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EDITORIAL: WSU PEDESTRIAN FEE AN UNNECESSARY DISCONNECT BETWEEN STUDENTS, FACULTYUniversities shouldn’t fine their students for walking on campus.
INSIDE NEWS: STUDY SUGGESTS NEANDERTHALS MAY HAVE DIED OUT EARLIERGerman research sug-gests Neanderthals became extinct in their last refuge in Spain much earlier than previ-ously thought.
HETTINGER SPEAKS ON HAVING IT ALL
Banks out for season; Marquette comes to town.
THE SHOW MUST GO ON
A UConn professor talks about the difficulty of being both a mother and a professional.
UConn professor says Firearm Protections Act violates Constitution
Proposed legislation that would ban law enforcement officers from enforcing gun control laws within the borders of a state are coming up in of conservative states all over the country.
State legislatures in Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Tennessee and Alaska have all passed leg-islation that would incriminate and imprison an officer that attempted to enforce firearm restrictions. The legislation is preemptive; it attempts to override any ban on high capac-ity magazines or semi-automatic weapons that may come out of Washington in the coming months.
The movement began in Montana in 2009 when Gov. Brian Schweitzer signed the Firearms Freedom Act into law. Shortly after, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) issued a letter to the state declaring the federal government would refuse to recognize the law.
Gun lobby groups in Montana responded
with a lawsuit against the federal govern-ment. But the case has been held up in a federal appeals court for over a year and will not be heard until March 5.
The lawsuit, however, did not hinder the seven other states that subsequently adopted similar legislation, and this year eight more states have proposed similar bills.
Steve Toth, a Republican serving in the Texas House of Representatives, announced his intent to introduce a Firearm Protection Act in January.
“The overreach of the federal administra-tions executive orders that do not align with the Constitution, are not very popular here in Texas,” Toth said in a press release.
But UConn political science profes-sor Jeffrey Ladewig said it’s the Firearm Protection Act that violates the Constitution.
“There’s a long history in states bat-tling the government back and forth, but the supremacy clause is clear,” Ladewig said, referring to the clause in Article VI of the Constitution that states the federal Constitution is the “supreme law of the land.”
Proponents of the legislation like Montana’s Firearm Protection Act argue the 10th Amendment, which states that powers not granted to the federal government by the Constitution are left to the states and people, gives the laws validity.
But Ladewig said he predicts the court will rule in favor of the federal government. In Supreme Court cases throughout history, Ladewig said, the courts have consistently ruled when a federal law exists, a state law cannot override it.
Gary Marbut, the president of the Montana Shooting Sports Association and a plaintiff in the ATF lawsuit, said he intends to take the case to the Supreme Court and establish a new precedent. However, Marbut did say he does not believe Montana should begin enforcing the legislation until the case is settled.
The odds of the Connecticut General Assembly proposing similar legislation are slim. A recent poll by UConn and the Hartford Courant showed in the wake of recent tragedies like the Sandy Hook shoot-ing, 64 percent of Connecticut residents said
they favored enacting stricter gun laws. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy told reporters in
January he expects the General Assembly will pass gun control legislation in the next few months.
“I don’t think it’s going to be hard to pass recommendations in this legislature,’’ Malloy said. “If you’re asking me do I expect it’s going to be terribly hard to pass new gun laws in Connecticut, the answer is no.’’
Jennifer Necci Dineen, the poll director at UConn, told the Hartford Courant that the conversation about gun control is different in Connecticut than the rest of the country.
“Connecticut, being a blue state and hav-ing a lower percentage of gun owners than we see nationally, is probably a bit more predisposed to supporting (gun control) leg-islation,’’ Dineen said. “And Sandy Hook has hit home. Connecticut residents say Newtown has had an impact on them. That’s true for Americans in other places, but not to the same degree.”
By Jackie WattlesStaff Writer
UConn senior starts his own companyUConn senior Ryan Gauvain is doing
exactly what he wants to do with his turf-grass management degree – he has kick-started his own landscaping company.
Gauvain has always loved nature and the outdoors, and knew he wanted to own and operate a landscaping business ever since he was a little kid.
With an uncle and a cousin that work as landscapers, Gavain said he grew up help-ing with yard work and found it rewarding. Gauvain got his foot in the landscaping world around age 11, when he began mow-ing the lawns of his neighbors’ houses. Seeing the difference his work made on the properties was “very fulfilling,” he said.
“At Christmas, I’d always ask for tools and equipment when everyone else asked for toys,” Gauvain said with a nostalgic smile.
Gauvain is an exception among soon-to-be graduates because he not only has a job already lined up in the field he studied in college, but he also created his job by start-ing a business: the Litchfield-based Oak Hills Landscaping.
The U.S. labor market has an 7.9 percent unemployment rate, and almost 30 percent of recent college graduates work in fields unrelated to their majors, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. Gauvain has overcome the statistics, and is launching himself full-speed into a career he is pas-sionate about.
Although landscaping is Gauvain’s dream job, owning a business hasn’t com-pletely been a bed of roses. Gauvain has worked hard to balance his academics with his business, which was officially regis-tered with Litchfield and Connecticut as a company in January.
Every weekend in the fall and spring, Gauvain travels back to his hometown of Litchfield to tend to his clients’ lawns. He plows through 15-hour days to work on as many properties as possible. After a long day of laboring in the heat, cold, wind or rain, Gauvain sits down at night to record what work he completed that day and fills out his billing accounts.
There is less yard work to be done in cold, snowy New England weather, but Gauvain supports his business during the winter by selling firewood and doing main-tenance work.
“All of my friends will go out to party on the weekends, but I just don’t have the time,” he said.
Gauvain decided to attend UConn in high school when he saw the university offers a turfgrass management major. Since UConn is only about an hour and a half commute from his hometown, he has been able to manage his customers’ lawns while completing his studies.
Gauvain chose to officially launch his
business before graduating so he could glean knowledge and expertise from his professors.
“I just wanted it all set up, and I wanted to experience dealing with the business before I went out into it by myself,” he said.
Gauvain is one of about 20 students in UConn’s turfgrass management major. The program is designed to prepare students to manage lawns, golf courses, athletic fields, parks, roadsides and other areas that have grass. Gauvain’s studies have left him well-equipped to handle the challenges of running his business and keeping up with his work.
“The professors do a lot of real-life sce-narios, a lot of hands-on experience,” he said. Part of Gauvain’s classes involved maintaining and mowing the UConn ath-letic fields.
UConn professors and Gauvain’s family have been supportive and helpful in get-ting his business off the ground. His whole family will often help with his landscaping
work on the weekends.Gauvain currently has 25 customers and
is hoping to expand his business after grad-uation. After graduation, when his business kicks into full gear, he hopes to hire one or two assistants.
“I’m excited to really launch the busi-ness and be able to run it at full potential,” he said.
One of Gauvain’s goals for his business is to implement organic, sustainable land-scaping methods. Using recycled leaves as mulch, rain gardens and rooftop gardens are techniques he will use to help his busi-ness reduce its carbon footprint.
For now, Gauvain is gearing up for the busy springtime and is working on improv-ing his business. He offered advice for oth-ers who have a dream they want to pursue.
“You have to be motivated and proac-tive,” Gauvain said. “I had a vision and I knew it would happen. I worked hard for it.”
Prof. honored for his research
The Animal Behavior Society and the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour honored Professor Kentwood D. Wells in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, for his research paper on the social behavior of frogs. The paper, originally published in 1977, was praised for its hypothesis-driven research that shaped current ideas of behavioral ecology.
Titled “The Social Behaviour of Anuran Amphibians,” it is the most cited paper published in the 60-year history of the journal Animal Behaviour. It investigates patterns of reproduction: dura-tion of the mating period, call structure, male positioning and defense.
Wells conducted his research just as behavioral ecology was emerging as a field of study. Before his paper, there was no detailed knowledge of sexual selection or the structure of mat-ing system. Biologists only knew what they could observe. Wells had to think up a quantitative pro-cedure to find out what amphib-ians are attracted to, in terms of size and species.
“I didn’t grow up loving sta-tistics,” Wells said, “but it was clearly necessary to move the field forward.”
Wells started off with a hypoth-esis-based research plan. He questioned the effects of loudness of the call, how much move-ment there was in a pond, and how much energy was required to make a call. While in graduate school at Cornell, he spent three years studying male and female activity in a pond nearby. He found during breeding seasons one-to-two weeks long, green frogs used trial and error to find a mate.
“It’s a scramble competition, they call and grab anything that looks like a female, clods of mud even. Sometimes females get killed and drown because the male frogs are fighting each other off,” Wells said.
Tree and bullfrogs with longer breeding seasons are more territo-rial. Males defend areas of veg-etation by ponds where females lay their eggs. Females choose
Pictured above is the final result of UConn’s Ryan Gauvain’s landscaping. The senior turfgrass management major started his own business and seeks the knowledge and expertise of his professor.
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Conn. legislative gun panel gets final briefingHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A legislative subcommittee review-
ing Connecticut gun laws is receiving some final expert testimony before the lawmakers begin devising recommendations for possible changes to the laws in light of the Newtown school shooting.
The gun violence prevention subcommittee faces a Feb. 15 dead-line to forward its ideas to legislative leaders, who hope the full General Assembly can vote on a package of reforms at month’s end.
Subcommittee members on Monday asked final questions of gun manufacturers, state and local police officials and municipal leaders about myriad issues. They included the ramifications of limiting the size of ammunition magazines, the thoroughness of background checks and current rules for obtaining gun permits.
Two other subcommittees are reviewing laws and policies sur-rounding mental health and school security.
Conn. lawmaker proposes bill increase speed limitHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — There may be some relief coming for
drivers who can’t keep below the 65 mph speed limit.Democratic Rep. Minnie Gonzalez of Hartford on Monday called
for increasing Connecticut’s maximum speed limit on state highways to 75 mph, saying the current limit is “a joke” and is being ignored.
She told members of the General Assembly’s Transportation Committee that statistics she has found show the number of accidents decrease with the higher speed limit.
But some committee members raised safety concerns and said those statistics might apply to larger, less populated states like North Dakota.
In 1998, Connecticut became the last state in the continental U.S. to increase the maximum speed limit from 55 mph to 65 mph.
US Supreme Court nixes nursing home bid on strikeHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg has denied a request by a New Jersey nursing home company which asked her to allow it to delay reinstating striking Connecticut workers.
HealthBridge Management argued Monday that a federal court’s Jan. 25 decision to strike down three of President Barack Obama appointees to the National Labor Relations Board calls into question the labor board’s decisions.
In December, a federal judge in Hartford approved an injunction requested by the labor board ordering the Parsippany, N.J.-based com-pany to reinstate 600 striking workers at five nursing homes. A federal appeals court in New York last week rejected HealthBridge’s request to delay that order.
Director plans movie related to Newtown
RIDGEFIELD, Conn. (AP) — A film director is coming to Connecticut to prepare for a made-for-TV movie related to the Newtown school shooting.
Jonathan Bucari told News 12 Connecticut that he was planning to visit Ridgefield on Monday.
Ridgefield is about 20 miles southwest of Newtown, where a gunman killed 20 first-graders, six educators and himself on Dec. 14 after fatally shooting his mother.
WVIT-TV reported that the film company, Demian Productions, said the film isn’t about the shootings, but focuses on a 13-year-old boy with mental illness and a growing fear of his parents after the shooting.
Bucari says he picked Ridgefield because of its similar look to Newtown, and because he didn’t want to upset Newtown residents so soon after the killings.
Amazon to collect Conn. sales tax, ending dispute HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Amazon announced on Monday
that it has agreed to collect Connecticut’s sales tax, ending a two-year dispute over the tax that the online retailer had previously refused to charge its customers.
The retailer also promised to spend $50 million to build an order-fulfillment center at an unspecified site and create hun-dreds of jobs.
Kevin Sullivan, commissioner of Revenue Services, said in an interview with The Associated Press that Amazon will generate about $8 million in the first year it collects the tax and $13 mil-lion to $15 million in the second year.
By agreeing to collect the tax, Amazon puts pressure on other Internet businesses to pay Connecticut’s 6.35 percent sales tax, Sullivan said.
“Obviously, we will turn our attention to them in no particular order,” he said. “Amazon is very clearly the leader of the pack.”
Amazon will begin collecting the tax on Nov. 1 at the start of the busy Christmas holiday shopping season. The company previously insisted it was not obligated to abide by the state’s Internet tax law because it does not have a physical presence in Connecticut.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Beyonce’s splashy show, a freak power outage, and —oh, yeah— a captivating game of football combined to generate a record 24.1 million posts on Twitter during Sunday night’s Super Bowl.
That’s up from 13.7 million last year — and that doesn’t even include chatter surround-ing the ads.
Twitter said in a late Sunday blog post that about half of the more than 50 national TV spots that aired during the game included a “hashtag,” a word or phrase preceded by a number sign that’s used to organize subjects on the short messaging site. During last year’s game, only one in five ads included one. Brands ranging from Oreo to Tide and Budweiser, mean-while, captured online buzz by linking the blackout to their brands in humorous tweets.
Super Bowl XLVII, like the London Summer Olympics and the U.S. presidential elec-tion, was yet another moment in which Twitter became the platform for millions of people to share quick reactions and participate in a massive, pub-lic conversation. Though it’s not as popular as Facebook Inc. or its buttoned-up cous-in LinkedIn Corp., Twitter’s surging popularity during big events is a testament to its reach and utility. The question is whether these moments can translate into revenue for the 7-year-old company.
The company makes money by charging advertisers to promote individual tweets, accounts or trends designed to spark a conversation. Research firm eMarketer estimates that Twitter will book advertising revenue of $545.2 million this year, up 89 percent from 2012. Next year, worldwide ad rev-enue is expected to hit $807.5 million, a 48 percent increase from 2013.
Tweetable events such as the 34-minute Super Bowl power outage are ripe with marketing potential, provided that brands act quickly.
“It’s really clear right now that Twitter has a lock on real-time conversation on the Internet,” says eMarketer ana-lyst Debra Aho Williamson.
To capitalize on this, Twitter has to show advertisers that it pays to promote their tweets — even though fans are likely to spread the catchiest slogans on their own, free of charge.
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Officials: Boy safe, abductor dead after standoff
MIDLAND CITY, Alabama (AP) — Officers stormed an underground bunker in Alabama where a 5-year-old boy had been held hostage for nearly a week, rescuing the child and leaving the boy’s abductor dead, officials said Monday.
Steve Richardson with the FBI’s office in Mobile, Alabama said at a news con-ference Monday afternoon that negotiations had deterio-rated with 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes.
Dykes, who a week earlier had abducted the child from a school bus after fatally shoot-ing the driver, had been seen with a gun. Officers believed the boy was in imminent dan-ger, Richardson said.
Officers stormed the bunker just after local time to rescue the child, who was taken to a hospital in nearby Dothan. Officials have said the child has Asperger’s syndrome.
However, it was not imme-diately clear how Dykes died.
Daryle Hendry, who lives about a quarter-mile (half a kilometer) from where Dykes’ bunker was located, said he heard a boom Monday after-noon, followed by what sound-ed like a gunshot, all around the time officials said they stormed the bunker.
Neighbors described Dykes as a man who once beat a dog to death with a lead pipe, threatened to shoot children for setting foot on his property, and patrolled his yard at night with a flashlight and a firearm.
The crisis in Alabama unfold-ed amid a divisive nationwide debate over gun control and the safety of schoolchildren after the December shooting that killed 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut ele-mentary school.
President Barack Obama traveled to Minnesota on Monday to rally from the public and law enforcement commu-nity for his calls to ban assault weapons and install univer-sal background checks for gun buyers. Gun advocates remain firmly opposed to tighter laws, arguing that gun ownership is a basic right enshrined in the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Government records and interviews with neighbors indicate that Dykes joined the Navy in Midland City, serv-ing on active duty from 1964 to 1969. His record shows several awards, including the Vietnam Service Medal and the Good Conduct Medal. During his service, Dykes was trained in aviation main-tenance.
He had some scrapes with the law in Florida, including a 1995 arrest for improper exhibition of a weapon. The misdemeanor was dismissed. He also was arrested for mari-juana possession in 2000.
He returned to Alabama about two years ago, moving onto the rural tract about 100 yards (91 meters) from his nearest neighbors.
Ronda Wilbur, a neighbor of Dykes who said the man beat her dog to death last year with a pipe, said she was relieved to be done with the stress of knowing Dykes was patrolling his yard and willing to shoot at anyone or anything that tres-passed.
“The nightmare is over. It’s been a long couple of years of having constant stress,” she said.
Authorities have said Dykes gunned down 66-year-old bus driver Albert Poland Jr. before taking the boy from the bus. Poland, who was buried Sunday, has been hailed as a hero for protecting the other nearly two-dozen children on board from harm.
“This man was a true hero who was willing to give up his life so others might live,” Gov. Robert Bentley said in a news release Monday after learning of the boy’s rescue.
Armed law enforcement personnel station themselves near the property of Jimmy Lee Sykes, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013 in Midland City, Ala. Officials say they stormed a bunker in Alabama to rescue a 5-year-old child being held hostage there after Sykes, his abductor, was seen with a gun.
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Paper on behavior of frogs is most cited research
where they want to lay their eggs based on the males on guard.
This year, Animal Behaviour is commemorat-ing an influential article each month with an essay, to reflect the impact and progress of the research. Wells’ anniversary essay not only prais-es his research, but also, his writing. It comments on Wells’ ability to summarize vast amounts of information clearly.
A teaching adjunct in the department, Kristiina Hurme was amazed by Wells’ work.
“When I first read his paper on social behavior in anurans, I was floored that he wrote it as a graduate student. It was so clearly thought out and well-written, that it’s obvious that Kentwood was
wise beyond his years,” she said. “His classifica-tions were accurate and still hold true today.”
Wells attributes his writing ability to the practice he had in high school.
“I’ve always liked writing synthetic-type papers. I’m a collector of information,” he said, “I have a pile of papers that accumulates even though I’m not writing a book anymore.”
In his book, The Ecology and Behavior of Amphibians, Wells built on the research he did at the small ponds of Ithaca, N.Y. It was pub-lished in 2007. Despite this, his 1977 article is still cited more often.
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» INTERNATIONAL Canada begins phasing out its pennyTORONTO (AP) — Canada
started phasing out its penny, the nuisance coins that clutter dressers and cost more than their one-cent value to produce.
The Royal Canadian Mint on Monday officially ended its distribution of pennies to financial institutions. Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced last year they were a nuisance and have outlived their purpose.
While people may still use pennies, the government has issued guidelines urging store owners to start rounding prices to the nearest nickel for cash trans-actions. Electronic purchases will still be billed to the nearest cent.
The government has said the cost of the penny exceeds its monetary value. Production is $11 million a year. The coins, which feature two maple leaves and Queen Elizabeth II in pro-file, will remain legal tender until they eventually disappeared from circulation.
Opposition New Democrat Member of Parliament Pat Martin gave a poetic goodbye to the penny in Parliament on Monday.
“There’s nothing a penny will buy any more, not a gum ball or small piece of candy,” Martin said. “Note the penny is a nui-sance. It costs too much to make. They clutter our change purse and they don’t circulate. They build up in piles in old cookie jars under our beds and in our desk drawers. You can’t give them away. They cost more than
what they’re worth. It’s time to put them all out to pasture, put them out to the curb. No, the penny is useless, but there is one thing I’d say, I hope they don’t start treating old MPs this way.”
Google is marking the pass-ing of the penny with a dedi-cated doodle on its Canadian home page.
The currency museum at Canada’s central bank has already taken steps to preserve the penny’s place in Canadian culture. A mural consisting of nearly 16,000 one-cent pieces has been assembled at the muse-um to commemorate the coin’s history, said assistant curator
Raewyn Passmore.New Zealand, Australia, the
Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Sweden and others have also dropped the penny.
The U.S. Treasury Department has said the Obama administra-tion has looked at possibly using cheaper materials to make the penny, which is now made of zinc.
Two bills calling for the end of the U.S. penny, introduced in 2002 and 2006 by Republican Rep. Jim Kolbe, failed to advance in the House of Representatives.
The U.S. zinc lobby has been a major opponent to suggestions that the penny be eliminated.
The household penny jar seen here Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, in Montreal, may soon become a thing of the past. The phasing-out of the penny will begin Feb. 4, 2013 with the Royal Canadian Mint officially ending its distribution of one-cent coins to Canada’s financial institutions. Retailers will round consumer cash transactions to the nearest nickel.
AP
Study suggests Neanderthals may have died out earlier
BERLIN (AP) — Theories about when the last Neanderthals walked the Earth may have to be revised, according to a study that suggests they became extinct in their last refuge in Spain much earlier than previously thought.
Previous dating of bone fossils found at Neanderthal sites in the region put the youngest at about 35,000 years.
But researchers from Australia and Europe re-examined the bones using an improved method to filter out contamination and concluded that the remains are about 50,000 years old.
If true, the study, casts doubt on the idea that modern humans and Neanderthals co-existed — and possibly even interbred — for millennia, because humans aren’t believed to have settled in the region until 42,000 years ago.
“The results of our study suggest that there are major problems with the dating of the last Neanderthals in modern-day Spain,” said Thomas Higham, deputy direc-tor of the Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit at Oxford University in England. “It is unlikely that Neanderthals survived any later in this area than they did elsewhere in mainland Europe.”
The study, which was pub-lished Monday by the jour-nal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doesn’t completely exclude the possibility that Neanderthals survived until 35,000 years ago. The problem is that the warm climate on the Iberian peninsula quickly degrades a key protein used in so-called radiocarbon dating.
The researchers were only able to test bones from two of the 11 known Neanderthal sites in Spain. They were subjected to a new method called “ultrafiltration.” This removes more recent carbon molecules that have contaminated the bones and made them appear
younger than they actually are.Such techniques often lead
to older radiocarbon dates, said, Chris Stringer, a senior research fellow at Britain’s Natural History Museum. “Science moves on and technology moves on,” he said.
Stringer, who was not involved in the study, said the new tech-niques should now be applied to other sites in Spain. “Until this is done, there must be a significant question mark over the possible late survival of Neanderthals in the region.”
If the remains from the other
sites, too, turn out to be older, any encounter between Neanderthals and humans would have to have taken place earlier than previously thought, he said.
“Evidence from Britain, Belgium, France, Germany and Italy is increasingly pointing to a modern human presence before 40,000 years ago,” said Stringer. “The new chronology suggests that any interaction between the last Neanderthals and the earliest moderns in Europe will similarly move before, rather than after, 40,000 years.”
In this Jan. 8, 2003 file photo, a reconstructed Neanderthal skeleton, right, and a modern human version of a skeleton are on display at the Museum of Natural History in New York. Theories about when the last Neanderthals walked the Earth may have to be revised, according to a study published Monday, Feb. 4, 2013 that suggests they became extinct in their last refuge in Spain much earlier than previously thought.
AP
‘Cookie Monster’ sends 2nd note in sculpture theftBERLIN (AP) — Police in
Germany say someone dressed as the Cookie Monster has sent a second note regarding a stolen cookie sculpture — this time saying he wants to return it.
But officials aren’t sure the person in the photo actual-ly stole the 20-kilogram (44
pound), century-old sculpture.The gilded bronze item was
part of a statue outside German cookie baker Bahlsen’s Hannover office, and it was reported stolen last month.
The Hannover police’s state-ment says a local newspaper on Monday received a picture of someone dressed like the
Sesame Street character hold-ing what appears to be the stolen cookie.
The enclosed note is written in cut-out letters.
An earlier letter demanded that cookies be delivered to children at a city hospital, but the new note made no demands.
Local man seeks com-panion for roller skat-ing, canoeing, tandem bike riding, horseback
riding and other outdoor activi-ties. This man is very active but totally blind, he needs a com-panion to fully participate in the
sports and activities he loves and experiences at a disabili-
ties camp”- VolunteerMatch.orgWould you be interested?
Why? If you ask most young volunteers nowadays why they volunteer, most, if not all, would reply with the same answer. “I need to look good on my résumé.”
Volunteering has become a requirement for many schools and programs, and in doing so, it has lost its underlying mean-ing. It no longer connects with society and de-emphasizes the welfare of others. However, if volunteering was rendered more on free will and altruism, then the benefits compared to “boosting your resume” will be greater.
By altering your reasoning from “I want to boost my résu-mé” to simply “I want to help
people,” you open the doors to so many opportunities. Your mind is transformed to allow-ing people to have as much of an impact on yourself as you have on them. Nonetheless, there is abso-lutely no downside to volunteering.
People will always tell you they love v o l u n t e e r -ing. However, the intention behind volun-teering deter-mines your exper ience . I encourage everyone to volunteer; there should be no excuse not to vol-unteer.
I know what you’re going to say, but nobody spends 24 hours studying, not even the honors kids. There are many reasons to get up and start volunteering. It’s okay to benefit from volun-teering, such as boosting your résumé, learning more about your career interest and about
yourself, but most importantly is the leading force pushing you to volunteer, which should be altruistic in nature.
There are many ways to make vol-unteering a w o n d e r f u l e x p e r i e n c e rather than a monotonous requirement. Start off with your interests such as music, reading, gar-dening or even social-izing. Go to Volunteer M a t c h . o r g , type in your zip code and
a keyword such as music, and you will be presented with a list of all the possible volunteer-ing activities related to the key word.
When I started volunteering, I began at Hartford Hospital in order to get into college. However, once I had my accep-tance, I realized that volunteer-ing was an immeasurable act of kindness. I realized that by
taking out the personal gains such as “boosting my resume,” it gave volunteering a whole new meaning
Every time I volunteer, I inter-act with great people; I have learned more about myself in my time volunteering than I have “behind the books.” Not only do I learn about myself, I also learn something new, ranging from how to say “pil-low” in Spanish, to even how an Air-Force veteran survived a jet crash.
I, now always look forward to going to volunteer; it has enlightened me and allowed me to look at the world differently. In times of good or bad, I always find that going to volunteer is something I want to do, rather than something I need to do.
I, urge everyone to try to vol-unteer, step out of your comfort zone and do something you’ll remember for the rest of your life. If you never try it, you’ll never know. Go volunteer, do something extraordinary.
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Jesse Rifkin, Associate Commentary EditorChris Kempf, Weekly Columnist
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As you may have heard, UConn’s Joint Elections are coming up this March. These include elections for a wide
variety of positions, but arguably the most important is for student body presi-dent and vice president. Whoever wins that race will be the official voice of the student body for the 2013-2014 academ-
ic year. He or she will decide how student fees are distributed and represent UConn students not only to the school admin i s t ra t ion , but to the state and federal gov-ernment.
And he or she will do this, and the countless other tasks included in
the position, for no pay. As some people may have assumed,
and others may be surprised to hear, the president of UConn’s Undergraduate Student Government (USG) does not receive any sort of compensation. This should be changed. Compensating USG leadership would make the organization more fair and more effective.
For those unfamiliar with the topic, this may sound like a strange proposal. But in reality, it’s unusual that USG leaders aren’t already being compen-sated. According to a survey taken by the American Student Government Association, about 71 percent of schools pay their student government leaders, including 86 percent of public schools and 89 percent of schools with 10,000 to 20,000 students. Some of these lead-ers are paid quite handsomely accord-ing to ASGA’s 2001 survey, the most
highly paid president of the student body is Northeastern University, who receives a package of benefits totalling nearly $25,000 per year. Dozens of other presidents receive five-figure stipends or salaries.
The lack of compensation isn’t just unusual among student governments, it’s unusual among UConn student orga-nizations. There are six student orga-nizations at UConn funded directly by student fees: USG, UCTV, the Daily Campus, WHUS, SUBOG, and the Nutmeg Yearbook. Four pay their lead-ership; only USG and SUBOG have an all-volunteer membership.
Now some may say that USG and SUBOG have it right, and that student leaders should never be paid. But I would bet that most of those people have never led a fee-funded organization. It’s not easy. You manage a huge group of members, keep track of finances and work on ways to improve your group. I should know – I served as president of USG last year and regularly worked 30 to 40 hours per week.
Others may admit that it’s incred-ibly hard work, but that paying student government leaders may make people get involved for the wrong reasons. Someone may run for office just for the paycheck, with no intention of actu-ally getting anything accomplished. This couldn’t be farther from the truth. I’ve worked closely with every fee-funded organization on campus, including those with paid leadership, and every single leader is dedicated to their work. They get involved because they love the orga-nization’s mission, not because they’re looking to get paid. There are easier, better-paid jobs on campus for people looking to skate by. Plus, there are impeachment procedures in place to pre-vent that from happening in USG.
To me, the amount of work USG lead-ers put in is reason enough to pay them, but there are a host of other reasons as well. Paying USG leadership would allow lower-income students to run for office. The current lack of compensation prevents most students who are paying their way through school from partici-pating in student government, as their time is dominated by other jobs. Paying leadership would also make USG more accountable to students – maybe more people would pay attention to what their student government representatives are doing if they knew they were being paid to do it.
Now, I’m not advocating giving the USG President a $25,000 package like the president at Northeastern. But it’s undeniable that the position should get some form of compensation. Due to the unique nature of USG as the official voice of the student body—as recog-nized by UConn’s Board of Trustees—and the huge service that USG provides to the UConn administration, I believe that the president of USG should receive compensation directly from UConn, in the form of either a stipend or tuition waiver.
On this topic, I no longer have any skin in the game. I’m graduating, so I won’t be running for student body presi-dent ever again, and I’m not advocating for retroactive pay for past presidents. But I still care deeply about the future of USG and of UConn, and I’m confident that compensating USG leaders would make that future a bit brighter.
USG leadership should be paid for their work
WSU pedestrian fee an unnecessary disconnect
between students, faculty
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Staf f Columnist Omar A l lam is a 2nd - semester chemist r y and Engl ish double major. He can be reached at Omar.A l [email protected].
Weekly Columnist Sam Tracy is an 8th-semester political science major. He can be reached at [email protected].
The Daily Campus editorial is the official opinion of the newspaper and its editorial board. Commentary columns express opinions held solely by the author and do not in any way reflect the official opinion of The Daily Campus.
It isn’t unheard of for a university to charge fees for things like parking, campus police or even general maintenance around campus. However, students at Worcester State University in Massachusetts are
being charged a fee simply for walking on campus.The $72 annual pedestrian fee has been going toward
maintaining walkways and other pedestrian necessities since 2010. Officials of the university claim that it’s an unfortunate mandatory fee to make up for a turbulent time of decreased state funding. The university already charges students parking fees, similar to those here at UConn. While the parking fees are optional, many at WSU claim that the parking provided by the fee is inadequate.
At UConn students are charged upwards of $100 for park-ing passes in order to live on campus, commute or keep a car here. While parking is adequate, it’s not yet ideal.
The real issue at WSU is the fact that students are charged a mandatory fee for something that they cannot avoid being – a pedestrian.
It’s not by any means uncommon for a university to set up mandatory student fees. In this economy, it’s one of the most prominent ways for them to get money. However, when it comes to something like a pedestrian fee, it’s dif-ficult for those who have to pay it not to feel taken advan-tage of, or take it a bit personally. Students don’t see a benefit from this fee and it’s almost equivalent to a fee for breathing in that there is no possible way to avoid using this service.
If universities are strapped for cash and are in the unfor-tunate position of having to charge students fees in order to keep things going, it’s necessary not to let those fees get out of hand, such as this $72 a year fee for students. While it may not seem like much in the grander total of student tuition. To keep it in perspective, $72 is only about $28 less than the optional student-parking fee here at UConn. Imagine being a commuter and paying for sub-par parking in addition to spending $72 just to exit your car and walk to class. Higher education is a noble goal but even the smart-est of Americans will have difficulty justifying such costs to their families and their wallets.
The key here is not to condemn the idea of mandatory student fees. They’re obviously a necessary evil for uni-versities to function. However, in the case of WSU, the fee is a bit heavy handed and has resulted in students a disconnect with their university. If fees are abused in this way, the mentality on campus becomes students versus the administration, a relationship that benefits no one.
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Two days removed now, and I’m still pretty much indif-ferent to the result of the Super Bowl.
I’m 90 percent positive I just matched with my TA on Tinder...Thursday is going to be a trip.
I already miss Manti Te’o jokes, they always put a smile on my fake girlfriends face :(
Somebody stopped me before I walked into class today and asked if I was related to Scary Spice. Somebody please tell me how I should feel about this.
Snow? SNOW?!?!?!
I found out today that dogs are more than likely capa-ble of reading emotion in human facial expressions. But can they see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
Call me hipster, but I still refuse to call him Snoop Lion.
Two days later and my jaw is still on the floor from the halftime show. Hot mama!!
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The virtues of the book series
While perusing The New York Times Book Review this weekend, I was looking at the Top-10 series on the Children’s Best Seller list. I noticed that on the Hardcover Best Sellers and Paperback Best Sellers lists (basically the list of books read by adults), there is no special section for series. Don’t adults enjoy immersing themselves in a fictional world that lasts beyond just one book? In a world filled with uncertainty, an author that can master the creation of a qual-ity series of books can give us a guaranteed good read – multiple times.
Series have extensive bene-fits. They solve the what-book-should-I-read-next conundrum. Everyone has that moment. You’re looking at stacks of books in the library or in a book-store and you literally haven’t the slightest idea of what you feel like reading next. You enjoy reading but don’t want to be let down from making the wrong decision. Yet if you’re reading a series, you know precisely the book you will read.
Creating characters that people want to be, or want to be with, is crucial to a good series. Ideally, readers should fall in love with the characters, celebrating their triumphs and weeping when disaster strikes. Authors can’t tell a good story without good characters, so it is important that readers be able to empathize with the cast. They should become enchanted with the world that their beloved char-acters call home and the setting of the book should soon become a familiar place every time the book is read.
An advantage readers have when reading a series compared to reading a standalone novel is that in order to write a series, the author had to know what he or she was doing. Extensive planning needed to occur for the author to guide the plot in the correct direction and entice readers to come back for more. Of course, planning occurs when an author writes any book, but when it’s time to kill off a char-acter, the author of the series will have to think of every possible repercussion and how it could affect the plot four books in the future. Writing a single novel doesn’t come with that pressure.
As with everything in life, the series has its faults. Series force you to play the cruel waiting game. If you’re lucky, you’ll dis-cover a series after a few books are already published. These can buy you time until the next book is released. If you devour the first book, only to find out that the second one won’t be published for another year and then you’re out of luck. You must wait, and wait and wait some more until the next book is released. A prob-lem with this is that sometimes, you forget what you’re waiting for. However if the book was memorable enough, you’ll be the first one to pre-order the sequel.
“The Hunger Games,” “Millennium,” “A Song of Ice and Fire,” and “The Magicians” are just some examples of books that hook readers in with the first installment and upon finishing, leaves them desperately want-ing more. Series shouldn’t leave you feeling placid. They should leave you feeling everything else. Even when you’re feeling alone, reading a series is the per-fect cure, pulling you back into a world you’ve come to know so well. It is your second home, the characters are like family.
There is a rising panic amongst senior students as graduation day is approaching closer than we are comfortable with, espe-cially now that it’s February. We are certainly scrambling around to make sure that there is some-thing lined up for post gradua-tion. However, UConn has gone out of its way in order to set up seminars, fairs and even boot camp sessions to prep us for the post-graduation life style.
For seniors, there are only a few months to prep for major changes that will happen in post graduation, and the Senior E-News can keep seniors on their toes with the constant updates of events happening around campus. Be sure not to ignore these emails since they are key to helping find ways to get an internship, polish up the resume, and even find a job.
In the month of January alone there were several events that allowed students to learn tips on how to find an internship,
navigate a career fair and cre-ate the near perfect resume. But have no fear because there is a lot more to come in February which include a networking ses-sion, a few career fairs includ-ing the Co-op Career Fair, free grad school practice GRE’s and a lot more. March is just as jammed pack with events that will benefit seniors to be suc-cessful within their careers after graduation.
One major event that will take place on Feb. 6 is the Co-op Internship and Career Fair in the Student Union Ballroom which is meant for a wide range of majors. The following day, there is an intense session of Job Search Boot Camp involv-ing a 90 minute presentation that will teach students how to approach their hunt for a job in a strategic manner. The goal of the session is for seniors to leave with a search action plan of some type. Only three days later there is a free session of practice exams for grad school including LSAT’s, GRE’s, and MCAT’s offered by Kaplan. The
following day is a presentation by career services on how to ace the interview. The goal of the presentation is teach seniors how to market themselves and to ask strategic questions once in the interview according to the event’s description.
All of these activities take place one week out of the month February, and there will be plenty more to follow. Although these events are meant to be serious there are a few fun ones listed on the special senior web-site www.sye.uconn.edyu, so make sure to attend those as well. It is senior year, and it’s important to have fun your last semester in college. However, it’s also important that you are ready to for the real world and the career that you have been striving for in your four years or more at UConn.
The specific dates and times of all the events and a detailed description of all the events can be found at www.sye.uconn.edu.
UConn provides many ser-vices for graduating seniors
By Loumarie RodriguezSenior Staff Writer
On Monday in the Student Union, film director Teju Prasad presented a screening of his documentary, ‘Not a Feather, but a Dot,” that looks at the history, perception and evolution of the Indian-American community.
‘Not a feather, but a dot’
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Hettinger speaks on ‘having it all’
While Netflix has enjoyed a monopoly on the streaming-video market for a few years now, some recent develop-ments have signaled that the video giant is about to get some serious contend-ers. Amazon Instant Video, for example, allows its users to stream purchased televi-sion shows along with its rapidly growing listings of free instant movies and TV shows, some of which are exclusive to their service (early and recent seasons of “The Simpsons” are Amazon exclusives, for example). Add in Amazon’s inclusion of their Prime service, where the entry fee for video also covers a year of free two-day shipping on any orders, and the first major challenger to Netflix’s throne becomes apparent.
But another rental giant has stepped into the ring, armed with a few gimmicks. Redbox, the widespread rental kiosk chain that can be found pretty much anywhere from conve-nience stores to restaurants,
recently announced a team-up with Verizon to launch their own streaming service, Redbox Instant, and will be opening a beta to early sign-ups in January. With beta access, it’s clear to see that Redbox and Verizon’s fledg-ling service clearly still needs to find its sea legs, though a few small touches hint that the service could soon rival the red enveloped king of streaming.
Stacked up against Netflix’s gigantic stream-ing library, Redbox Instant’s few thousand movies avail-able to stream fail misera-bly. The cream of the crop can be found on any other streaming service. Most of the worthwhile movies are Paramount releases dat-ing back at least a year like “The Devil Inside,” “Thor” or “Transformers: Dark of the Moon.” The other semi-noteworthy movies that crop up occasionally are usually second-rate, like Lionsgate’s “One for the Money,” and can also be found on other ser-vices. Not only does Redbox Instant cripple itself by lack-ing television shows, a glar-
By Joe O’LearyFocus Editor
Redbox a possible threat to Netflix?
Fans of the Maybach Music Group, it’s time to get excited.
The rapper Wale will perform at Jorgensen on April 11 at 8 p.m.
A member of the Rick Ross label that features artists includ-ing French Montana and Meek Mill, Wale’s most recent album, November 2011’s “Ambition,” reached the No. 2 slot on the Billboard charts.
The rapper has an extensive fan base, and he’s incredibly popular with college audiences. Rumors have swirled since 2010 about a possible performance by
the rapper through SUBOG.Wale is also critically
acclaimed, they especially laud his two mixtapes inspired by “Seinfeld.” “The Mixtape about Nothing” was released in 2008, and its 2010 sequel “More About Nothing” received more than 100,000 downloads in its first 90 minutes of availability. Jerry Seinfeld is collaborating with the rapper for the upcoming “The Album About Nothing.”
Tickets for Wale go on sale for students Tuesday morning at Jorgensen.uconn.edu at 10 a.m. Floor seats will cost $30, while seats in the balcony and mez-zanine will be $25.
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Women still cannot “have it all,” according to Anne-Marie Slaughter, former Director of Policy Planning at the US State Department.
Virginia Hettinger, asso-ciate professor of political science, spoke at the “Last Lecture Series” on “Having It All: Do We Know ‘It’ When We See It?” based upon Slaughter’s article for the Atlantic, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.”
In this article Slaughter outlines her own experience as a woman in the upper ech-elon of government, and how she found it impossible to be both a mother and a top pro-fessional. Hettinger pointed out in her lecture that “having it all” as Slaughter outlines is something only upper class women are able to have in part to additional privileges and opportunities.
“Many of the women in this privileged class do not understand what it means to lack choices,” Hettinger said.
One thing Slaughter consid-ers a part of “having it all” is a career. However, Hettinger said, “For millions of women a career doesn’t exist, it’s a job. Or maybe two or three.”
Because these women need to work in order to support themselves, they are denied the opportunity to make the choice they want; instead, it’s the choices that they need.
Hettinger outlined several causes for the lack of choices women have. Socio-economic and gender imbalances play a large part in creating these difficulties.
“We need to change the dia-
logue,” Hettinger said. “We need to have a fundamental shift in the definition of hav-ing it all. We need to focus on all of us men and women, rich and poor… we need to work harder to build an edu-cation system and economy that allows people to have
choices.” By talking about choice
for both women and men, a dialogue can be opened that ultimately allows women to move from needing to want-ing to make a choice.
Hettinger went on to com-ment how people’s ability to
“have it all” is only possible due to the work others do in order to allow them to have choices. Hettinger mentions how Rosie O’Donnell, who arguably “has it all” as a suc-cessful mother and TV per-sonality, has it only because she is able to hire people to
assist her. “It’s glib to think that
someone in life can have it all,” Hettinger said at the con-clusion of the lecture.
Virginia Hettinger, an associate professor of political science gave a lecture as part of ‘Last Lecture’ series on the difficulty of being a woman and being both a professional and a mother.ZARRIN AHMED/The Daily Campus
By Mike McGuiganCampus Correspondent
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I really like Sylvester Stallone. That’s kind of a double-edged knife, since there’s really no rea-son for me to like him because his movies are awful. He gets points for the first three “Rocky” movies, as well as the first and last Rambo, but the majority of his movies have been horrible. “Bullet to the Head” is your typi-cal Sylvester Stallone-led horrible action movie and has all the typi-cal trademarks. The plot is over complicated, hard to follow and uninteresting. The characters are not likeable, developed or interest-ing and most of their motivations are not understandable or present. The action scenes are sometimes okay, but they are nothing special and there is always the obligatory scene where Stallone takes off his shirt.
The movie is fueled by noth-ing but testosterone. There is so much of it that you can practically taste it; and it tastes awful. Yes, I understood what was happening, but I did not understand why the bad guys were bad. I didn’t get
their plan or what was going on, nor did I care to. There are a lot of themes introduced and shown throughout, but none are ever developed, explained or made important. A lot of things shown simply happen just for the sake of it. The characters’ motivations are not at all present. There is a crucial scene where one bad guy betrays all the other bad guys and kills them. He does not do this for money, revenge or really anything. I have no idea why he did this and the writers and director have not decided to give me an explanation. The whole movie is like this.
I did not like a single actor in this movie, and it’s a casting issue. Most of these characters don’t even need to be there. Stallone was okay, but everyone else has to go. I think I was supposed to like his sidekick, but I didn’t and that is because the actor is annoying, weird looking and condescending. The bad guys are not likeable as they are obvi-ously not meant to be, but I did not even like them as bad guys.
Another big problem I had
with this movie, besides the awful writing and poor casting/acting, was the directing. Almost every shot is at some weird, slanted angle for no reason. Every scene is poorly edited and the camera angles constantly change. The camera itself constantly moves. It doesn’t shake in the way a lot of action movies tend to do nowadays for no good reason, but
it just keeps mov-ing around creat-ing a blurry image. This is a problem in every action scene. It would pause for a quarter of a sec-ond for me to see somebody’s head get blown off, but
whenever there was fighting the camera started moving, the angles started changing and it was all so poorly edited together I could only infer what was going on. In a movie where there seems to be no redeeming features other than action, I am confused to find that the action has been ruined too. I’m not sure what I am expected to like.
Sylvester Stallone admitted to
using HGH to get back into shape for Rambo a few years ago. After this, I am not quite sure why he insists on constantly show-ing off his body. It’s almost in bad taste. Stallone in this and Schwarzenegger in “The Last Stand” seem eager to prove to us that they are not too old to make action movies. This is highly unnecessary seeing as they already made “The Expendables 2” together and we already know they can still do stunts. “The Last Stand” and the “Expendables” movies were good because they did not take themselves seriously. Instead they mocked the genre, gave us good action scenes, did not disguise the plot as any-thing other than an excuse for an action movie and were funny. That’s what I expected this to be, but instead found a movie that really thinks it can but never does. My advice is to not watch this and instead watch “The Last Stand,” “First Blood” and “The Expendables,” and then just pre-tend that “Bullet to the Head” never happened.
‘Bullet to the Head’ makes you want just that
Bullet to the Head
3/10
Sylvester Stallone (left) stars as Jimmy Bobo, a Louisiana hitman. He is pictured here fighting Jason Momoa (right) who plays an enemy’s henchman.Image courtesy of ew.com
Randy AmorimCampus Correspondent
We are only a month into 2013 and the release schedule for the rest and year has been largely filled in and contains a number of noteworthy pic-tures; here a few that appear intriguing if nothing else. I would like to state up front I will not be mentioning any sequels or superhero films, because frankly I’m sick of hearing about them. Trust me, you’ll know when they’re coming.
“The Great Gatsby:” The long awaited adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s acclaimed classic starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire, and directed by Baz Luhrmann is set for release on May 10. For some reason it’ll be in 3D. While this film is already garnering Oscar buzz, with many hoping it will finally bring DiCaprio a Best Actor award, I have my reservations. Filming con-cluded in 2011, but the origi-nal release date was pushed back six months. This doesn’t seem to be the type of movie that needs 18 months of edit-ing and marketing, so it may indicate a troubled produc-tion and a lack of confidence in the final product.
“Elysium:” This science fic-tion piece takes place in 2159 where the wealthy live on a space station while the poor are left on a ravaged Earth. Jodie foster stars as a gov-ernment official attempting to keep order in and between the two habitats. It looks to be collection of metaphors for current world problems: the class system, immigra-tion and environmentalism. Director Neil Blomkamp suc-cessfully combined action, drama and thematic storytell-ing in last picture, “District 9.” Let’s hope he can accom-plish it again.
“Oldboy:” This is a remake of an acclaimed South Korean film from 2003, this time around under the direc-tion of Spike Lee and star-ring Josh Brolin and Samuel L. Jackson. The story cen-ters around a man locked in a hotel room for 15 years who begins a quest for ven-geance when finally released. American remakes of foreign films have a mixed history, and were fairly rare after a string of mediocre attempts in the 1990s. But “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” may have rekindled the trend, and if “Oldboy” is successful, maybe next year we’ll get an American made “Run Lola Run.” That would be awe-some.
“Jobs” and “Diana:” Large production biopics have become more common over last decade, just as their titles have become increasingly lazier. The two icons getting films this year are Steve Jobs and Princess Diana, set to be portrayed by Ashton Kutcher and Naomi Watts respective-ly. I expect “Diana” to be one of the year’s best with Oliver Hirschbiegel, who has shown to be a master of historical drama in the director’s chair. “Jobs” on the other hand I’m less sure of. It’s being direct-ed by Joshua Michael Stern, who has only made two other, not very well received films. Not to mention giving the lead to Kutcher is question-able, as he specializes in comedic characters with min-imal intelligence. The result may be a career redefining performance, or the biggest miscast in recent history.
Upcoming films to see
I think we all know the zom-bie story by now. The dead come back to life as flesh hungry mon-sters and surviving humans have to fend them off, slowly dwindling in numbers. “Warm Bodies” takes the tired narrative, as well as the awareness that we’ve all seen it before and spins it around to cre-ate a refreshing and surprisingly touching film.
The post-apocalyptic universe of “Warm Bodies” is slightly dif-ferent than those we’ve come to know. In this incarnation, zom-bies are not completely mindless, retaining a shred of their humanity which they seek to enhance by eating the brains of their victims. Beneath them exist Bonies, skel-etal figures of decayed corpses or zombies who just tore themselves apart which are essentially rabid wolves. The story is told from the perspective of a zombie named R
(Nicholas Hoult) because he can only remember the first letter of his name. He encounters a group of survivors and falls for a girl named Julie (Teresa Palmer) after eating the brain of her boyfriend. He seeks to protect her and win over her affection, which causes him to slowly regain his humanity.
Believe it or not, the zombie love story works very well. The films gives the relation-ship a time to devel-op, R quickly wins our sympathies and while the plot jumps logic in places, the tone is so endearing and brings out a message of hope and companionship so sincere, you can’t help but adore it. Due to R’s limited speech ability, much of the story is told through music, the entire soundtrack well selected and incorporated. There are also several dream sequences used to symbolize the past and all life was before the apocalypse, which are
shot and edited masterfully, and added another dimension to the drama. I also commend “Warm Bodies” for a smart and original third act, which actually bothers to have a resolution, often missing in zombie films.
The film is also a comedy, with much of the humor coming
from R’s dry snarky observations about the zombie infested world we’re all too familiar with. Little of the comedy is physical or employs gross out humor
with the dismemberment of body parts; as the film smartly recogniz-es that’s better utilized as a tool for sorrow than laughs. Rob Corddry gives a very funny performance as M, a fellow zombie and friend of R. The film manages to generate laughs without distracting from the narrative, and knows the time and place for jokes.
“Warm Bodies” does have a few minor drawbacks. Julie has a fairly
bland personality and comes off as somewhat whiny in the first half. Although this may be intentional irony, having the zombie character be much more rounded and inter-esting than the human character. Her father and leader of the survi-vors is played by John Malkovich, who deserves far more than the role of the generic overprotective dad. And while I appreciate the tweaks “Warm Bodies” made to the setting, the zombies do seem a little too close to human at times, with surprising motor skills and communication abilities.
“Warm Bodies” does so much with so little. It takes two stale premises: the zombie apocalypse and the unlikely romance and cre-ates a film more original than most in either genre. It succeeds in being a story all its own and proves that even the wildest of premises can made into heartwarming and effective stories.
‘Warm Bodies’: not just any zombie flick
Warm Bodies 8/10
From left to right: Analeigh Tipton as Nora, Nicholas Hoult as R, and Teresa Palmer as Julie. There has been some controversy over Tipton’s casting, as in the novel, her character is clearly stated to be half-black and half-white, with her father being Ethiopian.
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By Brendon FieldCampus Correspondent
Football films to come off that
Superbowl high
By Alex SfazzarraCampus Correspondent
Brian’s Song (1971)
Remember the Titans (2000)
Radio(2003)
Friday Night Lights (2004)
The Blind Side (2009)
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NEW YORK (AP) — Don’t blame Beyoncé for blowing the lights out at the Super Bowl.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Monday that the halftime show was not the cause of the power outage that dark-ened the Superdome for half an hour during Sunday’s broadcast.
“There’s no indication at all that this was caused by the half-time show. Absolutely not. I know that’s been out there that this halftime show had some-thing to do with it. That is not the case,” Goodell said.
Beyoncé was the halftime performer at Sunday night’s game and used plenty of power to light up the stage. Some had joked that her electrifying per-formance was to blame for the outage.
But the halftime show was running on its own genera-tor, said Goodell and Doug Thornton, a vice president of SMG, the company that man-ages the Superdome.
“It was not on our power
grid at all,” Thornton said, adding that the metered power consumption went down dur-ing halftime because the house lights were down.
Beyoncé’s 13-minute set included hits “Crazy in Love,” ‘’Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” and a Destiny’s Child reunion.
The energetic performance was sung live days after she admitted she sang to a pre-recorded track at President Barack Obama’s inaugura-tion. And it won applause from critics who called it a major improvement over Madonna, who sang to a backing track last year, and the Black Eyed Peas’ much-criticized halftime show in 2011.
Alicia Keys performed the national anthem on piano before the game, and Jennifer Hudson sang “America the Beautiful” with the 26-member Sandy Hook Elementary School cho-rus.
Beyoncé posted on her blog
that she was proud to be among those female talents, which included her Destiny’s Child bandmates Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams.
“What a proud day for AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN!!!!,” she wrote. “You are all beautiful, talented and showed so much class! It was an honor to perform at the Superbowl with you phenom-enal ladies.”
Beyoncé announced Monday that her “The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour” will kick off April 15 in Belgrade, Serbia. The European leg of the tour will wrap up May 29 in Stockholm, Sweden.
The tour’s North American stint starts June 28 in Los Angeles and ends Aug. 3 in Brooklyn, N.Y., at the Barclays Center.
It was also announced Monday that a second wave of the tour is planned for Latin America, Australia and Asia later this year.
NFL: Beyoncé not the cause of Super Bowl blackout
Beyoncé center, Kelly Rowland, left, and Michelle Williams, of Destiny’s Child, perform during the halftime show of the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, in New Orleans.
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Redbox poised to dethrone Netflix?ing flaw, but ninety percent of its library is comprised of cookie-cutter, direct-to-DVD films not worthy of the time of day, much less two hours of anyone’s life.
Redbox Instant has extra, new-ish films available for purchase to stream and rent, much like those available on Amazon or iTunes, and they’re not too noteworthy either; they’re available else-where for much cheaper than the $5 for a 24 hour rent-al or $16 for a digital film purchase Redbox offers. The video player itself is pretty bare, also lacking in the face of competition, though it’s
safe to assume it’ll evolve with time.
Where Redbox Instant makes itself worth the price is its kiosk rental credits. The sparse online selection is somewhat redeemed by the fact that for the $8 per month subscription fee, users receive four one-night rentals at any Redbox location. That means new flicks are avail-able whenever someone takes a trip to the grocery store. (For an extra buck, users can soon get four Blu-Ray cred-its instead of DVD credits.) What’s more, reserving online is a piece of cake, taking mere seconds, and a mere swipe of whichever card is tied to an account will get a movie out
of the physical Redbox.While Redbox Instant is
still in its infancy, it shows some promise, especially when it offers users the abil-ity to rent much newer films than Netflix or Amazon can provide their audience. It remains to be seen whether their other distribution forms’ selections can improve before it can truly be recommended, though. The race for online video supremacy is only beginning, and while Netflix is still in the lead, having two competitors with a third from Comcast on the way means things are going to get a bit more interesting in the near future.Joseph.O’[email protected]
NEW YORK (AP) — The latest website for discovering, discussing and buying books is sponsored by some of the industry’s leading publishers.
Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group and Penguin Group (USA) on Tuesday are launching Bookish, billed as “a one-stop, comprehensive online destination designed to connect readers with books and authors.” The idea is for publishers, who individually have struggled for recognition among the general public, to combine resources and increase their Web presence.
Bookish offers interviews, excerpts, reviews and recom-mendations and links to retail-ers, from Amazon.com to local sellers (publishers have no plans to use Bookish to sell works directly from their own sites). The editorial team will operate independently, but pub-
lishers will have control over how books are promoted.
“Publishers create a lot of marketing materials for online retailers and those retailers use those materials based on their own desires. You can make an author video and they won’t necessarily put it on their site,” said Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy.
“Bookish was created to serve as a champion of books, writers and, most importantly, readers,” Bookish CEO Ardy Khazaei said in a statement. “Ultimately, we seek to expand the overall marketplace for books, and whether a book gets into a reader’s hands via Bookish’s e-commerce partner or another retailer, everyone — from the publisher, to the retailer, the author and the read-er — wins.”
Virtually all of the major publishers are making their
books available, and Bookish has a cross-promotional deal with USA Today.
Bookish was first announced in 2011, but technical issues, especially the compiling of data, delayed the site, according to Reidy and Hachette CEO David Young. Publishers also had to be especially careful about how they worked together. In 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice sued Apple and five publish-ers — including the three who founded Bookish — for alleged price fixing of e-books.
“We received clearance for Bookish, but every time any of us talk about something we have to conform to the DOJ rules,” Young says. “We aren’t behaving any differently than we were before, we just have to make sure that formal proce-dures are followed, like writing up a log after any meeting.”
Publishers launch online site, Bookish
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Horoscopes
by Brian Ingmanson
PHOTO OF THE DAY
It always feels good to help others, and one of the best ways to do so is to give back by donating blood, a single pint of which could save up to three lives.
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To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 6 -- Finish a job carefully. Slow and steady does it. Hurry and you might get to do it twice. Leave negative words unsaid; they can multiply. Silence is golden today.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Don’t let a minor disagreement mess up your plans. Compromise. Talk about money later. Get some post-holiday rest to stay healthy. Tea, soup and a movie could be nice.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Refuse to be suppressed, yet wild impulsiveness could cause accidents, so balance it out. Stand up for your health by taking good care of yourself.
Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 5 -- The timing’s not right so proceed later. Stay close to home. Have some compassion. You’re doing the best you can with what you have. A bubble bath and some chocolate soothe.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Your friends may demand something that you don’t really want to do. Sometimes there’s power in saying “no.” Have fun without spending; challenge your creativity.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- It’s not a good time to travel. Don’t issue orders. An assumption gets challenged. Release old limitations. Take it on faith.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Wander quietly through your imagination. Explore ice cream castles or travel deep into feathered canyons. Let your creativity run wild. Fairy tales can become real.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- You may be thinking about it too much, and that’s okay. Stay close to home and take it easy. Slow down. Silence can be a symphony of elegant understatement.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- The difficult work is just about over. You’ll be reaping the rewards soon, but don’t spend what you don’t have yet. Keep up a good pace. It takes you far.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 9 -- You’re dependable and do good work. Shift your routine around. Don’t get burned out to the point that you get sick. Take time for yourself.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- There are many opportunities for romance, but they require you to stop looking at your belly button. Don’t waste resources, either. Be creative.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 6 -- The waves threaten to rock your boat today. Strap yourself in, keep your eye on the horizon and sail on. Luckily, you’re good at this and love an adventure.
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The UConn women’s swimming and diving team fell to Dartmouth 170-125 in their weekend match. After the first loss of the second semester, the Huskies are now at 4-2 on the season.
Freshman Kennedy Meier came in first place in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:05.96. Katie Munzenmaier and Mary deMarrais came in first and second place in the 200-yard individual medley event with times of 2:12.01 and 2:13.49. Danielle Cecco won the three-meter diving event with a score of 298.50, while Nicole Borriello came in second place with 291.60. Cecco and Borriello also came in first and sec-ond place in the one-meter diving event with scores of 325.95 and 260.77. UConn took the top three places in
the 400-yard relay event. The winning relay team consisted of Chinyere Pigot, Rachel Burke, Katie Dobler and Jordan Bowen.
Kristen Goodson came in a close second place in the 100-yard backstroke event with a time of 59.45 sec-onds. Dartmouth’s Kendese Nagle came in first place at 57.63. Mary deMarrais came in second place in the 1000-yard freestyle with a time of 10:20.24. Laura Hyland also came in second place in the 100-yard breaststroke, swim-ming a time of 1:68.04.
In the 200-yard freestyle event, Katie Dobler, Jordan Bowen and Isabelle Nat came in third, fourth and fifth place. Holly Gallagher and Hannah Perna came in third and fourth place in the 200-yard butter-fly. Gallagher swam a time of 2:08.61 while Perna swam at 2:11.38. Rachel Burke and Kristen Goodson came in
fourth and sixth place in the 50-yard freestyle event with times of 24.68 seconds and 25.19 seconds.
Although the Huskies did not perform at their highest level, it is still very early in the second half of the sea-son. UConn still has time to work out on their weak points and develop their strengths to make them even better. The team has ample opportu-nity to continue to train and develop before the NCAA Championships and the Big East Championships.
Before both of the cham-pionships, the Huskies will travel next to Hamilton, N.Y. to take on Colgate on Saturday, Feb. 9. The Raiders have an 8-3 overall record so far this season. They are also undefeated at home.
By Erica BrancatoCampus Correspondent
Women's swimming and diving falls to Big Green
Tim Chandler set to play for US Wednesday
Nuremberg defender Tim Chandler (left, sliding) will play for the US on Wednesday against Honduras. The match will end the possibility of Chandler playing for Germany.
AP
(AP) – Nearly two years after playing his first game for the U.S. national team, defender Timmy Chandler is set to commit his future to the Americans rather than leave open the possibility of playing for Germany.
With regular right back Steve Cherundolo sidelined by a knee injury, Chandler appears likely to start Wednesday when the U.S. opens the final round of World Cup qualifying at Honduras.
''It's a huge opportunity for Timmy,'' U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann said Monday after announcing his 24-man roster.
Chandler, who turns 23 next month, became a regular for Nuremberg during the second half of the 2010-11 season.
''For me. It's going to be a great experience,'' Chandler said . ''Everyone is saying how a big a game it is. It's like a derby in Germany.''
A son of an American service-man and German mother, the speedy Chandler was noticed by
former U.S. defender Tony Sanneh, a one-time Nuremberg player who got him in touch with the American coaching staff.
Chandler made his U.S. debut in March 2011 against Argentina and played in eight games that year, but all were exhibitions. He was not included in the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup roster by then-coach Bob Bradley, who said he wanted to give Chandler time off following his first Bundesliga season.
Chandler turned down Klinsmann's invitation for the U.S. training camp last May ahead of the opening qualifiers of the semifinal round, saying he wasn't ready to make a decision. He returned for the Nov. 14 exhibition at Russia and said he was fully committed to the U.S. team.
''Everybody has welcomed me with open arms and I am here to do my best for the national team,'' Chandler said. ''My dream is to rep-resent the United States in a World Cup. This is a great team and I think we can do something special.''
Under FIFA rules, he would be tied to the U.S. once he appears for the Americans in a competi-tive match. Chandler joins fel-low German-Americans Jermaine Jones, Fabian Johnson and Danny Williams on the U.S. roster.
''I think he's simply just matur-ing. He's growing into his role as a fulltime professional,'' Klinsmann said. ''We were very patient or are patient with Timmy to mature. For us coaches, it's the job to under-stand where certain players are. He still has a lot to improve. He still has a way to go.''
Seeking its seventh straight World Cup berth, the U.S. figures to have a defense in transition this year. Cherundolo's 34th birth-day is Feb. 19 and captain Carlos Bocanegra, who plays in the center or on the left, turns 34 in May.
Klinsmann's roster includes seven players from Major League Soccer who participated in the January training camp in California and appeared in last week's 0-0 exhibition draw against Canada.
Among them are Omar Gonzalez, Matt Besler and Brad Evans.
''It is exciting to see for us players like Omar being ready for the inter-national level, Matt Besler knock-ing at the door,'' Klinsmann said.
Forwards Juan Agudelo and Terrence Boyd were bypassed, as were midfielders Kyle Beckerman and Benny Feilhaber, and defend-ers Clarence Goodson and Oguchi Onyewu.
Klinsmann did not consider Landon Donovan, who said after December's MLS Cup final that he wasn't sure he wanted to keep playing. Galaxy coach Bruce Arena said last month he expects Donovan to rejoin Los Angeles at some point this year.
The game is the first of 10 in the final round of qualifying in North and Central America and the Caribbean. The top three nations in the six-team group qualify for next year's tournament in Brazil, and the No. 4 team advances to a playoff for another berth, likely against New Zealand.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The blackout at the Superdome will not stop the Super Bowl from returning to New Orleans.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said that despite the electrical outage which delayed Sunday night's game for 34 min-utes, the city did a ''terrific'' job hosting its first pro football cham-pionship in the post-Katrina era.
''Let me reiterate again what an extraordinary job the city of New Orleans has done,'' said Goodell, speaking Monday at a post-Super Bowl media confer-ence held for the game's most valuable player, Baltimore quar-terback Joe Flacco, and winning coach John Harbaugh. ''The most important thing is to make sure people understand it was a fantas-tic week.''
New Orleans has hosted 10 Super Bowls, including Baltimore's 34-31 victory over San Francisco, tied for the most with Miami.
While serving as the site of
America's biggest sporting event and focus of an unofficial national holiday gets any place a lot of attention, this game had special meaning for New Orleans.
The city last hosted the Super Bowl in 2002 and officials were hoping this would serve as the ultimate showcase - on a global scale - of how far it has come since being devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The storm winds tore holes in the roof of the Superdome and there was water damage from the rain that affected electrical systems and caused mold to spread. More than $330 million has been spent to upgrade the facility, which has hosted the annual Sugar Bowl, Saints games, two BCS title games and a men's Final Four since the storm.
Yet the loss of power was an embarrassment that quickly became perhaps the signature moment of the Ravens' win.
Goodell said not to worry.''I do not think this will have
an effect on future Super Bowls in New Orleans,'' he said. ''I fully expect to be back here for Super Bowls. I hope we will be back. We want to be back here.''
Local officials have said they will bid to host an 11th Super Bowl in 2018 to coincide with the 300th anniversary of the city's founding. Political strategist James Carville, who along with wife Mary Matalin served as host committee co-chairs, said he dis-agreed with the premise that the outage overshadowed a full week of celebration.
Still, he acknowledged some initial anxiety when the lights went down - using a hurricane metaphor, no less.
''When this thing happened, I said to myself, 'This could be a Category 5,''' Carville said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. ''It turned out to be a fast-moving tropical storm. Everybody was completely well behaved. The problem was identi-fied and fixed.''
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much better than being mentioned in the same sentence as Montana.
Speaking of good company, Flacco made his way to the Super Bowl by beating Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, arguably the two best quar-terbacks in the NFL and the top players in the elite quarterback class. Flacco outdueled Manning in Denver, by throwing 331 yards and three touchdowns compared to Manning’s 290 yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions. In the AFC champion-ship game, Flacco threw for 240 yards and three touchdowns while Brady threw for 320 yards, a touch-down and two interceptions. Flacco’s numbers might not have been that good in the AFC championship, but he got the job done, something he has been able to do all year long.
The true measure of a player’s abil-ity is how they perform when it mat-ters most and after a playoff run like Flacco’s, it is tough not to consider him among the elite quarterbacks. Numbers like Montana’s speak for themselves. However, it is also hard to call him an elite quarterback when his season totals put him in the mid-dle of the pack.
The Flacco argument is very simi-lar to the discussion of Eli Manning as an elite quarterback a few years ago. Manning often went overlooked until he won his first Super Bowl as well and now he has two rings. Manning, much like Flacco, began his legacy with spectacular play in the postseason after good, but not particularly stunning play in the regu-lar season. Now Manning is arguably an elite quarterback, just like his brother.
Whether you believe in him or not, the former Division I-A quarterback from the University of Delaware is a Super Bowl champion and the reign-ing Super Bowl MVP. It takes a special player to lead his team to the promise land and Flacco has emerged as an elite quarterback in the NFL.
Baltimore, pay the man, he has proved himself worthy of a new con-tract.
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last year and the Notre Dame game, but it was nice to come out successful and do the things my team needed me to do down the stretch,” said Lewis.
Tonight’s game will also see the return of center Stefanie Dolson, who missed a game for the first time in her career with flu-like symptoms against St. John’s. Dolson has been one of UConn’s top performers this season, as she is averaging 13.8 points a game and is tied with freshman center Breanna Stewart for most rebounds. The two center’s average 6.7 rebounds a game. Dolson relied on the support of her teammates when she was ill and is ready to get back on the court to face Marquette.
“That’s what my teammates are here for, to help me every day and ask me how I was and whatnot,” Dolson said. “It was really only one or two days that I really wasn’t feeling well. I had a good practice today and the team had a great
practice today, so I feel right back in it.”
Marquette has a record of 11-10 overall and a conference record of 3-5. The Golden Eagles are coming off a hard fought 70-66 victory over Big East foe DePaul. Marquette guard Arlesia Morse scored a team-high 24 points and eight of those points came in the final four min-utes of the game to propel the Golden Eagles to victory.
Morse sits just behind leading point scorer Katherine Plouffe. Plouffee has averaged 50.7 per-cent from the field this year and averages 13.4 points a game, but she has struggled from behind the arc— she’s made just one of the six field goals she’s attempted this sea-son. As a team, Marquette averages 65.8 points a game compared to their opponents 66.9 points a game.
Tip-off between Marquette and UConn is scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight at Gampel. The game will be televised live on SNY.
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Dolson returns from illness to face off against Marquette
Facing their toughest com-petition of the year, includ-ing the top ranked teams in both the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions in Cornell and Penn State, the Huskies posted 106 total points. In first place was the Penn State Nittany Lions with 133 total points. It was two first place finishes from junior Darnell Cummings led the UConn men’s track and field team to the second place finish Saturday at the Sykes-Sabock Challenge Cup in University Park, Pa.
Cummings led the way for the Huskies, crossing the finish line first in the 60 and 200 meter with times of 6.78 and 21.45 seconds. With the two first place fin-ishes, Cummings notched 20 points for the Huskies,
almost 19% of the teams’ total.
“It felt great to get two quality wins this past week-end,” Cummings said. “There was some great com-petition at the meet, and to come out with a victory while setting two of the top times in the Big East was a great accomplishment.”
Head Coach Gregory Roy also lauded Cummings accomplishment, but added that he expects more posi-tive results.
“Darnell has clear goals for the season, and none of them involve losing a race,” Roy said.
Cummings added that his goals extend beyond just him. “One goal I have is to walk away with another Big East title as a team,” Cummings said. “We won my freshman year, and I know going there and focus-ing on winning my individ-
ual events will help us as a team.”
The Huskies captured two more of their 16 top five finishes in the 60 meter hur-dle as sophomore Selwyn Maxwell and senior Claudio DelliCarpini finished in sec-ond and fourth place, respec-tively. Senior Kevin Smith finished in third in the 200 meter with a time of 21.76, and sixth in the 60 meter in a time of 6.87. Junior Ryan McGuire outlasted the field in the 5,000 meter and took home first with a time of 14:47.78.
“Wins over the top ranked team in our region, Cornell, as well as Virginia from the ACC, and Princeton, a perennial Eastern power-house were solid, and the team continues to progress in a positive direction,” Roy said.
The Huskies also gar-nered positive results from
the field events as senior Josh Faboyede posted a fourth place finish in the weight throw with a fling of 19.44 meters. Junior Eric Masington matched that with a fourth place finish of his own in the shot put, with a hurl of 16.91 meters. Junior Cory Duggan also continued his impressive season with another second place finish in the pole vault, completing a leap of 4.95 meters.
“Cory has grown and matured incredibly this year and his vaulting is showing it,” Roy said. “He looks to be ready to take another step real soon.”
The Huskies final meet of the season before the Big East Championships begin is this Friday, Feb. 8, at the Rider/Lafayette Invitational.
UConn men's track finishes second, Cummings wins two races in Sykes-Sabcock Challenge Cup at Penn State
By Nicholas DanforthCampus Correspondent
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- C.J. Fair had 18 points and 10 rebounds, freshman Jerami Grant scored a season-high 14 points, and No. 9 Syracuse beat No. 25 Notre Dame 63-47 on Monday night to snap a two-game losing streak that had dropped the Orange three spots in the rankings.
Syracuse (19-3, 7-2 Big East) was coming off consecutive road losses against Villanova and Pittsburgh and has only three conference losses in its last 32 Big East games. The Orange have now won a school-record 36 straight games at home, the longest active streak in Division I. Notre Dame (18-5, 6-4) had won three straight.
It was the first meeting between the teams since the Irish handed Syracuse its only con-ference loss last season, 67-58 at Purcell Pavilion last January.
The Orange, unbeaten at the time and ranked No. 1, were missing shot-blocking, 7-foot center Fab Melo in that game because of an academic issue, and on Monday night senior James Southerland, the team's most consistent out-side threat and third-leading scorer, missed his sixth straight game because of an eligibility matter related to academics. Southerland had 15 points in the loss to the Irish last year.
On this night, it didn't matter as the Syracuse defense clamped down. Notre Dame finished 6 of 20 on 3-pointers and shot 34.6 percent (18 of 52) for the game as the Orange outrebounded the Irish 32-28 and blocked seven shots. It matched the season low for points for the Irish, who were held to 47 in a home loss two weeks ago to Georgetown.
Rakeem Christmas had 12 points and four blocks and
Michael Carter-Williams had five points, eight assists and three steals for Syracuse.
Jerian Grant, Jerami's brother, finished with 15 points and Jack Cooley had 10 points and 11 rebounds for his 15th double-double of the season for the Irish. The game was the first in college between the Grant brothers.
The Irish fell behind 41-28 midway through the second half as the Orange put together a 13-4 spurt spanning halftime to assume control.
Syracuse stretched its 30-24 halftime lead back to 10 in the opening minutes of the second. Christmas hit a foul-line jumper at the shot-clock buzzer after corraling the rebound of a miss by Carter-Williams and Fair fol-lowed with a dunk off a steal by Carter-Williams.
Christmas then converted a follow dunk off a miss by
Brandon Triche, Trevor Cooney sank a 3 from the wing, and Christmas hit again off the glass to boost the lead to 43-28 at 11:05.
Cameron Biedscheid stopped the Syracuse surge with a 3 from the left corner and Jerian Grant converted a three-point play to move the Irish back within 43-34 with 10 minutes left.
Syracuse stretched it back to 48-35 on a 3 by Carter-Williams with 6:02 left and the Irish were finished.
Syracuse entered the game limiting opponents to 32.3 per-cent shooting on 3-pointers while Notre Dame was hitting 39.6 percent from behind the arc. Five Irish players - Camero Biedscheid, Scott Martin, Pat Connaughton, Eric Atkins and Jerian Grant - were real threats from long range, having com-bined to make all but one of the
150 3-pointers Notre Dame had in its first 22 games.
The Irish found few openings in the interior of the Syracuse 2-3 zone in the opening half
and the Orange struck quickly, scoring the first 10 points of the game while forcing three turn-overs as the Irish missed their first four shots.
C.J. Fair takes the ball to the rim against Notre Dame. The Orange won the game 63-47.AP
Fair leads Syracuse in rout of Notre Dame
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» That’s what he said“I do not think this will have an effect on future
Super Bowls in New Orleans.”
-NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on the power outage at the Superdome.
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Men’s Basketball: The Huskies defeated the South Florida Bulls 69-64 in overtime this past Sunday afternoon at home in Gampel Pavilion. Junior Shabazz Napier led the Huskies with 24 points and sophomore Ryan Boatright added 17 points. With this victory, the Huskies now have an overall record of 15-5 and a conference record of 5-3.
Women’s Basketball: The No. 3 Huskies defeated the St. John’s Red Storm 71-65 this past Saturday afternoon away in New York. Sophomore Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis led the Huskies with 19 points and senior Kelly Faris added 17 points. With this victory, the Huskies now have an overall record of 20-1 and a record of 7-1 in the Big East Conference.
Men’s Ice Hockey: The Huskies defeated Rochester Institute of Technology with a score of 3-1 this past Friday night away in Rochester, N.Y. The Huskies then played RIT for a second game in Rochester, this past Saturday night and lost with a score of 7-1. With this victory and loss, the Huskies now have an overall record of 11-12-3 and a con-ference record of 8-9-2.
Women’s Ice Hockey: The Huskies lost to the Providence Friars 5-0 this past Friday night at home in Freitas Ice Forum in their annual Skating Strides game. The Huskies then played the Friars and lost 4-3 in overtime Saturday night away at Providence. With these two losses, the Huskies have an overall record of 3-22-3 and a conference record of 1-13-1.
Men’s Track (Indoor): The Huskies com-peted in the Penn State Sykes and Sabock Challenge Cup this past Saturday. The Huskies were led by sophomore Darnell Cummings as he posted two first place finishes and helped the team finish in second place overall in the competition.
Women’s Track (Indoor): The No. 25 Huskies competed in the Armory Collegiate Invite this past Friday and Saturday away in New York. The Huskies competed well on both days.
Men’s Swimming: The Huskies lost to Dartmouth with a score of 182-113 this past Saturday afternoon. Senior Kyungsoo Yoon won two individual events and a relay. With this loss, the Huskies now have an overall record of 3-3 for the dual meet season.
Women’s Swimming: The Huskies lost to Dartmouth with a score of 170-125 this past Saturday afternoon. Senior Danielle Cecco won both diving events in the three meter and one meter. With this loss, the Huskies now have an overall record of 4-2 for the dual meet season.
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Cold weather Super Bowl presents new challengesEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- While the NFL and officials in
New York and New Jersey say they will do everything they can to prevent another power outage at the Super Bowl, energy experts warn it’s almost impossible to guarantee the lights will stay on at any event, let alone the cold-weather championship game at MetLife Stadium in 2014.
University of Pittsburgh energy expert Dr. Gregory Reed said the cost of backing up every system at any stadium would be exorbitant, and the best that stadium operators can do is to examine the power systems before the contest and prepare for every eventuality.
Bill Squires, the former vice president and general manager of Giants Stadium, said the power issue will not only be a hot topic for the NFL and next year’s Super Bowl host committee, but also for all stadium operators.
Neither Al Kelly, the president and chief executive of the organizing committee for next year’s game, nor Public Service Gas & Electric, the utility that provides power to the stadium, wanted to comment on the 34-minute outage at the Superdome until a cause had been determined.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was sitting with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at the game Sunday, and they talked about avoiding a repeat of the blackout at next year’s game at the Meadowlands.
“This is clearly something that can be fixed, and it’s clearly something that we can prepare for. And we will,’’ Goodell said Monday.
Reed, the director of the university’s Electric Power Initiative, associate director of its Center for Energy, and a professor of electric power engi-neering at Pitt’s Swanson School of Engineering, said there is no way to guarantee against a blackout.
“You can certainly put in more redundancy, but you can’t back up 100 percent the entire load infrastructure of every single wire, every single cable of every transformer in a network because it’s impractical from a cost point of view,’’ Reed said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. ‘’You can do what you can using good engineering judgment on reducing the risk of an outage but you can’t guarantee it 100 percent. Anything can happen. When it does, then you have to be prepared to react to it.’’
Reed said he thought the Superdome operators did a good job restoring power in 34 minutes. He also said the system did well in isolating the fault and limiting the outage to one side of the stadium.
The outage seemed change the momentum of the game. The Ravens led 28-6 at the time of the outage and San Francisco grabbed control when
play resumed, getting within 31-29 before losing 34-31.“Rarely is a blackout seen in a positive light, but in this case there was
a positive sense to it,’’ Reed quipped.New Orleans officials were still trying to determine what caused the
outage. Reed said it could take a while but felt it would be discovered once the equipment is checked and fault recorders in the system are examined.
Squires, a past president of the Stadium Managers Association, said stadium operators have contingency plans for almost everything, includ-ing outages.
“This is not the first time a facility has lost power,’’ said Squires who has run facilities or consulted on stadium operations for 26 years. ‘’We’ve lost it, other facilities have lost it, arenas have lost it. It’s something you monitor all the time, you do preventive maintenance all the time and you do tests and whatnot, but sometimes stuff happens.’’
MetLife Stadium, which became the home of the Giants and Jets in 2010, actually had a game delayed by a power outage in its first season of operation. A contest between the Giants and Dallas Cowboys on Nov. 14 experienced two power outages when New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority equipment feeding power to the stadium malfunctioned, with the second failure throwing the stadium into total darkness for about five or six seconds.
The stadium’s emergency generator activated and quickly restored light.
The sports authority receives its power from PSE&G.PSE&G spokeswoman Karen Johnson said the utility had no comment
Monday on the outage in New Orleans and its effect on next year’s game.A month before that Giants-Cowboys game in 2010, lightning and
heavy rain cleared fans from the stadium 10 minutes before the scheduled start of the Minnesota Vikings-New York Jets Monday night game. The inclement weather delayed the start of the game until 9:15 P.M.
An announcement blared over the public address system telling fans to clear the stands, and the four video boards displayed a message that read: Due to lightning, please head to concourses until further notice.
Players from both teams left the field and went to their locker rooms.A similar scene played out last year when the Syracuse-Southern
California football game in September was delayed for about an hour by a passing thunderstorm.
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The UConn men’s basketball team’s rebound differential against USF on Sunday.
By James HuangCampus Correspondent
TomorrowSt. John’s
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The No. 3 UConn women’s basketball team will look to extend its winning streak to nine games when the Marquette Golden Eagles come to Gampel Pavilion tonight, despite los-ing one of their teammates for the season to an injury.
On Saturday, the Huskies lost sophomore guard Brianna Banks to a right knee injury in the first half against the Red Storm. After an MRI Monday, it was determined that Banks suffered a torn ACL and will miss the rest of the season. Head coach Geno Auriemma felt sympathy for the young guard who put in a lot of work this season to improve her perfor-mance on the court.
“You go from where she was last year to where she is this year and how much she’s improved and how much she’s worked to get her game to where it is and her mind to where it is, obviously you would be disappointed for anyone who has to go through that,” Auriemma said. “It’s a little more disappoint-ing because you know how far she’s come and that’s one of the cruelties of this game or any game.”
The Huskies are coming off a close 71-65 victory on the road against St. John’s. The six-point spread was UConn’s closest margin of victory this season. Sophomore forward Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, who this season leads the Huskies in points and in three-point percentage led the team with 19 points on the afternoon.
Mosqueda-Lewis has averaged 17 points a game and has shot 49.6 percent from behind the arc. Lewis recognizes the struggles she has had in the past in close games but was satis-fied with the way she played toward the end of the game against St. John’s.
THE SHOW MUST GO ONBanks out for season;
Marquette comes to townBy Tyler MorrisseyAssociate Sports Editor
UConn’s Bria Hartley brings the ball up the floor against Villanova at the XL Center last Tuesday. The Huskies take on Marquette tonight.JESS CONDON/The Daily Campus
» DOLSON, page 10
The Baltimore Ravens are Super Bowl champions once again.
Despite a second half come-back from San Francisco and a 34 minute power outage, the Ravens held for a 34-31victory as John Harbaugh and crew got the best of his brother Jim, winning Super Bowl XLVII.
In the two weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, every major sports outlet talked about the same story-lines. The first storyline, which was beaten to death, was the Har-Bowl, Harbaugh-Bowl, the Bro-Bowl or any otherwise uncreative combina-tion of their surname and the Super Bowl. The second was future Hall of Famer Ray Lewis and his quest to end his career as a Super Bowl champion. Mission accomplished for the most intense human being to ever walk the Earth.
However, as the last of the con-fetti fell on the Superdome and the players left the stadium to either
celebrate a championship or grieve a loss, one question became clear as the dust settled.
After winning Super Bowl XLVII, should Joe Flacco be con-sidered as an elite quarterback?
I think we might just have to consider him, although it may not be an easy debate.
Flacco, who led the Ravens to a so-so record of 10-6 in the regu-lar season, completed 59.7 percent of his passes for 3,817 yards, 22 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. Not particularly dazzling numbers as Flacco ranked No. 19 in comple-tion percentage, No. 14 in passing yards and was tied for No. 15 in passing touchdowns.
However, Flacco’s evolution into a dominant quarterback came in the post season with arguably his best performance coming on the biggest possible stage.
Flacco, the Super Bowl MVP, completed 22 of his 33 passes for 287 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions. He looked cool, calm and collected throughout the
entire game. He made the right throws, did not force many passes and most of all, he looked like he had been there before.
Even more impressive than his Super Bowl debut was his perfor-mance throughout the entire play-offs. In four games, Flacco threw for 1,140 yards, 11 touchdowns and no interceptions. He completed 57.9 percent of his passes, had a Quarterback Rating of 83.6 and only turned the ball over once, which came on a fumble in the 38-35 double overtime victory over Denver.
Only one other quarterback in NFL history has thrown 11 touch-downs and no interceptions in the playoffs, Hall of Famer Joe Montana. In 1989, Montana lead the 49ers to a Super Bowl XXIV victory over the Broncos. Although Montana played in one less game than Flacco, the significance of the statistic should not be overlooked. Not to mention, it does not get
Joe Flacco has entered the ‘elite’ conversation
Huskies lose to Dartmouth, fall to .500 The UConn men’s swimming
and diving team fell to Dartmouth on Saturday in a series of close races, with a score of 182-113. This loss leaves their dual meet record at 3-3.
The Huskies traveled to New Hampshire on Saturday to face Dartmouth, an historically a tough opponent and the teams were even-ly matched. This resulted in the team being out-touched by their opponents, sometimes by less than a second, in several races. Before the meet, head coach Bob Goldberg had warned that the men would have to win these close races “since the disparity [between first and second place] is so much.”
This proved to be an important fac-tor in Saturday’s loss.
Freshman Diguan Pigot was a prime example, swimming hard in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 56.89 seconds and the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 51.14 seconds, but falling just short of first place. In both of these races, Pigot missed the top spot by less than five-tenths of a second.
The Huskies did have some suc-cess, snagging the first three spots in the 400-yard freestyle relay, including the winning team of Keith Piper, Sean Battle, Diguan Pigot and Kyungsoo Yoon coming in at 3:06.09. The second and third place teams finished in 3:16.82 and 3:30.09, respectively. This impres-sive performance, however, was not enough to raise UConn’s score
over that of Dartmouth. In addition to helping his relay
team grab first place, Kyungsoo Yoon continued his successful day, narrowly winning the 50-yard free-style with a time of 20.81 seconds and the 100-yard freestyle in 46.45 seconds. In both of these races, Yoon defeated the second place finisher by fewer than two sec-onds, exemplifying the competitive nature of Saturday’s meet.
On the diving side, Grant Fecteau took second in the three-meter and first in the one-meter with a score of 299.47. Dartmouth took all other points in those events.
The Huskies will face their next opponent, Colgate, in Hamilton, N.Y. next Saturday at 1 p.m.
By Sarah Levine Campus Correspondent
By Carmine ColangeloStaff Columnist
Joe Flacoo holds the Lombardi Trophy after winning the Super Bowl on Sunday. The Ravens’ QB was named the Super Bowl MVP.
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Mike Corasaniti
Put a ring on it
I have to apologize in advance if my bias comes out strong in this column, but few things have made me cringe in the past few years like hearing the word “elite” and arguing about it’s touchy meanings and implications.
When you get literal, the dictionary defines the elite as “a group of people consid-ered to be the best in a partic-ular society or category, esp. because of their power, tal-ent, or wealth.” But when it comes down to applying it to sports, football and especial-ly quarterbacks, there doesn’t seem to be two people who can agree on who belongs where.
At this point in time, there are really only three names that explicitly belong in the top class: Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Aaron Rodgers.
When you examine the next tier, that’s when names like Eli, Ryan, Brees and Roethlisberger come to mind, spewing debates over wheth-er or not any of those names belong with the earlier three in terms of wins, performance and the clutch factor.
Then there is the 28-year-old gunslinger out of the University of Delaware who threw three touchdowns and won a Super Bowl Sunday night. He threw for 11 scores over the course of the play-offs without a single inter-ception en route to winning a championship.
All these things still consid-ered, Joseph Vincent Flacco is not an elite NFL quarter-back. And this is where my bias comes in.
Let’s look at the quarter-backs currently in the league that have won a Super Bowl. You have the Manning’s, Brady, Brees, Roethlisberger, Rodgers, and now Flacco. Even though Flacco beat four of these seven quarterbacks, I do understand that bad quar-terbacks have won Super Bowls and great quarterbacks have never won any.
It is true that you can’t compare the Trent Dilfer’s and Brad Johnson’s of the world to the Dan Marino’s and Warren Moon’s. But at the same time, who’s to say that the Dilfer’s and the Brad Johnson’s didn’t do what the elites did in leading, or at the very least managing, their teams to a championship?
For me, it’s about rings. No matter how naïve that may make me as an analyst or fan, it is beyond me why the argu-ment needs to be more com-plicated than that. Winning is why George Bush will go down in history longer than Al Gore, why George Washington will always be remembered over Charles Cornwallis, and why Joe Flacco is an elite NFL quar-terback and Colin Kaepernick still has a ways to go.
I get that it’s nothing is that one-dimensional, and I get that there are lot of peo-ple with Super Bowl rings that are nothing even note-worthy. But a win is a win, and it’s a lot harder to win a Super Bowl even as a “bad” quarterback than any of us can even realize.
He put a ring on it, he’s an elite. From me personally, welcome to the top tier, Joe Flacco.
» SWIMMING AND DIVING
» COLANGELO, page 12
The UConn men’s swimming and diving team lost to Dartmouth 182-113 on Saturday. The loss dropped them to 3-3 on the season.
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