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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Phi Gamma Delta selected to start chapter at UConn

By Ari Mason Campus Correspondent

The Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity has been selected to colonize at UConn, said Todd C. Sullivan, executive director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life (OFSL), at the annual Greek Life awards banquet last Wednesday

night. The fraternity, commonly known as FIJI, was one of three finalists selected from a pool of 15 applicants.

The finalists, including Delta Tau Delta and Sigma Nu, sent national representatives to campus last month to host meetings and presentations in hopes of winning over students and faculty. The selection process was based mainly on

the strength of each national organization, the values of the fraternities and how they are implemented, leadership development programs and national philanthropy events and the availability of support from local alumni networks, said Nick Carroll, vice president of the UConn Interfraternity Council (IFC) and chair of the Expansion Committee.

According to Carroll, the OFSL and the IFC were looking for a group that would appeal to student leaders and “challenge the rest of the Greek community to do better.” IFC president Michael Mizrahi agreed, adding that expansion also provides “a chance not just to grow an inclusive Greek community, but to really strengthen the true purpose of Greek life,

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and grow it in productive, beneficial, positive way.”

The IFC believes FIJI will do the trick. The decision to elect FIJI was unanimous, said Mizrahi last Wednesday. The fraternity will begin recruiting members in the fall and will ideally receive full recognition within a year, Mizrahi said.

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Alexandra Albini, a 4th-semester art major and chair of the USG Promotion and Recruitment Committee, speaks during the group’s Tuesday night meeting.

USG PLANS STUDENT APPRECIATION DAY

By Ben Climan Campus Correspondent The USG Promotion and Recruitment Committee held its spring semester meeting Tuesday in the Student Union. The Promotion and Recruitment Committee organizes events like Student Appreciation Day and the freshman ice cream social, in addition to working with other committees and student groups to help publicize and organize its events.

The main focus of this semester’s meeting was Student Appreciation Day, which takes place once every semester and this semester is set to take place March 28.

Student Appreciation Day typically offers games, giveaways and food, and is meant so show USG’s appreciation for the student body’s input.

The activities that will be offered and the ways in which the group can advertise for Student Appreciation Day will be con-

strained by the committee’s budget, which is down from $35,000 last semester to $20,000 this semester. But this doesn’t seem to be a problem for Alexandra Albini, a 4th-semester art major and chair of the committee, who noted that the group didn’t use all of its funding last semester.

“A lot of our funding last semester was reallocated to other student groups,” Albini said.

Members discussed ideas for advertising and promoting the event, as well as different people and organizations to contact to participate in the event, which is one of the committee’s main focuses every semester.

“Student Appreciation Day is a major event for the UConn community,” Albini said.

Most of the students in attendance were members of the committee and had previously been assigned different roles in organizing and promoting Student Appreciation Day and election week.

Brian Ingmanson, a 6th-semester science

education major, is not a current member of the committee, but works extensively with the organization as USG’s Chief of Staff. He attended the meeting to learn more about the events that the committee is working on this semester.

“I wanted to see what is different this semester for Student Appreciation Day, since it is such an important event for USG,” Ingmanson said.

Another topic for the meeting was student elections, which will run from March 28 to 30 and encompass many student groups, including USG and the Co-op’s Board of Governors. The committee will try to get more students to vote this time around, and they and USG as a whole have made it easier for students to do so by holding all the elections in one week and allowing students to go online and vote for candidates.

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The potential for you to witness, be a victim or unknowingly participate in workplace discrimination or to a hostile work environment is real.

Protect yourself from falling into the unknown and becoming a victim. Protecting yourself involves making good decisions about what you say and what you get involved with in the workplace setting.

Workplace harassment and hostile work environments can be very subtle or they can be very obvious. This means that the potential for you to inadvertently be involved can increase if you are not careful of what you decide to discuss or do in the workplace. You should learn about the legal implications of the law and familiarize yourself with your company’s internal policy regarding such situations.

Large corporations are likely to have clauses within their employee handbooks that speak about hostile work environments and discrimination in the workplace. It is a safe practice for companies to make these policies public to all employees. It is also a good policy to enforce these policies to keep a company safe from such unnecessary behavior and costly liability.

Many companies will only go so far as to state their position on discrimination in the workplace. A company with a policy of respect in the workplace can potentially cover both. Smaller companies may not have established poli-

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Scholar deems human body as ‘unintelligent design’

By Kim Halpin Campus Correspondent

Tuesday afternoon Dr. Abby Hafer, a zoologist and anatomy and physiology professor from Curry College, presented a lecture countering the idea that Intelligent Design is scientific.

Hafer describes the Intelligent Design debate as purely a political issue, and one that has no place in science. The objective of her talk, she stated, was to show how the human body is quite an unintelligent design, and therefore evolution is the only substantial scientific theory.

To grab the audience’s attention, Hafer began with the issue of why males’ testicles are out-

side of their body; because normal body temperature is not conducive to sperm production.

“This is a very bad design,” Hafer says with emphasis.

Using the diagram of a frog, she pointed out that other animals have reproductive necessities inside their bodies, a much more intelligent place to have them.

Next, she brought up the simple fact that babies’ heads are too large to fit through the narrow biped pelvis bones during birth. Prior to modern medicine, this resulted in many deaths of babies and mothers, and is clearly a poor design. Hafer offered that it would have been smarter to be like kangaroos and develop outside of our mothers.

“Now I’ll stop talking dirty

to you and talk about choking instead,” Hafer said to snickers from the audience.

She transitioned into explaining that whales’ respiratory systems are better than ours because they have separate tubes for breathing and eating.

This way, there are no chances of choking on food while inhaling the way that humans do.

Another mechanical mishap is how the design of our eyes actually impedes our sight because the “wiring” of nerves is placed in front of the photoreceptors.

These photoreceptors are crucial because they recognize light and discern the world around us.

If other animals, such as the cuddle fish, can have the wiring in the back, why is ours in the front? It seems like a poor

choice, unless “the creator’, as Hafer called it, which intelligent design points to, favors squids and octopi over humans.

Scott Conroy 6th-semester molecular and cell biology major, offered a possible explanation. He said, “Cuddle fish would need a more developed eye to see in low light conditions, where being in direct way of the sun, it might be more protective for us to have the receptors behind.”

Hafer disagreed, saying that it was just the way sight developed in our evolutionary line.

Evolution, she argues, has a much lower standard than intellectual design because “as long as it doesn’t kill us before reproducing too much of the time,” the trait stays. This explains our

appendices, neonatal gills and remnants of tails.

Afterward there was time for a question-and-answer session where many of the questions focused around teaching creation theories in school, or the debate between intellectual design and evolution. But Hafer argues there is no scientific debate on the issue.

Students enjoyed her straightforward approach, and brother and sister Kevin and Kristina Breuninger, a 2nd-semester undecided major and an 8th- semester biology major, respectively, said they had “heard these points before, but she made them into simple scientific arguments.”

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Rep. Robles arrested on larceny charges

HARTFORD (AP) — A state representative and former police officer was arrested Tuesday on charges that he cheated the Hartford police department out of more than $10,000 by filing false time cards.

Hector Robles, who was fired by the police department in November for falsifying time sheets, was charged with two counts of first-degree larceny, the chief state’s attorney’s office said. Each charge carries a maximum punishment of 20 years in prison.

Robles, 39, was released on a written promise to appear in court.

He is to be arraigned March 8.

Robles is accused of claiming that he was on police duty when he was actually working private jobs, defrauding the police department of $10,652 between September 2008 and September 2009. The 15-year police veteran was dismissed after a department investigation found he had lied on his time cards.

Consumers lose $3 million to Internet HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut consumers reported losses of more than $3 million last year to an agency that tracks Internet scams.

A report from the national Internet Crime Complaint Center says cases of non-delivery and identity theft accounted for nearly 40 percent of its 2,551 complaints from Connecticut last year. It says the median loss for the complaints was just over $500.

Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner William Rubenstein said Tuesday that anyone who uses a computer is at risk for scams and fraud. He urged anyone who comes across an Internet scam to notify his office as well as the national complaint center.

The other top Connecticut-reported crimes included scams impersonating the FBI, hacking, advance fee fraud, and credit card fraud.

3 residents among White House arts honorees HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Three Connecticut residents are among a group of luminaries to be honored at the White House for their contributions to the arts and humanities.

Actress Meryl Streep is receiving a National Medal of Art while novelist Philip Roth and Yale professor Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria are receiving National Humanities Medals at the ceremony Wednesday.

The White House says Streep will be honored for her “unrivaled contributions to American arts and culture” and Roth for his contributions to American letters. It says Gonzalez Echevarria is being recognized for his contributions to Spanish and Latin American literary criticism.

President Barack Obama is expected to preside over the ceremony with a total of 20 honorees.

Malloy says new rail cars to begin operating

HARTFORD (AP) — The first set of long-awaited new commuter rail cars have begun running on the New Haven line of Metro-North.

The eight new M-8 cars were put into service Tuesday for the Metro-North rail line. Officials say the train left Stamford at 10:30 a.m. and arrived on time at Grand Central Terminal in New York at 11:36 a.m.

The state has ordered 380 Kawasaki cars to replace the aging fleet. The cars will run on the commuter line between New Haven and New York City.

The first batch of trains had been delayed because of problems that cropped up during the testing period, frustrating many commuters. The older fleet of train cars has been plagued by weather-related component failures this winter that resulted in crowded trains and below normal on-time performance, railroad officials said.

Nose on plane at airport collapses

WINDSOR LOCKS (AP) — Passengers were evacuated from a plane at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut when the nose gear of their aircraft collapsed as it was pushing away from the gate.

A spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration says 29 passengers and three crew members were taken off the Embraer 145 operated by Trans States Airlines, a contractor for US Airways, after the front landing gear on the Pittsburgh-bound flight collapsed at about 6:45 a.m. Tuesday.

No one was hurt.

A spokeswoman for US Airways says the cause of the collapse remains under investigation.

Passengers were placed on other flights.

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HARTFORD, (AP) — A bipartisan group of state legislators said Tuesday that Connecticut is moving closer to becoming the latest state to participate in a national effort to bank umbilical cord blood, a source of valuable stem cells.

Sen. Len Fasano, R-North Haven, unveiled legislation that would create a public cord blood collection program in the state. If approved, it would be the first public cord blood bank in Connecticut. The stem cells collected in the state would ultimately be stored at existing facilities outside of Connecticut and become part of a national donor pool.

“This will help generations yet unborn and help people yet to be diagnosed with cancer,” said Fasano, adding that 40 or so diseases are treated with cord blood. “This is an opportunity to treat not only people here in the state of Connecticut, but across this nation.”

The General Assembly’s Public Health Committee has scheduled a public hearing for Wednesday to discuss Fasano’s bill, which stems from the work of a task force made up of legislators and physicians that met over the past year. Fasano estimates the bank will initially cost about $200,000, far less expensive than the typical $10 million needed to create a physical blood bank facility, because the state is proposing to store the cord blood elsewhere.

New parents currently can pay private cord blood banks to store the blood for their own family’s use. He said it often costs about $1,500 to $2,000, in addition to

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a typical $150 to $200 annual maintenance fee, to use a private facility. Under this proposal, a family would have no control over the cord blood it donates to the public bank.

Some families may have a high rate of cancer and therefore it could make sense for them to privately bank cord blood. But Dr. Edward Snyder, director of the blood and tissue bank at Yale-New Haven Hospital, said most people who donate cord blood will not need it. So giving that cord blood to a public bank “would be in the best interest, globally and nationally, for all other individuals,” he said.

State Rep. Lawrence Miller, R-Stratford, knows firsthand that

stem cells can save lives. He was diagnosed in 1998 with multiple myeloma, cancer of the plasma cells, and told he would live five years, even if he received treatment. He wound up being treated in Arkansas and had some of his own stem cells removed and later transferred back into his body.

“So I had two transplants down there that have given me 13 years of life instead of five years they had originally said,” said Miller, 74. “This bill here, it’s like 6 years old. We ought to be passing this thing lickety split because this stuff is super, these stem cells in the cord blood are very, very sweet, they’re really good stem cells compared to what we have in our bodies. My

stuff is old and that stuff is all brand new from kids.”

The cord blood is blood that remains in a baby’s umbilical cord after the cord has been cut.

Fasano said that material is often discarded as medical waste. The blood is rich in stem cells that can be frozen and used to treat diseases and conditions. In 2009, Fasano pushed for legislation that made parents aware of the opportunity to store the blood.

Under the latest bill, a concerted effort would be made to collect cord blood from at least two cities in Connecticut, likely New Haven and Hartford. Doctors said it is important to have a racially diverse pool of cord blood to help as many people as possible.

Best advice to prevent harrasement at work: always report it from HOSTILE, page 1 cies, but this doesn’t preclude them from being obligated to protect their employees and abide by federal law. There may also be protection against retaliation from a company that you report.

Did you know that if you report an act of harassment or hostility, your employer must respond to you? Employers that continue to ignore complaints or fail to investigate complaints can face legal action. In some instances, an employer’s repeated failure to address real workplace incidents can be viewed by the courts as actually condoning the behavior. Oftentimes, a lower manager can shield upper managers from becoming aware of these types of concerns. They might be just as scared as you are. Give them some help and request to speak to a human resources professional.

It is true that the courts look to established procedures, case precedent and the claims companies make with regard to their policies within their organizations. What happens when something falls outside the scope of a legal definition? Hostile work environments can fall out of the safe walls of legal definition. It is important to remember that the law works not mysteriously, but according to the words it comprises. Proving a hostile work environment might require evidence that such behaviors were 1) directed at you, 2) continued for a sufficient time

so as to change the nature of your work and/or 3) were pervasive enough to cause a negative change to the working environment.

When legal professionals look at such cases, they also look to the aid of established law such as the (Amended) ADA Act of 1990 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Claims of hostile work environments are often augmented by discriminatory practices prohibited by federal statute. In short, people calling you names at work doesn’t necessarily give cause of action to file a hostile work environment claim.

Repeated instances of verbal abuse being sanctioned by a manager who does nothing to stop the abuse over time may constitute a hostile environment. You also have to look at who is contributing to this environment. Is it a supervisor? Is it your manager? Is it an unwritten practice that takes place with the knowledge of the president of the company but against the policies or the law? These are all important factors to consider and might give you cause to fight for your rights. Just be sure you weigh all of the facts. The law will do that, and you should too.

Discrimination and harassment in the workplace is a similar story. Harassment can materialize from comments, actions or failures in action based upon a protected status such as national origin, sex, color, age or race.

The difference between hostile work environments and harassment or discrimination

is the clearly- defined nature of harassment and discrimination that the hostile work environment lacks.

I mentioned earlier about becoming unknowingly involved in a situation that involves discrimination. I can tell you that jumping into inappropriate discriminatory conversations surrounding any protected statuses makes you a participant. Whether you were willing or unwilling may not matter. The law requires only that you participated. A jury will decide the rest. Your safest bet is to not involve yourself in such behavior and report such instances to your manager or human resources representative so that they can stop it before it gets out of hand. Did you find yourself on the wrong end of this discussion? Intentional harassment is illegal. Report it to a manager or to their manager.

Let’s think logically here.

Will you always be in a position where you have a great professional relationship with your workers and managers?

The answer is, not always.

Establishing a good channel of open communication can work to significantly reduce your chances of being in a situation in which you will have to choose between your job and reporting a violation. Peer pressure, interpersonal relationships, your social identity, collective identity, and self identity will all be in jeopardy. Life was never meant to be easy. You will have to decide and the decision will be your responsibility alone.

Almost all situations involv-

ing disparity and inequality can often be solved through good productive communication.

You must keep an open mind and, most importantly, keep it professional. In most situations that arise from the workplace, communication and sensibility are typically lacking in the situation which causes the emergence of an issue. Learn how to communicate and ask questions if uncertainty.

If you make yourself aware of your company’s policies and become familiar with what constitutes workplace harassment and hostile work environments, you decrease your chances of being involved in such a messy situation. Be smart and sensible before you place a label on a situation.

Know that there are several steps to identifying these activities, especially in a court of law. Contact your local representative first before the EEOC. Ask for help internally before you bring in the federal government. If you still cannot resolve a workplace issue with the help of your employer, learn about the process on how to file a charge with Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Before you decide to leave a bad situation, (also known as quitting a job), know that there are more rights for you as an employee as opposed to an ex-employee. Protect your rights and don’t become a participant or a victim of inappropriate workplace harassment or hostile work environments.

Stand up and be heard!

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Past medical testing on humans revealed

ATLANTA (AP) — Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates.

Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital.

Much of this horrific history is 40 to 80 years old, but it is the backdrop for a meeting in Washington this week by a presidential bioethics commission.

The meeting was triggered by the government’s apology last fall for federal doctors infecting prisoners and mental patients in Guatemala with syphilis 65 years ago.

U.S. officials also acknowledged there had been dozens of similar experiments in the United States — studies that often involved making healthy people sick.

An exhaustive review by The Associated Press of medical journal reports and decadesold press clippings found more than 40 such studies. At best, these were a search for lifesaving treatments; at worst, some amounted to curiosity-satisfying experiments that hurt people but provided no useful results.

Inevitably, they will be compared to the well-known Tuskegee syphilis study. In that episode, U.S. health officials tracked 600 black men in Alabama who already had syphilis but didn’t give them adequate treatment even after penicillin became available.

These studies were worse in at least one respect — they violated the concept of “first do no harm,” a fundamental medical principle that stretches back centuries.

“When you give somebody a disease — even by the standards of their time — you really cross the key ethical norm of the profession,” said Arthur Caplan, director of the University of

Pennsylvania’s Center for Bioethics.

Some of these studies, mostly from the 1940s to the ‘60s, apparently were never covered by news media. Others were reported at the time, but the focus was on the promise of enduring new cures, while glossing over how test subjects were treated.

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Attitudes about medical research were different then.

Infectious diseases killed many more people years ago, and doctors worked urgently to invent and test cures. Many prominent researchers felt it was legitimate to experiment on people who did not have full rights in society — people like prisoners, mental patients, poor blacks. It

was an attitude in some ways similar to that of Nazi doctors experimenting on Jews.

“There was definitely a sense — that we don’t have today — that sacrifice for the nation was important,” said Laura Stark, a Wesleyan University assistant professor of science in society, who is writing a book about past federal medical experiments.

The AP review of past research found: —A federally funded study begun in 1942 injected experimental flu vaccine in male patients at a state insane asylum in Ypsilanti, Mich., then exposed them to flu several months later.

It was co-authored by Dr. Jonas Salk, who a decade later would become famous as inventor of

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Some of the men weren’t able to describe their symptoms, raising serious questions about how well they understood what was being done to them. One newspaper account mentioned the test subjects were “senile and debilitated.” Then it quickly moved on to the promising results.

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Facebook, Twitter must be treated as résumés

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ith less than three months until graduation, many seniors have been applying for jobs and going on interviews with hopes of getting hired.

It is not news to say that social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter have become as much of our daily routines as brushing our teeth. But in becoming so comfortable with these networks, it is easy to forget how accessible they are to others as well – particularly potential employers. Regardless of whether they are preparing to graduate or just finishing up their freshman year at UConn, students should keep in mind that technology can allow social networking sites to place them at a disadvantage in terms of the job market if not used appropriately.

According to a 2009 CareerBuilder.com article, 45 percent of employers used social networking sites to screen potential job candidates. In a study that questioned 2,667 managers and human resource workers, it was revealed that 35 percent of employers chose not to hire someone as a result of their social network content. With sites like Facebook no longer serving as networks for students to just chat with their friends and post pictures of last weekend’s party, they can be compared to public resumes as employers are using them increasingly to screen potential employees.

But tagged pictures of you participating in certain activities are not the only ways to lose a job opportunity before you even get it. Employers are also on the prowl for those tasteful Lil’ Wayne lyrics that you might update your Facebook status with or when you send tweets talking about how you skipped class in favor of the beach. Though these may seem harmless, they are revealing to employers.

Nevertheless, students can take preventative measures by ensuring that their privacy settings are set accordingly.

Furthermore, take a look at your “information” and consider removing any listed interests that may seem unprofessional and can be interpreted the wrong way (such as “drinking” or “partying”). It is equally important to monitor what others post on your walls or tweets they send your way, as what others write is a reflection of you as well.

Social networking sites are no doubt fun ways for college students to procrastinate and keep tabs on friends, but they can also work to your disadvantage in the professional world (or even before you become part of it). Although it may take some extra effort to keep your pages clean, it’s better to be safe than sorry so 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.

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It’s almost as if UConn expects nerds to be released into the general public.

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Wis. bargaining bill is misunderstood

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he recent political conflict between Wisconsin Republicans and the state’s public sector unions has revealed a growing rift in the nation’s workforce between unions in the public and private economic sectors. Supported by Gov. Scott Walker, Republicans in Wisconsin’s House chamber recently approved a bill that would deny public sector employee unions the option of collective bargaining. This has touched off a political firestorm, with over 70,000

By Arragon Perrone protestors demWeekly Columnist onstrating at the capitol building in Madison.

Democrats complain that the bill is trying to destroy unions, while Republicans argue that the bill is just trying to cut the deficit.

The bill is neither aimed at destroying unions, nor is it just about cutting the deficit.

The legislation is an attempt to eliminate collective bargaining among public sector unions in total. However, it is not an attack on private sector unions, a distinction opponents of the bill do not acknowledge. The bill would only strip public sector employees of their ability to collectively bargain. Collective bargaining among private sector employees, which is an internationally-accepted right, would remain.

Collective bargaining among public sector unions is an irrational privilege that has been incorrectly understood as an unalienable right.

Though collective bargaining and labor unions themselves play an important role in the private sector, they are nontransferable into the public sector. One U.S. president understood this well enough to write that “the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.” That president was not Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush. It was Franklin Delano Roosevelt,

the father of the New Deal.

Public sector unionization is nonsensical because unions should not be able to negotiate with officials who citizens elect democratically. Unlike private businesses that represent their own interests, elected officials represent the interests of all voters – including the members of labor unions. If workers do not like the policies of a given politician, they can respond by joining a political party to vote against that individual in the next election. Private-sector employees, however, do not have the ability to vote down the CEO or managers of their corporation, so a right to form labor unions can be rationalized. Private sector unions give employees the ability to mobilize support in order to protect their interests from possible abuse by the employer.

The right to private sector unionization is protected by international conventions and declarations, such as the Convention Concerning the Promotion of Collective Bargaining and the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, which the U.S. ratified in 1997. Both the U.S. federal government and state governments must respect these international rights. However, the issue of public sector unionization can be left up to the national and state governments, which can either grant or deny such a privilege. But in neither case is the right to public sector unionization a right.

Those who are protesting the current legislation, though obviously within their Constitutional ability to exercise their freedom of speech, are misconstruing the debate. They are demonizing businesses and elected representatives, such as Gov. Walker. If Republicans attempted to eliminate collective bargaining among unions in the private sector, protestors would be completely justified in swarming the capitol. But that is not what is happening, though it is certainly being painted as such.

The Wisconsin bill should not be seen as the first step in a continuing war to eliminate all unions. Those who support the bill, like Gov. Walker, are simply acknowledging that in these tough economic times, public employees must accept greater cutbacks that their union leaders, through collective bargaining, are refusing to make.

“Public sector unionization is nonsensical because unions should not be able to negotiate with officials who citizens elect.”

While many private employees have lost their jobs during this recession, most public workers have enjoyed comparatively greater job security. Now, many states like Wisconsin, New Jersey and Connecticut are facing two options: maintain the current size of state government, which means keeping public sector employment at an identical level, or prevent state income and property taxes from going up, which would cripple the middle class.

Public sector unions have not made acceptable concessions, at least in the eyes of elected officials. Therefore, elected officials have the legal ability to eliminate collective bargaining among public employees. However, collective bargaining in the private sector is and must be maintained.

Weekly columnist Arragon Perrone is a 6th-semester political science and English double major. He can be reached at Arragon.Perrone@UConn.edu.

Mainstream movies of recent years lack quality

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hen you think of the best movies you’ve ever seen, what comes to mind? Many would probably list “Forrest Gump,” “The Shawshank Redemption,” “The Godfather,” “Titanic,” “Fight Club” and “Schindler’s List” as some of their favorites. There is a trend among all these movies besides the fact that they are phenomenal films and that none of them are recent – all of them were made

By Grace Malloy before 2000.

Now, can Staff Columnist you think of any recent movies made since 2000 that can be reasonably compared to any of these movies or other older classics? Perhaps “The Dark Knight,” “Inception” or “Slumdog Millionaire” could be compared.

But, at least to me, nothing really jumps out. Considering that most of the movies on IMDb’s Top 250 movies are older, it is probably the common consensus that few recent movies can be considered “masterpieces.”

Movies made in the past decade are just not of the same caliber as those made two, three and four decades ago. What a shame that is.

You know when you’ve watched a truly outstanding, well-done movie. It makes you think about the message that was conveyed

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Many recent movies don’t have those qualities. There is often little character development, superficial relationships between characters and shallow themes. It seems that in many cases, directors rely on special effects, shoot-outs and car chases in order to gain an audience, instead of substance. But because people pay to see these types of movies, Hollywood can get away with not putting in as much effort, time and money in an attempt to make a good quality movie.

In addition to using special effects and excessive action, Hollywood often uses A-list actors or actresses to gain an audience

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for movies that are lacking. About a month ago, I saw “How Do You Know.” It had Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Paul Rudd and Jack Nicholson, so I thought it must be good. Well, it was awful. It received a rating of 5.3 out of 10 on IMDb, so I am not alone in my reaction. But people nonetheless paid to see it, probably because of the cast.

Hollywood also relies on turning good movies into a series and creating remakes of them. People pay to go see them, but they rarely turn out to be good. “Spiderman” and “Transformers” were both highlyrated movies. But “Spiderman 3” and “Transformers 2” received below-average reviews by critics. The original “Wicker Man,” made in 1973, won Best Horror Film at the Oscars and was nominated for five other awards. But the remake of this movie, made in 2006, received a 3.6 out of 10 by critics on IMDb. What the public needs to do is to stop paying to see movies that aren’t well-made. If people continue to do that, then Hollywood will continue to make movies that lack depth. We shouldn’t settle for that. We should create a demand for films that require us to think, react and analyze. We can do that by instead watching movies that aren’t mainstream – in other words, movies that don’t rely on special effects, or action scenes, or

A-list actors and actresses.

A good example is the movie “Mother and Child,” which was made in 2009. It made a little over $1 million in the box office, but it got great reviews. Personally, I thought it was a powerful movie.

It is the story of three women.

One woman gave up her baby for adoption as a teen and struggles with regret. Another woman, who is successful but incapable of connecting emotionally with others, becomes pregnant. The third woman looks to adopt a child while dealing with her husband’s bitterness over not being able to have a biological child of their own. Throughout the movie, we see how the lives of the three women become intertwined.

This is just one of hundreds of spectacular movies made recently.

The trick is to find and watch those movies, instead of wasting our money on movies that will ultimately be a bust. Look for movies that seem to contain interesting characters, a meaningful plot and deep themes. It’s usually not the ones that everyone is paying to go see.

After all, Woody Allen said, “If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.”

Staff Columnist Grace Malloy is a 6th-semester journalism and political science major. She can be reached at Grace.Malloy@UConn.

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by Elise Domyan replacement 50 Steel plow developer 52 Winter forecast 55 John Lennon Museum founder 56 VII x VIII

Dismiss the Cynics

by Victor Preato

Down 1 Zesty flavors 2 Leaning 3 __ society 4 Cocktail preparation phrase 5 Sushi fish 6 Tally symbol 7 Large wedding band 8 Strikes one as 9 Viscount’s superior 10 One-third of ninety?

11 *Pocketed the cue ball 12 Obligatory joke response 13 Park Avenue resident, e.g.

18 ER tests 22 Secular

24 Imagines 25 Young food court loiterer 27 Afternoon service 28 Gift shop items on a rotating stand 29 Where to see a caboose 30 *Fortes 31 USC or NYU 32 Prov. on James Bay 33 Amer. currency 36 IV units 39 __ perpetua: Idaho’s motto 41 “__ My Heart”: 1962 #1 R&B hit for Ray Charles 43 Going rate?

45 Coil of yarn 46 Western chasers 47 Ply 48 “¿__ usted español?”

49 Paula’s “American Idol”

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60 Many IRA payees 61 Landlord 62 Really dumb

Jason and the Rhedosaurus

Across 1 Sierra Nevada resort 6 Like some checking accounts 11 Scand. land 14 Observe Yom Kippur 15 Neptune’s realm 16 When repeated, a Latin dance 17 Feature of the answers to starred clues 19 Children’s author/ illustrator Asquith 20 Icky stuff 21 Common flashlight power source 22 Endure 23 *Poker holdings 25 Actor Dillon et al.

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27 Chinese discipline 28 Cut’s partner 31 *Subdued 34 First N.L. 500 home run club member 35 Indictment 37 “__ pales in Heaven the morning star”: Lowell 38 *Prepared to jog 40 Less refined 42 Degree requirements, at times 43 Convert to leather, as a hide 44 Minor cost component 45 *Stained 51 Ship of Greek myth 52 European toast 53 Fit 54 Living in Fla., maybe 55 Feature of the answers to starred clues 57 Morse unit 58 Racket 59 More repulsive

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by Carin Powell

The Daily Crossword

Horoscopes Aries - Today you may find your perfect partner, but it will require you to step out of your shell.

Be patient, especially regarding your own goals.

Toast

by Tom Dilling

Taurus - Your optimism is contagious. Have you considered a career in public office? Today is a good day to develop your leadership skills.

People are listening.

Gemini - Be ambitious and willing. Challenge your old self to bring new ideas to flower. Go outside for fresh air, and find inspiration in trees. Spread your roots.

Cancer - The dead autumn leaves feed spring flowers.

When the day looks dark, imagine a double rainbow in your future. Be patient.

Something’s gestating.

By Michael Mepham

Leo - Don’t worry about updating your Facebook status.

Get together with friends in realtime instead. You’ll all appreciate it. Add time outdoors moving your body for extra points.

Virgo - Too much work and no play can make Virgo very dull.

Make sure you get plenty of rest. Sitting down looking at a screen can be strenuous. Take a break.

Libra - A child has the answer.

You were one once. Love the memory of that kid, and forgive everything. Your time is too precious to spend it on regret or bitterness.

Scorpio - You don’t need to rearrange all the furniture to make your home feel like new.

It may just require a new plant or some new music. Enjoy your nest.

Why The Long Face

by Jackson Lautier

Sagittarius - Use technology wisely to communicate your thoughts. There are people out there who want to hear them.

Celebrate diversity, and share words for all.

Capricorn - Wealth comes easily when you’re open to receiving and sharing it. Pay special attention to your insights today.

They’re golden. Give back to get more.

Aquarius - You’re on top of the world, looking down on creation. Celebrate singer Karen Carpenter’s birthday. Celebrate music. Use your vantage point to look ahead.

Pisces - Today you may encounter the biggest monsters to fight in the most difficult level of this game called life. Learn from the battle, and rest up.

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ESPN writer pleads not guilty to wife attack BOSTON (AP) — A senior writer for ESPN pleaded not guilty Monday to allegations that he assaulted his wife outside a pizza parlor in western Massachusetts over the weekend.

State police said Howard Bryant was arrested after witnesses told authorities they saw a man choking a woman and pinning her against a parked car Saturday in front of a pizza parlor in Buckland. Bryant, who lives in nearby Ashfield, resisted arrest and struck a state trooper in the chest with his elbow, police said.

Bryant told The Associated Press that he and his wife had a verbal argument, but that he did not assault her. He said he touched his wife on the shoulder while the two were arguing but did not choke her.

“I put one hand on her shoulder bone. We had an argument; we had a spat. I did not hurt her,” the 42-year-old Bryant said.

Bryant’s wife, Veronique, also denied that he assaulted her.

“There was no investiga-

tion. The police made assumptions about my husband that weren’t true. I was never abused or in fear of Howard on that day or any other day,” she told ESPN.com.

Bryant’s lawyer, Buz Eisenberg, said he believes the arrest was racially motivated and a vast overreaction by police. Bryant is black; his wife is white. State police spokesman David Procopio denied those allegations, saying Bryant was arrested because five witnesses “indicated that he physically assaulted a woman.”

“They made very clear that they observed the defendant place his hands on the victim’s neck and while keeping his hands on her neck, pinned her against that vehicle,” Procopio said.

Bryant said he repeatedly told police that he was not resisting arrest, but they “double handcuffed” him and slammed his head on the hood of the police cruiser. The incident was witnessed by the couple’s 6-year-old son, who was

seated in the back seat of their car, Bryant said.

Procopio said Bryant was “combative” with the arresting officers and resisted their directives “from the very onset of the incident.”

“State police, after repeated attempts to get him to comply with putting his hands behind his back so he could be handcuffed ... he was placed over the hood of the vehicle, and finally they were able to cuff him,” Procopio said. “I would not characterize it as slamming his head onto a vehicle.”

Eisenberg said his client was arrested in part because he was black.

“I believe a bald black man with a white woman was treated in a disparate fashion, as it is all too often,” he said. “There was no investigation here before they arrested Mr. Bryant and threw him on the hood.”

Eisenberg said the officers included two state troopers and local police. He said they threatened to shock Bryant with a Taser.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Dr. William Petit, the sole survivor of the deadly 2007 Cheshire home invasion, called on Connecticut lawmakers Monday to further tighten rules for the release of certain autopsy records, but legislators were told that such reports are already sealed from public disclosure.

Petit, who appeared before the General Assembly’s Judiciary Committee, testified in favor of a bill that would allow the parent or guardian of a murdered child to seal their child’s autopsy reports from public disclosure. He said it would be hurtful to the victims’ families to see the autopsy photos

and gruesome details from an autopsy report published.

The bill was offered by state Sen. Michael McLachlan, R-Danbury.

Petit, whose wife and two daughters were killed in the home invasion, said the chief medical examiner’s office has done a good job over the years refusing inappropriate requests for autopsy reports and kept them sealed after a child killer has been convicted and sentenced. But Petit said he worries that could change.

“I fear over time these requests will increase, as we’ve seen in other states such as California and Pennsylvania,” he said.

Authorities have said two

men, Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky, killed Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, 11-yearold Michaela and 17-year-old Hayley, in their home during a home invasion. Hayes was convicted and condemned to death in November. Komisarjevsky is awaiting trial.

According to Dr. Wayne Carver, the chief medical examiner, autopsy reports are made available to the victim’s family, government agencies, public health authorities, insurance companies, parties in civil litigations and treating physicians. Individuals can obtain them with written consent from the family or by court order.

Petit seeks more limits on Conn. autopsy releases

“His wife just kept screaming, ‘You are making a mistake. Will someone please talk to me?’” he said. “They refused to talk to her. They just went ahead with an arrest in a very violent fashion.”

Race did not play a role in Bryant’s arrest, Procopio said.

“To claim that race had anything to do with Mr. Bryant’s arrest is an affront to victims of domestic violence and to the vast majority of people of all races who choose to obey the law and refrain from violence,” he said.

Bryant pleaded not guilty to charges of domestic assault and battery, resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer. He is due back in Greenfield District Court on April 21.

ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz said the company is gathering information on what happened. Howard Bryant is the author of books including “The Last Hero” about Hank Aaron and “Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston.”

AP

Howard Bryant, an author and senior writer for ESPN, stands prior to his arraignment in Franklin County District Court in Greenfield, Mass, Monday. State police said Bryant was arrested Saturday in Buckland, Mass., on charges of domestic assault against a woman and resisting arrest.

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Educator and performer Stephen Lyons had a technically masterful trumpet performance at von der Mehden recital hall Tuesday night.

Cultural Centers host Int’l Women’s Day speaker

By Loumarie Rodriguez Campus Correspondent

In honor of International Women’s Day, the five cultural centers hosted Magdalena Gómez, an enthusiastic performer from Springfield, Mass., in the Student Union theater yesterday night in order to honor women from around the world.

“We’re very excited about this. This is an annual celebration with the cultural centers, and we’re excited she has collaborated with the students,” said Kathleen Holgerson, director of the Women’s Center.

The high-spirited Gómez began the show with some upbeat music in order to lighten the mood. She then began to talk about an organization called Teatro V!da that she

started three years ago to create a place where kids and adults alike can have a safe environment taht encourages performing arts. She then showed the audience a slideshow of pictures of past performances at the Teatro V!da and highly recommended that anyone interested join the group, which is located in Springfield.

She brought in two of her students from the program.

Eiliane M. Aluelo from Puerto Rico and Emmy Cepeda from the Dominican Republic each performed a poetic piece in Spanish. Once they finished, Gómez came back on stage and performed a powerful poem.

She used hand gestures, passion and some typical phrases that can be heard in Puerto Rican culture. Gómez continued with more witty poems

that had many audience members laughing. She used powerful phrases like “You can’t look back, you can’t,” to make her point.

Earlier in the day, Gómez attended a luncheon in honor of women of color, so she read a poem that she wrote for the event. She continued with her powerful phrases such as “I’ll peck at the door of justice until you let me in” and “I am a shameless woman.”

She performed several other pieces that were both witty and serious, and ended with a poem called “Why I am a Loud Puerto Rican Woman.”

Toward the end of the show, Gómez opened the floor to the audience for questions. Many audience members took the time to learn about where her inspiration comes from. After a few questions, Gómez then

pulled up two students, Devin Samuels and Mikhail Gilbert, from the audience to perform a piece. After their performance, an audience member proposed the idea of a collaboration poetry slam with UConn students and Teatro V!da students, which may now be in the works.

During the question-andanswer session, Gómez gave a quick brief on how she developed her unique writing style with her first poem about a friendly prostitute that lived near her in the Bronx. Despite the fact that her mother was not fond of the poem, she continued writing, inspired by poets she learned about at her library.

She said that, since she has dyslexia, she never understood the Dewey Decimal System at her local library, so

she would go to the section she wanted and run her hand along the row of books until she felt the heat from one of them. She then proceeded to pick the one on which she felt the most heat.

After the question-andanswer session, Gómez ended the night with one more performance with the assistance of her two students, at the request of an audience member.

“I thought the show was very inspiring, and it really was worth my time,” Ahla Amin, a 2nd-semester and biological science major.

Gómez said she had a great time.

“Everyone treated me generously,” she said. “I can’t wait to come back.”

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» MUSICIANS

Christina Aguilera accused of public drunkenness WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Fresh from a stumble at the Grammys and muffing the national anthem at the Super Bowl, singer Christina Aguilera was arrested early Tuesday near the Sunset Strip on suspicion of being drunk in public but will not be prosecuted, authorities said.

Aguilera, 30, was "extremely intoxicated" when a car driven by her boyfriend was stopped at about 2:45 a.m. on Clark Street, Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Bill McSweeney said.

Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Aguilera "didn't really understand where she was" but was cooperative.

"She was not belligerent in any way whatsoever," Whitmore said.

Deputies saw the Mustang "burn rubber" and fishtail onto a street, he said.

The noise could be heard 100 feet away and constituted an "exhibition of speed" that prompted deputies to immediately stop the car, Whitmore said.

They smelled alcohol on the breath of 25-year-old Matthew Rutler, and a field sobriety test found him to have a bloodalcohol level of 0.09 percent, Whitmore said.

In California, a driver is legally under the influence at or above 0.08 percent.

The car was stopped just off the Sunset Strip, not far from such

famous nightspots as Whiskey A Go-Go and the Viper Room.

Rutler was arrested on suspicion of DUI and later released on $5,000 bail.

Sheriff's officials didn't know if Rutler had hired an attorney, and no phone listing for him could be found.

McSweeney said Aguilera appeared too drunk to care for herself and had no driver to take her home. She was arrested on suspicion of being drunk in public so she could be held at the West Hollywood sheriff's station, he said.

Whitmore did not know much the 5-foot-2, 100-pound Aguilera may have been drinking.

She was given a breath test but the results will not be made public because she had no criminal intent and will not be prosecuted, he said. However, the misdemeanor arrest will remain on her record.

Aguilera did not ask to have anyone pick her up during the 30 to 45 minutes that deputies were at the car, Whitmore said.

"She didn't really understand where she was," he said. "She said she didn't drive so she didn't even know where she lived."

Whitmore said Aguilera was booked, fingerprinted and put alone in a cell. She was kept there until she was able to pass another sobriety test.

"When she was able to navigate and think on her own ...

she was released" on $250 bail, he said.

Aguilera was released from the back of the station at about 7:30 a.m., avoiding a cluster of paparazzi out front. She was driven home by an acquaintance who may have been a bodyguard, Whitmore said.

"It ends here," he said. "She's home safe and sound so, you know, job accomplished."

California law allows deputies to detain intoxicated people for their own welfare until they sober up, without having any intention of prosecuting them, McSweeney said.

"You're sitting in a car drunk.

You have every legal right to be there, but when we come across you we say you can't drive and we're not going to put you on the sidewalk," he explained.

Calls to Aguilera's agent, Tracy Brennan, and her publicist, Nicole Perez, weren't returned Tuesday.

Aguilera recently split from music marketer Jordan Bratman, the father of her 3-year-old son.

She filed for divorce in October, and their split becomes official April 15.

Aguilera lost her footing and briefly went down at the Feb. 13 Grammy Awards during a tribute medley to singer Aretha Franklin. She also made headlines by botching a line while singing the national anthem at the Feb. 6 Super Bowl.

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Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Steve Whitmore takes questions from the media outside the West Hollywood Sheriff station announcing the release of singer Christina Aguilera, after she was arrested early Tuesday March 1, 2011 for public drunkenness in West Hollywood, Calif.

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Christina Aguilera and boyfriend Matthew Rutler arrive for the NFL Super Bowl XLV game between the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday, Feb. 6, in Texas. Aguilera received scrutiny after flubbing a line of the National Anthem at the annual game. She also stumbled during a Feb. 13 performance at the Grammy’s.

Aguilera was arrested early Tuesday under suspicion of being publicly intoxicated.

Relationships are fragile; they aren’t made of concrete and can crumble at the finest crack. That simple crack can come from anywhere at any time if one isn’t careful with both actions and words.

In the media, professionals speak of things not to do in a relationship if you want to make things work: Don’t lie, don’t cheat, don’t settle for less than you think you should and don’t go to bed angry.

And occasionally, these same professionals will give relationship advice on good things to do; Say I love you. Take time out for yourself every once in awhile.

Have a girls’ or guys’ night to keep from being down each other’s throats.

These tidbits of advice are reiterated over and over. But why?

In order to have a happy, healthy relationship should we depend on what professionals say or do we learn from our own mistakes?

Anyone who has ever had a job can tell you that a person learns from experience. Same goes for relationships. The only way to “perfect” a relationship is to learn from all the mistakes you’ve already made, or seen others make.

But, do actions really speak louder than words? Are the biggest relationship deal–breakers faulty actions, or are there still certain things one should never say in a relationship?

Since I’m not a relationship expert, as a submission to Thursdays’s InstantDaily pointed out, I’ve decided to leave the advice up to anyone who had something to say.

So, here it is: advice on what not to say, from those who know how to give advice best – the ones who have made a mistake or been the recipient of them.

“Never say, ‘If I was single…’ especially if you’re a guy. Us girls are good at jumping to conclusions, so we’ll take it as ‘I wish I was single…’ That’s never a good thing.” – Jenna Masotta, 21 “Leaving things out, or never saying things is never a good idea.

Trust and truth are always important. I think, however, leaving the past in the past is good, as long as they know generally an overview of what happened. If they are asking for details I think that is a little weird and you probably shouldn’t be with someone that cares that much about your past relationships to the point where they are jealous.” – Emily Silber, 20. “[Never say] you look fat in that dress.”– Matt Williams, 20.

“Don’t tell her you think her friends are hotter than she is.”– Kenyon Colli, 21.

“There are two things guys don’t want to hear unless they are put together. Don’t and stop.”– Karl Music, 20.

“Never tell a girl you think her friends are b*tches. I think that goes the same for guys and their friends too.”– Kayla Ramsay, 21.

“My advice is that you can say anything you want, just don’t insult someone, like saying that you’ve had better sex before. I think that if you are with someone ,they should be one of your best friends and as such you can tell them anything. Just like your best friends, treat them like you would want to be treated and just know what they find insulting or hurtful or makes them feel insecure.” – Kasey McCarthy, 21.

“When talking about the future, never say, ‘if we’re still together, I want to…’ etc. Sure, you could explain that away by saying you’re just being practical and rational and there’s no logic to suggesting that you know the future, but all I’m going to hear is ‘this is doomed already.’”– Emma Constance, 21.

The pros are right: never lie and never cheat, but those aren’t the only ways to ruin an otherwise good relationship.

Alessandra.Petrino@UConn.edu

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1. Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (PSP) 9.0 2. Dead Space 2 (PC, X360) 8.5 3. Monday Night Combat (PC) 8.0 4. Back to the Future: The Game – Episode 1: It’s About Time (PS3) 7.5 5. God Eater Burst (PSP) 7.5 6. de Blob 2(NDS) 7.5 7. de Blob 2 (Wii, PS3, X360) 7.0 8. Explodemon (PS3) 7.0 9. TNT Racers (X360) 7.0 10. Fallout: New Vegas – Dead Monkey(PC) 6.5

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Upcoming Releases March 6 Pokemon Black and White (NDS) March 8 Dragon Age II (Win, PS3, X360) God Eater: Burst (PSP) MLB 2K11 (Win, PS3, PS2, PSP, X360, Wii) MLB 11: The Show (PS3, PS2, PSP) Shift 2: Unleashed (Win, PS3, X360) Warrions: Legends of Troy (X360, PS3) March 9 Patapon 3 (PSP)

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Above, a screenshot from ‘Bulletproof,’ a first person shooter with impressive presentation and new tricks like skillshots. These benefits outweigh the dialogue

Bulletstorm proves to be an exciting first person shooter

By Jason Bogdan Staff Writer At its very core, Bulletstorm is your average first-person shooter that makes you go from point A to point B with countless bad guys in your way. But the fine folks at People Can Fly and Epic Games managed to twist that well-worn formula into something a bit dif-

ferent while giving the simpleminded fun that makes video games so great.

The most notable addition is the “leash” that lets you grab most enemies and have them flung either into your streams of bullets or at a nearby environment hazard. Leashed victims actually fly in the air in slow motion, and with the ability to kick their doomed carcasses, you end up the per-

Bulletstorm

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8.5

/10

The Good

- With the leash and skillshots, this is a FPS with some great new tricks - The presentation here is actually very impressive

The Bad

- The ridiculous and vulgar dialogue only gives laughs half of the time, and the story is more serious than it should be in this kind of game - No competitive multiplayer is a bummer

fect formula for some mindless entertainment that can only exist in a video game.

But the “skillshot” system is what really makes the experience shine. All the crazy weaponry and that neat leash would be a waste if you could just plow through with just headshots. But if you actually execute in the most stylish of fashion, you get more skill points that gives you more ammo and weapon upgrades.

It’s brilliant because if you go about the campaign in a halfhearted manner, you’ll actually suffer by not having enough points to buy your bullets.

With all your ridiculous, mutated enemies making grunting screams during the whole process, it feels like the closest you’ll get to the video game equivalent of a “popcorn flick.” The story actually follows suit in this style by having some of the most ludicrous implementations of cursefilled dialogue imaginable.

Unfortunately, it does dampen the experience a bit since it’s often not actually funny, and the story itself is a serious tale of a group of rebels trying to

escape a deadly planet after a failed assassination. But when it works, it’s great.

After you beat the seven to eight-hour story mode, there actually are a few extra modes to prevent your copy from collecting dust. For the people who want to get the biggest scores from their skillshots, there’s the “Echos” mode that lets you replay sections of the campaign in a time attack manner. Unfortunately, due to the fidelity of the leash, People Can Fly never seemed to work out how to make a competitive multiplayer mode. In its place is the “Anarchy” mode that lets you team up with three other people online to fight off continuing waves of enemies.

Lots of people will likely buy this game for the included Gears of War 3 beta, but it actually has enough meat to stand on its own. And with the stunning graphics and fantastic orchestral soundtrack to surround the joyful gameplay, Bulletstorm is a complete package of well-built, stupid fun.

Jason.Bogdan@UConn.edu

Random House agrees to e-sale “agency model” Apple requires House of Dead: Overkill (Wii) Looking back, I actually haven’t had as much fun in a delightfully sophomoric video game like Bulletstorm since this week’s Focus Favorites entry. The latest in the House of the Dead series, Overkill, was an incredibly fun on-rails shooter for the Wii that had you killing thousands of zombies with the pleasure of not having to have your brain turned on. The grindhouse-esque presentation was also a delight, but I’ll always remember this game for its hysterically vulgar story.

You’d be hard-pressed to find as many f-bombs and double entendres as you’ll find in Overkill’s cutscenes.

- Jason Bogdan

NEW YORK (AP) — Stieg Larsson's novels may finally be headed to the iBookstore.

Random House Inc., which publishes Larsson, Dan Brown and John Grisham, among others, announced Monday that it had agreed to use the "agency model" required to sell books through Apple's store. Users of iPads and other Apple devices have only been able to purchase Random House books through an app for Amazon.com's Kindle or for other e-devices.

"We are making this change both as an investment in the successful digital transition of our existing partners and in order to give us the opportunity to forge new retail relationships," Random House said in a statement.

Random House had been the last holdout among the six top New York publishers to accept the new system, which gives publishers more control over the cost of e-books. They would sell for $12.99 to $14.99 when first released and prices would change over time. Random House had previously refrained, saying booksellers, not publishers, should set the final price.

Industry observers had noted that under the previous system, publishers retained a greater share of the revenues.

Under the old model, Amazon.com had been offering best-selling e-books for $9.99 or less, a cost that publishers said was too low and could harm the value of all books.

Random House spokesman Stuart Applebaum would not say whether the publisher would be signing on with Apple, although the announcement does cite "the opportunity to forge new retail relationships." Applebaum said the decision came after "extensive conversations with a broad range of booksellers" and that it was looking to "support our retailers' digital growth as well as our own."

The announcement comes as e-sales keep growing, to what several publishers say is 10 percent of the market, and physical store space declines with the recent bankruptcy filing of the Borders chain, which expects to close at least 200 superstores.

Random House's decision was good news for Apple, which has been trying to break Amazon's domination of the e-book mar-

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In this Jan. 27, 2010 photo, the iPad is shown after it was unveiled at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Ramdom House book publisher was the last of six top publishers to accept the new system for e-books.

ket, and was welcomed by the independent bookstores' trade organization, the American Booksellers Association.

Independent sellers were slow to break into the e-business, but many have signed on through Google's new online store.

"We have believed from the beginning that the agency model is in the best interest of not only the book industry, but the consuming public as well," the ABA's chief executive officer, Oren Teicher, said in a statement.

We’re only two months into 2011, but there are already some superb new games to buy. Of the games I’ve bought so far, LittleBigPlanet 2 and Dead Space 2 are easily my favorites. But you know what the funny thing about those two purchases I made? I actually didn’t buy, thus fully play, the first entries of those games. It’s moments like this that make me think about how often I should play the whole series from start to finish.

These two games had separate effects for not playing the first game. For LittleBigPlanet 2, it actually was a benefit on my part because the story hardly mattered much and the improvements to the level designs made it equally fun for all people playing this sequel. But for a series where the story has so much depth that it already has two animated feature films, a novel and comic books based around the Dead Space fiction, it’s no wonder why I felt a little lost when I started Dead Space 2. And this is coming from the guy who actually read up on the plot online beforehand, watched the “previously on Dead Space 1” extra video in the sequel and played the terrible Dead Space Ignition download game that takes place right before the game.

To put it simply, it’s one of those awkward confusing moments that only could’ve been avoided had I witnessed the entire saga at its intended pace. It’s basically the same as if someone makes the major mistake of watching “The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest” before watching “The Girl Who Played With Fire,” even with that brief recap in the beginning. But video games are a whole different beast where I still had a fantastic time with gameplay, even if I didn’t relate to Isaac and Nicole like the die-hard fans did.

At the same time, that aspect does have its disadvantages if you decide to suddenly play the original after the successor. For example, I loved Assassin’s Creed after playing II and Brotherhood, but there was always this hole in the experience from never playing the first. It sucks, because the first Assassin’s Creed is actually heavily criticized now for its gameplay being insanely inferior to the sequels.

But thankfully, that situation hardly happens in this industry where developers need people to buy their new games, regardless of whether they go through the entire series. Why else would the Final Fantasy series be so successful after so many entries, if most of them don’t even relate to the previous one’s storyline? And if the story has hardly any relevance, who cares if you never played the original Bejeweled? The results most definitely vary when it comes to video games, but even in the worst case scenario, it isn’t too bad. Yeah, I do regret that I never made the choices in Mass Effect 1 that would impact the sequels, but Mass Effect 2 is still a masterpiece even on its own.

Jason.Bogdan@UConn.edu

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McDonough: MSG ad shows excitement and lies Six Huskies compete at NFL combine in Indy from MELO'S, page 14 “I think it takes a strong-willed person, a strong-minded person, to deal with the stuff that I deal with and still go out there and go to work every day and perform on a nightly basis,” Anthony said on Feb.12. “I take my hat off to myself for dealing with all this stuff that’s going on out there, and still be able to go out there and play at the highest level. I don’t really think the average person can walk in my shoes.”

Anthony is a very strong-willed person. So strong that he’d have done anything in his power to leave Denver. He should take his hat or headband off for dealing with the controversy and distractions he caused himself. The average person could not disrupt three teams’ seasons like Anthony did.

Melo said he didn’t want to handle his departure like LeBron handled his. At least Anthony did not embarrass his hometown on ESPN like James did. But wait, that’s only because Anthony wanted to

“come home.”

The MSG network isn’t broadcasted in this part of Connecticut, but if you go on Youtube you can watch MSG’s new commercials hyping Melo’s arrival with Diddy’s new hit “Coming Home.” Here’s another interesting quote featured in the commercial coming from Anthony: “I was born on May 29, 1984 in Brooklyn, N.Y.” So Carmelo went home to the Nets to play in Brooklyn.

Oh, wait...

“I wanted to be Bernard King,” Anthony is quoted as saying in the commercial.

That also makes sense. By the way, Anthony moved from Brooklyn to Baltimore when he was eight. So he didn’t grow up in New York. But he did grow up watching Knicks legend Bernard King. King left the Knicks when Anthony was three years old to play for the Washington Bullets. So Anthony watched his idol King play near his hometown. Except it was Melo watching the Bullets from

his home in nearby Baltimore.

Otherwise, the commercial would probably give Knicks’ fans goosebumps and make them realize they do have a legitimate basketball team to root for again. The hypocrisies shown in the commercial and the way Anthony and LeBron handled themselves the past year is the trend of the NBA that perhaps started in Danny Ainge’s office in TD Garden four years ago.

Although it seems like David Stern doesn’t care too much about superstars joining forces, it is not good for the NBA as a whole. While major cities like Boston, Los Angeles, New York and Miami have exciting teams, places like Cleveland, Minnesota, Denver and Utah suffer the consequences. But sitting in Connecticut, in between Boston and New York, Celtics’ fans, and now Knicks’ fans, have star-studded basketball teams to cheer for.

Colin.McDonough@UConn.edu

from NO, page 14 Linebackers Another candidate for most impressive combine performance goes to Dontay Moch, a defensive end in college who will most likely switch to linebacker in the pros. Moch ran a 4.44 40, which is the fastest time for a DL in the history of the combine. A vertical leap of 42 inches and the fact that he is 6-foot-1, 250 lbs. only multiplies his awe-inspiring performance. The title of best linebacker, however, rightfully belongs to Von Miller, a Texas A & M product who ran a 4.53 40 with a 37-inch vertical leap.

The difference between Miller and Moch? Experience. Miller is as polished as they come, while Moch is raw-athleticism at its finest. Undoubtedly, it will be interesting to see how both of their careers play out.

Secondary Ironically, the position defending wide receivers also has two

men leading the charge. Patrick Peterson, an LSU cornerback, ran a 4.34 40. This is usually the norm for a premier secondary player, but Peterson also weighs 219 pounds and is 6-foot-1. He displays all the tools necessary to succeed, and will be a gamechanger for any team that selects him. Closely trailing Peterson is Prince Amukamara, from Nebraska, who clocked in at 4.37 and also took home the hardware for best name at the combine.

Both players have 38 inch vertical leaps and will be household names for years to come.

UConn Connection Jordan Todman ran a 4.40 40 (tied for third amongst RBs), leaped 38 inches for the vertical leap portion (third amongst RBs), jumped 10’6” for the broad jump (first amongst RBs), and bench pressed 225 lbs 25 times (sixth amongst RBs). Simply put, Todman had one of the best combines of any player, both offensive and defensive. His stock definitely shot up and because of

it, look for Todman to potentially sneak into round three.

Anthony Sherman led the way on the bench press amongst running backs, posting 32 reps.

Definitely helped his stock as he now finds himself on the fringe of round three.

Scott Lutrus- Lutrus performed well in many areas of the combine, including vertical jump, broad jump, 20-yard shuttle, 60-yard shuttle, and the 3-cone drill. Overall, Lutrus, like Todman, only helped his stock and with some polishing, can definitely help an NFL team in the near future.

Altogether, UConn put on a decent showing at the combine.

Other participants included Zach Hurd, Greg Lloyd and Lawrence Wilson. As with any sport, there is no guarantee. However, UConn should confidently put at least four of this year’s six combine participants in the NFL, if not all six.

Christopher.Zielinski@UConn.edu

Rutt and Huskies eye IC4A Championship this weekend Zielinski: Billups is the key for the Knicks' title hopes from ALL-AMERICAN, page 14 “I’m very close,” he said, “I know there’s a lot that has to go into it to get there, but knowing that I’m in that position motivates me every day, knowing I’ve beaten some of these guys before tells me that I can do it.”

While talking to Rutt, it’s clear that he is thinking well

beyond his track career.

“Track is not going to last forever,” Rutt said, “I’ve always thought about physical therapy eventually.”

Despite his plans for the future, his time in the spotlight is not nearly over. Regardless of the turnout of the rest of this season or the Olympic qualifiers, Rutt plans on pursuing a professional career in track

and field after graduation. As for this season, Rutt and the Huskies will next compete at the IC4A Championship’s in Boston on March 5, leading up to Rutt’s shot at the NCAA Championship later that week.

Michael.Szego@UConn.edu

UConn tries to improve positioning for Big East tourney from AIN'T, page 14 Overall, UConn leads the alltime series against West Virginia 14-4. Coach Jim Calhoun is also 4-1 all-time against West Virginia coach Bob Huggins, including games played during Huggins’ time at Cincinnati.

This year’s West Virginia squad looks a lot different than the one UConn has grown accustomed to facing in recent years. Gone are former stars Devin Ebanks and Da’Sean Butler, and in their place, senior point guard Casey Mitchell and junior forward Kevin Jones have stepped up to fill the void.

In his senior year, Mitchell has seen his minutes increase from 8.2 to 25.2 minutes per game and his scoring output increase from

3.7 to 14.8 points per game. Jones has always been a contributor on offense since his freshman year, but with the departure of Ebanks, Jones has been relied on more heavily to produce in the paint.

The key matchup in this one could turn out to be Kemba Walker versus West Virginia’s senior guard Joe Mazzula. Mazzula is not in the same stratosphere offensively as Walker, but defensively Mazzula is an anchor on one of the best three-point defending teams in the conference.

If nothing else, UConn may have to work a little harder against West Virginia to get their shots to fall than they did against Cincinnati, when they hit 10-of19 three-point attempts.

In terms of size, UConn matches

up well against a relatively small West Virginia frontcourt. The tallest player that West Virginia regularly utilizes, Deniz Kilicli, is 6-foot-9. Jones is 6-foot-8 and the Mountaineers’ other go-to forwards, John Flowers and Cam Thoroughman, are both 6-foot7. None of them are particularly dominant on the glass, ranging between 3 to 6 rebounds a game, with Jones averaging seven.

By comparison, the Huskies have four regular players who are 6-foot-8 or taller, and who tend to rebound better against teams that lack a dominant rebounding presence (such as Syracuse’s Rick Jackson).

Michael.Cerullo@UConn.edu

from 'MR', page 14 quarter. The key? You guessed it: Billups. The veteran guard’s clutch play down the stretch stabilized the Knicks and allowed them to prevail.

As today’s point guard has shifted from a simple facilitator role to a “do-it-all-teamon-my-back role” exhibited

by Derrick Rose, Chris Paul, Deron Williams, and Russell Westbrook, Billups is seemingly a throwback to the simpler days of point guard play.

Never demanding to be the leading scorer, Billups quietly plays his role and is one of the most underrated and underappreciated guards in the NBA. To further establish his case, consider Billups’ career stats.

Over fourteen seasons, Billups has averaged 15.5 points per game, along with 5.6 assists against 2.09 turnovers per game. Oh, and his career numbers for three-point percentage and free-throw percent-

age fall around 39 percent and 89.4 percent, respectively. To understand these numbers is to truly understand Billups, as his stats tell his story perfectly.

Billups has been a consistent scorer, a solid passer and most importantly, a clutch player throughout his career.

Billups’ latest heroics exemplified his ability to play in big games. With the nickname Mr. Big Shot, Billups’ game- winning shot should have been no surprise, but on a team with two other all-stars, it is easy to lose sight of players like Billups. However, one can guarantee that Billups will receive substantial attention for the duration of the season as the discussion has turned from “Who will be the Knicks’ Big 3?” to, “How does the Knicks Big 3 stack up against the East?” Stoudemire gave the Knicks the spark it needed to rise from irrelevancy back to legitimacy. Anthony gave the Knicks the superstar it truly

coveted and officially solidified the team’s status as a contender. Yet it is Billups who has completed this new power trifecta and given the Knicks a chance to not just contend, but to win the NBA title. Anthony and Stoudemire are both topfive players at their respective positions, but neither handle the ball like a LeBron James.

Rather, Anthony is best off of screens while Stoudemire thrives in a pick-and-roll offense. Therefore, Billups ability to continually distribute the ball to his scorers, coupled with his clutch play, will be crucial to the success of the Knicks. Unquestionably, one trade and one player can never guarantee a championship. But it will be Billups’ play at the helm that will sink or sail the Knicks’ champion“ship.”

Christopher.Zielinski@UConn.edu

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The Daily Question Q : “Who should be taking the last shot for the Miami Heat?”

Anthony. He’s missed 143 less 3-pointers than LeBron has this A : “Joel season.”

—Nick Restifo, 8th-semester marketing major

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Women’s Basketball (29-1) (16-0) March 6 Big East Tournament 2 p.m.

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Mar. 8 Big East Tournament 7 p.m.

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Men’s Hockey (13-17-4) TBA Atlantic Hockey Tournament Quarterfinals TBA

Baseball (2-4) (0-0) March 4 March 6 San Diego California State 3:00 p.m.

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Lacrosse (3-0) (0-0) March 7 Boston College 1:00 p.m.

March 9 Holy Cross Noon

March 12 March 19 Sacred Rutgers Heart 1:00 p.m.

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Men’s Track and Field May 15 IC4A Championship All Day

May. 26 NCAA Championship All Day

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“I gave him the eye. I guess the eye worked.”

– LeBron James on recruiting Mike Bibby to the Miami Heat.

March 5 Notre Dame 2 p.m.

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» That’s what he said

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Sacramento Kings fans show their support for their team, whose owners are considering moving to Anaheim, during the second half Monday night against the Los Angeles Clippers.

Spring break in Puerto Rico? Sounds pretty good to me! It also sounds good for the UConn golf team, who will be participating in the Caribbean Intercollegiate in Puerto Rico.

The three-day tournament, from March 7-9, will give the Huskies a chance to redeem themselves after an average performance last week at the Wexford Plantation Intercollegiate. The Huskies tied for last with Ohio University at the tournament held in South Carolina.

“It was ok but we didn’t perform as well as we’d like to,” said coach Dave Pezzino. “I feel pretty good though because we know what we need to work on and we will work on those things.”

A bright spot so far for the Huskies has been sophomore Brian Hughes. The Connecticut native has found success in both tournaments he has participated in so far this season.

“Brian has been playing pretty well,” Pezzino said.

“He finished in the Top 25 last tournament and he’s doing good things on the golf course. I’m happy for him because he’s a smart person.”

In the Huskies’s first tournament, Hughes finished 2-2 in his matches, tied for the best record on the team.

This past tournament, he finished an impressive 24th, against a tough field that featured a nationally ranked squad from Indiana University. The Huskies will continue to look for similar performances from Hughes, who is also the youngest member of the team.

While the Puerto Rico trip will be an opportunity for the Huskies to enjoy the warm weather and surroundings, the team knows that there is work to be done.

“The tournament is a good opportunity for us to compete against some good teams in good weather,” Pezzino said.

A plus for the Huskies is that they will be able to bring their entire squad, since the trip is during a scheduled university break. Normally, Pezzino can only bring five golfers to a tournament, as well as an occasional sixth to compete as an individual. Junior golfer Brian Hwang is looking forward to going to his first tournament of the season.

“I’m excited obviously for the weather, but being in Puerto Rico will give us a chance to work on some things we can’t at Storrs,” Hwang said. “It’ll be nice to see our ball flight out there, and also practice our short game on real grass.”

The Huskies will be in Puerto Rico for the entire week, which will provide ample opportunity for them to work on their game.

“We play well sometimes, but we can do better in course management,” Pezzino said.

Haidan.Huang@UConn.edu

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UConn men battles for Big East positioning

Eventful NBA trade deadline brings stars to the East

By Colin McDonough Senior Staff Writer The No. 14 UConn men’s basketball team was picked to finish tenth in the Big East preseason poll. Although the Huskies have shocked much of the college basketball world this season, rising to as high as No. 3 in the polls at one point, prognosticators in the Big East are not that far off.

UConn sits in a tie for seventh and the logjam that is the Big East conference is tight from top to bottom. The Huskies goal is to get a first round bye in the conference tournament next week at Madison Square Garden in New York City. With a 9-7 record in the Big East, a double bye is out of reach for UConn.

Pittsburgh seemed like they had the regular season title wrapped up. But with the Panthers’ loss to Louisville and the Fighting Irish coming up with a big win over Villanova two nights ago, the two teams are within .5 games.

The Cardinals, St. John’s,

Syracuse and Georgetown are battling for the last two spots in the double bye.

After those teams come the Huskies, Cincinnati, West Virginia, Marquette and Villanova. With all those teams except the Wildcats having two regular season games left, UConn can clinch a first round bye by winning at West Virginia and at home against Notre Dame. Or the Huskies can win one of their last two and still get a bye with the Mountaineers, Bearcats or Golden Eagles losing.

Even if UConn loses its final two regular season games and finished .500 in the conference they are still a lock for the tournament and a pretty good seed. The only down side would they wouldn’t fully prove their preseason pick wrong. And coach Jim Calhoun wouldn’t beat out Rick Pitino for Big East coach of the year.

Colin.McDonough@UConn.edu

By Dan Agabiti Staff Writer Last Thursday’s trade deadline made quite the impact on the NBA. Stars Carmelo Anthony and Deron Williams were traded, and already their presence is being felt on their new teams. Anthony left Denver for New York and Williams departed from Utah to play in New Jersey.

New-look Knicks cool down the Heat After being down by as much as 15 Sunday night during Anthony’s debut in Madison Square Garden, the Knicks beat the Miami Heat 91-86.

Anthony responded brilliantly to the hype and the noise of Madison Square Garden. He went out and scored 29 points and grabbed nine rebounds en route to the win over the star-studded Heat.

Guard Chauncey Billups, a player who many felt was just a side piece to the “Melo-Drama,” contributed in a big way to the win. The Knicks gained the lead late the game with a 9-2 run that was sealed by a Billups threepointer with 1:01 remaining.

Dwayne Wade could only point to one reason why the fourth regular season matchup between the two teams felt different: Anthony.

Anthony is excited about the direction that his new team is moving in, but still sees room for growth.

“We’re not where we want to be yet,” Anthony said.

Williams makes a splash in New Jersey The Suns topped the Nets 104103 Monday night in what might be the most promising loss in the franchise’s history.

Few things give a struggling team confidence in their future like a guard who will show up to a home opener, scoring 13 points and dishing out 18 assists.

The Nets’ first glimpse at how their new star looks in home colors would have ended perfectly if it weren’t for Phoenix’s Channing Frye draining a three-pointer with just over six seconds left in overtime.

Last season, the Nets won just 12 games all season and looked like they were well on their way to mediocrity once again this season. Fans are not just buzzing over Williams’s 15.6 assists and 14 points average over his three games in New Jersey.

The buzz is over the fact that the Nets now have a star and a solid piece to build a team around.

Daniel.Agabiti@UConn.edu

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Melo’s ‘Coming Home’

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AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH No. 16 Huskies head to Morgantown

By Mac Cerullo Sports Editor

Colin McDonough On Sunday night, a rivalry in the NBA was renewed. The New York Knicks beat the Miami Heat, reviving the days in the 90s when Alonzo Mourning battled Patrick Ewing and Tim Hardaway matched Allan Houston with clutch shots. Two decades later, LeBron James and Amar’e Stoudemire lead their new teams against each other. Oh, did I forget that Carmelo Anthony now wears a Knicks jersey?

This is the new NBA. Superstars scheme and break unwritten rules to play together.

Rivalries are not made on the court, they’re made in the front offices of executives whose star players want to go to a more lively city than America’s rustbelt or the Rocky Mountains. Melo’s circus finally ended when the Nuggets sent him and Chauncey Billups to New York for half of the Knicks’ team. The new-look Knicks pulled off the big win in Miami, and now that New York has its superstar maybe Spike Lee will also “calm down.”

Many fans and writers are wondering if this is good for the NBA. Since the Celtics made trades in the Summer of 2007 to create Boston’s Big Three, this is the new norm in the NBA. The Heat, the Knicks and maybe even the Nets (with the addition of Deron Williams) are ready to bring stars together. Some critics have a problem with, how these trios come to be. Lets take a look at a quote from Melo when he was a Nugget.

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‘Mr. Big Shot’ is big pickup

By Chris Zielinski NBA Columnist Following the flurry of moves during this season’s trade deadline, the makeup of several teams has drastically changed.

Oklahoma City went big, New Jersey finally got its coveted star and New York emerged with the top prize. Altogether, different teams addressed different needs. But one theme was constant: the desire to win, and to win immediately.

The New York Knicks’ acquisition of Carmelo epitomized the winning mentality and garnered the most attention, as analysts and fans alike remarked at how the Knicks had begun constructing their own Big Three. “One more season” was the sentiment, “one more season, and Chris Paul will be here.” Yet, following the Knicks’ showdown against the Miami Heat, these thoughts of CP3 were temporarily erased, as it was not Anthony who was in the spotlight, but another supporting member of the trade: Chauncey Billups.

Upon the original completion of the deal, Billups received minimal attention. Rather, any discussion of his inclusion focused on how he was extremely upset to leave Denver as he planned to finish his career as a Nugget.

However, one game against the Miami Heat has changed all that.

What once appeared to be New York grossly exhausting its supply of young talent now looks like the trade of the year. Against the Heat, Billups illustrated the importance of experience at the point guard position. While the Heat faltered during the closing minutes with no point guard to allow its superstars to operate off the ball, the Knicks’ chemistry peaked during the game’s final

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The middle of the Big East standings have deteriorated into a gigantic free-for-all, and with two games to play, UConn looks to improve its prospects for a first round bye in the Big East tournament by knocking off last year’s champion, West Virginia, on the road.

No. 16 UConn (21-7, 9-7 Big East) comes into tonight’s game tied with West Virginia (18-10, 9-7 Big East) and two other teams for seventh in the conference. With a win, UConn would knock West Virginia below it in the standings and greatly improve its position in the conference leading into the regular season finale against Notre Dame at Gampel on Saturday.

West Virginia, who won the Big East tour21-7, 9-7 nament last year and was the only Big East team to reach the 2010 Final Four, hasn’t quite reached the same level of success this year. But the Mountaineers have proven to be formidable 18-10, 9-7 at home, recently knockoff the then-No. 8 Tonight, 7 p.m. ing Notre Dame 72-58 and WVU Coliseum holding a record of 10-2 at home overall.

ESPN2 Besides the Notre Dame win, West Virginia also has impressive wins against the then-No. 13 Georgetown and against the then-No.8 Purdue.

West Virginia hasn’t had much luck against UConn, however, recently or historically. Last year, UConn had one of its best performances of the year, soundly beating the Mountaineers 73-62 at the XL Center.

Kemba Walker was the high scorer for UConn in that game, leading the team with 21 points.

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Roscoe Smith elevates for a shot against Marquette last Thursday at the XL Center in Hartford. UConn lost 74-67 in overtime to the Golden Eagles. The Huskies stopped their two-game losing streak Sunday in Cincinnati and will try to win another road game at West Virginia tonight.

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All-American Rutt under radar

By Mike Szego Campus Correspondent Not enough is known about Mike Rutt, one of UConn’s most successful All-Americans.

Not only is he a two-time AllAmerican for his outstanding abilities on the track, but he has obtained Academic AllAmerican status and is a twotime captain of the current Big East track and field champion UConn Huskies.

“I was coming here for academics,” Rutt said. “Track was obviously part of it, but I had a set plan to do my work here, go to grad school and do my own thing. Then freshman year I succeeded and….well, it was all a snowball from there.”

Mere success is an understatement. At the 2011 Indoor Big East Championships, Rutt finished first in the 800-meter, taking home the crown for the second time in his career at UConn. He was also second in the 500-meter and anchored the 4x400 relay team which finished sixth, coming within two seconds of victory.

Rutt’s outstanding contribution helped UConn edge out Notre Dame in the final tallies, giving the Huskies their third Indoor Big East Championship in just four years.

Rutt seemed to be destined for greatness. Hailing from Sinking Springs, Pa., Rutt attended Wilson High School, the same school that produced former UConn basketball star Donyell

Marshall, along with NFL quarterbacks Chad Henne and Kerry Collins.

“It was kind of one of those things where I wanted to come here and make a name for myself while still continuing the tradition,” Rutt said.

Though his name is now permanently etched in the UConn track and field record books, Rutt has a modest outlook on his talents.

In fact, he had considered playing soccer for Big East rival Pittsburgh, a sport in which he also had great success with in high school.

“I thought about it,” Rutt said, “but everyone always told me I’d be better at track...it definitely all worked out for the best.”

So what could be left for Rutt to prove in his last semester as a Husky?

“I still want to win a national title,” he said. “I came in fourth two years ago. I was a lean away from getting second place. I think it’s fair to say that it’s within reach. I believe I can do it.”

Although his sights are currently set on the NCAA title, Rutt has bigger plans for the future.

In October, UConn men’s track and field coach Greg Roy said that he would expect Rutt to compete for a spot on the United States Olympic team in 2012, and when asked, Rutt confirmed his coach’s prediction. In 2009, Rutt placed sixth in the 800-meter run at the USA Championships, a race in which the top three finishers qualify to represent their country at the Olympic games.

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FAC T F I L E Men’s Track and Field

Mike Rutt, 2x All American Class: Senior From: Sinking Springs, PA Event: Mid-Distance 2011 Stats • Two-time captain • 800-m Big East champ • 500-m second place

No talent shortage at NFL combine

By Chris Zielinski Campus Correspondent

Every year, the NFL Combine provides prospective NFL players with the opportunity to showcase their skill set. Some players come hoping to solidify their draft status, while others come hoping to get noticed.

Skill, strength, intelligence and maturity are all on display for coaches anxiously awaiting the chance to reform their teams.

Winning comes by making the best investment in your team’s future, so the value of draft is immeasurable for NFL teams.

Aside from its clear importance to NFL teams, the Combine provides an interesting week of football and a chance for many of us to get familiar with the stars of tomorrow.

During this year’s Combine, defense was on display as defen-

sive end, defensive line, linebackers and secondary players headlined everything not named “Cam Newton.” Nonetheless, offensive prowess had its time, and together they provided a solid combination. Overall, the Combine had its successes and failures, and each position warrants its own breakdown.

Quarterback No surprise here, as all of the hype here was about Newton, Auburn’s star quarterback.

Newton performed well in many of the speed drills, but demonstrated room for improvement regarding his passing skills.

His interview was also interesting, but overall, the consensus is still that Newton will be a top pick. Deserving mentioning is Missouri product Blaine Gabbert, who also performed well. Perhaps the best performance was turned in by Ryan Mallet, who excelled through-

out the passing portion of his combine. Unfortunately, questions surrounding drug use have led to questions about Mallet’s character, and will definitely hurt his stock.

Running Back The running back performance at the Combine was average in comparison to the other positions, but still provided some insight on the upcoming draft. Mark Ingram, tabbed as the first running back to be selected in the upcoming draft, had a lackluster combine and may fall out of the first round. Luckily for Ingram, his redeeming quality of being a hard-nosed runner should help him save face. Mikel Leshoure, a running back from Illinois, improved his draft stock by falling amongst the top performers vertical jump and broad jump. Perhaps the most stunning performance was put in by Connecticut’s Jordan Todman, who performed well in many cat-

egories.

Wide Receiver AJ Green and Julio Jones.

That’s all you need to know about wide receivers. Jones arguably put on the best performance at the combine, running a 4.39 on a fractured ankle.

Likewise, Green put on a solid performance, which combined with his frame and skillset should make him the first wide receiver selected.

Tight Ends Virgil Green from Nevada put on the best performance by a tight end at the combine. With a 4.64 40 time and a vertical leap of 42.5 inches, Green will find success in the NFL. Offensive Line With the defensive line developments trumping the offensive line, an OL still managed to make an impact. Nate Solider, from Colorado, looks to be the first lineman taken after his

impressive performance. Tyron Smith and Gabe Carimi are other names you should expect to hear come draft day.

Defensive Line Easily the most intriguing group at the entire combine. The award for best single event performance belongs to Stephen Paea from Oregon State, who set the new bench-press records by putting up a monster 49 reps.

Other top performers include Marvin Austin, Robert Quinn, Cameron Jordan, Marcel Dareus, Nick Fairley,and J.J. Watt.

Potential top pick Da’Quan Bowers from Clemson did not participate in the combine, so he only adds to the vast talent in this group.

For teams looking to improve their D-Line, this draft will be like Christmas in April.

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