Volume 90, Issue 4 | September 15, 2010
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Chargers Top Lincoln 30-0 In 2010 NAACP Harmony Classic
open Sharieff Hall for an 86-yard –––––––––––––––––––––––––– touchdown pass for an early 6-0 lead. Chris Scifo tacked on his first of three extra points on the WEST HAVEN, Conn. – The afternoon. University of New Haven footAfter the quick burst of ofball team opened play at Del- fense in the first quarter, neither laCamera Stadium with a bang, team was able to muster much of downing Lincoln University by the final score of 30-0 on Saturday afternoon at the 2010 NAACP Harmony Classic. Mike DeCaro and Victor Jones led a potent ground attack that amassed 143 yards, coupled with a formidable de- an attack through the remaining fense that allowed just 206 total 12 minutes. UNH finished the yards of offense from the Lions. opening stanza with 126 yards With the win, New Haven passing and six yards on the improved to 2-0 on the season, ground. while the Lions dropped to 1-1 However, when the whistle through their first two games. In sounded for the second quarter, two meetings with Lincoln Uni- once again the Chargers’ offense versity, the Chargers are now wasted very little time moving 2-0, outscoring the Lions 63-10. the chains. A short punt left UNH The Chargers’ defense set in great field position with just the tone early on in the opening 39 yards to go to the goal line. quarter. UNH forced the Lions Victor Jones rushed for 17 yards into a difficult situation at 4th on five carries and Ryan Osiecki and 21 in their first series, lead- completed a pass for six yards ing to a punt at the 12:48 mark. leading the a 28 yard field goal On the first offensive set from from Scifo. The Chargers now the New Haven offense, Ronnie controlled a 10-0 advantage. Nelson connected with a wide The defense stunned the Lions A CHARGER ATHLETICS PRESS RELEASE
First Medal of Honor for a Living Afghan War Vet By MICHAEL J. CRUMB associated press
–––––––––––––––––––––––––– DES MOINES, Iowa – A 25-year-old soldier from Iowa who exposed himself to enemy gunfire to try to save two fellow soldiers will become the first living service member from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to receive the Medal of Honor, the White House announced Friday. President Barack Obama phoned Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, on Thursday at the base in Italy where he’s stationed to tell him he’d be receiving the nation’s highest military honor, Giunta’s father told The Associated Press. He will become the eighth service member to receive the Medal of Honor during operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The seven previous medals were awarded posthumously. “It’s bittersweet for us,” said Steven Giunta, of Hiawatha. “We’re very proud of Sal. We can’t mention that enough, but in this event, two other soldiers were killed and that weighs heavy on us. You get very happy and very proud and then you start dealing with the loss as well. You can’t have one without the other.”
Giunta was serving as a rifle team leader with Company B 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment when an insurgent ambush split his squad into two groups on Oct. 25, 2007, in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, the White House said in a news release. Giunta went above and beyond the call of duty when he exposed himself to enemy fire to pull a fellow soldier back to cover. He engaged the enemy again when he saw two insurgents carrying away a wounded soldier, 22-year-old Sgt. Joshua C. Brennan, of McFarland, Wis. Giunta killed one insurgent and wounded the other before tending to Brennan, who died the next day. “His courage and leadership while under enemy fire AN APextreme PHOTO were integral to his platoon’s ability to defeat an enemy ambush and recover a fellow American soldier from enemy hands,” the White House said. Giunta, who enlisted in the Army shortly after graduating from Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids, is now stationed in Italy with the Battle Company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. He was in his second tour of See MEDAL OF HONOR page 5
offense in the next series, giving the offense another chance with just over eight minutes remaining in the half. Ryan Osiecki led a nine play, 78 yard drive for the next score of the game. The Chargers held possession for 3:57, eventually leading to a
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four-yard touchdown pass from Osiecki to Jason Thompson. Mike DeCaro was crucial in the drive, rushing for 24 yards on five carries, propelling the Chargers to a comfortable 17-0 lead. New Haven’s defense followed the score with another strong showing in the ensuing series. J.D. Chalifoux intercepted Laquan Williams near midfield, returning it to the Lincoln 12-yard line. Chris Scifo connected on a 45-yard field goal, closing out the scoring summary in the first half of action. After the intermission, the offense went quiet from both See HARMONY page 12
Equal Justice Packs Dodds Theatre
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–––––––––––––––––––––––––– Celebrating diversity and racial harmony, the 2010 Harmony Classic started the week with a two-part academic lecture series. The lecture series began on Wednesday evening, at 7:00
p.m. in Dodds Hall. Leadership expert Gary Steele, senior consultant at Learning Dynamics, in Wallingford, Connecticut, presented a public lecture entitled “History – The Backbone of Opportunity.” On Thursday evening, at 7:00 p.m. in Dodds Hall as well, world renowned forensic scientist and UNH professor Dr. Henry C. Lee presented his lecture entitled “Equal Justice – Lessons Learned from High Profile Cases.” These lectures were part of a weeklong celebration of diversity and racial harmony based around the 2010 Harmony
Classic. As always, when Dr. Lee is scheduled to give a lecture at the University of New Haven, a high attendance can be expected. This particular lecture was no exception. Half an hour before the lecture was scheduled to begin, Dodds auditorium was already half-full. Staying
true to the expected amount of people who would attend, by 6:50 p.m., the entire theatre had only enough room to stand; sixty to eighty people even had to be turned away from the event. When so many people have to be turned away from an event such as this, you know that it’s got to be good. Packed with students, faculty, alumni, and members of the NAACP, everyone waited anxiously for the lecture to begin. If you have never been to a lecture given by Dr. Lee, then See JUSTICE page 4
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Iranian Woman’s Stoning Sentence Delayed
appears to have been flogged 99 times by authorities in Iran, –––––––––––––––––––––––––– following a British newspaper running a picture of an unveiled Move over, balloon boy. The woman who, reports are now newest story to face outrageous saying, was mistakenly identimedia coverage and subsequent fied as her. fervor from those who Regardless, the have become engrossed in Iranian stoning senit is the case of an Iranian tence is at the center woman sentenced to death of a human rights isby stoning in Tehran. In sue that questions the fact, the case has been rousbrutality of the puning an international uproar ishment. In support of from people like Brazilian Ashtiani’s freedom, president Luis Inacio Lula French foreign prime da Silva, Pope Benedict minister Bernard XVI, Nobel Peace Winner Kouchner has called Shirin Ebadi, and French her stoning sentence president and First Lady “barbaric” and stated Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla that he would go to Bruni that such campaignTehran to save her, if ing has helped to bring he needed to. French about a crusade for savFirst Lady Carla Bruing the forty-three year old ni was labeled a proswoman, Sakineh Mohamtitute by Iranian memadi Ashtiani, who was dia after she signed convicted of adultery in a petition along with July. other celebrities to AN AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL/ AP PHOTO Though Ashtiani, who save Ashtiani. Yet, is currently having her stoning woman identified as Ashtiani Iran has cut warring words with sentence reviewed by the Iranian confess about being an accom- human rights activists. Despite Supreme Court after global pres- plice. However, her lawyer, Ja- the support for her stoning sensure and criticism, awaits pos- vid Houtan Kian, says she was tence to be lifted, Iranian Forsible execution, she has not left probably just tortured into con- eign Ministry Ramin Mehmthe headlines. According to re- fessing. Beyond that, Ashtiani See STONING page 6 By LIZ DE LA TORRE STAFF WRITER
ports, Ashtiani was convicted of an “illicit relationship” with two men in 2006 just after her husband was murdered the previous year, a murder in which she is suspected to have participated in. An August claim showed a