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CAMBODIAN FILM “LOST LOVES” LEAVES SPECTATORS SPEECHLESS
BATTLING THE BRONCOS
Scholarship research is put on display for the public.
After loss last season, Huskies get rematch.
An old international conflict is resurrected.
HOLSTER SCHOLARS PRESENT RESEARCH
Field of Memories: Suicide
AwarenessStudent Union Field
All dayThe Be Aware Show You Care Flag
Exhibit represents the suicides that occur on college campuses each year. Come and personalize a flag to show your support and awareness or honor a memory of someone lost.
Rainbow Lounge Presents...SU 403
6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The Rainbow Center will provide free coffee, tea, hot cocoa and other treats. Students are invited to hang out, meet new people and enjoy good conversation.
Women’s Volleyball vs Villanova
Gampel Pavilion7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
UConn will play against Villanova at Gampel Pavilion. Admission is free.
Women’s Field Hockey vs New Hampshire
Sherman Family Sports Complex
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.UConn will play against New
Hampshire. Admission is free.
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Film leaves a power-ful impression upon its audience.
UConn Police starts defense classes for studentsThe UConn Police Department
has made it their goal to pro-vide the highest level of safety to UConn students through the Rape Aggression Defense Program (RAD).
The UConn Police Department has partnered up with the Women’s Center community standards and off-campus student services in order to advocate the program. According to UConn Police Officer Caitlin J. Farr, who spoke on behalf of Lt. Magdalena Vargas of the Community Services Division, the program is a new initiative of Chief of Police Barbara O’Connor.
The main purpose of the class is to teach risk reduction and aware-ness for women in the college community. The majority of the class is self-defense techniques to use when facing threats of violence. RAD has been around UConn for years. However, there have always been outside instruc-tors coming to teach the program in the past. This year, for the first time, UConn has 10 officers that were certified this past spring to teach the class.
“I was a student in the RAD program in high school, and I find it offers women empower-ment and confidence and it teach-es risk reduction strategies and the self -defense techniques that you don’t get anywhere else,” Farr said.
According to the 2011 UConn police report, there were 10 reported forcible sexual assaults on campus in 2010, compared to 13 in 2008. However, Officer Farr was unable to compare UConn’s safety to that of other universities
and colleges. Kathleen Holgerson, the
director of the Women’s Center, believes that the UConn campus is no different from other college communities when it comes to campus safety.
“There is a lot of program-ming around the issue of campus safety,” Holgerson said. “We are better off talking about it.”
Holgerson stressed that the pro-gram focuses on ways to prevent sexual assault. She believes that the UConn Police Department
has taken the lead to make this even more available for students.
“We are very pleased that the police department is partnering with the Women’s Center and other offices that are a part of this program to respond to the requests of self-defense workshops, but also provide this additional infor-mation that really helps our com-munity to understand the differ-ence between risk reduction and prevention activities and to think a little more deeply about these issues,” Holgerson said.
According to Farr, the RAD program will eventually be offered at the branch campuses. As of now Waterbury, Stamford and Avery Point already have instructors selected. Storrs cam-pus will be first to test out the pro-gram. The October class is at full enrollment and has a waiting list. There is also the option to request special classes for groups such as sororities, clubs and sports groups. The next open enrollment class won’t be available until the spring semester 2013. Farr also mentioned that by partner-ing up with the other offices the police department hopes to build a strong relationship with other communities on campus.
“It’s an opportunity to work with police officers and meet other women that share the same ideas,” Officer Farr said. “It offers you tools and techniques to keep yourself safe, but it’s also about the confidence and empowering women. It helps you walk around campus with your head held up high, knowing you are in control of your own safety and if any-thing were to happen you can handle the situation.”
Student walks to raise money to fight breast
cancerOn the third weekend in
October, Nicole Saglimbene will walk 39.3 miles in two days, and she’ll do it knowing she has raised over $2,300 to battle breast cancer, a cause that is near to her heart.
A 7th-semester psychology major, Saglimbene decided she wanted to complete the walk her mother did over six years ago when she was still battling breast cancer. Though she lost her mother to the fight against breast cancer, Saglimbene’s desire to battle the disease has never waned. Next month, she will walk with thousands of other fundraisers, who have each raised at least $1,800, through the Big Apple in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.
“When my mom was sick, the organization was great.” Saglimbene said. “They would stay in touch and send her things when she was in the hospital. They really care about giving quality care, and you know the money is going to the right place.”
Saglimbene has already raised $2,325 for the event and hopes to raise over $2,500. Though she admits it was daunting in the begin-ning to know she had to raise at least $1,800 in order to participate, she realized how much people wanted to help her after she started a Facebook group and raised over $700 in four days.
“After my mom passed, my classmates bought me a Tiffany’s necklace with a heart.” Saglimbene said. “I don’t think they realized just how much it meant to me.
When people donate, it feels like that.”
This year is the 10th annu-al Avon Walk, and partici-pants have raised a total of over $440 million through the years, making it the Avon Foundation’s larg-est fundraiser. The money is managed by the Avon Foundation for Women, a public charity that channels funds to programs associated with the cause.
Carol Kruzig, the presi-dent of the Avon Foundation for Women, said in a press release, “Thanks to thou-sands of people like Nicole Saglimbene, we are able to save lives by providing sig-nificant funds for vital breast cancer research as well as access to care, screening, support service and educa-tion.”
Saglimbene has been training the past sever-al months to walk a full marathon on October 20th, winding through downtown Manhattan, the Upper West and East Sides, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and across the Brooklyn Bridge. On the night of Oct. 20, Saglimbene has chosen to stay in a tent on Randall’s Island with fellow walkers before finishing the week-end with a half-marathon on Oct. 21.
Saglimbene will be selling T-shirts through the Student Alumni Association in the Union later this month as well as having a bar night at Huskies on Oct. 8. She will also continue to take dona-tions on her Facebook group page.
By Loumarie RodriguezSenior Staff Writer
By Jackie WattlesCampus Correspondent
Professor speaks on the violence in Pakistan
This Thursday, Professor Paul Staniland presented a lecture entitled “Beyond the Monopoly of Violence: Militancy and the State in Pakistan” at UConn’s Student Union Ballroom.
Professor Staniland has done extensive research on civil wars, international security and the politics of South and Southeast Asia. He is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago, and has written several publi-cations on foreign policy. The lecture presented this week discussed some of Staniland’s pre-research for his upcoming book titled “Networks of Rebellion: Expla in ing Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse.”
Staniland began the lec-ture by emphasizing that Pakistani politics are inter-linked with militarized groups that utilize violence in order to gain influence over the country. This politi-cal violence is due to a struc-tural flaw in the government. In developing countries like Pakistan, violence is inten-
tional. Political parties and factions have resorted to vio-lence for various reasons, such as pressurizing voters and securing deals amongst politicians.
Pakistan is technical-ly a democracy, Staniland explained, so elections need to happen. Yet it also has violent militants who ensure that politicians keep their seats. The Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) was an ally of former president Pervez Musharraf and was prominent during his time in office. However, the MQM is not an ally of the Bhutto family’s Pakistani People Party (PPP), which is cur-rently in power. Therefore, the MQM is now a target in the eyes of the state.
Staniland made the exam-ple of Altaf Hussain, the leader of the MQM, who fears for his safety and has been living in London since the 1990s. Hussain continues to make speeches through telephone and webcam dur-ing the MQM rallies in Pakistan.
Staniland then came to the focus of the lecture, which was exploring the three different logics of
violence management. In other words, how do coun-tries monopolize and control political aggressions?
The first logic, posited Staniland, is proxy war. This is when non-state militants are used to target rivals. When rivals live abroad, the targets are usually neighbor-ing countries. When vio-lence is domestic, the state itself has to pay the price for the damage it causes.
The second logic that Staniland presented is local control. Local con-trol is when the state makes deals with violent militants through indirect or semi-direct means.
Staniland’s third logic is electoral influence. This is where armed groups have an electoral count. This last form of logic is somewhat rare.
Staniland concluded that countries like Pakistan are neither stable nor unstable. It is good that violence is not instigated by thoughtless hatred. Even though politi-cal violence is not the best way to oppress violence, it is a more systematic and con-trolled approach to the issue.
The UConn Public Safety Complex, pictured above, is the headquarters for the UConn Police Department. The UConn Police are starting up a new Rape Aggression Defense program to help educate students on how to defend themselves when faced with a violent situation.
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Speaker Paul Staniland addresses his audience about the violence in Pakistan at his lecture on Sept. 19.ZARRIN AHMED/The Daily Campus
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Former TSA officer sen-tenced for bribery
NEW HAVEN (AP) — A former federal Transportation Security Administration officer has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for bribery and extortion related to accepting cash in exchange for allowing what she believed were painkiller pills to pass through an airport.
The U.S. Attorney’s office said 49-year-old Brigitte Jones of the Bronx, N.Y., who was based at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y., received a 45-month sentence Thursday in New Haven.
Prosecutors said Jones agreed to allow a trafficker to transport the pills through airport security in exchange for $1,200.
Jones’ attorney said in court papers she led a law-abiding life until the offense and took care of her family as a single parent. The attorney also said a cooperating witness acting under government supervision approached Jones to seek her involvement, though she should have refused his efforts.
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Conn. employment rate jumps to nine percent
HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut officials on Thursday questioned new U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data that show the state’s unem-ployment rate jumped half a percentage point to 9 percent from July to August, the largest monthly percentage point increase since 1976.
The state Department of Labor announced that the federal agency’s preliminary monthly employment statistics show the state lost a net 6,800 jobs during the monthlong period.
The data also showed the state’s civilian labor force was about 1.9 million in August, down 9,400 from July. Officials said the 0.3 percent decrease was a record monthly drop in the labor force and implied that nearly 17,000 Connecticut workers who were employed in June no longer had jobs in August.
The national unemployment rate in August was 8.1 percent.“We can find no corroborating evidence that the record losses
in employment and increases in unemployment ... are occurring at this magnitude,” said Andy Condon, the director of the state Labor Department’s research office.
Anti-Jihad ads to go up in NYC subway
NEW YORK (AP) — A provocative ad that equates some Muslim radicals with savages is set to go up next week in the New York City subway system, just as violent protests in the Middle East are subsiding over an anti-Islamic film ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad.
A conservative blogger who once headed a campaign against an Islamic center near the Sept. 11 terror attack site won a court order to post the ad in 10 subway stations on Monday. It reads, “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”
The ad was plastered on San Francisco city buses in recent weeks — prompting some artists to deface the ads and remove some of the words, including “Jihad.” The blogger, Pamela Geller, said she filed suit Thursday in the nation’s capital to post the ad in Washington’s transit system, after officials declined to put up the ad in light of the uproar in the Middle East over the anti-Islam film.
Abdul Yasar, a New York subway rider who considers himself an observant Muslim, said Geller’s ad was insensitive in an unsettling climate for Muslims.
“If you don’t want to see what happened in Libya and Egypt after the video — maybe not so strong here in America — you shouldn’t put this up,” Yasar said.
Amish convicted in court for hate crimes
CLEVELAND (AP) — Sixteen Amish men and women were convicted Thursday of hate crimes for a series of hair- and beard- cutting attacks on fellow sect members in a religious dispute that offered a rare and sometimes lurid glimpse into the closed and usu-ally self-regulating community of believers.
A federal jury found 66-year-old Samuel Mullet Sr., the leader of the breakaway group, guilty of orchestrating the cuttings last fall in an attempt to shame mainstream members who he believed were straying from their beliefs. His followers were found guilty of carrying out the attacks, which terrorized the normally peaceful religious settlement that aims to live simply and piously.
Prosecutors and witnesses described how sons pulled their father out of bed and chopped off his beard in the moonlight and how women surrounded their mother-in-law and cut off two feet of her hair, taking it down to the scalp in some places.
Prosecutors say they targeted hair because it carries spiritual sig-nificance in their faith.
The defendants face prison terms of 10 years or more at their Jan. 24 sentencing. Prosecutors plan to file a request Friday to revoke bond for defendants who had remained free pending trial.
All the defendants are members of Mullet’s settlement that he founded in eastern Ohio near the West Virginia panhandle. The Amish eschew many conveniences of modern life, including elec-trical appliances and automobiles, and embrace their centuries-old roots.
Obama suggests Romney is out of touch with America
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This past summer, six UConn stu-dents delved into research projects that hoped to solve real-world issues, such as the discovering of new ways to produce clean water, analyzing impacts of aphasia on stroke patients and using art as a coping method for Holocaust survivors.
The Holster Scholar First Year Project, unique to first-year UConn Honors students, is a highly selective scholarship experience generously funded by UConn Class of ’68 alumni, Robert and Carlota Holster. The schol-arship is aimed at providing bright and curious first-year students with the ability to craft independent research projects tailored to a burning question or idea. Selected students receive up to $4,000 in summer research funding, individualized mentoring and guidance from faculty and staff and enrollment in a one-credit course to plan the project.
On Sept. 20, the six Holster scholars culminated their research with presen-tations to the general public of their findings.
Katrin Acuna worked under the guidance of Dr. Emile Myers, Ray DiCapua and John Giardina to ana-lyze the effects of sound and music on sensual pleasures. Her project, titled “Sculpting Sound and Painting Music: A Study, Documentary, and Art Exhibition,” explains the depictions of sounds through unconventional means such as colors, tastes and movements.
Kaila Manca, another Holster schol-ar, led a research project on how to mollify the impact of aphasia.
“My grandmother had a stroke and was tested with severe aphasia,” said
Manca. “She was my motivation.”Aphasia, Manca explained, is an
impairment in communication from a brain disorder usually caused by a neurological injury. Affected patients not only have difficulties speaking, but also have difficulty understanding what is being said.
Manca’s goal was to make therapy for patients more effective.
“I saw that modern therapy lacked an emphasis on conversational speak-ing,” she explained. Patients may have been able to pass standard tests, but Manca sought to help them have a casual conversation with their spouses.
Following Manca’s presentation, Kevin Zheng presented his summer research project on the dietary analysis and epigenetic comparisons of dro-sophila melanogaster through multiple generations.
Julian Norton explained her research on art through post-memory. Norton went to Israel to better understand the culture and coping mechanisms used by Holocaust survivors and their fami-lies. Her research sought to answers questions such as what post memory is and how art contributes to it.
Holster scholar Xiao Li analyzed the heterogeneity of the hippocam-pus through single unit recordings and confocal microscopy. Lior Trestman’s research sought to use microbial fuel cells to purify water and create electric-ity in the process. He envisions many benefits from his research.
“The largest cost of running water treatment facilities is electrical. These fuel cells will help diminish those costs,” explained Trestman to the audi-ence.
Holster scholars present research
By Abdullah HassanCampus Correspondent
UConn Professor Emeritus of Psychology David A. Kenny has received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychologists (SESP), the high-est honor in his field.
Kenny will receive the award during the SESP national meet-ing in Austin, Texas in October. He is notable for his contri-butions to social psychology, specifically, relationships, small groups and process model-ing that his peers use in their research.
Kenny earned his Ph.D in psychology at Northwestern University in 1972 and was a faculty member at Harvard University before moving to UConn in 1978. His men-tor at Northwestern, Donald Campbell, won the SESP award in 1988.
Kenny is well-respected by his peers, having co-written a paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology that has been cited over 32,000 times since its publication in 1986. Kenny is no stranger to receiving accolades, having been appointed a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, attaining lifetime achievement awards from the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology and International Association of
Relationship Research in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
He also won the inaugural Methodological Innovation Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) for his inno-vative research designs and analytic approaches. Kenny earned the SPSP’s Theoretical Innovation Prize with Tessa West of New York University for their article “The Truth and Bias Model of Judgment.”
Kenny has received over $1 million in grants in his career from the National Science Foundation and National Institute of Mental Health. Even after his retirement, his con-tributions keep flowing, having recently contributed a chapter in the book Analysis of Dyadic Data.
Internally, he has received the University of Connecticut Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Award in 2002 and University of Connecticut Alumni Distinguished Professor in 2006.
In his teaching career, Kenny has advised 25 Ph.D. students who have gone on to work in market research, think tanks, the Secret Service and universi-ties such as the University of California, Davis and New York University.
By Michael SinCampus Correspondent
Professor Emeritus receives
Distinguished Scientist Award
MIAMI (AP) — President Barack Obama cast Mitt Romney on Thursday as an out-of-touch chal-lenger for the White House and an advocate of education cuts that could cause teacher strikes to spread from Chicago to other cities. The Republican countered that the U.S. economy “is bumping along the bot-tom” under the current administra-tion and he predicted victory in the fall.
The two men eyed each other across hotly contested Florida, a state with 29 electoral votes, more
than any other battleground in the close race for the White House.
“When you express an attitude that half the country considers itself victims, that somehow they want to be dependent on government, my thinking is maybe you haven’t got-ten around a lot,” the president said. That was in response to a question about Romney’s recent observation that 47 percent of Americans pay no income tax and believe they are victims and entitled to an array of federal benefits.
Obama spoke at a town hall-style
forum aired by the Spanish-language television network Univision.
For his part, Romney was eager to move past that controversy, which has knocked him off stride. He dis-closed plans for a three-day bus tour early next week through Ohio with running mate Paul Ryan and sought to return the campaign focus to the economic issues that have domi-nated the race all year.
At a fundraiser in Sarasota, Fla., Romney looked ahead to his tele-vised head-to-head encounters with Obama this fall. “He’s a very elo-quent speaker, and so I’m sure in the debates, as last time ... he’ll be very eloquent in describing his vision,” the Republican said. “But he can’t win by his words, because his record speaks so loudly in our ears. What he has done in the last four years is establish an economy that’s bumping along the bottom.”
Less than seven weeks before Election Day, polls make the race a close one, likely to be settled in eight or so swing states where nei-ther man has a solid edge. Obama has gained ground in polls in some of those states since the comple-tion of the Democratic National Convention two weeks ago, while Romney has struggled with contro-versies of his own making that have left Republicans frustrated at his performance as a candidate.
Still, there were fresh signs of weakness in the nation’s job market as the two candidates vied for sup-port in Florida.
The Labor Department said the
number of Americans seeking unem-ployment fell only slightly last week, to a seasonally adjusted level of 382,000, suggesting that businesses remain reluctant to add to their pay-rolls. The four-week average rose for the fifth straight week to the highest level in nearly three months.
After more than two days of strug-gle, Romney seemed eager to leave the 47 percent controversy behind as he appeared at the Univision forum Wednesday night. “’My campaign is about the 100 percent in America,” he said firmly.
But Obama made his most exten-sive comments to date on the sub-ject since the emergence of a video showing Romney telling donors last May that as a candidate his job wasn’t to worry about 47 percent of the country.
“Their problem is not they’re not working hard enough or they don’t want to work or they’re being taxed too little or they just want to loaf around and gather government checks,” the president said.”
“Are there people that abuse the system? Yes, both at the bottom and at the top,” he added, including mil-lionaires who he said pay no income taxes. He said many at the low end of the income scale pay other forms of taxes, and some who don’t pay taxes are senior citizens, students, disabled, veterans or soldiers who are stationed overseas.
“Americans work hard, and if they are not working right now I promise you they want to go to work,” he said.
President Barack Obama participates in a town hall hosted by Univision and Univision news anchor Maria Elena Salinas, left, at the University of Miami, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, in Coral Gables, Fla.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Space shuttle Endeavour returned to its California roots Thursday after a wistful cross-country journey that paid homage to NASA workers and former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her astronaut hus-band.
“That’s my spaceship,” said Endeavour’s last commander, Mark Kelly, as the couple watched the shuttle loop over Tucson, Ariz.
Later in the day, a 747 jet car-rying Endeavour swooped out of the desert sky and glided down a concrete runway at Edwards Air Force Base, 100 miles north of Los Angeles, not far from where the now-retired shuttle fleet was assembled.
The shuttle and jumbo jet take off again after sunrise Friday to make low, sweeping passes over Sacramento, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Los Angeles.
Next stop: Los Angeles International Airport where Endeavour will be prepped for a slow ride on a special flatbed trail-er through city streets next month to its final destination as a museum showpiece.
Endeavour’s highly anticipated homecoming was twice delayed by stormy weather along the Gulf of Mexico. Early Wednesday, it departed from its Cape Canaveral, Fla., home base, soared over NASA centers in Mississippi and Louisiana, and made a layover in Houston, home of Mission Control. Crowds craned their necks sky-ward as the shuttle circled low over Florida’s Space Coast and Houston.
After refueling in El Paso, Texas, Thursday, it flew over the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, an emergency shut-tle landing site used once. Kelly requested that Endeavour pass over Tucson to honor Giffords, who is recovering after suffering a head wound in a shooting rampage last year. Before retiring from her House seat, she was a member of the House committee on science, space and technology.
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Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- There’s way too much work, especially for the next two days. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, but is it as fun? Take time to acknowledge both successes and failures, and learn from them all.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 9 -- Do what you can to help the others stay relaxed and calm. If it’s any help to know, you’re especially cute tnow, and romance goes well. Avoid the flimsy. Accept a sweet, solid deal.
Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 9 -- Complete the work first, and play later. Stick close to home for a couple of days. Kindly ask for help with a household project. Make an important connection.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Entering a few days of learning. You’re especially good with words right now. There’s more money coming your way -- if you’ll work for it. Communication provides a key.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- The next phase is good for making deals, even in the face of some resistance. Competition provides the motivation. But do it for love, not money. Passion engulfs you.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- You’re on top of the world, looking down on opportunity. Don’t let your head swell, and watch out for conflicting orders and hidden agendas. Fix up the place.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Finish up projects you’ve been avoiding today and tomorrow. Don’t get sidetracked. Find assistance from a great coach, as need-ed, and move up one level.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Your friends are grateful for your contributions and are ready to add their grain of sand. Exert yourself. Receive accolades for good service. A touch of glitter might be just the thing.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Take a few days to firm up career details. Be clear on what your objectives are. It’s time to leave misconceptions behind. Reconfirm what you heard to avoid misun-derstandings.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Start planning a vacation, or just go for it more spontaneously. It doesn’t have to cost an arm or a leg. Let your heart lead you. Be grateful for what you have. Enjoy.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- Your theory gets challenged. Don’t resist it, but learn from the experience. Others may know better after all. Stay out of your own way. Changes call for budget revisions.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Consult a good strategist or friend. Use your experience to soothe ragged nerves. You solve another impossible problem. Accept a nice bonus.
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» The New Green
Getting rid of sprawl
European nations seem to have much more success than the United States in building ecologically-sustainable com-munities and cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions. There could be many reasons for this disparity, but perhaps the most significant contrib-uting factor is the suburban sprawl that is endemic to America. Sprawl could very well be the worst thing that ever happened to our com-munities, in terms of both environmental and social well-being. In suburbia you must drive to get anywhere, causing the average American to pollute much more than their European counterpart. However, it’s not just the pol-lution that is hurting us – driving everywhere puts a lot of stress on an individual. There’s the cost of gas, the congested traffic, the tremen-dous amounts of time spent doing simple errands and, arguably worst of all, the loss of a sense of community. This is the very reason that a cur-rently hot topic in the field of urban planning is the concept of density.
Density can be measured in many different ways, but generally it indicates how many people and how much infrastructure exists in a given area. When picturing a high-density area, it might be common to visualize a dirty, crammed city environment. While this may have been true in the past, city plan-ners now consider high den-sity an essential element of smart growth because it elimi-nates the devastating effects of sprawl. As explained in the 2003 EPA report “Creating Great Neighborhoods: Density in Your Community”: “Jurisdictions that prohibit density create an environment where low-density develop-ment is the only option, open spaces are consumed at alarm-ing rates, traffic congestion increases as people drive lon-ger distances between work and home and subdivisions grow up without any town center, any corner store or any sense of community.”
Think of how much more enjoyable life would be if you never had to stress about find-ing a parking spot or being late for work. Condensing liv-ing, shopping and other ame-nity areas means that cars can be left outside of the community, opening up huge pedestrian areas where people can just hang out. This results in increased human interac-tion. Instead of driving past the world in our private, indi-vidual vehicles, we would all be walking next to each other, bumping into old friends and meeting new people every day. Dense communities also make alternative transpor-tation, such as railways or buses, much more practical and viable. For nature lovers, it’s important to note that liv-ing in a dense environment doesn’t have to mean that you don’t have a yard, or any veg-etation. In fact, many cities all over the world are learning to incorporate nature into super dense communities through parks, green roofs and rain gardens. And if nothing else, a great argument for high-density living is the creation of a nightlife- something that many suburban communities are currently lacking com-pletely. As put one smart-growth planner, “We want an entity that will not shut down at 5 o’clock.”
By Kelsey SullivanCampus Correspondent
Thursday afternoon, the UConn Co-op welcomed young adult fantasy author, Maggie Steifvater. Steifvater stopped at UConn on her way across the country to promote her newest novel, “The Raven Boys,” which has been confirmed as the first book in a series of five.
Steifvater has published numer-ous other works, including the
“Books of Faerie” novel series, “The Wolves of Mercy” series, and the New York Times bestsell-ing “Shiver” trilogy, all of which pertain to young adult readers and contain elements of fantasy.
Steifvater’s talk was short and sweet. She said that “The Raven Boys” draws upon Welsh mythol-ogy as its main inspiration and theme.
“The thing I love about this series is that a lot of it involves Welsh mythology and I’ve always
wanted to write something like that,” Steifvater said.
Steifvater also said that she began writing this series while she was in college and it was the only creative project she worked on during her college education.
Her style of speech as she addressed the audience was infor-mal and upbeat, and Steifvater used every opportunity to infuse humor into her brief address. Steifvater told the audience a story of the humorous circum-stances under which she met her idol, Susan Cooper, author of The Dark is Rising sequence.
Audience member, high school teacher and Maggie Steifvater fan Jill Howart reacted positively to Steifvater’s sense of humor and engagement. “She was so charm-ing and she sounds like some-one who I’d want to have coffee with,” she said.
Steifvater told the audience, after a series of humorous anec-dotes, that the writing process for “The Raven Boys” involved several frustrations and extensive research. She provided the exam-ple of how she often has difficul-ties finding the perfect words for cultural phenomena relevant to our culture and time period, but irrelevant in the future and other cultures.
She said that she wanted one of her characters, who is “fabulously rich,” to wear the shoes she often sees “rich Virgina elite wearing, often driving a BMW or a Lexus listening to Vampire Weekend.”
Steifvater said that the 80s child within her would call them deck shoes, but “the youth of Twitter explained to me that they’re ‘boat shoes’ or ‘TopSiders’ today.” While Steifvater faced challeng-es picking the perfect words to describe her characters, she said that the most difficult part
Good things to come for new series
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Author Maggie Stiefvator presented at the Coop her first of what will be a five book series.
By Kathleen McWilliamsStaff Writer
Family weekend entertainment
This weekend is UConn’s annual Family Weekend. What better way to entertain your vis-iting parents while they stop by Storrs than a magic show?
The Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts is offering just that with this weekend’s Family Weekend entertainment, The Evasons, performing two shows on Saturday night at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Jeff and Tessa Evason have been traveling the world for nearly 30 years, performing a wild, varied magic show that includes elements of telepathy, prediction, levitation, telekine-sis and ESP.
The Evasons promise a great show with no gimmicks, wires or hidden microphones. To back
that up, they offer a $100,000 prize to anyone who can debunk their tricks. They also make sure the show is interactive, choos-ing students (and maybe par-ents) to join the show.
“Many times during our show, people are totally speechless because they’ve never seen any-thing like this before,” said Jeff Evason in a press release. “One moment in particular, the Spirit Slates, is absolutely shocking. Afterwards, we ask how many people got goosebumps and a lot of hands go up!”
Tickets for both shows are $20 for the general public. UConn students can pick up tickets for $10 with a student ID, while students from other schools and those under 18 can snag them for $15.
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The Evasons will be performing their innovative show at Jorgensen Theater for family weekend.
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Cambodian film ‘Lost Loves’ leaves spectators speechless
A film screening of “Lost Loves” and a question and answer session with director Chhay Bora left dozens of stu-dents and faculty speechless.
“This is the first Cambodian film directed by a Cambodian,” said Cathy Schlund-Vials, director of the Asian American Studies Institute.
Based on the true story of Leav Sila, “Lost Loves” docu-ments the horrific tale of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and the devastation of the Cambodian genocide. Bora wrote the screenplay based on the life of his mother-in-law, Sila.
At first, Bora’s wife, Kauv Sotheary, refused to write about her mother. Bora con-vinced Sotheary to change her mind.
“Our own story represents millions of Cambodians,” said Bora. “In the middle of the night she’d keep writing after I fell asleep, her tears falling.”
The film demonstrated the lifestyle Sila’s family had before the Khmer Rouge and how they were uprooted and relocated. Forced to live in a cooperative village, they had neither a market nor money. Every aspect of their lives was decided for them. In addition to having to wear black cloth-ing that symbolized the eradi-cation of their status in the economy, members were sepa-rated according to work camps they were put in.
Throughout the film, Bora focused on the loss of loved ones that his mother-in-law faced, lending meaning to the title of the film.
“This is a lesson for the whole world,” Bora said. “Genocide happens again and again…who and which coun-try will be the next?”
Bora explained how difficult it was to write the screenplay and to then make the film itself on a low budget. But he emphasized how film is a powerful tool to share history through generations, especial-ly history that Bora feels we have to learn.
“I appreciated that the director was authentic,” said Daryl Phin, a 7th-semester sociology major. “I recog-nized the music, the places and the clothing…I liked how I could relate to it. It made me both happy and sad.”
Bora originally thought that
no one would ever pay to see a movie that made them cry. But the first screening of the film was to a full audience. The audience acknowledged that there was a story that needed to be heard. Since then, “Lost Loves” has been gain-ing worldwide attention. Bora
stated that “Lost Loves” left people depressed and sad for a couple of weeks, but eventu-ally made them happy.
“I think the movie is also healing,” said Bora.
Chhay Bora is the director of “Lost Loves”, a Cambodian documentary on the genocide and the personal impact it had on his own life. ZARRIN AHMED/The Daily Campus
By Zarrin AhmedStaff Writer
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» A Campus In StyleStealing attention
from France
Fall is usually the season when high fashion gets put on clear display. The season is known for being the best dressed time of the year for everyone. Sweaters, layers, denim, boots and plenty of accessories will dominate throughout the rest of the year, even on our own college cam-pus. You know the signs of fall at UConn: leaves changing col-ors, pumpkin flavored every-thing and a plagued influx of girls wearing Uggs. However, the fashion world’s fall season begins in America with the New York Fashion Week.
Fashion Week in New York City has been a huge part of pro-gressive urban culture since its first run in 1943. Then called Press Week, it was originally put on in New York to take attention away from the French fashion scene. Publicist Eleanor Lambert wanted to organize a forum for American journalists, design-ers and publicists to create their own images of American fash-ion without any French influence. This tension was born through the German occupation of France during World War II. From Press Week, huge magazines such as Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar began featuring more American design-ers, styles and trends.
After gaining more interna-tional and domestic publicity and success, Press Week settled into a semi-permanent location at Bryant Park in 1994. A block-long venue, designers would set up displays in large white tents in an outdoor carnival format. It wasn’t until 2009 and 2010 that Fashion Week settled into its current location at Lincoln Center. This was due to a few factors, most notably pressure from Bryant Park management and the Great Recession of 2008. This was also when automotive giant Mercedes-Benz became the official sponsor of Fashion Week in New York City.
The 2013 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week (covering Spring and Summer 2013 collections) was recently held in New York City from Sept. 6 through Sept. 13. It is now New York’s single largest media event, which is shocking considering the inter-national acclaim of the city. It also helps that the event is now at Lincoln Center, which is a hub for culture around the world. Throughout the week, over 80 designers showcase their collec-tions, including Mark McNairy, Donna Karan, Tommy Hilfiger, Vera Wang, Michael Kors, Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week also attracts plenty of artists, musicians, fans, buyers and peo-ple from all over the world to indulge in a variety of growing American cultural norms.
By Jamil LarkinsCampus Correspondent
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Determining when fall starts can be a tough question to answer. Is it after Labor Day? Is the autumn equinox on Saturday the definitive date? Or does it really begin when all your sens-es leave you with no choice but to realize that it’s official. All the signs this week have pointed out that summer is over, but the beauty of fall is emerging. For the first time, it didn’t mat-ter that most dorms on campus don’t have air conditioning, and everyone could finally just wear a sweatshirt to class.
But the best part of fall is the way that it can touch all of our five senses. Once each one of them is satisfied, it’s safe to say that fall has arrived.
The most obvious sense is sight. The pumpkin décor and candy corn broke onto shelves two months ago when the tem-perature was 90 degrees, so these don’t count. You can real-ly tell when the first few trees start to turn brilliant colors on Horsebarn Hill. Nothing says New England fall like standing at one of the highest points on campus and looking at the red and yellow hues throughout the UC forest and the surrounding hillsides. It’s a great place to take a run or walk at the end of a long day.
If you’re lucky enough to have the leaves blow onto the road that day, you’ll find the most comforting and iconic sound of dry leaves crunching under your foot. The sound of rustling of leaves as they’re raked into a pile and then scat-tered by kids, or college kids,
is the perfect way to know fall’s here.
One of the best smells of the season is an apple pie in the oven. The recipe is simple enough, and always better when the apples are hand-picked. The hour-long baking time is perfect to let the cinnamon and nutmeg float through the house, making it warm and inviting against the crisp air outside.
The local coffee house is another cozy environment. If you walk into any Starbucks between now and November, it’s hard to miss the remind-ers of the greatest tastes of the season. A pumpkin spice latte brings back childhood mem-ories of picking the largest pumpkin in the patch and trying to carry it home to carve. Pair it with a piece of pumpkin bread, and you’ll be in fall heaven. These are available year-round as well in case you’re craving fall during the rest of the year.
Finally, the cooler weather lets us bring out some of the best feeling fashion fabrics. Cords are always a classic going-to-school look, and they add a little extra protection from the Storrs winds that are com-ing back. We wait all year to wear a cozy cable knit sweater, and at last the time is here! From tweed jackets to flannel shirts and cashmere sweaters to leather bags, fall’s fabrics never disappoint the fingertips.
It’s hard to identify the exact moment when summer turned to fall here in Storrs, or if it even has. But listening to your senses will give you the hints you need.
Fall Feelings By Kim HalpinAssociate Focus Editor
of the writing process was the complicated mythology she wanted to use.
“I wanted to use both,” she said. “I had to have Welsh mythology, because I’ve always wanted to do that, and it had to be set in Virginia, because that’s where I live.”
She then explained that she had to figure out how to get the Welsh mythology to apply to Virginia teenagers, and part of this process was extensive research. Steifvater also offered advice to aspiring authors, saying that “no never means no, it means not yet. “
Steifvater finished her talk with a book signing and ques-tion and answers from the audi-ence. Most audience members were fans from the local area, including Karyn Eves, a pro-fessor at Eastern Connecticut University.
“I’m a big fan of Maggie Steifvater,” Eves said. “I fol-low her on Facebook and I saw she was coming here She’s very lively.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Each year, the Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony presents a steamy challenge for the red carpet’s most fashionable, since September is typically LA’s hot-test month.
This Sunday should be no exception. The mercury is expected to soar into the 80s midday, when nominees parade inside the Nokia Theatre. Add hundreds of spotlights and a dose of nerves, and maintaining a cool, camera-ready appear-ance can be a challenge. But the stars have strategies.
Emmy-winning animator Kevin Shinick, for example, has a powerful plan.
“Battery-operated tux,” he said. “I have little mini fans all throughout, except on my groin. So you know, that was extra, I couldn’t afford all that!”
Actress Lake Bell suggests minimizing movement.
“If you do not move that much, you will not sweat. So I am trying to exercise restraint,” she said at last week’s Creative Arts Emmy celebration, where temperatures topped 100
degrees. “But the dress is help-ing me because it’s very serre, as we say in French, very nar-row.”
“Dancing With the Stars” choreographers Travis Wall and Nick Lazzarini agreed with the no-movement policy.
Plus “pit pads,” Lazzarini said, and chilled champagne in the car on the way to the cer-emony.
Stylists offer some more practical solutions.
Opt for light fabrics and min-imal undergarments, suggests celebrity stylist and costume designer Tanya Gill. That means choosing looks that allow for a Spanx-free approach: “If you can avoid all those undergar-ments that a lot of people tend to rely on for these events — maybe a little Pilates, a little juice the week before — you’ll feel so much more comfortable not to have all that on.”
A spray tan can help, too.“If they can spare a couple
of hours and get a spray-on tan, they’ll feel amazing,” she said. Men should consider light fab-rics as well.
NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is phasing out the sale of Amazon.com’s Kindle Fire tablet and Kindle e-readers, the second major retailer to stop offering the items in six months.
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, said Thursday the decision was made as part of its overall merchandising strategy to offer a broad assortment of products at low prices. Amazon has been selling lower-priced tablets at thin — if any — profit margins to boost sales of digital media like books and music from its online store. That makes it less attractive for major retailers to carry Kindles in their stores, particularly as online retailers like Amazon.com become more of a threat for traditional brick-and-mortar stores.
Retailers are trying to fight a growing practice called “showrooming.” That’s when shoppers, armed with smartphones, browse products in physical stores and then shop online for a better price.
The move echoes Target Corp.’s decision to stop offering the Kindle in May following its own merchandise review. And it comes ahead of the holiday season, which is crucial for retail-ers since they generate up to 40 percent of their annual revenue during the period. Tablets are expected to be a popular gift this year, much like
last year.“Amazon is clearly becoming a more attractive
consumer retail destination, so it was inevitable that Target or Wal-Mart would stop selling the Kindle product,” said Morningstar analyst R.J. Hottovy. “They perceive Amazon as a potential threat, and this is one way to neutralize that.”
Wal-Mart Stores will continue to sell a range of tablets and e-book readers, including Apple’s iPad, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, and devices from Samsung, Sony and others.
Wal-Mart spokeswoman Sarah Spencer said the Bentonville, Ark., company will continue to sell its existing inventory of Kindles until it is depleted.
While neither Wal-Mart Stores nor Amazon.com release Kindle sales figures, Amazon itself is by far the biggest seller of Kindle devices, so being cut off from Wal-Mart is unlikely to make a dent in its revenue. Amazon touts its Kindle line as its best-selling product.
“At the end of the day, Kindles are a very small percentage of sales for a lot of these mass merchants,” Hottovy said. “So this won’t have much of an impact on them, or Amazon, either.”
Amazon unveiled several new devices in its Kindle line earlier this month, including ones with larger color screens, as it steps up competi-tion with rival tablet makers such as Apple Inc.
Wal-Mart to stop selling Kindles
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, will be phasing out Amazon.com’s Kindle tablet and e-readers.AP
Wal-Mart will stop selling Amazon.com Kindles
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An actress who appeared in an anti-Muslim film trailer that sparked violence in the Middle East lost her legal challenge on Thursday to have the 14-minute trailer taken down from YouTube.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Luis Lavin rejected the request from Cindy Lee Garcia because she wasn’t able to produce any agreement she had with the makers of “Innocence of Muslims” and the man behind the film hadn’t been served with a copy of her lawsuit.
Garcia’s attorney, Cris Armenta, told reporters that her client plans to return to court in three weeks with more evidence to bolster her case.
The video posted to YouTube has been linked to protests that continue to rage across the Middle East. The White House has asked YouTube to take it down and the company has refused, saying it doesn’t vio-late its content standards.
While Thursday’s legal ruling might further antagonize protesters, the lawsuit
had little chance of succeeding because of a federal law that protects third parties from liability for content they handle, legal experts said.
“From the beginning this was a Hail Mary pass,” said Jeremiah Reynolds, a Los Angeles attorney who specializes in intellectual property and First Amendment cases. “I think they hoped the judge would have enough sympathy for this woman to have him take the video down.”
Garcia is suing for fraud and slander against Internet search giant Google, which owns YouTube, and Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the man behind the video who has gone into hiding since it rose to prominence last week.
The 14-minute trailer depicts Muhammad as a womanizer, religious fraud and child molester.
Garcia claimed she was duped by Nakoula and that the script she saw referenced nei-ther Muslims nor Muhammad. She also said her voice had been dubbed over after filming.
Her lawsuit mirrors similar claims made by those who said they were fooled by actor Sacha Baron Cohen during the mak-ing of “Borat” and “Bruno.” The British comedian was unsuccessfully sued by some non-actors who appeared in his movie who weren’t familiar with his outlandish char-acters.
“Although this is a much more serious situation, the (legal) analysis should be the same,” Reynolds said. “It’s an act that is protected by the First Amendment.”
Cindy Cohen, the legal director for San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, said Garcia does have a claim against the filmmaker but not against Google.
“The law protects Google here because they aren’t the producers of the film,” Cohen said. “You don’t want a situation where the host is responsible for the content. Then nobody would ever be a host.”
Garcia’s lawsuit contends that keeping the film online violates her right of publicity, and invades her privacy rights.
Lights, camera, sweat? Emmy fashions make it work
Request denied to stop anti-Muslim film clip
Cindy Lee Garcia, one of the actresses in “Innocence of Muslims,” held a news conference before a hearing at Los Angeles Superior Court.
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Brenda Strong arrives at the 2012 Creative Arts Emmys, where temperatures topped 100 degrees. Strong said that looking cool is all an act.
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Amid cultural clash, Louvre honors Islamic art
PARIS (AP) — In its boldest development in a generation, the Louvre Museum has a new wing dedicated to Islamic art, a nearly €100 million ($130 million) project that comes at a tense time between the West and the Muslim world.
Louvre curators tout their new Islamic Art department, which took 11 years to build and opens to the public on Saturday, as a way to help bridge cultural divides. They say it offers a highbrow and respectful counterpart to the recent unflattering depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in Western media that have sparked protests by many Muslims.
Still, one of the Louvre’s own consultants acknowledged that some Muslims could be “shocked” by three images of Muhammad with his face exposed in the new wing. Many Muslims believe the prophet should not be depicted at all — even in a flattering way — because it might encourage idolatry.
The galleries provide a needed showcase one of the West’s most extensive Islamic art collections, some 18,000 artifacts that range from the 7th cen-tury to the 19th century.
But the wing does not dwell on the old: It is housed under a futuristic, undulating glass roof designed by architects Rudy Ricciotti and Mario Bellini that has garnered comparisons to a drag-onfly wing, a flying carpet, even a wind-blown veil. It marks the Louvre’s biggest change since I.M. Pei shook up the famed Paris museum with his iconic glass pyramid in 1989.
France, meanwhile, is bracing for possible dis-ruptions at embassies across the Muslim world on Friday after the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo published lewd caricatures of Muhammad on Wednesday. The publication raised concerns that French interests could face violent protests like the ones targeting the United States over a video produced in California that ridiculed the
prophet. Those protests, which continued on Thursday, have left at least 30 people dead.
But could the new museum wing actually be good timing?
The Louvre collection’s mis-sion is to foster understanding between the West and the Islamic world. Instead of highlighting Islam as one united religion, it celebrates the secular, tolerant and cultural aspects of different Islamic civilizations.
Sophie Makariou, head of the Louvre’s Islamic art department, hopes the new wing will teach lessons about tolerance and diversity.
“I like the idea of showing the other side of the coin,” said Makariou, standing at a wall decorated with colorful, flower-patterned tiles from the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century. “We are talking about a diverse world that goes from the Atlantic, Spain and Morocco to India.”
French President François Hollande, Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti and Sophie Makariou, chief of the Department of Islamic Arts, look at the Saint Louis baptistery, the work of Master Muhammad Ibn al-Zain as they visit the new Department of Islamic Arts galleries at the
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T.I. feels his presence is still strongATLANTA (AP) — Even though T.I. hasn’t
produced any major hits lately, the Grammy-winning rapper believes he can still sell a con-siderable amount of albums based on his track record.
T.I.’s credentials include 10 Top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hits and five platinum albums. But he has yet to make a big splash musically since he was released from jail following an 11-month term at an Arkansas prison on a probation violation. His last album, 2010’s “No Mercy,” reached gold sta-tus, but it didn’t produce any No. 1 hits.
But he says that hasn’t affected him and his future success.
“I’m going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me,” he said in a recent interview. “I have a core audience of fans that are going to buy (my albums) whether I have a single out. I ain’t got to have a video out. ... When you hear my name and an album, it’s going to be the complete body of work. It’s going to be above standard.”
T.I. said he sets himself apart from most of the current “it” rappers because of his success as an entrepreneur. He’s in the Starz drama series “Boss”
and the upcoming comedy “Identity Theft” along-side Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy; he’s got his own Vh1 reality show “T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle”; he has the clothing line Akoo; and this week he released his second novel with author David Ritz called “Trouble & Triumph: A Novel of Power & Beauty.”
“There’s a difference between being hot for the moment, and being huge,” he said. “Whether I’m hot or not, I’m still huge in a lot of different areas. ... It’s certain things I’ll do that (other rappers) will never be able to do. I’m aware of that, and I believe they are, too. It’s just sometimes people get caught up with what’s hot.”
T.I. might have made strides outside of rap, but the 31-year-old said he is still passionate about recording music. His eighth album, “Trouble Man,” will “tentatively” be out in December. His new single, “Ball,” features Lil Wayne.
“I have to give them the new me,” he said. “I just have to show that I remember the methods, the practices of the old me. It’s like a guy who you know that has lived a certain lifestyle and you know he’s validated to speak on it.”
Edward Hopper painting heads to NYC auctionto command over 8 million
NEW YORK (AP) — An oil painting of a Cape Cod autumn scene by Edward Hopper — one of the last paintings by the American artist remaining in private hands — will be offered for sale in November for a pre-sale estimate of $8 million to $12 million, Christie’s auction house said Thursday.
“October on Cape Cod” will be sold on Nov. 28 as part of Christie’s American paintings sale, and will coincide with a major retrospective of Hopper’s work at the National Galleries of the Grand Palais in Paris, opening in October.
“He’s widely considered one of the greatest early modern American artists. His oils are very rare on the market” since most are in major museum col-lections, said Elizabeth Sterling,
Christie’s head of American Art. “It’s one of the most important American modern pictures to come on the auction market in the past decade.”
Hopper’s “Hotel Window” currently holds the record for the artist. It sold for $26.8 mil-lion in 2006 at Sotheby’s.
Christie’s noted that painting had a pre-sale estimate of $10 million to $15 million.
She said “October on Cape Cod” had “tremendous poten-tial” to go over the estimate given that Hopper was not very prolific in oil medium and cre-ated one or two works in oil and watercolor a year,” said Sterling. “The auction market for American modernism is quite strong.”
It is being sold by a private American collector who has
owned it for more than a decade.“It’s dated 1946 and the
40s are widely considered his most successful decade. Also it’s a desirable subject,” added Sterling.
Hopper had a home and stu-dio on Cape Cod and he spent most of his summers on there after 1930. He died in 1967.
The large-scale painting shows a house and small barn from across a road as it might be observed from a passing vehicle. Hopper drove all over the Massachusetts peninsula, frequently drawing and paint-ing from inside his car. It cap-tures the stillness and solitude of Cape Cod out of season.
His paintings are permeated by a sense of isolation and have characteristics of a suspended narrative”.
A painting of a Cape Cod autumn scene by Edward Hopper. The large-scale painting is coming to auction in New York City and is expected to sell for $8 million to $10 million
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Robert Louis Stevenson’s extraor-dinary travelogue “Across the Plains” does not portray the human species in particularly
adulatory terms. In 1892 Stevenson wrote, “Poor soul, here for so little, cast among so many hardships, filled with desires so incommensurate and so inconsistent, savagely surrounded, savagely descended,
irremediably con-demned to prey upon his fellow lives, who should have blamed him had he been of a piece with his destiny and a being merely barbarous?” One hundred and twen-ty years later, his depiction seems to have even under-stated the igno-
rance and wretchedness of which the twen-tieth century proved mankind capable. It is perhaps the great irony of our existence that a sentient and proud species that holds life to be the greatest of objective values is also responsible for the wholesale defile-ment of that value.
Despite our grandiose pretensions, we are still a species – a variation on the genetic code for life. As was true for the other 99.9 percent of species that have ever existed on Earth, ours will someday meet with extinction. But there is something unique about Homo sapiens that Stevenson failed to recognize in his lamentation: we are the only one – so far as we know – that can choose to become extinct.
Believe it or not, there exists a move-ment devoted to making that choice. The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT) proposes a radically simple plan of action to that end: all humans must refuse to procreate. If the worldwide birth rate were to drop to zero at this instant, the end of all human life on Earth would likely occur just a little over one hundred years from now. The movement contends that if this unlikely series of events were to occur, pressures on the environment from anthropogenic climate change would ease; wars would become unnecessary due to a decline in the demand for natural resources and the quality of life on a less-densely populated planet would signifi-cantly improve. If human extinction is not carried out along these lines, the argument goes, it will be thrust upon us unexpect-edly and violently.
If nothing else, the VHEMT represents a dramatic reorientation of our concep-tion of human ecology. It is not merely concerned with the future well-being of humans, but also with man’s relation to the almost ten million other eukaryotic species with which it shares the planet. Mankind is on pace at this moment, biolo-gist E. O. Wilson claims, to destroy half of the species currently in existence on Earth by the year 2100. Billions of liv-ing creatures sacrificed, out of malice, ignorance or desensitized slaughter, to the needs and indulgences of one species. This is our ecological legacy. It is no wonder that Stevenson called his fellow men “the disease of the agglutinated dust.” From a purely ecological perspective, we are, after all, extremely powerful and efficient parasites. And to the advocates of volun-
tary human extinction, “we’re the only species evolved enough to consciously go extinct for the good of all life, or which needs to.”
The VHEMT seems to be parodic in nature or too far-fetched to represent an earnest vision for mankind’s future. And, in a sense, it is. At this point in human history, the world population is growing so fast as to render utterly meaningless the flights of fancy of a small cohort of radical ecologists. Furthermore, I don’t think that VHEMT offers a convincing rationale for why people should not simply commit sui-cide rather than wait out their lives for their impending demise. Neither does it recog-nize the value that humans derive from the meanings they create for themselves. The joys of culture, beauty, religion and love are all sacrificed to the achievement of ecological consciousness in its worldview. Thus, at the moment, VHEMT remains a mere curiosity of human thought: flawed and radical, though probably harmless. Nonetheless, it is worth our consideration. The fact remains that, in most ways, we are not much different – in biological terms – from the animals we slaughter or the plants we consume. Yet we are “con-demned to prey upon our fellow lives” on a vast and distressing scale. Whether or not we decide to make ourselves extinct, I think that the reflection itself on human power and responsibility would not fail to transform us into more ethical creatures.
Voluntary human extinction worth contemplation
Friday, September 21, 2012
Diplomatically, U.S. ignites dispute on
Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands
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I finally figured out what I’m going to use as a writ-ing sample for my grad school applications: all of my InstantDailies from the last three years.
Can somebody tell me why Chappelle’s Show isn’t back on television yet?
Gangnam style anyone?
Happy Friday! And may the weekend be ever in your favor!
Is there anything sadder than watching Buzz Lightyear fall down the stairs when trying to fly in the first Toy Story?
Hockey lockout. #bettergrades
New personal record. I made it through the whole sum-mer without a mosquito bite.
The Office is back?? Well, there goes any chance of doing work tonight. I know it’s only a half hour, but still, no work getting done tonight.
Was anyone able to watch the football game without NFL Network? Or am I just in a dead spot...
Well I was going to walk by the lake for a stroll today, and then I realized the construction gods struck again.
Within the last month, a crisis has erupted in the East China Sea over a dispute involving three tiny islands. Depending on where you live, the Islands change names. Japan calls them “Senkaku” and
says they are Japanese. China calls them “Diaoyu” and calls them Chinese. On the most recent American diplomatic trip to China, the American delegation used the Japanese term for the islands, thus reigniting the international crisis that has been lingering since World War II.
What followed was widespread looting, rioting and nation-alist frenzy against all things Japanese. Sushi shops were destroyed, Japanese made cars and car dealerships were burned and Japanese people fled for their lives back to Japan. Millions of dollars of property damage was the message thousands of young, unemployed Chinese men used to send to Japan. Racist signs and slogans became the norm in the People’s Republic of China as signs were put on buses saying, “No Rides for Japanese Dogs.”
It is questionable whether the Chinese government, an infa-mous police state where any public demonstration is counter-normative, was actually behind the riots as a display of national-ism against Japan and the United States. Chinese police forces are famous for putting down dissent long before it begins. In a few cities, Chinese police did clash with rioters, but a Toyota dealer was not alone when his calls to the police and fire depart-ment went unanswered while his business burned around him.
Leon Panetta, still in China as of this writing, has urged Beijing to seek a diplomatic and peaceful solution to their con-flict with Tokyo. He’s also ignored the riots, disregarding them as any sort of a legitimate diplomatic tool.
While the American delegation in the People’s Republic can use these riots as a measure of how high-tension this Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute is, we can only commend the difficult and deli-cate work of the Defense Secretary and the State Department to seek a peaceful mediation between China and Japan.
The unfortunate reality of the People’s Republic of China is that they are a highly nationalistic state with Japan also being a very proud country. Japan is also an American ally, and the conflict only began because of an American treaty with Japan (dating back to World War II) that lists the Senkaku Islands as a part of Japan. The completely disproportionate response the Chinese population took over the name of the island used by the American delegation (Japan’s response was to nationalize the islands by buying them from their private Japanese owners) was unnecessary at best, and childish at worst. It’s important and commendable that the United States will only deal with other nations in a civil, diplomatic and non-violent manner especially in the face of a rising power.
By Chris KempfWeekly Columnist
Totally rad
A true apolitical appeal to go see “Obama 2016”
I am writing this letter not as a Democrat, Republican or Independent, or as a represen-tative of any political party; I am writing this letter as an “American.” Whether you are black, white, Hispanic, Indian, Asian, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, believer or non-believer, Gay, Lesbian, young, old, rich, poor, pro-choice or pro-life, if you are an “American” and you love this country, l strongly and urgently appeal to you to go and see the movie “Obama’s 2016” before you go to the polls on November 6th. This is a film that every single tried and true American, regardless of economic status, religious or political beliefs, owes it to themselves and to their fellow Americans to see.
“Obama’s 2016” is not an Obama-bashing movie or propaganda film as some believe, but a “documentary” based on the very writings of President Obama himself from his book “Dreams From
My Father,” interviews with his family members, people who know him and knew his his father, and interviews with top economists and scholars. This documentary clearly and concisely lays out Obama’s political and economic agenda based on his own beliefs - not only for America but for the world, and his agenda goes far beyond anything that most people could ever even imag-ine. You will gain a very, very clear understanding of how Obama’s agenda is already at work in relationship to every-thing that we see happening today in the United States and abroad, and where his agen-da will take our nation as a whole. For many of you this documentary will render you speechless and others will not be able to stop talking, but I can guarantee that what is brought to the forefront in this film will profoundly impact all who see it.
Whether you are a Romney/Ryan supporter, an Obama/Biden supporter or undecided, I urge every Patriotic American to leave their party loyalties and politics, intolerance and indifference at the door, and go and see this film strictly
as an “American” for America. If you intend to go to the polls on November 6th, you owe
it your children, grandchildren and everyone you care about to see this film before you cast your vote. If you don’t intend to vote or are not registered to vote, I urge you to see this film and vote. My appeal goes out most urgently to the younger citizens of this nation, as your future will be the most severe-ly impacted as an American citizen by the results of the upcoming election, and you will clearly understand why the outcome of this election, and not the 2008 election, may go down in history as the single most important election in the history of the United States in deciding the fate of our nation.
After you see this film, you will understand what I mean when I say that for me, after seeing “Obama’s 2106,” all of the “issues” - every single one of them, party loyalty and politics are no longer the driv-ing forces behind how I will cast my vote on November 6th. This is an election where every single American who loves this country and what it stands for should not be voting “for” a candidate but “against” a candidate. – Karen Carter
Plenty of good heroines are just below our noses.
In reply to the 9/14 article, “Female Superheroes: The Where’s Waldo of the film industry,” I wanted to say that the mainstream Hollywood film has always marketed to the most common denomi-nator as a business. But the amount of money a hero-ine’s film pulls in is by no means a marker of its criti-cal success. Ideal heroines doesn’t have to be all capes and x-ray vision, either. Just look at the 2003 animated series “Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex,” in which the mature Motoko Kusanagi leads a cybernet-ic counter-terrorist unit in the near future. There’s also the series “Black Lagoon,” which follows a crew of modern-day pirates lead by the gunslinger Revy. You see, just because something isn’t represented in a main-stream manner doesn’t mean people aren’t interested in it. You just need to look harder and truly follow the idea of leaving no stone unturned.
– Max Engel
» LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Blue Versus White
This week: “Revisiting Calhoun’s ‘Not a Dime Back’”
Two writers argue their points of view on separate sides of the same issue. See the debate on page 9 in this issue of The Daily Campus.
CommentaryFriday, September 21, 2012 The Daily Campus, Page 9
In a well-known incident, when asked about how much of his salary he was willing to return to the
state of Connecticut, recently retired head coach of UConn
men’s bas-ketball Jim C a l h o u n , responded by saying: “Not a dime
back.” Aggressive and defiant, Calhoun’s response was awk-ward to watch, as he was blind-sided by a financial question at a basketball press conference.
Was Calhoun’s salary a seri-ous concern? Was that reporter justified in asking him to return his money? In cost-benefit analysis, what is gained must always be greater than what is expended. Calhoun’s basketball achievements are well docu-mented, with multiple Final Four appearances and three championships to show for it. However, Calhoun’s worth to the university extends to more than just basketball. He was one of the most important fig-ure at UConn for the last two decades.
On June 16, 1986, Jim Calhoun was hired from Northeastern University to guide the Huskies basketball team. Even then, there were questions about his salary. “I’m working now in the Big East, not the [Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference],” Calhoun said when asked about the financial terms of the contract. “I’m being paid like a Big East coach.” To fully grasp the meaning of his words, one has to look at what he was getting himself into.
At the time of Calhoun’s hir-ing, the newly formed Big East had already appeared in the national championship three times. UConn was a regional
powerhouse, but had achieved nothing more than a few tour-nament berths. Their accom-plishments stood tiny compared to those of the other mem-bers of the Big East: Villanova, Georgetown and Syracuse. Nevertheless, within ten years, UConn became a repeat par-ticipant of the NCAA tourna-ment, barely missing the Final Four several times until finally winning the championship in 1999. For an accurate compari-son, Jim Calhoun is to UConn what Dean Smith was to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He transformed UConn into an attractive des-tination for both athletes and fans.
Let’s face it – from a strict-ly geographical perspective, there is nothing about Storrs that makes prospective stu-dents want to attend. It’s too far from Boston or New York. Not everyone has a car, and week-end visits via cabs or buses are expensive. There are not many physical attractions that are in walking distance, compared to a city school. However, one appeal of UConn is its bas-ketball program. Since 1999, UConn has been able to slowly attract students who who could normally rather attend Boston or NYC schools, because of the school spirit and events sponsored by the basketball program.
UConn students are strangely apathetic to most other sports. The women’s basketball team, perhaps the most dominant pro-gram in all of sports history, doesn’t have much support among students and it’s only recently that their attendance numbers have been increasing. Football has large attendance numbers, but considering that the stadium is detached from campus and the team has been
mediocre for a long time, the declining attendance num-bers since 2007 make sense. Yet UConn fans go crazy for their men’s basketball team. They even rioted in 2004 after Calhoun’s second champion-ship.
Today, UConn is arguably in the same class as legendary basketball schools like Kansas or Louisville. UConn men’s basketball receives about $12 million from students, alumni and general fans in the form of tickets and merchandise. UConn basketball also brings in sponsorships, with a 20 per-cent increase after the 2011 championship. Fifteen years ago, the basketball program was self-supporting; they didn’t drain money from the academic side. That was commendable in itself. Today, the program creates a profit of about $3-4 million for the University.
So, does Calhoun’s reported $2.3 million salary in 2011 make sense? Not just from a basket-ball perspective, but financially and in terms of school attrac-tion, Jim Calhoun and the pro-gram he built provides\ huge dividends to both the students and alumni of UConn. He is the 7th-highest paid basket-ball coach, along with coaches of historic schools like Duke, Kentucky, Louisville, and Kansas. He has accomplished far more than most with far less, and deserves every penny he has earned. Calhoun can now sit back and relax on the laurels of a Hall of Fame career. And if that pesky reporter comes asking again about his salary, he can say with full conviction: “Not a dime back.”
Calhoun’s accomplishments deserved huge dividends
By Atul SajanStaff Columnist
Staff Columnist Atul Sajan is a 3rd-semester mechanical engineering major. He can be reached at [email protected].
“The original NOW CD.”
Rheanna Ward, 3rd-semester material sci-ence engineering major
“TLC’s ‘No Scrubs.’”
Liz Ezirike, 3rd-semester nursing major
“The ‘Pokemon the Movie’ sound track.”
Steven Hinkle, 3rd-semester mechanical engineering major
“The Beach Boys’ ‘Good Vibrations.’”
Nate Brochu, 3rd-semester mechanical engineering major
What was the first CD you ever bought?– By Rob Wilson
» TOTALLY RAD/TOTALLY BAD
Totally bad
UConn is about to get Childish.
First taste of fall weather: not too bad.
More construction? Yes please.
Parents Weekend? I guess I’ll go put on some pants.
Husky Pizza, where have you gone?
Totally saw it coming
Totally rad
The announcement of Jim Calhoun’s retirement is the biggest story at UConn so far this year.
He has left an undeniable legacy, building the UConn basketball program out of next to nothing and
putting this school on the national radar. He will be missed. But his
retirement poses questions about the role of sports at a university. Calhoun is no doubt deserving of his reputation as an excellent coach. But is he deserving of the power he has at this school and the millions of dollars it pays him annually?
To many, the answer is obvious. Calhoun has contributed a lot to the University, and while I don’t deny that, my answer to this ques-tion is probably different from many of my peers. No matter how talented or valuable the basketball coach is, his program should not come before any of the academ-ic priorities of this school. Jim Calhoun was paid more than any professor, administrator or even the president of the University.
First, some numbers: For his 873 career wins, 17 Big East champi-onships, four Final Four appear-ances and three national titles, Calhoun was paid $2,403,223.54 in total compensation in 2010. That makes him the highest-paid employee of the State of Connecticut. Calhoun makes an amount of money that’s in line with other college basketball coaches of his stature, and the school had to offer a competitive salary in order to keep him. But the fact that the top-earning official in this state is not in any way involved in government, or directly involved in education, is blatantly inappropriate.
The common defense is that Calhoun’s program brings in
millions, thereby justifying the millions he is paid. The basketball program does make a lot of money, but the actual net income is a bit of a grey area. According to the US Department of Education, the men’s basketball team’s total expenses for the 2010-2011 season were $8,341,406, and their profit for that year was $7,924,225, leaving them with a net loss. That $7.9 million is revenue from tickets, sponsorships, Big East and NCAA wins and alumni contributions that the basketball team earned directly, but it does not take into account the $31,281,342 of revenue that the Department of Athletics can’t attribute to a specific team. This is the money from UConn merchandise, concessions at games and various other sources. A large part of this profit can easily be attributed to the basketball team, but it’s impossible to say how much. In 2009, Sports Illustrated ran a similar story and attributed one– third of the unassigned profit for that year to the men’s basketball team. Using that same formula, the men’s basketball team’s profits for the 2010-2011 season were $10,009,933. It may seem like a lot, but in the context of the school’s $1.05 billion annual budget, it is a drop in the bucket. The men’s basketball team’s profit is equal to less than one percent of the overall budget.
Many will argue that the real value of Calhoun’s contribution has been in raising the profile of the University. But UConn has a lot of other things to be proud of. This is an excellent school, and that will always be its biggest draw. Everyone likes being on a winning team. But it is not fair to the student body to assume that most of them came here because of Division I sports. If this were an institution solely dedicated to excellence in basketball, it would be understandable for the
head coach to make more than anyone else. But UConn is, before anything else, a school. Jim Calhoun has had a positive impact here, but it is hard to imagine he has done more to further learning than anyone else. The University makes a mockery of its own aims by paying the basketball coach more than any professor.
Things haven’t always gone smoothly for the basketball program, either. The amount of money involved in college sports almost guarantees that there will be misconduct somewhere. The team is not eligible for postseason play this year because in previous years they failed to meet academic standards. The contract that Calhoun signed in 2009 stipulates that if his team fails to meet academic standards, $100,000 will be taken out of his $2.3 million salary. That’s barely a slap on the wrist, especially considering the same contract provides for a $1 million bonus if he retires before his contract is up.
Calhoun’s missteps were no doubt the product of the incredibly driven and competitive nature that he was so praised for. His determination occasionally crossed the line. But in the University’s eyes, his achievements outweighed the consequences of the rules he broke, even if his transgressions undermined the fundamental goal of the school – to educate. With those millions of dollars comes the need to ensure success.
In a cost-benefit analysis, what is gained must always be greater than what is expended. For the moment, the numbers check out. But it’s more than just money on the line when a school puts athletics before academics.
UConn’s highest paid employee can’t be coach
By Kristi AllenStaff Columnist
Staff Columnist Kristi Allen is a 1st-semester pre-journalism major. She can be reached at [email protected].
» NOT A DIME BACK » SCHOOL DESERVES MORE
SportsThe Daily Campus, Page 10 Friday, September 21, 2012
» WOMEN'S SOCCER
Two Big East foes await the HuskiesThe UConn women’s soccer
team will have an opportunity to climb their way up the Big East standings this weekend when they face a pair of in-conference foes, No. 20 Georgetown and Villanova. The Huskies enter the weekend with a 5-3-1 over-all record and are 1-1 in confer-ence play.
Historically, UConn has dom-inated Georgetown, boasting a 10-2-0 all-time record against the Hoyas. However, Georgetown has gotten off to one of the stron-gest starts in program history with an 8-1-1 record, including 2-0 in the Big East. Aside from a 6-0 defeat at the hands of No. 5 Stanford, they have only allowed three goals on the year.
Anchoring their stingy defense is goalkeeper Emma Newins, who has posted an .826 save per-
centage in her debut season.UConn will counter Newins
and the formidable Hoya defense with an offense that has been fir-ing on all cylinders. The Huskies lead the conference with 168 shots, 7.67 points per game and 2.78 goals per game. Georgetown is second in the three major offen-sive categories.
Leading the UConn offen-sive attack is senior Danielle Schumann, who has been the most prolific scorer in the confer-ence this season. She is leading the Big East with 24 points, 9 goals and is second in assists, with 6. She was recognized two weeks ago with several accolades for her eleven-point week, including Big East Player of the Week, Soccer News Net’s National Player of the Week and the ECAC Player of the Week.
UConn will look to receive additional offensive input from Andrea Plucenik, who is fresh off of a hat trick last Sunday
against St. Johns in a 5-1 victory. Plucenik, a redshirt freshman, is second in the team with nine points four goals and one assist.
After the highly anticipated contest in the Capital on Friday evening, UConn will travel to Villanova to face the Wildcats on Sunday afternoon.
Villanova is off to a 3-5-2 start this season, including 1-1 in con-ference play. They have showed flashes of brilliance so far, most notably in a 2-1 upset victory in overtime against then No. 16 Rutgers last weekend. However, they followed up the big win with a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Seton Hall two days later.
The Huskies also have an impressive historical record against the Wildcats, owning a 14-2-3 alltime record against them. Villanova won the most recent contest in 2006, hanging on for a 1-0 victory.
By Peter LogueStaff Writer
» MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
UConn ready for the Ted Owens Invite
The UConn men’s cross coun-try team will compete in their sec-ond race of the season on Saturday, Sept. 22, with a new crop of run-ners representing the team. The Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) Ted Owens Invite at Stanley Quarter Park in nearby New Britain will feature six underclassmen: freshmen Alvaro Chavez, Dan Murnane, Zachary Patsy and Ned Wilson, along with sophomores James Agati and Phil Caldwell.
The five-mile race will kick off at 11 a.m. and will feature a competi-tive field including host CCSU, cur-
rently ranked No.15 in the Northeast. For the first time this season, the Huskies don’t have a spot in the top 15 teams for each of the nine regions in the country.
While UConn’s young-er runners will face tough competition Saturday, Coach Richard Miller said his expectations for his underclassmen are not result-oriented, especially considering that the Ted Owens Invite will be some of the athletes’ first time racing the five-mile dis-tance.
“When you go into a competition, you apply your training into racing, which is what I want my guys to do.
I want to see my younger athletes respond to the distance, work col-lectively and run a consistent race,” Miller said.
But for frontrunners Ryan McGuire and Jordan Magath, the objective of the Ted Owens Invite will be quite different. Coming off strong second and sixth place finishes, respec-tively, at last weekend’s Minuteman Invitational, the pair is expected to con-tend with the leaders on Saturday. This lead pack will likely include CCSU
sophomore Andy Pullaro and junior Andrew Hill, the leaders of the Blue Devil contingent at the team’s previ-
ous two meets.Miller expects McGuire and
Magath to give their best effort out on the Stanley Quarter course. “They should challenge to win the race,” he said, “and not let down at all.”
Another alteration in UConn’s lineup for Saturday is the loss of mid-dle-distance specialists Joe Clark and Tim and Alex Bennatan, who will con-tinue training this weekend in preparation for the New England Championships on Oct. 7. Sophomore Stephen Vento, who was UConn’s sixth finisher at the Minuteman Invitational, is included in this Saturday’s roster.
For the entire team, competi-tions provide additional practice for particular aspects of the race that need to be improved. Perhaps
UConn’s biggest weakness, as Miller has previously said, maintaining focus throughout each mile of the five-mile pursuit. The Ted Owens Invite will allow another opportunity to do just that: improve. “The only way to truly test our focus is in a race, and we will continue to develop
that on Saturday,” Miller said. “We just want each mile to keep getting better.”
By Abby MaceCampus Correspondent
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TWOPAGE 2 Q :A :
“Which winless NFL team has the best chance to go 0-16?”
“Probably the Chiefs, although a good case could be made for the Browns, too.”
–Kyle Constable, campus correspondent
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“Who has been the biggest Fantasy Football bust through three weeks?”
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» That’s what he said“Billy has decided to focus on his health, and we wish him
a full recovery.”
—Texas A&M Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt on the resignation of head basketball coach Billy Gillispie.
Just one of those years
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Champ.Noon
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Oct. 6 Rutgers
TBA
Smallwood’s presence to be missed the rest of the year
Oct. 13Temple
TBA
Oct. 19Syracuse8 p.m.
Sept. 25Yale
7 p.m.
Sept. 29 Notre Dame 7 p.m.
Oct. 3Georgetown
8 p.m.
Oct. 5South Florida7 p.m.
Oct. 3UMass6 p.m.
Oct. 6 Notre Dame2 p.m.
Oct 26.BIG EAST Champs
TBA
Oct. 20Fordham And
BucknellTBA
Oct. 26ArmyTBA
“When you lose that kind of experience, it’s very hard,” Pasqualoni said. “We’re going to miss everything that he does.”
The Huskies were already going deep into their bench to find defensive linemen, and this week, Pasqualoni said that as many as five defensive ends could be brought into the game for UConn.
On a better note for UConn, cornerback Blidi Wreh-Wilson, who didn’t play last week after hurting his hamstring last Thursday, is expected to return.
In addition to getting Wreh-Wilson back, one of the stars of the UConn defense, Yawin Smallwood, continues to have a solid year for the Huskies. Smallwood has 35 tackles and four sacks thus far and was once again named Big East con-ference player of the week after the game against Maryland.
“I think he’s got a good feel for what he’s see-ing, and he’s playing fast,” Pasqualoni said of Smallwood. “He’s playing with confidence and he’s playing fast.”
For UConn’s offense, things continue to move slowly, particularly for quarterback Chandler Whitmer. On the season, Whitmer has thrown for five interceptions and doesn’t have a single touch-down pass despite throwing for 491 yards. Only James Vandeberg of Iowa has thrown for more yards, 593, without a touchdown pass.
Despite the seemingly slow start for the Huskies, Pasqualoni’s optimism has him believing that his offense is capable of turning on the jets at any moment.
“I believe we’re going to put up 500 yards every week,” he said.
As far as special teams go, Pasqualoni was more than pleased with the way that Nick Williams has been returning punts and kicks, and he thinks that the Huskies’ special teams game has been rock solid with the exception of coverage. He thinks that so far, the UConn coverage units have been sub-par and that as a unit, the players need to do a better job of covering the field after kickoffs and punts.
Oct. 6Marquette
8 p.m.
Oct. 7 DePaul3 p.m.
from BATTLING, page 12
The University of Connecticut volleyball team begins Big East Conference play this weekend with matches at Gampel Pavilion against Villanova and Georgetown.
The Huskies are riding a hot run of form at the moment. They have won three of their four matches since Friday, including a 3-0 win in their most recent match at in-state rival Sacred Heart on Wednesday.
UConn ends nonconference play with a record of 9-6. They were 3-1 at home, 2-3 in away matches and 4-2 at neutral sites. The Huskies also went 3-0 against opponents from Connecticut, defeating Fairfield, Hartford and
Sacred Heart by a com-bined score of 9-1.
Both of UConn’s weekend opponents have struggled so far this season. UConn opens the weekend on Friday at 7 p.m. against Villanova, who has posted a 5-8 record, so
far this season. The Wildcats finished fifth in the Big East last season with an 8-6 record and went 17-13 overall. Playing far from home has been a struggle for Villanova so far. The Wildcats are 1-6 in matches played outside Pennsylvania.
The Huskies will get a day off before returning to action on Sunday at 2 p.m., when they take on Georgetown. The Hoyas finished 10th in the Big East last season with a 6-8 mark (14-13 overall), finishing just two games ahead of UConn, who finished 4-10. The Hoyas are 6-7 to start the season. However, only one of their first 13 matches was played at home, so they are used to playing on the road. They will stop in New York on Friday to open Big East play against St. John’s before continuing up to Storrs.
This weekend, the UConn women’s cross-country team will travel to New Britain to compete in the annual Central Connecticut State Ted Owens Invitational race. While the team has competed at this event in the past, this year the plan is slightly different.
Unlike the team’s first meet of the season, the Dartmouth Invitational, Coach Andrea Grove-McDonough will not be racing her normal top five runners. Grove-McDonough doesn’t know exactly which runners will be on the line come Saturday, although she did admit to the existence of several “game-time decisions” yet to be made.
“I still don’t even know who I’m going to run,” Grove-McDonough said. “I know I’m going to have five runners out there, but I don’t know who. My bottom line is that I just want to make sure that the people who are out there are fit and healthy enough to actually compete and get something out of the race.”
Grove-McDonough did make it clear that the runners who will be representing UConn at the Roy Griak Invitational on Sept. 29 will not be competing this weekend for three purposes, the first being to give runners who don’t normally compete in the regular season meets a chance to gain experience. The sec-ond purpose is to give Grove-McDonough a chance to see what type of depth she’ll have to work with once championship season rolls around. The third purpose is to give those runners who are banged up due to injury or illness another week to recover, thus ensur-ing that the Huskies travel to the Griak Invitational at full strength.
Last year at the Ted Owens Invitational, UConn finished in third place out of 10 teams. This year the team is expecting a simi-lar or improved finish. Despite the fact that Grove-McDonough isn’t putting perhaps her best team on the starting line, she still expects the team to perform and treat the event like any other important race.
“Any time you put on the UConn jersey, you’ve got to represent, whether its the Griak
Invitational or Central. So we still take it seriously,” Grove-McDonough said. “We’re excited about Central because all the girls on the team are planning to come out and watch their teammates who are racing. They’ve all made their own arrangements to get out there, so that’s cool. We’re excited about the week-end in general.”
Despite still having to take care of busi-ness this weekend, it is clear that the UConn women’s cross country squad has its collec-tive sights set on the NCAA Championshipss. The road to reaching that goal begins in ear-nest after this weekend. After the Ted Owens Invitational, UConn has another week off and then it’s off to the Griak Invitational in Minneapolis, Minn., followed by the New England Championships, the Wisconsin Invitational, and the Big East Championship.
Given the team’s goal of qualifying for the NCAA Championship, Grove-McDonough is especially conscious of trying to prevent her team from making its break to the front of the national pack too early, as it did last season.
“I’m trying to focus on getting our runners to peak at the right time, both physically and mentally. That’s part of the art of coaching, but I think peaking is as much of an art form as anything,” Coach Grove-McDonough said. “And now, we’re at a point where we can afford to sort of look past those early season meets and focus more on November.”
The value of this weekend for the UConn women’s cross-country team is that it will reveal who Grove-McDonough can rely on in the event that injury strikes one of her top run-ners right before the Big East Championship, or NCAA Regionals. Knowing that valuable information will be a confidence booster heading into the thick of the regular season.
The bottom line is that, while the Ted Owens Invitational is not a “must-win” for the UConn women’s cross country team, it is still an important barometer in determining the team’s depth. And as the leaves start to fall and the season wears on, depth can mean the differ-ence between the teams that make the NCAA Championship, and those that don’t.
By Jack MitchellCampus Correspondent
Huskies stay in state to compete in the Ted Owens Invitational
UConn to take on Georgetown and
Villanova this weekend
» VOLLEYBALL
By Timothy FontenaultCampus Correspondent
» Notebook
»Volleyball
The game played a year ago between the UConn Huskies and the Western Michigan Broncos was one that the Huskies would like to forget.
UConn coach Paul Pasqualoni said that the game, which the Huskies lost 38-31, was going fairly well until the game reached the fourth quarter.
“You try to learn from it,” Pasqualoni said. “You don’t sit there and get mad. You try to figure it out.”
For starters, the Huskies were making a dra-matic late-game push until a red-zone fumble by UConn tight end Ryan Griffin with just 45 seconds remaining. The Broncos then simply held on to the football to seal a victory against the Huskies.
Then there’s the Western Michigan quarter-back, Alex Carder, who torched the UConn defense as a junior.
In the 38-31 victory over the Huskies in a game played at Rentschler Field, Carder com-pleted 37 passes for 479 yards and threw five touchdown passes.
Now a senior, Carder is looking to add to his seven touchdowns on the season. The Huskies will be throwing a defense at him that currently ranks No. 11 in the nation in points allowed.
“It’s always a challenge playing an older quarterback,” Paul Pasqualoni said Tuesday at the team’s weekly press conference. “Alex does a pretty good job of engineering and driving the bus.”
Stopping an offense like Western Michigan’s will be tough for UConn without defensive end Jesse Joseph. During last week’s game against Maryland, Joseph injured his Achilles tendon and is going to be out for the remainder of the season.
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UConn to be pushed in
Army Invite
After a very successful weekend at Quinnipiac, the UConn women’s tennis team looks to continue their success at one of the most competitive tournaments of the fall sea-son, the Army Invitational.
This weekend, the Huskies will travel to West Point, N.Y. in the hopes of securing vic-tories in what will likely be the most-attended tournament of the fall season. The Army Invitational draws in competi-tors from beyond the region, creating an opportunity for the Huskies to be tested against a variety of players.
“The teams will be a bit stronger, by and large, at Army,” said Coach Glenn Marshall, who was cautiously optimistic about this week-end’s prospects. “We had suc-cess [at Quinnipiac] and suc-cess breeds confidence.”
This confidence, Marshall hopes, will be the key com-ponent to a successful week-end for the team. Stellar per-formances at Quinnipiac by sophomore Maxie Weinberg and junior Lucy Nutting in singles, along with sopho-more Emilie Burgess and Nutting in doubles, dominat-ed this week’s headlines. But that was not all for the team last weekend. Nearly every competitor for the Huskies walked away from Quinnipiac having won at least one match of singles or doubles play. Those results are proving to be significantly encouraging to the team.
The format for the Army Invitational will be very simi-lar to Quinnipiac, with both singles and doubles play. There will be four numbered singles flights and two numbered dou-bles flights for the Huskies to compete in. However, the Army Invitational provides a greater number of courts for the players than Quinnipiac could, which will give the women more time competing on the court.
“I think as a team we are ready for this weekend,” said senior Julia Allen. “We have been training hard, hitting well and feel very confident for a great weekend.”
Last season, the Huskies had moderate success at the tournament. Weinberg fell in the first round of competition in her flight, but advanced through four straight consola-tion rounds, ultimately win-ning the consolation final over Sacred Heart. Allen and Nutting advanced to the semi-finals in the second flight of doubles, while three others advanced to the quarterfinals in their respective singles flights.
Marshall stated that even though no Big East teams will be present at the tourna-ment, he would be closely watching Army, Fordham and especially UMass, whom the Huskies will host on campus next month. The competition from the teams in attendance this weekend will likely be more difficult than anything else the team has faced so far this season. But Marshall is convinced that they are up for the challenge —and so is everyone else on the team.
“We look forward to per-forming well for UConn and expect great results in both the doubles and singles end of this tournament at Army,” Allen said. “We want to show the other Big East schools that we have a solid team and that we will compete well this
Battling the BroncosAfter loss last season, Huskies get rematch
The St. John’s rivalry continuesAfter just two days of rest,
the No. 2 UConn men’s soccer team begins its Big East schedule Saturday night at 7 p.m. against No. 13 St. John’s.
An expected sell-out crowd at Morrone Stadium will watch a match between two perennial con-ference powers with plenty of his-tory. UConn defeated St. John’s 2-0 at home in late September. But the Red Storm got the last laugh, defeating the Huskies 1-0 in over-time in the Big East tournament finals. St. John’s owns the all-time series lead 14-12-6, but the teams are tied 4-4-4 in the previous 12 meetings.
“We have to be ready to play,” Coach Ray Reid said. “It’s the first Big East game, that’s enough incentive.”
This year, each team was the preseason favorite to win its respective division (UConn in the Blue Division and St. John’s in the Red Division) and so far both teams are unbeaten.
UConn (6-0-1) will want to score first, because St. John’s is 5-0-0 when scoring first this sea-son and has trailed for only 82:45 this year. UConn has not trailed a minute in 2012.
Saturday will be a matchup of the conference’s two best goal-keepers. UConn’s Andre Blake has a league-best .28 goals against average and a .895 save percentage. Right behind him is St. John’s Rafael Diaz with a .46 goals against average and .886 save percentage. Diaz earned Big East Goalkeeper of the Week after preserving draws with Akron and Butler. Each player has recorded four shutouts, but Diaz has been relied on to make more saves: he has made 31 stops, compared to Blake’s 17.
After a bit of a slow start, junior forward Mamadou Doudou Diouf has been red hot in the last two games. He scored two goals in the first 11 minutes of a blowout win over Harvard and scored the only two goals in Wednesday’s 2-0 win over Boston College. The pre-season Big East offensive player of the year earned a spot on this
week’s Big East Honor Roll for his performance. He leads the Big East with six goals and an average of 1.86 points per game.
Sophomore Allando Matheson is second on the team, with three goals and an assist. Seniors Max Wasserman and Carlos Alvarez both have two goals and two assists.
St. John’s is 5-0-3 after a pair of draws with No. 10 Akron and unranked Butler. St. John’s opened up the season with a win over Boston University 3-0, the only common opponent shared with the Huskies so far this season. BU is responsible for the only blemish on UConn’s record: a 1-1 tie on Sept. 9.
Saturday is also the start of con-ference play for the Red Storm. St. John’s has five players with at least two goals each. Senior Jack Bennett leads the team with three goals and three assists. Bennett may be a familiar name to Huskies fans. He scored the game-winning, overtime goal to clinch the Big East title last year.
» MEN’S SOCCER
Junior midfielder Colin Bradley handles the ball during a game against Boston College on Sept. 19.KEVIN SCHELLER/The Daily Campus
UConn’s senior tight end John Delahunt runs with the ball during the Huskies’ Sept. 8 game against the North Carolina State Wolfpack. This weekend, the Huskies have a rematch with the Western Michigan Broncos.
KEVIN SCHELLER/The Daily Campus
By Dan AgabitiSports Editor
» SMALLWOOD’S, page 11
By Kyle ConstableCampus Correspondent
By Danny MaherStaff Writer
» FIELD HOCKEY
UConn Huskies to face two different Wildcats
The No. 5 UConn field hockey team is set for a home-and-away weekend, taking on No. 16 New Hampshire on Friday night before traveling
to Villanova for a Big East matchup on Sunday.
The Huskies – who are No. 1 in the nation in RPI – enter the weekend with a perfect 7-0 record and three wins over top 25 competition. The UNH Wildcats travel to Storrs sporting a 4-3 record on the
season, with two of the three losses coming in close games against ranked opponents.
“With six minutes to go in the UNH – Syracuse game, it was 2-0 New Hampshire,” UConn Coach Nancy Stevens said. “And Syracuse is unde-feated and No. 2 in the coun-try, so New Hampshire has proven that they can play with the top teams and it’s going to be a tough challenge for us.”
UConn will rely heavily on the play of Big East Defensive Player of the Week Louisa Boddy, as well as on Big East Weekly Honor Roll for-ward Chloe Hunnable during
the weekend. Boddy netted a hat-trick last Saturday against Rutgers and is responsible for taking the shots on penalty corners for the Huskies.
Despite having a quiet home-stand against Rutgers and Yale last weekend, forward Marie Elena Bolles is always a threat to score for UConn. She leads the team with seven goals on the season.
After taking on UNH, the Huskies will travel to Villanova for their second conference game of the year, looking to keep their unde-feated Big East record intact. Villanova enters the weekend
at 4-4. They lost their confer-ence opener against Syracuse last Friday.
The Huskies will have to be sure to keep an eye on sophomore forward Leah High, who earned Big East Weekly Honor Roll mention for her efforts last weekend. High netted three goals in two games against the Orange and Kent State.
Game times are set for 7 p.m. Friday at the Sherman Family Sports Complex and 12 p.m. on Sunday.
By Matt StypulkoskiStaff Writer
FIELD HOCKEY
Sherman Family Sports Complex, 7 p.m.
VS.7-0, 1-0 4-3, 0-0
» WOMEN’S TENNIS
