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Conn. jury convicts Hayes in home invasion
NEW HAVEN (AP) — A paroled burglar was convicted Tuesday of murdering a woman and her two daughters during a night of terror in which the mother was strangled and the girls were tied to their beds, one doused in gasoline, before the house was set on fire. Steven Hayes, 47, could be sentenced to death. His attorneys have admitted his involvement and will argue for a life sentence. Prosecutors said Hayes and another ex-con broke into the family’s house in Cheshire in 2007, beat the girls’ father with a baseball bat and forced their mother, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, to withdraw money from a
bank before she was sexually assaulted and killed. Elevenyear-old Michaela and 17-yearold Hayley were tied to their beds, with pillowcases over their heads, before they were killed by the gas-fueled fire, authorities said. The crime drew comparisons to “In Cold Blood,” Truman Capote’s chilling book about the 1959 murders of a Kansas family, and prompted more Cheshire residents to get guns. It also led to tougher laws for repeat offenders and home invasions, and Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell cited the case when she vetoed a bill that would have abolished the death penalty. The girls’ father and the lone
survivor, Dr. William Petit, appeared to stifle tears as the verdict was read. His head down, he sucked in his bottom lip. “There is some relief but my family is still gone,” Petit said afterward, his father and other relatives clutching him. “It doesn’t bring them back. It doesn’t bring back the house that we had.” Hayes showed no emotion as he stood for the verdict, which triggers the trial’s second phase, beginning Oct. 18, in which the same jurors will decide if Hayes should be executed. Petit said he hoped the jurors would use “the same diligence and clarity of thought” as they consider the sentence.
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Dr. William Petit Jr., center, speaks with his father, William Petit Sr., right, and sister Johanna Petit Chapman outside Superior Court in New Haven on Tuesday.
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Admins. address construction, recycling, Spring Weekend at Straight from the Source By Victoria Smey Staff Writer Administrators discussed pressing concerns at the second monthly Straight from the Source meeting – the most significant of these about recycling across campus, Spring Weekend and current and future construction projects. C. Dennis Pierce, director of Dining Services, explained the necessity of using paper products during the recent Stage III drought. As the university’s water wells filled up, the dining halls were forced to switch to paper products to save water, because corn starch products would have been more costly. But, Pierce explained that the trash generated during this four-day span was not wasted, but instead went to a local incinerator and was converted to energy. “The cost of using paper products during the drought was about $5,400 a day,” Pierce said. But Pierce also discussed how
recycling has increased across campus. When South Dining Hall was renovated last year, a new machine called an “eCorrect” was installed. The machine essentially turns trash and food into a soil additive that looks very similar to sawdust. Pierce said that the university plans to expand this recycling project to other dining halls as well. Gene Roberts, director of Facilities Operations, described other measures the university has taken to increase recycling. “Roughly 30 green recycling cans were added across campus in addition to trash cans,” Roberts said. The administrators also explained that the construction of the new West and East Buildings is still on time and under budget, and Vice President for Student Affairs John Saddlemire assured students that “people weren’t resting during the summer” for any of the current construction projects.
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Provost Peter Nicholls speaks at a Board of Trustees meeting on Sept. 22. Nicholls also spoke at Tuesday’s Straight from the Source event.
Times Sq. bomber sentenced
NEW YORK (AP) — The Pakistani immigrant who tried to detonate a car bomb on a busy Saturday night in Times Square accepted a life sentence with a smirk Tuesday and warned that Americans can expect more bloodshed at the hands of Muslims. “Brace yourselves, because the war with Muslims has just begun,” 31-year-old Faisal Shahzad told a federal judge. “Consider me the first droplet of the blood that will follow.” His punishment for building the propane-and-gasoline bomb and driving it into the heart of the city in an SUV last May was a foregone conclusion, since the charges to which he pleaded guilty carried a mandatory life sentence, which under federal rules will keep him behind bars until he dies. But the former budget analyst from Connecticut used the courtroom appearance to rail against the U.S., saying the country will continue to pay for occupying Muslim countries. “We are only Muslims trying to defend our religion, people, homes and land, but if you call us terrorists, then we are proud terrorists and we will keep on terrorizing you until you leave our lands and people at peace,” he told U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum. Shahzad - brought into the courtroom in handcuffs, and wearing a long beard and white skullcap - had instructed his attorney not to speak, and Cedarbaum told prosecutors she didn’t need to hear from them. That left the two free to spar over his reasoning for giving up his comfortable life in America to train in Pakistan and carry out an attack authorities say could have killed an untold number of pedestrians. “You appear to be someone who was capable of education and I do hope you will spend some of the time in prison thinking carefully about whether the Quran wants you to kill lots of people,” Cedarbaum said. Shahzad responded that the “Quran gives us the right to defend. And that’s all I’m doing.” The judge cut him off at one point to ask if he had sworn allegiance to the U.S. when he became a citizen last year. “I did swear, but I did not mean it,” Shahzad said. In his address to the court, he said Osama bin Laden “will be known as no less than Saladin of the 21st-century crusade” - a reference to the Muslim hero of the Crusades. He also said: “If I’m given 1,000 lives, I will sacrifice them all.”
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HARTFORD (AP) — Lawyers for the former mayor of Hartford, Conn., have filed an appeal of his conviction on five corruption charges. Eddie Perez’s lawyers argued that the court made an error in consolidating his two cases into one trial. One case accused him of bribe-receiving and being an accessory to fabricating evidence and another case included extortion charges. The Hartford Courant reports that Perez lawyer Hope Seeley says Perez was harmed by the consolidation of the cases because he wished to testify in the bribe-receiving case but not in the extortion matter. Perez was convicted in June of five felony charges, including bribery and extortion. He was sentenced last month to three years in prison but remains free on bond pending the appeal, which was filed Friday in Hartford Superior Court.
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9/11 health claims being settled in court
NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer representing 10,000 ground zero workers suing New York City over their exposure to World Trade Center dust said Tuesday that 75 percent have signed a settlement resolving their claims and most of the rest have indicated they will do so. Those figures suggest the city may be close to resolving a painful legal battle with construction workers, police officers and firefighters who developed respiratory problems and other illnesses after working in the sooty ruins after Sept. 11, 2001. The settlement, worth as much as $713 million, requires that 95 percent of the plaintiffs sign on by Nov. 8. Mayor Michael Bloomberg implored workers again Tuesday to take the settlement, saying they would avoid a drawn-out fight while guaranteeing themselves at least some compensation. “We have no desire to be fighting in court with those who acted unselfishly and heroically in their response to that attack, both on 9/11 and in its aftermath,” Bloomberg told reporters in a news conference at City Hall. Since the spring, the thousands suing over the lack of proper masks and other protections at the disaster site have been deciding whether to take a deal that would pay them a few thousand dollars to more than $1 million, depending on the severity of their illness and the likelihood it is connected to the dust. Lawyers on both sides of the case have been campaigning hard for several months to hit the 95 percent target. Paul Napoli, who leads a legal partnership representing the bulk of the workers involved in the suit, told The Associated Press that 75 percent of his clients had already signed on, and that if he counted those who have said they intend to opt in but haven’t yet completed
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police say a 45-year-old Memphis man angry over two teens’ sagging pants shot one in the buttocks during an argument. He faces aggravated assault charges. The boys were walking through a southeast Memphis neighborhood when Kenneth E. Bonds yelled at them to pull up their pants, according to an arrest document. Police Sgt. Ron Perry said the teens refused and the three began arguing in the street. Bonds then brandished a semi-automatic pistol and threatened to shoot the teens. Perry said Bonds fired several shots and hit one of the teens as the pair ran away. The teen’s wound wasn’t critical. The other wasn’t injured in the Sept. 25 shooting first reported by The Commercial Appeal in Memphis. A court clerk says it’s not clear if Bonds had a lawyer.
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Arrests of Yale students under investigation
NEW HAVEN (AP) — New Haven’s police chief says his department will investigate city officers’ actions in the arrests of five Yale University students during a nightclub raid last weekend. Chief Frank Limon said Monday that there will be an internal affairs investigation of Saturday morning’s raid at the Alchemy nightclub. Witnesses have alleged police brutality, telling the Yale Daily News that officers punched, kicked and arrested a Yale student for no apparent reason. Police say the student assaulted three officers and had to be subdued with a stun gun. Students also say police threatened them with arrest for taking video and pictures of the raid, which was part of a new enforcement effort spurred by a downtown shootout. Limon says he’s telling officers that such recordings are legal.
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Mounted policemen patrol outside Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, Monday. Japan issued a travel alert for Europe on Monday, joining the United States and Britain in warning of a possible terrorist attack by al-Qaida or other groups.
LONDON (AP) — Did their voices betray them? The discovery of an alleged terror plot against Europe owes at least some of its success to “voiceprint” technology that allows law enforcement to electronically match a voice to its owner. The technique - which some compare to fingerprinting - can be a powerful anti-terror tool, officials increasingly believe. Law enforcement agencies are already considering how a voice database could help thwart future plots. The reported plot against European cities, in which suspects allegedly spoke of a Mumbai-style shooting spree, has triggered travel warnings and refocused attention on alQaida activities on the PakistanAfghanistan border, where several of the voices were recorded. The British eavesdropping agency GCHQ deployed voice identification software to help uncover the plot that officials say has targeted Germany, Britain and France - with famed sites such as Notre Dame Cathedral
and the Eiffel Tower under close surveillance. “Advances in these types of technology have been key in thwarting plots and catching suspects,” a British government official told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of his work. Despite progress made in quashing the plot, officials still speak of an ongoing threat. Police in southern France on Tuesday arrested 12 suspects in sweeps against suspected Islamic militant networks, including three men linked to a network recruiting fighters for Afghanistan. In one of the cases, nine suspected Islamic militants were detained in southeastern Marseille and its suburbs, and authorities turned up at least one automatic rifle and a pump gun, the officials said. In Tuesday’s other roundup, two men were arrested in Marseille and another in southwestern Bordeaux on suspected ties to a Frenchman arrested
in Naples, Italy, last month accused of links to an Afghan recruiting ring. Officials in Germany were tightlipped Tuesday on details of a U.S. missile strike in Pakistan’s rugged mountain border area where Pakistani officials said eight German militants were killed. U.S. officials believe a cell of Germans and Britons was at the heart of the Europe terror plot. Germany’s ARD public television cited unidentified sources Tuesday as saying four of the Germans killed in the missile attack were of Turkish descent. Developers of voice biometric technology say it can be more useful than traditional fingerprint analysis in fighting terror. “You have potential for there to be a larger database for criminals’ voices than their fingerprints. What are the chances that you’ll get a foreign terrorist’s fingerprint versus a foreign terror suspect’s voiceprint?” said Germano Di Mambro, who runs Wellesley, Massachusetts-based Porticus Technology Inc.
Provost Peter Nicholls said that “there is a cost analysis going on at the moment” about whether or not the university plans to demolish both Arjona and Monteith, or keep one or both of the buildings. “If we can keep the space at a reasonable cost, that might be a good option,” Nicholls said. The administrators also discussed future construction projects that may begin over the next few years, like an addition to the psychology building and a new engineering building, although these ideas have not been put into action yet. Toward the end of the forum, Nicholls took the opportunity to ask students for their opinion about holding a moratorium in place of Spring Weekend this year. A task force has already met a few times to discuss the deescalation of Spring Weekend, although no student representatives are on the committee. “The committee has discussed holding less university sanctioned events, reducing the number of visitors on campus and encouraging students to go home for the weekend,” Nicholls said. Nicholls said the task force is considering asking students to take a year off from Spring Weekend “in honor of the people who were killed on campus last year.” Although the faculty has been supportive of this idea, according to Nicholls, the committee has yet to hold public forums to get more student input. Conor Bergin, a 3rd-semester political science major and Chairman of USG’s Student Affairs Committee, asked if de-escalating Spring Weekend would mean employing “battalions upon battalions of police” to come to campus for the weekend. Nicholls said that an attempt such as that would not be feasible, but hopes that students will be more responsible this year.
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Big-name companies to help colleges train workers (AP) — As the White House stages a first-of-its-kind community college summit Tuesday, the Obama administration is proposing that stronger partnerships between two-year public colleges and big-name U.S. employers such as McDonald’s and The Gap will help better match workers with jobs during the economic recovery and beyond. Community college officials welcomed the new initiative, “Skills for America’s Future.” But it’s unclear whether the project will help meet Obama’s education goals. Community colleges are short of cash, jammed with laid-off workers and students who in better times would attend four-year schools and spending heavily on remedial education for students illprepared for college. For years, community colleges have worked with local employers to identify employment needs and train for them. But most efforts have stayed
local, or been limited to pilot programs. “These employers are well known and very important employers and this is being done at a national level,” said Thomas Bailey, director of the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College. “It’s not at the local, local level where people don’t see it very much.” Rosalie Safier considers herself the beneficiary of a publicprivate work force development partnership that worked. Her family’s business, National Van Equipment of Long Island City, N.Y., started in 1922 and mostly manufactures blankets for the moving industry using textile remnants, including stuffing made of old blue jeans. In a pilot program for small businesses at LaGuardia Community College supported with money from investment bank Goldman Sachs, Safier said
she learned the art of negotiation in an accounting class, mastered Microsoft Excel, met regularly with counselors and fellow business owners and presented a growth plan before graduating. As a result, Safier said she expanded her distribution area and diversified her product line to include custom quilted covers and sound-absorption blankets that muffle things like loud band practices. She said the company has added five employees to grow to 23 employees and has experienced big sales growth. “At a lot of small businesses, you wear a lot of different hats,” she said. “Each of us, even ones with two or three employees, feel like CEOs.” Community colleges “do need investments in their capacity,” said Dina Habib Powell, president of the Goldman Sachs Foundation. What is equally needed, she said, “is those relationships with the private sector, those connections.”
Tuesday’s community college summit is considered a consolation prize for community colleges, which had been slated to receive $10 billion in federal money for job training, building projects and initiatives to graduate more students. But by the time an overhaul of the federal student loan program had made its way through Congress, all that remained for community colleges was $2 billion over four years for job training. Obama has set a goal of 5 million more community college graduates and certificateholders by 2020, part of broader push for the U.S. to again lead the world in number of college graduates. The White House on Monday described “Skills for America’s Future” as an industry-led initiative to “dramatically improve” work force training partnerships with community colleges, paid for mostly by the participating companies.
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NEW YORK (AP) — It is the thinnest and strongest material known to mankind - no thicker than a single atom and 100 times tougher than steel. Could graphene be the next plastic? Maybe so, says one of two scientists who won a Nobel Prize on Tuesday for isolating and studying it. Faster computers, lighter airplanes, transparent touch screens - the list of potential uses runs on. Some scientists say we can’t even imagine what kinds of products might be possible with the substance, which hides in ordinary pencil lead and first was extracted using a piece of Scotch tape. Two Russian-born researchers shared the physics Nobel for their groundbreaking experiments with graphene, which is a sheet of carbon atoms joined together in a pattern that resembles chicken wire. Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov of the University of Manchester in England used Scotch tape to rip off flakes of graphene from a chunk of graphite, the stuff of pencil leads. That achievement, reported just six years ago, opened the door to studying what scientists say should be a versatile building block for electronics and strong materials. “It has all the potential to change your life in the same way that plastics did,” Geim, 51, a Dutch citizen, told The Associated Press. “It is really exciting.” Michael Strano, a chemist at
MIT, said trying to predict its uses would be “folly ... We can’t even imagine the uses we’re going to find.” But he and others have some ideas. Graphene’s electrical properties mean it might make for faster transistors, key components of electronic circuits, and so lead to better computers, the Nobel committee says. As a single layer of carbon atoms it’s tiny, which could pay off in more powerful cell phones, several scientists said. And since it’s practically transparent, it could lead to see-through touch screens and maybe solar cells, the committee says. It might also pay off for big TV screens. Its tremendous strength could produce new composite materials that are super-strong and lightweight, for use in building airplanes, cars and satellites, the committee says. So why aren’t pencil leads super strong, if they contain graphene? Breaking a lead generally involves a shearing off between graphene sheets rather than breaking the sheets themselves, explained James Tour of Rice University. And while a person can tear up a single sheet of graphene, it’s still stronger than a one-atom-thick sheet of anything else. “There’s nothing stronger,” Tour said. Graphene has not made its mark in ordinary consumer prod-
ucts yet, although some prototype electronic display screens and composite materials have been created, Strano said. Lots of scientists are studying it, in some cases to learn about basic physics, Strano said. Researchers are still trying to find a practical way to make large quantities of pure graphene, something more amenable to large-scale use than the Scotch-tape approach, he said. “The field is still very new,” he said, and the awarding of the $1.5 million prize to Geim and Novoselov is “absolutely marvelous.” Joseph Stroscio, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, said he had thought it would take a few more years of scientific appraisal before graphene would win a Nobel. But its potential applications and the brand-new behavior it presents for basic physics have drawn strong interest since the 2004 breakthrough, and the prize is welldeserved, he said. It might take five or 10 years before graphene shows up in products like cell phones, he said. Novoselov, 36, is the youngest Nobel winner since 1973 of a prize that normally goes to scientists with decades of experience. He holds both British and Russian citizenship. Paolo Radaelli, a physics professor at the University of Oxford, marveled at the simple methods
the winners used. “In this age of complexity, with machines like the super collider, they managed to get the Nobel using Scotch tape,” Radaelli said. The 2010 Nobel Prize announcements began Monday with the medicine award going to British researcher Robert Edwards, 85, for in vitro fertilization. Unlike the physics prize, which came just six years after the graphene breakthrough, the medicine award came more than 30 years after the birth of the first test tube baby. The prize committee ignores the provision in Alfred Nobel’s will that the award honor discoveries made the preceding year because it takes time to measure the benefits. The chemistry prize will be announced Wednesday, followed by literature on Thursday, the peace prize on Friday and economics on Monday, Oct. 11. The awards were created by Nobel, a Swedish industrialist, and first given in 1901. The prizes are always handed out on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel’s death in 1896. There have been no Americans among this year’s Nobel laureates so far, but that could change Wednesday with chemistry, a prize that has been dominated by U.S. scientists. Only once in the past decade, in 2007, did the prize not include a U.S. citizen.
Leader on BP claims blames fraud for slow payouts
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (AP) — BP’s $20 billion fund to compensate victims of the Gulf oil spill has been inundated with inflated or unsupported claims and in some cases, outright fraud – all slowing down the process of getting money to people who need and deserve it, the administrator of the program says. Kenneth Feinberg said more than a third of the roughly 104,000 applicants need to do more to back up their claims, and thousands of claims have no documentation at all. He added that the amount sought in some cases bears no resemblance to actual losses, such as a fisherman’s claim for $10 million “on what was obviously a legitimate claim of a few thousand dollars.” “People can put down on a claims form all sorts of numbers,” he said. At the same time, hundreds of claims that were initially denied have been accepted as Feinberg adjusts rules for compensation, such as whether people need to be physically close to the spill to get paid. “At the beginning, it’s always rough,” said Feinberg, an attorney who previously oversaw claims for 9/11 victims. “Hopefully, by the end of this program, people will feel that the fund treated them fairly.” Many claimants are still waiting for checks from the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, which is
doling out BP’s money to oil spill victims. The Associated Press interviewed dozens who say they have received small fractions of the compensation they requested. Claims have been bogged down by the sheer volume of requests for money as livelihoods have crumbled since the April 20 rig explosion that killed 11 workers and spewed more than 200 million gallons of oil over about three months. “We don’t have any business left,” said Sheryl Lindsay, a beach wedding planner who filed a claim for about $240,000 for lost revenue from July through December because of cancellations. The check she received from the BP claims center was for just $7,700. Lindsay said she recently learned that her claim will be reviewed for possible additional payments, but she needs money now. She closed her coastal Alabama office and said she will soon file for bankruptcy. Such complaints have “not fallen on deaf ears,” Feinberg said. In an interview last week, he promised that kinks would be worked out and more generous payments would come, but that it is taking time to sort the legitimate claims from the overstated and the fraudulent. “We have scores of applications for financial aid that appear to be fraudulent,” and are being reviewed for possible forward-
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ucker Max is wildly popular. The blogger-turnedserious-writer details his drunken and sexual experiences online and in two published books. His first book became a New York Times No. 1 best-seller and made the Best-Seller list every year from 2002 until 2006. This book was then turned into a successful movie in 2009. Max’s recent publication came out last week and is projected to make the Best-Seller list once again. The writer’s success is undeniable. Like Max, a young woman named Karen Owen, who just finished her undergraduate work at Duke (which is Max’s alma mater as well) has published tales of her late nights that turned into early mornings, with details of alcohol, boys and hookups. She created a PowerPoint presentation with facts about the 13 college athletes she had sex with, including particulars about their “equipment” size, physical fitness and dirty talk. The creation was meant as a joke to be shared only amongst friends, but, as with most electronic media, it was leaked to the public and has gone viral. Duke is in an uproar. The athletes whose lives were put on display are angry. The parents of students don’t know what to think of the institution they send their son or daughter to. Everyone is looking to Owen as though she’s done something terribly wrong. Some have marked her as a whore or a slut. It appears that no one is happy with her. But why should Owen be ridiculed and looked down on when men like Max exist? While Max may not have ever created a bar graph directly related to the quality of his many hook ups, he has certainly surpassed his female counterpart in crudeness and sexism. Being a man does not give Max the sole right to objectify other people. Both women and men share that prerogative, as this young woman has shown. Owen should be celebrated, just like Max is. There should even be talk of a book deal. After all, she put together a wellresearched project, better than anything Max has done. She included the point system used when grading the men she had sex with and listed pros, cons and memorable moments in her presentation. Owen has narrowed the gender gap, asserting her sexuality and somehow turning the tables on men. Not only was she able to pick up and hook up with 13 gorgeous athletes, a feat that should be celebrated, but she was able to trade gender roles and actually coment on the prowess of those who slept with her. The presentation may not have been the best way to let the world know about her sexual security and assertiveness, but it certainly was effective. Owen deserves props for what she did, just as males in her position have received in the past. In fact, she deserves more for being the first of many females to step over the gender inequality line. The Daily Campus editorial is the official opinion of the newspaper and its editorial board. Commentary columns express opinions held solely by the author and do not in any way reflect the official opinion of The Daily Campus.
I like it on top of the InstantDaily. I scraped my knee after slipping on some acorns. Clumsiness or more evidence of a squirrel plot? Is it wrong that rather than getting to class early this morning I seriously considered staying on the bus for another complete lap around campus? If you’re in a vehicle traveling at the speed of light and then you turn your head lights on, do they do anything? You know how I know my girlfriend is awesome? During dinner she questioned whether she was in a dream and then spun an orange and called it her totem. Do starfish have sex like I have sex? I need a new phone. I butt dial everyone....including the infirmary. You know how Facebook ads are always super-relevant to your life? Today, one of them asked me if I have an unplanned pregnancy. Do they know something I don’t? I think we pay enough in tuition for UConn to be able to turn the heat on early. Is it creepy or a compliment to see some random person in your class stalking you on your Facebook? The UConn Timber Team’s Coach Shannon Strong broke a world record this past weekend. Can I get a YO-HO?!
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Dems to suffer like GOP in 2006
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n November 2006, the Democratic Party regained control of Congress by promising to undo the corruption, inefficiency and lack of transparency that, according to Democrats, characterized Republican leadership. Furthermore, the Democratic Party pledged to create a fairer economy for all Americans. Instead, nothing changed. The Democratic Party failed to live up to its promises. It simply proved itself as susceptible to crime, unethical practices and bad economic policy as any party. As a result, the party now faces the same electoral guillotine it applauded four years ago. On Nov. 7, 2006, after the official vote count confirmed a sweeping Democratic victory, future Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi faced the camera and said the following words: By Arragon Perrone “The American people voted for a new Weekly Columnist direction to restore civility and bipartisanship in Washington, D.C.,...Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.” After a round of enthusiastic applause, Pelosi said, “Democrats intend to work for an economy where all Americans participate in the prosperity of our great country.” Years of economic decline, political coarsening and desperate partisan tricks have revealed the emptiness of Pelosi’s words. There was no economic renaissance, no civility and no new honesty. Congresswomen Pelosi’s “fairer economy” turned out to be a poorer, debt-ridden economy. The Great Recession began in December 2007, 11 months after the Democrats took power. Democrats may be quick to blame Republican economic policy for the recession, but they cannot escape the fact that Article I, Section
7 of the U.S. Constitution gives the House of Representatives sole power to originate bills regarding taxation. Democratic leaders currently defend tax increases, but refuse to change the status quo when they had the power. They complain about the lack of financial regulation, but wither at the fact that they controlled numerous Senate committees whose primary purpose was economic regulation: the Appropriations Committee; the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee; the Budget Committee; the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and others for Finance; the Environment and Public Works and Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Obviously, the economy collapsed under President George W. Bush’s watch; however, it also fell because congressional Democrats were not doing their jobs.
“Nothing changed. The Democratic Party failed to live up to its promises.” The Democratic Party has also failed to improve civil discourse in Washington, D.C. Political debates have only gotten nastier. Democrats have gone out of their way to paint Republicans as stupid, greedy and bigoted. Senator Reid called President George Bush a “loser” and President Obama repeatedly mocks Republicans with sarcastic self-righteousness because he would not win a serious debate. Then there is Representative Alan Grayson of Florida, who said that “The Republican health care plan is this: die quickly,” called Republicans “foot-dragging, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals” and labeled his 2010 election opponent “Taliban Dan.” The least
the Democrats could have done was to censure Grayson. After all, they demanded that Republican Joe Wilson be censured after he shouted “You lie!” during Mr. Obama’s State of the Union speech. But, once again, words are only words to the Democratic Party. The startling lack of transparency is another failure of the Democratic congressional agenda. Americans did not get “the most open and most ethical Congress in history.” The Democrats bent every procedural process and used every legislative loophole to get the healthcare bill passed. Even though they controlled 57 out of 100 Senate seats and 255 out of 435 seats in the House, Democrats had to resort to these littleknown procedures to escape a direct vote. Whether one supported the healthcare bill or not, these tactics were – and are – shady. Nevertheless, the Democrats have experienced moments of frankness. Referring to the recession, then White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told The Wall Street Journal, “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” While grilling Shell Oil president John Hofmeister, Rep. Maxine Waters said, “Guess what this liberal will be all about. This liberal will be all about socializing...” After a pause, she added, “Will be about basically taking over and the government running all of your companies.” Congresswoman Waters also joins longtime New York representative Charlie Rangel as the second Democrat currently on public trial for ethics violations. Obviously, this cannot be what Speaker Pelosi envisioned when she promised openness and transparency.
Weekly Columnist Arragon Perrone is a 5th-semester political science and English double major. He can be reached at Arragon.Perrone@uconn.edu.
Senate should approve nuclear weapons reduction
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ra Helfand, co-winner of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, once described what would occur in nuclear war: “A large-scale nuclear exchange with Russia would kill By Jesse Rifkin more than Staff Columnist 100 million Americans in the first half hour. Clouds of dust and soot would block out the sun, and, in a matter of days, the average temperature across the globe would plummet 18 degrees Fahrenheit, to levels not seen on Earth since the depth of the last ice age. In this ‘nuclear winter,’ agriculture would cease to exist throughout the Northern Hemisphere, and billions of people would starve in the following months.” Happy Wednesday. On April 8, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dimitri Medvedev signed a joint agreement, the New START Treaty, in which both nations agreed to reduce their nuclear stockpile by roughly one-third. The United States and Russia control about 90 percent of the world’s atomic weapons, and this treaty represents a historic step toward world peace. But the treaty cannot legally take effect unless approved by the U.S. Senate. Why does that matter to you? Because in November, Connecticut will elect a new
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Senator, who may well cast the deciding vote. And in my opinion, it is of monumental importance that this treaty be ratified. We invented the nuclear weapon and remain the only nation to have ever deployed one in warfare. But, as Obama noted upon signing the treaty, “We’ve taken another step forward by leaving behind the legacy of the 20th century while building a more secure future for our children. And we’ve demonstrated the importance of American leadership – and American partnership – on behalf of our own security and the world’s.” Critics counter that this would weaken national security, making us more vulnerable to attacks. But we would not be eliminating our nuclear arsenal, just decreasing it. We would remain the world’s most militarily powerful nation. Many military leaders support the treaty, including Director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency Patrick O’Reilly, Commander of U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces Kevin Chilton and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen. This significant step for diplomacy should not be prevented by Senate opposition, yet this seems disturbingly likely. Despite being signed by Obama in April, the treaty was only approved in committee on Sept. 16. The vote was 14-4, with all Democrats approving, and all opposing votes cast by
Republicans. With many predicting a Republican takeover of Congress in November, there is a possibility for the treaty’s rejection. Simple majority is not enough – ratification requires twothirds majority, or 67 out of 100 Senators. Every vote matters. So what do Connecticut’s two Senators believe?
“This should not be prevented by Senate opposition, yet this seems disturbingly likely.” Sen. Chris Dodd voted approval on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “The treaty… is not only crucial to our national security but also is an affirmation of the importance of cooperation and dialogue with our Russian partners,” he said. Sen. Joe Lieberman, however, remains undecided, “I believe… any reductions in our nuclear stockpile must be accompanied by an appropriate modernization plan to bring our aging nuclear weapons complex, our warheads and our delivery systems up to 21st-century standards.” According to a report by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “The President
requested $7 billion in 2011 for stockpile sustainment and infrastructure investments, a nearly 10 percent increase over 2010… the Administration intends to invest $80 billion in the next decade to sustain and modernize the nuclear weapons complex.” Those statistics indicate Lieberman might vote for treaty approval. If the vote comes before January, Connecticut could seemingly count on two approval votes. But the vote may be delayed until the new (likely Republican-controlled) Congress takes effect. Neither Connecticut Senator candidate, Richard Blumenthal or Linda McMahon, have commented on this issue. I urge both candidates to approve the treaty if elected, because, in the words of a recent New York Times editorial, “Failure to ratify this treaty would be hugely costly for American credibility and security… It would mean no further reduction for the foreseeable future in the 20,000 nuclear weapons still in the two countries’ arsenals.” Regardless of who wins, I wish for a world with fewer nuclear weapons. After all, peace is less expensive than war.
Staff Columnist Jesse Rifkin is a 1stsemester political science and communications double major. He can be reached at Jesse.Rifkin@uconn.edu.
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Aries - Is it dangerous to strive for more power? Only if you let desire diminish your capacity to think logically. Resolve problems for a win-win. Taurus - People around you seem to respond to energy you can’t even perceive. To understand their motivation, ask questions that deliver logical answers.
Cancer - A favorite person makes demands today that seem unreasonable at first. Once you get rolling, you see exactly how to accommodate their wishes.
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Gemini - As your thinking matures, you see practical changes that transform the results into a magical success. Set it free to really grow it.
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Leo - Someone at work decides they want their own way. If you don’t care, let them have it, at least for today. Otherwise, careful, logical explanations are needed. Virgo - A younger person applies considerable pressure about practical matters. You may need a trip to the store for the right uniform or gear. Libra - Take care of your own nutritional needs. Assume the role of chef at home, perhaps, and go out for lunch with friends somewhere fabulous. Healthy food can be delicious.
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Scorpio - A neighbor or sibling challenges you to a dual of practical words. Your best tactic is logic as you respond to their emotions. Keep yours out of it. Sagittarius - Exert your will and apply physical effort to a housekeeping project. You’ve thought this through. Now get others to cooperate for fabulous results. Capricorn - Take control of your own responsibilities. Others want to tell you what to do. Be respectful. You don’t have to do it their way. Aquarius - A dramatic dream had you tossing and turning. Now see how it applies to today’s agenda. Maybe your subconscious is trying to tell you something. Pisces - Group activities pose problems for one person with petty objections. Resolve the difficulties by acknowledging their position. It helps to be heard.
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Bars stay Bank bailout supporters struggling for re-election up-to-date in fighting fake ID cards
PITTSBURGH (AP) —Students back to school after summer vacation walk down Forbes Avenue with purpose, making stops at their favorite joints. Some seek out the scene at Hemingway's Cafe or Peter's Pub. Others trek off the beaten path to the Garage Door Saloon on Atwood or Bootleggers on Semple. To the untrained eye, the 18to 20-year-olds blend in with students of legal drinking age. But not to Dominic Williams. Williams, 25, a 6-foot-4-inch former University of Pittsburgh football player, says he can spot a false ID as soon as he sees it. Seated on a wooden bar stool at the entrance to Peter's Pub, where he's been a bouncer for three years, Williams said that what is harder is sorting out the impostors. “That's when the process gets really tricky. If it's a girl's sister's ID, she might be able to produce other forms of ID with the same name as backup.” One thing is certain: The days of sneaking into a college bar with a homemade or badly altered ID are long gone. Technology has changed the playing field, leading both to increased detection and a booming business in sophisticated IDs. For as little as $50, underage drinkers can purchase authentic-looking IDs, often finding the “manufacturers” of fakes through word of mouth. If photo identification seems suspect, Williams relies on questioning and even his cell phone's 3G connection to determine its authenticity. He may ask the individual when he or she graduated from high school. He will also double check the height listed on the ID to see if it's accurate, an “obvious red flag.” As a last resort, he will sometimes pull out his iPhone to look at the individual's Facebook profile. “I've had instances where the person's Facebook profile picture comes up, and they're in the picture with the person whose ID they're pretending is theirs,” he said. Williams also gets help deciphering the real from the counterfeit from a scanner and ultraviolet light mounted on the adjacent wall. The use of extra safeguards is necessary, said Peter's general manager Nick Pawlenko, because false identification is common. “We see fake IDs every night, and we'll get 10 to 20 fakes on a busy night,” he said. During his seven years at Peter's, Pawlenko said that “sophisticated fakes” have become more prevalent, complicating the process of verifying whether an ID is real. “Some will scan, some have UV decals, so it's very tough,” he said. While fake IDs have become more sophisticated, so, too, are the methods to detect them. Scanners read the magnetic strip and bar code found on the reverse side of IDs from all 50 states. UV lighting technology unveils unique signatures from 43 states that are otherwise invisible to the naked eye. An ID from the state of Pennsylvania reveals a row of “PA”s under the fluorescent glow. For bars in prime college territory, there is considerable effort on all sides to keep out underage drinkers. They include not only bouncers and bartenders but also bar managers, college personnel who work in the Oakland area and the Liquor Control Board. Noticeably missing from the list is the Pittsburgh police, whose officers are “not at all involved,” said narcotics and vice Lt. William Mathias. According to Lt. Mathias, there is “no coordinated effort” on the part of the police to seek out users of fake IDs. However, if an officer responding to a call finds someone has a fake ID, the person will be arrested, he said. Few of these arrests ever materialize into prosecutions. With the district attorney's office unlikely to pursue serious charges, “most likely (the offender) will plead to disorderly conduct,” he said.
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In this July 13 file photo, Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., is seen in St. Louis. Support for the bailout program is turning into a kiss of death for many in Congress.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's giant bank bailout may well have averted a second Great Depression, economists say, but a lot of voters aren't buying it. Support for the program is turning into a kiss of death for many in Congress. Longtime Republican lawmakers - tarred by their votes for the emergency aid to banks, insurance and auto companies - have been sent packing in primaries. Fresh political attack ads are lambasting candidates from both parties for supporting the $700 billion package that Republican President George W. Bush pushed through Congress at the height of the financial crisis in October 2008. The actual cost to taxpayers will be far less than the original price tag, perhaps totaling $50 billion or less. But it's been difficult for lawmakers to make the case that they saved the nation from possible financial ruin - as some economists suggest. It's far easier for opponents, especially
in political soundbites, to portray the issue as Wall Street fat cats against ordinary Main Street folks in the final-weeks cacophony of the campaign. President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats, now in charge, have taken heat for a program that many voters see as proof that the rich guys were bailed out while the public wasn't. Indeed, both parties are on the attack. Some recent examples: In Missouri, Democratic Senate candidate Robin Carnahan has been savaging Republican Rep. Roy Blunt for helping push the Toxic Asset Relief Program, or TARP, through Congress. One ad calls him “Mister Bailout.” Another one, paid for by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, asserts: “When our economy collapsed, Washington is where Roy Blunt took the lead and voted for the $700 billion Wall Street bailout.” In Connecticut, Senate candidate Dick Blumenthal hit
Republican Linda McMahon during their debate Monday night for signaling support for TARP. She has called it “a necessary thing to do at the time.” He says he opposes it. Ohio Democratic Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy is trumpeting her opposition to the legislation as a freshman member. “I voted against the bank bailout and took on Wall Street to protect your money,” she says in one of her TV spots. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation's most powerful business lobby, is spending millions on ads trying to elect candidates who oppose the TARP bailout and last year's $814 billion stimulus package - even though the chamber supported both programs at the time. Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Texas, admits he's vulnerable because of his TARP vote. “It may cost me votes. It may cost me an election,” Edwards told the Dallas Morning News editorial board. “But it was the right thing to do.”
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Bright lights, big city Speaker gives students tips on how to transition to NYC life By Caitlin Mazzola Focus Editor
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NYC real estate broker Caroline Bass spoke to students about moving to the city, Tuesday. Bass, who is also a UConn alumna, said that those interested in apartments should start looking for vacancies at least a month in advance.
Thinking of moving to New York City when you graduate? Here’s one thing to consider: landlords are looking for renters who earn a salary of 40 to 50 times the monthly rent, according to Caroline Bass, a broker for CitiHabitats, a real estate firm in the city. Sound scary? It can be. But here are options, which were the focus of the UConn Alumni Association’s “Moving to NYC” Seminar on Tuesday. Bass, a 2004 UConn alum and founder of the Alumni Association’s New York Chapter, gave a presentation to students about moving to the city, with an emphasis on how to find the right apartment. Bass said she and other realtors in her firm hope to make the new renters’ transition “smooth and easy.” “We are all encompassing,” she said. “We help you from beginning to end.” Typically, people interested in apartments in the city should begin looking about 25 to 35 days before their move-in date, Bass said, because city landlords only show apartments that are vacant – they don’t usually show a place while the previous renter is still there. So, a student graduating in May should begin his or her search in mid to late March. Bass also said that when someone is interested in an apartment, to set aside at
least two to two and a half hours for a trip to look for apartments, and it usually takes about three visits to find the right place. People usually look at eight to 10 apartments, she added. Bass told her own story of leaving home for New York City, and how that inspired her to found the New York Alumni Chapter. She moved to the city in 2005, shortly after graduating with a bachelor of fine arts in photography and art history, Bass said. She couch-surfed while she was interning at an art gallery, and, having trouble finding a job in the art industry, she turned to real estate. She then began to look for her own apartment and ended up living in Washington Heights in a four-bedroom apartment with three men she didn’t know. She also had trouble establishing a social network, something she took to heart when creating the New York Chapter, which was established in 2008. “It would have been a much easier transition for me if there was that sort of group when I moved here,” Bass said. “There’s now an established group in the city that can help you in all aspects – finding an apartment, getting a job and making friends.” The chapter hosts social gatherings regularly, like happy hours and networking events, as well as provides
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Students use yoga to escape the stresses of college life
By Becky Radolf Staff Writer
Celebrities galore may be practicing yoga, but one dedicated yogi and student has brought the practice to campus to show that it’s not just a fad, it’s but a powerful exercise and lifestyle. Caroline O’Dwyer, a 9thsemester vocal performance major, recently began teaching yoga classes for students. As a board member of the Outing Club, she suggested that the group start offering yoga classes to those interested, and she said everyone was immediately on board. “We advertised it at the meeting and started a listserv. So far I have 85 people signed up,” O’Dwyer said. The class was an immediate success. With 30 people at the first meeting, it has slowly grown and continues to expand. Her yoga is designed for those of all levels, and works as a series, so each class builds on the next, according to O’Dwyer. “This is totally open to everyone,” she said. “It’s geared toward beginners, but people can practice on their own and I always offer modifications to poses.” That doesn’t mean the more advanced students get overlooked. “My beginner class can build up a practice and the strength and flexibility needed. People come up to me and ask, ‘When will I be able to do this pose? When will I be able to stand on my head?’ It’s a practice that takes time.” To accommodate the more advanced students, she offers a private class for those whom she feels are ready for the challenge. Her first private lesson was offered to two students, giving exclu-
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(From left to right) Tyler Malootian, a 6th-semester political science major, Caroline O’Dwyer, a 9th-semester vocal performance major and Anna Koropatkin, a 3rd-semester psychology major enjoy a yoga class at CLAS, Friday.
sive attention to those who could handle it. “We did a really rigorous hour and a half lesson. If there’s more interest and I feel people are ready for it, I’ll keep doing it,” O’Dwyer said. Although the class offers a great way for students to stay in shape, O’Dwyer hopes to change the growing mindset of what yoga represents in American culture. O’Dwyer was trained at the White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara, Calif., by the two yogis who founded the
first yoga studio on the West Coast in 1967. According the O’Dwyer, they are two of the world’s most experienced and prestigious yoga teachers. “Yoga is a misconception for most people, but people are getting an understanding that it’s more of a trendy fitness class,” O’Dwyer said. “It’s the importance of centering yourself and being present in that moment of your life. It’s not letting the outside world affect every second of your day.”
O’Dwyer explained that all physical yoga falls under the category of Hatha yoga, but she focuses on Power Vinyasa with an Ashtanga influence. According to her, all the poses link together the physical movements with a focus on a deep connection to your breath. “It’s geared to be a flowing practice, and it can be physically challenging,” she said. The benefits extend beyond a workout that gets students out of the gym, and O’Dwyer can attest to that. She said that after she
learned to do yoga at 14 years old, it turned her into a totally new person. “As college students, we don’t sleep enough, we go out and party too much and we build up too much stress in our bodies and minds. People who may not be as active or too intimidated to go to the gym can find a connection to the physical practice.” O’Dwyer’s yoga classes meet on Fridays at 3 p.m. on the CLAS quad.
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Time to Settle By Alessandra Petrino Campus Correspondent
Seeing as how last week was Homecoming Week and the theme was Disney movies, I probably should have made this last week’s column. But, you are getting this now, which might not be a bad thing, as our Homecoming theme of “Remember the Magic” should not coincide with sex and vibrators, no matter how magical the two may be. When one thinks of Disney, one thinks of fairytales filled with romance. At some point growing up, every girl wonders where her Prince Charming is and when he will come to rescue her. For a girl, the hope is that someday, after kissing a whole bunch of frogs, her wish will come true, and her knight in shining armor will come and whisk her away into a life she has always dreamed about. The problem is, how many frogs does a girl have to kiss before the right guy comes along? Even worse, does the right guy ever come along? We can sit here and question how much longer it will take before we get the fairytale we’ve always wanted, but more than likely that fairytale isn’t going to happen. We won’t all end up with a fairytale relationship, and that’s okay. Perhaps we don’t need a fairytale life to feel the “magic.” “I really believe we waste too much time searching for the perfect person and the perfect relationship,” said Kate Dumain, a 5th-semester nursing major. So, now that we’re technically adults, is it time to settle for what we can get? Should we give up on that fairytale person and fairytale relationship and settle for what we have? “I don’t think of it as settling if you are in love with someone, both with their perfections and imperfections,” Dumain said. “And personally, I don’t want to settle for anything in life.” Who’s to say we can’t make our own fairytales as we live them? Cinderella didn’t automatically know that Prince Charming would be the love of her life, she had to live through hardships, and eventually she found the one she was meant to be with. Beast wasn’t the most attractive man to Belle, but in the end, their lives became a fairytale. And the story of the Frog Prince illustrates that even when the frog wasn’t human, the princess learned to love him. Maybe our expectations for that perfect person and perfect relationship are too high to begin with. The tall, tan, built, athletic, smart, chivalrous guy with the sweet smile and sparkling eyes who knows how to pleasure you just the way you want may just not exist for everyone. To quote our favorite fictional columnist, Carrie Bradshaw, “Men who are good-looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.” Before you men get your panties in a twist, obviously I know this is a generalization and isn’t entirely true. A lot of good-looking men are great in bed, but the point is, sometimes a girl can take a chance on that quiet, sensitive, uncoordinated, intelligent guy in her calculus
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Table tennis is one of the many options for gamers who play Sports Champions on Playstation. The game is full of user options and has very realistic controls.
Sony’s new sports’ game has a bit of everything
By Jason Bogdan Campus Correspondent Is it really any surprise that the launch Playstation Move game, Sports Champions is the game Sony is including in the Move bundle packs? After the massive popularity of Wii Sports, Sony thinks bringing out a collection of sports games to play with amotion device is more of a necessity than anything else. That said, if you do plan on getting the Move peripheral, Sports Champions is a must buy. It easily has some of the best controls the Move offers, with six sport activities that’ll be fun for any party. The sporting events included here include disc golf, archery, gladiator duel, volleyball, bocce ball and table tennis. Each game uses that glowing ice cream cone of a peripheral in manners that you would expect; you swing, throw and aim in way that you would play a game like table tennis. It all works really well. It can tell how slowly or quickly
you swing your sword in gladiator duel, and you can only blame yourself if you suck at throwing bocce balls at the goal area. In fact, you might actually think the controls are too realistic. Let me put it this way: I was just as bad at disc golf as I am at throwing a Frisbee in the real world. It’s hard to imagine anyone not liking at least one of the games here. Bocce ball is, without a doubt, the Wii
Bowling of the package, with simple-but-fun controls that are good for any party or home for the elderly. Despite how unusual “gladiator duel” sounds in a sports compilation, it’s actually a fun sword-and-shield duel game that doesn’t let you cheat with endless swiping motions. In fact, the only game here that I didn’t dig so much was volleyball. It lacked the character movement of Wii Tennis and had surprisingly
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The Good -A great assortment of sports that’ll make you appreciate
bocce ball at least a little bit more -The Playstation Move definitely proves itself as a good motion peripheral with its fantastic use here
The Bad
-The presentation lacks personality -Beach volleyball isn’t nearly as fun as the other games
slow pacing of each motion. While the games are a great showcase for the Playstation Move, the actual presentation of them isn’t as superb. Unfortunately, because the PS3 doesn’t have any avatars like the Wii and Xbox 360, you’ll need to play one of the numerous generic caricatures of athletes instead of your user-created Batman Mii. The music and menus also feel lazily done, but at least the graphics look good for a PS3 game, even if the scenery lacks personality. But does a thing like music or graphics really matter when you play Sports Champions at a party? The accuracy of the bow and arrow in archery and the responsiveness of your paddle in table tennis is the main concern here. Thankfully, the Playstation Move shows just how well they implement it in a modern video game.
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Sonic Rush (Nintendo DS) After many months of waiting, it seems unreal that Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 will finally be available for download next week. To whet my appetite before plunging into the sequel of my dreams, I’ve been replaying one of the best Sonic games: Sonic Rush for the Nintendo DS. After years of console failures, it put Sonic back in 2D where he belongs, with some of the best levels in the series to date. With the trick system and boost meter, “Sonic Rush” also managed to have a greater sense of speed than the Genesis classics, with extra style to boot. - Jason Bogdan
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In this video game image released by EA Sports, a scene is shown from the Peewee to Pro feature for NHL Slapshot for the Nintendo Wii.
Games should be less about motion, more about fun By Lucas Ma Campus Correspondent I can’t say the Wii began the casual gaming revolution, but it certainly helped it gain momentum. Sports games, fitness trainers, even virtual babysitting games were being advertised and sold for the Wii and made embarrassing amounts of money. Why then, companies asked themselves, should we bother making any type of game other than ones similar to Wii Sports? The answer is simple: they shouldn’t, which is why it is becoming increasingly difficult to find a quality game for any console these days.
Sure, the idea of controlling a character’s movement through one’s own looks good on paper, but it has become nothing except a gimmick used to lure the casual audience into playing games which lack actual content. Take virtually any Wii game currently out on the market. Strip away its cute animations and tinny music, and what do you have? A small collection of mini-games where you throw a Frisbee or point and click to shoot a balloon on the screen. It boggles my mind how these games can captivate so many people with such shallow gameplay. Of course, the first argument for the motion-sensor
craze is that it is supposed to be more immersive for the player; emulating the movements in the game makes the player actually feel as though they are in the game. Quite frankly, this statement is flatout wrong. A game shouldn’t have to rely on cheap tricks to hold my interest. Rather, it should be the deep storytelling in the game, the character development or the challenging gameplay itself. If done correctly, these elements are what make a game truly great, not flailing your arms in the air while holding a chunk of plastic. It may sound as though I hate the idea of motion
controllers. While I oppose them, such a statement would be inaccurate. I just dislike the idea of developers relying on them so heavily in the process of creating games. With Sony recently releasing Move and Microsoft’s Kinect hitting the shelves later this year, all three platforms will have their own version of a motion-sensor controller. This will lead to a large increase of games lacking any sort of true substance, leaving the more enthusiastic gamers with fewer and fewer titles. Personally, I liked it more when casual gamers just stuck to Solitaire.
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Nintendo 3DS makes waves in gaming news By Jason Bogdan Campus Correspondent
Last Wednesday was a particularly important day for me and all the other portable gaming fans out there. It was the day when Nintendo finally announced a release date for its highly anticipated new generation of portable gaming hardware: the Nintendo 3DS. For those late to the party, the 3DS takes the DS system and adds in graphics better than the PSP, along with a nice analog stick. More importantly, the top screen has the revolutionary new technology of stereoscopic 3D without requiring glasses. Nintendo announced that the 3DS will be released in Japan on Feb. 26, 2011 for 25,000 yen (roughly $300). People in the U.S., on the other hand, will get the 3DS as early as March 2011 according to Nintendo, so we won’t need to wait as long to get our hands on a revolutionary piece of handheld technology. It’s rare when a system costs the same as the price in Japan, so in all likelihood it might go down to $250 for us. But even then, that’s a lot of money, especially considering the current console systems cost about the same price. I’ve already established in this column that I’m one crazy video game fan, so it’s no issue at all for me. For everybody else, once we all see the 3D magic happen in a kiosk for the system, we might all be sold immediately, like most of the people who saw it at E3. The Japanese price and release date aren’t all that were announced last week. According to Joystiq and Siliconera, the 3DS will also include extras like an AC adapter, a charging stand, a 2GB SD card and a telescoping metal stylus. The 3DS will also include software of Mii Studio that’ll allow users to create Miis out of pictures from the built-in camera, along with Chance Encounter Mii Plaza which incorporates a Tag system where 3DS owners can unlock goodies in their games from nearby 3DS owners just for having their system on. They don’t even need to be playing the same game as the other person to activate it. The icing on the cake is that Game Boy and Game Boy Color games will be available on the 3DS Virtual Console (though yet to be announced). I’m a bit sad that I won’t be able to import a Japanese 3DS by the end of this year, as previously speculated (though my checking account is probably giving a sigh of relief right now). Since I have five months to save up dishwasher job money for what is looking to be one incredible video game creation, the wait will be worth it. Like everybody else, the stereoscopic 3D (which, to reiterate, doesn’t require glasses) is what’ll hook me on day one. But with all the awesome stuff – like the Home button that’ll allow you to tweak settings and search the internet in the style of the XMB menu and the incredible starting lineup of games for the system – I’d be willing to spend even $500 for it.
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As ‘Peanuts’ turn 60, Schulz family plans future
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Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz’ daughter, Jill Schulz Transki, left, stands with the character ‘Snoopy,’ Schulz’ widow Jeannie Schulz, the portrait photographer’s wife Estrellita Karsh, and Schulz’ son Craig Schulz at the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, Friday.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Good grief, Charlie Brown. The world has certainly changed since the Peanuts were born. In 60 years, the U.S. sent a man to the moon, survived the Cold War and now has one of the worst economic funks in decades. All that time, Charles Schulz’s imaginary gang has been a fixture of newspaper funny pages and grainy holiday TV specials. Now, his family is working to keep Snoopy, Lucy and the rest alive for generations to come. A handful of new projects is in the works. The first new animated film in five years is set for release next spring called “Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown.” ABC just signed on for five more years of airing Charlie Brown holiday specials. A new social media game began on Facebook and Twitter last
month to “Countdown to the Great Pumpkin,” and the comic strip has made its way to a popular gaming website for millions of children. The enduring appeal is no surprise, said Lee Mendelson, who produced the Peanuts films with Schulz for more than 40 years. Schulz had said “there’s always going to be a market for innocence in this country,” Mendelson said Friday as a photograph of Schulz at his drawing board was hung at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in recognition of his impact on the nation. Schulz died in 2000. “The innocence and the humor that he brought, I think, helped us as a nation through many bad times,” Mendelson said. Peanuts comics, which first appeared in 1950 in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, still appear in
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Stewart asks donors to help restore National Mall
WASHINGTON (AP) – Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are taking on causes more serious than a mock feud when they lead dueling political rallies on the National Mall later this month. Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” announced Monday on NPR that he will ask attendees at his Oct. 30 “Rally to Restore Sanity” to help restore the National Mall. The park and its memorials have a $400 million backlog of deferred maintenance. On the event’s website, Stewart wrote that ralliers should pick up after them-
2,200 newspapers in 75 different countries. Newspaper publisher E.W. Scripps Co. sold the licensing unit that controls “Peanuts” and other comics in April to Iconix Brand Group Inc. – a licensing company partially owned by the Schulz family – for $175 million. Jeannie Schulz, the cartoonist’s widow, said she often hears from people at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, Calif., about how well the characters reflect their own feelings. That may be a key to the Peanuts’ longevity, she said. “Reading Peanuts got people through really tough times in their childhoods,” she said. “I think it’s mirroring their feelings that life is tough, knowing somebody else is in the same boat as they – and yet having hope.” A new book out later this
scholarships and opportunities for community service, Bass said. “She’s from UConn, so it’s like she’s on my team,” said Doug Murphy, a 5th-semester senior arts administration and promotion major. “She can help me make connections. This definitely made me more at ease with moving out there.” Shannon Cerruto, a 7th-
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Vibrators can be part of the fairytale from TIME, page 7 class and end up making her own fairytale. And that’s perfectly fine, because taking a chance on something or someone you never thought you would isn’t settling. Who knows? Maybe we all have to settle, but not for something less than what we think we deserve. It’s settling with the idea that fairytales aren’t set in stone and can be created into whatever you make them.
If all else fails and you have to settle for something, settle for a vibrator. Just look at it this way: it’s dependable, it lets you control it and you know it’s not sleeping around. Emotional companionship is what friends are for. When you’re tired of your vibrator, you can just go out and get a new one without the tears and messy breakup. Now that’s a fairytale.
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last week, Schulz brought his characters to the Smithsonian in 1985 for a visit for a TV series called “This is America, Charlie Brown.” Lucy marveled at seeing a comic strip with their names on a museum wall, and Charlie Brown found his name and Snoopy’s on the Apollo 10 capsules at the space museum. Schulz was a history buff and considered himself an Eisenhower Republican, but he mostly stayed away from politics in his cartoons. He included timely issues, though, such as the environment, race, bullying and other themes. But if he visited Washington today, Mendelson said, Schulz would be taken aback by the bitter political tone. “I think he would be appalled,” Mendelson said, “and I think he would have poked fun at it in the comic strip.”
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selves, “in the name of sanity and reasonableness.” “We feel it’s important to preserve this historic site for future rallies and for future Americans to rally on!” Stewart wrote. “But just in case you accidentally, like, put a beverage down on the Mall’s coffee table without using a coaster, we figure that giving a little something back to the National Mall might, at least, soften the blow.” Colbert, host of “The Colbert Report,” is asking attendees at his “Keep Fear Alive” march to donate to Donors Choose, which raises money for school supplies.
semester theatre and business individualized major, added that one of things she’s worried about when she leaves home is “who am I going to know?” “It’s nice to know, and it reiterates the fact that this is what I want to do,” she said. Bass added that her firm has helped UConn students in the past transition to the city, and they hope to help more in the future.
let fans read the strip every day. On Oct. 14, the Peanuts cast also will launch a new “Great Pumpkin Island” on Poptropica, a popular game website for millions of tweens who may be less familiar with Charlie Brown and his friends. And the Peanuts gang has come to life online with Flashanimated comics. Next year’s film will feature new animations created by a team involving Charles Schulz’s son, Craig, and “Pearls Before Swine” cartoonist Stephan Pastis. Even with the more modern trappings, though, the animations have maintained their simplistic roots. Jeannie Schulz has said in the past that computer-generated “Peanuts” characters just wouldn’t quite look right. Before establishing a permanent place in Washington with the portrait unveiled
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month called “The Peanuts Collection” will trace the comic strip’s history and how it evolved over time. Jeannie Schulz said the genius came from her husband’s commonsense, Midwest upbringing as the son of a barber in Minnesota who learned to tell stories in his own way. Schulz taught Sunday school and was proud to be a dad. He had an introverted take on the world, and yet was observant of everything around him, she said. “Until people change. Until they take a pill to become perfect people and all have perfectly balanced personalities ... I think he’s given them a touchstone,” she said. “He’s given them something to let them know that they’re all right.” Fantagraphics Books Inc. is producing a series of volumes – each with two years worth of Peanuts comics – to
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A model wears a creation by French fwashion designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac presented in Paris, Tuesday.
PARIS (AP) – In the months that followed Alexander McQueen’s suicide in February, the fashion world was abuzz with speculation about the future of the house. How could McQueen’s successor, his longtime right-hand woman Sarah Burton, possibly take forward a house so fundamentally built on the extraordinary creative vision of its founder? Burton’s brilliant debut Tuesday at the helm of the label put any rumors about the house’s future to rest. Her spring-summer 2011 ready-to-wear collection was a tour-de-force that channeled McQueen’s darkly surreal style, remodeling his signature elements into strange and beautiful confections that managed to be at the same time new and reassuringly familiar. It was all there: Tailed pantsuits in mesmerizing jacquard, sculptural sheath dresses entirely made from monarch butterflies, or feathers that gleamed darkly like spilled oil or woven chaffs of wheat that appeared to be one with the models’ woven hairstyles. The audience of fashion elite
burst into whoops of approval and frantic applause for Burton, who spent years as McQueen’s deputy and deeply understood the troubled designer and his work. Burton’s brilliant debut was undoubtedly among the strongest shows of Paris fashion week. Kenzo – founded in 1970 by Japanese-born, Paris-based designer Kenzo Takada and now owned by luxury conglomerate LVMH – celebrated its 40th anniversary with a stunning, theatrical display that mined the label’s archive to showcase its rich Eastmeets-West aesthetic. At Chanel, a small army of teenage beauties in mothdevoured tweed suits that could have belonged to their grandmothers meandered through a French-style garden in the heritage house’s trademark colors, black and white. With the display – a mega-production that saw the entire interior or the mammoth steel and glass-domed Grand Palais transformed into a high-contrast version of the grounds of Versailles –
Chanel once the again raised the ante for what fashion shows can be. After a 2009 debut that stayed slavishly close to the aesthetic of founder Valentino Garavani, the label’s design duo continued to sharpened their own vision of the new Valentino women. Described in the collection notes as “at once magical and mysterious,” this new Valentino woman was not a screen siren in fire engine red, but a waif enveloped in a delicate cloud of black lace and sheer, buffcolored tulle. Hong Kong-based Shiatzy Chen, too, showed transparent looks – hers with Asianinfluenced variations. Ultrashort babydoll dresses with Mao collars or sloping side toggle closures were served up in jacquard with Chinese designs and transparent chiffon. Paired with ruffly bloomers, the swingy concoctions were so abbreviated it was often not clear whether they were meant to be shirts or dresses, but still they were fetching, with sumptuous fabrics and nice attention to detail. Just call him Captain Castelbajac. Zany French designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac took over the controls at the imaginary “Uber Tropikal Airlines,” serving destinations throughout Africa in retro fabulous style. As always with France’s king of kitsch, it was quite a trip. Paris’ ready-to-wear shows conclude on Wednesday after nine long days with displays by Prada second line Miu Miu, and French luxury powerhouses Louis Vuitton and Hermes. CHANEL Hole-ridden tweed suits that looked like they’d been devoured by generations of moths opened the show with what seemed like a sly commentary on the French heritage
label’s amazing staying power. Today’s Chanel, designer Karl Lagerfeld seemed to suggest, remains as timeless as it was decades ago under Mademoiselle Coco: Just dig in your grandmother’s trunk, pull out her classic Chanel skirtsuit and you’ll look just as hip as the packs of It Girls – like Keira Knightly, Lily Allen and Vanessa Paradis – who flock to the label’s shows. “My grandmother didn’t wear Chanel, unfortunately,” said British VJ Alexa Chung, wearing a Chanel dress in blue tweed with a midriff-baring lace panel at the waist. “But hopefully my granddaughters will be able to wear this – though they might be scandalized that their grandmother went around with a bare belly.” Chanel’s shows are always a grand spectacle, but Tuesday’s a chic black-andwhite Versailles-style garden set was even grander than usual. An orchestra played covers of Bjork songs as the models meandered among the fountains and the black hedgerows, their black and navy skirtsuits or hotpants contrasting with the crushed gravel in blinding white they crunched underfoot. Lagerfeld also served up A-line dresses in chiffon with beaded black curlicues that echoed the rounded forms of French gardens. A series of floaty dresses in saturated watercolor print silk injected the collection with a dose of color, and the ostrich feathers that dangled from hemlines gave it an airy lightness. Novelty models have been a hot commodity on Paris catwalks, and never to be outdone, Chanel sent out a few – a dashing blond man in a white tweed jacket and jeans with his mini-me, a little boy in a matching outfit, as well as French ‘80s supermodel Ines de la Fressange. The mother of two teenage daughters said it was the first time she’d walked for Chanel in 21 years.
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Politics and celebrities on tap at New Yorker NEW YORK (AP) – “I think this is going well,” remarked New Yorker editor David Remnick to his audience at a weekend panel on the conservative tea party movement. He was being sarcastic. The hostility was escalating between former House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas and liberal Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York. The banter became so tense that even-tempered historian Jill Lepore, sitting between them, suggested she leave so the men could arm-wrestle. “Don’t make me come over there and beat you down,” Remnick jokingly warned his panelists. In other words, it was a perfect Saturday morning for New Yorker fans, who, in an annual autumn rite, gorge on juicy events like these at the threeday New Yorker Festival. The tea party panel was one of several offerings linked to current news events. Another was a showing of “The Social Network,” the new film about Facebook, with a panel afterward that included Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake, who play Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Napster co-
founder Sean Parker. New Yorker fans are loyal – 80 percent of festival tickets sold out on the first day they were available, the magazine said. And ticket buyers came from everywhere – 26 different countries and 47 states. As always, there were offerings catering to more highbrow tastes – forums on fiction, a visit to the Frick Collection – and a strong celebrity contingent, with appearances by Alec Baldwin, Steve Carell, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Taylor and the cast of “Saturday Night Live.” And for those hard-core fans whose celebrities happen to be their favorite New Yorker writers, there was a storytelling evening featuring five of them, including the much-loved Calvin Trillin, who told the tale of his efforts to get salty language past the stubbornly reluctant former editor of the magazine, William Shawn. The SNL cast members – Fred Armisen, Seth Meyers, Andy Samberg, Jason Sudeikis, Kenan Thompson and Kristen Wiig – recounted their first, nerve-wracking auditions for the show, and pondered the eternal question
of how the show has survived since 1975. Consensus: There’s always new material out there. As for Carell, he recounted how he was such an unknown when he did the film “Bruce Almighty” that an agent contacted him to find out who was representing him. Turned out, her own agency did. “I was such a low priority at the agency that even the agents who worked there didn’t know I was a client,” he said. Carell also discussed the imminent end to his tenure on NBC’s “The Office” – he leaves after the current season, his seventh – and some of his future goals. One of them, he said, is to play an even more unappealing guy than Michael Scott of “The Office.” “I want to play a jerk – a really, really mean guy,” Carell told his fans. “Someone who is just reprehensible, but doesn’t think he is.” And he shot down at least one rumor: That he’d angled hard to play the Joker in “The Dark Knight” before Heath Ledger got the job. “I’ve learned to not be sarcastic in print interviews,” he said.
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(Top) From left, Seth Meyers, Kenan Thompson, Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudeikis, Andy Samberg and Fred Armisen are shown at the 2010 New Yorker Festival, (Bottom) Actor Steve Carell speaks at the Festival Party, Sunday.
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LeBron’s next chapter starts with 105-89 Heat win
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Heat forward LeBron James dunks as Pistons forward Charlie Villanueva (31) looks on.
MIAMI (AP) — The Big 3 were together for merely three minutes. LeBron James and Chris Bosh more than picked up the slack after Dwyane Wade’s preseason debut came to a quick end. And with that, this era for the Miami Heat got off to a promising, but not perfect, start. James and Bosh combined for 38 points in their exhibition debuts, and the Heat easily beat the Detroit Pistons 105-89 in the preseason opener for both teams Tuesday night. Still, the meaningless game may have major significance for Miami, after Wade limped off just 3:17 into the game with a strained right hamstring. He went into the locker room shortly afterward and did not return. Bosh had 20 points on 8-for13 shooting. James, the NBA’s two-time reigning MVP who took his championship pursuit from Cleveland to Miami this summer, added 18, and the Heat weren’t challenged after running out to a 20-point lead by halftime. Udonis Haslem added 14 points and 13 rebounds for the Heat. Ben Gordon led Detroit with 17 points.
By the final buzzer, most of the crowd was long gone. Most came to see the opening moments of this trio’s time together, and the fanfare was the sort simply not seen at most preseason games. James walked from the bench moments before tip-off with the traditional stoic look. He filled his hands with rosin powder, threw it into the air to create a white cloud, then clapped his hands three times. Same as always. Just totally different. “The season,” James said, “is back.” And when Wade left, James just took over. He put much of his repertoire on display in the early going: no-look passes, drives to the rim, 3-pointers, even playing some point guard in the first quarter. It always wasn’t perfect — he airballed one try from beyond the arc, never saw a wide-open Bosh under the basket on another possession. At times, it was downright scintillating. One play after missing Bosh, he set up his new teammate for a dunk that left the former Toronto forward screaming with delight. And with 4.7 seconds left in
the first quarter, James ran off a Haslem pick, then spun before going down the lane for a twohanded dunk — waving his arms with a flourish after giving Miami a 24-15 lead. James had 12 points in the first 12 minutes, either scoring or assisting on eight of Miami’s first 11 field goals. He returned to the game with 5:03 left in the half to a raucous ovation, set up a 3-pointer by Mario Chalmers with a wraparound behind-the-back pass, and went into intermission with 14 points on 7-of-15 shooting. Miami led 58-38 at the break, holding Detroit to 39 percent shooting. James and Bosh both played late into the third quarter, before Heat coach Erik Spoelstra declared their nights complete. “I think we competed, definitely defensively, which allowed us to get what we want — to get out and run,” James told NBA TV at halftime before leaving the floor. “We’ve got a lot of speed, a lot of quickness, and when you play defense like we did, holding an opponent under 40 percent shooting, we can do that.” He took the floor for pregame at 7:18 p.m., one of the last three Heat players to emerge into
view, sandwiched between Bosh and Wade, Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” blaring through the arena as usual. The Heat, clad in black warmups, huddled in a hallway just behind the court, as dozens of people leaned to take photos with their cell phones for the first arrival. James’ longtime girlfriend, Savannah Brinson, was in the much-larger-than-usual preseason crowd, but his children weren’t — school obligations, James said. “As a basketball player, as a guy who loves the game of basketball, I’m excited about that, for the season to be back around,” James said. “I’m very happy about that.” Bosh knew Tuesday was a big deal when his father insisted on coming to the game. “He was that excited about it,” Bosh said. “He was ready to see us take the court for the first time. Just this fact that he was super-excited about it, that let me know kind of how everybody else is going to be. And if that’s how everybody is, it makes it a lot more fun to play.” The Pistons took this game seriously, making it a measure of where they are three weeks before the games start counting, center Ben Wallace said.
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AP: Pats, Vikings discuss trading Moss
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The New England Patriots and Vikings are discussing a trade that would bring star receiver Randy Moss back to Minnesota. A league source spoke to The Associated Press about the discussions on condition of anonymity on Tuesday night because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the negotiations. The seven-time Pro Bowler was a first-round draft pick of the Vikings in 1998 and spent his first seven seasons in the NFL with Minnesota. He was traded to Oakland in 2005, where he languished for two years before being revitalized in New England. Moss set an NFL record with 23 touchdown receptions in 2007. But he has said several times this year that he expected 2010 to be his last season with the Patriots. He did not have a catch in New England’s 41-14 victory over Miami on Monday night. “When you have done so much and put so much work in, it kind of feels like I am not wanted,” Moss said in September. “I am taking that in stride and playing my final year out and whatever the future holds is what it holds,
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In this Jan. 9, 2005, file photo Minnesota Vikings receiver Randy Moss pretends to moon the Green Bay crowd after catching a 34-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter of the Vikings’ NFC wild card game against the Green Bay Packers in Green Bay, Wis.
but it is kind of a bad feeling — feeling not wanted. It is not like my production has gone down.” Moss caught 98 passes for 1,493 yards in his first season with New England in 2007. He had 69 catches for 1,008 yards
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and 11 TDs in 2008, when Tom Brady suffered a seasonending knee injury early in the year and came back with 83 catches for 1,264 yards and 13 scores last season. Foxsports.com first reported the discussions.
A Patriots spokesman said no trade has been completed. Moss is in the final season of his three-year, $27 million contract and has made no secret about his desire for a new deal, and believed he would have to go elsewhere to get one.
Special teams starters up in the air for Saturday from READYING, page 14 has created an either/or situation at both kicker and punter, listing “Dave Teggart OR Chad Christen” at kicker and “Cole Wagner OR Chad Christen” at punter. “Sometimes people have to have competition to bring out the best in them,” Edsall said. “It’s the inconsistency that bothers me more than anything else, because if you look at it, David Teggart can kick the ball, and he can kick it with accuracy. But it’s a consistency situation, so I have faith in Chad Christen that he can do it, so I think that having an ‘or’ there is going to make Dave a better, more consistent kicker.” “It’s the same thing with Cole. We watched Cole; he’s been inconsistent. He has that one, it seems like, every game that’s a little bit of a shank or whatever,” Edsall said. “So they know that there’s a competition going on there and we’re just going to evaluate.” Big honor for Blidi Cornerback Blidi WrehWilson was named the Big East Defensive Player of the Week after his huge day
against Vanderbilt. WrehWilson returned an interception 44 yards for a touchdown, recovered a fumble 24 yards to set up the Huskies’ first score and made five tackles on the day. It was the second week in a row where a UConn defender was named Big East Defensive Player of the Week. Linebacker Sio Moore earned the honors last week after his huge 16-tackle effort against Buffalo.
Second-half surge UConn now leads the Big East in scoring offense, averaging 34.6 points per game. In each of their last two games, most of that offense has come in the second half. The Huskies outscored Vanderbilt 19-0 in the second half after starting the half tied 21-21. The week before, the Huskies outscored Buffalo 31-7 in the second half after starting the half tied 14-14. Overall, the Huskies outscored Vanderbilt and Buffalo by a combined 50-7 score in the second half.
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Game planning for the Patriots, Giants and Jets By Andrew Callahan NFL Columnist Watching football for 26 and a half hours will tell you a lot. Charting plays, formations, motion, tendencies and more will tell you an exponential amount. Perhaps it’s that you need professional help, but for right now let’s focus on the football side of things. Here’s a look, after watching every Pats’, Jets’ and Giants play through week four, to see just how they’re doing. And then we’ll get some help. Patriots A new emphasis on balance and distributing the football to different targets through the air has given the Pats their best offense since 2007. Though the backfield is thin in depth, each running back possesses a unique skill set that fulfills a crucial role. The team isn’t dependent on Randy Moss and Wes Welker anymore so with Brady still in his prime, this offense is still an unquestioned dominant force in today’s NFL. The defense is another story. The team is very strong up the middle with Vince Wilfork and two steady inside linebackers, but play on the outside is decidedly worse. Opponents have run at the right side of the Patriots defense more than 30 times with an average of 5 yards/carry and receivers going against the Patriots no. 2 corner are having a field day. There have been slight changes in scheme as Bill Belichick has completely taken over this unit.
Without any true pass rushers, the Patriots have expanded their packages for 3rd down with more exotic looks and inside blitzing with linebackers and safeties. Game plan for opponents The top priority when taking the field against this team is to play keep away. Keeping Brady on the sidelines is paramount and teams can move the ball on the flanks of this defense. Spread out the depleted stock of corners and bombard them with quick passes while mixing in runs to the left side. Defensively there are simply too many weapons to cover, so doubling Welker and Moss won’t do for every drive. Mixing up coverages, using new blitzes and putting your best pass rusher against right tackle Sebastian Vollmer is your best chance to get to Brady. Jets For all the talk of mirage and confusion caused by the defense, the Jets offense actually does just as much to reveal their true intentions at the very last second. Excluding two-minute drills, Gang Green has used pre-snap motion on 64 percent of their offensive plays, trying to confuse the defense and set it up for later play calls. For all the puzzlement the Jets cause before the snap, they’re got a serious tendency on first down of running the ball three-quarters of the time, with a strong affinity for going to their right. Now, we all know this team loves to run the ball and as a result their play-action attack is
the best part of their passing game. Through careful film study, one can see Mark Sanchez’s best play involves an intermediate route to Dustin Keller or a checkdown off a run fake. These checkdown options have been the backbone of long Jet drives thus far and managed to keep Sanchez’s turnover total at zero. The Jets defense, last year’s league-best, is unique in scheme and flat out loaded in talent. But for all the highlight plays it makes, nothing happens without 300-pounders Mike DeVito and Sione Pouha. The two tacklers have done a good job of consistently eating up blockers, allowing those behind them to make plays. Stopping the run on first and second down is a strong suit of this defense, which feeds directly into their best asset: rushing the passer on third. For all the blitz talk, the Jets actually send five or more rushers at the quarterback fewer times than you would think. Instead, they typically use zone exchanges on first and second down with some manto-man principles to keep an eye on the run and the opposition’s number one receiver. These exchanges send only four rushers but rarely do know where they’re coming from. Then on third and long, Rex is coming with the house, almost every time. Game plan for opponents Opponents have got to hit LaDanian Tomlinson out of the backfield and not let him get a free release on the checkdowns. Putting a strong safety on Keller
should help, but keeping one safety back to help against deep shots to Braylon Edwards and Santonio Holmes is imperative. On offense, teams need to keep good offensive balance and have success on first down. A good-sized lead will force the Jets out of what they do best, run the ball and get you in third and long situations and allow offenses to take shots on play-action against Leonard and rookie Kyle Wilson. Giants The Giant offense is ready to take off, but at the moment can’t help but keep itself grounded. Based on a power running game and a passing game that stretches sideline to sideline, Big Blue has coughed up the football 10 times thus far, including three instances in the red zone. Eli Manning has thrown six picks, though the majority of those have been a product of bad luck and poor receiver play. The offensive line has also shown inconsistency with nine allowed sacks. But the two constants for the offense have been Ahmad Bradshaw and the periodical use of a new wrinkle: an unbalanced line. On tape, Bradshaw shows he’s a complete back who deserves to be a starter in this league. The Marshall alum scares opponents with his immense cutback ability that has gashed defenses which don’t honor their gap responsibilities in pursuit. As for the unbalanced line, it’s most often used as a decoy on first down to set up play-action but otherwise
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Tom Brady and the New England Patriots moved to 3-1 after a win in Miami Monday night.
is a means to plow the way on second and third and short. The performance of the New York defense through four games has been eerily reminiscent of the defense that carried the G-men to Super Bowl 42. After embarrassing performances early on, thanks to inexperience with a new scheme, the Giants dominated their week 4 opponent, allowing just three points. Though new coordinator, Perry Fewell, calls for less blitzes than the ’07 defense made, they’re still pounding quarterbacks in East Rutherford. With a re-stocked arsenal of pass rushers manning the front seven, the Giants have great flow to the ball and can get after quarterbacks like few teams in the NFL. The secondary is made up of sound tacklers who play well in both man and zone. When in a nickel front, the defense is very suscep-
tible to the run as shown in their game against Indianapolis. A subpar linebacking core is aided by the front four, who will send Mathias Kiwanuka and Jason Pierre-Paul back to the outside spots.
Game plan for opponents Teams that have to go against the Giants are unfortunately going to get a performance much closer to the Bears game than any of the other three going forward. The key will be to continue to manufacture turnovers by keeping safeties deep to catch overthrown Manning passes and punch the ball out from Bradshaw. Offensively, keeping someone into chip Justin Tuck and Company will help, but play-action and draws from three receiver sets will be the best medicine.
Andrew.J.Callahan@UConn.edu
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McDonough: UConn, Rutgers potential rivals from FINDING, page 14
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Could a rivalry be brewing between UConn and coach Greg Schiano’s Rutgers football team?
New England colleges in the Football Bowl Subdivision could play every year for some sort of trophy or award of the six-state region in which we attend school. Unfortunately for Connecticut and Massachusetts, the series has ended in the six years since the Eagles went to the ACC, but it is not impossible to restart it. With conference realignment, the hottest thing in college sports since the NCAA reinstated the slam dunk in 1976, you never know what conference UConn can be playing in years from now. If the Huskies move to the ACC
- I hope it does not happen but its possible - a rivalry with BC would be back on the books. But that scenario has yet to happen. Back to reality and Rutgers. In the last two years, the Scarlet Knights and UConn have had some memorable contests, to say the least. In Piscataway in 2008, the Huskies entered 5-1, while Rutgers was 1-5. The Scarlet Knights could not stop Donald Brown from rushing for 106 yards, but Tony Ciaravino missed three field goals, and Rutgers won 12-10. Last season, on Halloween, the Scarlet Knights came to East Hartford for the Huskies’ first home game since the
stabbing death of Jasper Howard. It was an emotional game for the UConn community, as fans held signs and wore No. 6 jerseys honoring the late cornerback. However, it would be Tim Brown of Rutgers holding up six fingers after he broke the Huskies’ heart. Brown, childhood best friend of Howard, caught an 81-yard touchdown pass with 22 seconds left to stun the Rentschler Field crowd and give the Scarlets Knights a 28-24 win. The all-time series stands at a 20-9 advantage to Rutgers, dating back to 1940. While it is no Ohio State-Michigan rivalry, UConn may continue to play close games and have
an intense future against their Tri-State foes. The only other football rivalry option right now is Syracuse, and the Huskies have dominated that series in recent years. According to theuconnblog. com, it is “Rutgers Hate Week,” and, in my view, that puts Rutgers ahead of the Orange as a football rival. When the Huskies clash with the Scarlet Knights Friday night on ESPN, it won’t be part of a college football “rivalry week.” But for UConn, it’s about as close as we can get.
Colin.McDonough@UConn.edu
Penfield: Rays, Phillies to have rematch in 2010 World Series from PREDICTING, page 14 will struggle to keep up with the offense of the Yankees’ sluggers. I am not a huge fan of the Yankees’ starting rotation other than Sabathia, but I believe they will have enough offense to get through this series without stud pitching performances from Phil Hughes or A.J. Burnett. If need be, they will be able to toss Sabathia in Game 5, and he proved what he can do on short rest with the Brewers a couple years ago. As a Red Sox fan, I am obligated never to pick the Yankees to win anything, but I have to use my brain on this one. Outcome: Yankees win the series in 4. NL Division Series 1: Philadelphia Phillies vs. Cincinnati Reds Much like the Rangers-Rays series, I don’t see this as much of a competition. You know you are in trouble when your Game 1 starter, Edinson Volquez, has a 4-3 record and an ERA over four. The Reds’ pitcher will face Roy Halladay, who has 21 wins for the season, which is almost a guaranteed win for the Phillies. Roy Oswalt facing Bronson Arroyo will be another game that favors the Phillies. Cole Hamels vs. Johnny Cueto is the only game the Reds really have a chance in, but if Hamels can regain his postseason form from when the Phillies won the World Series two years ago, then that game
shouldn’t be much of a contest either. Combined with the dominating pitching, the Phillies also have a pretty powerful offense, highlighted by Ryan Howard, Jimmy Rollins and Chase Utley. Sure, the Reds have Joey Votto, but that’s about it. Outcome: Phillies win the series in 3. NL Division Series 2: Atlanta Braves vs. San Francisco Giants Of all the divisional series, I feel this one will be the closest. Neither the Braves nor the Giants have exceptionally good offenses, but both have pretty good pitching staffs. With the offenses being a wash, the pitching will really win this series. In Game 1, Tim Lincecum will be matched up against Derek Lowe. Lowe has a lot of experience in the playoffs, but I think Lincecum will be too much for the Braves and will take this one. Tommy Hanson will face off against Matt Cain in Game 2. This one could really go either way, but with Cain going 7-3 with a 2.91 ERA after the all-star break, I’ll have to give the advantage to the Giants. Game 3 will have Tim Hudson facing off against Jonathan Sanchez. Hudson has the advantage in this match-up and should get the victory. In Game 4, the Giants will send Barry Zito to the mound. The Braves have yet to announce a pitcher, but, more than likely, it will be Jair Jurrjens. The Braves have the advantage in this one;
Zito has been a mess ever since leaving Oakland, and I just don’t see him coming up big in this start. This leaves Game 5, which will most likely be a rematch of Game 1, and I would give the edge to Lincecum again. Outcome: Giants win the series in 5. ALCS: Tampa Bay Rays vs. New York Yankees This will be an extremely close series between two very different teams; the powerful offense of the Yankees against the small-ball playing Rays. Although a smallball team, the Rays certainly scored runs this season with the third most in the league, but the Yankees topped that category with the most in the MLB. The season series was very close, with the Rays having the slight edge 10-8. Ultimately, I believe this series will come down to the back end of each rotation; can AJ Burnett and Phil Hughes out-pitch James Shields and Wade Davis? Burnett and Hughes are both either spot on or extremely bad, and the same goes for Shields and Davis. I believe that Shields has what it takes to live up to his nickname, “Big Game James,” despite having a down year, to win a game or two in this seven game series. This series will definitely go seven games and could very well be decided in the last inning of Game 7. Ultimately, I believe that the Rays’ pitching will take them to the Promised Land. Outcome: Rays win the series in 7.
NLCS: Philadelphia Phillies vs. San Francisco Giants This series won’t be nearly as close as the ALCS. The Phillies just have a much better team than the Giants. They outmatch them at nearly every position. These teams played six times during the regular season and split the series 3-3, but the Phillies were never fully healthy during the regular season. With everyone healthy, I don’t think the Phillies will have any issues with the Giants. The pitching is far superior, with Halladay and Oswalt anchoring the staff, as opposed to Lincecum and Cain for the Giants. The Phillies’ back end of the rotation is much better, as well, with Hamels and Blanton who have both pitched in big games over the past two post-seasons. Offensively, the Phillies have the advantage at all positions except catcher and third base. Look for the experienced Phillies to handle the Giants with ease in this series. Outcome: Phillies win the series in 5. World Series: Tampa Bay Rays vs. Philadelphia Phillies It will be a rematch of the 2008 World Series, which the Phillies won in five games. I don’t see the Phillies beating the Rays with the same ease this time. The Rays now have experi-
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Manager Joe Girardi and the New York Yankees will begin their quest for a second consecutive, and MLB record 28th World Series Championship this week in Minnesota.
ence in the playoffs and know how to win. 2008 was the first playoff appearance for the young Rays in team history. Many of the same guys are still on this team. One difference in the Rays now is their improved pitching. They have a solidified ace in David Price and a very good second starter in Matt Garza. They also have a stud closer in Rafael Soriano, who has been lights out all season with 45 saves and a 1.73 ERA. There is just something about this Rays team that makes me believe in them. They steal bases and score runs at will, yet they don’t really have many offensive studs. I look for the Rays to show the superiority of the American League in this
series. The Rays will need to pick up at least one win against Roy Halladay, but with David Price on the mound, I don’t think that is too much to ask of AL East Champs. Look for Longoria or Price to be the World Series MVP as the Rays keep the World Series trophy in the American League East. Outcome: Rays win the series in 7. World Series MVP: Evan Longoria.
The Rays will be World Series champs. Write that down in stone. Now sit back, watch the games and see my predictions come true.
William.Penfield@UConn.edu
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The Daily Question Q: Who is the team to beat in the AFC East? A: “The Bills, everybody’s doing it.”
Tomorrow’s Question:
Who are you rooting for in the MLB playoffs?
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» MLB
Home: Rentschler Field, East Hartford Oct. 8 Rutgers 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 23 Louisville TBA
Oct. 29 Nov. 11 West Pittsburgh Virginia 7:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m.
Nov. 20 Syracuse TBA
Men’s Soccer (7-1-2) Oct. 9 Oct. 13 Seton Hall Providence 7:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m.
Oct. 16 St. John’s 7:00 p.m.
Oct. 19 Oct. 2 West Notre Dame Virginia 8:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m.
-Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Hines Ward on quarterback Ben Roethlisberger returning to practice.
Halladay will make first career playoff start
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Roy Halladay spent plenty of Octobers at home, wishing for this opportunity. The ace right-hander has been to seven AllStar games, won a Cy Young Award, pitched a perfect game and compiled an impressive resume over his 13-year career. But the one thing he hasn’t crossed off his to-do list is pitch in a postseason game. Until now. Halladay will take the ball when the Philadelphia Phillies host the Cincinnati Reds in Game 1 of their NL division series Wednesday. “It’s definitely something I’m looking forward to,” Halladay said on a rainy Tuesday. “It’s a great challenge. It’s something I’ve wanted to do my whole career, and I’m very grateful for the opportunity.” Edinson Volquez will start for the NL Central champion Reds, who are in the playoffs for the first time since 1995. Volquez came back from right elbow surgery and went 4-3 with a 4.31 ERA in 12 starts. “For me, it’s something really big,” he said. “I was out for one year and came back from Tommy John surgery. This is the first game of the playoffs. It’s something big. Really big.” After 12 seasons playing for Toronto in a division dominated by the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, Halladay desperately wanted to join a legitimate contender. He nearly got the chance last year, but a trade to Philadelphia fell through before the July 31 non-waiver deadline.
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Women’s Soccer (6-4-2) Oct. 22 Oct. 17 Oct. 15 Oct. 10 Oct. 8 West Notre Dame Depaul USF Marquette Virginia 5:00 p.m. 12:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m.
Field Hockey (8-2) Today Oct. 9 Yale Georgetown 7:00 p.m. Noon
Oct. 10 North Carolina Noon
Oct. 13 Oct. 17 Northeastern Princeton Noon 2:00 p.m.
Volleyball (2-12) Oct. 8 Syracuse 7:00 p.m.
Oct. 10 Marquette 2:00 p.m.
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Pats look ahead after Monday night win
Women’s Hockey (0-0-1) Oct. 10 Oct. 9 Oct. 15 Clarkson St. Lawrence Colgate 1:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m.
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Oct. 12 Oct. 14 Oct. 29 Oct. 20 Sacred Regional Conn. College Quinnipiac Heart Championship Championships 2:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. New Haven TBA
Women’s Tennis Today Oct. 12 Oct. 20 UMass Sacred Heart Quinnipiac 2:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 2:00 p.m.
Oct. 21 Regional Championship Dartmouth
Men’s Cross Country Oct. 9 Oct. 16 Nov. 13 Oct. 22 Oct. 30 N.E. Leopard Regional CCSU Meet Big East Championship Invite Championship 4:00 p.m. Championship Noon 10:00 a.m. 11:45 a.m.
Women’s Cross Country Oct. 9 Oct. 15 Oct. 23 Oct. 30 Nov. 13 N.E. Rothenberg CCSU Mini Big East Regional Championships Race Meet Championships Championship All Day All Day All Day Syracuse, NY All Day
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Oct. 18 NEIGA Champ. All Day
Rowing Oct. 23 Head of the Charles All Day
Oct. 31 Head of the Fish All Day
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Chicago Bulls’ Carlos Boozer snarls for a camera during the NBA basketball team’s media day on Sept. 27 in Deerfield, Ill.
THE Storrs Side
Men’s and women’s basketball open practice next week
By Colin McDonough Senior Staff Writer First Night on Oct. 15 marks the beginning of practice for the UConn men’s and women’s basketball teams. It can best be described as the tale of two very different teams heading into the preseason. The men’s team is coming off a disappointing 18-16 season, where the Huskies lost to Virginia Tech in the second round of the NIT. With seniors Jerome Dyson, Stanley Robinson and Gavin Edwards returning from the 2009 Final Four team, UConn was ranked in the AP Top 25 at the beginning of the season. The Huskies were inconsistent from the start of Big East play, finishing 12th in the conference. After being blown out by St. John’s in the Big East tournament, an embarrassing NIT bid awaited UConn, where they beat Northeastern before losing to the Hokies. The Huskies enter 2010 with question marks and a new recruiting class. UConn welcomes Tyler Olander, Shabazz Napier, Niels Giffey, Michael Bradley, Jeremy
Lamb and Roscoe Smith to Storrs. Along with the return of Kemba Walker and Alex Oriahki, the men will look to return to the NCAA tournament. The women’s team has won 78 straight games and capped off a 39-0 season last year with its second consecutive national championship and seventh in program history. The Huskies lost Tina Charles to the WNBA, and junior Caroline Doty is out for the season after injuring her knee again. UConn does benefit from the return of senior Maya Moore, who will try to lead the Huskies to a third straight national championship. Samarie Walker, Michala Johnson, Bria Hartley, Lauren Engeln and Stefanie Dolson round out the freshman class for a team that will be a target for every team they play. Once the first night of practice begins next Friday at Gampel Pavilion, the men’s and women’s basketball teams will have different expectations, but the same goal in mind.
Colin.McDonough@UConn.edu
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — In Scott O’Brien’s first year as special teams coach of the New England Patriots, his players didn’t block a single kick. In his second year, the same player blocked two in 15 minutes on Monday night. While the Miami Dolphins fired special teams coordinator John Bonamego after their 41-14 loss, Patriots coach Bill Belichick praised his assistant coach who guided the improvement in their kicking units. “Any time that you’re with a group of players for a year, you just have a better understanding of their strengths, their weaknesses,” Belichick said Tuesday as the Patriots headed into their bye week. “There’s always new players involved, but there’s some key guys to work around.
THE Pro Side Bryant still recovering, Boozer expected to miss eight weeks By Dan Agabiti Staff Writer Kobe Bryant says that his recovery status is still only 60 percent. Bryant had his knee operated on in late July for the third time since 2003. Coach Phil Jackson told the LA Times over the weekend that he does not expect Bryant to be back to full health until about two weeks into the team’s regular season. Earlier this week, the Lakers’ superstar played only half a quarter in a scrimmage game against the Timberwolves in London. Bryant wore a yellow protective sleeve over the knee for the six minutes he was in the game. Bryant acknowledges that, had the game been played in the U.S., he would not have played at all, but the international nature of the game made him feel somewhat obligated to play due to his superstar status. He is expected to play minimal time again in the Lakers’ scrimmage in Spain against teammate Pau Gasol’s former team, FC Barcelona.
The Chicago Bulls announced this weekend that forward Carlos Boozer will require surgery on his broken right hand. Boozer is expected to miss eight weeks as a result of the procedure. Boozer fell over a bag at his home and, upon putting his arm down to brace himself for the fall, his hand broke. The Bulls signed the twotime all star veteran to a fiveyear deal worth roughly $75 million this summer after missing out on the “Bosh and James Sweepstakes.” Expect forwards Joakim Noah and Taj Gibson to pick up the slack during Boozer’s absence, with Gibson to take the starting role. This might be a good thing, giving Gibson and Noah more playing experience and more potential to improve. If those two were to improve as a result of Boozer’s absence, the Bulls might have excellent depth in their front court.
Daniel.Agabiti@UConn.edu
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Finding a rivalry
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READYING FOR RUTGERS
Hyppolite moves to second on depth chart
By Mac Cerullo Sports Editor
Colin McDonough
In mid-February, ESPN broadcasts big college basketball matchups across the country during their annual “Rivalry Week.” The UConn men’s basketball team is always featured against archrival Syracuse, and sometimes gets another nationallytelevised rivalry game versus Pitt or Villanova. A battle with the Orange or Panthers is usually the most anticipated conference game of the season, even if it’s on the road. This Friday, the UConn football team travels to New Jersey to face Rutgers. Although it is not an official rivalry according to ESPN, it is the closest thing the Huskies have to one on the gridiron. Now, the basketball team has two more national championships, 20 more years of national attention and 30 more years of Big East membership to create rivalries As many Daily Campus sports columnists have said in the past, it is time to make an official football rivalry game. UConn has only been in the big leagues for eight years; however, the Huskies already let one rival slip away. In 2004, UConn officially became a member of the Big East and lost to New England rival Boston College 27-7 up the road in Chestnut Hill. After that season, the Eagles followed Virginia Tech, Miami and a giant wad of money to the ACC. The Huskies and BC made perfect sense as rivals. The only two
» MCDONOUGH, page 12
Predicting the playoffs By William Penfield MLB Columnist Despite being mildly depressed that the Red Sox missed the playoffs this season, I will still watch the MLB playoffs. With series beginning today, it is time for me to lend my expertise to you and predict the entire postseason. Here goes nothing. AL Division Series 1: Tampa Bay Rays vs. Texas Rangers I don’t really see this as much of a series. The Rangers have seemed like a fluke team to me all season. They do not have the pitching to compete with the Rays. After Cliff Lee, they don’t have much in terms of starting pitching. C.J. Wilson has had a pretty good year but he has never pitched in the playoffs before, and just became a starter this season, so the innings are piling up on his arm. Lee will also be matched up against potential Cy Young winner David Price, so the Rangers will have a tough time winning, even when their ace is on the mound. Expect Evan Longoria and B.J. Upton to have a huge series against the Rangers’ left handed pitching in Lee and Wilson. Outcome: Rays win the series in 3. AL Division Series 2: New York Yankees vs. Minnesota Twins
The Twins are at a huge disadvantage with Justin Morneau missing the playoffs due to injury. Without Morneau, the Twins
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Backup running back Robbie Frey and left tackle Jimmy Bennett will each miss several weeks of action following surgery. Frey will miss two to three weeks after having his knee repaired on Monday morning. Redshirt freshman Martin Hyppolite will fill in for him as Jordan Todman’s backup at running back. Hyppolite saw limited game action on Saturday against Vanderbilt, carrying the ball three times for five yards on the day. “Last week, [Hyppolite] picked up real Notebook everything well,” said coach Randy Edsall. “He understands the protections, so we’re going to give him a chance and see what he can do.” Bennett is scheduled to have surgery on his hand later this week, and is expected to miss five to six weeks. Bennett is also suffering from a lingering knee injury that he suffered last year, and will rehabilitate the injury during the time he is out. Starting right tackle Mike Ryan will move over to left tackle to fill Bennett’s spot, and redshirt freshman Kevin Friend will take Ryan’s spot at right tackle. Friend performed well after coming in midway through Saturday’s game after Bennett first went down. “I thought that Mike Ryan played well at left tackle, he’s played left tackle before,” Edsall said. “And I thought that Kevin Friend played well, so that’s how it’s listed.” Special teams shakeup? The Huskies’ kicking unit appears to be on the verge of some major changes. Edsall
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Jordan Todman carries the ball during UConn’s 40-21 win over Vanderbilt on Saturday. Todman rushed for 190 yards on 37 carries and scored two touchdowns for the 3-2 Huskies.
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» FIELD HOCKEY
No. 5 UConn looks to rebound against Yale
By Ryan Tepperman Staff Writer After dropping its first Big East contest of the season to No. 10 Louisville on Saturday, the UConn field hockey team will look to get back on track tonight when it hosts in-state rival Yale. The match is set to begin at 7 p.m. at the George J. Sherman Family Sports Complex, kicking off a five-game homestand for the Huskies. It also marks the team’s final night game of the season. UConn, ranked No. 5 in the nation, enters tonight’s matchup at 8-2, with a 2-1 mark in conference play. Yale counters with a 6-3 record out of the Ivy League. But, the Bulldogs dropped their only game of the season against a
ranked opponent, losing 7-0 “They’ve been scoring to No. 4 Princeton. UConn is quite a few goals, so a point scheduled to play Princeton, of focus for us is going to be one of the four remaining to limit their scoring opporunbeaten teams in the coun- tunities,” Stevens said. “They try, on Oct. 17. are a balanced team, so it’s Freshman midfielder not like we’re gonna be able Georgia Holland to shut down just leads the balanced one player.” Bulldog attack into The matchup with tonight’s action. the Bulldogs comes Holland, who has a on the heels of the team-high 13 points defense’s toughest vs. Yale of the season, scored performance to date. 7 p.m. two in Yale’s 3-2 On Saturday, UConn Sherman win at Cornell this lost a back-and-forth past Saturday. overtime decision to Complex Overall, nine difLouisville, falling ferent Bulldog playby a score of 3-2. ers have two or more goals The contest marked the first on the season. coach Nancy time this season the Huskies Stevens stressed the chal- have allowed more than one lenge that the Yale attack – goal in the game. which has scored 27 times After UConn trailed in nine games – presents her Louisville 1-0 at halftime, defense. freshman forward Anne Jeute
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scored the equalizer in the 56th minute off a feed from senior Melissa Gonzalez. The goal was the fifth of the season for Jeute, who is now tied for the team lead in points with 13. Junior Ali Blankmeyer then put the Huskies in front about three minutes later with her fourth goal. The Huskies clung to their one-goal advantage until Louisville’s Hayley Turner finished a shot with just over a minute left in regulation. Turner then scored the winning goal in overtime in the game’s 81st minute. Louisville’s AllAmerican candidate, Nicole Youman, assisted both goals, accounting for her Big Eastleading ninth and 10th assists of the season. Stevens said that UConn will need to do a better job of capitalizing on penalty cor-
ners in tonight’s game than they did against Louisville. The Huskies failed to finish off any of their penalty corners on Saturday. “Fortunately against Louisville, we were able to generate 12 corners, all in the second half,” Stevens said. “We’ve really been focusing on corner execution and finishing off those corners.” Following tonight’s game, UConn will return to action on Saturday with an afternoon matchup against Big East rival Georgetown. The Huskies will then host undefeated and No. 2 North Carolina on Sunday.
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Huskies open fall season at UConn courts
than any other team, but both the men’s and women’s teams were cheering for each other as well.” “Support goes a long way and The UConn women’s tennis I think a lot of the reason why our team is set to host their first match team is finding success is because of the fall season today against of the support and connection that we have with each other,” UMass. she said. The Huskies will The Huskies have been look to build off of focusing on a few things their success this in practice in preparation past weekend at the vs. UMass for today’s match. Bucknell Invite, where team is working they won a doubles 2:30 p.m. on“Our playing with confiand a singles draw. UConn dence, being aggressive Sophomore Lauren Wilmarth credits some Tennis Courts and playing with reason,” Wilmarth said. “I think of the team’s success when our team sets goals to the overwhelming support they get from each other for ourselves we are able to narrow as well as the UConn men’s tennis our focus and are able to accomplish those goals.” squad. Wilmarth has been a focal “This weekend I was extremely proud to be a part of our team,” point of the Huskies’ success Wilmarth said. “Not only were we this season, being a part, one cheering for our teammates louder way or the other, of four of the
By William Penfield Campus Correspondent
WOMEN’S TENNIS
five Husky wins this fall. Just a sophomore, Wilmarth has been working on a few things this season that she believes have led to her success. “I have been working on getting away from my comfort zone and trying new techniques,” she said. “I usually stick to what I am used to and in order to get to the next level with my game I need to take risks and try new things. The techniques I have been working on include rushing the net, volleying as much as I can and poaching more than I have in the past.” Wilmarth also credits her success to her newfound ability to adjust to her opponent’s game. Today’s match will begin at 2:30 p.m. at the tennis courts on campus.
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The UConn women’s tennis team takes on UMass today to open its fall season.