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Women’s Group Food Drive

9 a.m. to 5 p.m.McMahon, International Center

Non-perishable food donations will help supply the Emergency Food Pantry at the Covenant Soup Kitchen, Willimantic, CT during the upcoming holiday & winter season.

Joint UConn PAN/AMO Physics Seminar

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The Little Statute that Could: Celebrating 40 years of Title IX

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discussion about the large impact of this small piece of legislation, locally and nationally, from various perspectives.

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This poetic reading is a benefit for the Covenant Soup Kitchen in Willimantic. Audience members are invited to make a donation after the reading.

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ENERGY AND SOUL FLOW THROUGH JORGENSEN

Across the country, veterans were celebrated for their service.

UConn upsets No. 14 Michigan State in Armed Forces Classic

Chinese major is step in the right direction.

INSIDE NEWS: AMERICANS PAY TRIBUTE TO SACRIFICES OF VETERANS

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A step off campus: the world of the UConn ForestOn the outskirts of cam-

pus, behind Horsebarn Hill, lies part of the UConn Forest. Removed from the hustle and bustle of daily student activi-ties, the forest is home to a myriad of vegetation and animals.

Thomas Worthley, an assis-tant extension professor in the Forestry Program, led a group of 17 through the UConn Forest on Saturday morning and said the inhabiting wild-life has found ways to adapt to Connecticut’s chilly winters.

“While a lot of animals go into hibernation and a lot of birds fly south, there are a few that are with us. They have to have food and they have to have water and shelter,” said Worthley. He explained that creatures have a specific range in which they can oper-ate.

“Wildlife biologists are painfully aware that patch-es of woodland keep get-ting smaller and smaller,” Worthley said. “We work very hard to keep those habitats intact so they have the right size and features.”

“No animal is having trou-ble finding water,” Worthley said, gesturing to the melt-ing snow. “The more pressing matter is food.”

He pointed out both birch and sassafras trees and said

the variation of vegetation in the area creates a haven where birds can find berries, nuts, and insects while reap-ing the benefits of direct sun-light. Japanese Barberry, an invasive plant rampant with ticks infected with the bacte-ria that causes Lyme disease, also occupies the area.

Worthley said he is work-ing with a team to eradicate the Japanese Barberry both to break the cycle of Lyme dis-ease and encourage the growth of a different plant, such as a blueberry bush, instead.

The Connecticut State Museum of Natural History sponsored the event and the Program and Public Information Coordinator, David Colberg, said it seemed everyone on the hike was very engaged. Colberg said the museum’s programs span both cultural and natural history and cover everything from archaeology to astronomy.

“Every weekend is some-thing new and exciting for me,” Colberg said.

Megan Delaney, who moved from San Diego to Mansfield in September, works as the Membership Coordinator at the museum. She said she learned information she did not know about the area.

“It’s interesting to learn about the critters in and around my house,” Delaney said.

As the group made its trek

through the woods, Worthley talked about the struggles of a mouse as compared to those of a bear. He said that although mice cannot trav-el far, the ground’s muddy brown coating of leaves and sticks provide ideal hiding spots. The reverse is true for bears: they might be able to travel acres further than mice, but finding adequate shelter

can be a challenge.“It’s hard for them to find

a place to hibernate in our countryside,” Worthley said. “It’s not like we open our basements to them.”

The mix of adults and chil-dren came to a stop in a shady area. The ground retained its thick brown covering of leaves and not a trace of snow could be found, as if a giant

umbrella had encapsulated the area during the recent storm. Worthley said because the area was dense with trees, and snow did not come through the branches, it was an ideal place for animals to camp out during a snowstorm.

“If you wanted to hike out here during a blizzard, you could find company with the

By Sylvia CunninghamCampus Correspondent

Instructor and guide Thomas Worthley from UConn’s Cooperative Extension System leads a group of hikers through the UConn Forest located behind Horsebarn Hill. Worthley described local plants and aimals, and how they adjust to a winter cimate.

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Lack of halal food on campus disappoints UConn Muslims

Camp Horizons offers students chance to volunteer for credit

Maschal Mohiuddin, a sophomore majoring in biol-ogy and journalism. said he believes the university does not provide enough food ptions for Muslim students that follow Islamic law.

“I’m very disappointed in the halal served on campus,” Mohiuddin said. “The food quality is not good, the meat smells and it makes my life difficult, regarding my nutri-tion, because I am primarily a meat eater.”

Mohiuddin is not alone in her struggle for a proper halal menu. Just last week a con-gregation of students in the Muslim Students Association expressed their discontent with the halal offered on campus.

Halal, in Arabic means “permissible.” It is a term designating any object or an action which is permissible to use or engage in, accord-ing to Islamic law. Muslims are taught through the Qur’an that all animals should be treated with respect and well cared for. They claim that Islamic law aims to keep the world ecology balanced in a stable and healthy way. In terms of food choices, Muslims are not permitted to eat pork, or animals that are slaughtered in the name of god other than Allah, and the use of alcohol is strictly pro-hibited, including alcohols found in common items, such as vanilla extract.

Director of Dining Services C. Dennis Pierce said halal became available eight years

ago on campus around the same time kosher foods were introduced.

“We thought it was the right thing to do,” he said.

Dining Services is owned by UConn but gets no finan-cial support from the univer-sity, generating all revenues from the sale of meal plans. Halal only became possible through donations by a bene-factor in Hartford.

“Halal has been a learning curve,” Dennis said. “For us to change, we need to know what they want.”

When halal first started, Dining Services was able to provide 60 meals per day – that number has since dou-bled. Despite the increase in demand, halal is still only available at one of the eight dining halls, Gelfenbein Commons, on campus. The hours are specific and restricted. Lunch is offered until 2 p.m. while dinner ends promptly at 7 p.m. There is no choice for a halal break-fast.

“The accessibility is not

There is a volunteering oppor-tunity closer to the University of Connecticut than students may think. Camp Horizons, located in South Windham, about a 20 minute drive from campus. The camp creates person-centered opportunities for people with developmental disabilities.

According to the “Camp Horizon” website, “The mission of Horizons is to provide high quality residential, recreational, support and work programs for people who have developmental disabilities or who have other challenging social and emotion-al needs. To fulfill this mission, we are committed to continu-ous improvement in our pro-grams, facilities, and staffing. We understand and respond to the changing needs of program participants, families and com-munities. The Horizons vision serves as a guide to our efforts.”

Many UConn groups decide to volunteer at the camp, espe-cially for one of the “Weekends in the Country.” A “Weekend in the Country” is for any adults with developmental disabilities who comes to the campgrounds from Friday until Sunday on certain weekends and interact with counselors.

“I think volunteering at camp horizons was an amazing expe-rience. I truly felt that my sisters and I were doing something great for the community. It was also a great way to bond and grow closer as an organization.” Said 5th-semester communica-tions major Amanda Lasky, who helped clean up facilities during one of the camp’s “Weekends in

the Country.”In addition to volunteering,

there is an interdisciplinary, or INTD, class at the university that works with people with dis-abilities at the camp for credit.

Kaitlin Latham, is a 7th-semester biology and anthro-pology double major, took the INTD class.

“We created lesson plans that we used when we spent the weekend volunteering as counselors and activity facili-tators,” she said. “My group did ours about cooking and we had the campers make lunch for everyone. We also created a “Jeopardy” game about movies that involved visuals, sounds and questions so almost all the campers could join in.”

Similarly, many students get the opportunity to work with these adults through var-ious jobs provided by Camp Horizons, whether during the year, on weekends or during the summer months.

Krystin Caldarado, a UConn graduate, has worked at Camp Horizons since June of 2008 and believes that the experi-ence has helped her grow as a person. “Working at Camp Horizons has been a great experience,” said Calderado. “Counselors help campers with developmental disabilities enjoy summer camp activities during both the summer and school year. I have learned a lot at Camp Horizons and built life long relationships.”

For more information about volunteering at the camp, visit the Camp Horizon website at horizonsct.org or call (860)-456-1032.

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UConn Dining Services provides halal options, or foods that are permissible to eat under Islamic law. Halal options are available at Gelfenbein Commons in the Towers Residence Hall area. Some Muslim students said there is not enough variety and that the access is limited.

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convenient. I live in the all the way across campus, walk-ing to Towers (Gelfenbein) is not always an option,” said Mohiuddin, who lives in the Alumni Quadrangle.

The Dining Services web-site states that kosher meals are available seven days per week. Halal, however, is not available on Saturday or Sundays.

“In terms of their diet, there are so many other options we don’t feel it’s necessary to offer halal every day,” Pierce said. “When the minority is so minimal it doesn’t require that.”

For a practicing Muslim, this means adopting a veg-etarian diet on the weekends. Fawad Yaqoob, a devout Muslim and junior on campus, said it is unfair that kosher meals are available seven days a week while halal is not.

“The university should be open to all dietary needs at the same time,” he said. “I’ve had to change my lifestyle because I can’t rely on halal.”

Yaqoob’s diet consists mainly of pizza, cheese que-sadillas and salad most days of the week, which he said is influenced by the lack of halal offered on campus.

Another concern Muslims have on campus is the authen-

ticity of the meals. Some of the halal meals

offered have included BBQ chicken with cornbread, Salisbury steak and white bean chicken chili. These are not authentic Middle Eastern cuisines, students said.

“We went for items that met requirements, it was not our intent to provide true Middle Eastern dishes,” Pierce said.

This lack of authentic-ity could also be attributed to the automation of the menu process. Pierce said that the menu is generated by a computer program known as FoodPro, which develops a menu on a four-week cycle.

Changes are coming. Starting this spring UConn has hired Rob Landolphi to be the Certified Culinary Arts Instructor and Culinary Development Manager. He is an author and chef whose most recent book, Quick-Fix Gluten Free, became a best-seller. He will be in charge of “authenticating” the meals offered here on campus. Pierce instructed concerned students to contact the Muslim Student Association in order to express to Landolphi their needs of a more traditional Middle Eastern diet.

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NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — Residents of a Norwalk housing com-plex damaged by Superstorm Sandy got some help cleaning up from about 150 members of the Mormon Church.

The Hour of Norwalk reports that volunteers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints cleaned apartments and scrubbed flood-damaged items at the Washington Village complex on Saturday. They also had to throw out many items that were too damaged to salvage.

Salt water from Long Island Sound flooded lower-level apartments in many buildings at the complex.

Jack McFadden of Wilton, director of public affairs for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, says the volunteers were from Fairfield County and Westchester County, N.Y.

Washington Village resident Kimberly Holley said she was grateful for the volunteers’ help. Floodwaters ruined nearly all her family’s belongings.

East Coast rape suspect: Women were objects

WASHINGTON (AP) — The accused East Coast Rapist says he doesn’t know why he couldn’t stop attacking women for nearly two decades.

“They were objects,” Aaron Thomas told The Washington Post in a series of telephone interviews from his jail cell in Virginia’s Prince William County. “Whoever came down the street, an object. ... It’s awful. It’s scary. ... I don’t know why I couldn’t just stop.”

Thomas said that he doesn’t think he is crazy, but that he knows something is wrong with him.

“I did so much, I can’t remember,” he said, adding that it all blends together.

Thomas, 40, is expected to plead guilty this month for the Halloween abduction of three women in 2009 in Prince William County and a Loudoun county rape in 2001. He faces the possibility of several life terms in prison.

Thomas is the son of a Washington police officer who later committed suicide. Family members described a troubled childhood that included a two-week stay at a psychiatric facility in Georgetown after setting a girl’s hair on fire. He later spent the first three years of high school in an Upper Marlboro treatment center.

Michael Battle, Thomas’s older brother, said their father was a strict disciplinarian.

“You didn’t do anything out of sorts or it was hell to pay. When we started to fight back in our way, problems started. With Aaron, it seemed to go way down a rabbit hole. It went further.”

Thomas once beat another elementary school student with the chain from a playground swing and lit a firecracker indoors at a relative’s home on the Fourth of July, starting a fire, his brother said. Thomas’ mother, Shirley Thomas, said he began misbehav-ing early.

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — Free aid is being offered to Connecticut homeowners who need help with loan modifications, foreclosure prevention and other issues with their lenders.

The state Department of Banking, the governor’s office and the attorney general’s office are offering their latest mortgage assistance event in Waterbury on Nov. 28. It will be held at the Conference Center at CoCo Key from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Representatives from various mortgage lenders and loan servic-ing companies are scheduled to be on hand. The group includes Bank of America, CitiMortgage, Fannie Mae, GMAC Mortgage and others.

Housing counseling agencies, the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, Judicial Branch mediation and other state and nonprofit agencies will be on hand as well.

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deer,” Worthley said. Near the end of the tour,

Worthley stopped at a long vine wrapped around a tow-ering tree. He identified the fuzzy looking plant as poison ivy and said the leaves, the better known characteristic of the plant, were at the very top of the vine to get sunlight. He advised the group to stay away from the plant as even the lower part is poisonous.

Although a few in the group already knew how to recog-nize poison ivy without seeing its trademark leaves, Careen Jennings, a member of the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, said she would not have guessed poi-son ivy could take that form.

Jennings, a retired high school English teacher, said she often goes for hikes in the woods in Storrs.

“I don’t understand all of what I see, so I seek answers,” she said, adding that after Worthley’s explanations, she was able to piece together what she has been seeing on her own hikes all along.

Jennings said people should ask questions, find answers, and appreciate what they learn. She thinks more stu-dents should consider becom-ing members of the museum,

as it offers wonderful and varied opportunities.

“It just makes for a much fuller life if you know a little bit about all these areas,” said Jennings.

Worthley brought the tour to a close at the site of an old ski lift which was abandoned sometime in the 1970s. The clearing featured a platform and benches made of black locust, a legume that is not native to the area but is known for being resistant to rot. He said the benches would not begin to decay for a very long time.

Worthley said learning more about nature can be beneficial as it builds an appreciation to the world around us.

“The more people know about any resource, the more they appreciate it and value it.”

The field activities offered by the museum continues on November 30 with UConn astronomy professor, Dr. Cynthia Peterson, who will teach about Native American sky legends and the moon. Weather permitting, the group will be able to go on top of the roof of the Physics Building to the UConn Observatory.

Tour of UConn Forest teaches participants about

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MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut officials gathered at the state Veterans Cemetery in Middletown on Veterans Day to honor state residents who served in the military and those currently deployed with the Armed Forces.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and other state officials took part in Sunday afternoon’s event, which included a wreath-laying cer-emony. Similar services were held across the country.

Malloy says the service offered an opportunity to recognize the extraordinary work that military veterans have done to safeguard the state and the nation. The governor says immeasurable sacrifices also have been made by the families of those serving in the military.

Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman says it was a time to remember how important it is to support veterans and troops.

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CHICAGO (AP) — The fallen Iraqi soldier’s face is frozen in agony, his eyes and mouth wide open, his arms spread in surrender, his death in the Kuwaiti desert captured for posterity.

The sculpture’s title: “Angel in the Desert.”

Marcus Eriksen was a young Marine sergeant during the Gulf War, riding with a convoy to Kuwait City, when he encoun-tered the Iraqi soldier. It was the first dead body he’d seen. The image was haunting, the experience unforgettable. But it took more than a decade before he started welding the memory into art.

Using a mannequin, an old uniform and plaster cast of his face and hands, Eriksen produced a mold and lined it with 70,000 steel ball bearings. He meticulously rec-reated the scene: the soldier on his back, knees bent. His insides exposed beneath his shirt. And swooping curves in the sand that suggested he’d moved his arms like a kid making snow angels.

This, says Eriksen, is not “an anti-war message. It’s a reality of war message.”

Every November, America honors its veterans with grand parades, speeches and tributes. But more than 350 veterans of Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan have turned to art to preserve more intimate and enduring memories of war, and more than 2,500 of their works have found a home at Chicago’s National Veterans Art Museum.

The modest museum, which focused at first on Vietnam vets but has since expanded, includes paintings, prints, drawings, poetry, photos, sculpture, col-lages and video. Most of the vets are trained artists who’ve used their skills to illustrate harrowing life-and-death expe-riences, explore personal demons and celebrate fallen comrades. This is art that dredges up nightmares for some, and heal-ing for others — Eriksen, among them.

Now 45, he vividly remembers Feb. 24, 1991, when he and about a dozen other Marines stood around staring silently at the dead soldier sprawled 30 feet from his incinerated truck. “No one would cry,” he says. “As a Marine, you just suck it up.”

“Seeing him put a face on the suffer-ing,” Eriksen recalls. “I knew he was dead but his family didn’t. ... All that death and destruction — was it worth it? If you’re going to commit young people to kill and be killed, you have to have a solid reason for it. And I don’t think we had that.”

Eriksen, now an environmental activist in California, began creating his sculp-ture shortly after the first bodies of U.S. troops started coming home from Iraq in 2003. It stirred up emotions of his days in uniform.

“It allowed me to remove the burden of my memories of Kuwait, of all the bodies, of the stench. ... Just making the sculpture ... would bring tons of sadness,” Eriksen says. “I would think about that person and what happened every day. At some point, I thought, ‘Do I want to feel that way the rest of the day?’ Eventually you tell yourself, as I did, no, I’m not going to beat myself up a millionth time. I’m done with that.”

A man with a mustache, a fringe of

brown hair and almost cartoon-like huge brown eyes looks out from the canvas. His lips are a barely defined pink oval. His expression is blank.

Title: Thousand Mile Stare.More than 30 years passed before Helen

White painted the picture of the officer she saw at the 67th Evacuation Hospital in Qui Nhon, where she served as an ortho-pedic nurse. She doesn’t remember his name, his face or much else beyond the fact that he’d arrived there after surviving a firefight that had killed almost everyone else. His eyes telegraphed his trauma.

“They were wide open, they were scan-ning, looking for safety and looking for dan-ger,” White says. “If you see the stare, it’s not something you forget. ... The memories stay in my mind, even if I don’t focus on them. And, of course, there’s the mystery — what happened, how did he recover, what impact did it have on his life.”

Some people, she says, are disturbed by her painting; others think the raw image isn’t even art.

In this Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 photo, artist Marcus Eriksen, a Gulf War veteran, works on a mold of his mentor, Capt. Charles Moore, a fellow scientist, at his home studio in Los Angeles. More than 350 veterans of Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan have turned to art to preserve more intimate and enduring memories of war.

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Americans pay tribute to sacrifices of veteransLOS ANGELES (AP) — From sea to shin-

ing sea, Americans paid tribute to members of the armed services Sunday, both with somber traditions such as a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Ceremony attended by President Barack Obama and more lighthearted events including red-carpet treatment at Las Vegas casinos.

In California, a long legal case drew to a close as a war memorial cross that had been deemed unconstitutional was being resurrected Sunday in the Mojave desert, capping a landmark case for veterans fighting similar battles on public lands.

Sunday marked the official commemoration of Veterans Day, but the federal holiday will be observed Monday.

President Barack Obama laid the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia and noted that this is the first Veterans Day in a decade with no American troops fighting and dying in Iraq, and that a decade of war in Afghanistan is coming to a close.

In a speech at the Memorial Amphitheater, he said America will never forget the sacrifice made by its veterans and their families.

“No ceremony or parade, no hug or handshake is enough to truly honor that service,” the presi-dent said, adding that the country must commit every day “to serving you as well as you’ve served us.”

He spoke of the Sept. 11 generation, “who stepped forward when the Towers fell, and in the years since have stepped into history, writing one of the greatest chapters in military service our country has ever known.”

Over the next few years, he said, more than 1 million service members will make the transition to civilian life. “As they come home, it falls to us, their fellow citizens, to be there for them and their families, not just now but always.”

Later, the president and his wife, first lady Michelle Obama, and Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, greeted families in the cem-etery’s Section 60, home to graves of service members killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In California, a war memorial cross that once stood on a rocky hilltop in a national

park before being deemed unconstitutional and ordered removed was being resurrected in the stunningly stark Mojave desert, marking the end of a longstanding legal dispute that had become entangled in patriotism and religion.

Henry Sandoz, who cared for the original cross as part of a promise to a dying World War I veteran, will rededicate a new, 7-foot (2.1-meter) steel cross on the same hilltop. The site is now in private hands as part of a land swap with the National Park Service that ended the legal battle.

“Judges and lawyers may have played their roles, but it was the veterans who earned this memorial, and it is for them it rises once more,” said attorney Hiram Sasser of the Texas-based Liberty Institute, which represented veterans in the legal fight.

The settlement approved by a federal judge in April permitted the Park Service to turn over the acre (0.4-hectare) of land known as Sunrise Rock to a Veteran of Foreign Wars post in Barstow and the Veterans Home of California-Barstow in exchange for five acres (two hect-ares) of donated property elsewhere in the 1.6 million-acre (640,000-hectare) preserve, about a four-hour drive east of Los Angeles.

The donated land was owned by Sandoz and his wife, Wanda, of Yucca Valley.

Sandoz has cared for the memorial as a prom-ise to World War I veteran Riley Bembry, who with other shell-shocked vets went to the des-ert to help heal and erected a wooden cross on Sunrise Rock in 1934. It was later replaced with a cross made of steel pipes.

Then Sunrise Rock became part of the Mojave National Preserve in 1994, putting the Christian symbol on public land.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in 2001 on behalf of a retired Park Service employee who argued the cross was unconstitutional on government property because it violated the principle of separation of church and state, and federal courts ordered it removed.

Congress stepped in and ordered the land swap in 2003, but the courts rejected the transfer. The issue made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which in April 2010 refused to order the cross removed.

Storm-ravaged New York hosted the country’s largest Veterans Day parade with turnout sparse along portions of the 30-block route along Fifth Avenue.

Standing in warm fall sunshine, officials said

veterans should be honored and remembered more than just one day a year.

“This nation has a special obligation to take care of you,” U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter told the crowd.

Several officials also made a note of mention-ing Vietnam veterans. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War.

One Vietnam vet, 66-year-old Laurence Lynch of New York, said simply, “It’s about time. It’s about time.”

Along a number of blocks of the parade route, just a few dozen spectators were lined along the barricades.

Candice and Jeffrey Stark stood nearly alone on one stretch, waving tiny American flags. “We are shocked,” Candice Stark said. “Very disappointed and terribly appalled. Don’t get me started!”

United States Army Sgt. Zach Ames, center, who has been on a one-year deployment to Afghanistan, surprises his wife, Bri Ames, left, and their daughter Emersyn, right, with a reunion prior to an NFL football game between the New York Jets and the Seattle Seahawks on Veterans Day, Sunday, Nov. 11.

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Sandy’s wrath stirs painful Katrina memoriesNEW ORLEANS (AP) — The chaos

wrought by Superstorm Sandy, the homes tossed from foundations and landmarks buried beneath seawater, delivered a gut-wrenching dose of deja vu for survivors of Hurricane Katrina like Joe and Gloria Robert.

Their own home flooded beneath 7 feet of salty water when the levees broke after Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in August 2005, and they know all too well what their countrymen to the north will face: years of debris removal, cleanup, rebuilding, hag-gling with insurance companies, paying mortgages on homes left unlivable. And they knew they had to help.

“When you watch things like this, you relive all the memories, all the heartache,” said Joe Robert, his voice cracking with emotion. He said the images of Sandy victims rummaging through what could be salvaged of their toppled and flood-ravaged homes were painful reminders of his own loss. “I don’t have any pictures of my daughter when she was little.”

Seven years after Katrina destroyed neighborhoods, killed more than 1,800 people and caused some $108 billion in damage, many of the people caught in its crosshairs are reaching into their wallets and cupboards to try to bring relief to the Atlantic Coast.

Church groups, nonprofits, City Hall and individuals in New Orleans and along the Mississippi Gulf Coast have begun sending care packages, donating money and staging

volunteers for the clean-up and recovery efforts.

Robert is working with the Episcopal organization that helped him rebuild his home, St. Paul’s Homecoming Center, which was established after Katrina to help residents as they returned to the city to rebuild. The center has expanded its mis-sion to include victims of not just Hurricane Isaac, which struck Louisiana in August, but

also East Coast victims of Sandy.The group has launched an “Adopt-a-

Family” program where donations can be made to families in either region to help them as the holiday season approaches. The organization is also coordinating volunteer efforts along the East Coast. They are collect-ing donations and helping to ferry volunteers from the Gulf Coast to devastated neighbor-hoods in New York and New Jersey.

Volunteers work to remove sand from streets in the Rockaways, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012, in the Queens borough of New York. Despite power returning to many neighborhoods in the metropolitan area after Superstorm Sandy crashed into the Eastern Seaboard, many residents of the Rockaways continue to live without power and heat due to damage caused by Sandy.

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Georgia river could take Appalachian hikers to coastATLANTA (AP) — A river

with a history of ferry boats and Civil War battles may one day provide a new route for hik-ers who finish the Appalachian Trail to continue south until they reach the Gulf of Mexico, a national conservation group says.

Leaders envision the Chattahoochee River as a way to allow Appalachian Trail hik-ers to reach the Gulf either on trails along its banks or in a canoe or kayak on the river. The trail already stretches from Maine to north Georgia.

The Chattahoochee’s head-waters, in the north Georgia mountains, are near the trail’s southernmost section.

“The idea is that someone looking for adventure could hike the Appalachian Trail, and then get off the trail and go to the headwaters of the Chattahoochee,” said Curt Soper, the Georgia-Alabama state director of the Trust for Public Land. The nonprofit has worked for years to acquire land in the area and make it avail-able to its partners, such as the

National Park Service. The new route could become a reality within the next decade, Soper said.

The trust has already acquired and set aside 17,000 acres of land that touch 76 river miles from the Chattahoochee’s head-waters to Columbus, Soper said.

The trust is also work-ing on a project known as the Chattahoochee Valley Blueway, which involves 52 miles of the river from the city of West Point to Columbus, southwest of Atlanta near the Alabama line. The aim of that project, expected to be completed in the next three years, is to create a so-called “canoe trail,” a well-marked waterway with several places to launch canoes and kayaks, Soper said.

In metro Atlanta, there are already more than 70 miles of hiking trails along or near the river within the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, created in 1978 by former President Jimmy Carter.

Soper and others believe there’s great interest in such projects.

“No ceremony or parade, no hug or handshake is truly enough to honor that service.”

Barack ObamaPresident

For fans of excellent television everywhere, the most exciting news of last week wasn’t a

presidential election or even a Justin Beiber and Selena Gomez split. What really shocked everyone last week was the heart pounding epi-sode of The Walking Dead.

It goes without say-ing now, but S P O I L E R ALERT time.

Two characters, one male, one female, who had been with us since the beginning, both sometimes equally useless in different ways, were killed off in pretty gruesome ways. The different reactions on the show and in real life to their deaths is the catalyst to this article. Now, double standards are often sources of much of my commentary, and so they are here. However, the focus here is on the double standard against men, that their deaths in media can often be portrayed as less impactful, that they are an expendable gender.

My argument is simple. When you need to kill off a lot of characters with little emo-tional attachment, they will be male. When you need to kill

someone to drive forward the emotional plot of the show, kill off a female character. It’s a double standard that exists because of how genders are often perceived in society: that men are strong, and need to be heroic in order to earn the audience’s support, while women can always use the help of a man, and their deaths will always be met with sympathy. As usual, societal conceptions are evidently reflected in our media, with little change on either side. Instead, it’s a con-tinuous cycle where one feeds into the other.

Going back to the deaths in last week’s episode, let’s talk about the two characters who are now unfortunately deceased. One was T-Dog, a token African American char-acter who many lauded for merely staying alive on the show into the third season, but probably only made a discern-ible contribution to the plot once per season. The other was the much disliked Lori who suffered from typical writer fumblings of female characters and only existed as Rick’s wife, Shane’s lover, or Carl’s mother (but I digress). Reaction to the deaths has focused much more on Lori, for example with the

Entertainment Weekly recap of the episode focusing on Lori for the entire first page, and then getting to T-Dog some-where on page 4.

Let’s also look at how the deaths occurred. T-Dog died in a heroic manly manner, accepting his inevitable death after a fatal zombie bite, and then sacrificing himself so that Carol could survive the day (or at least we’re assuming, since the character isn’t seen at the end of the episode). His death won’t have much of an impact on the show in my opinion, and we’ll all qui-etly forget he ever existed on the show. Lori’s death was the result of childbirth in a world with no doctors, no medicine, and not to mention there were a lot of zombies outside of where she was giving birth. After it was obvious the baby couldn’t arrive naturally, Lori implored Maggie for C-section which the later performed with a rusty knife while Lori’s son watched on. In other words, Lori died after fulfilling her ultimate function: childbirth. To be cynical for a second, it can be inferred that the mes-sage is Lori has fulfilled her duties so we can kill her off now. Lori’s death is also to

instigate a chain reaction in how her husband and son will react, continuing both down-ward spirals. Only the loss of the woman in their lives can do that, not a male character.

In conclusion, the deaths themselves are how indicative how men and women should be, and the reaction has indi-cated that Lori’s death was far more important than T-Dog, or really any character in The Walking Dead. Before Lori, the most significant death on the show could probably go to Sophia, a frail little girl who also drove forth the plot in an emotional. The deaths of equal-ly as important characters such as Shane or Dale haven’t had such an emotional response. As always, it’s just another example of society feeding into media. When you have a society that only requires men to sign up for conscription and doesn’t want to send its women in battle, it’s clear to see that there is a double standard that the death of a women is far more important than the death of a man.

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As a political humor writer, I am very nervous about hav-ing Murphy and Richard Blumenthal as our senators,”

wrote Hartford Courant columnist Colin McEnroe in August. “They’re bad for business.” Chris Murphy indeed won election last Tuesday – as did President Obama, perhaps the most difficult presi-

dent to make fun of in decades.

We have just survived the most boring presiden-tial election in years. 2000 was one of the clos-est election in American his-tory, featuring the seemingly-endless recount. 2004 featured the always misspeak-

ing walking punch line George W. Bush. 2008 was a comedic gold mine. As “The Late Late Show” host Craig Ferguson described it, “I like all four of these can-didates a lot. For comedy reasons, they can’t be beat. You got your, your grizzled old veteran who’s trying to win one last campaign. You got the brash rookie who inspires millions. You got that hockey mom who is governor by day, naugh-ty librarian by night. And you’ve got Biden, who’s all ‘Biden-ey.’”

What happened this time around? Almost the exact opposite. The New York Times described the problems for “Saturday Night Live” in creating their traditional opening sketch for the Saturday following the first presidential debate. “The debate itself turned out to

be a challenge. There were no big gaffes or obvious springboards for comedy,” Bill Carter wrote. “Instead, the first debate of this election offered up a bliz-zard of policy details.” Cast member Seth Meyers was described as watching the debate “with increasing concern” and lamenting, “It’s boring enough when they’re talking about all this and how it will affect Americans, but when you’re sitting there trying to pull comedy out of it, it’s really bad.”

I watched online opening monologues from all major late night comedians the day after the election, and was struck by how weak most of them were. My personal favorite moment was not even related to this election specifically but could have occurred in any presidential election year. The recurring segment from “Jimmy Kimmel Live” called “Lie Witness News” asked passerby on the street their opinions on political events which had yet to occur, or even which never occurred. As Kimmel explained it, “We’ve asked people if they voted, we asked them that the day before the election. We asked them who won the debate, the day before the debate hap-pened. We asked people if they saw the First Lady debate, which is something which has never happened. And each time, we found people who had strong opinions on these imaginary events.” The show then proceeded to show those answers, which doubtless embarrassed the respondents for life. Then again, they agreed to appear on camera.

The immediate future does not bode particularly well for a political comedy rebound. Yes, Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey is really fat, but that’s about it. While Vice President Biden is funnier

than President Obama, when it comes to humor value Biden pales in comparison to George W. Bush or Sarah Palin. The illegality of marijuana – long a favor-ite topic for many comedians, notably George Carlin and Bill Maher – will be much less funny now that the first two states of Colorado and Washington just legalized the substance, with at least a few more states likely joining the club within the coming decade. Assuming political partisanship and gridlock are as bad as they have been the past two years, there will not even be many bills to make fun of. “Late Night” host Jimmy Fallon managed to successfully joke about this lack of political activity, not-ing that photographs of President Obama tossing a football on the White House lawn marked “the first time President Obama has passed something.”

Some jokes will always remain true and spark laughter, such as George Carlin’s famous quote from decades ago, “In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.” When it comes to topical and current political humor, however, we are likely witness-ing a dearth as rarely seen before. All Americans wish for a government which effectively represents and serves the people. Good luck with that. Under the present arrangement, we will have the worst of both worlds: an unproductive government combined with the extreme difficulty of consistent political humor. If our system is (for the most part) bro-ken, corrupt, and ineffective, couldn’t it at least be funny too?

The most difficult election for political humor

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New Chinese major builds on UConn’s globalization focus

» EDITORIAL

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Staff Columnist Victoria Kallsen is a 2nd-semester mechanical engineering major. He can be reached at Victoria.Kallsen@UConn.edu.

Associate Commentary Editor Jesse Rifkin is a 5th-semester journalism and political science double major. He can be reached at Jesse.Rifkin@UConn.edu.

The Daily Campus editorial is the official opinion of the newspaper and its editorial board. Commentary columns express opinions held solely by the author and do not in any way reflect the official opinion of The Daily Campus.

UConn is currently in the first stages of imple-menting a new major into the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The hope is that by the spring of 2014 students will be able to register as a

Chinese major. Currently the administration is offering preliminary courses that will likely be in the Chinese major while they hire new staff and faculty in preparation for the coming curriculum. Next semester, they will look to hire two new faculty members with specific experience and concentration on the Far East as assistant professors.

The notion of adding a new major to the university in this turbulent economic time makes many question the wis-dom behind spending the money and energy on implement-ing it. It would be difficult to justify any other new major these days. However, Chinese is an important addition to the university.

The dean of CLAS, in an interview on the subject, said that the major is meant to establish a focus on globaliza-tion, particularly in Asia. While adding a new major in this economic climate is difficult to justify, ignoring the impor-tance that China is having on the world in recent years is just as difficult to justify.

The bottom line here is that the university cannot go spending money and expanding its curriculum without reason or restraint. However, the Chinese major is not a frivolous expansion but rather an important and neces-sary one. UConn is choosing to make a commitment to its students and is making it easy for them to compete in a globally with the rest of the world and with the world’s top players.

It’s no secret that China is rapidly becoming the front-runner of the global economy. Most business conducted internationally or even domestically in the future will have something to do with the Asian market and influ-ence. Therefore, it is important for the next generation of Americans to have a means to study, master and become experts on the field.

At the moment, the Chinese major is just a rough idea that will take the better part of two years to be something tangible. There is still a lot that could happen between now and then that could bring an end to this wonderful idea of allowing students to study Chinese culture. However, as long as the university remains committed to the idea of making sure that its students can compete in the evolving, Asian-centric market, it should be commended.

Victoria KallsenStaff Columnist

By Jesse RifkinAssociate Commentary Editor

The double standards on deaths in The Walking Dead

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The college football world is going crazy. Highlighted by the fact that UConn actually won a Big East game.

UConn was on a boat! And they won!

It wasn’t until I spent my entire Sunday studying in the library in anticipation of The Walking Dead tonight that I realized that today was probably the warmest day we’ll have for a few months.

Breanna Stewart is the new antidote to the malady of Brittany Griner.

When people ask me what I did all year abroad? Drank, ate ice cream, and Facebooked.

There it goes. The last of my points for this semester. So long Union mac and cheese. I shall miss you.

This Thanksgiving, I will be thankful for Kevin Ollie.

On warm days like these, all I want to do is sing summer song and ignore the fact that I’m going to be stressed out about Christmas shopping soon.

Where did all of the snow go?

The amount of Instagrammed photos from our football games seems to go up exponentially when we win.

Does anyone want to come to Australia with me and see if this whole “toilet water spins the other way” premise is true?

Just bought my ticket to see Kenan Thompson...if Kel isn’t there I’m going to be horribly dissapointed.

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Well, it’s that time of year again, Thanksgiving. A joyful evening where we can think of our ancestors, count our blessings, enjoy a long night with friends and family and, of course, eat a ton of food. Although the holiday does come off as an excuse to over-eat, it is no excuse to not think about being healthy. Enjoying all your Thanksgiving classics is acceptable, but have you ever thought about substituting all those sugars and carbs for healthier, although still tradi-tional, alternatives? Here are two new recipes you can try out for this holiday season.

Pear, Prosciutto and Hazelnut Stuffing. Coat a nine by 13” sheet with cooking spray while allowing the oven to preheat to 350 degrees. Heat one teaspoon of oil in a large skillet, then add four ounces of prosciutto. Mix it as it is cooking, it should take only five minutes for the mixture to build a crunchy consistency. Let it drain out on a paper towel when it is done. Next, rinse out that same pan and start heating two additional teaspoons of oil, then add two cups of onion, two cups of fennel and one quarter cup of shallot. Cook and mix for about 46 to 48 minutes until the mixture is a soft, golden brown color. Then add two tea-spoons of sage, two teaspoons of thyme and one teaspoon of rosemary. Transfer everything into a large bowl and stir with bread, two Bosc pears, a third of a cup of parsley and a third of a cup of hazelnut. Then add the prosciutto you prepared earlier and finally add chicken broth (14 ounces of sodium-free broth). Season with salt and pepper and prepare the stuffing on a baking dish cov-ered in foil. Bake it in the oven for 40 minutes, then remove foil and bake until the top begins to crisp. That should take an additional 25 to 30 minutes.

This dish is a healthier alter-native to your average stuffing at a measly 176 calories, five grams of fat, eight mg of cho-lesterol, 29 g of carbohydrates and 489 mg of sodium per serving.

Another dish is a delicious dessert option, a Pumpkin Coconut Tart. Coat an eight by 12” rectangular remov-able-bottom tart pan with cooking spray while preheat-ing the oven to 350 degrees. To prepare the crust, com-bine one and one quarter cups of whole wheat flour, a half cup of almonds, one table-spoon of sugar and a half teaspoon of salt in a food processor. Process until the almonds are finely ground. Slowly add four tablespoons of butter and four tablespoons of cream cheese. Spread the dough evenly on the prepared pan, and make sure to get it everywhere because this will be the pie’s crust. Bake it for about 15 minutes (make sure it doesn’t turn brown) and let it cool on a wire rack. Next you’ll move onto the filling. Beat one and one half cups of canned unseasoned pumpkin puree, three-fourths cup of sugar, two tablespoons of dark rum, one teaspoon of ground cinnamon, a quarter teaspoon of ground cinnamon, a quar-ter teaspoon of ginger and a

Energy and soul flow through Jorgensen

Saturday night a packed Jorgensen Center welcomed Dr. John and the Blind Boys of Alabama. The two groups have won numerous musical awards, including in Dr. John’s case, five Grammys and an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in the case of the Blind Boys, five Grammies, numerous other awards, and three presidential invitations to sing at the White House. Per the name of their group, The Blind Boys of Alabama consist of four blind men, who met as children in 1939 at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind, located in Talladega, Alabama. The group developed from school boys singing in the school choir and blossomed into beloved nation-ally renowned Gospel singers with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. While Dr. John’s career was mostly built from solo work in the style of New Orleans Jazz , Zydeco, and Funk, the Blind Boys gained notoriety for their traditional, yet experimental style of Gospel soul.

The stage was set with all the traditional instruments of New Orleans Jazz, including an organ, a trombone, a piano, and a plethora of guitars. The band took the stage and started with a funk jazz number sans Dr. John to initiate the energetic atmo-sphere. Minutes later, famed Dr. John took the stage and started right in on his award winning vocals. His voice was rough but pleasing and he let the instrumental music he and his band were making to take center stage.

“It was really hard to under-stand the lyrics of his songs,” said third semester econom-ics major Zachary Lederman, who is a campus correspondent for The Daily Campus “but it really allowed you to focus on the huge sound they were producing. A lot of times artists

present really complex pieces of music and their great voices detract from that aspect of the music. I liked that this show was about the instrumentation.”

After a few jazz jams, Dr. John shouted over his band’s groovy tunes that the audience should welcome the Blind Boys of Alabama to the stage. The four current Blind Boys were ushered in by their man-ager and as soon as they sat down, the show really started. One member joked around the audience warning us that “Now, the Blind Boys have told me to tell you, that we

don’t usually sing for conser-vative audiences.” His joke was met with thunderous applause, whoops of delight, whistles, and general audience noise making. On that note, Dr. John and the Blind Boys launched into their show, play-ing popular favorites, such as Norman Greenbaum’s 1969 hit “Spirit in the Sky,” Ben Harper’s “There Will Be a Light” and “Free At Last.” All the songs made the audi-ence shake, rattle and roll, but the number that absolutely amazed the audience was the group’s rendition of Amazing

Grace. Traditionally Amazing Grace is performed sparsely and solemnly, but the Blind Boys took it to a completely new level by laying the words of the piece over the melody of traditional New Orleans folk song, “House of the Rising Sun.” The combination of the dark melody and the poignant lyrics, created a masterpiece of musicianship.

“I really enjoyed it,” third semester psychology student, Alex Shiranian, said in refer-ence to the performances of both groups.

Amanda Higgins, a seventh

semester human development and Family Studies major agreed. “It was different from what we normally have, it’s nice to have some Southern Jazzy tunes represented. We don’t see a lot of this in terms of local bands,” she said. The audience went wild as the musi-cians exited, with applause and a standing ovation.

“I didn’t know what to expect,” said Lederman, “But it was really fun, they put on a great show.”

Dr. John and the Blind Boys of Alabama took stage at Jorgensen theater this past Saturday night enticing audience with sounds of rock-n-roll and New Orleans jazz. Dr. John offered a rough vocals but satisfied the soul.

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By Kathleen McWilliams Staff Writer

Bizarre stories through puppetry

The audience was packed like sardines in the Studio Theater, where the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry (BIMP) and the UConn Puppet Arts Program hosted Saturday night’s Puppet Slam.

Its name was politely bor-rowed from what is called a “poetry slam,” a performance and/or competition among poets. The “puppet slam” plac-es more emphasis on perfor-mance, as the programs cre-ated by BIMP aim to portray a varied, highly sophisticated art form with a complexly long history.

The evening consisted of new works of short-form puppetry, conducted by active puppeteers from across the nation, includ-ing current UConn students of the Puppet Arts Program.

Performances under the spot-light included works by per-formance artist, sculptor, vid-eographer and UConn Visual Arts graduate J.R. Uretsky, Hartford Stage costume craft-er and UConn Puppet Arts graduate S.B. Parks, Puppet Arts Program technical super-visor Paul Spirito, current Puppet Arts grad students Penny Benson, Sarah Nolen, Seth Shaffer, Carianne Hoff and Anna Fitzgerald—and, from Los Angeles’ California Institute of the Arts, special guests Caitlin Lainoff and DanRae Wilson.

Many of the puppetry acts were “geared towards mature audiences,” as described by the event coordinators at BIMP. For example, Los Angeles artists Lainoff and Wilson performed “Little Zoo”—an excerpt from “Zoophilic Follies,” a “pup-pet-opera adaptation of the Daedalus myth that celebrates

the sad and strange hopes of the human heart,” according to BIMP—was practically bleeding in sexual humor. The “Zoophilic Follies” collection aims to creatively combine Greek mythology, puppets and extreme violence, although this piece, as admitted by its cre-ators before the show, is more sexual than violent.

The last and longest act of the evening was Uretsky’s “Women I’ve Known, Biblically,” con-sisting of short performing object/puppet vignettes coupled with digital images and record-ed sound. According to Uretsky, who is currently a member of the feminist collective “Dirt Palace” in Providence, RI, she aims to unite “confessional sto-rytelling with abstract objects meant to be work and inter-

act with the body.” She wore visually abstract objects on stage, “simultaneously [veil-ing her] sex while exaggerating both masculine and feminine qualities of anew, created and monstrous body that is a com-bination of the sculpture and [Uretsky].”

Each of the night’s perfor-mances received an approving response from the crowd—awe, laughter, inspiration and appreciation.

“It’s crazy how many things are involved in puppetry…and it’s all over the world,” said UConn undergraduate student Angelica Pereira, who came to the event out of curiosity.

The next Puppet Slam at UConn will be in January.

Many students packed into the Studio Theater for the ‘Puppetry Slam’ a rare glance into the puppetry program that UConn offers.

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By Michelle GalladayCampus Correspondent

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Books, authors and kids, oh my

Many parents, kids, and students made the trip to Rome Ballroom for the annual Connecticut Children’s Book Fair.

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Amidst the traffic for Sunday’s basketball game, par-ents and children made the trip to Storrs for the 21st annual Connecticut Children’s Book Fair at the Rome Ballroom.

With the motto “Children and the Books They Read,” the fair is a project by the UConn Co-op and the University of Connecticut Libraries. The fair benefits the Northeast Children’s Literature Collections of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, which comprise near-ly 36,000 children’s books spanning over 200 years with a growing archive of original art and creative materials from today’s authors and illustrators. The co-chairs for the event are Teri Goldich, Curator of the Northeast Children’s Literature Collection, and Manager of General Books at the UConn Co-op, Suzy Staubach. The fair took place from November 10-11 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00

p.m. both days.In addition to dozens of

tables filled with picture books, chapter books and even pop-up books, the fair also had authors autograph their books for any-one who wanted a signed copy. All of the fair’s guest authors and illustrators were available to do so. Walking around the fair were characters like Ladybug Girl, Hedgie the Hedgehog, Bad Kitty and Clifford the Big Red Dog. These storybook charac-ters posed for photos with chil-dren, and Clifford had his 50th birthday celebration in which everyone was invited to have cake and sing a birthday song.

The Treblemakers Children’s Chorus from the UConn Community School of the Arts performed on Saturday, In addi-tion, on Sunday, on Sunday the Suzuki Violin and Guitar groups from the UConn Community School of Arts played for the attendees. Also on Sunday was a program called “This is Teen,” an integrated and comprehen-sive initiative that connects

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Underrated:

1. Sunday Night Football (NBC) - 8.52. The Big Bang Theory (CBS) - 5.23. Voice (NBC) - 4.84. Voice-TUE (NBC) - 4.65. Football NT America PT3 (NBC) - 4.36. Modern Family (ABC) 4.27. Home Depot Prime CLG FTBL (CBS) - 4.08. CMA Awards (ABC) - 3.89. Two and a Half Men (CBS) - 3.610. Once Upon A Time (ABC) - 3.5

Ratings from TVbytheNumbers.comWeek ending November 6

1. NFL Regular Season (ESPN) - 107212. Walking Dead (AMC) - 92703. NBA Basketball (TNT) - 53714. NFL Regular Season Game (NFLN) - 47955. Sons of Anarchy (FX) - 45856. The O’Reilly Factor (FOXN) - 44697. Gold Rush (DISC) - 44068. WWE Entertainment (USA) - 43069. NBA Basketball (TNT) - 429810. WWE Entertainment (USA) - 4217

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By Alex Sferrazza Campus Correspondent

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Following the exceptionally exhaustive 2012 election sea-son, the last thing Americans want to think about right now is politics. While ignoring politics for the considerable future might perhaps provide a remedy to the country’s col-lective post-election hangover, like all problems, the finest medication is undoubtedly laughter.

Of the numerous new televi-sion shows introduced each year, it is rare to see one so original and yet simple at the same time, succeed. The HBO comedy series “Veep,” which premiered this year has been a spectacular example of one such show. Starring Julia Louis Dreyfus of “Seinfeld” fame as United States Vice President Selina Meyer, “Veep” is a comedy series which cen-ters around the often frivo-lous daily activities of the VP and her staff. The acclaimed show has already garnered numerous critical accolades, including a Best Lead Comedy Actress Emmy for Julia Louis Dreyfus. The single camera sitcom’s style and tone are reminiscent of “The Office” sans the mockumentary style interviews. The brilliance of “Veep’s” comedy stems from its style. While episode plots and storylines are scripted, the dialogue is largely improvised by the actors, leading to some truly hilarious scenes.

An admiral quality of “Veep” the show has no intention of revealing the political party of VP Selina Meyer. Rather than turn the program into one that’s politically charged (and potentially audience alien-ating) towards one party or another, the show’s brand of comedy does not put empha-sis on the featured politician’s political positions. Instead, the program is a brilliant mock-ery of how frivolous, pointless and outright absurd numerous aspects of politics can be.

The main draw of “Veep’s” brand of comedy is the sup-posed uselessness of the office of the Vice President, as noted in the show’s tagline “The buck stops somewhere near here.” Upon his election to the Vice Presidency, John Adams had these words: “My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagi-nation conceived.”

One of F.D.R.’s Vice Presidents, John Nance Garner, once told Lyndon Johnson that the office of the Vice Presidency wasn’t worth “a bucket of warm piss.” The show’s 1st season has shown just how much that can be true. A portion of one episodes plot centers around selecting the proper flavor of yogurt for the VP to consume in public,

“Veep’s” first season of eight episodes can be seen on HBO, HBO On Demand and HBO Go. It has been renewed for a second season which will premiere sometime next year.

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HBO’s new show focuses on VP work

It’s a surprise that there are still people out there that have not heard of Key and Peele. The comedic duo host their own

sketch show on Comedy Central that pokes fun at anything and

everything. The two make sure to mix it up in each episode and like to create sketches that make fun of a current events especially

the past elections. A main thing they focus on in their sketches is making fun of common ste-

reotypes that many other come-dians wouldn’t dare to tread.

The show is only in their second season but their popularity is growing with their outrageous humor. Their humor is not only contagious but their charm will

certainly entice you.

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A spotlight on the political arena

Producer Shonda Rhimes pulls away from her usual focus on medical dramas and concentrates more on the drama within a political arena. Despite some weak characters, ‘Scandal’ shows promises of a controversial drama.

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Deemed as being a “refresh-ing political drama,” ABC’s primetime drama “Scandal” is more than just that. It can be best described as a combina-tion of the hit series “The West Wing,” a hit political series on NBC which ran from September 1999 through May 2006, and “Revenge,” an ABC primetime series currently airing.

Airing 10 p.m. Thursday nights, “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Private Practice” producer Shonda Rhimes strays away from focusing on the lives of those in the medical field like her other shows, instead producing a drama that is centered around the political arena. If there is one thing for that Rhimes is known for it’s pulling at the

heartstrings of her audience, leaving much for discussion at the end of the episode. The main character of this drama, Olivia Pope, is loosely based around Judy Smith, an American crisis manager as well as president and CEO of Smith and Company, a crisis management and communications firm. Smith han-dled the Monica Lewinsky and Michael Vick cases. One of the cons of this series may be that Olivia Pope is such an emotionless individ-ual; times in which it would be best for her emotions to be on display, they are not. Week after week we are brought a different case in which a team of crisis managers at Pope and

Associates “fix” problems. Holding onto the overall idea that they are fixers in the series, a member of the Olivia Pope-run company states, “We make

our clients’ problems, big or small, go away. It’s not about solving a crime. It’s not about justice. It’s about our client,” a statement which pretty much sums up the way the episodes are formatted and the way in which

every case is handled. We are brought a different

case each week in which this team of crisis managers “fix” the problems of the political elite and other high powered public figures. The overall story line, flows together, following the controversial drama that occurs in the White House behind the

scenes as the President and his trusted few are focal points in the show’s overall plot and theme. From the series pre-miere of “Scandal,” the audi-ence is captivated and brought on an extremely dramatic jour-ney. “Scandal” is a drama that proves that nothing is as it seems, what we think we may know we indeed do not, and we must be careful about what we believe. Currently approved for a full season of 23 episodes, “Scandal” is a drama that defi-nitely does not disappoint. For those who hold the notion that politics is a dangerous and filthy game, this drama may just prove that absolutely true. The good, the bad, and the ugly are all brought to the forefront in this political drama.

Shaquana.Chaneyfield@UConn.edu

Less laughs, more focus on story

“How I Met Your Mother” is a modern day Friends. While the main story is about Ted’s epic search for a soul mate while his poor children in the future listen to every detail of an eight season long story, the show is really about a group of friends in New York City and their adventures together. Frankly, in the middle of the show, Ted’s story didn’t even matter and it seemed as if the writers just kept it all going because they had a hit on their hands. I didn’t even mind this because the show is hilarious.

Last season, the story final-ly began to move towards the end and now, in season eight, is finally getting to how

Ted met his children’s moth-er. All the teasing through-out has finally paid off and yet I don’t care. Ted is the favorite character of most fans. It’s not that I don’t like him, it’s just that he’s overdramatic, whiny, condescending and I think most fans would agree we care more about what happens to Barney, Marshall, Lily and Robin. In fact, I’m hoping the show will tell us what Barney does for a living at the end. I don’t even care who the mother is because it looks like we will meet her, it will end and we won’t even know her. Like I said, it’s funny and entertain-ing, so I don’t care.

There has been a lot of criti-cism lately for the show not

being as funny as it used to be. The focus now seems to be on the progression of the story rather than the humor. It’s true that as the story goes on it is sad and there have been a lot

more emotion-al moments, but I’m still laughing. If you’ve never seen the show before, jump-ing into season eight on a bad episode may

be a turn off. However, I’ve gotten to know the characters so well over the years that I still love to see the she-nanigans the gang gets into. Barney Stinson is generally considered the fan favorite. He is certainly my favorite character and the funniest.

Neil Patrick Harris’s perfor-mance is outstanding. The man is openly gay in real life and yet every week he con-vinces us with ease that he is the world’s greatest woman-izer.

If you’re a fan of the show, or enjoy the re-runs that seem to be always play-ing somewhere, then you will like season eight. It’s more of the same humor, but with the addition of an actual sig-nificant plot and even sad moments. There’s no game changers this season, but if it’s not broke why fix it? The show is still funny, I still love the characters and I am plenty entertained, to me that’s all that matters.

Now in season eight ‘How I Met Your Mother’ is finally moving forward on how Ted actually does meet his soulmate. Despite this there is still a lot of criticism that the show isn’t as funny as it use to be but the focus is progressing the story rather than the humor.

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By Shaquana ChaneyfieldCampus Correspondent

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Opera echoing in Storrs of tragedy

A large crowd filled Storrs Congregational Church Sunday to watch the UConn School of Fine Arts and UConn Opera Theater present Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible.”

An authentically dressed cast performed the story about suspected witchcraft in Salem Massachusetts in 1692.

The story was played with the focus on the puritan religious background used in the story, which was exemplified in the church.

“I’ve never been to one of these shows before. It’s real-ly pretty in the church and its appropriate because the opera is centered around religion,” said Karina Mayall, a 1st-semester student.

Depicting an epic perfor-mance of the play, UConn Opera Theater made the show come alive with their profes-sional quality skills in singing and acting.

“I think it’s a very interest-ing take on such an old story. Hearing music with it brings a new light on how people view the story,” said Lindsay Cabaniss, a 3rd-semester vocal performance major.

Bringing in a diverse crowd, the members of the audience such as Ken Johnson a chorus and general music teacher at Mansfield Middle School, were able to reminisce teaching some of the members of the cast.

Charles Eaton, who played Thomas Putnam and Spencer Hamlin who played Judge

Danforth were both members of Johnson’s class when they were in middle school.

“Its good to see my former singers making it big,” Johnson said.

Although performing in the church did not seem to be every audience member’s ideal view-ing spot for the production that did not stop the opera theater from putting on such a great show.

“I really like the acoustics in the church. I think for what it is the show is well done for what we had,” Cabaniss said.

“It’s a good show. I think it would be better on a stage,” Allan Guillotte of Danielson, CT said.

Despite having the perfor-mance being played in the Storrs Congregational Church, it did not take away from the quality of the performance itself.

“I really enjoyed it, they did a really good job,” Jennifer Wanner a 6th- year PhD student for music history and theory.

“The church has beautiful acoustics,” Wanner said.

Although some audience members had opinions about the location of the performance, there has been growing specula-tion that there needs to be a spe-cific building to be constructed for the music departments use only.

“There’s no good venue for them to do opera. We need a new auditorium for that.” Wanner said.

Every scene was a lively experience and grabbed the crowd’s attention because of the cast’s obvious high standards for professional quality.

“The show was a culmination of talent hard work and dedica-tion, and it showed. It was sim-ply amazing,” said Catherine Fahey a 5th- semester vocal performance major.

“My favorite part overall was that we all got into the mood of The Crucible rather than just putting a show,” said Ellen Antes a 5th- semester vocal performance major who played Martha Sheldon.

When asked about his favor-ite part of the play, Matt Burke who played Giles Corey said, “working with the high level of professionalism and musicality of each member of our talented cast.”

“The play itself, The Crucible is a very challenging production but a rewarding undertaking,” said Burke.

The crowd was very pleased at the end of the performance as they showed by clapping and cheering constantly for an extended period of time as the cast bowed multiple times to accept their applause.

With the proud look on each of the cast members faces as they accepted their well-deserved applause and bowed with the pianist and conductor at the final bow.

“I thought it was great. It looks like they all had a good time,” said Agnes Serafini of Wethersfield Ct.

The next production by UConn’s Opera Theatre will be “The Magic Flute” in the spring of 2013.

By Joseph Kirschner Campus Correspondent

Joseph.Kirschner@UConn.edu

Simple ingredients for a healthier holiday meal

quarter teaspoon of ground cloves in a large bowl with an electric mixer. Use the mixer on a low speed until it is com-pletely blended. Then beat in three large eggs and one cup of “lite” coconut milk. Once mixed, place the tart pan on

a baking sheet and pour the filling on it evenly. Bake it for about 45 to 50 minutes until the filling starts to set (the center may seem soft, but will become more solid as it cools). Transfer to a wire rack to let it cool to room tempera-ture.

This dish has 260 calories, 12 grams of fat, 80 mg of cho-lesterol, 33 grams of carbohy-drates and 168 mg of sodium.

Have a happy, delicious and healthy Thanksgiving, every-one!

» HEALTHIER HOLIDAY, page 5

Jamie.Dinar@UConn.edu

Students and children flock to book fair

teens with their favorite authors and books, building a commu-nity of readers.

Authors that were present for autographs and readings included Bryan Collier, Katie Davis, Bruce Degen, Cathryn Falwell, Patricia MacLachlan,

Barbara McClintock, Matthew Reinhart, Sergio Ruzzier and more. A room was set aside for these readings where chil-dren sat on the floor as authors and characters sat in front of them on couches, with parents observing.

“It was funny to see the kids

dragging their parents around,” said Emily Eaton, a third semes-ter journalism and human rights double major. “When I came to the fair, I felt like a little kid again… It’s great to see how excited all of these kids are to be here.”

» AND KIDS, OH MY, page 5

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Reflecting on past through gospel voice

Songs of praise filled the UConn von der Mehden audi-torium on Saturday night with the Voices of Freedom Gospel Choir.

The Voices of Freedom Gospel Choir began as a response to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s and has gained a reputation for outstanding musi-cians and singers for the past 30 years. It has also birthed some of the greatest Gospel artists and preachers in the country. The choir sings a wide range of gospel music, including pieces from traditional, contemporary and praise and worship songs while holding concerts across the nation.

Reverend Lisa Clayton directed the choir through a tour during the spring of 2010 when the choir sang in several states including New York, Georgia and Florida. Clayton is a Pi Kappa Lambda national music honor society graduate of the University of Connecticut with a mater of music degree in vocal perfor-mance and a magna cum laude graduate from Paine College in Georgia. Along with direct-ing a number of different choirs, she is a lecturer at UConn and a music theory teacher in the Hartford school system.

Before the beginning of the concert, everyone was asked

to bow their heads for a short prayer led by the Reverend. She prayed that the talents of all her students would be used to their full potential to sing praise and hoped that everyone in the crowd felt the power of the words of each song. After prayer, she announced CDs of recorded choir songs were for sale in the front of the lobby.

Danielle Black began the con-cert with a poem titled “Center of Your Life,” which held the message of staying focused. The choir then opened up with “Holy One” where the reverend asked everyone to “stand up on [their] feet and praise the Lord.” The audience did just that while singing along, “Exalted, you are the holy one.” Featuring a capella solos by Black and Chelsea Murray, “How Great is Our God” was next. Soloist Tanya Ford opened the song “A Plan for Me” while the choir snapped along to the slow tune. Next up was tenor Alexander Eloi with his solo in “Make Me New.”

“This is my third year on the choir, and as you saw that was my first solo experience,” said Eloi, a 7th-semester commu-nications major. “The teacher played the song, and I was really feeling it. So I practiced, I audi-tioned, and she said I could have it. I was so nervous; there were so many people there.”

Eloi was cheered on by his fellow singers who patted him on the back after he let out a sigh

of relief at the end of his solo. Sarah Wolliston led the group for “Destiny is Waiting For Me” before a guest performance by Denise Powell. Powell has sung beside artists like John Mayer, Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder and more. She recently released her first independent project titled “Free to Flow” which inspires people to destroy every fear and walk in their God given destiny.

“This one we’re gonna jam on, we’re gonna have some fun,” she told the audience before one of her songs. “Put your hands together.”

Claude Deuce also per-formed on stage after the choir performed two more songs. Deuce is an American sing-er, songwriter, and producer from Georgia. He played piano while singing and encouraged the audience to sing along with him. For his final song, he asked for the choir to back him up. The choir received a stand-ing ovation.

“I just hope I touched some-body in the audience,” said Eloi. “I’d say this was our best concert, but the audience was kind of shy. Going to a church when we perform, the entire church is lively and they’re up. Here at school it’s hard to get the audience involved. When we’re on stage we’re up and dancing, and that’s how they should be too.”

By Zarrin AhmedStaff Writer

Zarrin.Ahmed@UConn.edu

Judy’s Garland’s Oz dress fetches $480K in auction

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The now-faded blue gingham dress Judy Garland wore in “The Wizard of Oz” has sold for $480,000.

Auction house Julien’s Auctions says the pinafore fetched the highest price of any item during a two-day auction of Hollywood memo-rabilia that attracted bids from

around the world. The auction ended Saturday in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Steve McQueen’s racing jacket sold for $50,000, as did a purple skirt worn by Marilyn Monroe while filming “River of No Return” in Canada. Julie Andrews’ “Sound of Music dress” brought $38,400.

Sunglasses worn by Jean

Reno in “Leon” went for $8,320, while Johnny Depp’s shades fetched $3,250.

Bidders also snapped up pieces of royal wed-ding cakes. Prince William and Kate Middleton’s cake sold for $7,500 while Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s cake sold for $1,375.

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Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 6 -- A recipe for financial frustrations or emotional sensitivity: Take it slowly with comfort food and good company. Add some homemade lemonade. Don’t force anything.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 9 -- Exceed expectations. As Dr. Seuss would say, “Oh, the things you can think!” Figure out finances. They don’t have to be stressful. You might find some money.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Listen to an elder. Learn new skills and attract new friends. Make sure you keep your schedule, and your promises. Reward yourself with a fun evening.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Don’t let your phone disconnect you from being with your friends in person. Separate fact from bias. Make sure you understand the request before moving forward.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Don’t believe rumors until you’ve checked the facts. The Full Moon and Jupiter are both in your career house, bringing new, expansive opportunities. Craft some plans.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- You’re the star of your own adventure flick. What rivers will you cross; what mountains will you climb; what evil will you vanquish? No formulas. Redefine “success.”

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Stay objective, even as others lose their emotional rationality. Listen to the context of what’s going on, rather than the content of the words spoken.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Find the right partnership and play your cards well for a possible income increase. Don’t go crazy while shopping. Just get the basics. Hang on to those chips.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- You’re entering a yearlong power phase in your career, so expect a raise in status and income (but don’t count those chickens yet). Smile, and keep providing great service.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 5 -- Love is more important than money now. Refrain from impulsive actions. There could be some disagreement regarding priorities. Compromise is golden.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 6 -- You’re inclined to want to find out more. Pay special attention to the details, and build a solid foundation. Choose a partner with complimentary skills.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Changes are for the better. The learning is great. Now’s a perfect time to write letters beneath the moon. A solution to an old problem becomes obvious.

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PHOTO OF THE DAY

Last Wednesday was Philanthropy Day at UConn, where our different charitable clubs and organizations held different sign-ups and events. Here, HuskyDrive volunteers show off their stand in the Student Union.

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UConn freshmen look solid in debutThe comparisons between the

two unlikeliest of players has emerged at the University of Connecticut.

Freshman Breanna Stewart, the six foot, four inch center has been likened to six foot guard Maya Moore.

The reason has had nothing to do with playing styles. Rather, the reason for the comparisons from coach Geno Auriemma has been the scoring mentality.

Both players, Auriemma has said and repeated Sunday after-noon, score at will from anywhere on the floor. With Stewart, her versatility has been a nightmare for opponents.

Sunday, Stewart scored 21 points, tying a record previously set by Moore.

Stewart said after the game that she’s used to comparisons and that being likened to Moore will not

phase her. “People say a lot of nice things

to me and I just try to overlook them,” Stewart said. “They’re nice to hear but after a while you have to realize that I have higher expec-tations than this.”

With Stewart on the floor, the Huskies could go in a number of different directions. With Stewart on the court with a small lineup, it provides size but still allows UConn to get out and run the floor—the Huskies had 29 fast break points Sunday. It also allows Auriemma to bring in the team’s other big players like Stefanie Dolson on the court and play a high-low game with players the 6-foot four-inch Stewart and the six-foot five-inch Dolson.

It also helps that Stewart is not a liability if sent to the free throw line. She was 5-5 Sunday from the charity stripe.

Stewart didn’t just score and get assists, she was all over the place on defense as well. She grabbed five rebounds and recorded four steals, she also blocked a shot.

Another freshman to show amazing versatility was freshman Morgan Tuck.

Tuck scored 15 points on 7-11 shooting.

In back to back possessions she hit a three-pointer from the left corner and then followed that up with a turn-around right hookshot from the paint.

A player that can do things like that on offense is something that’s not merely hard to defend, but it gives the offense more ability to do different things with different lineups.

On the defensive side, Tuck had two steals, two blocked shots and grabbed five defensive rebounds.

Tuck said that in practice she tries to do all the little things that coach Auriemma likes to see done by his players.

“To see it pay off in a game, it feels great,” Tuck said.

The third of the UConn fresh-men, guard Moriah Jefferson looked good at some spots, but was shaky at others.

On one play, she showed incred-

ible athleticism, driving to the lane and instead of taking the layup, passed to a wide-open Tuck under the basket for an easy bucket. But in the first half alone, she had four turnovers and finished the game with five.

Auriemma said that it’s a com-mon thing for freshmen to try and do too much in a game, but from what he’s seeing of her when she’s making good decisions is impres-sive enough not to allow turnovers to concern him.

It’s no debate whether or not these three can play, they showed they can. The question is whether they can handle a tough atmo-sphere against a really good team. The mental capacities of these freshmen is going to be tested next week when the Huskies travel to College Station, Tex. to face Texas A&M in a nationally televised game on ESPN2.

By Dan AgabitiStaff Writer

Dan.Agabiti@UConn.eduUConn redshirt senior Caroline Doty stares down a Charleston player in the Huskies' 103-39 victory. Doty had 10 points on the afternoon.

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vert a goal with the extra player they are proud of their accomplishments.

“We were playing the defending national champi-ons. They returned eight start-ers from the national champi-onship team. This year we were replacing seven starters from our final four team so I think that at the very end they had a bit more experi-ence on the field and were able to find a way to win,” Stevens said. “As I said I’m really proud of our team to replace seven starters and be

able to play as well and win the Big East Championships and get a home seed as the No. 3 team in the country. We are just so proud of the season; we had nineteen wins. You really have to look at the broad picture and say it was a tremendous season and really be proud of their efforts.”

Despite the unfortunate loss UConn should be proud of their accomplishments and efforts for a phenomenal 2012 season.

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Chloe Hunnable scores 15th goal of the season in loss to Maryland

Huskies blow three goal lead, fall to Providence

The UConn Women’s Ice Hockey team dropped their fourth consecutive game this weekend at the hand of the Providence Friars, 5-3.

The Huskies struck first in this match up of Hockey East foes. In fact, UConn was able to score within the first 5 minutes as fresh-man Leah Burress was able to beat the goaltender for the first goal of her collegiate career. The goal was assisted by freshman Michela Cava. Shortly after, the Huskies struck again with another

goal, this time off the stick of sophomore Kayla Compero. The goal marked her third of the sea-son and pushed the lead to 2-0.

The Huskies were not done there. UConn was able to score once again after an explosive first period. The Huskies started the second period with a bang, as senior Kelly Horan was able to finish off the play with a goal of her own to push the lead to 3-0. The goal was assisted by Buress as she captured her second point of the night.

Unfortunately, the Providence Friars would not go quietly. The added a goal of their own halfway through the second period. The

goal came off the stick of Nicole Anderson during a power play for the Friars. The Friars would continue their rally, as they netted another goal not even a minute later, and cut the lead in half. The even strength goal was scored by Beth Hanrahan. Shortly after, the Friars completed the comeback with yet another power play goal by Nicole Anderson.

The Huskies were unable to fight back Saturday as the Friars would continue their rally; it climbed to a 5-0 run. Providence would take the lead in the third period after a goal by Lexi Romanchuk and would add an empty netter, scored by Jessica

Vella, as the final seconds were coming off the clock. The final score would read 5-3 in favor of the Friars.

Despite the loss, Sarah Moses was able to collect 35 saves and stayed in net for the duration of the contest.

The Huskies will get a chance to break their current losing streak against the St. Lawrence University Saints in an out of conference match up to be played at UConn’s home ice of Freitas Forum on November 18th.

By Scott CarrollCampus Correspondent

Scott.Carroll@UConn.eduUConn freshman forward Leah Buress skates the puck up ice in a recent game at the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum.

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Going into the game against Pittsburgh, critics of the UConn football team had plenty of mate-rial to work with.

The Huskies’ running game is ranked among the worst in the nation in yards per game. UConn’s offense, as a whole, seems unable to function on any level. To make it all worse, the big-play explo-siveness of Nick Williams and the rest of the UConn’s return game has been invisible lately.

Call it an accident, call it an

anomaly or call it the start of a late-season turnaround, but Friday night, Ryan Griffin and the rest of the UConn offense did something they haven’t done very frequently this season; score points in bunches.

In the Huskies’ 24-17 win, every phase of UConn’s offense was working about as well as it has all year.

On the ground, sophomore run-ning back Lyle McCombs, run-ning behind an offensive line that has been coming under a lot of fire this season for its play, rushed for 129 yards on 29 carries. It was his highest total all season and it was the first time since the game

against Western Michigan that McCombs rushed for 100 yards or more.

The Huskies came out firing in the first half and although the same fire-power wasn’t present in the second half, UConn was able to do enough damage in the air to give themselves a lead they could hold on to.

Quarterback Chandler Whitmer threw for 213 yards including one touchdown.

Whitmer’s favorite target Friday night was tight end Ryan Griffin. Griffin had 84 yards on six catches and, when Whitmer was targeting him, Griffin was causing the Pittsburgh lineback-

ing corps all sorts of problems. Griffin tied his career high for

catches with his six, and his 84 yards was the most he has had all season. In fact, if one were to combine the UMass, North Carolina State, Maryland, Buffalo and South Florida game totals for Griffin, he would only have six catches.

Griffin said that all season long, this team has felt that it was capable of games like this and that now people are starting to see how good this team could be.

“We really showed what we were made of tonight,” Grififn said.

On special teams, where the

Huskies have been struggling lately, UConn saw a big spark from Nick Williams.

With 9:26 remaining in the sec-ond quarter, when UConn already had a 10-0 lead, Williams fielded a punt from UConn’s 20-yard-line and he didn’t stop running until he reached the endzone. 80 yards later, it was 17-0 UConn.

“I had kind of made up my mind going into the week that I wasn’t going to fair-catch,” Williams said. “He gave me the right kick, kind of right down the middle of the field. We had a good scheme drawn up. It wasn’t a really impressive return, I think I just ran straight.”

It ain’t always prettyFor whatever reason, in many

games that UConn has gotten a significant lead, the score ends up being a little bit too close for comfort. The Huskies even blew a big lead against Temple

Friday night was no different. The Huskies accumulated 24 points in the first half and didn’t score a single point in the second half. In the entire second half, the Huskies only ran two plays on the Pittsburgh side of the 50-yard-line, one of them was an inter-cepted pass in the endzone.

Football silences critics with first conference victoryBy Dan AgabitiSports Editor

Dan.Agabiti@UConn.edu

SportsThe Daily Campus, Page 10 Monday, November 12, 2012

Huskies rout College of Charleston in home opener

The UConn volleyball defeated South Florida 3-1 on Friday night at Gampel Pavilion to secure the No. 4 seed in the Big East Tournament.

The Huskies (19-11 over-all) were projected to finish 10th in the Big East Preseason Poll, which would have them missing the conference tourna-ment. The Huskies exceeded all expectations in 2012 and earned their first postseason berth since 2009.

Prior to the match, UConn honored its three seniors: Mattison Quayle, Kelsey Maving and Angela Roidt, who were all playing their

final regular season match at Gampel Pavilion.

At the intermission, Quayle was also honored for becom-ing the 13th player in UConn history to reach 1,000 career kills. She did so on her fourth kill of last Friday’s match at Marquette.

South Florida was looking for revenge after the Huskies came back from a 2-0 deficit to win 3-2 in Tampa on Oct. 19. They would have no such luck, but they gave UConn a little déjà vu at one point.

It was a tight affair, but the Huskies took the first two sets, winning 25-21 and 25-23. However, the Bulls destroyed UConn after the intermis-sion, winning the third set 25-13. The Huskies were able

to recover and close out the game in the fourth set, winning 25-19.

Quayle once again led the Huskies’ charge, posting 19 kills to lead all players. Sophomore Karson Ratliff capped off an impressive week with 12 kills and freshman Immanuella Anagu added 10.

Roidt has seen her time diminish due to the great play of freshman Marissa Prinzbach, but the senior got the start on Friday and repaid the faith of Coach Holly Strauss-O’Brien with 38 assists.

Maving, who now sits sec-ond all-time in career digs at UConn, didn’t have much to do defensively, producing only 14 digs.

With the win and Cincinnati’s

loss on Sunday at Louisville, the Huskies will finish the season in fourth place in the Big East. They will play Cincinnati, the No. 5 seed, on Friday at Marquette University in Milwaukee in the Big East Quarterfinals. The winner moves on to play the winner of the match between the No. 1 seed Louisville and No. 8 South Florida. The Huskies put Louisville to the sword earlier this season, but ended up losing 3-1.

On the other side of the bracket, No. 3 Notre Dame will play No. 6 St. John’s and No. 2 Marquette will play No. 7 Pittsburgh.

The UConn women’s basket-ball team defeated the College of Charleston 103-39 to win their 17th straight regular season open-er.

Freshmen forward Breanna Stewart led the Huskies in total points with 21 in the dominat-ing UConn victory. Stewart’s 21 points also tied former UConn great Maya Moore in most points scored by a freshman in their first game in a Husky uniform. Stewart shot 8-11 from the field and has high hopes moving for-ward at UConn.

“To be named with Maya Moore is awesome,” said Stewart. “She has done great things throughout her career and it just sets me up to have high expectations and to continue to work hard.”

Sophomore Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis added 19 points of her own, shooting 7-15 from the field and 50 percent from behind the arc. Head coach Geno Auriemma was impressed with the sophomore forward’s perfor-mance against the Cougars.

“Kaleena is the type of player in college basketball where if you have someone like that it forc-es the other teams, to do things defensively they may not have to do against somebody else,” said Auriemma. “Whatever defense you’re in somebody has to be specifically in charge of defend-ing her, otherwise you’re going to give up a lot of three’s like these teams have in the last couple games.”

The College of Charleston scored the first two points of the game; however the Huskies answered with a 19-0 run before the Cougars could score a basket.

Freshmen Moriah Jefferson and Morgan Tuck each made their debut at the 15:43 mark of 1st half. By the end of the half, both Stewart and Mosqueda-Lewis reached double digits in points. Redshirt senior Caroline Doty also had eight points in UConn’s 57-13 halftime lead.

In the second half, the Huskies continued to keep the pressure on Charleston. By game’s end, UConn had shot 63.6 percent from the field and 47.4 percent from behind the arc. There were also six Huskies who reached double digit range in total points, which included sopho-more guard, Brianna Banks who quietly scored 10 points and shot 5-5 from the field. Auriemma was commended his younger players for the game they had in par-ticular the three freshmen on the team.

“These three freshmen have

really good basketball instincts,” said Auriemma. “So when they’re out on the floor they make things happen that no matter how old you are, you could be here 10 years and you still won’t be able to make some of the plays these three make.”

Junior center Stefanie Dolson scored 11 points and also had a career high eight assists against Charleston. Doty finished her afternoon with 10 points as she shot 50 percent from three point range. Senior guard Kelly Faris added nine points of her own in the UConn victory over the Cougars.

The Huskies will travel to College Station Texas on Sunday, November 18, to take on Texas A&M. That game is scheduled to tip off at 2:30 p.m. and can be seen live on ESPN 2.

By Tyler MorrisseyAssociate Sports Editor

Tyler.Morrissey@UConn.eduUConn freshman forward Breanna Stewart works around a Chrleston player in game at Gampel Pavilion. Stewart had 21 points in her debut in a Husky uniform.

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By Tim FontenaultStaff Writer

UConn outside hitter Mattison Quayle leaps in the air to hit the ball over the net in a recent game at Gampel Pavillion.

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UConn locks in No. 4 seed in Big East tournament

in the fourth quarter to rack up 17 unanswered points on the Huskies defense. Pittsburgh quarterback Tino Sunseri took the Panthers 72 yards down the field and hit wide receiver Drew Carswell in the left side of the end zone for his first touchdown of the game.

After a UConn drive stalled when Whitmer threw an inter-ception in the end zone, the Panthers got the ball back and

drove 80 yards, as Sunseri threw an 18-yard touchdown pass to Mike Shanahan to cut the Huskies’ lead to just a touchdown. Pasqualoni felt that the Pittsburgh comeback was partly due to the UConn’s inability to effectively block Panthers defensive tackle Aaron Donald.

“I don’t know if they did anything real different,” said Pasqualoni. “At times the run game didn’t get No. 97 as efficiently sometimes as we needed to get him blocked.

He was somewhat disruptive tonight.”

UConn would not give Pittsburgh the opportunity to complete the comeback, as the Huskies ran out the clock on their next possession to preserve the 24-17 win and first Big East victory of the season. The Huskies will be back in action this Saturday when they travel to Kentucky to take on No. 20 Louisville.

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Huskies halt late Pittsburgh comeback

It was a fantastic weekend for UConn sports as a whole, but one of the most notable team performances over the weekend was by the Men’s Ice Hockey team, which beat Sacred Heart 5-3 at home on Friday and had an electrifying 3-1 win on the road against Merrimack College the next night.

UConn earned its first win by dominating Sacred Heart throughout the game, jumping out to an early 2-0 lead at the end of the first period. Trevor Gerling and Joe Bundick were the two early scorers for the Huskies. UConn almost scored two more goals right after, on great opportunities by Billy Latta. UConn was all over the ice, winning every small bat-tle in the corners and open ice. “We had a lot of good scoring chances—could’ve

scored more,” Coach Bruce Marshall said on Friday night. This took us to the sec-ond period of play, where the Huskies went on a roll. They scored three straight goals, two of them in 11 seconds, thanks to shots from Pat Kirtland, Jordon Sims, and Cody Sharib. “It was good to come out and get more shots on net, get more opportunities and score five,” said Coach Marshall. The Huskies maintained the five-goal lead until there were 18 seconds left in the second peri-od, when Sacred Heart’s Ryan Stanimir scored on a rebound on the weak side of the net. Stanimir’s goal ignited a spark for the Sacred Heart team to continue to fight in the third by scoring two more goals. Despite Sacred Heart’s 3-goal comeback, the Huskies were able to hang on to the win. Connecticut’s total of 44 shots on goal to Sacred Heart’s 28 was the night’s dif-

ference. Connecticut hoped the winning mentality would carry over to the next night, and boy did it.

“As a team, I thought we came out strong,” Kirtland said. “I need to just keep doing the little things, getting it in their zone, fore-checking, possess-ing the puck down low. Overall, I thought myself and my line mates did a good job tonight. So just keep at that, hopefully something good will happen.” Something good did happen when Connecticut followed the Sacred Heart win by play-ing an old time hockey game in North Andover, Mass. against Merrimack. It was a rougher game with a total of thirteen penalties, UConn committing five of them. The game was defined by defense and goaltending in the first peri-od with neither team able to put the biscuit in the net. The first goal did not come until the nine-minute mark in the second period

by Kyle Singleton of Merrimack. The Huskies showed great resil-iency on the road, however, by scoring the next three goals. Cody Sharib started the run by scoring the tying goal on a power play only two minutes after Merrimack scored its first goal. Sean Ambrosie and Evan Carriere followed him with two hard-worked goals in the third period to take a 3-1 lead, which ended up being enough to earn the road victory in North Andover. The two big wins for the men’s hockey team improved their record to 2-4-1. They hope to continue to follow the victory path in their next game against Bentley in Waltham MA.

“Certainly, any win’s a good win,” Marshall said. “And there’s no bad win, so we’ll take it and then use that as way to motivate and the guys better.”

Men's hockey has red-hot weekend By Eddie LeonardCampus Correspondent

Edward.Leonard@UConn.eduUConn freshman forward Tyler Bouchard plays the puck in a game against Sacred Heart at the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum. The Huskies won by the final score of 5-3.

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NEW YORK (AP) — As quickly as NHL labor nego-tiations got going again, they came to a screeching halt. Now there is no telling when the league and the players will return to the bargaining table.

After a one-day break fol-lowing a series of formal discussions this week, the sides got back to business on Sunday. Less than 90 min-utes after talks solely about

player-contract issues started, they were over.

The players contend the NHL has dug in on its position and is not willing to negotiate.

"The owners made it clear there is no give with respect to their proposals unless the players are willing to take them — this is my phrase, not theirs — down to the comma, then there is nothing to do, that we're past the point

of give and take," players' association executive director Donald Fehr said.

No new plans to talk were made, but Monday wasn't ruled out. The sides will be in touch, and if they do decide to meet then, those talks will take place in Toronto where leaders from the NHL and the players' association will be to attend Hockey Hall of Fame induction ceremonies.

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Rams and 49ers play to 24-24 tie; NFL's first draw since 2008

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A furious, thrilling finish to regulation ended with an over-time dud. A tie — and nobody particularly likes a tie.

Especially not the NFC West-leading 49ers, with a chance to separate themselves against a division rival.

San Francisco and St. Louis played the NFL's first tie game in four years as kickers from both teams missed overtime field goals in Sunday's 24-24 outcome.

Greg Zuerlein kicked a 53-yarder, but the Rams were penalized 5 yards for delay of game. He tried again from 58 as coach Jeff Fisher played for the win, and missed wide right with 2:42 left in OT.

San Francisco's David Akers missed wide left on a 41-yard attempt that could have sealed it for the 49ers (6-2-1), who lost quarterback Alex Smith to a first-half concussion.

And just when it seemed the 49ers — and Akers' typically reliable left leg — would have

one more chance to win it, San Francisco linebacker Patrick Willis was flagged for holding Lance Kendricks on third down. That extended St. Louis' last drive, a costly mistake in a long list of them on an uncharacteris-tically sloppy day by coach Jim Harbaugh's team.

Akers booted a tying 33-yard-er with 3 seconds left in regula-tion after Sam Bradford threw a 2-yard touchdown pass to Austin Pettis with 1:09 remain-ing.

On the first play of OT, Bradford completed an 80-yard pass to Danny Amendola that took St. Louis (3-5-1) to the 2, but the play was called back for an illegal formation. Some 49ers fans got up to leave, then returned to their seats.

The last tie was between Philadelphia and Cincinnati, 13-13 in 2008.

Frank Gore ran for a 20-yard touchdown with 8:23 to go in regulation just 17 seconds after backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick scurried 7 yards for

a score. Kaepernick finished 11 for 17 for 117 yards and also had eight carries for 66 yards, calmly leading the Niners after it took several series to find his groove.

Gore ran for 97 yards, while Michael Crabtree made five catches for 70 yards and a 14-yard touchdown from Smith before he left the game.

Amendola returned for the Rams following a three-game absence with a shoulder inju-ry to make 11 catches for 102 yards. Bradford went 26 for 39 for 275 yards and two touch-downs.

Smith took a hard hit on the back of the neck from line-backer Jo-Lonn Dunbar after a scramble with 1:10 left in the first quarter. But the No. 1 over-all pick in the 2005 draft stayed in the game and completed his next five passes, including Crabtree's TD.

Smith, who has started 28 straight games, wound up 7 for 8 for 72 yards.

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TWOPAGE 2 21 The number of points Breanna Stewart

scored in her Husky debut, which ties the

record set by Maya Moore.

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» That’s what he said“We executed the game plan and the game plan was to play hard. We stepped up to the plate, we took the challenge and we came up

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–UConn basketball head coach Kevin Ollie after his first win.

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UConn’s offense improves

For the UConn men’s hockey team this season, finding consistent offense has proven to be a dif-ficult challenge to overcome. However, after two strong offensive performances by the team on Friday and Saturday, it seems that the possession of the puck may be changing.

“As a team, I thought we came out strong,” freshman Patrick Kirtland said. “Personally, I thought I had some chances to score. Fortunately, I got one of those…we’ve got to build off this.”

The Huskies (2-4-1 overall, 1-3-0 AHA) finally found their first wins of the season by defeating conference rival Sacred Heart 5-3 at home on Friday and Merrimack 3-1 in North Andover, Mass. on Saturday. These wins proved to be the team’s two best showings so far this season.

Prior to this weekend’s matches, the Huskies were not solid in their offensive play on the ice. In the first five matches of the season, the team averaged 0.80 goals per match, with their strongest offensive showing being a two-goal tie against Union.

The Atlantic Hockey weekend preview specifi-cally stated that the Huskies were lacking in offen-sive production heading into the weekend, saying that UConn needed an “offensive explosion over this weekend.” Coach Bruce Marshall and his team certainly did not disappoint and followed through with the kind of performances that will propel them out of last place in the conference rankings.

“We scored some goals, which was good,” Marshall said. “We’ve been struggling in that department. We had a lot of shots on net. I thought we had a lot of good scoring chances.”

In the match against Sacred Heart, the Huskies produced three goals in a five-minute span, two of them within one minute of each other. Marshall believes, however, that the team had the potential to score as many as six or seven goals in the match, but sloppiness late in the second period prevented them from capitalizing on several opportunities.

“[We] could’ve scored more,” Marshall con-tinued. “We played with a lot of energy. We were really good on the forecheck. We created a lot of turnovers and usually when you do that you get pretty good scoring chances.”

The offensive strength this weekend was a direct product of a diversity of options from which the team could choose, with seven different play-ers scoring the team’s eight goals of the weekend. From freshman Kirtland to seniors Sean Ambrosie and Evan Carriere, the team had players across every measurable spectrum produce results in both games.

The biggest improvement for the team, though, is an increase in the shots on goal, providing the team with sheer statistical probability that one shot (or more) would be bound to land in the net. In the Friday match against Sacred Heart, UConn mus-tered 44 shots on goal, while managing another 24 against Merrimack on Saturday.

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No. 1 Alabama falls 29-24 to Texas A&MTUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — AJ McCarron and Alabama came

up just short this time with the game, and probably their national title hopes, on the line.

The top-ranked Crimson Tide rallied from a three-touchdown defi-cit Saturday and nearly took the lead before leaving Bryant-Denny Stadium with a 29-24 loss to Johnny Manziel and No. 15 Texas A&M.

Bama (9-1, 6-1 Southeastern Conference) is down but coach Nick Saban isn’t counting his team out of the national championship race just yet.

“Two of the three national championship teams that I coached lost a game,” Saban said, counting one at LSU. “This team still has an opportunity to win the West and go to the SEC championship game and win a championship. There’s still a lot for this team to play for.”

Now, the Tide will have to beat struggling Auburn to clinch the West and get into the SEC title game. As for the national title, Alabama will have to hope for another shakeup in the form of losses by Kansas State, Oregon and Notre Dame. If the Tide wins out, and two of those teams go down, a third national championship in four seasons is still in play — along with a seventh straight for the SEC.

For now though, the SEC is on the outside looking in at the BCS title race.

The Aggies (8-2, 5-2), playing in the Southeastern Conference for the first season after ditching the Big 12, also might have ended the league’s run of BCS titles at six years.

The defending national champion Tide, who have been No. 1 almost all season and had won 13 straight, didn’t go quietly.

McCarron nearly pulled off a second straight scintillating come-back. He threw one touchdown pass and motored the ball downfield before Deshazor Everett stepped in front of his fourth-down pass at the goal line with 1:36 left.

Manziel passed for 253 yards and rushed for 92, confounding the Tide defense with his ability to keep plays alive as the Aggies scored the game’s first 20 points.

“No moment is too big for him,” coach Kevin Sumlin said of his remarkable redshirt freshman.

The Aggies had been 1-10 against top-ranked teams with the only previous win coming 30-26 over Oklahoma in 2002, but Manziel and

Sumlin have entered the SEC with speed and swagger — and fit right in.

“They played a tremendous game and certainly outplayed us,” Saban said.

Alabama managed a second-shot national title after losing to LSU just over a year ago in the regular season but seems a longshot to do it again. Alabama would have secured a spot in the SEC championship game with a victory and only Western Carolina and Auburn remain-ing.

Alabama kept coming back, but never caught up with the slippery, speedy Manziel and the Aggies.

The nation’s top scoring defense, forced a punt with less than a min-ute left, but A&M never had to kick it away. The Tide was penalized for offisides, giving Texas A&M a first down and a chance to kneel out the clock.

“The players were told ‘make sure you stay onsides, they are going to try to get you to jump offsides with a shift or a motion or some-thing,’” Saban said.

Before that, McCarron breathed life into Alabama with a 54-yard touchdown pass down the left sideline to freshman Amari Cooper to make it 29-24 with 4:29 left.

A quick three-and-out by the Aggies put the ball in McCarron’s hands again. He opened at the 40 with a 54-yarder to speedster Kenny Bell down to the 6. Two scrambles and an Eddy Lacy run left one final shot from the 2 against a Texas A&M defense often overshadowed by its potent offense.

He had some time on third down, rolling left but finding Lacy well covered and having to try running it, a la Manziel, before Dustin Harris stopped him at the 2.

McCarron had rescued the Tide’s national title hopes with a 28-yard screen pass in the final minute for a 21-17 win over No. 9 LSU. The Aggies, nearly two-touchdown underdogs, didn’t let him do it again. Everett made the play on a pass toward the front corner of the end zone.

McCarron completed 21 of 34 passes for 309 yard but also was intercepted twice, ending his streak without getting picked off at 291 passes.

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» INSIDE SPORTS TODAYP.11: UConn’s offense improves/ P.10: Huskies rout College of Charleston in home opener/ P.9: UConn freshmen look solid in debut

UConn out of Big East Tournament

HUSKIES K.O. SPARTANSRAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — Another

unusual setting for the opening game, another loss for Michigan State.

Playing in a hangar at the U.S. Air Base in Ramstein, the No. 14 Spartans lost 66-62 to Connecticut in a game that finished early Saturday.

The Spartans lost last year to North Carolina in another military tribute game, the Carrier Classic on the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier.

Michigan State had won 33 of its previous 34 open-ers.

“We did a very poor job of rotating players,” Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said. “We made fresh-men mistakes.”

With both teams playing in uniforms resembling military fatigues, Michigan State trailed by as many as 16 points in the first half as the Huskies opened with a 6-0 run.

Shabazz Napier scored 25 points in Kevin Ollie’s first game as the Huskies’ head coach.

Keith Appling scored 17 points and Branden Dawson had 15 points and 10 rebounds for Michigan State.

“We are too fast, we are a transition team and when we get going, no one can keep up with us,” Napier said. “We just tried to do what they did, transition. We got some easy rebounds, they came off the boards and we let them go.”

Kevin Ollie’s first game and win as the Huskies’ head coach was watched by former coach Jim Calhoun, who worked as play-by-play radio commentator.

After the game, UConn players and Ollie ran and embraced Calhoun, the Hall of Famer who retired in September.

He’s always been by my side and I appreciate him so much,” Ollie said. “He told me don’t lay on this, build on it and continue to make them play hard. It’s a great win for our program, for the new era. A lot of people could have quit but they stayed here for what Coach Calhoun built.”

Connecticut guard R.J. Evans, left, displays the trophy after beating Michigan State in their NCAA men’s basketball game on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012, on the Ramstein U.S. Air Force Base, in Ramstein, Germany.

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UConn upsets No. 14 Michigan State in Armed Forces Classic

The dream of the UConn men’s soccer team doing an unprec-edented “treble” ended Friday night when they fell 1-0 to Notre Dame at PPL Park in Chester, Pennsylvania during the semifi-nals of the Big East Conference Tournament.

Despite downing the Fighting Irish 2-1 at Joseph J Morrone Stadium earlier in the season, UConn failed to offensively impose themselves in the game at PPL Park and only managed two shots on target.

Notre Dame started the match the much better team keeping pos-session and intentionally target-ing UConn’s left flank. Early in the match after a few mistimed runs, Alex Pride beat UConn left back Flo Liu and rushed to the byline, sending in a low driven cross which was tucked away by All-Big East First Team selection Dillon Powers for his fifth goal of the season, giving the Irish the 1-0 lead in the 11th minute.

After going down 1-0, UConn struggled the rest of the first half only managing two real goal-scor-ing opportunities. In the 30th min-ute All-Big East First Team striker Mamadou Doudou Diouf turned and had a quick shot go just wide, and in the 45th minute a mix up at the back by Notre Dame set fresh-man Nicholas Zuniga free after a long ball from the back, only to have his shot saved by Will Walsh.

UConn was much improved in the second half but still much of their attack was reduced to long-range efforts, posing little threat to the Notre Dame goal.

UConn’s best chance of the match came in the 75th minute when right back Max Wasserman sent in a curling cross, which Diouf met strongly with his head but only managed to hit side net-ting.

Late in the match UConn became increasing desperate throwing five and at times six men forward leaving defensive mid-fielder George Fochive alone with Adria Beso periodically helping out in the middle of the pitch. With such little presence in the middle Notre Dame was able to limit Uconn’s late attack to set pieces, and in the final minute of the match UConn floated in a free kick as their last attack, but it was cleared by Notre Dame end-ing UConn’s Big East Conference Tournament.

UConn Head Coach Ray Reid was happy with his team’s second half performance, but felt the first half should have been better.

“We started off okay and then we had a patch of 15-20 minutes where we weren’t very good in the first half. Give them credit they’re a high-powered team, and I thought we did a pretty good job handling them frankly but it wasn’t good enough,” said Reid.

“I thought the second half was better, we put them under some pressure but Allando (Matheson) and Stephane (Diop) aren’t fully fit so that gave us less options, but we didn’t come down here to play one half,” said Reid.

Reid spoke of how impressed he was with the level of play in both semifinal matches.

“I think you probably have three of the five best teams in the coun-try in the league right now, and this game tonight was like a Final Four type game and hopefully that will all bear out on Monday with the selections,” said Reid.

UConn now must wait till 5:30 on Monday evening for the NCAA Tournament selection show to see where they are ranked and where they will be playing. The season could culminate in playing at the NCAA College Cup at Regions Park in Hoover, Alabama on December 7th.w

UConn notches first Big East victory

Field Hockey eliminated from postseason

UConn freshmen midfielder Mckenzie Townsend fights for the ball in a playoff game against the Maryland Terrapins.

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The UConn field hockey team started the NCAA Championship weekend off with a close game against Northeastern in round one on Saturday. In the battle of the Huskies, UConn brought home the 2-1 win in double overtime to defeat Northeastern and advance to the second round to play Maryland.

The Northeastern Huskies got the upper hand in the first half when they scored a goal off a penalty corner. Lindsay Bennett did a slip left move to confuse the defense and then shot the ball to score a direct shot on net at 19:52 into the game. UConn came back in the second half when Louisa Boddy scored a goal off of a corner to tie the game up. The evenly contested match led to double overtime when finally at 94:02 Marie

Elena Bolls took a shot to the net. Northeastern’s goalie came out too far to deflect the shot and couldn’t get back in net in time for Vicki Arthur’s rebound-ed direct shot on goal. Arthur, with three goals this season, led the team to victory after a hard fought contest.

Sunday, UConn played a tough match against the No.2 seed in the country Maryland.

“I don’t think it helped us to have played double over-time yesterday but it wasn’t as though we lost our step n the second half,” head coach Nancy Stevens said. “I thought it was as though we played a great game from the beginning to end.” The Huskies outplayed Maryland with eleven shots on goal compared to Maryland’s six. UConn came out on top scoring the first goal 9:53 but couldn’t keep the momentum up and lost 2-1.

“I thought we played well…

we outshot them and out cor-nered them. I don’t think we executed the best that we usu-ally do on our corner executions because its usually huge part of the game fore us because we usually nail a lot of our corners but it didn’t help that I got a yel-low card and got thrown off so that was a little bump in the road for us but other than that we kept the tempo of the game fine the stats say it all,” senior Alicia Angelini said. “We thought we had control but unfortunately the outcome is what it is. We got the lucky tip on our first goal and they had a great shot at the end.”

At 2:10 left in the game after Maryland scored a goal to take the lead, UConn pulled goalie Sarah Mansfield to add another player in the game to try to create offensive momentum. Although UConn could not con-

It was a tale of two halves on Friday night as the UConn foot-ball team defeated the Pittsburgh Panthers 24-17 to record their first victory in conference play.

The Huskies dominated the first half of the contest after UConn scored three touch-downs and a field goal before halftime. Sophomore quarter back Chandler Whitmer led the Huskies down the field on the first possession of the game and found senior tight end Ryan Griffin in the end zone for a two yard pass and UConn’s first score of night.

After a quick three-and-out by the Panthers, UConn drove the ball down to the Pittsburgh 12 yard line where junior kicker Chad Christen connected on a 29 yard field goal, giving the Huskies a 10-0 lead. This field goal capped off a 12-play, 61-yard drive for Connecticut.

On the following possession, Pittsburgh attempted a 44-yard

field goal but the ball bounced off the right upright to keep the Panthers off the scoreboard. After a three and out by the Huskies and Pittsburgh on their next two possessions, the Panthers were forced to punt the ball away to UConn senior Nick Williams. Williams took the 40-yard punt 80 yards down-field to the end zone, which gave the Huskies a 17-0 lead. Head coach Paul Pasqualoni was impressed with what he saw from Williams and the special teams against the Panthers.

“We had a big run but we had an unfortunate push in the back on that last one,” said Pasqualoni. “But you go out there and work hard on special teams every week and I just thought we executed and played with urgency. Nick on the punt return just made the first two guys miss and I thought we had some good blocks on that play.”

Late in the second quar-ter, Whitmer and the Huskies engineered another drive that would result in seven points for UConn, thanks in part to a 22

yard pass on second and 10 from Whitmer to Griffin to keep the drive alive. Sophomore running back Lyle McCombs capped off a six-play 61-yard drive with a two-yard touchdown run that was later reviewed and upheld to extend the UConn lead to 24 points at the half. Griffin was impressed with the heart that his team displayed in the game against the Panthers.

“We showed the type of team we are with the heart we got,” said Griffin. “We have been playing too bad but we really showed what we were made of tonight.

At halftime, the UConn defense had held the Pittsburgh offense to just 121 total yards and zero points; this would change in the second half. The Panthers offense showed signs of life after a nine-play, 51-yard drive that resulted in a 42-yard field goal and three points for Pittsburgh.

The Panthers added 14 points

UConn wide receiver carries the ball up the field in the Huskies’ 24-17 victory over Pitt. Williams returned at punt for a touchdown 80 yards in the win.

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