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EDITORIAL: INVESTMENT WELCOME BUT JOBS ARE EQUALLY IMPORTANT FOR STATE
Money spent on STEM should benefit academics and job market
INSIDE NEWS: POOR IN CAGES SHOW DARK SIDE OF HONG KONG
Living conditions of lower classes highlight vast wealth disparities
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UConn braces for massive blizzardWinter Storm Nemo is expected to dump 18 inches on UConn campus
A massive winter storm is expected to blast the Northeast and New England on Friday with cold temperatures, high winds and a heavy snowfall of one to two feet.
The storm, which is expected to hit Friday morning and last through Saturday afternoon, will bring negative temperatures with wind chill, strong winds with gusts as high as 47 mph and an estimated 18 inches of snow to Storrs, according to the National Weather Service. The blizzard’s brunt is expected to be seen from the New York metro area into Maine.
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The Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, UConn Athletics and other units that sponsor activities decide inde-pendently whether to continue or cancel their events. However, emergency personnel, including public safety, residential and din-ing services, health services and facility maintenance will report to work as usual.
According to the alert email, UConn personnel will “make decisions about cancelling class-es, closing early, opening late, or closing altogether very care-fully, with full consideration of all available information about weather predictions and road conditions.”
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Plows around campus move piles of snow, slush and icy debris as a snow storm passed over the University in this Jan. 18, 2011 file photo. UConn has put in place measures to ensure students and faculty are prepared for the coming blizzard.
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Courtney believes Sandy Hook bill to be possibleOn Dec. 14 2012, the sec-
ond deadliest school shooting in United States’ history occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and now legislators across the country are working to prevent such a tragedy from occurring again.
One of the legislators in Congress working to pre-vent another such tragedy is Congressman Joe Courtney of Connecticut’s 2nd Congressional District.
“I believe this issue has a life of its own,” said Courtney in reference to the legislative action that will come as a result of Sandy Hook. According to Courtney, Congress does not currently have a bill ready to pass in response to this tragedy. When asked about which kind of legislation he thought would be likely, Courtney said, “ You can’t get too far ahead of things.”
Courtney expressed his belief that it would be possible to reach a compromise in order to pass a bill in response to Sandy Hook. One of the measures he felt support existed for on both sides of the aisle was requiring background checks for all gun purchases. Courtney cited the success of The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act in stop-ping the purchase of 1.5 million firearms as a sign of the merits of requiring background checks. Courtney said Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy of New York’s Fourth Congressional district has filed an amendment to require universal background checks for gun purchases and that he is a cosponsor of her amendment.
Courtney expressed the opin-ion that in school mental health care services need to be expand-ed and improved. One way Courtney believes Congress can help improve mental health care is Congressman Ron Barber’s recently introduced Mental
Health First Aid Act, which would help increase aware-ness of mental illness by train-ing teachers, students and first responders.
Courtney expressed the belief that college students could work to prevent a similar tragedy by volunteering their time to help young students. “I think that if college students really care about this they should volunteer in school districts, because they are really able to connect with kids,” Courtney said. This con-nection allows students to under-stand kids in way adults simply cannot.
In the Connecticut State Legislature Representative Greg Haddad of the 54th Assembly District, and other legislators, are working to craft Connecticut’s own response to Sandy Hook. According to Rep. Haddad the
legislature has formed a thirty member bipartisan super com-mittee to best evaluate how to respond to Sandy Hook. According to Haddad, the com-mittee is divided into three subcommittees: Gun violence, Mental Health and School Safety. “I think as quickly as they can move through the issues they will be put together a com-prehensive reform package,” she said.
In regards to the issue of gun control, “We will still have guns in Connecticut,” said Haddad. “I think on an issue like this though legislators have a responsibility to listen to both sides,” said Haddad. Haddad also expressed his sup-port for closing the background check loophole that currently exists in regards to gun control.
Firearms Training Unit Detective Barbara J. Mattson of the Connecticut State Police holds up a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, the same make and model of gun used by Adam Lanza in the Sandy Hook School shooting, for a demonstration during a hearing of a legislative subcommittee reviewing gun laws, at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, Conn., Monday, Jan. 28, 2013.
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» GUN DEBATE
Calif. desires nation’s toughest gun laws
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Weeks after New York enact-ed the nation’s toughest gun laws, California lawmakers said Thursday they want their state to do even more in response to recent mass shootings, par-ticularly the Connecticut school massacre.
Democrats who control the state Legislature revealed 10 bills that they said would make California the most restrictive state for possessing firearms.
They were joined at a Capitol news conference by San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Vi l l a r a i g o s a , along with sever-al police chiefs.
“ C a l i f o r n i a has always been a leader on the issue of gun safe-ty,” Villaraigosa said. “New York has stepped up and stepped for-ward. California needs to answer the call.”
Among the bills is one that would outlaw the future sale of semi-automatic rifles with detachable maga-zines. The restriction would pre-vent quick reloading by requir-ing bullets to be loaded one at a time.
Lawmakers also want to make some prohibitions apply to cur-rent gun owners, not just to people who buy weapons in the future.
Like New York, California also would require background checks for buying ammunition and would add to the list of pro-hibited weapons.
Those buying ammunition would have to pay a fee and undergo an initial background
check by the state Department of Justice, similar to what is required now before buyers can purchase a weapon. Subsequent background checks would be done instantly by an ammuni-tion seller checking the Justice Department’s records.
The legislation also would ban possession of magazines hold-ing more than 10 bullets, even by those who now own them legally. All weapons would have to be registered.
S a m P a r e d e s , e x e c u t i v e director of Gun Owners of California, promised that gun propo-nents will fight the measures in court if they become law.
“It strikes me as if these folks are playing some sort of game of one-ups-manship with New York at the expense of law-abid-ing citizens, and that’s just unconsciona-ble,” he said
about lawmakers.The bills are the most strin-
gent to date among numerous proposals introduced this year to strengthen California’s firearm regulations.
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said he is confident Democrats can use their majorities in the Assembly and Senate to send the measures to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown this year.
Brown has declined to com-ment on weapons legislation before it reaches him.
Steinberg said the measures
“It strikes me as if these folks are playing some sort of game of one-upsmanship with New York at the expense of law-abiding citizens, and that’s just unconscionable.”
Sam ParedesExecutive Director of
Gun Owners California
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Bill would legalize mixed martial arts in Conn.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Promoters of mixed martial arts are hoping to legalize the sport in Connecticut.
Both proponents and opponents appeared Thursday before the legislature’s Public Safety Committee, which is consider-ing a bill to legalize and regulate professional mixed martial arts matches.
Glover Teixeira of Danbury, a professional mixed martial artist who fights for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, urged lawmakers to pass this year’s legislation. He said he’d like to perform in his home state, adding how it’s a popular sport here.
Proponents see the sport as a financial boon for cities with arenas, including Hartford and Bridgeport. Teixeira said more than 16,000 fans turned out to watch him fight 12 days ago in Chicago. The live gate was $1.3 million.
Conn., Mass., Maine nuke plants win fed payments
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Three decommissioned nuclear plants in New England said Thursday they’ve been reimbursed nearly $160 mil-lion from the federal government in a 14-year-old lawsuit over costs to dispose of spent nuclear fuel that has yet to be removed.
Maine Yankee Atomic Power Co., Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Co. and Yankee Atomic Electric Co. said the federal government decided against appealing a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling upholding claims of $39.7 million to Connecticut Yankee in Haddam, $81.7 million to Maine Yankee in Wiscasset, Maine, and $38.3 million to Yankee Atomic in Rowe, Mass.
The plants say they are seeking an additional $247 million in dam-ages to reimburse ratepayers for costs that were originally intended to go toward disposal of the fuel rods but have since been spent to maintain
Conn. Lawmakers consider-ing modified food labels
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Plans are under way to offer at least two bills during this year’s session of the Connecticut General Assembly that would require the labeling of genetically engineered food.
Democratic state Rep. Phil Miller of Ivoryton said Thursday that he and Democratic state Rep. Diana Urban of North Stonington, are proposing legislation. He said consumers should be allowed to make an educated choice about their food purchases.
Miller appeared at a news conference with a collection of citizens groups, dubbed as The Right to Know GMO Connecticut Coalition.
Stan Sorkin, president of the Connecticut Food Association, said there is no safety or health benefit to labeling bioengineered foods and such a requirement would dramatically increase costs for Connecticut consumers.
Mass., RI a.g.’s oppose Conn. electricity tax
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The attorneys general of Massachusetts and Rhode Island say a proposal by Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to continue a tax on generating electricity will add to the burden of New England ratepayers. They’ve asked that it be scrapped.
Martha Coakley in Massachusetts and Rhode Island’s Peter Kilmartin told Connecticut officials in a letter on Thursday that a 2011 study found that generators reaped a windfall as a result of higher prices caused by the tax. They say New England ratepayers were likely to pay about $58 million more to purchase electricity.
Coakley and Kilmartin say the region’s relatively high electricity costs are a drag on the economy.
Malloy has proposed extending the tax another two years, raising about $70 million. A spokesman says energy rates are down 12 per-cent in Connecticut since the tax was established.
Pyramid scheme witness testifies about rabbit head HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A member of an alleged “women’s
gifting table” pyramid scheme in southern Connecticut has testified that someone put a severed rabbit’s head on her front lawn in an apparent attempt to send a message to table participants during the federal inves-tigation.
The New Haven Register reports (http://bit.ly/14FAnpF) the wit-ness also testified Wednesday at a federal court trial in Hartford that she believes the person who left the rabbit’s head was associated with Barbara Hamburg, a gifting table member found dead in Madison in 2010. Her killing remains unsolved.
The unidentified witness testified at the fraud trial of two women accused of being the alleged scheme’s leaders.
Prosecutors say the scheme involved new participants giving $5,000 gifts to high-ranking club members and recruiting new members with the promise of earning $40,000.
Calif. seeks to restrict use of gunsare designed to close numerous loopholes that gun manufactur-ers have exploited to get around California’s existing restric-tions.
Those measures had been the strongest in the nation until Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed New York’s new law last month.
Other proposed measures in California would ban so-called “bullet buttons” that can be used to quickly detach and reload magazines in semi-automatic rifles, and update the legal defi-nition of shotguns to prohibit a new version that can rapidly fire shotgun shells and .45 caliber ammunition.
The state also would restrict the lending of guns to keep weapons from felons, mentally ill people and others who are prohibited from ownership.
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Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, second from left, glances to a pair of semi-automatic rifles as he discusses a package of proposed gun control legislation at a Capitol news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. Senate Democrats unveiled a package of 10 proposed laws designed to close loopholes in existing gun regulations, keep firearms and ammunition out of the hands of dangerous person and strengthen education relating to firearms and gun ownership.
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Accused witch burned alive in Papua New Guinea
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) — Assailants stripped, tortured and bound a woman accused of witchcraft, then burned her alive in front of hundreds of witnesses in a Papua New Guinea town, police said Friday after one of the highest profile sorcery-related murders in this South Pacific island nation.
Some of the hundreds of bystanders took photographs of Wednesday’s brutal slaying. Grisly pictures were published on the front pages of the country’s biggest circulating newspapers, The National and Post-Courier. The prime minister, police and diplomats condemned the killing
Kepari Leniata, a 20-year-old who had a child, had been accused of sorcery by relatives of a 6-year-old boy who died in the hospital the day before, police spokesman Dominic Kakas said.
She was tortured with a hot iron rod, bound, doused in gaso-
line, then set alight on a pile of car tires and trash in the Western Highlands provincial capital of Mount Hagen, Kakas said.
“Investigations are continuing. We’ve got good leads. The hus-band is the prime suspect,” Kakas said.
Sorcery has traditionally been countered by sorcery in Papuan New Guinean culture. But responses to sorcery allegations have become increasingly violent in recent years.
Kakas said the death was the first the sorcery-related murder in Papua New Guinea in a year.
Police Commissioner Tom Kulunga described the murder as “shocking and devilish.”
“We are in the 21st century and this is totally unacceptable,” Commissioner Kulunga said in a statement.
He suggested courts be estab-lished to deal with sorcery allega-tions, as an alternative to villagers
dispensing justice.Prime Minister Pete O’Neill
said he had instructed police to use all available manpower to bring the killers to justice.
“It is reprehensible that women, the old and the weak in our soci-ety should be targeted for alleged sorcery or wrongs that they actu-ally have nothing to do with,” O’Neill said.
The U.S. Embassy in the national capital Port Moresby issued a statement calling for a sustained international partner-ship to enhance anti-gender-based violence laws throughout the Pacific.
The embassy of Australia, Papua New Guinea’s colonial ruler until independence in 1975 and now its biggest foreign aid donor, said “We join ... all rea-sonable Papua New Guineans in looking forward to the perpetra-tors being brought to justice.”
US consumer debt up in December WASHINGTON (AP) —
Americans stepped up borrow-ing in December to buy cars and attend school. But they cut back sharply on credit card use, con-tinuing a trend that could hold back growth this year.
Consumer borrowing rose $14.6 billion in December from November to a total of $2.78 trillion, the Federal Reserve said Thursday. That’s the highest level on record.
The increase was driven entirely by gains in student and auto loans. Borrowing in the category that measures those loans increased $18.2 billion to $1.93 trillion. That’s the biggest monthly gain since November 2001.
Credit card debt, however, fell $3.6 billion to total roughly $850 billion. Total credit card debt has declined 17 percent since July 2008.
Americans have been rely-ing less on their credit cards since the Great Recession. And December’s decline could also be a signal that consumers were worried about higher Social Security taxes that began lower-ing take-home pay this year.
“High unemployment and the increase in payroll taxes will leave households reluctant to run up big credit card balances,” said
Paul Edelstein, director of finan-cial economics at Global Insight. “An unwillingness to take on this form of debt will limit the speed at which consumer spending will grow this year.”
The Federal Reserve’s month-ly consumer credit report does not separate auto loans from student loans. But according to quarterly data compiled by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, student loan debt has been the biggest driver of borrowing since the recession.
Student loans have risen 63
percent since mid-2008 to total $956 billion as of September of 2012, according to the New York Fed. The increase partly reflects high unemployment, which has led many Americans to seek better education and skills in a more competitive labor market.
Auto loans are slightly lower than their total level in mid-2008. But they have risen roughly 9.4 percent since mid-2010 to total $750 billion as of September, according to the New York Fed report.
In this Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 photo, Lana Nguyen, right, holds clothes to try on as she shops with Lisa George, left, and friends in an H&M store, in Atlanta. The Federal Reserve reports how much consumers borrowed in December on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013.
AP
Amish beard attackers to be sentenced
BERGHOLZ, Ohio (AP) — More than 50 Amish children could lose one parent to prison — and most of the youngest could lose both — on Friday when 16 men and women are sentenced in beard-cutting attacks on fellow members of their faith.
Most defendants could face as long as 10 years in prison and are asking the judge for leniency so they can return to their homes and farms, teaching their sons a trade and their daughters how to sew, cook and keep house.
But their bid faces an uphill battle. Victims of the 2011 attacks, which the govern-ment called a hate crime and an attempt by a splinter group to shame members who left or denounced it, say justice is need-ed, especially for the ringleader.
In a rare interview last week in Bergholz at the community’s sprawling farm amid rolling hills in eastern Ohio, unmar-ried 19-year-old Edward Mast, grandson of ring leader Sam Mullet Sr., said he is anticipating a life of mentoring Amish chil-dren and sharing in child-rearing if the parents go to prison.
While he spoke, a 15-year-old used a chain saw to cut fence planks and a 12-year-old crisply drove nails into the planks as a 10-year-old held up the board. The youngest trudged in boots through ankle-deep mud and a creek surging with melting snow.
Prison terms will make the whole operation harder to main-tain, Mast told The Associated Press. “It will be a mess,” he said, shaking his head under a wide-brim hat.
Mullet broke away from the mainstream Amish in 1995, seeking stricter cultural rules and Scriptural interpretation than is the norm in the eastern Ohio community, authorities said. He was the undisputed leader of his group, counseling relatives on religious matters, negotiating drilling rights on his land and denouncing Amish who ques-tioned his authority.
Mullet’s community, like many Amish groups, grew through marriage and the pur-chase of farmland to sustain extended families that work and pray together, mostly shut off from outside influences like elec-tricity, autos and electronics.
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150-foot asteroid will buzz Earth CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
(AP) — A 150-foot-wide asteroid will come remarkably close to Earth next week, even closer than high-flying communication and weather satellites. It will be the nearest known flyby for an object of this size.
But don’t worry. Scientists promise the megarock will be at least 17,100 miles away when it zips past next Friday.
“No Earth impact is pos-sible,” Donald Yeomans, man-ager of NASA’s Near-Earth Object program at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said Thursday.
Even the chance of an aster-oid-satellite run-in is extremely remote, Yeomans and other scien-tists noted. A few hundred satel-lites orbit at 22,300 miles, higher than the asteroid’s path, although operators are being warned about the incoming object for tracking purposes.
“No one has raised a red flag, nor will they,” Yeomans told reporters. “I certainly don’t antic-ipate any problems whatsoever.”
Impossible to see with the naked eye, the asteroid is consid-ered small as these things go. By contrast, the one that took out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was 6 miles wide.
Yet Asteroid 2012 DA14, as it’s known for its discovery date, still could pack a wallop.
If it impacted Earth — which it won’t, scientists were quick to add Thursday — it would release the energy equivalent of 2.4 mil-lion tons of TNT and wipe out 750 square miles. That’s what happened in Siberia in 1908, when forest land around the Tunguska River was flattened by a slightly smaller asteroid that exploded about five miles above ground.
The likelihood of something this size striking Earth is once in
every 1,200 years. A close, harm-less encounter like this is thought to occur every 40 years.
The bulk of the solar system’s asteroids are located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and remain stable there for billions of years. Some occasionally pop out, though, into Earth’s neigh-borhood
The closest approach of this one will occur next Friday afternoon, Eastern time, over Indonesia.
This image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows a simulation of asteroid 2012 DA14 approaching from the south as it passes through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013. The 150-foot object will pass within 17,000 miles of the Earth. NASA scientists insist there is absolutely no chance of a collision as it passes.
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Poor in cages show dark side of Hong Kong » INTERNATION
HONG KONG (AP) — For many of the richest people in Hong Kong, one of Asia’s wealthiest cities, home is a mansion with an expan-sive view from the heights of Victoria Peak. For some of the poorest, like Leung Cho-yin, home is a metal cage.
The 67-year-old former butcher pays 1,300 Hong Kong dollars ($167) a month for one of about a dozen wire mesh cages resembling rabbit hutch-es crammed into a dilapidated apartment in a gritty, working-class West Kowloon neighbor-hood.
The cages, stacked on top of each other, measure 1.5 square meters (16 square feet). To keep bedbugs away, Leung and his roommates put thin pads, bamboo mats, even old lino-leum on their cages’ wooden planks instead of mattresses.
“I’ve been bitten so much I’m used to it,” said Leung, rolling up the sleeve of his oversized blue fleece jacket to reveal a red mark on his hand. “There’s nothing you can do about it. I’ve got to live here. I’ve got to survive,” he said as he let out a phlegmy cough.
Some 100,000 people in the former British colony live in what’s known as inad-equate housing, according to the Society for Community Organization, a social wel-fare group. The category also includes apartments subdivided into tiny cubicles or filled with coffin-sized wood and metal sleeping compartments as well as rooftop shacks. They’re a grim counterpoint to the south-ern Chinese city’s renowned material affluence.
Forced by skyrocketing hous-ing prices to live in cramped, dirty and unsafe conditions, their plight also highlights one of the biggest headaches fac-ing Hong Kong’s unpopular Beijing-backed leader: grow-ing public rage over the city’s housing crisis.
Leung Chun-ying took office as Hong Kong’s chief execu-tive in July pledging to pro-vide more affordable housing in a bid to cool the anger. Home prices rose 23 percent in the first 10 months of 2012 and have doubled since bot-toming out in 2008 during the global financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund
said in a report last month. Rents have followed a similar trajectory.
The soaring costs are putting decent homes out of reach of a large portion of the population while stoking resentment of the government, which controls all land for development, and a coterie of wealthy property developers. Housing costs have been fuelled by easy credit thanks to ultralow interest rates that policymakers can’t raise because the currency is pegged to the dollar. Money flooding in from mainland Chinese and foreign investors looking for higher returns has exacerbated the rise.
In his inaugural policy speech in January, the chief executive said the inability of the middle class to buy homes posed a threat to social stability and promised to make it a priority to tackle the housing shortage.
“Many families have to move into smaller or older flats, or even factory buildings,” he said. “Cramped living space in cage homes, cubicle apart-ments and sub-divided flats has become the reluctant choice for tens of thousands of Hong
Kong people,” he said, as he unveiled plans to boost supply of public housing in the medi-um term from its current level of 15,000 apartments a year.
His comments mark a dis-tinct shift from predecessor
Donald Tsang, who ignored the problem. Legislators and activ-ists, however, slammed Leung for a lack of measures to boost the supply in the short term. Some 210,000 people are on the waiting list for public hous-
ing, about double from 2006. About a third of Hong Kong’s 7.1 million population lives in public rental flats. When apart-ments bought with government subsidies are included, the fig-ure rises to nearly half.
In this Jan. 25, 2013 photo, 77-year-old Yeung Ying Biu sits inside his 1.5 square meter (16 square feet) cage, which he calls home, in Hong Kong. For many of the richest people in Hong Kong, one of Asia’s wealthiest cities, home is a mansion with an expansive view from the heights of Victoria Peak. For some of the poorest, home is a metal cage.
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Newtown pastor reprimandedNEW YORK (AP) — A
conservative Lutheran group has reprimanded a Newtown, Conn., pastor for participating in an interfaith vigil after the Sandy Hook massacre.
The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod said the Rev. Rob Morris of Christ the King Lutheran Church inadvertently gave the impression he con-doned joint worship by offering the benediction at a Dec. 16 event with other religious lead-ers for the elementary school shooting victims.
The church constitution bars clergy from praying with repre-sentatives from other religions, including some other Lutheran groups, for fear of giving the appearance that theological dif-ferences about salvation and other doctrines aren’t signifi-cant.
The vigil included Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Baha’i leaders. President Barack Obama and Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy attended.
In a statement posted Feb. 1 on a denominational blog, the Missouri Synod president, the Rev. Matthew Harrison, said Morris took “specific and commendable” steps to avoid violating the church’s constitution: Morris requested an announcement before the event that participating clergy
were not endorsing each oth-er’s views, and he read from Scripture.
However, Harrison conclud-ed that the event was joint worship since other clergy wore their vestments and the vigil includ-ed prayers and religious readings.
“There is s o m e t i m e s a real ten-sion between wanting to bear witness to Christ and at the same time avoid-ing situa-tions which may give the i m p r e s s i o n that our dif-ferences with respect to who God is, who Jesus is, how he deals with us and how we get to heaven, really don’t matter in the end,” Harrison wrote.
Morris does not believe he engaged in joint worship, but has apologized, Harrison said.
“I accept his apology,” Harrison wrote, and made what he called an earnest request that no one file a complaint against
Morris under the denomina-tion’s disciplinary system.
Harrison declined to com-ment further Thursday. But Vicki Biggs, a spokeswoman for the denomination, said, “We are proud of the work Pastor
Morris has done in Newtown and how he has served the com-munity in so many ways.”
In his own s t a t e m e n t , Morris under-scored the steps he took to avoid any appearance he was support-ing other doc-trines.
“To those who believe that I have endorsed false teaching, I assure you that was not my intent, and I give
you my unreserved apologies,” he wrote. “I did not believe my participation to be an act of joint worship, but one of mercy and care to a commu-nity shocked and grieving an unspeakably horrific event. However, I recognize others in our church consider it to constitute joint worship and I understand why.”
““I did not believe my participation to be an act of joint worship, but one of mercy and care to a com-munity shocked and grieving an unspeakably hor-rific event..”
Rev. Rob MorrisNewtown Pastor
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Fossil fuel tax
changes usage
James Hansen may be the world’s most famous clima-tologist. The director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies since 1981, he can be almost solely credited for making climate change into a serious policy issue back in 1988 when he deliv-ered groundbreaking scien-tific testimony to Congress on the earth’s warming cli-mate. Just this past December, Dr. Hansen was awarded the prestigious Stephen Schneider Climate Science Communication Award. In his interview at the award cer-emony, which was televised on C-SPAN, Dr. Hansen reit-erated many times that the only solution to effectively address climate change is to enact a carbon tax (a tax on the use of fossil fuels). He emphasizes that this would not truly be a tax, rather, it would simply be honest pric-ing as opposed to the heavy government subsidization that currently makes fossil fuels cheaper than they should be. In fact, in comparison to other industrialized nations, fossil fuels are absurdly cheap in the United States.
A January 30th article in the New York Times report-ed that of the 34 industri-alized member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, carbon taxes average about $68.40 per metric ton of carbon dioxide. “The United States, by con-trast, has a gas tax to pay for highway improvement, and that’s about it. Total federal taxes on energy amount to $6.30 per ton.” Increasing our carbon tax to be on par with the rest of the world would, of course, greatly enhance the health of the environment, but it would also be an enor-mous new revenue source. The article cites a report by the Tax Policy Center which found that a carbon tax would generate “0.6 percent of the nation’s gross domestic prod-uct – for a tax of $20 per ton of carbon dioxide – to 1.6 percent of D.D.P. for a tax of $41 per ton. Consider this: 1.6 percent of G.D.P. is $240 bil-lion a year. And $41 per ton amounts to an extra 35 cents a gallon of gas.” Many of us who are already strapped for cash may abhor the idea of shelling out an extra 35 cents per gallon, but the truth is that we are already paying for the costs of burning fossil fuels in other ways (healthcare costs associated with pollution, funding highways and envi-ronmental clean-up projects, etc.) damaged ecosystems - but ultimately, we as a society must make a decision about what our values are, For those of us who value our health, which is dependent upon the health of the environment, it may be worth it to pay a little extra for gas so that the transition to widespread green energy can finally take place.
As Dr. Hansen insisted in his interview, “As long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, then people will keep burning them.”
Placing a tax on fossil fuels may be painful at first, but it has the potential to harness the power of the economy in order to drive positive change.
Powerful self expression from Marsalis
Novel raises dysfunction of food system
Wenonah Haute, author of “Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America,” visited the UConn Co-Op on Thursday, spreading awareness of the corrupt food system and how people can help.
Dennis Pierce, the director of Dining Services, is often questioned by students about the source of food and how Dining Services faces these challenges. He noticed that many students are not aware of what they are eating or the food policies in place in the United States. He recommends Haute’s book to all students that are concerned about these issues.
Haute grew up on a farm. She learned to appreciate farmers when she lived with no electricity. It sparked her interest and passion in farming and the need for political activism to change the food system.
Consumers often see subsidies as a way to blame farmers for their food system. They do not realize that farmers are actually the victims in this case. Right now, the USDA states that there are approximately 2.2 million farmers in the United States, which is a cause for concern as there used to be 6.8 million farmers. This large decrease in the number of farmers is mostly due to the large food monopolies controlling the food market, decreasing competition and resulting in the loss of business in smaller farms.
American farmers have an average income of a little over $19,000, and most of their income comes from the government. This is a concern because the market system is corrupt in the way that these farmers are not making the cost of production, putting them in danger of going out of business.
Haute continues with listing different types of soda, juice and chips, all produced by PepsiCo, one of the 20 largest food processing companies in the United States. These food companies have a lot of political and economic power in the market and they are the ones who control what consumers eat. Their food dominates what is sold in large supermarkets as well as small grocery stores.
Haute says that this is possible because of the pass-ing of a farm bill in 1996 that deregulated farm poli-cies. It helped large processed food companies save a lot of money. For example, the meat companies saved about $4 billion. This farm bill gives the processed food companies an incentive to take advantage of the farmers.
Food processors are also very involved with the media. But most importantly, they hire food scientists to use fat, sugar and salt to addict consumers to the food they produce, usually junk food. These scien-tists study human brain chemistry on how and what types of food give positive responses. When consum-ers eat the food that initiates this positive response, they will connect it to their specific brand, which is a way to make people addicted to their food. They also dictate nutrition policy.
Haute sees people’s interest in food issues. She encourages people to fix this dysfunctional food sys-tem and wants to point them in the right direction on how they should take action.
Students can help with this cause. Lucy Sedgwick, a field organizer for Food and Water Watch, said, “Students can send an email or write a letter to their local state legislators addressing these issues. They have a very powerful voice to make these changes. Other ways to be more initiative on campus is to promote awareness to other students by screening and outreach.”
Fashion week returns with fall collections
The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week is back for another season. The bi-annual event which showcases both spring/summer and fall/winter collec-tions attracts the fashion-con-scious from all over the world to one of the global hubs for style, Lincoln Center in New York City. From February 7th to February 14th, New York’s Fashion Week will show off the best designers from all around the world with upcom-ing Fall 2013 collections.
Fashion Week, which first started in New York City in 1943, was first called “Press Week.” Initially, this week in New York City was designed to steal attention away from Paris, France and the European fashion scene. This idea of creating an American image of fashion was kick-started by publicist Eleanor Lambert. This original tension in the fashion high-class between France and the United States grew significantly. Major magazines, journalists and publicists became more and more intrigued with the idea of American fashion.
In 2008, New York’s Fashion Week found it’s new home of Lincoln Center, backed by a major sponsor in Mercedes-Benz. Fashion Week is New York City’s biggest media event, which is always a sur-prise considering the magni-tude of the city’s global impor-tance. An event that normally
attracts celebrities of all kinds, this year’s event began in a unique way. The Heart Truth returned to Fashion Week to inspire women to protect their heart health. Many celebrities donned red dresses and walked down the runway in support of the 2013 Red Dress Collection. Participants this year included Olympian Gabby Douglas, Kelly Osbourne, Kris, Kendall and Kylie Jenner, Soledad O’Brien, Toni Braxton and many more.
In the New Year, Mercedes-Benz and Fashion Week affili-ates are looking for the 2013 Fall/Winter collections to sig-nify fresh beginnings and lim-itless possibilities.
“Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week is truly the world’s stage for international designers to introduce their collections to the American market,” said Jarrad Clark, Global Direction of Production of IMG Fashion Events and Properties.
Fall 2013 collections on dis-play this week will include Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Michael Kors, Maison Martin Margiela, Y-3, Vera Wang and a large list of others. Among some of the trends expected in this installment of Fashion Week include the return of wearable grunge and punk styles, “thrift shop” looks, heavy doses of black and grey, earth tones such as brown, orange and plum, with red being this season’s “pop” color.
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Wenonah Haute, the author of “Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in AMerica”, came to educate the audience on the problems with the food system.
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The Branford Marsalis Quartet enter-tained a nearly full house at Jorgensen on Thursday night, performing fast rhythms with high energy and filling the evening with humor.
American saxophonist, composer and bandleader Branford Marsalis – for whom the band is named after – is primarily known for his work in jazz and has frequently performed as a solo-ist. Marsalis was born in Louisiana and began playing alto and baritone saxophone in Europe during 1980 while attending Berklee College Of Music. He joined his brother Wynton in the group Jazz Messengers and played with musi-cians like Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. Creating his quartet in 1986, Marsalis has released over a dozen albums of his music and has gained well renowned reputation throughout the world.
Pianist Joey Calderazzo and bassist Eric Revis joined Marsalis on stage to greet the audience at the beginning of the performance. Marsalis joked around about drummer Justin Faulkner taking his time in front of the mirror backstage and asked the audience to supply a large round of applause for him when he entered the stage. Though the band played about half a minute of the song without him, they provided the crowd with a sense of humor that they kept all night. The first song also gave the crowd a taste of the consistency of energy and eccentrics the group possesses. The band played with so much vigor that the sheet music on top of the grand piano would shake and Calderazzo would have to push it back to keep it from fall-ing off. All four men showed the strain of the music in their movements as well, jerking about and tapping their feet to the music they played.
The next song began much slower than the first with a piano introduc-
tion. With bass accompaniment and the easy piano, Marsalis performed smooth clarinet solos. Between each solo, he’d walk to the back of the stage, behind his band, to let the other musicians have their shot at solos as well as the spot-light. With a pick up of tempo, bassist Revis performed a fast solo before the song ended with a long clarinet note. Marsalis picked up his saxophone for the following song, beginning it with a solo that integrated the piano. This song held small drum solos, including the use of fast bass beats without a double bass pedal.
“I remember playing when I was a young pup in my 20s and all the young people would say, ‘you guys killed it’ but the old guys told us we sucked,” Marsalis said. He explained how he asked the older men what he should do differently, and they told him that he needed to play like an old man. Again, his band members joked with him, tell-ing him how he didn’t have to “imitate”
an old man. Titled “Our Love is Here to Stay,” the song was slow paced and soulful.
“I was mind blown by the second to last song,” said Christina Fililippakos 2nd semester physiology and neurobi-ology major. “The way he expressed himself through the way he played the saxophone was amazing- it seemed like a trance.”
Fililippakos is speaking of the next song the band played, in which Revis used a bow and Faulkner provided rat-tling drum noises to set an unusual background for a calm clarinet and piano duo. Though Marsalis dropped his reed, he told his band to keep play-ing while he fixed it. The band received a standing ovation and gave an encore performance of the song “Tiger Ray,” an upbeat swing song rumored to have been composed by French artists in the 1970s.
An Evening with Branford Marsalis brought the four jazz artists Joey Calderazzo, Eric Revis, Justin Faulkner and Brandford Marsalis to Jorgensen Thursday night for a quartet performance. The audience appreciated the expressive quality of their music.
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Drink Of The WeekendFOCUS ON:
Valentine’s Day
With Valentine’s Day right around the cor-ner, everyone could use a little advice
to ensure that their evening is not spent in the company of Haagen Dazs, Ben and Jerry. Therefore we present the top five tips for both
guys and girls for a successful Valentine’s
Day:
Tips of the trade
5. Like many men, I’m sure you had the bright idea to attempt to talk like Sean Connery until you picked someone up. From experience let me tell you, this NEVER works.4. If you met your girl-friend online but have never met her in person or even talked to her over video, odds are she isn’t real (especially if she claims she has leukemia).3. Don’t keep making Bane/Superbowl jokes a week later. It’s over bro.2. Your romantic restaurant of choice is Denny’s? No...1. Do NOT refer to “The Notebook” as “an awful movie.” (But take solace in the fact that you are correct).
For men:
For women:
5. Offer to help pay for dinner, movies etc. That would be
awesome.4. You wear spanx...
seriously?3. Want to try and
cook a romantic spaghetti dinner a la “Lady and the
Tramp?” Remember, using ketchup as spaghetti sauce doesn’t count.
2. No, being on a vegan or all juice diet does not mean you are immune to body
odor.1. Try (I know it’s hard) not to use
the following words “Channing Tatum,”
“Twilight,” or “commitment” at all.
Forgot about a gift? Tried and true ideas
With Valentine’s Day less than a week away, you might be in a panic about what to get your significant other. Have no fear, lovebirds, because I’m here to offer you some gift suggestions that will make his or her heart melt – and won’t necessarily break your bank.
1. Concert/Sports/Theatre tickets. Whether your partner is a heavy metal head, a diehard sports fanatic or a lifelong lover of ballet, treat him or her to an experience of a lifetime by purchasing tickets for two to an upcoming event they’ll enjoy. Even if you can’t afford tickets to a high-profile event, there are plenty of inexpensive events around campus.
2. A memory book. Not much is more sentimental than a scrapbook that lovingly documents all the best times you’ve had together. Print out some photos of the two of you, scribble in some cute notes and draw-ings, and voila! Instant keepsake.
3. Dinner for two. Give him or her a break from the dining halls by taking your partner out for dinner. Or, if you think you have the culinary skills, how about preparing a delicious meal for both of you to enjoy?
Add some candles for some instant romance. Word of advice: if you’re planning on going out to dinner on Valentine’s Day, make a reservation!
4. A massage. Let’s face it – we’re all a little stressed at times and for those of you on a tight bud-get, giving your partner a night of relaxation is the way to go. Have your lover sprawl out, play some soothing music, light some candles and let your hands do the talking.
5. A homemade gift basket. Fill a basket with assorted goodies such as candy, a coffee mug, a stuffed animal, playing cards and other items you can easily find at your local convenience store.
6. Chocolate and flowers. They may be clichés, but they’re clichés for a reason. These go-to gifts espe-cially come in handy when the relationship is too new to gauge what else they might be into.
7. A mixtape. Okay, the days of cassette tapes may be long forgotten, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make a modern day mixtape! Make a playlist of songs that remind you of your lover and burn it onto a CD along with a note of why the songs remind you of him or her. A classic combination, flowers and jewelry are standbys for any man
looking for gifts for Valentine’s Day.
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By Stephany KaufmanCampus Correspondent
Uniting the world with love
Many cultures around the world, both past and present, have at least a variation of Valentine’s Day, unifying cul-tures with love in mid-Febru-ary. In a commercialized world that is constantly focused on what makes us different, it is useful to also recognize where our holiday traditions come from and how societies are similar.
Though some hold the view that Hallmark and Hershey created Valentine’s Day for profit, there has been a tra-dition of a day to celebrate love, or St. Valentine, since ancient times. In the era of the Roman Empire, February 14th was a holiday to honor Juno, whom many regarded as the goddess of women and mar-riage. February 15th then began the Feast of Lupercalia, which celebrates fertility.
Other legends of the origin of Valentine’s Day revolve around Saint Valentine, who lived in Rome in the time of Emperor Claudius II. In order to better recruit soldiers for his expan-sive army who didn’t want to leave their wives, Claudius officially ended all marriages. Saint Valentine fought against this act by secretly marrying couples, despite violent pun-ishment from Claudius. St. Valentine was ultimately put
to death on February 14th, and thus the day was made to com-memorate his dedication to love.
Today the holiday has turned away from the religious Saint and obviously has been com-mercialized by adapting to modern culture. The day can now commemorate all varia-tions of love, not exclusively romantic love, which allows people from very young to very old age to appreciate it.
Many traditions that are still recognized today have roots in the past. In Rome, people would draw names out of a bowl to see who their Valentine would be for the festivals. They would pin the name on their sleeve to demonstrate their keenness for this person and the phrase “wearing your heart on your sleeve” derived from this ancient practice.
Historical cultures were not aware of the heart’s true function, but noticed that it beat faster when a person was excited or upset. While we know now scientifically that emotions come from the brain, the heart has remained a powerful symbol for love and strong emotion, serving as a representation of Valentines Day and emotions.
Many cultures on a world-wide scale, even those not directly affected by the Roman Empire’s rule, have a celebra-tion similar to Valentine’s Day.
Australia’s younger population is leading the way in cele-brating the day by sending cards and having parties or dances to get together with friends. Interestingly, men in Australia purchase more cards than women; while in America 85 percent of valentines are, in fact, purchased by women.
In China, the day has ori-gins beyond simply praying at the temple of the matchmaker for a happy marriage. Single women also pray for skills and knowledge to demonstrate that she is mature enough for mar-riage. Women might participate in exhibitions of some of their domestic skills such as weav-ing or melon carving.
Another interesting variation of the Valentine’s Day tradi-tion is in Japanese culture. On February 14th a woman buys chocolate for men that she sees regularly, the man she is seri-ous about romantically and also for her girl friends. Then, on March 14th, men who received chocolate are allowed to return the favor by buying chocolate for the women.
No matter your personal Valentine’s Day traditions, it’s nice to know the origins of the holiday’s customs reach back to ancient times; if for no other reason but to validate that it was not solely invented by the card and candy companies.
By Kim HalpinAssociate Focus Editor
Planning the big date, within walking distance
At long last, it’s February - that wonderful time of the year when those of us with someone special take an extra day to let them know how much we love them: Valentine’s Day. And for all you lovebirds out there, there’s nothing more heartwarming than a nice roman-tic romp around town. However, something I hear very often around campus is that people don’t know where to
take someone out for a fine evening. This isn’t surpris-ing. The majority of students don’t have a car and eat in the dining halls each night, only occasionally ordering wings or pizza. Fear not, though. I have a few places in mind, all within walking distance, that will guarantee you and your valentine a night to remember. I know we don’t all necessarily have somebody to spend the day with, but don’t let that get you down. Valentine’s Day is about love, whether it’s platonic or romantic. Go get
a close friend and just have some fun together at any of these fine locales.
For those of you who will settle for no less than the classiest and most romantic location around town, I can’t recommend anything more strongly than the Blue Oak Restaurant, located in the Nathan Hale Inn, directly across from South Campus. The food is top notch. The downside to all this, of course, would be the cost. Most of the entrees go for $20 or more, so a nice dinner with an appetizer, a few drinks and dessert could easily bring the cost over $100, which is a bit much for poor college students.
Those looking for something a little less fancy may want to try heading to Chuck and Augie’s in the Student Union, or the True Blue Tavern, also located in the Nathan Hale Inn. Each features typical bar-fare, but both are definitely tasty. The True Blue is more of a sports bar, so make sure your sweetie enjoys that sort of thing before taking him or her there. Be forewarned, however, Chuck and Augie’s is going to be especially busy on Valentine’s Day, so I suggest you get yourself a reservation soon. They’re both moderately priced and feature some serious UConn charm. And if it turns out that none of these places interest you, grab a quick dinner at Sgt. Pep’s or Wings Over Storrs for a cheap, easy dinner.
After dinner, there are a myriad of places to go to extend the night. A walk on Horsebarn Hill can make for a romantic winter evening. A trip to Insomnia Cookies or Sweet Emotions Candy shop is a great idea for a cutesy dessert outing. The Game Room in the Student Union is also a geeky way to have some fun with someone. For the price of a few tokens, a few games of Dance Dance Revolution or Time Crisis can provide a lot of fun memories for the two of you to share.
Jon Kaplan, a 6th semester biomedical engineer major, and Alycia Fulton, a fourth semester animal science major, show that UConn student’s don’t have to go far a romantic moment together.
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By Zach Lederman Campus Correspondent
Saw that going differently in my mind...
It’s that special time of year folks; a time of year where those of us who have been lucky enough to find significant others look to sappy romantic comedies to show our loved ones that we care. Now, I’m not here to recommend ideas (I’m pretty atypically roman-tic); instead, I’m here to offer a few words of caution regarding the tried and true methods often presented in the aforementioned sappy rom-coms. They may seem like great ideas in theory, but in practice, they might do more harm than good.
1. The Rose Petal Mattress (Candles optional). In theory, this seems like a super romantic idea. Wonderfully fragrant rose petals, that romantic dinner from Wings. And it is…up until you have to go through the incredibly unromantic and laborious process of getting rid of those rose petals before they wilt and rot. Candles are optional because they are a fire hazard, and also because they are not allowed, as per the housing contract.
2. The Old Chocolate Standby. Again, in theory, chocolates are something that pretty much every-one loves. And unless your partner is one of those rare people that doesn’t like chocolate, he or she is pretty much guaranteed to love it. The problem here lies with the fact that Feb. 14 is in the winter, mean-ing that UConn dorms will be pumping out heat full blast, which means that that box of meticu-
lously crafted chocolates will soon be a box of high quality chocolate syrup.
3. The Allergy [Something Clever] OK, so this one isn’t tech-nically a cliché romantic gesture, it’s a general warning. Don’t buy your significant other flowers if he or she is allergic to pollen. Don’t use strawberry chapstick to help against the driving wind only to find that they’re allergic. Significant others on Benadryl do not make for good dinner guests.
4. The Budding Modeling Career. The lights are dim (off), you’re wearing your sexy new underwear (and nothing else), and you’re lying in a provocative (and probably somewhat uncomfort-able) position on your significant other’s bed, in the hopes of sur-prising them with an impromp-tu…fluffing. You hear a key turn in the lock and hold yourself still with bated breath. And then bam! It’s their roommate, who is at this point either paralyzed with morti-fication or laughter.
5. The Fantasy Come True. You’ve known your partner for a while, and you’re thinking that this Valentine’s Day, one of their deep-est fantasies will come true. You remember seeing a glimpse of a browser window that was quickly closed when he or she noticed you over their shoulder. And on Valentine’s Day, when your part-ner shows up to you dressed like the Gimp from Pulp Fiction, your relationship might be over.
By Jason WongSenior Staff Writer
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Modigliani portrait sells for $42M
LONDON (AP) — The high-end art market is weathering Europe’s economic storm, with London auctions this week netting more than 280 mil-lion pounds ($440 million) as international bidders snapped up high-profile works.
Sales of Impressionist, modern and surrealist art at rival auctioneers Christie’s and Sotheby’s saw several pre-sale estimates shattered.
Judd Tully, editor-at-large of Art and Auction magazine, said Thursday that the two big auction houses had had “exceptionally strong sales.”
“The art market seems to confound all other finan-cial indicators,” he said. “There is a lot of money sloshing around, and it’s very global.”
Christie’s said “new and established buyers from 19 countries” snapped up works at a Wednesday sale that saw a portrait by Amedeo Modigliani sold to an anonymous telephone bidder for 26.9 million pounds ($42.1 million), above its top estimate.
Modigliani’s 1919 portrait of his lover Jeanne Hebuterne was the highlight of Christie’s Impressionist and modern auctions, which raised a total of 136 million pounds ($214 million).
“Apres le dejeuner” by 19th-century Impressionist Berthe Morisot sold for 6.9 million pounds ($10.9 million), almost three times its high estimate and a record price for a female artist at auction.
A day earlier, Pablo Picasso’s 1932 work “Woman Sitting Near a Window” — a portrait of the artist’s “golden muse,” Marie-Therese Walter — fetched
28.6 million pounds ($45 million) at Sotheby’s.In total, Sotheby’s Impressionist and modern sales
raised 145 million pounds ($228 million).Both auction houses held separate surrealist sales
that brought strong prices for artists including Rene Magritte and Joan Miro.
At Sotheby’s, “The Farmer and his Wife,” a vivid Miro canvas from 1936 once owned by filmmaker Billy Wilder, sold for just under 5.9 million pounds ($9.3 million).
Salvador Dali’s 1943 “Portrait of Mrs. Harrison Williams” — an image of a famous New York social-ite who later became Countess Mona Bismarck — sold for just under 2.3 million pounds ($3.6 million).
Works by Egon Schiele and Claude Monet also commanded high prices at the week’s auctions, although some high-profile lots failed to meet their reserve prices.
Three works by Schiele raised a higher-than-expected total of 14 million pounds ($22 million) at Sotheby’s, with one — “Lovers (Self-portrait With Wally)” — netting just under 7.9 million pounds ($12.4 million), an auction record for a work on paper by the early 20th century Viennese artist.
“There has been a lot of talk about the Impressionist and modern market dying out because of a lack of a material,” Tully said. “But when really good prop-erty shows up there seems to be a lot of appetite for these works.”
The gesturing hand of an expert speaking to a group of people is lit by a spotlight illuminating the painting entitled “Jeanne Hebuterne (Au chapeau)” by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani at Christie’s auction house in London.
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Blogger, chef, writer, thinker? Huang hates labels
NEW YORK (AP) — The seats were filling fast for a book reading last week by food per-sonality Eddie Huang, and a Barnes & Noble employee came to address the crowd. Actually, it was to issue a disclaimer of sorts.
“We do not censor our guests here,” said Maria Celis, a special-events coordinator. “If you’re not comfortable with four-letter words or hip-hop references that may be over your head, this may not be your event. It’s gonna be as freewheeling an event as we’ve ever hosted here.”
Clearly this wasn’t your typi-cal celebrity chef book reading, from Huang’s prize-fighter-like entrance in a red-white-and-blue hoodie — “What up, New York?” — to the hip-hop music and cheers from a young, hip fan base, to the cheerful profanity, to the occasionally brutally honest subject matter — including child-hood beatings meted out by his father. And the book, “Fresh Off the Boat,” is hardly your typical celebrity chef’s memoir.
In fact, let’s get the “celebrity chef” label out of the way right now, because Huang doesn’t like it at all.
Sure, he’s gained some fame through his tiny restaurant, Baohaus, which first opened on the Lower East Side in 2009 (“bao” are stuffed, steamed buns), but he doesn’t see himself as mainly a chef or restaurateur, he explains. Among other things, he’s an author, a blogger, an essayist, the star and host of a Web series, a sometime standup comic, a streetwear aficionado, and also a food-world provoca-teur who’s taken aim at success-ful chef-entrepreneurs like David Chang and Marcus Samuelsson, for starters.
“I abstain from defining
myself,” Huang, 30, says in a freewheeling interview the day before the book reading, perched on a stool at Baohaus as guests munch on dishes like the Chairman Bao, a bun stuffed with pork belly and crushed peanuts, or sweet bao fries — bread that’s steamed, then fried, then glazed. “I don’t like labels. I don’t understand the need for them. When you define your-self a certain way, people have expectations.”
“And I didn’t come here,” he adds, “to be a great chef. I came here to talk about culture. Food is just a part of it.”
When Huang says he “came here,” it’s not an accidental turn of phrase. Though he was born in the Washington, D.C. area and raised mainly in Orlando, Fla., he speaks — and writes — through the prism of life as the son of Taiwanese immigrants. And though he seems quite fulfilled in his emerging role as a New York food personality, he makes clear he’s still angry about what he endured, and what many immi-grants endure in this country.
“This book is about being an outcast in America,” he says. “I wanted to write it while I was still mad. Because, you get rich, you get fat, and you say, it was cool. You look back through rose-colored glasses. I didn’t want to do that.”
If you don’t believe that there’s
still pain behind the smile, just ask Huang about life in the third grade.
Every day, the 8-year-old Huang brought in his mother’s pungent Chinese food for lunch. He was ridiculed by other kids for his smelly lunchbox. Wanting desperately to fit in, he con-vinced his mother to buy him an American lunch.
“I was so excited at the grocery store,” he says now. “I was going to be like THEM.” But the next day, when he got to the front of the microwave line, waiting proudly with his chicken nuggets, a kid grabbed him by the shirt and wrestled him to the ground, using a vicious racial slur. Eddie fought back, physically, and he was the one who got sent to the principal.
“It was like, nothing you could do was good enough,” he says now. “They get you to wear their clothes, eat their food ... And it’s never good enough.” At the res-taurant, recounting the episode, he begins to choke up.
When Huang was still a young-ster the family moved to Orlando, where his father managed steak and seafood restaurants. After a checkered academic career and getting into more than his share of trouble, Huang eventually graduated from Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., and got a law degree at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
Chef Eddie Huang poses for a portrait at his restaurant Baohaus in New York. Huang unveils a biting new memoir, “Fresh Off the Boat,” about race, immigration, and yes, food.
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Every high-school civics student is taught that the separation of pow-ers in the government of the United States is a principal contributor to
the stability and exceptionalism of our democ-racy. Unlike most of the European parliamen-tary democracies, wherein the legislature is supreme and all other governmental author-
ity is derived from the Parliament, ours is designed to frustrate the oppressive designs of both the faction and the autocrat. There is no other government – or Constitution from which it is derived
– that is quite like it. The past century has witnessed, however, a marked unbalanc-
ing of the balance of power in favor of the executive branch. The prospect of the United States’ ascending from relatively humble beginnings in the 18th Century to undeni-ably become the greatest military, economic, cultural and political power that the planet has ever known may not have been outside the realm of future possibility to the founders, but they certainly had no reason to plan for such a fate in the drafting of the Constitution. As a nation, we are no longer a frontier backwater or a pawn in Europe’s geopolitical games. The Constitution must therefore be rewrit-ten to address the startling, unaccountable accumulation of power in the office of the Presidency.
Article II of the Constitution contains, aside from procedural technicalities about eligibility, election, impeachment and the oath of office of the President, four brief
paragraphs detailing his duties and obliga-tions. These Constitutional duties are: to serve as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, to grant pardons and reprieves to convicted criminals at his discretion, to make various nominations and appointments, to make treaties with foreign powers (though the Senate must ratify them), to give a State of the Union address to Congress and convene and adjourn that legislature “on extraordinary occasions”, and to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed”. That is all the framers could manage to give us. As far as the text of the Constitution is concerned, there is no further guidance offered as to the extent or limit of his powers. All of his powers not covered by the above are the result of almost two and a half centuries of interpretation and improvisation.
We do know that Alexander Hamilton, one of the authors of the formative Federalist Papers, conceived of the figure of the American President as an authoritative, mas-culine, decisive political actor embodying the virtue and might of the state. To be respected and deferred to, as well as to pro-mote economic development at home and abroad, Hamilton believed that the govern-ment needed the force of a well-disciplined military at its service, commanded from the very top by an almost monarchical president. The military connotation of the presidency is explicit and necessary to Hamilton, who writes in Federalist no. 74 that “the direction of war implies the direction of the common strength; and the power of directing and employing the common strength, forms a usual and essential part in the definition of the executive authority”. It seems almost that Hamilton would have at the helm of his state a monarch – a term insisted upon by fellow aristocratic visionary John Adams – who would assume this great power at the request
of the people. That all seems realistic and necessary in
the wake of the Articles of Confederation and the Whisky Rebellion – after all, there may not have been an America in 2013 had back-woods tax rebellions been permitted to fester like open wounds on the nation’s sovereignty. But the president now commands not an unreliable militia but a massive, formidable army; not muskets but drones and nuclear missiles. Any target, anywhere on the globe is within the almost instantaneous reach of American military power. True, Congress still retains the power to declare war. True, many of our recent foreign embroilments have been conducted, at the command of the President, without any Constitutional grounding. But who is to stop him? Who has time to argue and debate and reconcile the government’s separated powers when the decision to scram-ble fighter jets or fire nuclear missiles must be made in a matter of seconds?
Certainly not the Congress. And certainly not the Supreme Court, who ruled in 2003 in the case O’Connor v United States that “there are no judicially discoverable standards that would permit a court to determine whether the intentions of the President in prosecuting a war are proper”. When it comes to military power, democracy is irrelevant. The President rules by the fiat of the moment. Barack Obama and his predecessors literally hold in their hands the fate of the human race, yet this greatest power ever given to a human is essentially unaccountable. This state of affairs should frighten us, perhaps even enough to rewrite the flawed document that has permit-ted it.
Weekly Columnist Chris Kempf is a 6th-semester polit ical science major. He can be reached at [email protected].
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“Nothing Compares 2 U(nion food)” - Sinead O’Connor
“Hey, what day is it?” - Rebecca Black
To the cute girl driving the Blue Line: I just want to hold your hand as we go around Hilltop one of these days. I’m the boy with the leather jacket and the tater tots.
Does the InstantDaily have an InstantBeardTrimmer I could borrow?
They keep saying Whale because you’re irrelevant, Wale.
I bet you didn’t know P!nk’s real name isn’t P!nk! It’s actually Alecia Moore!
I think West Virginia is dead to me again.
I think that living in a blue world with a blue Corvette would actually be pretty radical, so cheer up.
Last week, Governor Dannel Malloy announced plans to invest $1.5 billion in UConn over the next ten years. The proposal, referred to as Next Generation Connecticut, focuses on the science, technology,
engineering and math (STEM) disciplines, and includes ini-tiatives such as hiring more faculty, expanding enrollment and building new facilities.
We certainly welcome any and all investments in UConn’s future, especially ones of this magnitude. Infusing that amount of capital into our University will surely improve it, offering more educational opportunities for students and increasing the value of our degrees. However, we feel that it is just as, if not more, important to expand opportunities for employment in Connecticut, especially in the STEM fields.
UConn is currently a great school. We consistently earn high ratings in a wide range of ranking systems, including lists of the most sustainable colleges in the world and US News & World Report’s rankings of public research univer-sities. We’ve received record number of applications from prospective students. We’re building world-class facilities, including our first LEED Gold Certified building.
Yet after UConn students graduate, it’s getting harder and harder to find a well-paying job in the state. Many of our graduates, especially in the STEM fields, leave Connecticut for more promising opportunities across the country. This is not just anecdotal.
According to statistics from the Connecticut Department of Labor, the state’s unemployment rate has traditionally been lower than the rest of the nation’s, sometimes by as much as four points. In the 120 months from 1983 to 2012, Connecticut’s unemployment rate has only been above the national rate for 24 months. Six of these were the last six months of 2012, which is the most recent data available on the Department’s website.
In addition, these past six months have seen the biggest difference in the two rates. In the other 18 months when Connecticut was worse off than the rest of the nation, the larg-est gap was a mere 0.3 points. The past six months have seen gaps as wide as 1.1 points, with Connecticut currently at 8.6 percent compared to the nation’s 7.8 percent.
Unless more jobs are created in the state, future students – including STEM majors – will come to UConn to get an education, then take their skills elsewhere. The taxpayers of Connecticut will subsidize in-state students’ college degrees, only to see no return on the investment in the form of future income taxes.
This isn’t to say that Governor Malloy has not done any-thing to bring jobs to the state. For example, his Bioscience Connecticut plan convinced industry leader Jackson Labs to open a facility in Farmington, bringing hundreds of high-paying jobs with it.
We need to ensure that UConn students, including STEM majors who directly benefit from the Next Generation Connecticut plan, have job opportunities in the state after graduation. Otherwise, all of these investments in higher edu-cation will do little to benefit the people of Connecticut.
By Chris KempfWeekly Columnist
Why Obama’s ‘skeet-gate’ is completely absurd
Quick
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be if obama Wasn’t such a socialist.” –bill maher
In an interview with “The New Republic,” President Obama said that he had “a profound respect for
the traditions of hunting that trace back in this coun-try for gen-e r a t i o n s , ” and also men t ioned
that “Up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time.” These comments were made in a recent push for gun legislation. The news media erupted in a storm of skep-ticism and criticism at the comments. The incident was soon called “Skeet-gate,” and the entire “scandal” is utterly preposterous.
After the comment, many critics cried out for proof. A few days later, the White House released a photo of Obama skeet shooting. Rather than quelling the controversy, this fed into multiple con-spiracy theories about how the photo had been a result of Photoshop. However, these conspiracy theories are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what is wrong with Skeet-gate.
On Obama’s side, I don’t believe that he was lying. I’m sure that he does have a respect for the nation’s hunt-ing traditions and that he has probably at some point in his life gone skeet shooting. The issue that I take is why these comments are so important to Obama and the White House. In pushing for more gun con-trol, he needs to bring people together on a very divisive issue. Like a lot of politicians, Obama is trying to make the pitch of “I’m like you” in order to reach out to gun own-ers. It is sad that politicians feel the need for this kind of disingenuous pandering in order to garner support, which brings me to my next point.
Upon hearing this story my initial response was an emphatic “Who cares?” Many news pundits were in an uproar building off the idea that Obama’s lack of gun experience disqualified him from passing legislation relat-ed to gun control. Whether or not Obama has ever fired a gun should be irrelevant. Shooting a gun does not give you insight into the world of gun violence. Shooting a gun
would give Obama an idea of how to shoot it, how to reload and give him an overall understanding of the mechan-ics of a gun. However, none of that will help when it comes to creating policy that helps reduce gun violence.
But perhaps the most absurd element of Skeet-gate is the failure of critics to under-stand how the President of the United States operates and the blatant double standard that it sets. Using the argument that Obama is not a gun owner and therefore not able to under-stand gun control naturally leads to other conclusions. He also never served in the mili-tary; therefore, he should not be commander in chief. He is also not an economist, does not have experience in green energy and was also never a taxi driver so he should not be able to pass any policy related to any of those things. It is true that the President is not an expert on everything, nor should he be expected to be. Almost no policy is ever created on the basis of person-al experience. Rather, every president has had cabinet members and other officials
to weigh in on issues they specialize in. For example, in the gun control debate Obama has had input from multiple law enforcement officials and other groups that have a much better understanding of gun violence and what can be done to reduce it. When it comes to the economy or foreign policy, presidents will consult the leading members in those areas.
In the end, Skeet-gate amounts to a controversy based on practically nothing. There are plenty of logical arguments to be made against the proposed gun control reform. However, discrediting the President because he has supposedly never fired a gun is not one of those arguments. Despite what many critics in the media have insinuated, you don’t need to shoot a gun in order to understand the gun control debate.
Sta f f Co lumnis t Kay von Ghoresh i i s a 2nd - semester molecu la r and ce l l b io logy major. He can be reached at Kay von.Ghoresh [email protected].
By Kayvon Ghoreshi Staff Columnist
If you don’t do your job, you don’t get paid. It’s a pretty much uncon-tested adage with only
a few exceptions- one of them being Congress. The
535 con-g r e s s m e n and women who work on Capitol H i l l
receive pay regardless of their performance, but that may change. Last week, Congress passed the No Budget No Pay Act, which is pretty self-explanatory: both the Senate and the House will have to pass a budget if they want their salary.
The bill was part of a deal to postpone debt-ceil-ing talks until mid-May, which both parties seemed to agree was the best course of action overall, but the No Budget No Pay clause did meet some opposition from people calling it a political gimmick, which it is. Even if Congress never passes a
budget, they’ll receive their pay in full at the end of this session. It’s also prob-ably not going to provide a ton of motivation given that the average senator is worth $13.9 million. Is it really necessary to make this ges-ture?
At this point, where “post-poned” equals “addressed” it absolutely does. While I support the No Budget No Pay act, the deal it was part of is a perfect example of what’s wrong in Congress right now. Debt ceiling talks were getting nowhere, so the law stating that Congress couldn’t spend over that amount was suspended until May, which was deemed a more politically opportune time to work on a long-term agreement. The only trouble is they’ve been trying to pull together a long-term agree-ment since the summer of 2011. It hasn’t gotten done because each time it comes up, both parties decide that they’d rather avert the risk
of actually having to com-promise and see if they can get exactly what they want a little further down the line.
While their adherence to principal is admi-rable, it’s hurt-ing the economy and preventing them from deal-ing with other issues. After the Debt Ceiling crisis in 2011, the Government Accountabi l i ty Office estimated that the instabil-ity had increased borrowing costs by $1.3 million for that year alone. Not hav-ing an actual budget has also created uncer-tainty for investors and slowed the economy.
When Congress resolves an issue (or a “battle” or
“showdown”), they emerge from those conference rooms like victorious brokers of
p r o s p e r i t y and democ-racy and congratulate themselves for saving the day. But they caused the prob-lem, and usually they don’t even get around to solving it either. Nowadays , there seems to be one thing both p a r t i e s w h o l e -h e a r t e d l y agree on: whatever it is, they can
do it later.In the past two years alone
we’ve narrowly avoided going over the fiscal cliff,
raised the debt ceiling in the 11th hour before catastroph-ic default, avoided both the sequester and passing cuts to prevent the sequester and seen the nation’s credit rat-ing dropped. All without passing an actual plan to solve any of these prob-lems. Now Congress has just given themselves a few more months to put it off.
The deal that was just reached wasn’t successful problem solving, it was suc-cessful procrastination. The arguments in support of it revolve around its benefits as political leverage, not as a solution. It’s good that our lawmakers have time to come to a better one, but the simple fact is, we should have had the beginnings of a budget last week, a plan for avoiding the fiscal cliff two months ago, and a long term debt ceiling resolution two years ago. But what’s the hurry? Maybe the fifth or sixth try will be the charm.
Whether or not Congress
is doing a good job isn’t exactly a contentious issue. Their approval rating has been somewhere around 15 percent for quite a while, and they even hit a new all time low with 9 percent recently. Yes, they’re put-ting the time in and trying to do their jobs, but I know that I wouldn’t get paid if my approval rating was in the single digits, and I did nothing but fight with my co-workers. The No Budget No Pay Act may not do exactly what it intends, but of the many political gim-micks that have been passed in the last few years, this one is by far the most defen-sible. It sends a clear mes-sage that Congress needs to hear.
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“Micah Todd, will you be mine?”
Cindy Chiem, 6th-semester HDFS and psy-chology double major
“Cindy, I thought you’d never ask.”
Micah Todd, 8th-semester actuarial science major
“Wait guys... what about me?”
Jay Mehta, 6th-semester physiology and neuropbiology major
“Call me maybe”
Danielle George, 4th-semester HDFS major
What would your personal candy heart be?– By Lindsay Collier
» TOTALLY RAD/TOTALLY BAD
Totally bad
We’ll never have class again if this weather keeps up
We signed some football players
You can go somewhere warm for Spring Break
3-30” is not a very accurate prediction
Forgetting to buy booze before this
weekend
Totally saw it coming
Totally rad
Staff Columnist Kristi Allen is a 2nd-semester journalism major. She can be reached at [email protected].
No Budget No Pay Act is a positive step for stagnant Congress
By Kristi AllenStaff Columnist
“Nowadays, there seems to be one thing both parties whole-heart-edly agree on: whatever it is, they can do it later.”
Asked to describe the upcom-ing season, sophomore utility man Jonathan Testani offered instead words of wisdom. “Half of it is getting here. It’s what you do here that’ll separate you from the oth-ers,” he said.
This year’s UConn baseball team does not care about their projected fourth-place finish in the Big East Conference. The Huskies have their sights set on winning the confer-ence and getting back to the NCAA Tournament.
Led by senior second baseman LJ Mazzilli, voted the Big East Pre-Season Player of the Year and selected to the Preseason All-American Third Team by prospect Baseball America, Connecticut will have no shortage of firepower in the middle of its line-up. In 2012 Mazzilli, hit for .339, drove in 38 runs and hit nine home runs, leading the team in all three cat-egories. Although he was drafted in the ninth round by the Minnesota Twins last spring, Mazzilli chose instead to play out his final season as a Husky.
“It means a lot to see your peers view you on a national stage like that. It’s an honor but it’d mean a lot more [coming] in the post-season so I take it with a grain of salt and view it as something to work hard
towards,” Mazzilli said. As the son of former MLB player, manager and analyst Lee Mazzilli, LJ’s been around the game his entire life.
Red-shirt senior center field captain Billy Ferriter and junior pitcher Antony Marzi will have crucial roles. Coming off an All-Big East First Team campaign in 2012, Ferriter looks to battle the injury that’s sidelined him several times over the course of his career. Anchoring a speedy outfield defen-sively, Ferriter’s offensive contribu-tions as leadoff man are essential to the protection of the hitters featured behind him in the order such as Mazzilli and junior infielder Tom Verdi.
Juniors Anthony Marzi and Brian Ward anchor Connecticut rotation. “We have a lot of guys that can step in and pitch right away. This has to be the deepest pitching staff I’ve ever had which I’m hoping leads to more wins,” said second-year pitching coach Joshua MacDonald. Sophomore left-hander David Mahoney could find himself in a position to make a surprise contribution. “Dave’s the ‘Magic Man,” MacDonald said. He goes out there, spots up and nobody really hits the ball hard off him.”
Sophomore outfielder Eric Yaverone also expects Mahoney to have a break out year, “He’s a deceiving left-handed pitcher,” Yaverone said. “He could be the big
man on the mound this year.”This season begins where the
past few have left off. Gone are Mike Olt, George Springer and Matt Barnes, all of whom are top prospects within their respec-tive Major League organizations. Gone are the arms of Scott Oberg and Dave Fisher who carried the Huskies through a tough Big East schedule last spring. Yaverone said things just clicked for him as a freshman. ‘’I just got off to a good start and rolled from there,” Yaverone said. “I proved to myself that if I prepared I could succeed. Things are faster at this level but once you get used to the speed it’s still the same game.’’
UConn brings in the bats of Connecticut State Gatorade Player of the Year Brian Daniello and shortstop/third baseman Vinny Siena, who is set to play in the Cape Cod League this summer.
“I like our freshmen as a unit, as ballplayers and as a group of guys,” said freshman pitcher Willie Nastasi. “It’s nice being around people who love baseball and are extremely good at it; it makes us strive to get better.”
Coach Jim Penders enters his tenth season as manager. “Today we were a little better than yester-day and you hope that it continues like that and if that happens I think we will be a force to be reckoned
with late in the year,” Penders said. “We’re going to take our lumps early, it’ll be hard getting our feet wet but we have a very nice offense returning and we’re very athletic.”
The 2013 edition of the Connecticut Huskies definitely has the pieces. Whether or not they will put together the puzzle remains to be seen. A 56-game regular sea-son slate awaits the Huskies. They hope a postseason run follows. The Connecticut Huskies begin play Feb. 15 in Dunedin, Fla. against Purdue and play their home opener on March 22nd at J.O. Christian Field against Georgetown.
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The UConn men’s club hockey team has two upcom-ing games this weekend, one against Boston College and another against NYU. The Huskies, who are in the thick of the postseason tournament hunt, are currently ranked sixth in the Northeast region of the ACHA’s Division II.
“We have played Boston College before earlier in the year,” head coach Chris Myers said. “They and NYU are both good teams who are ranked inside the top 10 [in our region], so they are games we need to win. Saturday will be our first game against NYU [this season]. They are ranked eighth, so it will be another good test that will give us an idea of what we will see in the regional tournament.”
In order to earn an auto-matic bid to the national tour-nament, which takes place in
March, the Huskies would have to be ranked in the top two teams in their region, a goal that, at this point in the year, may prove unrealistic. However, Myers’ squad is all but assured a Regional playoff berth, as teams ranked third through tenth in each region earn a trip to that tournament.
“For us to go to nationals, we will have to win two games at the Regionals. It is definite-ly going to be a challenge to get to the nationals, however I feel if we finish on a roll we can carry that momentum with us,” Myers said. “This weekend will be a big test, because [Boston College and NYU] are teams we could see in the [regional] tournament.”
If UConn does indeed quali-fy for the regional tournament, then their hopes for making a trip to Nationals would not be completely dashed. As long as the Huskies win two con-secutive games at the regional tournament, then they have a
very good chance at earning a play-in bid to nationals.
The Huskies enter the weekend on the heels of a solid two-win effort last week, consisting of a 5-2 win over Central Connecticut and a 6-2 thrashing of Providence College. The victories pushed UConn’s record to 19-6 on the year.
“All the boys played well. Miles Winter, Paul Cinquegrana and Rui Encarnacao each had great weekends pointwise,” Myers said. “I was also happy with the play of Pete O’Conner and Brendan Cummings, who each had a big game for us on Friday night.”
The puck for the Boston College game drops tonight at 7:45 p.m. in Boston, while tomorrow night’s matchup will get underway at 8:30 p.m. in New York City.
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The UConn women’s hockey team was scheduled for two games this weekend, but the Huskies will only play the latter half on Sunday at the University of New Hampshire.
Saturday’s game was set to be played at home against the Northeastern Huskies, but has been rescheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 17 due to the heavy snow that is taking New England by storm.
UConn (3-22-3, 1-13-1 Hockey East) has played New Hampshire (11-14-2, 7-7-1 Hockey East) twice this season and lost both meetings of the weekend series to the Wildcats. The Huskies lost the first game on Jan. 19 by a score of 3-1 after being outshot 14-0 in the first period. Senior Kristina Lavoie beat UConn goaltender Elaine Chuli for UNH’s first goal. Kristina Horn was able to notch New Hampshire’s second goal and Arielle O’Neill was able to net the third goal on a power play. UConn’s only goal was scored by Sarah Chappelle off of a rebound soon after UNH’s third goal. Chuli made 28 saves that night.
The Huskies were shutout 2-0 on Jan. 20 in the second meeting. UNH goaltender, Jenn Gilligan was able to stop 19 shots in the shutout. Freshman Sara Carlson netted UNH’s first goal of the game on a power-play and later assisted on the second goal of the game with a pass to Kristina Lavoie.
Since playing the Huskies, the Wildcats have gone 1-3 with their only win com-ing against Vermont. New Hampshire is currently in fifth place in Hockey East with 15 points. This could be a great chance for the Huskies to come away with a victory. UConn is winless in their last 10 games, and lost their last game against Providence in overtime by a score of 4-3.
Look for the Huskies to con-tinue to create and take advan-tage of scoring opportunities and continue to rely on the strong play of Elaine Chuli in net.
The game will be played Sunday at noon in Durham, N.H. and will be shown on FOX College Sports.
By Scott CarrollCampus Correspondent
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UConn home game cancelled
The UConn men’s track and field team travels to the Armory in New York on Friday to com-pete in the Lafayette Rider Winter Games. This is the Huskies’ last regular season meet before Big East Championships begin.
Led by junior Darnell Cummings, UConn finished in second place at last weekend’s Sykes-Sabock Challenge Cup, losing only to the No. 13 team in the nation, Penn State. With the second place finish, the Huskies bested Cornell University by 11 points in the Challenge Cup but still find themselves ranked No. 2 in the Northeast region, square-ly behind the Big Red. UConn is not likely to catch Cornell before the Big East Championships, as they look at the Lafayette Rider Winter Games as a chance to tune their skills, rather than make a statement.
“Most of our track kids will race down [compete in shorter
events] to work on their speed this weekend,” head coach Gregory Roy said. “Sharpening our technique and freshening up are the order of the day in the field events.”
It is in those field events that the Huskies have shown the most consistency. Junior pole vaulter Cory Duggan has yet to finish outside the top three in any meet this season, including a second place finish at last weekend’s Challenge Cup. Sophomore Amanze Williams impressed in the triple jump for the second week in a row, finishing fourth with a hop, skip and jump of 14.91 meters. In addition, Josh Faboyede finished fourth in the weight throw, setting a new per-sonal record with a fling of 19.44 meters. Faboyede was just one of 12 Huskies to set new personal bests at the meet.
Events are slated to begin at 1 p.m. on Friday.
By Nicholas DanforthCampus Correspondent
Huskies head to Lafayette Rider Winter Games
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Freshman Omar Calhoun was one of two players who scored in the first half in Wednesday’s loss. He fin-ished with a game-high 21 points on 8-of-21 shooting.
Neither junior Tyler Olander nor Enosch Wolf recorded a field goal and finished with a combined two points and eight rebounds in the loss at St. John’s.
The Pirates are in the middle of the conference in rebounds per game (35.6 per game) while UConn is 14 out of 15 teams at 32.6 rebounds per game.
Seton Hall has lost eight of its last nine including a 56-46 loss at Pittsburgh on Monday. Junior Fuquan Edwin scored half of the Pirates’ points and recorded five steals and four rebounds. Edwin averages a team-high 16.9 points per game, 5.9 rebounds per game,
and is second in the Big East with 2.5 steals per game. The Pirates were without second-leading scorer Aaron Cosby, who missed the game for family reasons.
The Pirates may have the Huskies scheduled at the perfect time. UConn has shot 34.9 – and 30.9 percent in the last two games. Seton Hall held its last two opponents to a combined 35.8 percent shooting but they have only shot 36.1 percent themselves.
Connecticut has won 12 of the last 13 meetings with Seton Hall. The Huskies split the season series with the Pirates last season – losing 75-63 in Newark and win-ning 69-46 in Hartford.
Sunday’s game can be viewed on SNY and heard on WHUS 91.7.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Notre Dame will stay in the Big East for at least one more season.
Athletic director Jack Swarbrick said Thursday the university would like to leave the Big East for the Atlantic Coast Conference before the required 27 months’ notice for departing mem-bers, but was unable to reach an agreement to do so before next season.
‘’We’ve said all along we would try to develop a timetable for leaving earlier because we think it’s in both parties’ interest. That just hasn’t hap-pened,’’ he said.
Swarbrick said because no agreement has been made to leave before next season, the Irish needed to move ahead as part of the Big East for 2013-14 so coaches could begin putting together schedules.
‘’We have teams that play ACC teams as part of their nonconference schedule. You have to know if you’re booking those or not. Conversely, if we weren’t going to be in the Big East, you’d probably want to be you’re scheduling Big East teams in those games,’’ he said.
Notre Dame basketball coach Mike Brey first brought up the subject during his teleconference Thursday, saying that one reason the university decided to remain in the Big East another season is it believes the seven Catholic schools that have decided to leave and form their own league will remain in the Big East next season.
‘’I feel strongly that the Catholic schools are going to be there with us. That’s one of the reasons we decided to sit tight,’’ Brey said. ‘’It looked like the Catholic schools were not going to be able to formulate this league that they’re going to put together by next season. Now I think anything could happen. Could they put it together in the next six weeks? I mean nothing would shock me.’’
Swarbrick said that if the seven Catholic schools left before next season, Notre Dame could reconsider its decision. Brey said he believes those schools will stay another season.
‘’But I think we feel that they’re going to be in there, we’re going to be in there, so the last hurrah is going to be next year, not this year,’’ he said.
Swarbrick said, though, that even that isn’t definite. The school announced in September it would be leaving for the ACC - football remain-ing an independent - meaning the 27-month notice doesn’t expire until 2015. But Swarbrick said the Irish would like to leave after 2013-14.
‘’Because we think it’s in everybody’s self-interest. The negotiations are ongoing,’’ he said.
Big East associate commissioner John Paquette declined comment Thursday.
Brey said the decision allows him to move ahead and start putting together a schedule for next season.
‘’Thank God we have some direction,’’ Brey said. ‘’We will play in the Big East next year, and you know what, I’m OK with that. I’ve had a little buyer’s remorse on this ACC and going through the league and playing in these different buildings and wondering if it’s going to be the last. So that you know you’re in the ACC, excuse me, in the Big East, you can start to schedule you’re non-league stuff.’’
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Hernandez inks $175 million dealSEATTLE (AP) -- Felix
Hernandez and the Seattle Mariners are working on a $175 million, seven-year con-tract that would make him the highest-paid pitcher in base-ball, according to a person with knowledge of the deal’s details.
The person spoke to The Associated Press Thursday on condition of anonymity because the agreement has not been completed. USA Today first reported the deal.
Seattle would add $134.5 million of guaranteed money over five years to the con-tract of the 2010 AL Cy Young Award winner, whose current agreement calls for him to receive $40.5 million over the next two seasons.
Hernandez’s total dollars would top CC Sabathia’s origi-nal $161 million, seven-year contract with the New York Yankees and his $25 million average would surpass Zack Greinke’s $24.5 million under his new contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Hernandez’s new money would average $26.9 million over five years,
which would tie him for the second-highest average in baseball with Josh Hamilton and Ryan Howard behind Alex Rodriguez ($27.5 million).
Hernandez agreed to a $78 million, five-year contract in January 2010 and has earned an additional $2.5 million in escalators and $300,000 in bonuses. He is due $20 million this year and $20.5 million in 2014, which would be super-seded by the new deal.
Seattle general manager Jack Zduriencik said he could not comment when reached on Thursday, and Hernandez’s representatives didn’t immedi-ately return messages.
If the deal is finalized, it would leave Detroit’s Justin Verlander and the Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw as the most attractive pitchers eligible for free agency after the 2014 sea-son. Tampa Bay’s David Price is eligible after the 2015 sea-son.
Hernandez has become the face of Seattle’s struggling franchise, transforming from a curly haired 19-year-old who wore his hat crooked to one of
the most dominant and exciting pitchers in baseball. Known as ‘’King Felix,’’ he became the first Seattle pitcher to throw a perfect game in a 1-0 win over Tampa Bay last August.
His fiery enthusiasm on the mound and his willingness to first sign a long-term deal in 2010 have endeared him to fans in the Pacific Northwest who have gone more than a decade without seeing postsea-son baseball.
Hernandez, who will turn 27 on April 8, is 98-76 with a 3.22 ERA in eight seasons with the Mariners. He won a career-high 19 games in 2009 when he finished second in the Cy Young voting then won the award a year later when he went just 13-12 but had a 2.27 ERA and 232 strikeouts.
Hernandez appeared to be making another Cy Young push last year before going 0-4 in his last six starts, which left him at 13-9 with 223 strike-outs.
His career record would be even better if he didn’t play with one of baseball’s worst offenses. Seattle had the low-
est batting average in the major leagues in each of the last three seasons. Hernandez has taken 10 losses during that span when he’s given up two earned runs or less.
For his career, Hernandez has allowed two earned runs or less in 141 of 238 starts, but the team is only 99-42 in those games due to the offensive problems.
Locking up Hernandez long-term won’t solve all of the problems that have left Seattle looking up at Texas, Oakland and the Los Angeles Angles in the AL West for most of the last 10 years. The Mariners have tried to address some of those issues this offseason by trading for Kendrys Morales and Michael Morse to pro-vide more punch to go along with young prospects Dustin Ackley, Kyle Seager and Jesus Montero, who have all shown flashes early in their careers.
But should the deal be final-ized, the Mariners at least have the security of knowing who’ll be at the top of their rotation for most of this decade.
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After Saturday’s loss to Dartmouth, the UConn men’s swimming and diving team looks ahead to a meet this weekend at Colgate.
“It was a hard loss, we didn’t swim very well,” said head coach Bob Goldberg. “It was kind of a mirror image of last year. Both teams were really even, and last year we came out all fired up…ended up getting momentum, tak-ing them out of the meet and beating them pretty easily. This year they did the exact same thing to us. “
Goldberg hopes that last week-end’s disappointment will trans-late into this weekend’s motiva-tion for his team. “Those who didn’t put their heart into it need to look in the mirror and get ready to go this week,” he said.
Colgate has had a tough season this year, holding a 0-10 record overall. However, humbled by last weekend’s loss, the Huskies do not intend on taking this meet lightly and still expect tough com-petition.
“If they come out more fired up than we are and get momen-tum, it’s going to be a very tough meet,” Goldberg said. “If we can learn from last week, turn it around, get fired up in an away pool we have a shot at beating them.”
At their last meeting, the Huskies knocked off the Colgate Raiders with a score of 151 to 82 at their own Wolff-Zackin Natatorium. Multiple swimmers had impressive performances that day, including Kyungsoo Yoon and Sawyer Franz, who together took home first place in four of the freestyle races. Diver Grant Fecteau also won both events in his field. Keith Piper, Sean Battle and Nick Cerra added to the win by clinching victories in their events. All of these athletes return this year, ready to match up against Colgate once again.
Of concern for UConn is the health of some of the athletes, particularly swimmer Jeandre Pretorius and diver Tony Cortright. Pretorius is coming off a two-week battle with a bout of pneu-monia, while Cortright has been struggling with flu-like symptoms. However, both should be ready to compete this Saturday. Beyond that, the team may be a little “banged up here and there” from the previous meet but Goldberg is taking “no excuses.”
The Huskies will try to turn their luck around this Saturday at 1 p.m. in Hamilton, N.Y. when they will take on the Colgate Raiders.
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The UConn women’s bas-ketball team will look to continue their winning ways when they face DePaul this Sunday at Gampel Pavilion.
The Huskies (21-1, 8-1 Big East) are coming off a dominating 94-37 victo-ry over Marquette. UConn drained 15 three-pointers on the night including five from sophomore forward Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis.
“We’ve been working on her getting in the post and coming out, she’s so versa-tile,” senior guard Caroline Doty said. “She can score anyway she wants to which is huge.”
As a team, the Huskies shot 54.7 percent from the field compared to the Golden Eagles who only shot 25 per-
cent from the field for the entire game.
In addition to Mosqueda-Lewis, UConn has been backed this year by solid perfor-mances from center Stefanie Dolson, who scored 15 points in the Huskies’ last game against Marquette. Dolson averages 13.8 points and 6.5 rebounds per game this season. Junior guard Bria Hartley is also looking to follow up on a solid performance against Marquette – during which she scored 20 points and shot 5-7 from three-point range.
UConn’s bench has been playing well this season. Against Marquette, the Huskies’ bench scored 14 points. Ten of those points came form freshman center Breanna Stewart.
DePaul is also coming off an impressive 74-48 win over Seton Hall. The win improved
the Blue Demons to a 6-3 record in Big East play and improved their overall record to 17-6. In the game against the Pirates, junior forward Jasmine Penny scored a career-high 29 points. Penny has averaged 14.5 points in the 23 games she has played in.
The Blue Demons’ offense is powered by their lead-ing scorer, sophomore guard Brittany Hrynko. Hrynko is averaging 16.2 points per game this season.
DePaul is 2-4 on the road this season, and only has one Big East victory on the road this year.
Tip-off between UConn and DePaul is scheduled for Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at Gampel Pavilion and the game will be televised live on ESPNU.
Head Coach Kevin Ollie’s team has developed a habit of slow starts in the last two games.
The Huskies managed just 15 points in the first half at home against South Florida and 20 points in the first 20
minutes at Madison Square Garden against St. John’s. Both games featured frantic comebacks. UConn defeat-ed USF 69-64 in overtime but ran out of gas in a 71-65 loss to St. John’s.
UConn (15-6, 5-4 Big East) will get a chance to put 40 minutes together on Sunday at 12 p.m. against the Seton Hall Pirates (13-10, 2-8 Big East) at the Prudential Center.
After being named the Big East Player of the Week for the second time this season, junior Shabazz Napier was shut out in the first half vs. St. John’s on Wednesday. After trailing by as many as 15 points in the second half, Napier helped mount a comeback
that gave the Huskies the lead before it was squandered down the stretch. Napier did not start the game for violating team rules but finished with 14 points, five assists and two steals. He still leads the team with 17 points per game.
Second in scoring is Ryan Boatright at 15.6 points per game. Boatright did not look good against St. John’s. He did not record a point until late in the second half and finished with five points on 1-of-8 shooting.
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By Sarah LevineCampus Correspondent
The University of Connecticut men’s hockey team faces a crucial home and home series against Bentley this week-end, with Bentley currently sitting just one point ahead of UConn in seventh place in the Atlantic Hockey Association.
UConn (11-12-3, 8-9-2 AHA) is com-ing off a split series last weekend at Rochester Institute of Technology. The Huskies won the opening match 3-1, but suffered a disastrous 7-1 loss during the finale.
Like most of the season, UConn went with a rotating goaltender policy dur-ing the RIT series with – Matt Grogan between the pipes for the first match and Garrett Bartus getting the closing match.
In the first game, senior Matt Grogan stopped 34 shots in the winning effort, giving UConn their second win all time
against RIT. Grogan improved his record since the start of 2013 to 5-1-1 with a .941 save percentage. On Monday, Grogan was rewarded for his superb per-formance against RIT by being named AHA Goaltender of the Week
Grogan was clearly the hot hand going into the second game, but Interim Head Coach David Berard has consistently given both his goaltenders a chance to play.
Bartus started the second game well, stopping all 13 RIT shots in the first period and he was cruising until seven minutes into the second when Anthony Hamburg put the Tigers’ first goal past him. Four minutes later, RIT had their second. Bartus settled down for six minutes until RIT scored two more in quick succession to take a 4-1 lead at the end of the second. With the game effec-tively lost, Bartus was given the chance to at least close it out until RIT scored three more in a 70-second span midway
through the third. With UConn down 7-1 Coach Berard pulled Bartus and Grogan closed out the game in goal.
With the current AHA conference standings looking strikingly similar to an I-84 pile up, UConn will need to maximize points in their final four series to gain home-ice advantage in the AHA Tournament.
Last season, UConn was forced to play the AHA quarterfinals on the road. They were eliminated after losing a three-game series to eventual champions Air Force.
With Winter Storm Nemo approach-ing, the entire weekend series has been pushed back by two days. Bentley’s home game will be played Sunday night at 7:05 p.m. The home leg of the series will be played on Monday at 7:05 p.m. at the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum.
By Miles DeGraziaStaff Writer
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