a non-profit that strives to bring comfort and care to children with cancer.
Darkest before the dawn, Batman returns to Gotham By Alex Sferrazza Staff Writer
Riddle me this.....is the night really darkest before the dawn? It hasn’t always proved a smooth ride but the “Zero Year” storyline has provided the “Batman” comics with some of the most exciting moments seen in the series in years. Issue No. 30 serves as a more than worthy addition to what has already been a fantastic series of comics. Taking a bit of a cue from Christopher Nolan’s film “The Dark Knight Rises,” the issue features Bruce Wayne returning to a Gotham City that has more or less been completely lost. Riddler has defeated Batman and made Gotham City his own personal playground/ terrifiedsurveillance state. People die, buildings are overgrown and there’s no way in or out. If anyone attempts to leave the city, Riddler threatens to unleash a flurry of deadly chemicals that will immediately pacify the population. All seems lost and with the exception of a few holdouts (Batman, Alfred and Lt. Gordon) the population has lost the will to continue their fight. If you think that the storyline sounds a bit cliché, you’re correct. If you believe that makes the issue any less exciting, then you’re way off. Whereas issue 29 amounted to a non-stop, action-packed slugfest, issue 30 wisely spends the majority of the issue dealing with character development. The reactions of the populace of Gotham dealing with the tyranny of the Riddler and Bruce Wayne’s mental fight over whether the battle is truly lost make up the
bulk of the issue’s content. It’s a humanizing title, and rather then coming right out of the gate with a wild deus ex machina that sees Batman go from comatose to savior in a single issue, it’s refreshing to see the title instead takes on the tone of “hey this is a real threat and the problem is way to big for any one person to solve.” Additionally, its fun to see Batman and Gordon’s noble crusade clash with those of federal officials who sneak into the city. Rather than attempt to take Riddler out, the feds would rather pacify the terrorist with a massive payout. Of course, with Riddler being the psychotic nutjob that he is, he turns them down for the fun of it but it’s nonetheless entertaining to see the attempt made. The true highlight of this issue is the fantastic artwork by penciller Greg Capullo and inker Danny Miki. The vast scope of Riddler’s takeover of Gotham is readily apparent the second we see a glimpse of the city’s current state. The art style of “city overrun by plants” provides an interesting challenge for the duo and the heavy use of purple and orange in the artwork helps set the tone almost as well as the narrative. Perhaps the title spends a tad too much time watching Bruce Wayne dwell over his “lost” city but on the whole, this is yet another well paced and well-written Batman issue by Scott Snyder. Issue 31 can’t get here fast enough.
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World reacts to death of beloved writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez (AP) Reaction to death of writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez: ___ “A thousand years of loneliness and sadness for the death of the greatest Colombian of all time!” — Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos. ___ “With the passing of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the world has lost one of its greatest visionary writers - and one of my favorites from the time I was young ... I offer my thoughts to his family and friends, whom I hope take solace in the fact that Gabo’s work will live on for generations to come.” — U.S. President Barack Obama. ___ “A great man has died, one AP whose works gave the literature of our language great reach Spain’s King Juan Carlos, left, hugs Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez. and prestige,” Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, who had Sergio Ramirez Mercado. once famously feuded with ___ Garcia Marquez. “In recent times it wasn’t easy to communi___ “One would really have to go back to Dickens cate with him, although he understood and conto find a writer of the highest literary qual- tinued the conversation. He was always loving ity who commanded such extraordinary power and generous and extraordinarily clever.” — over whole populations.” — British novelist Ian Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, director of Mexico’s National Council for Culture and the Arts. McEwan, to the BBC. ___ ___ “Gabo has left us and we will have years of “On behalf of Mexico, I express my sadness for the death of one the greatest writers of our solitude. But his works and his love for the time: Gabriel Garcia Marquez.” — Mexican motherland remain. Farewell until the victory, dear Gabo.” — Ecuadorean President Rafael President Enrique Pena Nieto. Correa. ___ ___ “From the time I read ‘One Hundred Years of “This is a very sad day indeed. It’s imposSolitude’ more than 40 years ago, I was always amazed by his unique gifts of imagination, sible to be from our part of the world and not clarity of thought, and emotional honesty ... I have been deeply touched by him. His work is was honored to be his friend and to know his so full of imagination and depth that it makes great heart and brilliant mind for more than 20 absolutely everything seem possible. He certainly expanded our world, and the possibilities years.” — former U.S. President Bill Clinton. of what writers could create and how people ___ “He is like the Mandela of literature because could survive. If you’ve read him, you know of the impact that he has had on readers all over that he’s not really gone. He is in an afterthe world. His influence is universal, and that is life of his own creation, his own Macondo.” a very rare thing.” — Cristobal Pera, editorial — Edwidge Danticat, a well-known Haitiandirector of Penguin Random House in Mexico. American author who lives in Miami. ___ ___ “He was read everywhere ... He was very “Thank you, master Gabo. Have a tranquil trip and that you always remain alive among creative. It was this creativity that enchanted us.” — Jaime Abello Banfi, director general of his readers.” writer Luis Fernando Verissimo, Garcia Marquez’s Iberoamerican Foundation the son of acclaimed Brazilian author Erico Verissimo. for New Journalism. ___ “He had the capacity to see stories that many of us have in front of us and don’t even notice. He was unique in that.” — Nicaraguan writer
Environmental goals for Conn. in 2014
Each year, the bipartisan nonprofit organization Connecticut League of Conservation Voters (CTLCV) releases a legislative briefing that describes the major environmental policy reforms that should be undertaken by representatives in Hartford. This year’s briefing highlights ten critical environmental health issues — two of these are: the need to permanently protect Connecticut’s open space and to end the state’s moratorium on wind energy. Connecticut has over 225,000 acres of forests, parks and open space that are classified as “conservation land,” but unfortunately the protection of these fragile areas is not guaranteed. According to the (CTLCV), there is no official statute that requires permanent protection of state-owned open space. Through the Conveyance Act, the state has the right to sell these lands to other entities, possibly for purposes other than conservation. The CTLCV insists that this is a problem, as land swaps often occur “behind closed doors.” The organization calls upon the state legislature to “develop and adhere to, transparent and consistent procedures for all future state conservation land transfers that must include appropriate and timely public notice for review and opportunity for comment.” Bills related to this issue that are currently under consideration are SB 70 Permanent Protection of State Conservation Lands (referred to the Government Administrations and Elections Committee on April 9th) and HB 5370 Funding State Parks and Forests (referred to Appropriations on April 8th). You may be surprised to know that it is currently illegal to construct a new wind turbine in Connecticut. The moratorium was put in place in 2011, admittedly for plausible reasons: the state wanted to first draft regulations that would ensure the protection of property rights and that turbines would be properly sited. Accordingly, the Siting Council held numerous public hearings and gathered testimony, culminating in a set of official recommendations which it forwarded to the Regulation Review Committee for adoption. At this point, however, the process stalled. The Regulation Review Committee has not worked to adopt the recommendations, and in fact has sent them back to the Siting Council four times over the past two years. According to a Boston Herald article earlier this year: “State Rep. Selim Noujaim, the House co-chairman of the Regulation Review Committee, said he doesn’t know when regulations may be drafted and the moratorium lifted” and is quoted as saying: “Your guess is as good as mine.” This is irresponsible neglect of an issue that could help to mitigate the state’s contribution to climate change and advance its place in the clean energy market. Although wind power will never be a major source of energy generation for Connecticut (due to topography and our dense residential development), a stable energy portfolio for any state should include a variety of sources. The vice president of one energy company insisted that his wind projects would be “cost competitive, particularly when the price of natural gas spikes as it did during several cold spells this past winter. It proposes to generate 10 to 20 megawatts, enough to power 3,000 to 5,000 homes.” This year, the state has until May 7th to adopt the Siting Council’s proposed regulations.
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Proposed Conn. bill poised to help college sexual assault victims
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n an optimistic turn of events, the state House of Representatives unanimously (144-0) voted to pass new legislation that will offer further support and prevention for sexual assault victims on Connecticut college and university campuses. Every woman in the general assembly had co-sponsored the bill, which was created as a response to the Title IX complaint. Representative Mae Flexer said of the matter, according to CT Mirror, “We also have this piece of legislation before us today because of the brave current and former students at the University of Connecticut who came forward last fall and told their stories. I want to thank them for bringing this issue to the forefront once again and helping us get to this day in the House of Representatives.” The Title IX complaint had been filed on behalf of several alumni and current students of UConn who felt the response of the administration to their sexual assault cases was insufficient. It also was in line with a similar cultural theme of college campuses; over the past five years, 7,166 complaints have found their way to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. The legislation offers many improvements to the current situation for sexual assault prevention and aftermath. Victims will now have access to free mental health care after they report their assaults. Currently, Counseling and Mental Health Services at UConn is not free for any students requiring insurance and often leaving additional costs to be paid out of pocket if insurance cannot cover the full amount. Further requirements have been placed on the university such as offering annual prevention and awareness programs for all students, first responders, police and employees with a focus on bystander training, providing a clear document with information regarding their rights to press charges and require disciplinary action. Universities have also been required to enter into relationships with off-campus shelters and agencies that support domestic violence and sexual assault victims so that free services may be provided to students. They are also now expected to submit an annual report to the state which includes the number of prevention programs and their descriptions, assault charges and cases. In summary, the goal is to increase prevention while also offering a compassionate response to victims. A larger change is also the goal of this bill, as Rep. Roberta Willis, chairwoman of the House Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee, said to CBS Connecticut, “Culture change must occur on campus, and this bill is a move to change the present environment.” The bill still needs to be passed in the state senate, though it is expected to do so. Governor Dan Malloy has not yet specifically come out in support of the bill, though his office gave a statement regarding his commitment to sexual assault prevention.
Your right to sue General Mills equals a coupon for Lucky Charms
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esterday, food conglomerate General Mills made a peculiar update to its policies with regards to legal disputes. Effectively, as part of the agreement, consumers cannot bring class action lawsuits against General Mills. Instead, the two parties settle any dispute they may have in an informal one-on-one session before an independent arbitrator, rather than the U.S. legal system. From a corporate perspective, this makes perfect sense, as these arbitrations generally cost less than going to court. The issue isn’t By Kayvon Ghoreshi necessarily this forced arbitraCommentary Editor tion as it is utilized by multiple businesses, often appearing in contracts or the terms of service agreements that you have likely spent most of your life ignoring. Additionally, requiring disputes be handled by this type of arbitration through a standard-form contract was upheld a few years ago by the U.S. Supreme Court in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion. What is particularly egregious about General Mills’ case is how broadly it defines the terms of its agreement. The newly updated policy, found on General Mills’ website, reads, “In exchange for the benefits, discounts, content, features, services, or other offerings that you
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receive or have access to by using our websites, joining our sites as a member, joining our online community, subscribing to our email newsletters, downloading or printing a digital coupon, entering a sweepstakes or contest, redeeming a promotional offer, or otherwise participating in any other General Mills offering, you are agreeing to these terms.” To put it more concisely, printing that coupon discounts your purchase of Lucky Charms, but also discounts your right to legal action. The impetus for the move may have come from the recent class action lawsuits filed against General Mills. They recently had to pay out $8.5 million to settle lawsuits over health claims made on packages of Yoplait Yoplus yogurt. Back in 2012, they had to remove the word “strawberry” from Strawberry Fruit Roll-Ups because the product did not actually have any strawberries. Currently, they are facing a lawsuit over their Nature Valley line because the labels read “100% Natural,” despite containing artificial ingredients, and have failed to get the case dismissed. These lawsuits may sound somewhat frivolous, and, to a certain extent, they probably are just the result of some people seeing if they can get any money out of a rather petty complaint. However, this does not justify the way General Mills has decided to handle it. Virtually prohibiting customers from filing lawsuits could essentially absolve them from responsibility when they do violate FDA regulations. Take a hypothetical example in which General Mills releases a new cereal that contains traces of peanuts, but contrary to FDA regulations,
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they do not label the cereal as such. Even if people suffer allergic reactions or die as a result, a class action lawsuit could not be filed against General Mills, despite clearly breaking the law, because the consumer got 50 cents off from a promotional sale. Those affected would still have legal recourse through the informal arbitrations, but that would still need to pay for counsel and would get only a portion of the settlement it the case goes to court. Perhaps the strangest part about General Mills’ new policy, and what will likely be questioned in the future, is how it effectively connects two mutually exclusive actions. For example, deciding to buy Angry Birds on your phone may require you to agree to certain terms. However, that transaction and any terms that come with it have no bearing if you were to buy another Rovio product. Similarly, my decision to sign up for the General Mills email newsletter is completely unrelated to my decision to buy Cheerios. Yet, according to the wording of this new policy, the former action legally prevents me from going to court if those Cheerios happen to be filled with broken glass. What this boils down to is the balance between consumer protection and corporations wanting to minimize litigation. However, my legal protections as a consumer should not be worth a 2-for-1 deal on cereal, and companies should not be using such broad agreement terms to absolve themselves of responsibility.
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A look ahead: Factions complicate GOP field for 2016
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eb Bush, the former two-term governor of Florida, is starting to emerge as the favorite of Republican establishment types after Chris Christie appears to have created for himself much baggage ahead of the 2016 presidential election. The former made national headlines recently after comments he made during an interview, in which he stated that when individuals cross the border to enter By Paul DaSilva the U.S., it is not a felonious Staff Columnist act, but an “act of love” and “commitment to your family.” As you can imagine, this was poorly received by conservatives, who are already disconcerted that a moderate like Bush may be getting too cozy with top GOP donors. Bush went on to clarify, while defending the essence of his comments, at a GOP dinner in Connecticut, where he argued
that there is not a dichotomous relationship between the “rule of law and having some sensitivity to the immigrant experience.” It is worth noting that the Associated Press described Bush as having “received loud applause from the crowd” in Connecticut, one comprised almost exclusively of New England Republicans. While just a few days later, at a convention organized by two rightleaning groups —Americans for Prosperity and Citizens United — the audience booed him exuberantly after Donald Trump less than cordially alluded to the comments. Here you essentially have the two core factions which together comprise the Republican Party. And this will be the dynamic that will shape the primary battle for 2016, and unlike in 2012, when the field was so weak that anyone with any political shrewdness knew Mitt Romney
would be the nominee of the party from day one, this election will feature robust competition for the nomination, and will feature strong candidates from a broad swath of the ideological spectrum. Henry Olsen, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, argued that there are not just two, but four principal factions within the Republican Party: the centrists, akin to someone like Jon Huntsman, the moderately conservative such as Romney, the social conservatives, embodied by someone like Mike Huckabee, and the less concerned with social issues conservatives like Newt Gingrich. I would add a fifth bloc, namely the libertarians, especially considering the level of ebullience that the leading libertarian prospective candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) inspires among many in the base. It will be the onerous task of the primary candidates to appeal
to as many of these groups as possible, all the while ensuring that they position themselves for a general election. This should not be construed to mean, however, that they should pander to the different groups they’re targeting, playing to the hard right to win in the primaries, and then weakening the essence of their positions to appeal to national independents; the inevitable result of such an approach would be reminiscent to that of Romney’s: a perception among the public that the candidate lacks conviction, and will say nearly anything to win. Finding a candidate who exemplifies such criteria is the challenge of any party during a primary season. And as I said, Republicans will have a deep bench from which to choose. This is why voters must be prudent when contemplating who they will cast a vote for. It will be undoubtedly the case that anyone who calls themselves
a conservative or libertarian will find someone who most closely resembles their political beliefs; the challenge, and I think the most pressing element for when people go to vote, is that they select someone able to (a) go toe-to-toe with Hillary in a debate; and (b) has a plausible chance of winning the general election. This, especially coming from someone like myself is a point not to be misconstrued: I’m not arguing that primary voters should pick the most moderate candidate. The inefficacy of this approach has been obvious: a moderate got crushed in 2008, and a moderate lost every swing state in 2012, save for one. Nominating moderates should not deemed to be most salient; instead, Republicans should choose someone who has the courage of their convictions, is ideologically sound, but is simultaneously able to meet the clichéd rubric of any presiden-
for roughly six years, experiencing the day-to-day toil of neglect and anxiety as to when the next meal is going to come along. Reichart is but one of 6,500 living in shelters and streets across the city. These videos certainly evoke poignancy. When Reichart asks people for money to stay in a hotel on his birthday and essentially ends up talking to brick walls all day, it’s very sad and disconcerting. Here’s where the problem lies: Poignancy is completely derived from sympathy. Empathy implies an experience-based understanding with another individual, and as a middle-class white male whose toughest problem has been grappling with unresolved teen angst induced by the “throes” of suburbia, my
thoughts couldn’t truly extend beyond, “Wow, that sucks; I would absolutely buy him or a contemporary food if given the opportunity.” I’m not Mr. Scrooge, I’d like to think – I usually give money to homeless people I see when I’m in Boston or New York and have volunteered at shelters – but I simply don’t understand the struggle and won’t unless I become homeless; a video series isn’t going to change that. Even Adler and his affiliates, who talk to and see Reichart on a regular basis, don’t truly understand. Something I find ironic about this project is the fact that the likelihood its participants can actually afford a GoPro is very slim. Granted, Adler rationalizes this by saying “Why not use the same
technology affluent young people use to capture (homeless people’s) story…to build understanding?” The primary goal is to influence rich youths into helping the cause through a relatable technological lens with people like Reichart as POV vessels, but I actually think the GoPro format worsens the disparity between these two groups. The dichotomy of seeing an expensive camera attached to a homeless man almost has this vaguely condescending, guinea pig connotation to it. Reichart is very much complicit with the cause, but I think the imagery still resonates. Another thing to consider is the tempestuous relationship big tech companies have with the people of San Francisco at the moment. With the
advent of Google Glass and the tax breaks Twitter recently received, the general public is very much upset about these companies coming to monopolize so many facets of our lives. People like Kyle Russell of the publication Business Insider have had their Glasses stolen and thrown down on the sidewalk. So what’s to say this won’t happen with the Homeless GoPro project? Especially with the volatility of the climate they’re residing in, I think there’s a high probability that those with GoPros strapped to their chests will either have them broken or stolen or both. It’s really not a good idea to have a technology-based organization in San Francisco at the moment. Even if it’s for a good cause, it’s not going to be
UConn should not bar guests during Spring Weekend
halls or dining halls on campus, which includes even family members. Being a freshman, I had not even known about Spring Weekend up to a week ago, and this greatly affects me as I had expected having my family come up that weekend. Realizing that this is not fair, I asked some questions about residential life. Apparently, it has the right to make changes to any clause in the housing contract, as long as it is two days in advance and has the right to
tial candidate: is articulate and “presidential.” Considering the myriad prospective candidates—Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), representing the ardent conservatives, the libertarian Sen. Paul, Mike Huckabee, appealing the social conservative caucus, and then a host of more secular type, but still very conservative possibilities, including Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), governors Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana—there will be many good candidates to choose from. Many of these, like Walker, Rubio and Jindal are young fresh faces. Why must Karl Rove types spoil the fun so quickly by supporting an old, boring moderate who’s been out of office for nearly a decade?
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The Homeless GoPro project is weak initiative for helping the homeless
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ith a group of plucky, young volunteers, Kevin Adler, a 29-year old sociologist and entrepreneur, has created a project called “Homeless GoPro,” which involves strapping a GoPro – a diminutive, hands-free By Stephen Friedland c a m e r a typically Staff Columnist used among intrepid athletes like skiers and mountain bikers – to homeless people in San Francisco. The project has sought to, as its website puts it, “build empathy through firsthand perspective.” On the site, homelessgopro.com, you can see a few videos of Adam Reichart, a former handyman who has been living in poverty
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April 24th to 27th dictates the dates of the upcoming Spring Weekend, a weekend full of entertaining events run by the university. It marks the near end of the semester, which usually leads to an uproar in campus with parties. To control what has happened in the past, UConn has implemented a huge amount of rules to its residents. No guests are allowed in residence
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perceived well because of the connotation of the GoPro. There’s only so much you can do to help the homeless, and the impoverished aren’t going away any time soon. The fact that Homeless GoPro is trying is very noble, and they are a strictly non-profit organization (or at least they claim to be on their website). However, trying to appeal to yuppies who can afford GoPros is going to provoke the same reaction as the people on the street: scornful neglect or “Wow, that sucks; I’d buy him some food given the opportunity.”
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@UConn.edu 4th--semester political science limit number of guests during special events. I am very unhappy with how UConn approached the topic of Spring Weekend, especially for freshmen. Now that I have expanded my knowledge of the Housing Contact, I never know if UConn will take away one, two, or more of residential weekends because they feel the need to. – Kelly Vukelic
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Jelly bean day Sunday!
Semester almost over
What is your favorite thing about spring? by Mic Johnson
“I like that I can flex in the sunlight.”
“The rain.”
“Life starting again.”
“Hiking.”
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Luke McNaboe, 6th-semester ENVE major
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Bobcats need to solve LeBron for first playoff win CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Charlotte Bobcats will have to find a way to stop LeBron James if they hope to win their first playoff game in franchise history. That's something they've yet to figure out. Miami is 15-0 against the Bobcats since James signed with the Heat as a free agent in 2010. Charlotte, the No. 7 seed in the Eastern Conference, will play the secondseeded Heat in a best-of-seven series that begins Sunday in Miami. James is averaging a whopping 37.7 points per game in four outings against the Bobcats this season, buoyed by a career-high 61-point effort on March 3. Bobcats point guard Kemba Walker called James "one of the best players in the world" and said it will take a total team effort to shut him down and help the Bobcats win. "We have to make sure there are five guys in front of him at all times," Walker said. Sometimes even that doesn't help.
Bobcats coach Steve Clifford, selected as the NBA's Eastern Conference Player of the Month on Thursday, wasn't upset the night the Bobcats allowed James to pile up 61 points on 22 of 32 shooting. Clifford's strategy coming into the game was to clog the lane and force James to beat them from the outside, a game plan his players executed fairly well. The problem was James got hot, knocking down 8 of 10 3-pointers. Given Miami's overwhelming playoff experience and superior talent, it will hard to find anyone picking an upset in this series. But that hardly means a thing to the Bobcats, who have thrived in the underdog role all season. "They didn't give us a chance in November, if you remember," Charlotte's Al Jefferson said. "... It's not time to fold now. It's time to take it to another level. We reached our goal and regardless of what happens in the playoffs we are one of the teams that has stood out this year
— and we're proud of that. But we want more." Walker said nobody is invincible — not even James and the Heat. "Anybody can be beat," Walker said. "I'm confident in my team. We definitely don't expect to lose like everyone else expects us to lose." The Bobcats clearly have a monumental task ahead of them. To put things in perspective, the two-time defending NBA champion Heat won more playoff games (32) the previous two seasons than the Bobcats won regular season games (28) in that span. Henderson was the only player on the Charlotte roster the last time the Bobcats made in the playoffs in 2010, when they were swept by Orlando. But he said he would rather be playing the Heat right now than packing up his locker. "You don't want to be going to the Bahamas right now," Henderson said. "Hey, the Bahamas is great, but you'd rather be competing against the best players in the world. That's
what we do this for. So it's going to be a lot of fun." The Bobcats do have some things going for them. They've won eight of their past nine games, including a 91-86 overtime victory over a Chicago to close the regular season. They've been competitive against the Heat for the most part, too. Other than James' big game, which Miami won going away, the Bobcats have taken the Heat to the wire losing three games by a combined 13 points. And then there's Jefferson, who has proven to be one of the toughest low post players in the league and is drawing All-NBA team consideration after averaging 21.8 points and 10.8 rebounds per game this season. Jefferson re-injured his knee Wednesday night against Chicago but was able to return and play the fourth quarter. He said the knee won't limit him in the postseason. "Miami is a great defensiveminded team," Jefferson said. "They
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Carey Price concedes that failing to protect a pair of third-period leads is not a formula for success in the NHL playoffs. The Montreal Canadiens won the opening game of their series against Tampa Bay without a stellar performance from one of the league's top goaltenders, and they know they will have to be much better defensively the rest of the way against the young Lightning. Price shared the NHL's third-best save percentage during the regular season, and then allowed four goals in Tampa Bay's first 14 shots in Game 1. The Canadiens still managed to take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference series, with Dale Weise scoring his first career playoff goal for a 5-4 overtime win on Wednesday. Game 2 is Friday night. "It's always a positive to win a game when you give up four goals," Price said after practice Thursday. "Moving forward, obviously we would like to reduce that." Price finished with 21 saves, nine of them in the extra period. The Canadiens, who are not known for their scoring prowess, outshot Tampa Bay 44-25, a trend that can-
not continue for the Lightning to have any success. "We didn't get the win, so it's tough to find positives," said Steven Stamkos, who scored two goals to give Tampa Bay a chance while playing without injured goaltender Ben Bishop. "Five goals against, way too many in the playoffs," Stamkos, the Lightning captain, said. "Hopefully, everybody has a taste of playoff hockey. They know what it's all about. We definitely have to do better to stay in this thing." Despite Price not being on top of his game, Montreal felt it played well overall. The Canadiens got goals from all four of their lines, and Weise made the most of a wideopen look in front of the net. "I won't miss too many from there," said Weise, who scored six goals in 61 games with Vancouver and the Canadiens this season. The 25-year-old forward has 13 goals in 179 career regular-season games. Anders Lindback stopped 39 shots for Tampa Bay. With Bishop out indefinitely after injuring his left elbow against Toronto on April 8, the Lightning will have to ride their backup goalie as far as he can take them.
Coach Jon Cooper felt the Lightning left Lindback in some bad situations in Game 1, including leaving Weise alone for the winning goal. "Do we have better in us? Most certainly we do," said Cooper, who is finishing his first full season behind Tampa Bay's bench. "I know we can play much better than that." The Lightning came away from the opener feeling that much of the damage against them was selfinflicted. Nearly half the roster lacked playoff experience before Wednesday, but Cooper and his players did not accept that as an excuse for not being able to hold a pair of early leads against Price. Tampa Bay lost rookie Ondrej Palat, one of its top scorers, to an upper-body injury in the third period. Still, Cooper felt the team weathered adversity and played its best in overtime. Alex Killorn was instrumental in extending the game, scoring in the third period and then assisting on Stamkos' goal that forced OT. "I think at the beginning, we might have been a little too excited. As the game wore on, I thought we handled it pretty well," Killorn said.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — There were no major letdowns for Masters contenders Matt Kuchar and Jordan Spieth at the RBC Heritage on Thursday. Kuchar, who tied for fifth at Augusta National, shot a bogey-free 5-under 66 to share the first-round lead with Scott Langley and William McGirt. The 20-year-old Spieth tied for second behind Bubba Watson last Sunday and continued his strong play with a 69, part of a large group tied for fifth at Harbour Town Golf Links. Kuchar and Spieth both spent much of Sunday in the pressure cooker that is the Masters' final round. But neither player allowed any lingering disappointment or fatigue from a grueling week to slow them down here. "I was anxious to get back out and play another competitive round," Spieth said. "So today was going to be kind of therapy, in a sense, from last week." Langley and McGirt each had five birdies on the front nine to match Kuchar.
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Charlotte Bobcats coach Steve Clifford argues a call with a referee during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Chicago Bulls in Charlotte, N.C.
step up and adjust to whatever they have to. So I'm not going to sit here and think this will be a walk in the
park facing them. They play great team defense and I know they will have some sort of a plan for me."
Harris English was two shots behind after a 68 before Spieth topped a group of 15 another stroke back. In all, 54 competitors shot par or better despite the gusts of 20 mph that swept through the course much of the round. The week after the season's first major is generally one of rest for many of golf's big names and this year's no different. Masters champ Watson took off as did Phil Mickelson and Rory McIlroy. World No. 1 Tiger Woods continues recuperating from back surgery that kept him from playing Augusta National for the first time in 20 years. Just six of the world's top-20 ranked golfers teed it up this week, led by Kuchar at No. 6. Spieth, who tied with fellow Masters rookie Jonas Blixt for second last week, didn't consider withdrawing at Harbour Town, convinced of the benefits of quickly getting back to work. It was also a get-to-know-you session for Spieth, who was paired with U.S. Ryder Cup captain Tom Watson and 2012 Ryder Cup captain Davis Love
III. "It was unbelievable just to be playing with them," Spieth said. For Kuchar, playing was a nobrainer considering the strong run he's been on the past month or so. He tied for fourth at the Texas Open three weeks ago and lost in a playoff at the Houston Open a week later right before the Masters. And Kuchar understands being focused at the Masters can mean being zoned in at Harbour Town. "You're going to see a lot of guys, if they're not too run down from a major championship, come out and play some pretty good golf the week following." Kuchar played with confidence and precision, avoiding the winds when possible and playing to the meatiest parts of the smallish greens. After starting on the back nine, Kuchar birdied both the par 5 holes on the front side before finishing with a birdie on his final hole, the ninth, to shoot in the 60s for the sixth time in his past 11 rounds here.
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Lacrosse looks to bounce » BASEBALL back against Cincinnati Marzi's leadership and 'team first' attitude after tough loss has gotten him far in his UConn career
By Eddie Leonard Campus Correspondent
The UConn lacrosse team lost on the road to No. 18 Louisville Thursday by a final score of 12-7. UConn was able to hang with the Cardinals early — Jacqueline Jordan scored 10 seconds into the game — but Louisville would came storming back. Cardinals’ attacker Faye Brust scored two straight goals to give the Cardinals a 2-1 lead with 26:17 left in the half. Brust was firing on all cylinders. She scored five goals in the contest, four of them coming in the first half. Louisville ended the half leading 7-5, despite two goals from UConn’s Carly Palmucci. The Cardinals took over in the second half, and UConn was
only able to get six shots on net. Louisville scored four straight goals at the start of the half, two of them courtesy of Cortnee Daley. The Cardinals took a commanding 11-5 lead with 7:41 remaining in the contest. UConn tried to claw back in the game late when Kacy Pippitt scored two straight goals for the Huskies, but that was as close as it would get for the Huskies. Brust put the finishing touch on UConn when she scored her fifth goal of the game at the 1:25 mark. The Huskies dropped to 8-6 overall with the loss. The Huskies will take on conference opponent Cincinnati this Saturday. The Huskies are 5-0 all time against the Bearcats.
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“It’s pretty humbling, to be honest,” Marzi said. “I know Nagy had like 197 in two years, which is pretty remarkable. But it’s pretty cool, and I’m honored.” Marzi now leads the team with 53 strikeouts, 17 more than his nearest competitor. He also leads UConn pitchers in innings pitched, wins and starts. UConn head coach Jim Penders said Marzi was thrust into the lineup somewhat unexpectedly after initially redshirting. Suspensions had thinned out the Huskies’ bullpen, resulting in a vacuum of innings and not enough pitchers to throw them. “It was right about this time of year, it was mid-April – I think against UMass,” Penders said of
Marzi’s first start. “And I went to ful outing against UMass three him and I said, ‘Anthony it’s not years ago, and he watched him fair of me to ask you this, but are grow on and off the field. you okay with taking your redshirt “He’s always been a team-first off? It may lead to a role for you, guy,” Penders said. “I’m sure he’s we’re going to be not real into the rooting for it to strikeouts, to the lead to some kind record. He’s tryof role. But you ing to win as many may throw onegames as he can third of an inning while he’s here, and and it’ll cost you it’s been fun watcha year of eligibiling him for the last ity.’ And he said to four years.” me at that time, he Penders said the said ‘Coach if you 6-foot-1-inch left think it’s the best hander has been Notebook thing for our team, one of the Huskies’ then it’s definitely most exemplary what I want to do.’” players in terms of work ethic from Penders said Marzi’s leader- the day he first set foot on campus. ship has been the hallmark of his “When I think of Anthony UConn tenure ever since that fate- Marzi, I think of hard work and
dedication, a team-first attitude and toughness,” Penders said. “He’s a Berlin, Conn. kid, and there’s a lot of tough kids that play baseball in Berlin, and he’s one of them.” While Marzi had already cemented his place in UConn baseball lore after throwing a complete game victory against Notre Dame in the 2013 Big East tournament final, Penders said what makes him one of the finest pitchers he’s ever coached is not just what he’s done on the mound, but also the person he has become off it. “When I kick the bucket, he’ll be one of the guys holding the handle on the casket, hopefully,” Penders said. “He’s pretty special to me.”
can’t create more space. We can use a little more time, so we can stretch it out.” To fit the additional runners — for a total field of 36,000 that will be the second-largest in the race’s history — organizers will rely again on a staggered start. From 10 to 11:25 a.m. on Monday, four waves of about 9,000 apiece will leave Hopkinton for the 26.2-mile trek to Boston’s Copley Square. Grilk said the expansion was discussed with the eight cities and towns along the route, and all agreed that a smaller race this year was not an option. “Anything that looked like a reaction that showed fear or in any way giving in to the acts of cowardly terrorists would have been very unfavorably received,” he said. “And while there will be pressure and challenge for everybody, everybody welcomes the opportunity
to rise to that challenge.” For decades, the field size of the Boston Marathon was limited by the sheer challenge of the distance. What started in Boston in 1897 with 18 men — and they were all men — grew slowly at first, still going off with fewer than 200 runners as late as 1960. But the milestones fell quickly after that: more than 1,000 in 1968 and nearly 8,000 by 1979. For the 100th edition of the race, in 1996, there were 38,708 entrants — at the time, the largest marathon in history. And with the crowds came new problems. The motto for Hopkinton is “It all starts here,” but the fact that the town of less than 15,000 happened to be about 26 miles from Boston has not always been considered good luck. As the marathon grew through the years, residents
invite back the runners who were stopped on the course, another full wave made sense. “If the field size were to remain at 27,000, then we’d have to take 5,000 slots away from largely qualified runners, and some charity runners or something, which we didn’t want to do,” Grilk said. “People work so hard to qualify for this you’d hate to say, ‘No, this year of all years, you can’t come do it because we’re bringing back some other people.’” After expanding to 38,000 in 1996, the marathon returned to about 10,000 the next year. It continued to grow until hitting the number of around 27,000 that the B.A.A. and the towns found manageable. Although the race is expected to return to that size next year, Grilk said no decisions have been made.
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Boston Marathon makes room for more runners
BOSTON (AP) — More than 5,000 runners were still on the Boston Marathon course when the bombs went off on Boylston Street. Race organizers were eager to invite them back — to let them finish what they started — and aware of the message that would send. “The thought was: If those people, like so many others, wanted to have some physical expression of resilience and determination, it would probably be that many of them at least would want to run the whole race,” Boston Athletic Association president Tom Grilk said as he prepared for the 118th Boston Marathon. “Can we do that? We thought we’d like to do that.” Then there were the police and firefighters who helped at the site of the explosions; the doctors and nurses and volun-
teers and EMTs who tended to the wounded; the injured themselves, and friends and relatives who wanted to run in their honor or memory. After capping the field at 27,000 for about five years, race organizers quickly realized that would not be enough for Monday. But soon the effort to be more inclusive for what proves to be an emotional return to the streets ran into the reality of New England life: The roads built in a horse and buggy era weren’t made for tens of thousands of runners, nor the thousands of fans who cheer them on. “The streets, the roads are pretty much the same roads that were there in 1897. The starting line is still 39 feet wide,” Grilk said last week in an interview at the B.A.A. offices, less than two blocks from the finish line. “So we
griped about the runners relieving themselves on their lawns or leaving behind piles of granola bar wrappers and empty water bottles when they departed for the Back Bay. Now, instead of 18 men hitching rides to the start, a fleet of buses shuttles runners to Hopkinton. Portable toilets are trucked in and stationed along the route. Hundreds of volunteers are needed to hand out water, warming blankets and medals. Security, which for a century remained in the background, became a bigger issue after the Sept. 11 attacks and a primary concern in 2014. And, to squeeze all those runners over a 39-foot starting line — in the 100th race it took 31 minutes for the field to cross — the field was broken up into sections: two waves in 2006, and three starting in ‘11. Once the B.A.A. decided to
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Sports
Can Spurs get back at Heat? Can they survive West? (AP)- To get another shot at LeBron James, the San Antonio Spurs may have to go through Dirk Nowitzki, then Dwight Howard and James Harden, and finally Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook. Survive all that, and maybe they can avenge that NBA Finals heartbreak. "There's definitely that burning desire in the back of your mind that really wants to get back there," Spurs guard Patty Mills said. They get started on Sunday, right before James and the Heat begin what they hope is a run to a third straight championship. Miami's path seems much easier, but James' team also appears more vulnerable than the one that was an overwhelming favorite in last year's playoffs. Maybe that was boredom, though. Count on the Heat to pick it up now. "This is why we're all here," Heat forward Shane Battier said. "The regular season is great and all, but this is the fun part. You wake up and you're excited for the challenge of the playoffs. There's no better time than right now."
It begins Saturday with four games: Top-seeded Indiana hosts Atlanta, and Brooklyn visits Toronto in the Eastern Conference, while the West series openers include Golden State at the Clippers, and Oklahoma City against Memphis. On Sunday, No. 1 overall seed San Antonio opens against Dallas, right before Miami welcomes Charlotte. Washington at Chicago, and Houston hosting Portland round out the action. The postseason came to a thrilling conclusion last year, with the Heat rallying from a five-point deficit in the final 28 seconds of regulation to win Game 6. They went on to take a tight Game 7, helped when Tim Duncan missed over Battier from point-blank range down the stretch, to hand San Antonio its first loss in five NBA Finals appearances. Many thought that was the last chance for the Spurs' core of Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili. Instead, San Antonio won a leaguehigh 62 games in perhaps the franchise's finest all-around season. Even the Spurs are impressed with
the way they left disappointment behind, but all that matters now is what's ahead. "We are No. 1 overall and can't be better than that. But it doesn't mean anything," Ginobili said. "The playoffs starts from scratch." And it starts with a Dallas team that won 49 games, which would have given the Mavericks the No. 3 seed in the weaker East. Houston and Portland tied for fourth with 54 wins — the same amount as the Heat earned to finish No. 2 in their conference. Miami lost 14 of its final 25 games, often while playing without Dwyane Wade, and finished two games behind the Pacers. ABC analyst Jeff Van Gundy is picking Indiana to win the East, in part because the Heat just don't quite resemble the team that lost only three times after the start of February last season. "I think they have a lot of guys who are not in their prime right now and their ability to consistently play well individually is just not there," Van Gundy said Thursday during a conference call. "And then you have
the health issues that to me, if they didn't have some of those health issues, they'd be a 60-win team and they'd be the favorite." Still, the betting site Bovada gave 3 to 1 odds of another Spurs-Heat finals, best of any possible matchup. If it happens again, San Antonio would get the decisive game at home this time — though that may not even come into play if the Spurs have to face either the Rockets or Thunder, who both went 4-0 against them. Every series in the West could be a slugfest, which would make the playoffs no different than the regular season. The East has a sub.500 Atlanta team along with postseason novices such as Charlotte and Washington, potentially making things easier for the Heat and Pacers. But Toronto, Chicago and Brooklyn all compiled better records since Jan. 1 than Indiana and Miami, and will try to prevent the Eastern Conference finals matchup that's been expected since November. "It's always wide open," Nets coach Jason Kidd told reporters in
career. Senior captain Darnell Cummings noted that it is “definitely getting a bit The UConn men’s track bittersweet at this point.” will be competing in a home Although Cummings is a meet Saturday at the George senior, he has junior eligibilJ. Sherman Family Sports ity, which means he is eligiComplex in Storrs. ble to compete another seaAfter last son. He said it’s week’s event difficult to know in Georgia, the that he will not be Huskies will able to compete be looking to with some of the improve on same kids next their two firstyear. place finishes Overall, when in a meet that asked about his can help them senior season he gain momennoted that, “As tum for the a group of indi» Preview home stretch. viduals we are For many becoming closer seniors, this will be their last as friends after this fourmeet at Storrs and with so year journey most of us had few meets left, one of their together. We are just getting last meets in their collegiate ready as a group to lay it all
out there on the track for these next few weeks, and hoping things fall into place going into the championship season.” Last year in their final home meet, the UConn Classic, the men captured first place with 81.50 points, good enough to beat secondplace Rhode Island and third place Southern Connecticut. The Huskies had twentyseven top-five finishes in the event including first-place finishes by now-sophomore Harley Lacroix in the long jump and senior Cory Duggan in the pole vault. Coach Greg Roy described last year’s meet as the “kind of meet that hardens the competitors and produces great results.”
By Dan Madigan Campus Correspondent
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Miami Heat's LeBron James (6) passes between San Antonio Spurs' Boris Diaw (33), of France, and Manu Ginobili (20), of Argentina, during the second half at Game four.
Cleveland on Wednesday. "You guys sometimes limit it to just two teams, but guys that are playing on a daily
basis in the Western Conference and the Eastern Conference feel like they've got a chance."
and left fielder Heather Fyfe. Fyfe and O’Donnell combined to go 3-for-6 with eight of the team’s 12 RBIs, and each added a long home run to left field. Along with the improved offensive performance, UConn’s pitching was stellar against the Hawks as well. Freshman Kayla Doty surrendered only a solo home run in the top of the third to pick up her third win of the season. Doty pitched all five innings while striking out six and only walking one batter. Coach Karen Mullins said that more performances like this from Doty and Lauren Duggan will be necessary in order to be successful this weekend. “(Temple is) a good offensive team,” Mullins said. “It’s going to be important that we get off to a good start
and get good outings from the mound.” These games will be crucial in determining both teams’ standings in the AAC, along with their seeding for the conference tournament in Houston that is less than a month away. Temple’s 3-6 record in the AAC is good enough for sixth in the conference, while the Huskies and their 2-9 conference record are currently in last place. At least one win for UConn will likely move them past Memphis for seventh place, and if the Huskies can win at least two games, they can climb past the Owls for sixth place. First pitch of game one of the doubleheader on Friday is 1p.m., and the final game on Saturday will begin at noon.
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After putting up a seasonhigh 12 runs against Hartford on Wednesday, the UConn softball team will resume conference play in a three-game homestand at Burrill Family Field against the Temple Owls. UConn (10-29, 2-9 American Athletic Conference) will square off against the Owls (13-19, 3-6 American) in a doubleheader Friday and the final game of the series on Saturday. The games are being played a day earlier than usual due to the Easter holiday. The Huskies hope to carry over from their offensive explosion Wednesday against the Hawks by continuing to rely on the hot bats of third baseman Emily O’Donnell
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Baseball Today Temple 1 p.m.
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(18-17) April 21 Central Connecticut 3 p.m.
April 22 UMass 3 p.m.
April 23 Quinnipiac 3 p.m.
Tomorrow Temple Noon
April 22 Bryant University 3 p.m.
April 23 UMass 4 p.m.
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Bruins set for fresh start after regular season
“I will be fully ready to play Sunday and will be very disappointed if I don’t.”
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Tomorrow Temple 3 p.m.
The record for the most Olympic medals ever won is held by Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina.
Golf April 19 and 20 Rutherford Collegiate All Day
Lacrosse (8-6) Tomorrow Cincinnatti Noon
April 26 Villanova 1 p.m.
Men’s Track and Field Tomorrow UConn Home Meet TBA AP
Cleveland Indians relief pitcher Chen-Chang Lee wipes his face in the dugout after being relieved during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers in Detroit.
Women’s Track and Field
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Bruins won the Presidents’ Trophy by leading the NHL with 117 points. Another number shows just how much, or little, that means. “I heard about 40 percent of the series are upsets in the first round,” Boston coach Claude Julien said. “You have teams that have high expectations. You have teams that have nothing to lose and everything to gain. So that certainly makes that first round a challenge.” That begins for top-seeded Boston on Friday night against eighth-seeded Detroit. The Red Wings had 24 fewer points in the regular season but went 3-1 against the Bruins, a sign that Detroit’s speedy, puckpossession style can overcome Boston’s physical approach. “I think we’re complete,” Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said. “I think we’re way better than people think.” A glance at the past three seasons should convince the Bruins not to take a first-round opponent lightly. They had the better seed in each of those series, but played the full seven games in all of them including a loss to Washington in 2012. “We certainly learned from all those Game 7s that we’ve had to go through in the first round that it is important to be on top of your game at the end of the year and not limp in to the playoffs,” Julien said, “which I thought we did at times after we solidified our playoff spot.” Another lesson could keep the Bruins from losing focus. They scored the third-most goals in the NHL this season, but Pittsburgh led the league a year earlier then got just two goals in a four-game sweep at the hands of Boston in the Eastern Conference final. “I feel comfortable with the fact that we have some depth at scoring this year, a little bit more than we did last year,” Julien said. “We really limited Pittsburgh to very few goals with a lot of goal scorers there. “So, again, nothing is guaranteed in the playoffs. You’ve got to work for your goals. Just because you got them during the season doesn’t mean you’re necessarily going to get them automatically in the playoffs.” The Bruins lost to the Chicago Blackhawks in six games in last year’s Stanley Cup final. Expectations are for Boston, the 2011 Cup winners, to make another solid run at the title. “All of the pressure is going to be on them,” Detroit goalie Jimmy Howard said. “They’ve got to win, we’re not supposed to. We’ve got to make it as hard as possible on them.”
Knicks’ season over, focus Suns join list of ‘best’ is on Anthony’s future teams to miss playoffs
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What's On TV NBA: Memphis Grizzlies vs. Oklahoma City Thunder, Sat. 9:30 p.m. ESPN
The Grizzlies will take on the Thunder in the first round of the Western Conference. After Memphis defeated the Mavericks 106-105 in overtime Wednesday night, the Grizzlies look to face Kevin Durant and the Thunder. Tip is set for 9:30 p.m. on ESPN. AP
NHL: Detroit Red Wings vs. Boston Bruins, 7:30 p.m., NBCSN
The No. 8 Red Wings will take on top seeded Bruins tonight in the first round of the Eastern Conference. Athough statistically the Bruins are better off, the Red Wings took their last series against Boston 3-1. Puck drop is set for 7:30 p.m. on NBCSN.
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GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Carmelo Anthony said he wants to stay in New York, and said he wants to win. It will be up to Phil Jackson to convince him that he can do both. With the Knicks’ season over and Anthony missing the playoffs for the first time in his career, he can begin thinking about his future. He plans to become a free agent in July and wants to be someplace where he can compete for championships. The Knicks never came close this season, going 37-45. Anthony said it was a “failure” and an “embarrassment” that he’s unwilling to go through again, which could force him to look elsewhere since New York will have trouble changing its roster next season. “I want to come back. I also want to win. Me wanting to be here, if we can put ourselves in position to at least compete at a high level over the course of whatever, five years, the contract would be, then I’m willing to stay here,” Anthony said Thursday while wearing a red hat with the letters “NY” at the Knicks’ training center. He met with Jackson, who took over as team president in March and has said he could envision Anthony as a central piece of the Knicks’ future. Less clear is what he thinks about coach Mike Woodson, who received a strong endorsement from the Knicks’ leading scorer. “To be honest with you, Mike Woodson, me and him have become, he’s been a guy I can talk to,” Anthony said. “He’s been almost a
father figure, a friend, a guy who I can bounce stuff off of. I’ve been a guy he’s talked to multiple times about multiple things, different situations. So when that time comes, if it’s ready for me to step up and take that next step and say, ‘OK, Mike Woodson needs to stay or go’ — I don’t think it would come down to that — but I’ll back him. If he needs my recommendation, whether it’s here or anywhere else, I’ll back him.” Amare Stoudemire said Woodson wasn’t a part of his exit meeting with Jackson and general manager Steve Mills, and he hadn’t seen him Thursday. Woodson led the Knicks to 54 wins and a division title last season, and the Knicks embraced their high expectations coming into 2013-14. But they got off to a dismal start and couldn’t recover, bad timing with their best player having the option to leave. The Knicks can pay Anthony around $30 million more than any other team, but won’t have much financial flexibility to build around him until a number of contracts come off the books following the 2014-15 season. Yet Tyson Chandler, who like Stoudemire owns one of those contracts, said changing the players wasn’t what the franchise needed. “I think a lot around here is made about personnel and this and that. I don’t think that’s it,” he said. “I personally think that you have to bring a winning culture around here, and until that’s established, you can rotate players as much as you want. It’s not going to make a difference.”
PHOENIX (AP) — The Phoenix Suns are the “best team not to make the playoffs.” That’s the title first-year coach Jeff Hornacek bestowed on his overachieving squad after it finished a remarkable turnaround season. But despite 48 wins, the Suns are staying home when the real fun begins. They’ve tied a record of sorts. In the NBA’s 16-team playoff era, only one other 48-win team didn’t make the postseason — the 2007-08 Golden State Warriors. It’s a frustrating situation because of the decidedly Western power tilt in the NBA. If Phoenix was in the Eastern Conference, it would be tied for the third-best record with Toronto and Chicago. The Suns won 10 more games than the East’s No. 8 seed, Atlanta. New NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in an interview with Fox Sports Southwest that there needs to be “a fresh look” at the possibility of restructuring the playoffs to seed teams by their records regardless of conference. Of course the Suns would be all for that. “When you look at the teams in the East and see where you’d be seeded in the East, it kind of irks you I think,” Phoenix center Miles Plumlee said. “But I
think the landscape in the NBA might change in the future and maybe it might just be the top 16 teams that are in it.” Dallas, the No. 8 seed, is the only playoff team in the West not to win 50 games. The Mavericks won 49, including a crucial victory over Phoenix last weekend, to finish a game ahead of the Suns. In the East, only Indiana (56-26) and Miami (54-28) topped 50, and the Suns beat Indiana twice. The scenario was almost identical in 2008, when every playoff team in the Western Conference won at least 50 games. If that Golden State team had been in the East, it would have been the No. 4 seed. This is not an unusual situation for Arizona sports fans. Last season, the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals became the first 10-6 team not to make the playoffs since New England in 2008. And in the NHL, the Phoenix Coyotes’ 89 points were the most by any team not to make the postseason. Of course, any whining must be accompanied by the realization that a victory here and there — such as in the Suns’ inexplicable late-season blowout loss to the Lakers in Los Angeles — and some other team would be wearing the “best of the rest crown.”
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MARZI REACHES 200 Marzi stays humble after 200 strike outs at UConn
By Scott Carroll Staff Writer Senior pitcher Anthony Marzi became the seventh player in UConn baseball history to reach 200 career strikeouts as the Huskies topped Temple 4-1 Thursday at J.O. Christian Field. “It was a good outing, quality start,” said Marzi, who pitched six complete innings while only allowing one run on four hits. Marzi struck out seven batters in the game and surrendered four walks. “Anytime you can go six innings and let up less than three runs, that’s a quality start,” Marzi said. Freshmen Patrick Ruotolo came out of the bullpen to get the save on three innings worth of perfect work while picking up three strikeouts. Bobby Melley continued to his hot start to the 2014 season as he finished 3-for-3 on the day for his 16th multi-hit game of the season. The Huskies got the scoring started in the bottom of the first inning as senior Tom Verdi slapped a single up the middle, stole second base and scored on an RBI single from Blake Davey. Davey would cross the plate in the bottom of the third as Vinny Sienna hit into a fielder’s choice to score the right fielder, making the score 2-0. After the Owls got on the board in the sixth inning with one run, the Huskies would get some insurance in the bottom of the seventh. Eric Yavarone grounded the ball back to the pitcher with the bases loaded, but fortunately for the Huskies, Temple pitcher Matt Hockenberry would throw the ball over the catcher’s head, allowing Davey to score from third base. The Owls would then walk Max McDowell to allow another run in the inning to give the Huskies a 4-1 lead. “We weren’t clicking on all cylinders with the bats,” UConn head coach Jim Penders said. “We found some holes and they gave us some gifts. It wasn’t a real pretty game today, but we’ll take it. We needed a Friday day win in the worst way and we finally got one. So I’ll take it.” UConn and Temple will play two more times this weekend: Friday at 1 p.m. and Saturday at 1 p.m.
Sabathia beats P r i c e ; Ya n k s top Rays 10-2 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — CC Sabathia pitched seven innings for a rare win at Tropicana Field, leading the New York Yankees past David Price and the Tampa Bay Rays 10-2 Thursday night in a matchup of former AL Cy Young Award winners. Sabathia (2-2) allowed two runs and seven hits, improving to 2-7 in 12 starts at Tropicana Field since joining the Yankees in 2009. He lowered his ERA to 5.19. Price (2-1) entered 6-1 in nine starts against Sabathia but gave up six runs and 10 hits in five innings. Sean Rodriguez hit into a triple play and had a solo homer for the Rays, who have lost four straight. Brian Roberts, Jacoby Ellsbury, Brian McCann and rookie Yangervis Solarte drove in two runs each for the Yankees, who have started 10-6 for the fourth consecutive year. Roberts and Ellsbury both had run-scoring triples, and Derek Jeter hit an RBI single during a threerun second that put the Yankees ahead 4-0. Alfonso Soriano and McCann made it 6-1 with consecutive homers during the fifth. Solarte added his first major league homer, a two-run shot off Grant Balfour in the ninth Tampa Bay got a run in fourth when Logan Forsythe scored on McCann’s passed ball, beating Sabathia’s attempted tag at the plate. Rodriguez homered during the seventh.
By Jack Mitchell Staff Writer
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UConn pitcher Anthony Marzi reached a milestone as he racked up 200 strike outs in his college career. Marzi became the seventh player in program history to reach 200 strike outs.
April 18, 2011 is a day that UConn pitcher Anthony Marzi will probably remember for the rest of his life. It was the day he made his first collegiate appearance, throwing three innings in relief in an 18-3 win over UMass. It was also the day he threw his first collegiate strikeout. Three years, 47 appearances and 199 strikeouts later, Marzi will enter the second half of his final season in Storrs having pitched his way into the ranks of the Huskies’ baseball elite. The senior from Berlin reached a historic career milestone yesterday in UConn’s 4-1 win over Temple, becoming the seventh player in program history to reach the 200 career strikeout plateau, surpassing three-time Major League Baseball All-Star Charles Nagy to take sole ownership of seventh place on the Huskies’ all-time strikeout list. “Coach (Joshua MacDonald) was telling me I passed Nagy down in Cincinnati (last weekend) with 197 (strikeouts), so I knew I was close,” Marzi said. Ever the humble leader, Marzi was quick to downplay the milestone after the game, which he finished having thrown six innings – five of them scoreless – along with four walks and seven punchouts, earning his fourth win of the season. “It doesn’t mean anything,” Marzi said of the milestone. “I’m thankful for the win, but the 200 strikeouts doesn’t mean much. I’d rather have more wins than strikeouts, to be honest.” Marzi, an in-state product who as a high schooler didn’t receive offers from any college baseball powerhouses, said he has had to work for everything he’s received in his college career. “I didn’t come in highly touted,” he said. “My work ethic is what got me here, and that’s what I’ll continue to do moving on.” Marzi said that while the strikeout total itself doesn’t mean much to him, the prestigious group of former UConn pitchers he has joined – a list that includes Nagy, 2011 first-round pick Matt Barnes and former New York Yankees draft pick Tim Norton, among others – is what
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Duke freshman Jabari Parker declares for NBA draft (AP)- Jabari Parker is hoping to become Duke’s latest one-and-done star to become the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft. The 6-foot-8 All-American forward said Thursday he’ll enter the NBA draft after being the highestscoring freshman in Duke history. He was also the first freshman to lead the Blue Devils in scoring and rebounding, and the first freshman in three decades to be selected team MVP. Now he has the chance to do what Kyrie Irving did in 2011: follow a one-year stay at Duke by being the first name called in the June draft. Coach Mike Krzyzewski said in a statement Thursday it was “an honor for us to have him in our program.” In an essay posted on SI.com, Parker said the NBA offers him the best chance to develop both as a player and off the court. “I realize how much of a privilege and an honor it is to join the ranks of the NBA,” Parker wrote. “I will do everything in my power to help deliver championships to the franchise that drafts me. At the same time, I recognize the obligation to represent the league in an admirable way off the court.”
Parker played in high school at Chicago’s Simeon Career Academy and was frequently mentioned along with Kansas’ Andrew Wiggins as possible No. 1 picks before ever playing a college game. Parker led the Atlantic Coast Conference with an average of 8.7 rebounds while his 19.1 points were second only to North Carolina State’s T.J. Warren, who entered the NBA draft last week. “Jabari could not have been better,” Krzyzewski said. “He is the epitome of what you would want a basketball player to be — outstanding every day on the practice court and in the classroom and a very humble young man. “He had a fantastic freshman year and is so deserving of the opportunity to play in the NBA and follow his dream.” Parker is listed as the No. 2 draft prospect on Chad Ford’s Top 100 on ESPN.com, the No. 2 pick in a mock draft on NBAdraft.net and No. 3 on DraftExpress.com. It had long been believed that Duke would be a one-year pit stop for Parker on his way to the pros. But even late into the season, he insisted
he was undecided, saying he wanted to play at the level that would best help him grow. When he received the USBWA’s Tisdale Award as the nation’s top freshman this week, he said he planned to meet with Krzyzewski and reach a decision Wednesday. In his SI.com essay, Parker said he had “gotten pretty attached to life at Duke and I don’t want to utter the word goodbye.” He also noted that the careers of professional basketball players — his father, Sonny, played six seasons in the NBA — last only so long. “The lucky ones play until their mid-30s,” Parker said. “With that perspective, I shrink my professional career with each year that I remain in college. It’s ironic, but true.” Parker — the fifth Duke player to enter the draft as a freshman — said he planned to continue working toward a college degree. He is Mormon and said he would put a two-year mission on hold. From Day 1, he and Rodney Hood — a redshirt sophomore transfer from Mississippi State — were the focal points for a Duke team that spent much of the season in the top
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Duke’s Jabari Parker, right, drives past Virginia’s Justin Anderson during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in the championship of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
10 and looked like a Final Four contender. But Duke (26-9) ended the season with a loss to Virginia
in the ACC tournament final and a shocking loss to Mercer in its NCAA tournament opener..
Pistons face another uncertain offseason
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Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond (0) reacts after being fouled in the first period in an NBA basketball game against the Atlanta Hawks in Atlanta.
DETROIT (AP) — Rodney Stuckey stood near his locker after what might have been his final home game for the Detroit Pistons.
Stuckey is a free agent and can head elsewhere this offseason, but he still offered a few comments on what’s been ailing the Detroit fran-
chise these last few years. “Stability,” Stuckey said. “You guys see it — always changes each and every year.” There will be more of that after Detroit went 29-53 this season and missed the playoffs for a fifth straight year. Coach Maurice Cheeks was fired in February, and team president Joe Dumars stepped down this week. That leaves owner Tom Gores in charge of a significant overhaul, three years after he took over the team. The Pistons made one last bid to turn their fortunes around under Dumars last offseason, when they hired Cheeks as coach, signed Josh Smith and traded for Brandon Jennings. That trio of moves raised expectations, and the team did not come close to meeting them. Smith was the Pistons’ scoring leader but shot only 42 percent from the field, and Jennings may have
been even more inconsistent. Detroit still has one of the game’s top young big men in Andre Drummond, but it’s anyone’s guess what the team around him will look like in 2014-15. Whoever is in charge of basketball operations will have several key decisions to make. The Pistons will lose their firstround draft pick if it’s not in the top eight — part of a previous trade with Charlotte. Greg Monroe is a restricted free agent, and both Stuckey and Charlie Villanueva are unrestricted. Villanueva barely played this season, but both Monroe and Stuckey were major parts of Detroit’s rotation. “July, it’s going to be a good time. I’m excited just to see what different options I’ll have,” Stuckey said. “But at the same time, Detroit has drafted me and gave me this opportunity.” Stuckey has played for the Pistons for his entire seven-year career. In that span, Detroit has had only one
winning season, and Stuckey has played for six coaches, including John Loyer, who took over on an interim basis this season after Cheeks was fired. That cycle of coaching changes is one the Pistons will seek to break, but the franchise has fallen fast after reaching the Eastern Conference finals every year from 2003-08. The new-look roster never seemed to mesh this season. With Drummond and Monroe playing inside, the 6-foot-9 Smith was ineffective when he spent too much time on the perimeter. Jennings, meanwhile, finished fifth in the league in assists but shot only 37 percent from the field. Detroit’s strength this season was its offensive rebounding, with Drummond excelling in that regard, but the sheer number of missed shots from outside made the Pistons a reasonably easy team to defend.