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Tuesday, November 1, 2011Volume CXVIII No. 45 www.dailycampus.com
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Infectious Diseases Intercity Grand Rounds
7:30 to 9 a.m.Health Center, Room L3094
Dr. Uzoamake Eke will be review-ing a journal article on HIV to stu-dents, researchers, and other health professionals.
Kimchi/Fried Rice Fundraiser11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Student Union, Asian American Cultural Center
Join the brothers of Pi Delta Psi Fraternity Incorporated and sisters of Kappa Phi Lambda Sorority for a fun-draiser. Bowls of rice are $3.
True Colors Conference Organizing Meeting
6 to 8 p.m.Student Union, 403
Come help make the True Colors Conference, occurring March 16 & 17, a success.
Changing the World 1017 to 9 p.m.
Student Union Theatre
World traveler Jason Donnell will speak about his volunteer experiences and encounters with prevalent global issues in Africa.
What’s on at UConn today...
- DAVID ART
TUESDAY
INSIDE NEWS: POLICE BLOTTER
Arrests for the week of Oct. 23 to 30.
Mostly clear
FOCUS/ page 7
Jeremy Lamb named AP preseason All-American.
MARIJUANA DECRIMINALIZATION HAS PROVEN EFFECTIVE
COMMENTARY/page 4
SPORTS/ page 14
Softer pot laws allow law enforcement to focus on serious crimes.
» INSIDE
THE GOLDEN YEARS OF ART
LAMB RECOGNIZED AS NCAA’S BEST
Museum displays cre-ations by past UConn professors.
NCAA’s Knight Commission passes reformsIn light of scandals, conference realign-
ment and disorganization throughout the NCAA, the Knight Commission, the leading reform activists in college sports, has been busy this past week making sure its goal of keeping the “student” in “student-athlete” alive.
The reform measure with the most impact for UConn advocated by the Commission and approved last Friday, is the implementation of an academic threshold that any football or basketball team needs to meet in order to qualify for postseason play. Knight Commission executive director Amy Perko recog-nized at the Commission’s meeting last week that many schools, including last year’s UConn national championship team, would have been deemed ineligible by the proposal if approved years earlier, which the Commission views as a serious problem in need of immediate response.
“Student-athletes are students who happen to be athletes, not the other way around,” said NCAA president Mark
Emmert to the Knight Commission this past week. “The normal course of busi-ness is not enough anymore.”
Also affecting UConn is the confer-ence realignment situation, in which UConn is still loyal to a Big East con-ference currently trying to replace the likes of Syracuse, Pittsburgh and most likely West Virginia with Central Florida, Southern Methodist University and Boise State. The Knight Commission is cur-rently concerned about whether or not the NCAA, despite establishing a strong reform agenda, is on the right path to deal with the conference panic, as well as other general disorganizations in col-lege sports.
“President Emmert and the current NCAA Board have a meaningful reform agenda,” said Knight Commission co-chairman William Kirman at a meeting last week. “However, the Commission is concerned that the fragmented gover-nance of the biggest engine driving col-lege sports, football, limits the long-term effectiveness of any transformational efforts.”
In summary, the Commission has rec-ognized that the NCAA is making pos-
itive steps toward overall reform, but is still advocating to have even more proposals approved. The Commission released its latest set of policy recommen-dations for the NCAA in its June 2010 report, “Restoring the Balance: Dollars, Values and the Future of College Sports.” The report recommends some general changes, such as reducing the number of scholarships allowed for each school and reducing the length of seasons for some sports, while also offering specific remedies such as the idea of “changing the NCAA certification process to include stronger measures of financial integrity.”
“We are trying to promote the financial stability and values of a unique American tradition,” Kirman said.
As well as financial stability, the Commission is simply calling for greater transparency in all that the NCAA does while also recognizing the progess it has made in the past few years.
“The agenda is a very good first step,” said Knight Commission co-chairman Gerald Turner at last week’s meeting.
As the Commission remains focused on its goal to “ensure that intercollegiate athletics programs operate within the
educational mission of their colleges and universities,” UConn and schools across the country are waiting to see how the approved and pending proposals operate in years to come.
Identity Finder offers
protective software
UConn students now have the opportunity to protect their per-sonal computers from identity fraud thanks to Identity Finder, which is offering a free edition of its program to the university.
Identity Finder is a special software program that is more advanced than typical spy-ware programs and will search through the computer for vital private information. Once this information is found it will per-manently destroy it if need be. It provides users with the ability to prevent identity theft and data leakage by securing sensitive data. The software can provide protection against hackers and viruses. The software won edi-tor’s choice from Identity Find Magazine.
UConn is now among hun-dreds of schools that collaborate with Identity Finder and will be offering students a free down-load of the program through this link: www.identityfinder.com/us/store/studentinitiative/UCONNEDU.
The software can find credit card numbers, social security numbers, bank account numbers, passwords and other personal information on a hard drive dat-ing as far back as 2007. The pro-gram then proceeds to encrypt or quarantine the sensitive informa-tion.
There was a major security breach on the Storrs campus last spring semester that revealed the names of former students and their social security numbers
True Colors conference to be held at UConn
The homecoming banners at the Rainbow Center artistically display the acceptance of LGBT UConn students on their journey through college. The Rainbow Center is notable for hosting the True Colors Conference, the largest conference of its type in the country.
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Largest national LGBT youth conference to be held for 19th year
Last year around 2,600 youths attended the True Colors Conference, the largest LGBT youth conference in the country. The conference returns to the UConn Storrs campus on March 16 and 17 for its 19th year. The True Colors Conference is an annual event organized by True Colors Inc., a non-profit organi-zation that works to help LGBT youth and their families find an accepting atmosphere and pro-vide them with the tools they need to bring that tolerance into their schools and communities.
“When I was 13 and coming out
to myself, I felt really alone and scared,” said True Colors founder Robin McHaelen. “I thought I would lose everything – my fam-ily, my friends, my community of faith – if anyone knew. I didn’t come out publically until I was 32. I didn’t want other LGBT youth to have the same experience.”
Since it’s founding in 1992, then called Children from the Shadows, the True Colors Conference has grown from a small conference hosting only 90 LGBT youth to hosting over 2,000 youth annually. While about 60 percent of attend-ees are from Connecticut, around 17 states and Canada are repre-sented at the conference. Youths from over half of Connecticut’s
cities attend the conference. The conference consists of workshops and guest speakers over the course of two days. The organization’s main goal is to create a space where people of all sexual orienta-tions feel safe and accepted and to help them bring that atmosphere into the rest of their lives.
“Gay day at UConn was prob-ably the best thing I’ve been a part of in a long time,” said Steph Jacobs, a 1st-semester psychology major. “Regardless of who you are, how you express your gender, everyone was accepting and open to you, willing to take you as you were. ‘Free hugs’ was the phrase of the day.”
In addition to the conference,
True Colors trains over 2,400 peo-ple each year to become mentors in Connecticut’s only LGBT men-toring program. The organization also works with other social ser-vice agencies, schools, organiza-tions and communities to advocate for gay rights, such as same sex marriage equality.
The first conference was held in 1994, called at the time, the Children From the Shadows Conference. It attracted 160 teach-ers, social service workers, and mental health providers and 90 LGBT youth. In 1996 the confer-ence was expanded to two days in order to allow for the more than
By Katherine TibedoCampus Correspondent
» CONFERENCE, page 2
By Loumarie RodriguezStaff Writer
» FREE, page 2
By Michael CorasanitiCampus Correspondent
NCAA president Mark Emmert reminded the Knight Commission that “student-athletes are students who happen to be athletes, not the other way around.”
AP
Oct. 23Alex C. Werchadlo, 18, of
Woonsocket, R.I., was arrested at 1:32 a.m. on Route 195. Werchadlo crossed a dou-ble yellow line and had one headlight not lit. After speak-ing with Werchadlo, police suspected he was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Werchadlo was subsequently arrested. His court date was Oct. 31.
Oct. 24Eric M. Phillips, 20, of
Melrose, Mass., was arrested at 7:47 p.m. at Alsop dorm on West Campus and charged with possession of drug para-phernalia and possession of a controlled substance or less than four ounces of marijuana. Police responded to a com-
plaint about the smell of mari-juana. Phillips and his room-mate were in possession of 31.6 grams of marijuana, three glass marijuana pipes, one metal marijuana smoking device, rolling papers and a marijuana vaporizer. His bond was set for $2,000 and his court date was Oct. 31.
Oct. 25Kobe J. Weiss, 18, of North
Andover, Mass., was arrested at 11:13 p.m. at the UConn Co-op and charged with larceny in the sixth degree. The Co-op reported a shoplifting complaint and called in the police. After a brief investigation, Weiss was arrested for the theft of a text-book valued at $123. His bond was set for $1,000 and his court date is Nov. 8.
Julio C. Arangueren-Dugarte, 18, of Palmas Plantation, Puerto Rico, was arrested at 8:01 p.m. at Litchfield Hall on North Campus and charged with criminal mischief in the third degree and possession of drug paraphernalia. Police responded to a report of a burnt marijuana smell. After a brief
investigation, it was determined that Aranguren-Dugarte had 0.5 grams of marijuana, a glass pipe and a plastic smoking device. He also covered a smoke detec-tor with a plastic bag. His bond was set for $1,000 and his court date is Nov. 8.
Oct. 26Clare A. Dzilenski, 18,
of Plantsville, was arrested at 12:11 a.m. at Northwest Campus and charged with criminal trespassing in the first degree and interfering with an officer. Dzilenski had pre-viously been banned from all residence halls and, with the exception of attending classes, had been banned from UConn property. Police saw her stand-ing in the quad at Northwest. After a brief investigation, it was found that Dzilenski had been living in Terry Hall for several days. During the investi-gation, Dzilenski lied to officers several times. Her bond was set for $2,000 and her court date was Oct. 26.
Oct. 28Aleksandr O. Nedoshitko, 22,
of Cheshire, was arrested at 2:10
a.m. on Route 195 and charged with failure to obey a signal, driving while under the influ-ence and unsafe backing. Police saw Nedoshitko’s car run a red light at the intersection of Route 195 and North Eagleville Road. Police conducted a motor vehicle stop and the car rolled back-ward toward a police vehicle for about 30 feet. Nedoshitko was suspected of driving while intoxicated and was subjected to a series of field sobriety tests, which he failed. His bond was set for $500, and his court date is Nov. 7.
Federico R. Sauto, 18, of Smithfield, R.I., was arrested at 10:03 p.m. in the Northwest quad and charged with breach of peace in the second degree and interfering with an officer. Officers saw two men fight-ing outside Northwest. Sauto attempted to avoid arrest. His bond was set for $1,000 and his court date is Nov. 8.
Andres A. Pereda Ehrlich, 19, of Smithfield, R.I., was arrested at 10:03 p.m. in the Northwest quad and charged with breach of peace in the second degree. Officers saw Pereda Ehrlich fighting with Sauto. His bond was set for $500 and his court date is Nov. 8.
Oct 29Branden R. Goncalves, 20, of
Seymour, was arrested at 11:50 at Brown Hall in the Charter Oak Apartments. Officers determined Goncalves punched another person. His bond was set for $5,000 and his court date is Nov. 8.
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Power outages knock out Conn. cell phone towers HARTFORD (AP) — Hundreds of cell phone towers are not
working in Connecticut because of extensive power outages follow-ing the weekend’s rare October snowstorm.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy told reporters Monday that about 200 cell phone towers in the state are damaged and will not be repaired soon.
Mark Siegel, a spokesman for AT&T in Atlanta, said towers are out because they rely on power supplied by utilities. Power lines were downed by falling trees and limbs.
He says generators and technicians are being dispatched to pro-vide backup power.
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Equipment failures plague Conn. farms after storm
HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut’s top agriculture official says some farmers face potential failures of equipment that generate electricity in a lengthy power outage.
Agriculture Commissioner Steven Reviczky said Monday that owners of dairies and greenhouses have been running generators 24 hours a day since widespread power outages began Saturday as the rare October snow storm hit Connecticut.
He said that if generators run 24/7, “things break.”Reviczky said it’s not that different from what happened when the
remnants of Hurricane Irene hit Connecticut in late August.The state is letting farmers know it’s aware of the problem and
is monitoring it.He said one bright spot is that unlike when Irene struck, roads
now are not blocked. For dairy farmers, that means milk trucks have access to their farms.
Obama in ‘excellent health,’ physician saysWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s doctor says
the president is in “excellent health” and is “tobacco free.”The physician, Jeffrey C. Kuhlman, also calls the president fit for
duty at 50 years old, and says he’s physical active and at a healthy weight. The president eats a healthy diet and on occasion drinks alcohol in moderation.
The details are included in the results of Obama’s second physi-cal as president, which Kuhlman conducted last week. The White House released the results on Monday.
Conn. announces boil water advisory for 18 systems
HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut public health officials say cus-tomers of 18 small public drinking systems in the state should boil their water as a precautionary measure.
The systems, located in Ridgefield, New Milford, New Fairfield, Mansfield and Brookfield, are experiencing electricity outages and do not have a backup power source.
The Department of Public Health said Monday that it is monitor-ing the systems and contacting other small public drinking water systems to determine their status and whether they need assistance. The systems are expected to notify customers of the boil water advisory.
While some larger public water systems lost power during last weekend’s nor’easter, their water supply was not interrupted because they had emergency power capabilities.
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Experts to inspect evidence in deadly
Nevada crashRENO, Nev. (AP) — Experts are in Reno to inspect debris and
the railroad crossing where a truck collided with of an Amtrak train, killing six.
The Reno Gazette-Journal on Monday reported a federal judge ordered John Davis Trucking to let Amtrak and Union Pacific Railroad experts inspect a truck similar to the one that crashed into the train on June 24, about 70 miles east of Reno.
U.S. Magistrate Valerie Cooke also ordered Amtrak and Union Pacific to give the trucking company copies of video footage of the crash and an event recorder taken from the damaged train.
About 200 people were on the California Zephyr when truck driver Lawrence Ruben Valli crashed through the rail crossing into the train. Valli and five people on the train died. Dozens more were injured.
on the internet. This incident encouraged the university to seek outside help from Identity Finder to prevent further mis-haps according to Identity Theft News.
According to Aaron Titus, the Chief Privacy Officer, people don’t realize when donating computers that a lot of their pri-vate files are still within the com-puter. They can easily become a victim of identity fraud. The company feels it’s their respon-sibility to the public to inform them on these dangers. Deleting files on your own doesn’t perma-nently get rid of them, however, it does tell the computer to forget where the files are.
“It’s like deleting the table of contents when you simply delete files on a computer,” Titus said.
The company is based out Manhattan and began in 2001, with the official program begin-ning in 2006. Many universities across the nation are now col-laborating with Identity Finder. Universities can sign up for the program through a special link www.identityfinder.com/freestu-dent. The company can also be found internationally with cus-tomers from all over the world.
“Our hope is to work ourselves out of business,” Titus said. “In the meantime we hope that every-body understands the need to pro-tect your own identity.”
“It’s a very important to have security software,” Conner Armstrong, 5th-semester envi-ronmental science major said. “I feel that UConn gives a good sense of security that our infor-mation won’t be stolen.”
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As the state deals with the fallout of the second serious storm in the past two months, UÇonn has managed to provide power to those on campus and extend a hand to those living off campus.
According to the latest infor-mation provided by CL&P, almost 30 percent of Mansfield is without power and areas outside Mansfield, including Willington and Ashford, face 90 to 100 percent power out-ages.
The university held classes as normal on Monday, but stu-dents faced adverse conditions at home. While the university maintained a normal sched-ule, students were advised to
take their personal safety into account when they decided whether to come to school or not.
Elizabeth Rice, a 3rd-semes-ter fine arts major, stayed at a friend’s home on Sunday night, as her Ashford apartment had no heat and she wanted to avoid the commute in the snow.
“I didn’t want to freeze and die in my apartment,” Rice said.
Rice knows that at the very least, the milk in her fridge will go sour, and she has friends who are storing their perish-able food in the snow.
Ashley Timreck, a 7th-semester communication disor-ders major, lives in Manchester, and said her 25-minute com-mute took her 45 minutes on Monday, partially explaining why she missed a class.
Timreck’s house lost heat, electricity and internet connec-tion on Saturday, but still had plumbing. Timreck planned to take an online quiz over the weekend and panicked when she lost Internet. She called six separate cafes and a Barnes & Noble, which either shut down early or also lost internet access. She eventually reached out to a friend.
Per the orders of Student Affairs, the Student Union was open for 24 hours on Sunday to better accommodate those students without heat, power or plumbing, according to Paul Bloom, a student building manager.
The town of Mansfield said on its website that CL&P esti-mates another two or more
Storm affects UConn studentsBy Brian ZahnAssociate Managing Editor
» OBAMA, page 3
Tree branches weighed down by snow frame a sidewalk scene in North Haven on as the result of a snow storm that felled trees and caused widespread power outages all across the state.
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PARIS (AP) — World lead-ers will try to understand how the economy has swerved so horribly off its recovery track when they gather this week for a summit that will see a curious inversion of roles from previ-ous meetings: Europeans will be asking developing countries in Asia and South America for financial help.
Though signs of an alarming slowdown in growth are every-where — the U.S. is not creat-ing enough jobs and China is struggling to cool down infla-tion without triggering a credit crunch — the old continent’s debt problems will take top billing at the summit.
As head of France’s year-long presidency of the Group of 20 meetings, Nicolas Sarkozy will scramble to show his peers gathered at the chic French Riviera resort of Cannes that Europe got a grip of its debt crisis with last week’s grand plan to save the euro.
One of the main ideas behind creating the G-20 three years ago was to expand global eco-nomic decision-making beyond the North Atlantic axis to include more diverse countries. But this year’s G-20 summit, to be held Thursday and Friday, is all about old Europe. And instead of Europeans offering aid to struggling nations, as occurred in the past, now the Europeans are asking devel-
oping nations with big cash reserves — like China — for financial help.
Eurozone leaders, for their part, have preventively dodged questions on details of their latest euro rescue opera-tion, saying last week that the mechanics won’t be set-tled until early December — almost six months after their previous plan was announced and then left to slowly go past its expiration date.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy last week pledged to carry out the new measures “rigorously and in a timely manner.”
“We are confident that they will contribute to the swift resolution of the crisis,” Barroso and Van Rompuy wrote in a joint letter to the G-20 leaders.
“Swift” may not be the right word after two years of fal-tering half-steps and missed opportunities. Meanwhile, European leaders must use the face time with colleagues from Brazil, Russia, India, China and beyond to drum up interest in the €440 bil-lion ($616 billion) European bailout fund. Increasing the fund’s firepower by getting cash-rich developing world countries to invest in bonds
insured by the fund is key to the European plan’s success.
If recent comments by the head of China’s sovereign wealth fund are anything to go by, convincing outsid-ers of Europe’s investment potential will be a hard sell.
Jin Liqun, chairman of the board of supervisors of the China Investment Corporation said “the root cause” of Europe’s trouble is “the overburdened welfare ... the sloth-inducing, indo-lence-inducing labor laws,” he said. “People need to work harder. They need to work
longer,” Liqun said.China’s president also sug-
gested the Europeans should not count on being bailed out by China’s record foreign currency reserves.
Speaking during an official visit to Austria, President Hu Jintao told reporters Monday his country is closely fol-lowing the EU’s economic development.
“We are convinced that Europe has the wisdom and the competence to conquer its momentary difficulties,” he said during an official visit to Austria.
World leaders aim to revive global recovery
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner said Monday that he has high hopes that a congressional “supercommittee” will be able to reach common ground on a plan to cut the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion over a decade.
But the most powerful Republican in Washington says that finding common ground doesn’t necessarily mean com-promising one’s principles, a none-too-subtle hint that he remains strongly opposed to increasing taxes as part of the solution to deficits exceeding $1 trillion a year.
“Common ground doesn’t
mean compromising on your principles,” Boehner said in a speech to a group of students at the University of Louisville. “Common ground means find-ing the places where your agen-da overlaps with that of the other party.”
Boehner’s remarks came as the secretive 12-member bipar-tisan panel remains deadlocked less than a month before its deadline. Democrats say tax revenues are a precursor to any agreement to curb spending on costly benefits programs like Medicare. Republicans insist the supercommittee focus on cutting spending and that new
revenues should come from proposals like raising Medicare premiums, asking federal work-ers to contribute more toward their pensions and through the economic growth associated with reforming the tax code.
“Nobody thought the com-mittee’s job will be easy, and it hasn’t been. No one is surprised by that,” said Boehner, R-Ohio. “But I have high hopes that in the weeks ahead this panel will find common ground.”
While Boehner is not a mem-ber of the deficit supercommit-tee, he remains a key figure in the debate; the chances of the committee’s success may
depend upon whether he and top Democrats like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada can prevail upon their appointees to the panel to move off of long-established positions.
Last week, Democrats offered a plan to cut the deficit by about $3 trillion over the coming decade, including $1.3 trillion in increased tax rev-enue. Republicans countered with a $2.2 trillion plan free of tax hikes but heavier on cuts to Medicare beneficiaries.
Boehner and President Barack Obama participated in discussions this summer on a
deficit bargain in the neighbor-hood of $4 trillion over the coming decade, but talks fell apart over taxes and cuts to benefit programs like Medicare and Medicaid. In those dis-cussions, conducted as part of legislation to raise the govern-ment’s borrowing cap, Boehner entertained up to $800 billion in 10-year revenue increases as part of a complete overhaul of the tax code.
Instead, Boehner and Obama settled for $900 billion in spending cuts over 10 years to agency budgets and the promise of $1.2 trillion or more to come from the debt supercommittee,
which faces a Thanksgiving deadline to recommend a defi-cit plan. Boehner called on the panel to address the long-term costs of so-called entitlement programs like Medicare.
“Everyone knows we can’t solve the debt crisis without making structural changes to our entitlement programs. You know it. I know it. President Obama knows it,” Boehner said. “Nothing — nothing — would send a more reassur-ing message to the markets than taking bipartisan steps to fix the structural problems in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.”
Boehner: High hopes for debt ‘supercommittee’
An aerial view of the “ Palais des Congres” in Cannes ahead of the G20 summit of Cannes, southeastern France, Monday.
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days before power is fully restored to the rest of town. In the meantime, residents can seek shelter at the community
center.These estimates are positive
compared to the grim, week-long estimates that were given following Irene in late August. Businesses in Mansfield that
faced days of power outages fol-lowing Irene had power restored by late Sunday evening.
The snowstorm broke sev-eral records because of its early timing. Before Saturday,
the highest recorded snowfall in Hartford was 1.7 inches on Oct. 10, 1979. Much of inland Connecticut received about a foot of snow during the latest snow storm.
Gov. Dannel Malloy declared a state of emergency for the state and ordered all non-emergency vehicles off the roads at 4 p.m. on Saturday. On Monday night, President Barack Obama also
declared a state of emergency for Connecticut and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts.
Obama declares state of emergency in Conn. after record snowfallfrom STORM, page 2
600 participants. The name was officially changed from Children From the Shadows to True Colors Inc., Sexual Minority Youth and Family Service of CT in 1998; that same year the organization shifted to include supporting LGBT families in its mission. The True Colors website states the organization’s mission as “to improve and enrich the lives of sexual minority people through support, education and advocacy in each of the systems necessary to their development as full and productive members of society is fulfilled, and people are judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin, the gender of their life partners or their gender presentation.”
“I’ve been going to the True Colors since high school,” said Mick Powell, a first-semester sociology major. “It’s an incred-ible experience as a young gay kid. To come from a high school with a lot of hate and a LGBT community that is so small and to come to UConn and see the thousands of people, including adults who have overcome so much, it’s incredible.”
Also in 1998, the True Color Conference became the larg-est LGBT conference in the country, attracting over 1,000 participants. True Colors Inc. created the Safe Harbors Project in 2001, a program designed to identify any gaps found in the services for LGBT youth in Child Welfare programs. The
program offers training, foster parent recruitment, and a state-wide task force.
McHaelen credited the growth of the organization to the safe space and sense of community created by True Colors.
“That sense of ‘I belong’ is pervasive and so people come back year after year and tell their friends,” McHaelen said.
“[True Colors is] for anyone and everyone who’s interested in learning about anything’s that’s not mainstream. There are workshops on everything. But for people who are not willing to be open-minded it can be a bit overwhelming, because everyone there is so open-minded,” Jacobs said.
Currently the organization has launched a YouTube cam-paign aimed at getting Lady Gaga to come to the conference. The singer attended the confer-ence before she become famous as Lady Gaga and sang back up for Justin Tranter. True Colors hopes that if enough interest is generated for the singer’s appearance she will return to the conference.
People looking to get involved can attend the next organizing meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 1 at 6 p.m. in the Rainbow Center, pizza and soda will be served. Interested volunteers can also sign up on the True Colors website, www.ourtrue-colors.org.
True Colors conference gives LBGT youth confidence
from TRUE, page 1
When Steve Jobs passed away, cable news can-celled its regu-
larly scheduled programming, misspelled status updates inun-dated Facebook and an influx of tweets and hashtags slowed Twitter to a halt. Today Jobs’ newly-released authorized biography is poised to become the best-selling book of 2011.
Former vice p r e s i d e n t and Apple board mem-ber Al Gore speaks of his
respect for the chief execu-tive, and Apple’s website fea-tures condolences from mil-lions of people who knew him only from afar. Why was Jobs mourned so greatly?
To some, this response may seem surprising, as those ordi-narily uninterested in technol-ogy news suddenly dedicated their Facebook walls to a man they did not know. Jobs was an eccentric genius, an individual with a remarkable talent in the field of technology that none could match. Surely we hail Jobs because he created the iPhone. But the primary reason we hail Jobs stems from our respect for his vision to do it and
his strength to defy all opposi-tion and criticism, two methods of external interference we too often allow to crush our own ideas and dreams.
In 2005, Jobs told graduates of Stanford University about the day he received his can-cer diagnosis. He explained his new philosophy on life, explained how he would look in the mirror each morning to ask himself whether he would still do what he was about to do that day if he were soon going to die.
“Your time is limited,” he told the graduates. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
We hail Jobs because of the number of times his answer to this daily question was “yes.” Only by saying “yes” was he able to create the iPod, despite being fired from the very company he founded a decade prior. It was because he said “yes” that he was able to reinvent the very concept of what a cell phone should be able to do.
“Almost everything - all external expectations, all pride,
all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leav-ing only what is truly impor-tant,” Jobs added. “You are already naked. There is no rea-son not to follow your heart.”
Amidst heavy adulation and praise, the very message Jobs intended to send with his life and how he chose to live it has been lost. We have been too focused on product announce-ments and technical specifica-tions to realize that the true lesson of Jobs’ life does not contain the words “iPod” or “iPhone” but rather “passion” and “perseverance.” Jobs was unusually cognizant of the impermanence of life and was uncomfortable with regret and missed opportunities, qualities we all wish we possessed.
But we can possess them. We all have the ability to cre-ate our own iPod if we follow where our heart directs us. We are, however, so tied down by our own fear of embarrassment and failure that we frequently ignore the reality of regret. Making a B your goal when you truly want an A is not fol-lowing your heart. Not telling someone how you feel about him or her simply because you fear rejection is not following
your heart. Convincing your-self that your genes, your hab-its, or your socioeconomic sta-tus preclude you from success is not following your heart. It is acting in spite of your heart and it sells yourself short.
We hail Jobs not purely because of his drive for inno-vation or the intuition that was so innate to who he was, for we are all have areas in which we are talented. We instead hail Jobs because he was aware of these talents and refused to squander them. It is this dichotomy between Jobs’s refusal to abandon his hopes and dreams and our willing-ness to do so that fills us with wonder and astonishment in his absence.
Designing electronic devices may not be the passion of all, but all have a passion. You will never create your own iPod unless you realize that the only thing stopping you from doing so is yourself.
Jobs was once quoted as say-ing he wished to “put a ding in the universe.” We may all want to create our own ding, but are we actually willing to do it?
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The U.S. has its foundation built of imperialism, bullying and colonialism, but just as dirt is at the foundation of the tall-
est skyscrapers, one would hope that as society and globalization progressed, we too could climb away from the foun-
dations of our country. The latest attitude in the U.S. toward U N E S C O ’ s acceptance of Palestine as a member shows that we are still that low, uncivi-lized nation that once rounded up the continent’s indigenous people and continued to
sterilize the women against their will and knowledge through the mid 1900s.
Of the 173 UNESCO members voting, 107 were in favor of Palestine’s admit-tance to UNESCO. Fourteen nations opposed the measure and 52 nations abstained from the vote, according to a report by BBC News. This decision precedes a vote next month by the UN Security Council on whether or not Palestine will be granted full UN mem-bership – a vote in which the U.S. has already stated that it will use its veto, on the grounds that both the U.S. and Israel believe that Palestine’s admit-tance will hinder the progress of peace in the Middle East, and will run con-trary to U.S. foreign policy interests. In addition, America has decided that this measure warrants it not paying the $60
million scheduled for November. As a nation that once prided itself on being the champion of disenfranchised people, a safe berth for immigrants in a cruel, persecuting world, we have no greater proof of our failure.
As an agency born from the aftermath of WWII, part of UNESCO’s goal is to work toward mutual tolerance and peace through education, science and culture, and particularly through the identifica-tion, protection and preservation of world heritage sites, or those places deemed to be of natural and cultural historical importance. Palestine’s bid to join this body parallels its desire to achieve the status of statehood through UN recog-nition, but also echoes its decades of protestation of its peoples’ exclusion from international affairs because of its tenuous relationship with Israel. There are 107 members of UNESCO who have shown themselves capable of uphold-ing this goal. We are not one of them. While we could certainly afford not to pay UNESCO, reneging on our interna-tional obligations in the midst of what amounts to a tantrum is not the most prudent way to either repair our own financial and social crisis, or present ourselves as a proverbial “team-player” in the international arena.
In the past century, we have presented American needs as the needs of the world, a position that could only be substantiated for as long as we were the most powerful economy and nation in the world. For the past few decades, we have been proved that not only are we not the most powerful, but that we have been wrong on so many fronts about the best way to help people. Our methods
of foreign policy have been dictatorial; we tell other countries what we need, and then we dangle a multi-billion dol-lar carrot in front of them. We meddle, and when the results are less than ideal, we pull out, wash our hands and blame the prior administration. Clearly, look-ing at the current state of domestic and international affairs, our methods are less than sufficient.
We are never going to be able to dic-tate the terms of peace in the Middle East; the sooner we acknowledge this and stop playing the roll of the bully, the sooner we can build new alliances and then move forward from the trials and strife of the past. We pushed for the establishment of an Israeli state to redress atrocious wrongs from the past, but wrongs were committed on the way. Acknowledging the right of the Palestinian people to their own heri-tage and self-determination is a step to redressing one of our many wrongs as a nation. Declining to use our veto in the upcoming UN Security Council vote will be another step, and help us build the relationships we are sorely in need of. As a nation, if we cannot stop bul-lying other nations just because we are not getting our own way, we will never be able to be a part of a larger global community. Nor will we be able to stop the bullying existent in our own society. We rebuild skyscrapers everyday; it is time to start rebuilding whatever it is that represents us to the rest of the world – Palestine is a start.
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Connecticut’s marijuana decriminalization law went into effect on July 1, and many opponents were concerned about potential adverse consequences or ramifications. As the numbers are beginning to
come in, however, it appears the positives of the law are far outweighing the negatives.
According to the Connecticut Judicial Branch, there were 3,057 arrests for possession during July, August and September of 2010 last year. During the same three-month period in 2011, the figure dropped significantly to 1,741 arrests. That repre-sents a 43 percent drop.
The statistics correlate to a much larger decrease overall. The state average for September arrests is 10,700, but in September of this year the total was down to 9,100 arrests, or a 15 percent drop.
With marijuana now considered an infraction rather than a criminal charge, law enforcement can spend less time, energy and money on the issue. Instead, they are able to focus those resources on confronting more serious offenses.
Michael Lawlor, the criminal justice adviser to Gov. Dan Malloy, reiterated that claim in a recent interview with the Hartford Advocate. Marijuana is “the lowest priority of our criminal justice system,” Lawlor said. Police should instead “focus on the most important stuff.”
Not only that, but the monetary incentives are also entic-ing. States that had previously decriminalized have also seen decreased expenditures related to arrest and prosecution. The state Office of Fiscal Analysis predicted those savings in Connecticut as being about $885,000 a year. With the surpris-ingly large drop in arrests, those savings may amount to over one million dollars.
The bill was not without opposition. In fact, the Senate vote was tied 18-18 before Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman cast the tie-breaking vote in favor of the bill. Representative Christopher Coutu, exemplifying opposing arguments, said, “There’s a common sense perspective. If there’s a smaller fine they [potential users] may be tempted.”
But the statistics do not seem to have proven that true. Marijuana usage does not seem to have either increased or decreased significantly, if at all. The number of arrests, though, has significantly decreased.
Connecticut became the eighth state to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana. No state have yet legalized the drug, although a California referendum last year to do so came rela-tively close to passage.
Our state’s decriminalization has yielded positive effects on both law enforcement and users of the drug. This was a step in the right direction when it comes to Connecticut’s dealings with drug policy.
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To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- A quiet, reflective morning suits the mood and gets stuff done. It’s a good time to sell. Talk more in the afternoon. Your social life heats up this evening.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Trust the friends that believe in you more than you do. Launch your next project, and enjoy the ride as well as the destination. There’s fun ahead.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Review all logical steps, prepare everything in private, and then make your decision. Celebrate with good friends, great food and beautiful scenery.
Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- The road to acceptance has denial and resistance. It’s all part of it. You can find the necessary funds. Don’t get blinded by reality or success. Say “thank you.”
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Spend some time exploring new partnerships. It’s not always about you. Really listen to what others have to say. A female reveals a secret. It’s getting interesting.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Don’t get so busy that you forget what’s really important. Your creativity is a plus. The fewer words you use, the better. Keep things focused and clear.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Romance is a growing possibility for the next two days. Creativity and beauty play a larger part than normal. Escape to a peaceful spot to get an idea to flower.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Personal comfort must be considered today. Stay close to home, and nurture yourself (saving money in the process). You can still be productive.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Money’s not everything, but it sure helps. Don’t go around wasting what you don’t have. Accept an invitation. You notice beauty in random places now.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Focus on finances to grow profitability. Avoid distractions that create new work. Be inventive, and barter if needed. Trade services. Get what you need.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 9 -- You’re on top of your game and ready for a touchdown. Bring it on! Nothing can stop you now, in communication, art or love, all of which are in perfect harmony.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 5 -- It’s not the best time to pop the question ... or for romance in general. The mood’s a bit flat. Focus instead on learning skills and practicing. Make your pitch later.
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HARTFORD (AP) — People driven out of their homes by power outages huddled in warming centers Monday in Connecticut and commuters struggled to find open gas stations while navi-gating the mess of downed power lines and tree branches left by a rare October snow storm.
Schools were closed, and local officials urged parents not to take their children trick-or-treating Monday eve-ning because of the damage.
More than 750,000 utility customers in the state were without power from the storm, which set Connecticut records for outages and snowfall so early in the season. The storm has been blamed for two deaths in the state and at least 12 across the Northeast.
In Hartford, commuters hunted for gas stations that were not closed because of the outages. At a 7-Eleven, two dozen cars waited early Monday in a line that stretched into the street and disrupted traffic.
“I’m sitting here thinking I’m going to run out of gas,” said Mitchell Celella, 45, of Canaan, Conn., who eventual-ly made it to the pumps on the way to his job as an ice cream
maker in West Hartford.Debra Palmisano said
everything was closed in her hometown of Plainville and she spent much of the morn-ing looking for gas.
“There’s no gas anywhere. It’s like we’re in a war zone. It’s pretty scary, actually,” she said.
Connecticut Light & Power reported about 748,000 outag-es Monday, down from more than 830,000. The utility says it has more than 300 crews working to restore power and plans to add 450 crews from out of state. But Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said tree damage was five times worse than the state experienced when the remnants of Hurricane Irene hit in August, and it could take a week or longer to restore all power.
The United Illuminating Co. reported about 8,900 out-ages in its service area around Bridgeport and New Haven.
One person was killed in a storm-related crash on Interstate 91 in the Hartford area, state police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said Monday. No further details were imme-diately available. Another person was killed Saturday in slippery conditions on Route 85 in Colchester.
State officials said the storm also damaged 15 to 20 percent of the 3,100 cell phone tower sites in Connecticut.
“That damage is going to be difficult to overcome in the short run,” Malloy said.
The governor toured the state by helicopter on Monday morning. The 58-minute trip
took him over Windsor Locks, the Farmington Valley, the Litchfield Hills and back to the southern edge of Hartford County. He said the areas he saw looked peaceful from 1,500 feet, but those looks were deceiving.
“The amount of snow cov-ering roofs is quite extraordi-
nary,” Malloy said. “You can see signs there’s not a lot of power out there.”
The governor also saw large numbers of fallen trees and broken branches
State education officials said roughly 480 schools in 95 of the state’s 166 school districts were closed. Local
officials were also urging residents to not go trick-or-treating.
“Due to the extensive nature of poor lighting and downed trees and power lines, we must put safety first,” Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra said in urging against trick-or-treating.
More than 750,000 without power in Connecticut
Cars line up for fuel at gas stations on East Main Street in Torrington, Conn., Monday Oct. 31, 2011. More than 750,000 customers in the state were without power from the storm, which set Connecticut records for outages and snowfall so early in the season.
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WAYLAND, Mass. (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people across the Northeast shivered at the prospect of days without heat or lights after a freak October snowstorm over the weekend, and many towns postponed trick-or-treating Monday in what seemed like a mean Halloween prank to some children.
Families huddled under blan-kets and winter coats at home or waited out the crisis in shelters as utility crews struggled to fix power lines brought down by the storm. Hundreds of schools closed, giving youngsters one of the earliest snow days on record.
“Such a small storm but such a big disaster,” said Marina Shen, who spent Sunday night with her husband and dog at a middle school in Wayland, a Boston suburb of 13,000 where
half the homes lost power. Just a few inches fell in Wayland, and most of it had melted by Monday, but overnight tem-peratures fell below freezing.
“The house is really, really cold. You cannot do anything. It’s so dark, cold,” Shen said. “Here they give us a hot show-er.”
From Maryland to Maine, high winds and wet, heavy snow brought down trees, branches and wires Saturday and Sunday. Snowfall amounts ranged from less than inch in some places to 32 inches in the small town of Peru, Mass., in the Berkshire Mountains.
The storm was blamed for at least 12 deaths, mostly caused by falling trees, traffic acci-dents or electrocutions from downed wires. Six people died in Pennsylvania alone.
More than 3 million homes
and businesses in the Northeast lost power at the height of the storm. By midday Monday, that number was still above 2 mil-lion.
Some of the same areas were hit hard by the rainy remnants of Hurricane Irene just two months ago, but in many places the utility damage was worse this time. The trees had yet to lose their leaves and captured all too much of the snow.
“The leaves on the trees have made whole trees and huge branches come down and taken down more wires,” said New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. “It’s a huge challenge for everybody.”
With the temperature rising again, the storm’s effects will probably outlast the snow itself.
Christie said he expected 95 percent of the 375,000 cus-tomers in New Jersey with-out power to have it back by
Thursday, though he knew that would be little comfort to peo-ple shivering in the dark.
“I know if you are without power today, Thursday seems like a long time from now,” he said.
Companies brought in crews from other states to help, but with lights out and live wires down all over the place, many communi-ties urged children to skip trick-or-treating or at least postpone it until later in the week.
“I was upset because I really wanted to go trick-and-treating and get candy,” said 12-year-old McKenzie Gallasso of South Windsor, Conn., who was deciding whether to be a witch or a werewolf when the phone rang with the bad news that town officials were advis-ing families to call off trick-or-treating. “This year I’ll have to eat candy from my mom.”
Power could be out for days in snowy Northeast
A state-by-state look at some of the effects of the late October storm that shocked the Northeast over the weekend with up to 30 inches of snow. The wet, heavy snow accumulated on still-leafy trees and snapped off branches or toppled them altogether, taking down power lines. Less than 2 million people were still without power Monday, and at least 20 deaths, including one in Canada, are blamed on the storm through traffic accidents, electrocutions or other causes.
—CONNECTICUT: More than 750,000 customers still with-out power, down from more than 830,000, a number that broke the state record set by the remnants of Hurricane Irene in August. Communications disrupted because of damage to hundreds of cellphone towers. Passengers stranded for seven hours or more on tarmac at Hartford’s airport after being diverted from New York-area airports. At least two deaths. President Barack Obama signs emergency declaration for
federal aid.—MAINE: About 7,500 with-
out power, down from about 160,000.
—MARYLAND: About 3,500 without power, down from about 43,000.
— M A S S A C H U S E T T S : About 450,000 without power. Delays on commuter rail into Boston. Dozens of school dis-tricts cancel classes; many com-munities call off Halloween trick-or-treating because of downed power lines. At least
two deaths.— NEW HAMPSHIRE: More
than 200,000 without power, down from more than 315,000. Shelters open for people without heat.
—NEW JERSEY: About 400,000 are still without power, down from nearly 700,000. Gov. Chris Christie says dam-age to utilities is worse than that wrought by Irene. Some rail lines still blocked by fallen branches. More than 30 school districts call off classes. At least
four deaths.—NEW YORK: About
215,000 without power, down from more than 300,000. Dozens of motorists stranded up to 10 hours on snow-covered highways north of New York City. Crews race to clean fallen trees from Central Park before New York City Marathon the coming weekend. At least three deaths.
—PENNSYLVANIA: More than 200,000 without power, down from about a half-million.
At least eight deaths.—RHODE ISLAND: More
than 1,700 without power, down from about 20,000. Crews try to raise a sunken barge containing hundreds of gallons of diesel fuel.
—VERMONT: About 7,500 lost power at some point. Areas devastated in August by remnants of Hurricane Irene reported 13 inches.
—WASHINGTON, D.C.: Trace of snow ties 1925 record for the date.
A state-by-state look at effects of Oct. snowstorm
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The William Benton Museum of Art opened “In Retrospect: Art Department Faculty Emerti, 1961-2001” in honor of the School of Fine Arts’ 50th anniversary on Oct. 29. The exhibit features the art of retired UConn faculty and acknowledges their personal history and contributions to UConn’s Art Department.
About 80 people attended the Benton’s reception on Oct. 30 to view the collection. Thomas Bruhn, director of the museum and professor of eighteenth-century European art, said the audience would’ve been a bit more substantial had the weather conditions been better.
“Many of the people who came this weekend were regulars at faculty shows,” Bruhn said.
Museum regulars were joined by current faculty and artists featured in the exhibit. Jamie Girolamo, a third semester Art major, visited the gallery on the day of the opening.
“I really enjoyed the exhib-it,” said Girolamo. “I was impressed and inspired by the talent of our own faculty.”
Bruhn said he noticed a bit of a generation gap. The 45th Annual Art Department Faculty Exhibition was on dis-play from Aug. 30 to Oct. 16. The previous exhibit featured the works of current facul-ty and contained more digi-tal media. In comparison, the retired faculty collection is made up of much more paint-ing and sculpture.
“The exhibits had very dif-
ferent feels,” Bruhn said.A large portion of the
pieces displayed are perma-nently in the Benton’s col-lection, as they were donat-ed by faculty.
“Most of the works in the faculty exhibit are col-lected informally. Many of them were given to us over the years,” Bruhn said. “Sometimes, when a faculty member retires, I’ll ask them for a work or two.”
A polychrome bronze sculpture titled “Algonquin with Skyscraper Wrench” was donated by the sister of artist Raymond Hitchcock. Hitchcock joined UConn’s art department in 1964 and retired in 1992. He worked with a variety of mediums, including bronze, woods, resin and clay. Hitchcock died in 2003.
John S. Fawcett, who taught picture book illustration, graphic design and a variety of other classes at UConn from 1964 to 1996, created a cartoonish Jonathon the Husky with a paintbrush in his hand. He had been hired to develop a graphic design and illustration program at UConn. Fawcett’s design was used on the UConn Art Department’s promotional flyers and t-shirts, which are now a part of the exhibit.
Cynthia Reeves Snow taught at UConn from 1948 to 1977. Snow was featured in many solo shows and won dozens of awards in region-al and national exhibits. Her works in the current exhibit are abstract watercolors.
David Kelly still creates
art today. He focused most-ly on photography classes while working at UConn, but also taught two-dimen-sional design, basic three-dimensional design and three-
dimensional construction. Kelly contributed various black and white photos to the Benton’s exhibit, among a few other pieces.
“In Retrospect : Art
Department Faculty Emerti, 1961-2001” will be on dis-play at the Benton until Dec. 18.
1950Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assas-sinate President Harry S. Truman in Washington, D.C. Truman escaped unscathed.
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This weekend I traveled home to attend my niece’s Baptism and ended up being hit by the insane winter storm that I’ve now termed “power outage take two: mother nature strikes back.”
I’m two hours and just over 100 miles away from campus as I write this, snowed in and without power, water and, most importantly, heat. I’m using the little battery I have left on my laptop to tell you of my woes.
If you remember back to when Tropical Storm Irene hit, I was one of the lucky ones on campus who never had to be without power. But my family back home in southern Connecticut wasn’t as lucky that time and had to be without power for nearly a week. Now it looks as though it will again be sever-al days before my hometown will have power back.
When Irene hit, I was pre-pared and ready with my flash-lights, extra batteries, cases of water and anything else I thought I might need. And by my bedside was a stack of books to keep me entertained.
Now, as I sit here in mul-tiple layers of clothing and stare out my window to see over a foot of snow on the ground, I will confess that I wasn’t as prepared for this power outage as the last.
What I did have was can-dles, lots and lots of candles, lit and ready for me to con-tinue through the “Stephanie Plum” series. So last night as I watched the snow fall for hours upon hours, I wrapped myself up in blankets, sat by my candlelight and finished another book in the series.
The only problem was, it didn’t feel right. There I was, reading the thirteenth book in a series I’ve become obsessed with and all I wanted to do was read something about Christmas and winter holidays.
It only feels right that when there is snow falling and I’m wrapped in fleece blankets, that it is time to start reading holiday novels.
Perhaps there is a right time for every book you read. It just wouldn’t be as enjoyable reading “A Christmas Carol” during the month of July when its swel-tering hot outside or any of “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” novels in December while snowflakes are falling and snowmen are being built.
I’m not sure if it’s just me, but I like coordinat-ing what books I’m reading with the mood I’m in and a lot of the time my mood is altered by the season, weather and holidays. For instance, around Halloween is a prime time for read-ing a Stephen King novel. And if you’re ever alone on Valentine’s Day, any good romance by Nora Roberts or Nicholas Sparks is a good companion for the night.
With this type of inconsis-tent, freakish weather, it’s not only people’s power that continues to flicker on and off, but the ability to choose the right novel for that par-ticular moment. I’m not sure whether to read Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” in tribute to Halloween or start read-ing “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” to make myself feel better about the frigid cold and mounds of snow in my driveway.
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By Alessandra Petrino Campus Correspondent
Beating thestorm with a wealth of literature
The golden years of art
Spank Rock performs for lively crowd in N.Y.
Bass bumping, sweat drop-ping, booty bouncing, lights flashing: just a summary of Spank Rock’s performance at the Brooklyn Bowl on Oct. 29. Touring with Big Freedia and the Divas, The
Death Set, Pictureplane and Franki Chan in the Check Yo Ponytail Tour, Spank Rock delivered a powerful show to a crowd of fans.
The Brooklyn Bowl is a bowling alley in the not-so-finer part of Brooklyn. Amidst decrepit buildings and untamed roads, the Bowl
stands as a large brick build-ing with no windows – just as sketchy as its surround-ings. Once you get past the big black doors, the scenery completely changes. With a 16-lane bowling alley, a 600-capacity performance venue with live music seven nights a week and food pro-
vided by the Blue Ribbon, the Bowl redefines the enter-tainment experience for the 21st century. The bowling lanes themselves are adorned with big leather couches as seats and the alley is hardly separated from the venue itself – simply a barrier with a set of stairs between the
two. The venue is an open dark wood floor, with the stage elevated only slightly from the crowd’s level.
The concert began right at midnight, promising to last late into the night in the city that never sleeps. The four artists touring with Spank Rock took the stage first. They set the mood with their hyped music, coupled with fog and strobes from the stage – something the crowd easily swayed back and forth to. Big Freedia and the Diva Sisters put on a very good show. It got really difficult to keep my footing amongst the danc-ing crowd (then I figured; if you can’t beat em’, join em’). But when Spank Rock appeared on stage, I was part of the crowd cheering and dancing away to his rhymes and beats. The thrill of feeling the bass through-out my body and the haze all around me, with peo-ple experiencing the same thing as a collective mass of music lovers singing out the words to songs that lent them an eclectic feeling stayed with me throughout the whole show, and even after it ended.
Even in the midst of the unusual snowstorm on Saturday, the concert lasted till after 3 a.m., but that didn’t tire out most of the concert-goers, who hardly wanted the show to be over. After grabbing a late night bite at the Blue Ribbon, and taking one last glance at the one of a kind venue, I made my way out.
By Zarrin AhmedCampus Correspondent
By Lily RhodesCampus Correspondent
Museum displays creations by past UConn professors
Students peruse one of the exhibits at the William Benton Museum of Art, which is located on campus. Two new displays were unrevealed at the museum last week: a collection of emerti works and a montage of paintings and photographs by Barkley L. Hendricks.
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Rapper Naeem Juwan, better known as MC Spank Rock, performs at his release party. Juwan started his music career in Philadelphia’s bustling rap and hip-hop scene, and has recently found a solid fan base along the East Coast.
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» CONCERT
Johnny Depp’s newest cre-ation premiered this week-end called “The Rum Diary,” originally based on the novel of the same name by Hunter S. Thompson.
A constant shortage of rum was not the problem in this film, as Puerto Rico in 1960 is seemingly flowing with it. Paul Kemp, Depp’s charac-ter, moves down in search
of a newspaper job after his attempts at novel writing
have failed. Along the way he moves in with his colorful coworkers Sala (Rispoli) and Moburg (Ribisi), who some-times care more about the rum than keeping their job.
When Sanderson (Eckhart) starts following Kemp and trying to persuade him to join his side, it’s unclear why Kemp’s reputation pre-ceded him and made him eligible to Sanderson. Of course this slightly less legal side of newswriting also introduces Kemp to Chenault (Heard) and combined with the excess money, new cars and rum, Kemp considers.
It’s entertaining to watch Kemp try to survive in this different culture and the trou-ble that he and Sala get into while drunk. In one instance involving their own distilled liquor, breathing fire and a car chase, the men end up in court handcuffed to an unknown drunken man.
It’s hard not to laugh out loud with the trials and trib-ulations that these men go through with Sala’s car, which gets ransacked after they are arrested. Or when they put too much stake in chicken fight-ing, trying to increase their odds by having the chicken magically protected.
Watching Kemp learn more about the corruption in Puerto Rico is by far one of the most interesting aspects of the movie. He is fasci-nated by the stark contrast between the monstrosities of hotels and the starvation of the local people. But his boss at the sinking paper doesn’t want to print stories like that. When Sanderson wants him to write strate-gic articles so people will embrace the Americans tak-ing over another untouched island, Kemp’s first reaction is to stop drinking.
The film provides viewers with a look into the politi-cal, cultural and correctional aspects of life in Puerto Rico in the 1960s. It makes one more appreciative of the sys-tems in America.
The serious disappointment in this movie comes not from any of the actors, but from the writers. Just as Kemp is about to print one last copy of the newspaper and decide where his loyalties lie, the movie is suddenly over. The climax is never played out but written in words across the screen at th end. Of course it ends the way we wanted it to, but unnecessary scenes could’ve made way for the actual end-ing.
Overall, a powerful mes-sage of America’s cultural excess and domination is stylistically conveyed. Depp fans will not be disappoint-ed, as he embodies Kemp as he characteristically should, with small comparisons to his “Pirate of the Caribbean” appearances.
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shortcomings and mundaneness?If you’re looking for a movie
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I’ve got beef with the way Hollywood puts together trail-ers. They give away the best parts of the movie, sometimes to the point of ruining the plot. But sometimes very infre-quently a director successfully crafts a teaser that simultane-ously intrigues an audience without sacrificing its mys-tique. Here are eight examples that deserve tribute.
1. “Jurassic Park” (1993). Using no actual footage of Steven Spielberg’s dinosaur epic, this teaser pulls the viewer in by pre-senting as little information as possible. All you get is Spielberg, dinosaurs and a logo.
2. “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me” (1999). Debuting the same summer as “Star Wars: Episode I,” this trailer capitalizes on the other film’s hype while preserv-ing its own goofy, whimsical sense of humor: “If you see one movie this summer, see “Star Wars.” If you see two, then see “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me!”
3. “The Lord of the Rings” (2001-03). Although Peter Jackson did not exactly break ground by planning on splitting this film in three, he did a great job at rousing hype by giving the dates for each of them: Christmas ‘01, ‘02 and ‘03. As you know, it was a massive success.
4. “Cloverfield” (2008). People were convinced that “mystery box” man J. J. Abrams was behind this monster mash. And he was, but just as producer. Audiences knew only that there was a party going on in New York City, and that something horrible was about to destroy it in a way.
5. “WALL•E” (2008). Pixar sure knows how to turn an unlike-ly story into something special. Who would have thought that a weird tale about a lowly clean-up robot could be so intriguing? The teaser depicts WALL•E collecting garbage and staring up at the stars, and it instantly hooks you.
6. “The Dark Knight” (2008). As one of the most anticipated films of its time, this sequel to “Batman Begins” gave audi-ences only the Batman symbol and some voice overs. At only a minute long, this trailer man-ages to highlight the mob sub-plot, Bruce Wayne’s tough deci-sion, and the Joker’s horrify-ing laughter. If you didn’t have chills after that, then you’re made of stone.
7. “Up” (2009). It’s difficult to get more minimalist than this teaser, which begins with some balloons floating up a blue sky, then finally Mr. Frederickson’s flying house. The old man then cheerfully greets the audience, and it’s over. Sure, the preview gives no inkling of the dark story to follow, but that’s the magic of surprise.
8. “Super 8” (2011). This is the movie you likely thought of when you saw this article’s title. J. J. Abrams’ homage to Spielbergian coming-of-age stories shocked audi-ences with a stunning train crash, leaving them only with the sight of a steadily crum-pling boxcar door. You knew something big was in there, but you’d only find out if you went and saw the movie. Nothing puts people in theater seats like a cliffhanger.
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The artistry in making a teaser trailer
After “Shrek Forever After,” last year’s debacle of a sequel that basically killed the “Shrek” franchise, the folks at Dreamworks must have been angry they over-worked their golden goose. And just under a year-and-a-half later, they had the nerve to continue it with “Puss in Boots,” a spinoff featuring the only under-utilized char-acter in the series.
Luckily for audiences, Puss came to the silver screen prepared, and his very own film uses what made “Shrek” and its first sequel so good, the smart humor, great characters and fantastic animation, to create a movie that can hold its own, and even excel, against the films that came before it.
The titular cat, voiced with great enthusiasm by Antonio Banderas, romps through a plot that reveals his past as an orphan, befriend-ing Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifinakis, very mediocre). Betrayed when the bad egg fails to rob the local bank, Puss must live as an outlaw for seven years, at least until he learns of Jack and Jill’s magic beans. Joining forces with Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek) and his oval-shaped former ally, the boot-wearing cat must outsmart his foes if he is to steal the Goose with the Golden Eggs.
Nearly every part of that plot was taken liberally from fairy tales, but while “Puss” jumbles the details, the plot’s never worse than “interesting” and often reaches heights not seen in the series since “Shrek 2” (but considering “Kung Fu Panda 2” and “How to Train Your Dragon,” it’s sec-ond-tier when it comes to Dreamworks).
A few setpiece scenes are really impressive, especially considering the great ani-mation and fantastic use of color. Though, like many oth-
ers, “Puss in Boots” neuters the extra dimension at times with poorly-lit night scenes, the film makes up for it, especially shining mid-film as the characters ride a grow-ing magic beanstalk into the sky. Of special note are the visual jokes; the pristine CGI is perfect for the dumb-but-funny gags the Dreamworks writers snuck in.
The best part of the film, though, is the respect it gives its
main character. Puss is a fully formed character and is given full reign of his own spinoff, thankfully not even referring to the characters without whom the movie wouldn’t exist. Allowing the cat to strike out on his own removes any crutches that might have taken away from the story, and the action scenes are all the better for it. Shrek and Donkey never had any fights as interesting as Puss, and whether he’s mak-ing wisecracks, seducing house
cats (admittedly a bit strange) or having captivating sword fights (including a dance-fight with a mysterious assailant in an all-cat bar), he’s more than interesting enough to deserve his own film.
“Puss in Boots” is a sur-prisingly great time at the movies, and, usually, I’d mention something about it being a surprise coming from Dreamworks. Of course, this is not the time to do it, as it’s the first year in a long time the company’s beaten Pixar. It’s got a few flaws, consid-ering it wastes Galifinakis, drags on at least 10 minutes too long, and it has got the prerequisite animated-animal dance party that seems to be required in half of these films, but otherwise it’s a fun romp. At the very least, it’s got more to it than “Cars 2.”
Antonio Banderas is the voice behind the sword-weilding kitty who is the central focus of ‘Puss in Boots.’ The character of Puss was first featured in the movie ‘Shrek 2’ but has now led to the creation of a separate, successful franchise.
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Depp tackles another Thompson odyssey
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Amber Heard (left) and Johnny Depp (right) star in Bruce Robinson’s ‘The Rum Diary.’ The film, which takes place in Puerto Rico, is based on a novel by Hunter S. Thompson.
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6.5/10
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Co-hosts, from left, Ann Curry as Kate Middleton, Kathie Lee Gifford as Princess Beatrice, Matt Lauer as Prince William, left, and and Al Roker as Prince Harry, are shown on the NBC “Today” television program’s annual Halloween show, in New York, Monday.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) – A fed-eral judge has ruled that two street performers can argue their constitutional rights were violated when they were detained on a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk by casino security guards, accused of trespass-ing and turned over to police, although they weren’t charged with a crime.
U.S. District Judge Philip Pro dismissed allegations of false imprisonment, bat-tery, infliction of emotional distress and negligent train-ing in the civil rights law-suit filed by Jason Perez-Morciglio and his brother, Sebastian Perez-Morciglio.
But the judge’s Oct. 25 ruling kept alive claims that police violated the broth-ers’ constitutional First Amendment free speech, Fourth Amendment unlaw-ful arrest and detention and 14th Amendment due pro-cess rights.
“Confusion reigns amongst line officers when confronted with casino property own-ers claiming rights to the sidewalks on the Strip,” the judge wrote, adding that Clark County Sheriff Douglas Gillespie was aware of the confusion and a jury at trial could reasonably find the sheriff was “deliberately indifferent” to the risk that the current policies and train-ing were inadequate.
The siblings’ June 2010 lawsuit named Gillespie, the Venetian Casino Resort LLC, several casino security guards and Las Vegas police. A spokesman for the Venetian declined comment Monday about the case.
Jason Perez-Morciglio per-forms for tourists on Strip
sidewalks as a Zorro-like ban-dit, and his brother performs as Darth Vader. With the backing of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, they contended that Las Vegas police aren’t properly trained to handle free speech conflicts on the sidewalk.
The judge dismissed the brothers’ constitutional claims against the Venetian, rejecting the ACLU conten-tion that the Venetian secu-rity officers were state agents acting under color of state law when they arrested the brothers in January 2010.
But he allowed the broth-ers to continue their claims against the resort that excessive force was used to remove them from the sidewalk and that the resort lacks authority to remove the public from the side-walk. The judge pointed to a decade-old ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that the sidewalk in front of the Venetian is public.
“Venetian defendants have no right to exclude members of the public from the public sidewalk,” Pro ruled.
While the judge dismissed First Amendment violation allegations against the offi-cers personally, he allowed the claims to stand against the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
The police department scored a victory in the ruling when Pro dismissed allega-tions that it has a “policy or custom of violating First Amendment rights” along the Strip. “Rather, the evidence shows that while some offi-cers will support the casinos, others will support the street performers,” Pro said.
U.S. District judge keeps Vegas street performers’ First Amendment case
» JUSTICE
BEIJING (AP) – A Hollywood studio on Monday defended its decision to film part of a buddy comedy in a Chinese city where a blind activist is being held under house arrest, saying it advo-cates human rights and that engaging China in business could bring positive results.
Relativity Media is shoot-ing part of the comedy, “21 and Over,” in Linyi, a city in Shandong province where the activist Chen Guangcheng’s village is located. Authorities have turned Chen’s village of Dongshigu into a no-go zone,
where activists, foreign diplo-mats and reporters have been turned back and threatened.
Rights activists have criti-cized Relativity’s choice of Linyi as a location and the way it touted its close gov-ernment connections in a press release last week.
Relativity said Monday in an emailed statement: “From its founding, Relativity Media has been a consistent and out-spoken supporter of human rights and we would never knowingly do anything to undermine this commitment.”
Relativity said it was also
proud of its growing business relationships in China. In August, Relativity said that it will distribute future films in China through a joint ven-ture called Sky Land, which it owns with two other com-panies. Sky Land recently announced an alliance with one of the Chinese govern-ment’s official film distribu-tion agencies, Huaxia Film Distribution Company.
“As a company, we believe deep-ly that expanding trade and business ties with our counterparts in China and elsewhere can result in positive outcomes,” Relativity said.
The incident points to the potential risks of engag-ing with the Chinese gov-ernment to improve one’s chances of tapping into one of the movie industry’s most coveted yet most inacces-sible markets.
Hollywood studios oper-ating in China have been frustrated for years by a de facto quota of 20 foreign blockbusters a year.
Relativity describes “21 and Over” as a comedy about two childhood friends who drag their buddy out to cel-ebrate his 21st birthday.
Hollywood studio defends filming in Chinese city against rights activists
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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Dr. Conrad Murray heard his own expert witness tes-tify Monday that he wouldn't have accepted payment to do what Murray did for Michael Jackson – administering a hospital anesthetic in the star's bedroom.
"I wouldn't even consid-er it," Dr. Paul White said. "It's something no amount of money could convince me to take on."
The use of the drug propo-fol to treat Jackson's insomnia was "a complete off-label use of the drug," he said. White also acknowledged that the drug should never be given outside a medical facility because of the need for proper lifesaving equipment.
White, a highly regarded and now-retired anesthesiolo-gist, is sometimes referred to as "the father of propofol" for his early research on the drug. But on Monday he was a less than respected figure, drawing criticism from the prosecutor and censure from the judge who threatened to fine him $1,000 for contempt of court.
White came under a bruis-ing cross-examination by prosecutor David Walgren who attacked the expert's recent claim that Jackson caused his own death. Walgren questioned White's scientific calculations and noted he once led the defense to think Jackson drank an extra dose of propofol.
White acknowledged he had done no research on that the-ory when he posed it. A study later showed the theory to be unsupportable, he said.
While stopping short of blaming Murray for the singer's death, White blurted out during cross-examina-tion that he believed Murray had loaded a syringe with the drug propofol and left it where Jackson could have gained access to it.
That scenario had not been offered before and it could explain how a groggy Jackson could have awakened from sedation, grabbed the syringe and injected the drug into his IV line.
Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor told White outside the jury's presence to stop trying to sneak in references to private conver-sations he had with Murray. The witness had suggested his opinions were partially based on what Murray told him, but those talks are not in evidence.
At one point Monday, White said he had been told by Murray that Jackson had his own stash of propofol beyond the hundreds of bot-tles of the drug that Murray had purchased and shipped to his girlfriend's apartment. Pastor warned White not to try to bring up the conversa-
tions or other excluded infor-mation again.
"It's deliberate and I don't like it," Pastor said. "It's not going to happen again."
But by the end of the morn-ing the judge said White had violated his order. Outside the jury's presence, he chas-tised the witness for tell-ing the jurors at one point: "I'd like to talk to you about this but the judge told me I couldn't."
He said he considered that remark direct contempt of court but would allow White to explain at a contempt hear-ing on Nov. 16 before he imposes the $1,000 fine.
White was repeatedly ques-tioned about the ways in which Murray had broken guidelines and rules governing the use of propofol. Walgren confronted the witness with excerpts from his own writings in textbooks which set down rules that Murray broke by administering the drug in Jackson's bedroom.
Murray, who has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter, has acknowl-edged he was giving Jackson doses of the anesthetic pro-pofol in the singer's bedroom as a sleep aid. He told police that he left Jackson's room for two minutes on June 25, 2009, and returned to find the pop superstar unresponsive.
White said in forming his opinions, he assumed Murray was out of the room much longer, making phone calls.
The retired anesthesiologist also said he would not leave the room if he were treating a patient who had indicated he liked to inject propofol into himself, as Murray claims that Jackson had told him.
"Have you ever adminis-tered propofol in someone's bedroom?" Walgren asked.
"No, I have not," White replied."Have you ever heard of
someone doing that prior to this case?" the prosecutor asked.
"No, I have not," White responded.
White said he has been paid $11,000 for his work for the defense so far.
White's testimony has put him at odds with his col-league and longtime friend, Dr. Steven Shafer, who testi-fied for the prosecutor. Shafer said White's self-administra-tion theory is not supported by the evidence in the case, in his view, and he called the theory "crazy" during his testimony earlier this month.
White and Shafer were colleagues at Stanford University and conducted research on propofol before it was approved for use in U.S. operating rooms in 1989. Both help edit a leading anes-thesia journal. Until White's retirement last year, both were practicing anesthesiologists.
Shafer may be called as a rebuttal witness later in the trial, which is now in its sixth week.
Witness: Jackson's physician failed to
follow protocol
» JACKSON TRIAL
LONDON (AP) – Prince Charles will keep his lit-tle-known veto over some planned laws, a power that dates back to the Middle Ages, after the British gov-ernment said Monday it was not going to rewrite ancient constitutional rules.
New evidence that the heir to the throne has been playing an active political role has touched a nerve among anti-monar-chists, but Prime Minister David Cameron's office said it did not plan reforms.
Parliamentary records show that Prince Charles has been consulted over at least 12 dif-ferent planned laws over the last six years, with his con-sent sought over proposals on subjects including gambling, road safety, London's 2012 Olympics and housing.
Concern was raised after The Guardian newspaper published a letter obtained under a free-dom of information request showing that Parliamentary officials had reminded a House of Lords member that a pro-
posed law would need consent from the prince.
Since around the mid-1330s, the Prince of Wales – who was then Edward of Woodstock, also known as the Black Prince – has been asked to approve legislation that could affect the Duchy of Cornwall, the 136,000-acre (55,000-hectare) estate established by Edward III to provide income for the heir to the throne.
Cameron's office said con-stitutional law dictates that Charles is currently consulted over laws that could potential-ly have an impact on the duchy, or on his interests in Wales or Chester. Charles is Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall and the Earl of Chester.
"If it is something that is spe-cific to the Principality of Wales, the Earldom of Chester or the Duchy of Cornwall, then that consent is required and it's long been the case," a spokeswoman for Cameron said, speaking on customary condition of ano-nymity in line with policy.
Queen Elizabeth II – who has a ceremonial role in granting approval to every law passed by Parliament – must also offer consent to legislation that affects her personal property or heredi-tary revenues, Britain's Cabinet Office said.
Neither Cameron's spokes-man nor Prince Charles' office would say wheth-er the prince had vetoed any planned legislation or demanded alterations.
"This is not about seek-ing the personal views of the prince but rather it is a long-standing convention in relation to the Duchy of Cornwall, which would have applied equally to his prede-cessors," the prince's office said in a statement.
Opponents said the disclosure threatened to undermine Britain's democracy and muddied the con-ventions under which the royal family are expected to refrain from involvement in day-to-day politics.
"That such a loophole exists shows our constitution
is fundamentally antidemo-cratic," said Graham Smith, spokesman for Republic, which campaigns for the abo-lition of the monarchy.
Prince Charles has been known to publicly air his views on environmental issues, warning in 2008 of what he claimed were the dan-gers of genetically modified crops. He also successfully lobbied developers to switch their plans for a glass-and-steel tower on the site of a former London army barracks to a more conservative archi-tectural style.
Last week, Britain won agreement from 15 other Commonwealth nations where the queen is head of state to modernize ancient royal suc-cession laws. It means prin-cesses will now have the same right to the British crown as their male siblings.
But Cameron's spokes-woman said reforms wouldn't extend to changing the pro-cess for consultations over proposed laws.
LONDON (AP) – The Who's Pete Townshend on Monday branded Apple Inc.'s iTunes a "digital vam-pire" that profits from music without supporting the art-ists who create it.
Townshend said that faced with the Internet's demoli-tion of established copyright protections, iTunes should offer some of the services to artists that record labels and music publishers used to provide. These include employing talents scouts, giving space to allow bands to stream their music and paying smaller artists direct-ly rather than through a third party aggregator.
The guitarist was delivering the first John Peel Lecture, named in honor of the influ-ential British radio broad-
caster who died in 2004.Townshend asked if there
was any reason iTunes "can't provide some aspect of these services to the artists whose work it bleeds like a digital vampire" to make money.
ITunes declined to respond to Townshend's comments.
Apple's service is the market leader among legal download ser-vices, accounting for about three-quarters of music downloads.
Townshend said consum-ers, as well as the industry, needed to change their atti-tude to digital music.
"It would be better if music lovers treated music like food, and paid for every help-ing, rather than only when it suited them," he said.
"Why can't music lovers just pay for music rather than steal it?" he said.
Townshend: iTunes a 'digital vampire'
» MUSIC BUSINESS
Ancient rules allow prince to veto planned amendement for UK laws
» THE ROYALS
MGM, Boyd could offer poker on the web with bwin.party
LAS VEGAS (AP) – Casino operators MGM Resorts International and Boyd Gaming Corp. are teaming with a major European online poker opera-tor to prepare to offer Internet gambling in the United States if it's ever explicitly legalized.
The casino companies and Gibraltar-based bwin.party digital entertainment plc said Monday that if U.S. law chang-es – as many in the industry hope – each of the three com-panies would take a stake in a new entity that would run online gambling under Party Poker and other brands.
Bwin.party's co-CEO, Jim Ryan, told The Associated Press that his company, which owns the World Poker Tour, has been hoping to return to the U.S. Bwin.party stopped offering online poker here after a 2006 law made it ille-gal to for banks to process funds for the activity.
"We have been putting in place the foundation, if you will, to re-enter the market,"
Ryan said.The deal will help the com-
panies build a large enough pool of players to make the business profitable, he said.
Bwin.party, formed ear-lier this year when online poker operator Party Gaming merged with online sports betting company bwin Interactive Entertainment. The combined company is the largest publicly traded online gambling company; together, their net revenue last year was 814 million euros. Party Gaming had half the U.S. market before it left in 2006.
Ryan said bwin has been preparing for scrutiny from gambling regulators.
Not all online gambling stopped in the U.S., and sev-eral poker websites flourished after the 2006 law passed. But the Justice Department has cracked down on several top sites, including PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker, accusing their execu-tives of money laundering
and fraud.MGM Resorts CEO Jim
Murren said it will be impor-tant to have tough new online poker laws because companies that now offer poker online to Americans have hurt the entire gambling industry's reputation.
"Whenever there's a prob-lem anywhere, it reflects poorly on the gaming indus-try, of which we are a major player," Murren said. "The federal government needs to address this. It cannot wish it away."
Ryan said he thought his com-pany did the right thing in leav-ing, even as the other operators appeared to flourish.
"Did we sit back and watch in envy and knowing full well that we (had) had 50 percent of the market at that point? Perhaps, but we never ques-tioned our decision," he said.
The companies are pushing for legalization at the federal level. They still would pursue online poker if only states legalize it, but it's not clear
whether state-by-state leg-islation would comply with federal laws.
In addition to setting up the new entity, MGM Resorts and Boyd plan to use bwin.party software to run online poker sites under their own brands.
Boyd CEO Keith Smith told the AP he thinks it's important for the companies to be able to move quickly if the law changes, to be first to jump on a U.S. online market that once generated as much as $6 billion yearly in revenue.
"We want our investors to know we've been aggressive in positioning the company," Smith said.
MGM Resorts owns part or all of 18 casinos in Nevada, Mississippi, Michigan and Illinois.
Boyd owns 17 casinos in Nevada, New Jersey, Mississippi, Illinois, Indiana, and Louisiana.
Bwin.party is licensed in France and Italy and is pursu-ing online gambling licenses in Spain and Denmark, Ryan said.
Casino industry representatives play in a mock online tournament during the G2E conference in Las Vegas. The commercial casino industry wants Congress to drop proposals already on the table for regulating the estimated $6 billion online poker industry.
AP
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The field hockey team is 16-1 and will play Louisville in the Big East semifinals at Syracuse Saturday. UConn, a usual lock to play in the Big East tourna-ment championship game, has been the victim of early upsets in the NCAA tournament. Nancy Stevens, perhaps one of the most overlooked and underappreciat-ed coaches on this campus along with baseball coach Jim Penders, is still searching for her first national championship ring.
Will she finally be able to put a ring on it?
We’ll see.
The women’s basketball team isn’t No. 1 in the country. The Huskies aren’t selected to win the Big East. Maya Moore isn’t walking through the door. It’s an ominous feeling. Still, UConn is revamped and reloaded. Many pieces from last season’s puzzle return. Caroline Doty will be back on the court.
Will the Huskies exact revenge on Notre Dame and return to the throne of women’s basketball?
We’ll see.The No. 4 men’s basket-
ball team opens play tomor-row night. The reigning nation-al champions are banged up. Andre Drummond is hurting. So
are Enosch Wolf and Michael Bradley. Questions surrounding conference realignment and the Academic Progress Rate have marred the preseason. Forget about that stuff. November is a month to celebrate the defend-ing champs. It’s time to live in the present. Worry about 2013 when the year comes.
Will UConn repeat in 2012?We’ll see.Finally, Wale releases his sec-
ond album, “Amibition,” today.Will “Ambition” be better than
“Attention Deficit?”We’ll see.
from WE'LL, page 14
McDonough: Huge month for Huskies
Keenum is making a Case for Heisman. Case Keenum, that is. And by Heisman I’m talking about the prominent Heisman Trophy, which is supposed to be handed out to “the most out-standing player in college foot-ball.” Now, I realize Houston plays in Conference-USA and will probably never get a real-istic shot to play in a BCS bowl game this season. After doing some research, I have found that only one winner of the prestigious award did not play in the national championship game since 2003, and that was a young fellow by the name of Tim Tebow. All of the win-ners not only had extremely successful individual seasons, but their teams also had amaz-ing records, practically all of their games were broadcasted on national television, and they had the opportunity to be in the spotlight from day one.
The fact that Keenum doesn’t play for an Oklahoma or LSU-type program says nothing about the sensational skill level he possesses and the gaudy stats he puts up week-in and week-out, however. The best school that recruited Case was Baylor, and they didn’t even offer him a scholarship. So he took what he was given, became a Houston Cougar, and the rest is history. Keenum has already set the all-time mark for career touchdown passes (139) and, with four contests (plus a bowl game) still remaining, the gunslinger needs just 267 yards to become the NCAA’s leader in career passing yards.
According to ESPN’s Heisman Watch, the redshirt senior isn’t even currently in the top five candidates. Yet Houston is 9-0, ranked No. 13 in the BCS standings, and leads the coun-try in yards-per-play, points-
per-game, and total offense. And you think Case is afraid of being placed on a national stage? Against Rice this past Thursday on ESPN, Keenum threw for a jaw-dropping 534 yards and nine touchdowns. So, college football “experts,” rec-ognize the Heisman for what it truly is. I’m not telling any-one to hand the trophy over to Case Keenum right now. What I am saying though is to look up the definition of “most-out-standing,” call your local cable provider to order the Houston game this weekend, and recon-sider your list. This kid is one of the best players in college football. Period.
With a little Luck, Andrew can carry Stanford all the way. Like Case, Luck has a catchy name that allows me to humor my readers. Unlike Case, Luck is quickly becom-ing a household name or, in the situation of the Colts, a clubhouse name. Turn on ESPN and you may see daz-zling highlights of the grizzly-faced junior quarterback using his sense of great vision to torture opposing secondaries. Flip to ESPN2, and you just might catch a great debate over whether or not Indy should trade Peyton Manning and use the first-overall draft pick on the Stanford junior. Andrew Luck is the real deal. He has poise and control beyond his years, knows the time he has in the pocket down to the nearest millisecond, and has his team in great shape to win a national championship. The Cardinal (no typo; there is no “s”) is ranked No. 4 in the nation, sit-ting pretty at 8-0 and, thanks to losses by Clemson and Oklahoma are in the middle of the national picture. In a triple-overtime win against USC on Saturday, Luck had 330 yards and four touchdowns (one
rush) while completing nearly 75 percent of his passes. On Nov. 12, Luck and company get to face No. 8 Oregon in a game that should decide who wins the North Division of the Pac 12. The winner will have New Orleans, sight of the 2011 championship game, in their potential plans. The loser? Well, you don’t want to know.
Oregon and Oklahoma just have to keep getting the “W.” See the above paragraph on the Oregon Ducks. They run the table the rest of the way and beat Stanford handily in the process, and BCS voters will forget all about their opening-night slip-up against LSU. For Oklahoma to get back on track, a date with No. 3 and fierce rival Oklahoma State awaits them in Stillwater on Dec. 3. If OSU still has an unblemished record by then, the game could be as huge as LSU-Alabama this weekend. Neither Oregon nor Oklahoma are out of the race just yet, despite both hav-ing one loss to their name.
A frontrunner needs to emerge in the Big 12 this weekend. In order for the pre-viously mentioned epic show-down to occur, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State must first take care of business this week-end. No. 6 OU takes on a very inconsistent yet talented Texas A&M team, while the No. 3 Okie State Cowboys play host to No. 14 Kansas State. Something tells me both of these clubs from the Sooner State win, and win big.
Being glued to LSU-Bama has to be your sole purpose on Saturday. No. 1 LSU, No. 2 Alabama. Need I say any-more? CBS, 8 p.m. I think that just about covers it. Oh yeah! It’s going to be the game of the year.
from THE CASE, page 14
McCurry: Case Keenum should strongly be considered for the Heisman Trophy
WVU files lawsuit against Big EastMORGANTOWN, W.Va.
(AP)—West Virgin ia University filed a lawsuit Monday seeking an immedi-ate divorce from the Big East so it can become a member of the Big 12 before the 2012 football season.
The Big 12 announced West Virginia’s acceptance on Friday, but the Big East said it would hold the Mountaineers to a pro-vision in the conference bylaws that requires notice of 27 months before a school can withdraw.
The lawsuit asks the Monongalia County Circuit Court to declare the bylaws invalid, claiming that the Big East breached its fiduciary duty to West Virginia by fail-ing to maintain a balance between football-playing and non-football members.
The complaint, which asks for a jury trial, also alleges that the Big East agreed to West Virginia’s immediate withdrawal by accepting a $2.5 million down payment on its $5 million exit fee.
“Absent a Court order permanently enjoining the Big East from enforcing the 27-month notice provision against WVU, WVU has no adequate remedy at law to protect its interests and will suffer continuing and irrepa-rable damages and injury,” the lawsuit says.
Big East Commissioner John Marinatto has said West Virginia is not eligible to join the Big 12 until July 1, 2014.
“We are disappointed that West Virginia has adopted this strategy and cannot imagine why it believes it does not have to respect and honor the bylaws it agreed to as a member of the Big East. Based on an initial review of the lawsuit, it is clear that the allegations and claims in it are false and inaccurate. Certainly there is nothing in it that would justify WVU’s not fulfilling its obligations. To put it simply, a contract is a contract,” Marinatto said in a statement.
“Once we have reviewed the filing, we will explore
all our legal options and will act vigorously to ensure that WVU lives up to all its obliga-tions to our conference. In the meantime, this lawsuit will not interfere in any way with our ongoing efforts to strengthen and expand the Big East.”
West Virginia University spokesman John Bolt declined to comment, saying “the law-suit speaks for itself.”
The lawsuit is the latest development in a flurry of conference realignment activ-ity this fall. Syracuse and
Pittsburgh withdrew from the Big East in September to join the Atlantic Coast Conference.
TCU accepted an invita-tion to join the Big East in September but switched to the Big 12 in October and was not required to honor the 27-month notice requirement.
“That’s basically because they never started with the Big East,” Big East spokes-man Chuck Sullivan said of the Horned Frogs. “Because they had not formally joined the conference, which would
have been July 1, 2012, they were subject only to the finan-cial component.”
West Virginia’s lawsuit says other Big East football mem-bers—Connecticut, Louisville, Rutgers and Cincinnati—“have been engaged in discus-sions with other sports confer-ences,” so when the Big 12 extended its invitation Friday the Mountaineers accepted.
“As the Big East, in less than two months, had deni-grated into a non-major foot-ball conference whose con-
tinued existence is in serious jeopardy, WVU had no choice but to accept the Big XII’s offer,” the lawsuit says.
The complaint says the departures of Pitt and Syracuse left the Big East with only six football members and eight non-football members—an imbalance not contemplated by the bylaws, which there-fore should be declared null and void.
The complaint also alleges that the Big East and its com-missioner ignored recommen-
dations by football members to maintain the league’s level of competitiveness in that sport and advanced the interests of the non-football members.
“This lack of leadership, breach of fiduciary duties by the Big East and its Commissioner, and voting disparity between the foot-ball and non-football schools resulted in the Big East foot-ball conference no longer being a viable and competi-tive football conference,” the complaint says.
Snow falls during the second half of an NCAA college football game between West Virginia and Rutgers in Piscataway, N.J. Saturday. West Virginia won 41- 31.AP
» NCAA
SportsThe Daily Campus, Page 12 Tuesday, November 1, 2011
The 6-8 Barnes was the first freshman selected to the pre-season team, which started before the 1986-87 season. Many felt there was too much pressure on Barnes as the season started, and he did start to play more consistently once confer-ence play began.
“Coming into last year, there was a lot of expecta-tions, but we didn’t know what to expect and we didn’t know how things went,” said Barnes,
who averaged 15.7 points and 5.8 rebounds for an inexpe-rienced North Carolina team. “There wasn’t really anybody we could talk to on the team who had been through that... I think this year we kind of know what to expect. We’re not looking at it as champion-ship or bust. We’re looking at it as go out and play the best basketball we can.”
Jones, who received 33 votes, also thought about leaving for the NBA but he will be back for the Wildcats, who were No.
2 in the preseason Top 25. The 6-9 forward averaged 15.7 points and 8.8 rebounds last season as Kentucky reached the Final Four.
Lamb asserted himself as the season went on and became a key player in the Huskies’ 11-game run to their third national championship. The 6-5 guard, who received 25 votes, averaged 11.1 points and 4.5 rebounds last season.
The last unanimous pick to the preseason All-America team was North Carolina’s Tyler Hansbrough before the
2008-09 season.Besides Barnes, the other
members of last season’s preseason team were Jimmer Fredette of BYU, who went on to become national player of the year; JaJuan Johnson of Purdue, a first-team selec-tion; Jacob Pullen of Kansas State, a third-team pick; and Kyle Singler of Duke, an honorable mention.
The other members of the postseason first team were Nolan Smith of Duke and Kemba Walker of Connecticut.
from LAMB, page 14
On the left, sophomore guard Jeremy Lamb during UConn's 74-67 loss at home in Storrs on Feb. 24. On the right, Lamb drives during UConn's 65-63 win over Arizona in the Elite Eight in Anaheim, Calif. on March 26.JIM ANDERSON, ASHLEY POSPISIL/The Daily Campus
UConn places seventh at Big East TournamentThe UConn women’s cross coun-
try team took part in the 2011 Women’s Big East Cross Country Championship meet at Tom Sawyer State Park on Saturday Oct. 29 in Louisville, Ky. The Huskies, with a total of 165 points, placed seventh as a team. Villanova won with a team score of 54 points and came in ahead of Providence (63), Georgetown (77), Syracuse (92) and West Virginia (92) atop the team standings.
“It took a complete team effort for us to win today, and that is exactly
what happened,” said Villanova’s head coach Gina Procaccio. “Everyone had to set up for us and I am so proud of our runners for getting their job done. It was a great team effort and that is what makes this championship so fulfilling for us.”
As for the Huskies, sophomore Lauren Sara continued to be the lead-er as she concluded the afternoon with an eighth-place finish in a time of 20:16.0, a new season best in the 6k event.
“I thought the meet went really well. Everyone gave their best effort, and we did as much as we could, given the situations we were thrown earlier in the week before the meet,” Sara
said. “I was confident in our team going into the meet because without Shauna, we wanted to rally and do really well for her. And because our team is so deep, we all knew that if everyone stepped up and gave it their all, we would be okay.”
Sara added that she was happy with her performance. “After the race, I was happy with my individual finish and the team as well,” she said. “I think as a team, not finishing as well as we would have liked to gives us even more to work for at regionals and stops us from being too confident and not taking regionals as seriously as needed.”
Following Sara were freshman
Lindsay Crevoiserat and sophomore Allison Lasnicki, who came in 35th in 21.17.7 and 36th in 21:18.4, respec-tively. Completing the top 50 for the Huskies was junior Brigitte Mania in 41st in 21:33.0 and senior Heather Wilson in 48th in 21:42.1. The run-ners to follow were seniors Courtney Dinnan in 56th with a time of 22:04.02 and Meghan Cunningham in 63rd in 22:22.0. Sophomore Cassandra Goutos was next in 86th in 22:52.3 and junior Kimberly Moran finished in the 90th position at 23:00.7.
“A lot of people made some great progress in practice this week and our team is looking really strong,” said sophomore Allison Lasnicki. “Penn
State gave us some momentum and confidence for the Big East meet, but without Shauna, we had a rough race and got our nose bloodied a bit.”
After a few setbacks and falling short of certain expectations, head coach Andrea McDonough and her team look to regroup against powerhouse teams like Villanova, Providence, Georgetown and West Virginia.
“We have no choice but to be nationally ranked if we want to keep up in the Big East,” McDonough said. “I tell them to enjoy it, because mak-ing history like this will never happen again.”
By Krishna ScullyStaff Writer
» NFL
Munchak: Johnson remains Titans’ starter at RB
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)—Tennessee coach Mike Munchak is doing his best to defuse a potential running back controversy.
Munchak made it clear Monday that Chris Johnson remains the Titans’ starter, and he said he sees the running back working harder than ever in a sit-uation where his contract exten-sion created high expectations.
Backup Javon Ringer will continue to play with the num-ber of carries decided during each game.
“He’s handling the situation where expectations are so high I don’t know how he could … unless we’re running for 200 yards a game,” Munchak said of Johnson.
“There’s going to be people questioning what he’s doing just because he’s paid how he is and he’s perceived to be one of the top backs in the league, so people expect an awful lot from him every time he steps on the field. When you come short of that and as a team we struggle, everyone’s trying to figure out what’s wrong. Something must be wrong.”
Well, Johnson helped drive expectations sky high for him-self by leading the NFL in yards rushing between 2008 and 2010. He became only the sixth man in league history to run for 2,000 yards in a season in 2009, and he notched 24 100-yard rushing games through his first three seasons.
Since sitting out the preseason before signing a $53.5 million contract extension worth $30
million guaranteed, Johnson has topped 100 yards only once.
He has been held to 34 yards or fewer four times this sea-son, or what he had through his first three seasons. Johnson said after a 27-10 win over the Colts that he feels fine and hasn’t lost any of his speed, and he felt close to breaking loose on a couple plays.
The questions are going to continue until the Titans (4-3) fix the NFL’s worst running game. The average per game is up from 64.3 to 68.9 after totaling 96 yards against Indianapolis, but easily trails Seattle’s 77.7 yards per game.
The offense looks better with Ringer, an All-American at Michigan State in 2008, who looks stronger and faster than Johnson.
The pressure to get CJ run-ning only increases with each passing week, especially after Ringer had more yards (60) than Johnson (34) on the same amount of carries against the Colts. Ringer also had a team-high five catches for 42 yards.
Munchak said there was no plan to even out the carries between the running backs.
“There’s no rhyme or reason to it right now. If there was, I’d let you know,” Munchak said. “We’re just trying to get some-thing fixed that hasn’t been as productive as we’d like, and we’re not doing anything dif-ferent …. We don’t feel any different about Chris Johnson. All of the above. Nothing’s changing. Our philosophy hasn’t changed.”
Lamb named preseason All-American
Huskies take third at regatta» ROWING
In its final race of the fall season, the UConn rowing team had a good performance Saturday at the Head of the Fish Regatta in Saratoga, N.Y.
Both the varsity eight and junior varsity eight raced well and placed third in their races. Coach Jen Sanford-Wendry said the competition was “a nice way to go into winter training,” adding that she was happy with how all the boats raced this weekend.
The varsity boat finished
behind Williams and William Smith, with a time of 12:12. Junior varsity came in third to Williams and UMass in 12:55.
The varsity four boats got to see their first action of the fall, finishing toward the middle in a race also won by Williams. The 4A boat fin-ished with a time of 14:29 and 4B finished in 14:39.
UConn’s two novice boats also finished middle of the pack in their race. Due to weather conditions and the short fall schedule, this was those crews’ first and only race of the season.
The team will now enter winter conditioning for the next few months in preparation for the longer spring season.
“Novice crews will start mixing with varsity for weights and conditioning, and we are excited about the potential of some of our walk-ons,” coach Sanford-Wendry said. “We are hopeful that this spring they will make a positive contribution to var-sity boats.” She said the main focus this winter will be “fit-ness and conditioning.”
» WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
By Jimmy OnofrioStaff Writer
APNewsBreak: Sabathia has new deal with Yankees
» MLB
NEW YORK (AP)—CC Sabathia decided to stay with the New York Yankees rather than test the free-agent mar-ket, agreeing Monday to a new deal that adds $30 million to his existing contract and will pay $122 million over the next five years.
The 31-year-old left-hand-er had until midnight to opt out of his current agreement, which had $92 million remain-ing over the next four years in $23 million annual salaries.
The new deal adds a $25 million salary for 2016 and
gives the Yankees a $25 mil-lion option for 2017 with a $5 million buyout, a person famil-iar with the agreement told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonym-ity because the Yankees had not yet announced the deal.
“My goal the whole time was to be able to finish my career as a Yankee,” Sabathia said in a video posted on Twitter. “I look forward to seeing everybody out at the ballpark next year.”
The option becomes guar-anteed if Sabathia does not end the 2016 season on the
disabled list because of a left shoulder injury, does not spend more than 45 days of 2016 on the DL with a left shoul-der injury or does not make six or more relief appearances in 2016 because of shoulder issues.
He retains a hotel suite on trips, a no-trade provision and the right to buy tickets.
Sabathia agreed to a $161 million, seven-year deal with New York before the 2009 sea-son. He has gone 59-23 with a 3.18 ERA during the regular season for the Yankees.
Red Sox interview Pete Mackanin for manager’s jobBOSTON (AP)—The Boston
Red Sox are looking for a strong voice in a clubhouse that disinte-grated in September amid reports of players drinking beer and eat-ing fried chicken during games.
Pete Mackanin thinks he might be able to provide it.
“I feel like I have leader-ship qualities and I feel like I can help this franchise get back to where it once was,” he told reporters on Monday night after interviewing to be the Red Sox manager to rebuild from the worst September collapse in baseball history. “Not that it was ever gone from anything, but I guess there was a little hiccup here last year. We’re going to put it behind us and move on.”
The Red Sox opened their managerial search by interview-
ing Mackanin, the Philadelphia Phillies bench coach. Former Boston third base coach Dale Sveum is scheduled for an inter-view on Wednesday, and gen-eral manager Ben Cherington says there could be five or six candidates in the first round of interviews in all.
“It could be more. We’re still working on the rest of that list,” Cherington said.
The Red Sox parted ways with Terry Francona, who won two World Series in Boston, after he admitted losing the clubhouse during a 7-20 September that left the ballclub one game short of the playoffs. Asked if he was more of a players’ manager or a disciplinarian, Mackanin said he was able to be both.
“I think you have to have an ele-
ment of both sides of that in order to be a good motivator,” he said. “I think there’s a juggling act that’s involved in that, where you have to have enough discipline but at the same time let the players play easy. You don’t want them tense.”
Mackanin declined to evalu-ate the team’s collapse, saying he was more worried about the Phillies at the time. He wouldn’t say whether he would allow beer in the clubhouse if he gets the job.
“You know what, I don’t want to go there,” he said. “I’m not at that point yet. I’d rather not discuss that. We can talk about that later.”
A second baseman who spent 548 games over nine seasons with the Rangers, Expos, Phillies and Twins, Mackanin brings a well-rounded resume with him, including work as a minor- and
major-league player, a scout and advance scout, a third base coach, infield and outfield instructor, minor league coordi-nator, “and just about everything except manager.”
He later remembered that he had in fact managed in the big leagues: on an interim basis for the Reds in 2007 and Pirates in 2005. He has also worked in the Expos, Pirates and Yankees sys-tems, as well as in the Caribbean, South America and Australia.
“So I’d like to think it’s time for me to manage at this level,” he said. “I don’t ask (why). My wife asks me all the time. Of course I’ve wondered and I don’t know. Whatever happens happens. I’m good with it. I’m happy to have an opportunity just to have some-body listen to me.”
» MLB
Philadelphia Phillies bench coach Pete Mackanin speaks with reporters after interview-ing for the vacant Boston Red Sox manager position at Fenway Park in Boston Monday.
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TWOPAGE 2 Q :A :
“Was the 2011 World Series the best ever?”
“Are you forgetting about 2001?”
–Andrew Chan, 5th semester economics major.
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» That’s what he said“I think this just feels like it’s time to end it.”
- Cardinals manager Tony La Russa on his retirement, announced days after winning his third World Series championship.
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As bleak as the future looks for the Big East, which has had four members switch league allegiances in the last six weeks, the conference is not necessarily doomed.
The league’s plans to expand westward into Texas, up to Colorado and out to Idaho might seem like a desperation move with less chance of working than that pass Michigan State used to beat Wisconsin, but don’t write the obituary on the Big East yet.
The Big East presidents and athletic direc-tors, along with Commissioner John Marinatto, have a meeting set for Tuesday in Philadelphia. It’s expected that the school leaders will autho-rize Marinatto to begin—finally—officially inviting schools to join the league.
The Big East could soon include Central Florida, SMU and Houston for all sports and Boise State, Navy and Air Force for football only, along with its current five football mem-bers and eight other schools, including Notre Dame, that compete in everything else.
The football lineup with Louisville, Rutgers, Connecticut, Cincinnati and South Florida doesn’t exactly stack up with the power-packed Southeastern Conference or the tradition-rich Big Ten, but that might not matter.
More than anything else, a seemingly insa-tiable appetite for college football on televi-sion might keep the Big East in business.
“Even as we sit here today, as gloomy as it may appear, the Big East can still have a nice outcome for a variety of reasons. Not the least of which is supply and demand,” said Chris Bevilacqua, a New York-based sports media consultant who helped the Pac-12 make its landmark $3 billion television deal with Fox and ESPN earlier this year.
The other five BCS automatic qualifying conferences—the Southeastern Conference, Big Ten, the Big 12, the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Pac-12— are all in the midst of, or are about begin long-term televi-sion deals. All are worth more than a billion dollars, with the Pac-12’s deal setting the standard at $3 billion.
Meanwhile, the Big East is mired in uncer-tainty, and as new Cincinnati athletic director Whit Babcock noted last week, trust among members is “wavering.”
Marinatto has been an easy target for criti-cism for not being proactive and allowing his league to be raided.
West Virginia, which accepted an invitation to the Big 12 last week and expects to join next year, asserted as much in a lawsuit filed Monday. The school is challenging the Big East’s bylaws that require the Mountaineers to stay in the conference for two more years.
If Big East can stay together, TV riches await
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Nov. 19Yale
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP)—Arizona quarterback Kevin Kolb had his right foot in a walking boot on Monday to protect a turf toe injury and said he had “no idea” whether he would be able to play in next Sunday’s home game against the St. Louis Rams.
Kolb was injured early in Sunday’s 30-27 loss at Baltimore but stayed in the game.
“I did some things to help with the pain a little bit,” he said, “then just tried to gut it out and try to come up with a victory.”
If Kolb can’t go, sec-ond-year pro John Skelton probably would get the start. Skelton started four games late last season. A turf toe occurs when the toe is jammed severely, stretching the ligaments.
Kolb said he has had the injury before but not “near this severe.”
Kolb said his initial plans are to work to reduce the swelling and pain, “then as the week goes on give it more and more movement and see what my body allows me to do.”
Kolb, who ran for a first down late in the game, said the injury didn’t affect his mobility so much as it did the velocity of his passes, since he pushes off with his right foot.
“A lot of your power comes from that side of your foot,” Kolb said, “on that leg. When I had to take off and run I didn’t feel it or anything. It prob-ably was just nagging a
little bit but nothing to throw me off my game.”
Consecutive games against two of the best defenses in the NFL, Pittsburgh and Baltimore, has left Arizona’s offense a bit battered. Rookie Anthony Sherman, the team’s only fullback, has turf toe on his left foot. Running back Beanie Wells is playing with a sore knee.
Kolb has been sacked 24 time in seven games. The pressure he faced Sunday was his most severe yet. Of course, since it was Baltimore, that shouldn’t be surprising.
“They run a tough scheme and bring them from a lot of differ-ent places. You’ve got to step up in there and block them,” coach Ken Whisenhunt said. “We
have to get the ball out quicker in some situations. We had opportunities to make them pay yesterday a couple of times, but we weren’t as efficient as we needed to be from a pro-tection standpoint or from getting the ball out. That’s always tough.
“When you add in the noise, knowing your guys are going to be late off the ball, giving them the advantage, it is really a tough situation. I don’t think people appreci-ate how difficult that is. That’s why they’re a good defense and they’re a tough team to play there.”
It was Arizona’s fourth loss by four points or fewer, and this one was especially hard to take. The Cardinals, big underdogs, took advan-tage of two turnovers to score 14 points and take an early 24-3 lead only to see the Ravens run off 24 straight to go on top 27-24. Still, Arizona tied it at 27-27 before giving up a late drive that resulted in a last-second 25-yard field goal by Billy Cundiff to give Baltimore the win.
Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kevin Kolb is sacked during the Cardinals’ 30-27 loss to the Ravens in Baltimore on Sunday.
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Jordan Taylor is in a class by himself on The Associated Press’ preseason All-America team.
The guard from Wisconsin was the only senior on the team Monday. He was joined by four sophomores, including Ohio State’s Jared Sullinger, a unanimous pick of the 65-member national media panel.
Harrison Barnes of North Carolina, Terrence Jones of Kentucky and Jeremy Lamb of Connecticut were the other sophomores.
The 6-foot-1 Taylor averaged 18.1 points and 4.7 assists last season in leading the Badgers to a 25-9 record, third place in the Big Ten and their 13th straight NCAA tournament appearance. He received 51 votes.
“I just hope he doesn’t think he has to score 40 a game this year,” coach Bo Ryan said. “I think we’re going to be in trouble if he does. He doesn’t. He wants to be even more consistent. He wants to be more inclusive with his teammates, maybe in transition. There are different things we’re looking at in trying to get done with a different-sized team maybe on the floor.”
The 6-9 Sullinger was one of the players who decid-ed to pass on the NBA draft. His coach said an impend-ing lockout had nothing to do with him returning.
“He knew what he was going to do from the time he got to Ohio State in the summer,” said Buckeyes coach Thad Matta. “When he told me he was com-ing back, I said, ‘Are you sure? Let’s talk about this.’ I want what’s best for our players. He said, ‘No, there’s no need to do it, I’m coming back.’”
His return has Ohio State at No. 3 in the AP pre-season Top 25, behind two schools also featuring the return of a star.
North Carolina was a runaway choice for No. 1, and Barnes was second to Sullinger in the voting with 63. The Tar Heels’ entire front line is back after thinking about entering the draft.
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» INSIDE SPORTS TODAYP.13: Big East not doomed. / P.12: Sabathia agrees to new deal with Yankees. / P.11: West Virginia seeks immediate divorce from Big East.
We’ll see what happens
Another Halloween is in the books and October is over. Among the month’s highlights were a World Series for the ages and the NHL season getting underway. I’m not sure which event went more unnoticed in favor of Tim Tebow.
Today is the first day of November and this couldn’t be a more exciting time in UConn Country.
It’s make or break time for the football team. They are 3-5 and need to win out to guarantee a bowl for the fifth straight season. The Huskies will have to win three of their last four games to become bowl eligible and to say it will be a tough task is an under-statement. Luckily, UConn spends all over November at home. The Huskies take on Syracuse on Nov. 5 at noon, Louisville on Nov. 19 and Rutgers on Nov. 26 before wrapping up the regular sea-son at Cincinnati on Dec. 3. For those who can’t attend this week-end’s game, they can watch it on ESPNU. Following our game is Ole Miss at Kentucky. After speaking to a legitimate Ole Miss fan this weekend, who had to watch his Rebels fall to 2-6 over-all and 0-5 in the brutally tough SEC, Husky fans shouldn’t be so cynical about our 3-5 team.
Will UConn salvage its season?We’ll see.The most underrated thing
about this school is the depth of its athletics program. This month, the postseason begins for two of the schools best teams; men’s soccer and field hockey. The men’s soccer team has struggled lately, winning only one of its last four games. The Huskies start the Big East tournament this week and are still a favorite to reach the College Cup.
Will Ray Reid and Co. put their recent postseason troubles in the rearview mirror and win a championship?
We’ll see.
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Matt McDonough
LAMB RECOGNIZED AS NCAA’S BEST
Sophomore guard dribbles the ball during UConn’s 78-79 double-overtime loss to Louisville at home at Gampel Pavilion in Storrs on Jan. 29.
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Jeremy Lamb named AP preseason All-American
In the last two weeks alone, a lot has changed in college football. Wisconsin has gone from a national title contend-er to a team now fighting to stay atop the Big Ten. West Virginia, trying to figure out what conference it will repre-sent in the future, flirted with the ACC for a while and now appears to be heading south to the Big 12. Matt Barkley and Case Keenum proved they deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Andrew Luck and, on the flip side of that, No. 3 Oklahoma’s embarrassing loss at home to big-time underdog Texas Tech should be mentioned in the same breath as LeBron in the fourth quarter, Mel Kiper’s hair and Gary McGhee’s perimeter defense. With all that has gone on lately in this wonderful sport, focusing on one topic would be downright offensive. That is why, with the highlight being my boy Keenum, I’ll talk about five things I have learned as we approach week 10. Let’s cut to the chase because, opposite of college football, life doesn’t stop after a first down.
The Case for Keenum
» MCCURRY, page 11
By Mike McCurryNCAA Football Columnist
The UConn women’s hockey team was swept in an away series against Syracuse this past weekend.
On Friday night, the Huskies failed to get on the scoreboard, falling 4-0 against the Orange. UConn was outshot 34-17 on the night, allowing two goals in both the first and third periods. Goalie Nicole Paniccia stopped 30 shots for the Huskies.
In the second half of the weekend series, UConn came out of the gate much stronger, as Stephanie Raithby scored just 8:41 into the contest to give the Huskies a 1-0 advantage. But midway through the third peri-od, still holding a one-goal edge, the Huskies gave up two goals to Syracuse in a span of 25 seconds.
Those two goals would prove to be decisive as the Orange went on to win the game 2-1.
The Huskies were again outshot by the Orange, this time by a 35-21 margin. Alexandra Garcia played between the pipes for UConn, turning away 33 shots on
the afternoon.With the two loss-
es, the Huskies drop to 1-7-2 on the year. UConn is also 1-1 in Hockey East play.
This weekend, the Huskies will play a home-and-home seri-ous against Hockey East rival Northeastern. The first game of the series will take place Friday night in Boston, and then both teams
will make the trip back to Storrs for a Saturday afternoon game. Northeastern is 6-1 on the season and 1-0 in the conference.
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UConn swept by Syracuse over weekend
[email protected] Sophomore forward Jocelyn Slattery skates with the puck during UConn’s 1-0 loss to RPI at home on Oct. 1.
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Huskies go 2-1 at Big East Quad MeetThe UConn women’s swim-
ming and diving team com-peted in the two-day Big East Quad Meet on Friday and Saturday. This meet was hosted by the Huskies, who took on Rutgers, Villanova and Georgetown.
UConn lost to Villanova 197-155 and Rutgers 204-149 but beat Georgetown 286-67. Rutgers beat Villanova 200-153 and Georgetown 297.5-55.5, and Villanova beat Georgetown 267-86.
During day one, junior Danielle Cecco won the 1-meter diving on the wom-en’s side with 305.30 points. Sophomore Kati Kyle won the 100-yard backstroke in
57.46 seconds, while fresh-man Chinyere Pigot won the 50-yard freestyle in 23.56, set-ting a new pool record for the Wolff-Zackin Natatorium.
Going into day two, the UConn women were led by Cecco, who won the 3-meter diving with 325.05 points. Cecco broke both the 1-meter and 3-meter pool records at the Wolff-Zackin Natatorium this weekend.
Cecco, along with sopho-more Grant Fecteau from the men’s team, have already qualified for the end of sea-son NCAA Zone Diving Championships in the 1-meter and 3-meter. It is the first time in school history that divers have qualified for the Zones after the first meet of the year.
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A UConn swimmer competes during the Big East Quad Meet on Friday in Storrs. The meet included UConn, Rutgers, Villanova and Georgetown.
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By Krishna ScullyStaff Writer
